First Time Hearing The Doors - LA Woman Reaction - THE BREAK & ENERGY BUILD IN THIS ONE IS AWESOME! 

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It took me 20 years to finally understand what it is he says in that first line of the song. Fun Fact: Mr Mojo Risin' is an anagram for Jim Morrison

The Doors used a bass player making this album. It was Elvis Presley's bassist Jerry Schieff

Glad you are doing more of The Doors. They had a lot of great songs such as "Riders On The Storm", "Love Me Two Times", "The End", "Break On Through (To The Other Side)", "People Are Strange", "Light My Fire", "Hello, I Love You", "Touch Me", "The Unknown Soldier", "Love Her Madly". Sadly Jim Morrison died in 1971 at the age of only 27 but left a great legacy of music.

This song always impressed me. It's 1 take in the studio all the way through. Morrison was drunk off his ass. You can hear some of his vocals are a little raw but that's the magic of the song. Can you imagine if this song was recorded today? All the shine would have definitely been polished off. It's great just the way it is.

"The Doors" is what happens when you put a Poet out in front of three consument, clever & creative musicians - Ray Manzarek in particular. A keyboard genius in at the dawn of keyword wizardry.

The Doors were one of those groups that when they were playing on the radio, I couldn't shut it off until the song finished. Even if it meant sitting in the car for a few minutes in the driveway.

Great reaction! I think you would also enjoy Riders On The Storm. Ray Manzarek is at his jazzy best in this one, Also, The End is a must. When I heard it played during the opening scenes of the film Apocalypse Now, I got chills.

Perfectly captures LA in the '60's-'70's. Powerful song from this great band. Thanks for your reaction.

I grew up with my parents listening to Cash, Orbison, Charles, Presley and then in 1968 when I was 8 I heard the Doors on the radio. I remember stopping what I was doing and thinking, WHAT? and never looked back. What a group...

Interesting fact: in the studio, they used a studio bassist. Live, Ray Manczarek, the organist as he loved to call himself, palyed all the bass parts on the keyboard as well as the keyboard parts. They guy was a genius! All of them were. A career that lasted only 4 years and a huge musical legacy they left. All killer, no filler!

Hello Hello from New England...This is one of the best songs in their catalog..It's so jazzy in the middle section and really elevates the song... Unfortunately you can hear it in Jim's voice how shot it was bc of nonstop drinking and drug use but it's an amazing album to finish a great career..Btw MR MOJO RISIN is an anagram of Jim Morrison's name 🤘🧐✌️

One of the best songs ever! I LOVE IT! GREAT REACTION, GUYS!

The greatest driving song ever. Makes me put the pedal to the floor every time. It's Jim Morrison's love letter to LA.

...... saw them do that live, front row balcony, right over the stage. Great memories. No Bass guitar player... the keyboardist played pedal Bass.

The Doors are one of my all time favorite groups. Each of the 4 members of The Doors had so much talent. I was lucky enough to get to see Robby Kreiger the guitarist live a few years ago and he sounded just as good as he did in the 60’s.

This song is one of their masterpieces. 'When the music is over' is another. A great band.

I don't know if it's been mentioned yet... When Jim Morrison was a little younger he liked Frank Sinatra and L.A. Woman was his answer to "New York-New York", I once read in an interview by Ray Manzarek. I don't know if it's really true but it's plausible. Thanks for sharing and best wishes @all from Hamburg-Germany

The woman is the city, the city is the woman. Clever lyrics.

"Did a little down about an hour ago" Was the opening line we came to know way back when. I for one hear it that way still.

Spanish Caravan needs more attention in the reaction community! It's another one similar to Roadhouse blues in that its not the "typical" Doors sound, but rather than blues it has a Spanish flamenco style. Great song all around. It is one of many perfect examples of both their talent as a band and the amount of various influences they had as a band.

Mr. Mojo Risin .... We were severely short changed... Can you imagine if this man & band played for another 10, 15, 20 years ... WOW ( mind blown ) My favorite singer / group since I first heard them in the early 70's

This song has the feel of a farewell from Morrison. A tip of the hat, salute, ode, whatever you want to call it to L.A. before he left for Paris. Maybe Oliver Stone thought the same, using it for the final scene in the movie when they were recording it in studio then as the song tails off at the end, his plane taking off as it heads for Paris.

They were the first, and original Jazz/Rock fusion band! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 the L.A. women is the City!

That is what LA was like when I was in my teens, and the songs locations I have been at in that time period. This was a crazy time in LA with Charles Manson, Patty Hearst and the S.L.A., about 5 years after the Watts riots and just a crazy time in LA's history. One of my favorite Doors songs - Thanks! Oh - a lot of the bass came from the organ Ray Mizerak (SP?) played.

I love this channel :) I would love to see you guys do When The Music's Over live at the Bowl It's one of the most iconic live performances ever and represents The Doors perfectly Please continue The Doors journey

Great song. Great performances. Best band to ever come out of the US.

Moved to LA in 85, crazy fun and dangerous place. The song is right on the money with it's description, as well as GnR Welcome to the jungle.

What a voice! I love the passion that Morrison sings with, and his lyrics are pure poetry, beautiful stuff, bro. Another legend we lost way too soon. RIP: Jim Morrison 💔🔥U R Missed I thought I'd suggest another studio version of another song by TD, in case you're interested. "The Doors - Riders On The Storm (Official Audio)" This was super fun guys thanks for sharing

These guys are pros . They can go wherever they wanted.

Never forget the final scene from the Val Kilmer Doors movie depicting Jim sitting on the toilet wailing out this song….the best movie ending ever…..

Saludos chicos abrazo enorme desde Asturias, the doors forever , ray, robbie, jhon y jim , jim en esa epoca tenia 27 años brutal

Always thought of Robby Krieger as an underrated guitarist. His tone was always spot on. Cheers....

One of the greatest songs ever. Thanks for reacting!

To me, THE Door’s signature songs are Riders on the Storm., Light My Fire and The End. They had such a psychedelic, unique sound, and Morrison’s voice is instantly recognizable. He was indeed a gifted man….but a very troubled soul.

Break on through (to the other side); Light my fire; When the music 's over; Hello, I love you; LA woman; Riders on the storm; Love her madly; The End - accessible, great, and representative of the era they were conceived in.

This is basically Jim's love song to the city of Los Angeles

They really were all over the map with their sound but it still always sounded like The Doors. One of my favorites from them that I bet you guys would love his called Don't You Love Her Madly. Ray Manzarek was an excellent keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist and arranger. He went on to produce and play on the very first X album, a seminal early Los Angeles based punk rock band. You guys really should react to some of their stuff. It's historic.

Yes! So glad you chose this song next!

A relatively unknown gem is "Awake( The Ghost Song)", the lyrics come from a poem taken from a number of others Jim recorded on hi 27th birthday, choose the Re-Evolution comp. Video, the masked extra is a genuine Medicine Man & he "Smudged" the Band( blessed), the reference to " Indians scattered On Dawn's Highway Bleeding, Ghosts crowd the young child's Fagile Eggshell Mind", comes from life experience when Jim was very young he was vacationing with his Parents & Grandparents, travelling by car & come across a post Accident scene where Mexican Indians thrown from a Chickin Coup Truck & he strongly felt one or two spirits of Indian Children entered & inhabited his body, the same lyrical reference can be found on " PeaceFrog/ BlueSunday"2 songs that go together like Tea&Toast,"Heartbreaker/ LivingLovingMaid" L.Z.looking foward to y'alls reactions!

One of the best rock songs ever

I think you'd both enjoy the song The Changeling off this album ✌️🧐🤘

I was 18 when this song came out, could not wait to buy the Album and "8 Trac Tape", LA. Woman, I bought the 8 Trac Tape 3 times and of course 3 Doors 8 Trac Tapes ate "eaten" in a year or so by my 8 Trac player in my Hot Rod before I said enough is enough and thought Ill just Surgically tape it back together with Scotch tape. The Doors are Great but my La Woman 8 Trac is when I finally said enough is enough. So the Scotch taped 8 Trac Tape has a skip in it at the Motel Madness stanza part of the song. Now music is all digital. So Fun. I Guess I should say l Love the way you young kids react to that Music. I subsrcibed to you two, some reaction sites I don't subscribe. Rock On

I think Jim was trying to sing like Adam Sandler lol (sarcasm). Love this song. Nice reaction.

La Woman great album La Woman The Changeling Love her madly and thats just a few masterpiece

In fact The Doors were a very bluesy bunch. Some of their best tunes were classic 12-bars, Kreiger was a fine slide player, and Manzarek loved that jangly honky tonk boogie piano sound. I’m an old geezer, and I was once privileged to see a jam session between Morrison and Canned Heat! Morrison was a fine harp player, btw.

FYI...Song facts; "Mr. Mojo Risin'" is an anagram for "Jim Morrison." He repeats the phrase at the end of the song faster and faster to simulate orgasm. Early blues musicians often referred to their "Mojo," like in the Muddy Waters song "Got My Mojo Working." A mojo is a Hoodoo charm, usually a bag filled with items like roots, lodestone, rattlesnake rattles, alligator teeth, charms, coins - whatever does the trick. Different bags would be used for different purposes: If the bag were red, it would be a mojo for love and you would have to put a personal item, such as hair or bit of clothing in order for the mojo to work. If the mojo were made out of a black bag it would be for death. Many white listeners, including Jim Morrison, thought mojo meant sexual energy, and that is how it's usually interpreted today, in part due to Austin Powers movies. >> Keyboardist Ray Manzarek explained the song's meaning to Uncut magazine September 2011: "A song about driving madly down the LA freeway - either heading into LA or going out on the 405 up to San Francisco. You're a beatnik on the road, like Kerouac and Neal Cassady, barreling down the freeway as fast as you can go." Morrison recorded his vocals in the studio bathroom to get a fuller sound. He spent a lot of time in there anyway because of all the beer he drank during the sessions. The Doors performed this live only once, in Dallas at the State Fair Music Hall on December 11, 1970. The only live recording of this is on the bootleg If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another. The band wanted to bring more musicians along to simulate the studio sound, but Morrison died before they could launch the tour. >> This was the title track to the last Doors album before Jim Morrison died. The remaining members released two more albums, Other Voices and Full Circle, which both sold poorly. >> The Doors needed extra musicians to record this. Jerry Sheff (famous for his work with Elvis Presley) was brought in to play bass, Marc Benno to play guitar. Sheff and Benno were going to tour with the band, but Morrison's death canceled those plans. Morrison got the idea for the "City of Night" lyric from John Rechy's 1963 book of the same name. The book describes a sordid world of sexual perversion, which Morrison translated to Los Angeles. They put this together in the studio and recorded it live with no overdubs. It came together surprisingly well. Guitarist Robby Krieger has called it "the quintessential Doors song." The first line, "Well, I did a little down about an hour ago," is a reference to a barbituate, specifically Rorer 714. Billy Idol covered this on his 1990 album Charmed Life, his version hitting #52 in the US. Idol was in the 1991 Oliver Stone movie The Doors, but had to take a smaller role because of a 1990 motorcycle accident that limited his mobility. At a press conference to promote the album, Idol explained that he had been playing "L.A. Woman" for years and was a big fan of the song. He would often use it to audition new band members. The Doors produced this album with Bruce Botnick. Paul Rothchild, who produced their first five albums, did not want to work on this because he didn't like the songs. He produced an album for Janis Joplin instead. In 2000, the surviving members of the Doors taped a VH1 Storytellers episode with guest vocalists filling in for Morrison. Perry Farrell, formerly of Jane's Addiction, sang on this. Doors drummer John Densmore said in the The Story of L.A. Woman documentary: "The metaphor for the city as a woman is brilliant: cops in cars, never saw a woman so alone - great stuff. It's metaphoric, the physicality of the town and thinking of her and how we need to take care of her, it's my hometown." Ray Manzarek put his UCLA film studies to use when he made a video for this song that was issued on a collection of Doors material called R-Evolution in 1985. To make the video, Manzarek combined archive footage of the band with new material he shot in Venice Beach, California. The actress Krista Errickson stars as the "LA Woman"; the male lead is John Doe of the band X - Manzarek produced their first four albums and directed two of their videos.

I love how you kids react to some songs. I always considered this one a "cruising song", sound and beat just perfect for cruising down the road. Great reaction and analysis.

Love the Doors, love this song/album; Billy Idol does an amazing cover to this sing.

Awesome song ,

Robbie Krieger, so underrated.

One of my favorite songs by The Doors! Thanks for your reaction 💖🦋

The singer, Jim Morrison, was a poet, even before he started singing...

It’s good you two acquaint yourselves with all this great music the cropped up during my younger years , awesome. 68 in Texas. 🥹

Always good to hear anything from a member of the " 27 Club ".

Best driving song ever!

Are u fucking kidding me what a great song just a little before my time would have loved to see these guys play live.

"Mister Mojo Risin" is the scrambled letters of Jim Morrison.

...Class of 76"...They say Jim wasn't able to get the musicians to express themselves through their music to flow with his music mood...so he took them out into the desert and they all did Peyote...after that everything was in harmony...Too bad Jim passed so early...can you imagine the songs we will never hear that will never come from his mind...

Fantabulous classic. Thank you

Yes, glad to see more doors. Peace Frog and the Alabama Song are also great.

In the studio they would often use a bass player while live Ray Manzarek played the bass with his left hand on a bass keyboard.

My favorite song from these guys, and one of the best driving songs ever IMO. 🔥🔥🔥

Mind blowing tune on every level.

Mr. Mojo Rising

The unknown soldier is a must for any doors fans. You should keep going through the doors catalog. There are wonders untold.

"Hello I Love You", "Light My Fire", "Break on Through"

Thank YALL Much that’s my favorite 👍

Rock-blues your socks off!!!😂

Good introduction of The Doors is song "The End"

It is nice to see the two of you enjoy this classic. Thanks for your nice reaction.

Never forget 1980 first time i heard their first album bliwn away

Thank you for being respectful.

This was their last album before Jim left for France and died. His voice is dramatically different from the early albums, mostly due to heavy smoking. The Doors did not have a bassist in the group, but would typically bring in a session player bassist in the studio.

Ray manzarak played the bass "master" with the left hand and key board with the right hand.....witch to me is crazy.....he was a genius.....

Love it. Love the saloon piano, which almost gives a wild west atmosphere next to their personal rock sound that was occasionally avant-garde.

On this Album they actually had the bass player from Elvis Presley's band playing the bass part!!!!

You two look so happy

I've never heard the drums mixed so high in this track.

My stereo is gasping for air after this song.

My older brother bought their greatest hits album. While he was away in the Navy, I listened to the cassette every night as I was going to sleep in the 8th grade.

Great song and reaction. Jim is from Florida, so he probably came out to (LA) for some west coast shows & meet with record studios.

Una vez mas la escucho y es brutal con cascos y escuchas sonidos y esa voz con 27 años

There's a pretty interesting story about people trying to hunt down Jim's Mustang used in this video too.

My favorite doors song by far. It's not about a woman from or in LA, it's about LA but describe as you might describe a woman. As others will likely point out Mr mojo risin an anagram for Jim Morrison

So many layers to The Doors. I think you guys will fall in love with this band

The Doors 'Light my Fire'...You should give it a go...💛

FYI , MR MOJO RISIN is an anagram for Jim Morrison. :)

Lovely. And Beautiful. You are lucky.

Love the dancing. I dig it

Great reaction! LA Woman is the perfect raw adventure warning song.

No bass player live. Studio, yes they had a bass player was Larry Knetchel (Bread bassist) among others... Patty Sullivan.

Jam here......🔥🔥🔥🔥

She was groovin :D he did not know what the hell to do 😅

It's best to listen to this when you're behind the wheel cruising 😅

THERE YA GO!!! 😊BANGERRRRR!💯

Yeah,, she is Beautiful.

All the light pop groups at the time and the Doors come in like a moonless, black night. Dark lyrics and subject matter. Incredible band.

Both this and Roadhouse Blues was from their last album with Jim Morrison. Early Doors has a different sound again. Songs I would suggest: Break on Through Soul Kitchen The End When the Music's Over Five to One Love Her Madly Moonlight Drive, or any song tbh😂

Hi , greetings from London Love this fantastic piece of music ! It was a big part of the soundtrack of my drugs fuelled teenage years growing up in grey 70s England! It transported me to a very different place! Still sounds dangerous! 'Mr Mojo rising' is an acronym It spells his name 'Jim Morrison !