Hey Jamel have you heard Bill Withers "Who is He (And What is He to You?)" If not it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T4JtCCWB6Y4.html
Are you just being disingenuous, @@hastobe303 ? Of course it's not IMPOSSIBLE to listen to an entire lp today, but many of the contiguous tracks are separated by f-ing adverts, and the digitization leaves a millisecond gap between every Part (as Pink Floyd often labeled each of their songs)... And the fact that you CAN skip tracks on vinyl and cds is again talking an affirmative action discrete individuals might take, versus the overwhelming tendency in those formats to just sit back and listen to the whole thing as the artist intended! The point is, the institutional support structure for streaming is rewiring how people consume music, and not in a good way. Just compare the popular music of today with what it was in the 1940s through 1990s, and you should be able to see the negative effects of streaming... It's really an objective no-brainer, IMO.
I’ve been dying to see someone react to this song, the content is deep but the song is just so well arranged and the musicianship is just delicious, thanks for reacting to this!!
This song is a straight up Jam. I have been listening to this song for fifty years and it still has the same energy today as it did when it first came out.
were the doors as big then as the lore that will build up around them by the 80's? .... this seems so strong & unique for that period in comparison their peers. they were in a great competitive period music wise, but they just seem to stand out more over time.
Jim Morrison was such a character the band gets overlooked quite a bit. Ray was a complicated guy and seems a bit much for me in interviews but he really gave the Doors their unique sound. Robbie did quite a bit with his instrument considering the tools he had to work with at the time. Densmore wasn't the flashiest drummer but would incorporate so many different styles that every song sounds like a different drummer. It's like the Beatles. Hard to compare any band to them because every member was required to get that sound. I sometimes go years without listening to the Doors but when I come back around to them I remember why I spent my youth with them in constant rotation.
Morrison was great at perpetuating his on myth, Indian scattered on dawns highway is a reference he told of when he witnessed an accident in the desert as a child of American Indians, he said ones soul leaped into his own
its multilayered. its also a metaphor for a nation born in blood (birth of a nation). the road that led to formation in the usa was forged from the clash of civilizations. the indian wars had as much to do w/ forming our character as did Concord & Lexington. & it went of for 150 years thru wounded knee.... dawn is the beginning. hiway is its path forward. & scattered indians are those deaths that were spilled as that path made its way to the calif shores..... morrison is tapping into that river via his own time on that stream. seeing (or imaging) natives dead on a NM hiway melds into the theme of this arc of blood & violence from Jamestown to portland.
Here's a SABBATH song that I'm sure you'll dig: "WHEELS OF CONFUSION": it's like a sonic journey with various killer riffs, tempo changes, you know- everything you appreciate about Sabbath,Jamel. Peace Out & thx
Love you, man. Glad you're enjoying the music of the revolution. Everything blossomed. Imagine when I discovered the beautiful, mind-blowing Doors when I was 15! .(it's not about abortion, or any subject so narrow. Jim was an observer and chronicled what he saw, that's all. )
It’s amazing they can get so much sound out of a three piece band without a bass player. Just Guitar, drums, and organ/keyboards. Super talented musicians….and Morrison was the icing on the cake.
Seriously - The Doors Absolutely Live “Soul Kitchen” you won’t regret it. This was the FIRST album I bought as a kid. I am still stunned as a 51 yr old that I had that much foresight.
That is what they should listen to. Universal Mind is killer. Celebration of lizard. End. Music over. Build me a women. Dead cats into breK on thru. Soul kitchen is a great end.
Jamel this song Blew my fragile eggshell mind when I was about 12, and I was never the same again... I love this song, I love the doors, and I love what you do bro... keep it up
It’s not “about” abortion, but the lyrics were taken from an earlier Morrison poem called Abortion Stories. The lyrics reference actual events though, such as his arrest in New Haven, the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968, and his experience as a young child seeing a horrific road accident involving a truckload of Native Americans.
@@alrivers2297 Specifically the Chief, BUT his family said after his death that the accident never happened. Jim was a genius and sometimes geniuses suffer from mental illness of sorts cuz they can't handle being in the normal world. Their brains are far more developed and they escape "us" with drugs and alcohol. He was talented and brilliant and tortured. I wrote poems about him back in the 90s. He affected me deeply.
its both a personal & large eyes view of the cyclical nature of violence that ebbs & flows decade after decade thru the body of our culture. he uses his own experience of it as a child & in a flash brings it to the present of '68 w/ blood rising in chicago & saigon. then he presents the arc showing how its deeply rooted in his homeland (birth of a nation). & finally it also points & implies forward as it describes this process as cyclical in nature.... succinct yet very dense symbolist poetry. morrison at his best, vastly underrated as a rock lyricist.
@@kelvinkloud Jim found out that he did not want to be that sex machine rock star. He wanted to that celebrated poet, the bard of old. But when he went to escape, he went too far to the other side. My heart aches for his torture.
When Jim says Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven is from the actual city New Haven Connecticut. Back then was a lot of protesting from Yale university students and the Black Panthers back in 1970. I'm from the town nextthe New Haven called West Haven. Dig it
I really like Shaman's Blues by the Doors, a lesser known track but it has a fascinating rhythm and never has the word bridesmaid sounded so menacing. Well worth a listen
My favourite Doors song! Use to go to a rock club in the 90s and Friday was classic rock night, everytime this song came on the dance floor was always packed.
when you enter morrison land, always remember, when the guy was on his A game (as here), he was a master at symbolist lyrics. A modern Blake. in other words, the phrases & image on purpose have multilayered density meaning wise.... w/ band tight & morrison in peak visionary form... it goes straight into the rising street violence & culture tension peaking in '68. the reference to chicago is a direct reference to that. but as usual it also builds transcending themes that weave in to make the song also an examination of one mans heart & personal past. from his innocent childhood eyes seeing carnage on a NM road of dying Indians to the carnage in Saigon & US streets. like a river, flowing back & forward off him & into the soul. how past blood connects w/ present & forward. how violence begets increasing violence. how its cylical & can rise & swallow, contract, yet come back again in new more virulent form. Even into the birth cycle & its cut off... morrison at his best was prophetic. this is a prime ex of that. its why theyre the most relevant band from their era. morrison taps into eternal & cyclical patterns of the West homeland.
The song was about the riots of 1967 that spread through the nations cities. New Haven was home to Liberation House headquarters to the Black Panthers. Bobby Seal was arrested who’s trial again put the city on edge following experiencing a week of riots and burning.
The song is so short that when it was played on the radio it was always paired with "Blue Sunday". Growing up I thought it was called "Peace Frog/Blue Sunday.
I grew up in the New Haven (Connecticut) area, NH being one of the references in the song. Decades ago I had a poster of Jim Morrison's b&w mugshot when he was arrested during a concert in New Haven. I think my older sister was at that concert. I was too young and missed all the fun hippie stuff. One of my favorite Doors song. Peace!
"Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven"... Not only was there a big protest in New Haven in the 60's of the Black Panthers at Bobby Seale's trial, but Morrison was also arrested at the New Haven Arena on stage.
Heard this one when I was 7 years old & I have loved it ever since! The Doors were incredible! Music, sound, players & their instruments. If, you are curious about the meaning of this song...it came from something Jim wrote way before The Doors were a band.
The song was a Metaphor for a real life incident that He, Jim Morrison witnessed when he was young. He supposedly witnessed an accident where two Native Americans where lying off to the side of the road dead, in a pool of blood. Morrison later said that he felt the spirit of one of the two enter his body, so yes, it is has a deep meaning to it.
@@CaponeCraps Only one line in the song is about the 1968 Democratic convention. The rest of the song is about various other things none of which were political. So I wouldn't say the entire song is about that one thing.
THE SPY is a great soothing song by THE DOORS too. The drummer said that they would get fan mail saying that people lost their virginity to that song. LOL!
The Doors were so musically accomplished they could pull anything off when they got together in the studio. For all Jim’s troubles he always produced in the end. Hard to believe they were only around for 4/5 years
Dude, I think you're ready for American Prayer. But it's an all or nothing album. The Doors came out with it after Jim died. It's got a lot of his poetry put to music and it's a trip.
Yeah , You finally got to it , yeah amongst the best musician's ever , haven't even listened to this reaction yet to get the post in , congratulations Jamal and You know it , and oh yeah this song says a lot still about even Today
most relevant band from that era, bar none. dylan on par as a solo artist in re to echoing & tapping into the cyclical chords of this lady we know as the usa culture.... what morrison & dylan & a few others could do is top into the eternal makeup of the culture. frame its patterns that reoccur over time. its why this song is so spot on now.
Now that was fun watching you groove out to this iconic tune. Really enjoyed your reaction Jamal. You may be pleasantly surprised picking tunes that you don't get a ton of requests for.
Watched this video like 100 times, just to enjoy Jamel rockin out ! 🥰. Whatever is going on with my day, I listen to this song, believe me, I am rockin out more than Jamal ! I forget about whatever happened in my day . 👍
Rest in peace Dicky Betz the first time I heard you comment on his blue sky song the translation of words that came from you touched my soul that song was dedicated to me from one of the loves of my life in fact it's his birthday today April 19th we lost him 6 years ago thank you for your words my friend much love and respect Sherri
My weekend doesn't begin until I listen to a reaction from Jamel! This is one of my top faves from The Doors. I was obsessed with them as a teenager. Other commenters have noted but yes, if you can react to the album version where it transitions into the super mellow Blue Sunday that would be great. It really adds a nice dimension to both songs to listen to them back to back. Similar to how ZZ Top's "Waitin' for the Bus" doesn't sound right unless you hear it with "Jesus Just Left Chicago". Thank you for being a good human Jamel!
'Indians scattered on dawns highway bleeding, ghosts crowd a childs eggshell mind'. When he was a child Morrison witnessed a serious traffic accident when pickup carrying native Americans crashed.
omg...the instruments was having a party! yes! i love when you get really excited right before something big happens cuz you think the big thing has happened and then it's even bigger and i always know right when you're gonna do it! you're so fun to watch and you choose amazing songs!
Everyone says everything's underrated, but few songs from famous bands are quite as underrated as this little thing. It's probably the most vicious thing lyrically from the age, while at the same time musically being at the same time a decade older than it's day and somehow futuristic af ^^ It's funky! It's like the funkiest thing a punk would more likely know about than a funk guy! :D
My father was a huge doors fan . First album I bought was strange days when i was 12 in the mid 80s. None of my friends heard of the doors until the movie put them back on the map.
Thanks 😊 I requested this many times. Glad you liked it. As some others have requested, please try Moonlight Drive next. Its a great track. Its one of the first tracks Jim presented to Ray.
About the part "Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven" "On December 9, 1967, police arrested Doors’ front man Jim Morrison as he performed onstage at the New Haven Arena. An incident that took place between Morrison and a police officer before the show led to Morrison’s public arrest, making him the first rock star ever taken into custody during the middle of a performance. As police dragged Morrison off stage, the crowd rioted. Morrison was quickly charged with obscenity and incitement to riot but was soon released. The band later immortalized the event in the song “Peace Frog,” released in 1970." I am originally from Connecticut and was born 12 days after this happened.
Blood in the streets is about protests, but it is also about history of the land, of Columbus' and slaughter and ghosts of slavery autocracies, that haunt this place. Its called peace frog, being at peace while the karma ripens, because awareness is knowing what is bubbling under the surface cant be hidden, what goes around comes around, and yes it is a protest song, as in the 60s people wanted to change things. peace is active, to try to make peace is to try to change things.jumping forward, and rock and roll and the doors were peace frogs. and this is just three musicians and I think they added a base player in the studio on this one, so mostly its four people and the three main musicians in the doors with three instruments are exploring every type of sound they can get out of them, Guitar Drums, and Organ, but changing up the tone and settings at different time. Changing pace. And Jim singing his full range of soft speaking voice and loud voice and mellow baritone blues all mixed together.
bulls-eye....a nation borne in blood. & before that a clash of civilizations for the price of blood.... morrison was real into blake & campbell, also aware of Whitman and Crane. He read a lot. not only versed in literature but history also. like blake, he used a symbolist technique. concise but densely packed phrases and images. the key is to connect them likes stars into a larger pattern. in this case a narrative. its a scale up pattern, like a hawk drawing wider circles as it goes higher. in this case, the lyrics were relevant to that period in '68. But as you scale up, as you point to, it also shows the rings of time w/ the nations forming in n Amer. From wounded knee to gettysburg to the Iroquious war to the triangle trade to Africa , Golgotha & Rome . The thread is there. It also can be mirrored forward cyclically as we enter a new stage of unrest currently.... Wasp traces that lineage too.
Blood in the streets in the town of New haven, blood in the streets in the palm trees of Venice. Blood in my love in the terrible summer, bloody red son of fantastic LA"
I love this song. Thanks for making a video! On the album, this song runs into Blue Monday...I always hear that transition in my head at the end of this song.
