its crazy that i was born in mid 87, an that the 60's were ya, a while ago, but nowdays, they were a hot minute ago, n the tru muckers that were the revolutionists of what music really is, are now going to the separate realm! i hope theyre fuggin happy, because they are all the ones that influence me! i wont go into how parents nowdays are failing their kids by lettting the not live with what true ambition is, but i will leave, with knowing myself
I remember hearing this in 67 when I was 8 years old and thought this was definitely different. This song, White Rabbit, Strawberry Fields. I knew that music was changing
I was born in 66, and my parents listened to all three of the bands whose songs you mention, as well as the Moody Blues, Stones, and others. In my earliest musical recollections, vaguely 69 - 71, that stuff *was* music. It was what was played at home. My own tastes have been predicated on it for a lifetime.
I too was 8 in 1967 and was completely obsessed with LMF. I've often thought about why a young kid would be so fascinated by it. Do you have any definite ideas?
Jose Miguel Carrizo - The Doors were nothing without Jim Morrison and Jim Morrison was nothing without The Doors. His words, his voice and their music together were magical. Nothing else comes anywhere near.
You are not wrong... BUT they really are no better than countless musicians who remain nameless doing studio session work or relentlessly gig and never have massive success. What separates the really big acts (stars) is something extraordinary. Jim Morrison had that and that was undeniable. Jim is the only reason you ever heard of Ray manzerack
Jim could be a monumental asshole at times- but he was ALWAYS publicly respectful of his fellow Doors and their musical contributions. Indeed, he often criticised other bands precisely because they relied too much on 'feeling' and weren't musically talented enough....
@@johnnyjabsco1999 you are correct after Jim died there was no doors. People need to Jim Morrison to the hilt. Rest in peace Jim mom and admiral Morrison. Best regards to your brother and sister.
WHO IS EVERYBODY?? GOD how i fucking hate these wide sweeping " he is so underrated., noone talks.. blah blah. I KNOW immediately that anyone who KNOWS MUSIC will NOT say the George Harrison was underrated ,or Ringo was underrated. It is your FUCK lack of knowledge in the matter that is sorely lacking.
You can't luck your way into a song as good as Light My Fire, no matter how many drugs you take. There's a reason this song sounds as good now as it did in '67. It's because it's GENIUS.
My older sister was the "beautiful Breck Girl" of 1967 and met the Doors in San Francisco. Jim talked to her,with conviction and unbound fury. She enjoyed his company,but with reluctance she walked away...and we still have the photos...
There are about 7 in the verse/chorus of the song itself. There are 7 additional in the circle-of-fifths intro, used three times in the song. Total of about 14 chords.
A woman I worked with in 1985 told stories of seeing The Doors play at Venice High School before they were famous. Another friend knew Ray, having played tennis with him for 20 years. I was sad for my friend for his loss.
I was 11 years young when I first heard 'Light My Fire' and from that day on I was a diehard Doors fan. The first album was their best; the ones that followed were good but none topped their first.
I'm 24 now, wish I was alive back then. But I heard light my fire for the first time in high school and I've been a die hard fan since. My first experience with the door though was in 2003 when I was a little kid riders on the storm was featured in a car racing video game called "need 4 speed". I really liked it but I didn't become a fan until high school when I heard Light my fire.
@@airsofttrooper08 Trivia note: When LMF first aired it was offered in the long version format. DJs complained about the length of the song so it was shorted and soon became a number one hit.
john a. Yes I actually knew this and I’ve heard both versions and I hate the short version. I actually prefer the 13 minute version that the doors did in 1970 at the Isle it wight festival. Both the guitar solo and keyboard solos were doubled in length.
Jim Morrison and the band had been asked by the producer of the Sullivan show, Bob Precht, to alter the lyrics of the song so as to eliminate the phrase “we couldn’t get much higher.” Sullivan’s sponsors didn’t dig the idea that the song’s lyrics might suggest drug use. The band agreed to change the lyrics but come show time Morrison sang the lyrics as originally written. As a result, The Doors were banned from ever again appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show. As if it really mattered.
Has there ever been a song with such an eclectic array of hooks? You get Bebop, Latin, Rock, and Bach all working together! And that last chord sounds like it's coming from E. Power Biggs' pipe organ. Love it!
One reason this song made such an impression when it was released was that it, along with some other songs then, suddenly broke away from the rigid time limit that had been imposed on American popular music by how much music could fit onto a single recording. That had started around 1900 and was strictly adhered to till "Light My Fire", "Time (Has Come Today), and a few others changed it in the late 1960s. We were all kind of astounded when this occurred, and some AM rock radio stations were kooky enough to play the full-length versions sometimes at night.
@@npg68 - I grew up in a town outside New York City, and the radio station I mostly listened to was the ABC station. I can still remember hearing edited versions of "Hey Jude" and "Light My Fire," and even the longer songs like "Smoke On the Water" and "Stairway To Heaven." I didn't hear a lot of albums, and didn't know until later that Stevie Wonder didn't write "We Can Work It Out!" Soon after that, I picked up the guitar, and part of the "homework" was to listen to the older recordings, the influences. And I grew to like the older artists, and I would listen to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. I also listened to jazz and classical music. I still prefer to listen to this older music rather than listen to a lot of what is released these days. Luckily, having eclectic tastes means that theres a lot of good music to listen to.
FM Stations played the longer versions of every song Rock anthem that came out like Light my Fire and Like A Rolling Stone which was considered long at Six minutes. Now Six minutes is nothing! Stairway is 12 minutes!
What an extraordinary foursome... The Line about "A funeral pyre" always fascinated me and I HAD to look up what a PYRE was and it was like an impossible line to fit in the meter.. It was like a HIGHER voice whispered it to them. AND Desmond. my childhood hero. I remember saying (as a kid) "FUCK Ringo man.. Fuck Moon THIS is drumming." Little did I know Desmond had been formally trained and was a GREAT pianist & percussionist .
Ray Manzarek: I've got to add an intro- we can't just play over A minor to F# minor for 5 minutes. Roby Kreiger: I put every chord I know into Light My Fire- I counted them, there are 14 chords...
I'm 24 now, wish I was alive back then. But I heard light my fire for the first time in high school and I've been a die hard fan since. My first experience with the door though was in 2003 when I was a little kid riders on the storm was featured in a car racing video game called "need 4 speed". I really liked it but I didn't become a fan until high school when I heard Light my fire, I wish todays music had soul like 50's and 60's music. I was definitely born in the wrong time ;(
When I was a punk I found the Doors very anachronistic and corny. The hippy trippy 6-6-60s, were destroyed damn it! > Boy, was I wrong. Now I'm 60. This is timeless. Of course, we were all hippies with haircuts. My childhood was set to this music and I loved it.
I LOVE THIS SERIES. Absolutely wonderful. So enjoyable. I want to see them all. Born in '57. I can't go long without immersing myself in the great music of this time. I can feel my inner soul vehicle getting up to speed on an open road of vibration and cellular memory, burning the fuel residue from the carburetor. The floods of electrical energy and goosebumps are intense, nearly painful. Almost orgasmic building of human response to what these artists brought through into this dimension, from who knows where. How fortunate we were to be imprinted with this music in our early years. There never has been anything like its particular power, probably never will be. Thank you so very much. 🙏✌️🎶💕🖖
The LIGHT was on the Dutch island of Bonaire for over 250 years until IT fused with me in 1995 , the Glory of God is and was an orb of 4-5 yards wide with a multicolour interior with 100's of rays beaming out after 10 years while living on the island a cloud decided to park on top of me , can you alter the weather ? The LIGHT happened to chose someone that appreciates good musice and lyrics , songs like CrystalShip is a clear reference the Rapture by GOD'S crystalship of Revelations 21 .......... but even his bandmates didnt know and he was probably sceptical.
I would suggest to young musicians to get some ideas on composition, etc. from the Doors on youtube. But the age of laptop and ProTools just makes it a tad easier and cheaper for musicians.
I was kicked out of the house back then.Parents at the time hated the music and the hair.So it was cut your hair or out of the house.Many of us left and we created crash pads.
It has to be ok to agree with millions of others, because it is a unique and powerful opening. Without Jim's personality the lengthy A - FsharpM vamp would be tedious. Ray's opening makes the arrangement fresh and big!
I was born in1967 .. I later in early 90s when the Oliver Stone movie came out get to know about the Doors .. in the same year I also visited Jims grave in Paris, my girlfriend and I were on a train trip from the Netherlands to the South of Italy and everywhere people were playing the Doors on their radio/cassette players. The Doors never sounded like old music from the sixties. I think The Doors are from all times and Jim never really died !
Great to see how they worked together. Makes me think of Sam Riddle hosting the KHJ TV station on Saturday nights in LA when he introduced the Doors. I wasn't that impressed because I thought Jim Morrison was copying Mick Jagger. Didn't know I was witnessing history.
Interesting to see how they played a short (like the 7") version of the song live... by accentuating that cut-moment (4:25 min. into this video). First let the organ quiet down, and then burst out with the drums and everything. Unlike on the record, where it's more like a random moment in the guitar part of the long version. When listening to the long version, you have to pay some attention: oh yeah, that's where the single comes back in again :-) Edit: whoops, got it totally wrong... live footage in this clip comes from this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mbj1RFaoyLk.html which is anything but a short version :-))))
Ray 20 years of piano lessons only facilitated Light My Fire. That was one of those pieces that comes from a place where songs already exist and are just trying to find a way to be heard. The song made itself didn't it? That's why.
Morrison always hated the song , he split from the DOORS because they released it without his approval . I never understood why until now : the other guys wrote the ever popular potboiler . DOORS Forever .
I was 10 when this came out. My 8 year old sister got the single, which was red, for Christmas along with a record player. It was the big song of the year.
A very well made short documentar. One thing though - sounds like 'Light my Fire' is played only on one channel. You can't hear the organ. Would be nice to hear both channels. :)
One time I'm delivered Pizza with the heavy rain that night, stepped in the car and played radio just about right music from The doors "riders on the storm" KLOS station still got many good DJ in 80's and 90's The guy Jim Ladd..
For sure the whole band worked together the sum being more than the whole of the parts to make an amazing sound that is still resonating in other music to this day. However one wonders what would have happened had Jim not died so young maybe big break up like the Beatles or maybe still churning it out like the stones
5 minutes to walk 40 yards? Boy those guys must've been loaded that day lol wish all these "28 y.o.s" were alive today jst to see what they would be like in todays world
incredible song. Apparently Morrison added that shit about wallowing in the mire and funeral pyre (corny poetic shite). But that song was viral in the 19760s and 70s. a cliche with incredible chords.
He not only fell for her but that California lifestyle...a guy from Manchester , in the late 60s.....he must have thought he’d stepped into a different universe! Which of course, he had, I would have done the same. Great story
