The Doors "Riders On The Storm (Alternate Version)"
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- This is an alternate version of "Riders On The Storm", taken from The Doors' L.A. Woman (40th Anniversary Edition). The musicians on the track are:
Jim Morrison: vocals
Ray Manzarek - keyboards
Robby Krieger - guitar
John Densmore - drums
Jerry Scheff - bass
Produced by The Doors and Bruce Botnick
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"You don't make music for immortality, you make music for the moment, for capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth." --Ray Manzarek.
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Jim?
Well said
Ironically, by being an integral member of this band, giving musical accompaniment to Jim's poetry, he helped immortalize moments in time that had Morrison not captured thru pen on paper would've been lost forever
Yes he's right, but The Doors have done both. Is this music not for eternaty ?
beautiful... Jim really was lucky to have such an unbelievable band to back his poetry. Long live The Doors.
They were a unity, they complimented each other in every aspect. Jim would never fit in any other band aswell as the other members didnt make much music after The Doors and Jims sad passing in Paris. May Jim and Ray rest in peace, their music will live forever.
i agree they dont get as much credit as they should have but it is what it is
Oh yeah 🐸
Tom R Yep... But Ray and the guys were even luckier to have had a genius as their lead singer and songwriter.
word!
I just decided I'm going to listen to the doors all day.
+Sweet3532 A MUST…I got thrown out of my house on DOORS~E
+Sweet3532 never tired of them
+Sweet3532 not a really hard thing to do :)
Cool
Sweet3532 Story of My Life
I wish they made an extended instrumental version complete with thunder storm that ran 40 minutes or longer. I just love falling asleep to this song. It drains away all my anxiety.
I always listen to this song before bed lol!!
Densmore's drumming is so underrated. He's got such a great touch.
I notice it especially in their live recordings.
indeed.. it only took me 15yrs of electronic music production to finally being able to fully appreciate all these little details... Ive tried hitting some drums - and playing drums is faaaar more than just hitting that drum. XD Its funny - i loved this song for almost 30 yrs and it still sounds koolAF in any version possible
Densmore is a brilliant musician
he was one of the greatest. and yes underappreciated. That's just the way it goes living with that superstar Jim eh?
Some musicians just fit with certain bands.
John Bonham Perfect for Led Zeppelin
Keith Moon Perfect for The Who
John Densmore Perfect for The Doors.
I am 66 years old and feel myself young by hearing this music!!! Thanks for posting and like!
Music is the time machine.bless you
J’ai aussi 66 ans FRANCE et j’adore Jim Morrison et les Doors ❤️❤️❤️ cette chanson est géniale !!! J’adore et je l’écoute très souvent ...
Those were the days!
Music is a time machine, brilliant. I feel like I am in grade school when I listen to The Doors.
I was 8 in 1966 now 66 i'm stiil a young man still a dors fan peace/❤
You can totally tell how Ray used this take as a sketch for creating that master piece of art solo on the song. Man! we miss you Ray! ❤
Check out his post Doors song “Golden Scarab”. It’s very funky and actually describes Egyptian mythology.
È stato un grande Ray!❤
Ray’s keyboards is sheer genius - so understated, so tasteful, so moody.
John Densmore is a criminally underrated drummer
mcashnv 👍👍
No is not, he is the drummer of the DOORS!
mcashnv - True, but not so much in this song. His master strokes are to be found in songs like LA Woman, Love Her Madly, Queen of the Highway, Peace Frog and of course Light My Fire.
Jim Morrison wanted him replaced! Ray talked him out of it!
Yeah right and Jesus Christ is one of the most underrated sons of god.
One of the most hypnotic songs ever recorded...
Yes,this song is blasting thru the universe thru alien consoles and the greys are saying let's visit that planet-fyck yeah!!😅
I'm 55 years old...oh shit, almost 56. I've been listening to the Doors since I was a teenager, and I never grow tired of them. This was fantastic.
Amen brother 47 and still love it.....wish I could have been born in that era and lived it...80 rocked tho
Almost 52 and they are my favorite band period jimbo is my idol
A teenager? You been listening since you were in nursery school and same here! What a cool thing
I’m 61...been listening since age 8. Still enthralled with The Doors.
almost 59..
It is a blessing to be able to hear this amazing music...then, and here now February 2023
I always liked how the piano notes run down the keyboard to mimic the sound of rain falling. Brilliant!
I thought I did
Ray has a video explaining the process of writing Riders on the Storm and he mentions exactly that, not sure if that's where you got that from, if not you should watch the video for sure.
@@al7umar Just came from there - great video!! - ruclips.net/video/3deQXzV-qTk/видео.html
Incredible. Morrison puts on a little show, then the music begins. It's hypnotic and haunting. Suddenly I don't feel at home anymore. I feel as though I'm in a studio with The Doors and it's 1971.
I totally agree with you. All the best.
DAMN !
I believe the album was recorded in late 1970.
R Moocher You’re right late 1970 This version of Riders isn’t bad at all (unknown from me i’m on the subject since early eighties).Their Last Album LA Women went in LP stores in 1971 when Jim was in Paris.
We lived in West Hollywood as a kid I remember my mom went down to hang around. Jim invited her back to listen to daily re-plays it was the first part of December 1970. I used to hear them a lot around that time too. This is what they sounded like. They were always very cool, chill, down to earth guys.
The Doors have a sound unlike any other band ever. Instantly recognizable. I think Mamzareck's organ playing is a big part
Pink Floyd did too (; amazing unique bands!! sucks to know that music will never be as good as it was back then lol
Darrin Stinson Who’s Mamzareck?
The Doors was a synergy between Morrison and Manzarek. However, you could have a Doors experience only with Morrison but none without him. His voice was the embodiment of the band, unfair as it may be.
Nothing taken from anyone but I think Ray was the magic ingredient, listen to his interviews
I'd know that shimmering keyboard out of a sound sleep.
Jim Morrison - “this is take 10, it’ll never be take 10 again”. Brilliant…
The bass player on this album is Jerry Scheff, Elvis's bass player, the Doors always used bass players in the studio. And the second guitarist is Marc Benno, which was great the band could stretch it more. My all time favorite song is "LA Woman" It says everything about LA that needed to be said. And yeah, LA is my hometown. Another great song is "Peace Frog", from the Morrison Hotel album. And everything from the "Strange Days" album is great. In my youth in the late 60's and early 70's I always felt that the Doors were summer midnight music. Except for "Strange Days" which was obvious to me at the time as a wintertime record.
Thanks, I was wondering who they were.
@@kenton6098 If you're young you are forgiven
Light my Fire was big too 🔥
Good info. Didn't even know there was a 2nd guitarist. Just a note, many songs in the studio were organ bass but clearly a bunch of songs are bass guitar. Lonnie Mack plays the bass on Roadhouse Blues which is interesting.
Benno was a Texas guitarist who happened to later be roommates with Stevie Ray Vaughn!
I love this jam version Jim's under produced voice, they are so comf😢with each other.
Jerry Scheff Elvis's Base Player ROCKS THIS SESSION ! Jim couldn't believe he had Elvis's TCB BasePlayer for this WHOLE ALBUM. He Shines On LA Woman Track....Thanks Jerry !!
First time watching this. Take 10 is fantastic. I love what Jim Morrison told Ray Manzarek and how the rest of the band understood ... The studio version became a hit but this different garage style version is superb!
We can thank Ray and Densmore for their love of Jazz and its influence to the band. I’ll forever be amazed to find that out, decades after I fell for the band. I’ll listen till the day I die.
I was just posting something similar. I had their live album, which included much of the Hollywood Bowl shows, when I was in college. On the live version of “Universal Mind”, there’s the instrumental bridge with the lilting organ that I’d always thought was something they’d made up to evoke of Summer of Love.
Only decades later did I find out that was John Coltrane’s “Afro Blue”. SMH
Yes, good point. My later love of jazz helped by earlier listening to Doors, free improv. of SF Sound bands
Poetic genius and impeccable instrumentals, hopefully The Doors will be appreciated for generations to come.
4 guys who brought out the best in each other ..perfection ..The Doors
Who's the fifth member?
@@thebookofeli849 Jerry Scheff on Bass for this session.
@thebookofeli?????849
When people start talking about, which band is the best the world has ever seen, i always say The Doors. It’s not because they have the absolute best songs ever, but it’s the sum of those 4 unique men. Perfection.
The Doors: the jazz band that never knew it was a jazz band.
I think they knew...the band collectively liked Coltrane and there was always a good blend of jazz, classical, flamenco, raga and rock with The Doors...plus Jim was a crooner at heart...listen to Blue Sunday!!!
I love this completely. I love rain and thunder and I love dark skies. I love Jim's voice and his poetry. Ray Manzarek outdoes himself in this song. The separate bass was a great touch. The work on those keyboards is beyond description; it can only be experienced. This is my favorite Doors song and this version is incredible. Aaah, to be able to go back in time and sit in that room while theyre playing this !!!
It's crazy how the tone switched from light to dark in the studio. That is a testament of the Door's talent, rawness, and tone. It was sad when he said it will never be tape ten again like he (Jim) was going to pass away.
I've bought L.A. Woman 5 times in my life.The LP twice,8track,cassette, CD,now I have it downloaded on my phone. I listen to it all the time.
Jordan Delgado bet you got it on spotify too
Yeah, I've so many different copies of it he same album 🤣.
It's the best album ever that's why.
@@MustangBoss1973 ah yes, the yellow and black 69 Boss 302. Owned one for over 30 years. Still dream about driving it and wake up with chills. Had Norris full race cam, crane roller rockers, one of first 500 with the cross drilled crank, .30 over fully balanced trw's, hooker headers with burned out glass pacs. My mom used to say she could hear me coming 10 minutes before I ever got there. She'd rev forever and a day...
You old geezah
Yeah, my first cd in 90's when i was 12
Tons of thousands of bands will live and die. But the Doors will live forever!
Peter Grandahl um Led Zeppelin !lol
(~);}
The doors will be eternal
Timeless......never get tired of listening!
Riders On The Storm turned out to be the last song The Doors recorded with Jim Morrison, and this is an excellent alternate take of it.
Brilliant , just frigging brilliant, atmospheric and musically hits the spot every time I play it , great chill out tune, nuff said.
Morrison lived a lifetime in those 4 years of The Doors. Absolutely amazing how much he lived and experienced during that short time.
65 to 71. 6 yrs
a bridge between primitive minimalism and elevated,universal poetic thought - I play jazz/cocktail gigs and usually finish with Riders On the Storm which ALWAYS elicits a kind of "shock and awe" thunderous applause
Universal? Sheesh
The Doors literally changed the way appreciate music. My favourite band. I’m 27 but I wish I was in my 60’s/70’s remembering all the Doors concerts I was ever at. The most unique band in history. Much love
Just another masterpiece for the ages. I can count myself lucky to have lived at that time to witness eternally great music.
My best listen : August last century ,the weather was incredibly hot !! 38 degrees !! I was driving in the country listening to it ,all glasses closed ,music louder ,but with the climatisation opened wide to 20 !!! A Real real pleasure to hear the rain and Manzareck' s great feeling !!!
Damn, Ray said Riders was Jim's last work in the studio! R.I.P. Jim & Ray!
starks749 amen!
starks749 rip jim
starks749 rip ray
There were more than 1 US ship involved in the Gulf of Tonkin deception, his ship didn't "start Vietnam". The politicians who wanted war, just overblew the event, to give them what they wanted.
Of note, George Morrison tried to blow the lid on the deliberate attack on the USS liberty by the Israeli air force.
He wasn't the devil, just misguided to think the politicians ever cared about the truth.
Yeah when you see him in his interview about his son's life and career he comes across as a man of great decency and integrity. Both father and son were a credit to their country in different ways.
Total chill out.....
I hope I live long enough to forget how well I know all this - Just so I can rediscover the Doors for the 'first time' all over again.
Well said, my Friend!!!
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poetic
First time I discovered the Doors I didn't speak English the second time now that I'm able and the third will be to find out if the lyrics have other mining
I got my fingers crossed for demintia also. Lot of groups I wanna rediscover
Girl you gotta love your man 🔥🔥🙌🏽
I will never stop listen to The Doors. Till the end.
My only friend the end
exactly
As Jim would say - Right On !!
This is a great version of the song. Hell, I love everything the Doors have done.
This song evokes the most incredible feelings. I first heard this song in Hollis, New Hampshire at Silver Lake Beach. I was just laying on the warm sand listening to an oldies station and this song came on.
It was a perfectly sunny day and as this song came on a quick rain shower passed through with a hint of lightning. It's been my favorite song ever since and it brings me back to that special day at Silver Lake Beach
I was 17 in 1979. I was alone in town (Wolverhampton, England). I went to the Odeon cinema to see Apocalypse Now......I stayed to the end credits to see who played the opening tracks.....that’s when I heard ‘The End’....then I was hooked on the doors all my life.
Ray Manzarek the real musical poet✌
Here Manzarek is:
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Who?
Emilio ~ They May Have Been Being Sarcastic. They Failed.
Manzarek c'est de l;a merde avec ces synthé à son de musiques de casino ....Mets un garry numan à la place de manzarek et les doors aurait été 1000 x meilleurs !
Still sends shivers down my spine. Will always love the Doors.
This version gives me chills, then again The DOORS always have that effect.
This is one of the classic songs from a really fantastic group I just love their music and followed their careers this is a superb version the Doors Music will forever live on
The Doors had such a great blues influence, so much talent.
The more I listen to the Doors the more I realize how well they all fit together to create the whole. How can anyone say the band was this person or that? Ultimately, without Morrison, whom the other three had issues with his drinking and antics, they faded away. It took all four to create that essence known as the Doors. It may have been to their advantage that Jim had very little musical knowledge as it would allow the dynamic of 'musicians/Front man'. The Doors were sold on Jim Morrison's image and mysterious personality and Lyrics, but their music is timeless and stands the test of time
Whew, man, this is awesome. I'm having Nam flashbacks, not the bad ones, just memories of what John Kay (Steppenwolf) coined as, The rock & roll war.
Densmore and Scheff have a wonderfully consistent groove throughout this take.
Greatest American Rock Group. They captured IT.
Listening in 2024 at 66 years old. I decided I'll dust off my guitar.
I strummed the chords of younger days,
And felt the fire in different ways.
The calloused hands, they still recall,
That music doesn’t age at all.
I am listening to them for the rest of my life. I love them! So perfect are they
Sublime vocals and exquisite music, Rays keyboard is unforgettable. What a band, glad I was around to hear them.
Was a fan of this LP, back then ‘73.
Still am, now ´24.
This blend of blush and jazz throughout this song and through this whole LP, combined with the grace of Morrison and magic of Krieger / Manzarek / Densmore , just lives by
I just love their sound as harmonically and rhythmically monotonous as it sounds. Truly one of a kind and timeless.
Changes are kinda overrated sometimes. Groove is superior.
Great version.
That's right! No autotune, just a pure vocal, I like it 😎
That magical stormy,rainy start pulls you in & along for one sweet ride.... my favorite song ever ! I can remember the first time I heard this song... I was riding along with my sister and brother-in-law through the mountains of New Hampshire and it was a rainy,stormy day how perfect it was 😎 Thank you Jim,Ray,Robbie & John.....
"THE DOORS"
That's the real Jim, hilarious and goofy... Thanks for all the great music. Love ya!
Yeah cause You know the real Jim :)
Uma F This ain’t the Doors.
Bet his pops beat the shat out of him daily
Jim didn't even know the real Jim.
Great music real entertaining and inspiring
completely blown away by the quality of take 10!
Great take - it’s so good that John went through with the cymbal beat in the verse in the final version compared to this eight beat on the snare. Really cuts through the mix and puts the vibe into it’s final form.
Rest easy “Mr Mojo Risin” thanks for the ride 🐍
beautiful!!!
Ray said in an interview that he hated the movie guy, referring to the Oliver Stone movie, because he was always drunk or high, this is proof of Jim's joy and how others enjoyed his presence
Oliver Stone did a awful movie about Jim morrison
The movie is just for entertainment, I mean it was worth the watch and turned me onto The Doors. ✌️
@@josephschlichting4339 yeah it's good music and great how the director travel back the wild 60s but he did not made a good job with re-creating Jim's character
@@thebreadsam01 no, he did... He just showed an individual destructive side of Morrison that controlled the real life story to the point that Morrison made numerous enemies within the industry, almost ended his own band and brought on his own ending.
Oliver Stoned
A master piece.
I'm grateful to say my dad showed me this band. He was blessed to grow up with it, like with many other bands, where they were all at their highest points. Now I'm stuck with all of these really good bands and great music to watch them slowly fade away from the media to hear the fateful news *that* day. With Jim though, it wasn't the case, which is even more depressing. Long Live Morrison. Keep Mr. Mojo Risin' to the top.
what a gem
The longer the organ solo the better the version. I can listen to that jam for hours.
Woowww is amazing performance.. thanks !!!!!
Let's bring Jim and Ray back. I don't care how. Just bring them back.
They are onto their next journey. We will all see them again further on in our journey.
A poetic musical genius brilliant man nuff said
'81 or '82 came home drunk at 2 am during a TStorm, opened up my apartment sliding doors to the balcony, put my 100 watt stereo speakers outside and blasted this song. Woke up the other tenants and had them screaming for more. . .well at least most of them. Woke my roomies up as well and we drank into the morning while playing Doors tunes. The rental office was not happy!
It’s interesting the way memory works.
Sounds like my crazy partying days in the early 80's. Not a care in the world! The only worry was when is the next party and what beer is on sale this week. My brother and I were asked to move because the new owner was not a party person and hated our acid rock. Then on to the next place until our act got old again.
Well done John!! Ha ha ha ha ha!!
Robbie is playing some really cool rhythm guitar behind the keyboard solo. I don't know that I ever noticed that on the "official"version. Very interesting! Thanks for posting.
Very understated ad classy
Keyboards and drums with Morrison's lyrics aimed this group into history. Tasty chops and feel
screwing around more screwing around and then ... the music starts and I’m carried away in Morrisons world by his lyrics and lost in the magical musical fog created by Ray, Robby & John. Simply amazing!
As a Doors fan, thus inevitably attached to the figure of Jim Morrison, I find it somehow moving to hear him still so involved in the music production process during a period where, according to the chronicles, he'd already gone down an apparently irreversible negative spiral.
Right, the chronicles would have us believe that by this time, Jim was Blotto drunk and dysfunctional most of his waking hours. What crap-really frustrating.
Totally agree. Dumb gutter press point of view. Even in his last interviews he comes over as ahead of the game.
Guys like Jim are usually exactly as wasted as they wanna be.
Beautiful
This is an awesome addition to my Sunday evening of mediocrity. This just about smacked me into a different time - decades ago when I was a college student, hauling my guitar through a stormy night after sitting through a nice long play of this tune. Rain all over. Beautiful rain. Beautiful Doors. Thanks.
MB Jones Yeah man. This reminds me sundays with family all toghether watching old tv movies in Brazil. So organic and harmonic just like family.
MB Jones quit lying. Story is bland and not unique
Maximiliano Bonzon wait until Sunday then
There's Nothing mediocre about Jim Morrison. I'm sure that wasn't you're intension. He was so far ahead of his he's in this time.
The Doors were the first American group, which wasn't pieced together from some previous "super group" to have a #1 hit single on their very 1st record. The 1st to stay on the top 20 for SIX MONTHS! The first American group to earn a platinum album. ALL heir studio albums went gold. There was nothing like them before, and nothing like them since. Q: Who did they sound like? A: Nobody! The Doors sounded like "The Doors". They were American Originals! So.... is everybody in?!
dave johnson
Don’t let any mutants in! Hilarious!
The Doors just may be the Best American Band of All Time! Proof?
Their first albums a classic and their last albums a classic! How many groups can do that? Almost none!Amazing and Unreal!
For years, because of how different they were & their reliance on the keyboard, I thought they were an English band.
IS EVERYBODY IN!?! :D
dave johnson First R&R band to advertise their album on a billboard, and Jim was the first singer to be actually be arrested on stage whilst performing. Long live The Doors. The 60s had a magical quality that unfortunately went right over my head at the time because I was too young (born 1958). This version of this song is amazing.
NOT !!!....... but whatever.....love the Doors !
Superb piece for a night car ride.
Just amazing
Gentle, beautiful and raw.
What a beautiful version. I’ve never heard this version before now. Thank you.
This is absolutely fucking magical. At the Thanksgiving table, I give thanks to the Doors. I love the Doors.
I love you Jim Morrison.
Rest peacefully brother.
Humanity treated us with this gem of an artist. Never again
Bob Barry
Never heard this before,and I've been a fan of The Doors for over 30 yrs.
Thanks man.
Liked and subbed.
Ted Ex -these are the real moments that makes the internet great.
Me too! First Doors song was this one and a year or two later, the movie came out. Love these guys..
I believe this is the last song the Doors recorded together. What a finish..........
Thanks for putting this out there, an all time favourite
Far superior version. So much more organic. Really draws you into the story.
Dwayne Koblitz o
Nah. The one on the album is slower and darker. I prefer that one, but this is good as well.
Both are good. This one is raw though.
Naw. Album version is more mysterious. Both cool.
Solos aren't as sure footed and memorable on this version.
take 10...love this version of "Riders on the Storm".
still one of my favorite songs, I can play this song all day long
57 now went camping once in Terryglass Ireland alone once when I was 18 overlooking lough derg listening to this song on a cassette player watching the rain slowly coming across the lake sitting in front of a nice camp fire. Heavenly experience. The doors got me interested in poetry.
I had the great pleasure to talk to Ray in 2008 at length, and he said (ironically) that this tune was the last Jim recorded with the Doors--in a sense, it turned out to be his 'goodbye' piece!
RIP Jim and Ray--great men, great artists and great musicians!
I've always thought this should've been the ending song on LA Woman
Brilliant artists. All of them...
Thank you for offering this alter’ - ,appreciate’ a lot !
This version is pure magic.
"yeah tell em ray! This guy's tryna tell me when to come in"
Rest in peace rock gods
I wish there was a love button .
I wish there was an "eh" button to mark videos that you neither like or dislike but just want to mark that you have watched it so don't bother.
Of course not this video.
The most deep and meaningful comment here :)
❤️
There is, but many men have trouble finding it😂
@@amberbest6942 Poor guys