There was no music like this in the fifties. This was pure sixties and pure Doors.

The lyric "Cops in cars, The topless bars, Never seen a woman so alone ...." beautifully paints the L.A. scene, time, place and atmosphere.

Mr. Mojo Risin' is an anagram of Jim Morrison.

@L33Reacts

7 ай бұрын

Well that makes sense lol Thank you for filling me in

Jim was drunk as shit on this. It gave him the perfect growl and slight slur. It’s like you’re out drinking with him, just cruising around

This song is Jim’s ode to Los Angeles. LOL. Jim and Janis Joplin had some epic encounters with each other back in the day. Val Kilmer was a totally bad ass Jim Morrison in the 1991 movie “The Doors.”

Really captures the feel of LA. night and day.

Great reaction... seeing a cool kid jam to The Doors in 2024 gives my 52 year old ass hope!

@tammymcavoy3541

5 ай бұрын

Amen, the Doors a required for anyone’s musical education ❤

@rustycohle7779

4 ай бұрын

My Sophomore year in HS, 1985, I wore a different Doors t-shirt every day. They each represented their 5 albums. Since there were 5 days in a school week it worked out perfect. I even wore a Doors shirt under my track jersey during meets. So yeah this kid listening to them in 2024 feels good for us

@user-js1mx7dx1p

13 күн бұрын

64 year old guy too

I lived in Los Angeles for 5 years in the late 70s early 80s and every time I hear the intro to LA Woman I'm back on the Santa Monica freeway.

The Doors formed in 1965. First album released in 1967. Last album, L.A. Woman, in 1971, April. Jim Morrison died in July 1971.

This is in the top five best written songs ever. Masterpiece

The Doors’ sound was something all its own. So many bands were like that back then. We could tell who the band was on a new song we hadn’t yet heard within the first 3 or so bars or so. LZ,DP, Doors, GFR, BST, Chicago, etc, etc., all had such unique sounds.

@brendamilloy2557

6 ай бұрын

And then they'd do something no one was expecting and the amazement when you realized that it was Zep or Doors or whichever band, and you'd spend hours listening to that new tune from one of your favorite bands, soaking it into your very being, freaking out cuz you didn't expect that...those were the best times.

@mjeffn2

6 ай бұрын

@@brendamilloy2557 Yet, thinking back, the first time I heard ‘Going To California’ I probably knew it was Led Zeppelin by the fourth word in the first sentence of the first verse, and then it was “ahhhhh,” of course that’s Robert Plant but also who else would engineer the sound that way and good chance John Paul Jones was playing the mandolin. The unique and intimate way that bands back then were involved in the recording, mixing, and engineering of their music resulted in their “sound,” being a uniquely recognizable instrument itself.

Jim had a unique, mesmerizing lead vocal voice. The whole band were fantastic musicians with Ray and Robby standing out on this unforgettable tune!Lee you are right the young ladies did anything and everything to get Jim’s attention!Jim finally did break on through to the other side and we are still waiting for him to return!

@L33Reacts

7 ай бұрын

Bro I could tell he was a magnet just from his voice LOL what a voice. I bet he had them going WILD 🙃 that was a great track.

Love Jim Morrison and The Doors as they totally Rock❤

I went in Paris to visit Jim’s grave in 2014, never regretted it…so many fans were there…will always remember ! Such talent!!!

Oh yeah...the Lizard King had the sweetest, most powerful baritone in all of rock n roll. Legendary.

Only in the spotlight for 5 years, The Doors (with JM). Unreal.... 🚬😎👍

Elvis' bassist from '69-'77, Jerry Scheff, played on these sessions with The Doors. Jim Morrison was absolutely thrilled to be performing with him. Such a fantastic song and album.

@belinda35_77

6 ай бұрын

haha came here to make sure 'whole lotta fender bass' jerry scheff got a shout-out happy 85th birthday to jerry yesterday i believe its only him & glenn hardin left of the tcb band tcb band one of the all time greatest underappreciated backing bands of all time incredibly loyal incredibly talented

"The Doors" was almost a cult following in the 70's. Much darker than the typical R+R music of the time they hit some really dark subjects. Because of Jim's outstanding musical voice, he drew in many from all corners of the states. "The End" is a very long and very dark song about being Drafted to serve in NAM. "The Blue Bus" was the bus the army sent to your town to pick you up.

@L33Reacts

7 ай бұрын

I could feel the darkness in his voice. And hear it. Probably a very troubled guy such as myself. I get it. I really do

@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344

6 ай бұрын

"The End," is not about being drafted and serving in Vietnam. It's Oedipus Rex. The "Blue Bus," was the color of the bus line Morrison and his girlfriend rode in LA. The US Army didn't send buses to pick people up. If you were drafted, you were expected by law to go to basic training.

@ronaldstokes4841

6 ай бұрын

@@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344 As a draftee and Nam Vet, many of the songs tied to the 'Nam' experience were not meant to be war songs. These are the songs we heard comin' from the hootches at night, hence the relativity. 'We Gotta Get Outta This Place', 'Runnin' Through the Jungle', and even CCR's two 'Rain' songs weren't war songs... but we took the rain comin' down on a sunny day as enemy fire and asked, "Who'll stop it!" The Righteous Brothers' 'Unchained Melody' became our anthem of hope to come home to the girl we left behind. Funny, even the Classic 'Flight of the Valkyries' has become a 'war' song to me. Welcome Home Brothers 589th Combat Engineers Song Pha, Republic of Viet Nam 1970

@peterbland7227

6 ай бұрын

I beg to differ on the “cult” label. Most of their records reached the Billboard top ten at the time, and they even appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. They sang “Light My Fire”, which was a number 1 hit on the show and were banned after singing” girl we couldn’t get much higher” against Sullivan’s wishes.

@julianbarber4708

6 ай бұрын

@@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344 I've always thought 'The Blue Bus' was the one used by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, but now I actually looked at a photo of it, I see it wasn't blue at all!......I must have mixed it up with The Who's Magic Bus!

Great music to turn off the lights in your living room and blast out this song with your favorite drink ❤

Ray Manzarek was one of the best keyboard players of that time and possibly still today

The greatest driving song of all time. Always makes me push the pedal to the floor.

My most memorable example of this gem was when I was at a friend's home where he had converted a bedroom intro a small music room He had Carver stereo components and a pair of huge JBL L-300 speakers with 15-inch woofers (google them), and I swear it was the first time this song sounded like the band was directly in front of me playing live. So crystal clear and so real! There's good reason why folks spend a small fortune on these sound systems. They have to be heard in person to be believed. See you in 29 minutes. ;-)

@ronaldstokes4841

6 ай бұрын

I do regret not keeping my old rack system. Incredible sound. MUST use speakers, no headsets, Kids. by th' way, in the dark it made that one wall look as if you were an electronic Wizard.

@user-dq5xx9hi4q

6 ай бұрын

@@ronaldstokes4841 I still have my Concept 11.0 receiver and my JBL L100t speakers and smaller JBL L36 speakers that I bought in the 1980s. The neighbors aren't too happy about that ;-)

@edwardcapobianco2975

6 ай бұрын

Jbl speakers with 15 inch woofers shake the fuckinh house! It must have been awesome!

@akeleven

6 ай бұрын

So miss the days of having a real sound system. Everything back then had incredible sound

@edwardcapobianco2975

6 ай бұрын

@@akeleven the days of Altec Lansing or jbl speakers with 15 in woofers.SUPER TWEETERS, Technics turntable with a real good audio technica stylus and a pioneer or Marantz receiver!! Those old school systems really cooked!

Seriously…one of the greatest rock drummers of all time….his hero was elvin jones of John Coltranes band….check out “not to touch the earth” to see how insanely eclectic the doors could be stylistically.

@L33Reacts

7 ай бұрын

I'll check it out! Thank you for watching my friend:)

@vincentvancraig

7 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts , absolutely, man, my pleasure…great channel:)

Listening to The Doors while driving… one of the best things about my youth! My older sister took my young son on road trips listening to The Doors, CCR, Stones, Beatles … he got quite an education and is mid-thirties. Cool that he’s heard the music from my youth while he showed me music from his Gen.

This was recorded in 1970. One of Jim's best songs. Robbie Krieger was responsible for a lot of their hits, writing Light my fire, Love me two times, Touch me......Ray on keys and John on drums have a jazz background, Robby was an acoustic flamenco player 6 months before they formed the band.

@belinda35_77

6 ай бұрын

also having absolutely scored by borrowing elvis' bass player 'whole lotta fender bass' jerry scheff they said in hopes of getting jims spirits up for these sessions being such a huge fan elvis

Check out “Peace Frog” by the Doors. Great tune!!!! Cheers 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

@L33Reacts

7 ай бұрын

Cheers! I'll add it to the list, thank you my friend.

This song came out in 1971. Recorded shortly before Jim died in Paris in 71. "Mr. Mojo Risin' (an anagram of Jim Morrison) was supposedly the name he was going to use after he faked his own death, dropped out of the music biz, and headed out to live the rest of his life somewhere in Africa. I was lucky enough to meet John Densmore about 10 years ago. I also got to see Robbie Krieger play this song live a few years ago in Portland and again in January of this year at the Whiskey in L.A., where the Doors used to be the house band in the late 1960s. Great L.A. band!!!

I cannot imagine (or remember!) hearing this for the first time -- enjoy

there is a clip of them "live in Europe" from the 60s performing "When the Music's Over"...my fav by the band...

Put this book on your reading list. No one here gets out alive. Great book about Morrison and the band.

My all time best band ever. And boy what an album to go out on. Stunning

This was the last Doors album before Jim Morrison died, and it's a fitting epitaph. This closed side one and final track on side two, Riders On The Storm, is another 7 minute-plus epic with some fantastic keyboard work by Ray Manzarek. There's plenty of other great Doors tracks: Ship Of Fools, The Soft Parade, Five To One, The End and, of course, Light My Fire.

If you enjoyed John Densmore's drumming, check out When The Music's Over!

Now off the same album THE WASP and Riders on the storm

Oh BTW and the lead singer... The Lizard King- Mr. Mojo Risin yes..... Jim Morrison ✌️🙂 Moonlight Drive Roadhouse Blues Riders on the Storm Touch Me When the Music's Over Love Her Madly Light My Fire Break On Through Five to One ....and oh so many more ! ( I've been a diehard Doors fan since the 70's ) The Doors broke free from the 50's and carved out their own sound in the late 60's into the 1970's with poet / lead singer Jim steering the ship, Ray on keyboards /bass, Robbie on lead guitar and John on the drums and they did it all in only a few short years.

#Riders on the Storm .. #Love Her Madly .. #Road House Blues .. #Peace Frog .. #Love Me Two Times .. #Back Door Man .. #Light My Fire .. #Soul Kitchen .. #Touch Me .. #Maggie M'Gill .. #The Mosquito ... Just a small handful of Doors songs on a short list to check out.

No this one is from 1971. It's the first album I ever bought with my own money. Great song, and enjoyed your reaction.

@L33Reacts

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it kevin! I had a great time with thism

My Wild Love and Not To Touch The Earth are a couple of my favorite Doors songs

An old drinking buddy of mine was a Marine vet from the Korean War. He loved this song. I still play it for him every time I go out. Rip JB

@L33Reacts

7 ай бұрын

RIP brother. Fly high up there. Thank you for watching my friend.

You we're spot on with 'it sounds like oldies even for them'. They were an absoulutely freakout inducing because they combined established styles of the generations of people's parents and grandparents but mixing them together and making them DARK AS FUUUUUKS. It was like listening to a goth ass evil uncensored Frank Sinatra backed up by undead old blues, jazz and even classical/ church organ music.

I was 12 years old when this album came out. I grew up in LA and this album perfectly captures the excitement and undercurrent ofdanger then. This was right after The Manson murders and the hippie movement turning sour. Jim Morrison died soon after this was recorded.

Best American Band ever

@L33Reacts

7 ай бұрын

This rocked! I can't wait to hear more.

@feliciaecheverria

6 ай бұрын

​@L33Reacts Jim's lyrics were filled with metaphors. In this particular tune, L.A. Woman is the city of Los Angeles. I don't hear what you called oldies. An oldie to us back then were songs like "Angel Baby" by Rosie and the Originals, "Earth Angel", etc. Imo, Morrison's Motel was their weakest album.

It’s refreshing to see someone younger give props to older music. Not enough young people respect what came before them, in my opinion.

1967 was when the music really changed. The Doors, The Beatles Sgt. Peppers two bands who really changed the music. From then one it just got better, Jefferson Airplane, The Band (my favorite along with The Doors) Santana, Cream many others.

This song perfectly evokes LA/Hollywood in the late 60s. Late afternoon-early evening in the fall (hot and dry -- fire season), cars cruising along Sunset, sidewalks full of people. Just magical.

@jimmoore8951

6 ай бұрын

Totally makes me think of the Whiskey aGoGo from the 60s... too bad I was only 10 then

Honky- Tonk piano sound cruisin' the hills on fire in L.A.

I believe Jerry Scheff, Elvis Presleys’ live bass player, played on this ? I believe by Jim’s, request, because he was a huge Elvis fan, Elvis’ early stuff like Mystery Train, One Night, Love Me Tender…

Ray Manzarek didn't play bass. They always employed a bass player on their studio albums. For LA Woman it was Jerry Scheff. They toured without a bass player, so Ray filled in bass lines on the keyboard when they played live.

"People are strange" another good Doors song that wasn't played on air. This vibe was the doors vibe nobody else like them.

There are so many great tunes by The Doors to open & enjoy.

I like this song too

La Woman is recorded in 1970...A genius album

The doors are great LA women is a great album but those first three door’s albums are unbelievable total head music 🟤

Great react L33!! Total Doors vibe. Fun song :). I always liked Riders On The Storm. They have so many. Love it! ❤🎉

Jim Morrison is one of the best Rock vocalist ever. His range was special and he could master of diverse styles. Band members great as well. Morrison a member of the 27 club.

JOHN DENZMORE, former Jazz Drummer, before joining Doors. Funny , how great Jazz Drummers made some of the greatest back beats of Rock...example Charlie Watts, drummer for a little known band, uh think they were called the Rolling Stones...they may be big someday as well. 😂❤

The piano takes me to a saloon in a western movie for some reasons.

You said it "hell yes"

This track cooks.

Moooooooooorrrrre Doooooooooooorrrrrrrrsssssss

Put headphones on turn off the lights and listen to the experience that is this album!

There are many reasons that the Doors were my favorite band in the late 60's. This is one of them.

The Doors were known for injecting bass lead segment into there songs. Another group that did this was The Moody Blues. Cheers!

My school mate bought this LP for me in 8th grade. The yellow on the front cover was a section of cellophane. Groovy.

My favorite band of all time. You're not going to find a band that plays so TIGHT anywhere. I'm 59 and am happy to see this current generation discover what to me is, the best band of all time. The Doors combines rock, blues, and a few other styles. There isn't a band in the history of Rock that had done so much in such a short time. 3 years baby ! if you liked this song you'll LOVE Roadhouse Blues. Check it out when you can.

Checkout Lynyrd Skynyrd Working for the MCA/ Aint the one / Live at Knebworth! In this concert they opened for the Stones, and literally blew them off the stage. I saw the boys in 76 in North Carolina, the Hells Angels got in a fight with the Marines. And Ronnie got on the mike and said if ya,ll dont stop this shit, im coming down there and kick some ass/ Lol enjoy Lee😊😊

As a drummer, you have to appreciate John Densmore’s drumming….excellent

Don't forget "Peace Frog", that's another hot one! Hope you hit it...

Great album (and title track), one of their most focused efforts. You absolutely can't hear the turmoil that had been rattling the band and singer in 1969.70, they sound young and vital. 👍

You should check out "Love Her Madly" from this same album, since you dig the piano sound. It is excellent!

Favorite Doors song... thanks for the reminder to add it to my road-trip playlist

Still one of my favorites of the Doors!

I read some time ago that Jim Morrison had no confidence in his ability as a singer, and performed the first few gigs with his back to the audience. Go figger! My suggestion would be "When The Music's Over" next

Definitely road music. Jim was drunk when this was recorded. You can tell cause his vocal goes flat but you don't care because it's got such a great groove.

It did drive us crazy, then and now. Always. One of those miracles where four people come together and make magic. So pleased you had a great reaction to The Doors. Give a listen to "Peace Frog", I think you would appreciate it.

got to see them live November 3, 1967 Continental Ballroom, Santa Clara, CA, a former roller-skating rink...only held a couple hundred people...tickets @$2.00.

THE END is a great hallucinogenic journey about the draft back in the Vietnamese era. As a bartender, it was always my closing song at last call, and when the song ended, the glasses came off the bar.

If you've not heard them these are great Doors songs: The End, Five to One, Riders on the Storm, When the Music's Over, People are Strange, Roadhouse Blues. Just to name a few lol

Go on down the rabbit hole there are no bad songs from the Doors , Riders on the storm , light my fire , the End , if it says Jim Morrison or the doors , listen to it! I just subscribed to your channel, loved your reaction looking forward to you reacting to more Doors , also there is a great film, called the Doors well worth a watch ❤❤❤❤❤

The first song on this album set the tone, CHANGELING.

I like how they were well produced but not overly produced.

straight away sub , u let it breathe

This very album ends with two killer tracks. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) & Riders on the Storm. For an interesting psychedelic track try The End from the first album. Thanks for Great video. Enjoy

@damonhines8187

7 ай бұрын

Great to see someone else requesting 'WASP (Texas Radio...)' too! Loved that one forever, seems like.

In this album they had a real and actual bass player.

I hitchhiked from cleveland to La just go to the whiskey a go go.where the Doors played.

Classic. 👍

as a teenager a mate of mine paid a record shop to record this without the lyrics - when we got wasted we'd play it full blast - mental - then child in time screaming like mad - great times

Mr Mojo Risin ------------- after the recording Jim Morrison showed the band on a blackboard how that phrase contained all the letters of his name

I get the "saloon" reference...for that "chimie?" piano bouncing around in the upper register.

More Doors reactions please.

This is about the most epic first listen, or introduction , to the doors a person can possibly have,,….for real….this kind of chance thing is why I’m so addicted to reaction videos, lol.

@L33Reacts

7 ай бұрын

It was Epic! Thank you for watching. What a first listen!

@vincentvancraig

7 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts , totally:) …& yeah, it’s a dangerous song to have on while driving a car, ha:/

Peace Frog. Nuff said.

"L.A. Woman" is a personification of the city of LA as a woman; it's darkness, bleakness, the underbelly of the city and its denizens. Nope, the Doors didn't perform at Woodstock. Morrison's voice is in the baritone register which helps give it a "mature" sounding resonance. They formed in 1965 in LA and produced 6 albums in 5 years. Morrison died in 1971 and the band tried to continue as a trio until finally disbanding in 1973.

I looked at the comments and did not see one of my favorites by Jim Morrison and the Doors. Please react to People are Strange. 😊 Thanks for your reaction. It was great! 😊❤

When I started high school in 1976 the Doors were virtually forgotten. By the 1980s with the advent of classic rock radio stations their music became very popular. I suppose the movie, Apocalypse Now contributed to some of this renewed interest as well. Anyway, the title track, and Riders On The Storm are stone cold classics. They're music has held up over time. The records don't sound dated at all.

The Big Bands were popular and even their lead singers weren't given the same headlines. Frank Sinatra was one of them. Yeah, Bing Crosby became a solo artist, and deservedly so. Incredible singer. Sinatra took it to an entirely new level, and then Elvis.

Doors!! 😎🎶🎵❤️

Great to see The Doors on the channel, you should check out their Proto Prog song The Soft Parade. You’ll love it.

Great album, second only to Strange Days. I drum Rider On The Storm from this album- it's great for developing grooves and kick drum patterns.

I'm hearing Ray Charles' What'd I Say and the Beatles I Feel Fine in the drumming during the first bridge here. Is it just me or is that a thing? And, still hard to believe that they didn't have a bassist and it was all Ray Manzarek doing the bass line, at least in live performances.