LA Woman, it's a metaphor , " Lost Angel" "Los Angeles"....... the City is a woman....and he's experiencing that Woman...".Hair is burning, hills are filled with fire,".....freeways, midnight alleys, cops in cars, topless bars, ..Motel madness........and he loves her,.."they say i never loved you, you know they are a liar".......and he never saw a woman so alone"..................that is just my opinion.
My favorite door tunes. Was in a hole in wall bar one night. The bands guitarist broke a string. One of the guys says, we're gonna try a song we've never played before so he can fix his guitar. These dudes broke out into the best cover of LA Woman I've ever heard. The bartender and me were headbanging at the bar together. Sweet memories. Thanks.
@@jerryfalwellsociety Wouldn’t be the same in Texas my friend, you can drive down Sunset Blvd past the Whisky and just imagine what it must have been like. Do it!! You only live once.
Poet Jim Morrison. R.I. P. . . . This group did its own thang, that's for sure! Great Classic Rock 'n Roll . . . 🎵🎹🎧🎷🎸💔 Magnificent talent and tight band.
Yeah, kind of pretentious, right? Not one of my favorites by them. My favorites are: Hello, I Love You, Love Her Madly, Riders On The Storm, Break On Through, Alabama Song, the Unknown Soldier, and of course Light My Fire, I feel, is their greatest achievement of all.
@@TheJinjo75 Because, that's what the word "pretentious" means. To use and re-use an old trick from the book. Fake stuff. A cliche'. Not original. Lazy writing. I like other Doors songs better because he wrote more meaningful lyrics in other songs. Comparing a city to a woman. Ugh. Makes me snore. He wrote some way better songs. And The Doors group wrote better music in other songs. This one's just jamming on one chord through most of it.
@@anonyarena That's not what pretentious means. You might want to check a dictionary. Morrison was super pretentious sometimes. L A Woman is not one of those. This is just a basic metaphor used by many before him and many after him.
Her reactions are priceless. I love playing this bass line to the CD. If the doors of perception are cleansed all will appear to man as it is: Infinite.
One of the most amazing things about the doors was the keyboardist Ray manzarek. He played the bass line and also the piano line at the same time. There was no actual bass guitar player. Truly talented.
Incorrect. For this album they did use a bass guitar player. Think his name was Jerry Scheff. Also played bass for Elvis. And they used another guy to play rhythm guitar to compliment Robbie Krieger's lead.
"The hills are filled with fire". The hills surrounding Los Angeles burn pretty much every year in one spot or another. Lots of dry grass, especially if there's a lot of rain in the spring. Recording fun: Morrison recorded the vocals for this sitting on a toilet - he liked the acoustics in the bathroom of the recording studio. :D
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with your interpretation, but I’ve always envisioned the San Gabriel mountains, at dusk, with the setting western sun over the pacific emblazoned on the hills.. Just my opinion..
The doors named themselves after the aldous Huxley book "The Doors of Perception" Jim morrison was a keen student of this man due to his experimentation of the psychedelics and uncovering the many levels of consciousness. Enough said another legend of that era we lost too soon, but thankfully his genius and spirit live on forever. Truly grateful to be brought up in this great era of music! Thanks again india 😊
Always loved this song, such a great groove to it, I've watched a video of the keyboard player Ray Manzaric who said the record producers used to wake Him Morrison up after a few hours of sleep to get his rich vocal tones, True story!
The picture of the 3 people. Jim Morrison of the doors, Jimmie Hendrick, and Janice Joplin, all dead by the age of 27. It was a sad time for great artist.
lately they have been due to weather weapons ,who knows maybe they were just practicing back then too ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kLQ9y4msiG4.html
"Mr Mojo Risin" is an anagram of Jim Morrison. Mojo is slang for libido (and its physical manifestation). That portion of the song, with its rhythmic repetition increasing in tempo and ending in a scream is Morrison having sex with his LA woman. And yes, his LA woman is a metaphor for Los Angeles itself.
Ray Manzarek keyboard play is genius who wrote the music, went on to producer, film director, author. He lived in the greater Seattle area, like Jimi Hendrix.
Great job on one of my favorite Doors song, not sure if you ever heard Wild Child but thats a great one too ,that most people have forgotten about probably, since its never hear on the radio anymore
People who grew up with and was related to jim said he was actually a nice, calm, quiet, and conservative person but adopted himself a wild crazy radical persona to sell to the kids.
In a previous Teenage Life this was my song before I hit the Town on a Friday night!!.. A Spliff or two and a few lines of Amphetamine Sulphate!! It was many Decades ago and I survived it, I'm a Grandfather now! But still Love this song, brings back so many memories!!!..
It was actually "from glad to sadness". Someone in a doc said he thought it was about the general change in the mood of L.A.after the Manson murders."Motel murder bit of madness"
Billy Idol did a cover that, by comparison, was just flat. The song is perfection... Robby's guitar, Ray's keys, and Jim. Dear lord, Jim just wailing! It's incomparable. This was a moment in time that can't be approached.
The city is the woman, the woman is the city. Lots of imagery in the lyrics:"I see your hair is burnin";"midnight alleys roam". Excellent changes of pace, intro, outro. Like 3 songs in one. Overall an outstanding rock n roll recording.
@@tsgosser "Hills are filled with fire" the high points in her hair were brilliant. The key to the album is in the song Cars Hiss By My Window, sonic-boom.
The lyric "city of night" is a reference to the groundbreaking 1963 LGBTQ novel CITY OF NIGHT by John Rechy, which was written in a stream of consciousness narrative style (of which Morrison was a fan).
Jim was one of the best at merging slick studio production with the raw energy of a live performance. He goes off!! "YEAH!! WOO!! COME ON!! LETS GO, WOO COME ON!!"
I love your reaction to this song. Jim Morrison is a fantastic poet and one hell of a showman on stage. Great driving music... I put this on when I'm driving, it just makes me wanna roll down the windows and crank up the tunes. I rate " The Changeling." Another song off the L.A.Woman Lp. A close 2nd, right behind L.A.Woman. If you like this one and wanna hear more, give " The Changeling." A listen.
Mr. Mojo risin is Jim Morrison spelled out, he said he would rise up 10 years after his death, in this song he is thanking all the women who helped him while he was in L.A.
☆▪☆▪☆ The Doors ✌😎 ☆▪☆▪☆ Let the Lizard King do the talking 😉🎙 One thing with Jim he was a poet first then a Rockstar ☆ Jim Morrison is Mr. Mojo Risin ( A little word letter play ) The Doors my favorite band ever since the day I was riding with my sister & her boyfriend and Riders On The Storm came on the radio as we were driving through the beautiful mountains of New Hampshire on a rainy Summers day ( A Perfect time & place to hear that amazing song ) Rock-on music lovers !
Hi India! I'm a huge Doors fan. The Doors are easily one of my top 3 bands of all time. If I may suggest "The Crystal Ship", "Spanish Caravan", "Not To Touch The Earth", just to name a few. I hope your audience agrees. Love this channel ✌🏽
I notice on your observation videos your always are more focus on the lyrics and the many of the song but less on the musicianship and the songs melodies. It would be great if you mention some aspects of those things like I like how the keyboard work is laid out or how the drums kick in. Your doing great on these videos, I am just offering up a suggestion. :)
@@daveking9393 It is just the entire range of classic period rock had so much great musicianship, melody writing and great lyrics. Mus recognize all three.
@ 2:38 Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix. some of the biggest rock stars of the late 60's and all died right around the same time and close to the same ages. Yet people still think drugs is cool.
you should react to one of the tracks on "an american prayer", maybe 'ghost song'.. some of those tracks bleed into the following tracks, hard to pick a start point in the middle of it, lol... "an american prayer" by jim morrison & the doors
this album came out in the same year that I graduated...1971. I remember putting in my 8 track player in my car and just driving along the shore drive in Stone Harbor, NJ the week I graduated. It was idyllic...
Haha! I bought this the year I graduated...1988. I remember putting it in my cassette player in my car and driving down Lake Shore Drive in Chicago looking at apartments. Lake Michigan sparkling under the summer sun on one side and the city on the other. Such good times! Funny how our stories are so similar yet almost two decades apart.
Loved shooting Pool, to this song was epic. Loved power in Jim Morrison's voice. Instruments were magic and drew you in.... ahead of their time, Absolutely.
One the the very few examples in the rock era where a group's last album was possibly their best. The only other groups on this list- The Beatles and the Police.
The murder and slightly weird stuff is reference to Charles Manson - who was carousing round California at the time of the Doors. The name of the band is from the author Aldous Huxley's book, "The doors of perception" which is about Huxley's experience with Mescaline in the 50s.
When I was a kid growing up in the 60s the "old music" really sounded like old music, "Tea for Two" and "Bicycle Built for Two"- corny stuff. Nowadays the "old music" is The Doors rocking out "LA Woman". You kids don't know how lucky you have it - I can't imagine anyone thinking of this stuff as corny lol!
Is this your first time listening to the doors? There is a great Netflix documentary called When you're strange. It has so much cool footage and music.
One of the last songs from the brilliant vocalist and visionary . What was the Sixties really all about ? Morrison was the living essence of the times .
