One of the greatest instrumental takes ever performed in the studio in the history of rock and roll. We'll never hear another song quite so pure and uniquely performed like this for many years to come.
Gerry, I'm still waiting for that year to come, after I first heard this BOMBSHELL explode on the radio airwaves in June 1967!!! It climbed to its eventual #1 for 3 consecutive weeks (Jul. 29-Aug. 12, 1967), and ranked a powerful #6 for the entire year! Robby (very first song he wrote!) and Jim created the best, hardest rock song ever! Once you start playing this masterpiece, you can't just stop until you get to 6m 53s, the end of it! My pick (singing version) for the MOST EXCITING SONG in the entire Rock 'n Roll era, 1955-present! Ray Manzarek's manic keyboard playing adds the crowning touch to this uplifting, matchless song! The only song that competes anywhere close to and strongly with it for pure excitement, in my opinion is, "She Loves You" (1963) by the Liverpool invaders! "Heat Wave" by Martha and The Vandellas (1963) would be in 3rd place, "I Know A Place" by the irrepressible Petula Clark (#3, 1965) at #4; "Come Go With Me" by the Del-Vikings (1957) a solid 5th, 6th is "Surf City" (1963) by Jan & Dean, and #7 is the only instrumental, the astonishing "Telstar" by The Tornadoes (#1 for 3 superb weeks, Dec. 1962-Jan. 1963). Just my personal feelings on the emotional connection and top excitement raised by these classics that can never be duplicated, replicated, or covered by any but the original artists!
Me, too. Before high school class, I listened to the radio on my bedroom dresser. The DJ played the long-version LMF at 8 AM sharp to "get ready for school." I was transfixed. That summer my dad bought be a keyboard and I learned how to play LMF and eventually 20 other Doors songs. I still play them all today. It keeps me young - don't you know?!
As it approaches its climax after the LONG instrumental in the lyrics (1:15-5:33), starting at 6:00; it becomes more exciting until that final, crashing chord that makes it the greatest hard rock song in pop history! What a magnificent song that beats anything in its [hard rock] category, (even The Rolling Stones have to bow to LMF in anything they did) I've ever heard!
Whaddaya mean, possibly? It IS! And don't you forget it! EVER! I haven't from June 1967, when the original (and then long version) came out with a BANG, and grabbed ahold of me, like no other HARD ROCK song ever did before--or since!
@@jlbaker2000 in this track, you can't hear an echo from Jim's voice, and in a lot of intrumentals, you can hear the singer singing in the background...
What makes this so much fun is, you can sing the words along with this all-time greatest hard rock song, and I'm sure you know them by now, after 56 years! Miss you Jim and Ray!!!
Man, those guys were great. Was reading about the Eagles today and how they reached their heights. It reminded me about the start of the Doors. That they had a connection musically and worked their tails off. I think it's an unusual trait to have that creative ability, yet realizing that it takes so much effort to produce a sound that makes it special.
You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose And our love become a funeral pyre Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire, yeah The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose And our love become a funeral pyre Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire, yeah You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire Try to set the night on fire Try to set the night on fire Try to set the night on fire.
Do I hear an encore? YES! Everyone's Fire was lit by this remarkable, exciting, incredibly arousing (in any meaning you want to give it) song, or instrumental version!
You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose And our love become a funeral pyre Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire, yeah The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose And our love become a funeral pyre Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire, yeah You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire Try to set the night on fire Try to set the night on fire Try to set the night on fire
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AND EXQUISITE FEELING THE DOORS BRING TO US! R.I.P. R.A.Y. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AND EXQUISITE FEELING THE DOORS BRING TO US! Oh God this is magic
"Light My Fire" You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose And our love become a funeral pyre Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire, yeah The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose And our love become a funeral pyre Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire, yeah You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire Try to set the night on fire Try to set the night on fire Try to set the night on fire
I'll never, ever forget that warm summer night when the Doors fell out of the sky in parachutes and landed in front of the stage where I was 100' in back of and watched the crew hand out thousands of candles to the audience and sang Light My Fire to the audience where we lit the candles at sunset and sang the song again with the Doors group playing instrumentally with us.
It was a magical 3 day outdoor rock concert at Gold Creek (a not so large private park) just outside of Juanita, Washington State one year before Woodstock, NY. You just had to have been there and magic was in the air along with the magic of music in the air with marijuana swirling in the air while we all sang along to hear us all singing in the air. It was a magical time for us all in the summer of 1968. I was 16 going on 17 then and the music still takes me there on the Juanita-Redmond road as it was called then.
Song has a bit of a Latin beat to it. Anda encienda mi fuego. Vamos a correr a la playa. Vamos a correr al mar. Vamos a correr a las estrellas. Vamos a corer al cielo.
Michael Bard - Are you talking about The Doors playing at the Mt. Tamalpais amphitheater in June of 1967? It was billed as the Magic Mountain Concert, the same month as the Monterey Pop Festival.
This version is in correct timing and you can actually make out the bass guitar below the Fender-Rhodes. Its centered whereas Ray's Fender-Rhodes is mastered onto the drums channel. (Like the guitar & Organ are in the other ear)
on the first album they use a bass player only on some track when the sound of the fender piano bass played by Manzarek was not ideal (for example on take it as it comes when there's a bridge with a bass solo they recorded the bass riff over the line already played by Manzarek) for the rest of the album it's just Ray on the pianobass
i see the key isnt a perfect fit so you had to adjust certain notes danzig sings to make it fit better, but some parts just couldnt be fixed using this. i think the key problem would be fixed by tuning Danzig down 1 step, and The Doors up 1 step. nevertheless, you cant help but smile at this song!
Same!! Yeah i think all of them are here ruclips.net/p/PLhi0mnqjKcDJfporwXBxfgU45FbX0-biL My favorite instrumental of the doors is Take it as it Comes. Hypnotizing guitar riff in the beginning :D good luck
I have carefully checked the tempo of this ORIGINAL recording mix. It varies from 130 TO 134. That said, perhaps they used a click track at the very first measure to establish tempo: click-click-click-BAM!! (1-2-3-BAM!!) Of course, if they did use a ck, it was edited out of the master. But after that, they did NOT play at a consistent tempo throughout the recording. And this absolutely no slam against them. Actually, it shows how the different tempos of the intro, verses, and chorus, and organ & guitar solos, were deeply and collectively felt by Ray, John, and Robbie. To me, it's just one of the many aspects that makes this music so alive & vibrant.
why would you require constant tempo, you are building intensity towards a climax, did you read this in a "songwriting for dummies" book and now you are an offical expert?
@@errorsofmodernism9715 Why would you assume that I would expect a "constant tempo" ??? Ridiculous! You went and completely misunderstood what I wrote. I wrote this: "Actually, it shows how the different tempos of the intro, verses, and chorus, and organ & guitar solos, were deeply and collectively felt by Ray, John, and Robbie. To me, it's just one of the many aspects that makes this music so alive & vibrant." So, perhaps it's you, Mr. Neuman, that needs to study, "How To Read and Comprehend for Dummies." Because, once you do, you'll be an official expert!
Does anyone else notice the bass guitar part is different than the tabs they put out on it? I have this one distinct sound when I hear the bass part and sounds much different than the bass you hear on covers etc.
Don't trust tab because 80 % of them are in-accurate, done by players who think they know what is goin on in the songs. Sadly their ears can't be trusted. Tabs are hardly ever done by the original musicians themselves.
Yes! Most of the people who post bass tabs don't know or hear that Ray Manzarek used a minor 7th interval in the verses. It is: a-g-c-e-c-e, f#-e-a-c#-a-c# :II Ray's bass pattern of notes cleverly outlines Robbie's guitar Amin7 - F#min7 :II of the verses. And he played this, using his left hand, on a Fender piano bass while playing the Vox Connie part with his right hand.
@@kacema7062 : Yep, so true. I actually did turn 13 years old during the Summer of Love, June 22nd, 1967 while hanging out in the Haight-Ashbury. I used to listen to Light My Fire constantly on KFRC 610 AM in San Francisco, where I was born and raised while riding my skateboard with my transistor radio in hand looking for old Marvel comics. I would wait until I heard the crack of John Densmore's snare drum to signal the start of the song and then I would be in pure ecstasy for 2 minutes and 52 seconds. It was the first 45 single that I ever bought, part of a 10 record purchase with a $10.00 bill that I had found on the floor of an old school phone booth, you know the kind with the folding door. Instead of buying candy or comic books I bought ten 45 rpm records from our local record store on Leland Ave. I still have that record along with every single released in 1967. The 10 records that I bought that day: Light My Fire, Somebody to Love, Down on Me, Purple Haze, The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion, Not so Sweet Martha Lorraine, Get Together, Sing Me a Rainbow, San Franciscan Nights, San Francisco( Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair). That is still the single most best year of my life, hands down. And still being here at 65 years old to tell this story is a true blessing!
on the first album Knetchel plays just a few bars here and there where the sound of the fenderpianobass is not satisfactory (for example on "take it as it comes" when there's a bridge with the bass playng solo the riff). For the res, on "the doors" the bass is essentially Ray (if you listened closely to Bruce Botnick as he explain that
A minute of silence for all the keyboardists who learned the song by ear in Am flat, only to discover years later it was in Am and slowed down all along.
Can anybody explain how Manzarek is playing the bass-y part while also the keyboards??? Is Larry Knetchel playing the bass I hear? How does Manzarek play the bass sound at the same time as the keyboards? I don't know instruments that well...thanks in advance.
Yeah they had a bass player in the studio playing SOME songs. In order to play different rhythms with two different hands involves both parts of the brain. Left and right I mean. Two different instrument almost
"Ok, if I have to be honest, without Jim's vocals, it sounds like elevator music Except, it's not bland and made to not bore you But like an elevator to the spirit world, or something" All I'm gonna say.
theres two different bass lines played on top of each other in soul kitchen- both sound keyboard to me- one of them is the same as in "when the musics over" except an A chord instead of an E
There is only one synth that can truly replicate the Vox, and that is a Nord. This track reeks of technology of 1966 when it was recorded. 3 track and all instruments mic'd at the amps. Not a board feed. The distortion accurate, and plate reverb would be impossible to replicate. There is going to be some minor things that stick out minus Jim's vocals. Still, great to hear the guys.
I DEMIAN X DIAMOND would Like to Personally Thank The DOORs for All the Love Hard Work They have Given the World Through Arthur Lee and LOVE , Jim Morrison and The DOORs, Baby Lemonade, Siddarthur, {Stereotype } Demian and the Inner Limits.Tim Bishop Thieves of Fire and Mike and Sonny Martin.Ray Manzarek on the keyboards John Densmore on the Drums and Robby Krieger Guitar. This Spirit will Continue long after all of us are gone! This is The END, Time to Begin.1
Robert Nelson if memory serves me right from the interview I heard from him I believe he used the fender live he stopped using the Vox because the fender had a better sound
Great to hear the ORIGINAL instrumental tracks together. Sounds just as fresh today as it did 53 years ago.
56 long years ago (Oct. 2023)! I remember it as if was only a year ago! What a summer of fun, fantastic songs!
One of the greatest instrumental takes ever performed in the studio in the history of rock and roll. We'll never hear another song quite so pure and uniquely performed like this for many years to come.
Done in 1 or 2 takes, as well.
@Corby Dinsburger can't just say wrong.. we need more info..
Light years ahead of The Beatles
Gerry, I'm still waiting for that year to come, after I first heard this BOMBSHELL explode on the radio airwaves in June 1967!!! It climbed to its eventual #1 for 3 consecutive weeks (Jul. 29-Aug. 12, 1967), and ranked a powerful #6 for the entire year! Robby (very first song he wrote!) and Jim created the best, hardest rock song ever! Once you start playing this masterpiece, you can't just stop until you get to 6m 53s, the end of it! My pick (singing version) for the MOST EXCITING SONG in the entire Rock 'n Roll era, 1955-present! Ray Manzarek's manic keyboard playing adds the crowning touch to this uplifting, matchless song! The only song that competes anywhere close to and strongly with it for pure excitement, in my opinion is, "She Loves You" (1963) by the Liverpool invaders! "Heat Wave" by Martha and The Vandellas (1963) would be in 3rd place, "I Know A Place" by the irrepressible Petula Clark (#3, 1965) at #4; "Come Go With Me" by the Del-Vikings (1957) a solid 5th, 6th is "Surf City" (1963) by Jan & Dean, and #7 is the only instrumental, the astonishing "Telstar" by The Tornadoes (#1 for 3 superb weeks, Dec. 1962-Jan. 1963). Just my personal feelings on the emotional connection and top excitement raised by these classics that can never be duplicated, replicated, or covered by any but the original artists!
Me, too. Before high school class, I listened to the radio on my bedroom dresser. The DJ played the long-version LMF at 8 AM sharp to "get ready for school." I was transfixed. That summer my dad bought be a keyboard and I learned how to play LMF and eventually 20 other Doors songs. I still play them all today. It keeps me young - don't you know?!
Ray is probably the greatest keyboard player of all time what a remarkable riff
I also thought highly of Ray after seeing him perform his manic musical magic on the keyboard pounding out LMF.
And he sings good too :) I love to hear him play the keyboards and i agree with you. he made remarkable instrumentals with that keyboard :)
Ray was the glue in that band. One of the coolest humans ever to grace a stage also.
The whole reason I listened to the doors was because of ray and his piano/electric keyboard skills.
As it approaches its climax after the LONG instrumental in the lyrics (1:15-5:33), starting at 6:00; it becomes more exciting until that final, crashing chord that makes it the greatest hard rock song in pop history! What a magnificent song that beats anything in its [hard rock] category, (even The Rolling Stones have to bow to LMF in anything they did) I've ever heard!
Possibly one of the best rock guitar solos ever
Whaddaya mean, possibly? It IS! And don't you forget it! EVER! I haven't from June 1967, when the original (and then long version) came out with a BANG, and grabbed ahold of me, like no other HARD ROCK song ever did before--or since!
@@freeguy77it's more jazz than "hard rock" but yeh
I could listen to this over and over again. Taking out the vocals is revelatory. Such an amazing, rocking track.
Now this is a masterpiece instrumental. I don't hear any echoing from Morrison
Jim was Too stoned to sing this recording.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Echoing?" Sorry, but what does that mean?
@@jlbaker2000 in this track, you can't hear an echo from Jim's voice, and in a lot of intrumentals, you can hear the singer singing in the background...
What makes this so much fun is, you can sing the words along with this all-time greatest hard rock song, and I'm sure you know them by now, after 56 years! Miss you Jim and Ray!!!
Truly one of the most powerful Rock and Roll songs in music history.Long live the Doors and their music forever.
Man, those guys were great. Was reading about the Eagles today and how they reached their heights. It reminded me about the start of the Doors. That they had a connection musically and worked their tails off. I think it's an unusual trait to have that creative ability, yet realizing that it takes so much effort to produce a sound that makes it special.
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire.
that part from 00:00 until 6:53 is AMAZING|
Do I hear an encore? YES! Everyone's Fire was lit by this remarkable, exciting, incredibly arousing (in any meaning you want to give it) song, or instrumental version!
Excellent. A great instrumental guitar solo, in addition to the greatest keyboard solo EVER. Perfection from start to finish.
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
See, you can't say "higher" on national TV. What if instead, you guys said "Girl, we can't get much better"? Can you dig that?
Fuck yeah
'HOW BOUT BABY YOU CAN BITE MY WIRE?"
It's just a word, Jim
Mryrhodesian I don’t think standards and practices would.....
One of the greatest instrumentals ever!
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AND EXQUISITE FEELING THE DOORS BRING TO US!
R.I.P. R.A.Y.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AND EXQUISITE FEELING THE DOORS BRING TO US!
Oh God this is magic
"Light My Fire"
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Thank's
2:27 - 3:05 i love it
GYPSY QUEEN me too
I just love 💕 this old classic from the distant past!!!
Thank you man!, Im learning this song on piano and i wanted to hear clear the organ.
Greetings.
My favorite song of all time!
I'll never, ever forget that warm summer night when the Doors fell out of the sky in parachutes and landed in front of the stage where I was 100' in back of and watched the crew hand out thousands of candles to the audience and sang Light My Fire to the audience where we lit the candles at sunset and sang the song again with the Doors group playing instrumentally with us.
It was a magical 3 day outdoor rock concert at Gold Creek (a not so large private park) just outside of Juanita, Washington State one year before Woodstock, NY. You just had to have been there and magic was in the air along with the magic of music in the air with marijuana swirling in the air while we all sang along to hear us all singing in the air. It was a magical time for us all in the summer of 1968. I was 16 going on 17 then and the music still takes me there on the Juanita-Redmond road as it was called then.
did they actually do this? skydive I mean?
@@Scatamahatta No.
Michael Bard did
0:12 - 0:25 I LOVE IT!
Song has a bit of a Latin beat to it. Anda encienda mi fuego. Vamos a correr a la playa. Vamos a correr al mar. Vamos a correr a las estrellas. Vamos a corer al cielo.
They can take a song and make it go for ever RIP Jimbo .
Awesome song! I love The Doors.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AND EXQUISITE FEELING THE DOORS BRING TO US!
Ray was always the CEO of the 'Doors' who made it happen!
Oh God this is magic
With this video I can sing it & I feel like Jim is right next to me - singing with me. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM !!! 🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺
Masterpiece Mix,Thxs.,Merci.
Thank you! You Rock!! My Favorite Band, The Doors! Loved them from the beginning!
great music and great band
Love that Bach-esque intro and outro
The best song of 1967...
In the HARD ROCK category, YESSSS!
Groovy man. Totally the bomb.
Absolute Killer!
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AND EXQUISITE FEELING THE DOORS BRING TO US!
Now this is a masterpiece instrumental. I don't hear any echoing from Morrison
It can be a alarm clock sound, or a ringtone that you can't ignore!
If you want to know what the Sixties were like, listen to The Doors. If you lived through the Sixties and want to stay young - listen to The Doors.
Michael Bard - Are you talking about The Doors playing at the Mt. Tamalpais amphitheater in June of 1967? It was billed as the Magic Mountain Concert, the same month as the Monterey Pop Festival.
This instrumental would've been a shock to the system to the ancients of old.
This version is in correct timing and you can actually make out the bass guitar below the Fender-Rhodes. Its centered whereas Ray's Fender-Rhodes is mastered onto the drums channel. (Like the guitar & Organ are in the other ear)
R.I.P. R.A.Y.
Using this for the background of my Doors radio show promo.
This music is hot ! 😊
and so was the vocalist
Es la mejor cancion tde todos los tiempos
Nice work, Love the song 💓
Beautiful!!!!
on the first album they use a bass player only on some track when the sound of the fender piano bass played by Manzarek was not ideal (for example on take it as it comes when there's a bridge with a bass solo they recorded the bass riff over the line already played by Manzarek) for the rest of the album it's just Ray on the pianobass
R.I.P. Ray Manzarek (2/12/39-5/20/13) A famous keyboardist who will be missed by millions of The Doors fans.
Liked and added to favorites.
i see the key isnt a perfect fit so you had to adjust certain notes danzig sings to make it fit better, but some parts just couldnt be fixed using this. i think the key problem would be fixed by tuning Danzig down 1 step, and The Doors up 1 step. nevertheless, you cant help but smile at this song!
R.I.P Manzarek
Great hit
ESTE MEDIO ES EXCELENTE PARA ESCUCHAR Y VER LOS RECUERDOS QUE AYER FUERON MEJORES
2:27 - 3:05 i love it
0:13
I'd there a way I could get my hands on other official instrumental releases from The Doors?
Same!! Yeah i think all of them are here ruclips.net/p/PLhi0mnqjKcDJfporwXBxfgU45FbX0-biL
My favorite instrumental of the doors is Take it as it Comes. Hypnotizing guitar riff in the beginning :D good luck
I love it
I'd there a way I could get my hands on other official instrumental releases from The Doors?
LOVE IT !
awesome !
Love it!!
magical.
Is there any instrumental version that I can download anywhere? I love the instrumental but find the lyrics to be a bit too suggestive for my tastes.
Lol duh it's not even that suggestive.
you can download this youtube video into mp3 format by using any youtube to mp3 converter you can find on the internet
Kevin Jacobson No, it's not; it's pretty darn blatant.
There's absolutely nothing explicit in the song. He just talks about deepening their love or something along those lines.
Yeah download mp3 rocket its old too but should work well on youtube.
I have carefully checked the tempo of this ORIGINAL recording mix. It varies from 130 TO 134. That said, perhaps they used a click track at the very first measure to establish tempo: click-click-click-BAM!! (1-2-3-BAM!!) Of course, if they did use a ck, it was edited out of the master. But after that, they did NOT play at a consistent tempo throughout the recording. And this absolutely no slam against them. Actually, it shows how the different tempos of the intro, verses, and chorus, and organ & guitar solos, were deeply and collectively felt by Ray, John, and Robbie. To me, it's just one of the many aspects that makes this music so alive & vibrant.
why would you require constant tempo, you are building intensity towards a climax, did you read this in a "songwriting for dummies" book and now you are an offical expert?
@@errorsofmodernism9715 Why would you assume that I would expect a "constant tempo" ??? Ridiculous! You went and completely misunderstood what I wrote. I wrote this: "Actually, it shows how the different tempos of the intro, verses, and chorus, and organ & guitar solos, were deeply and collectively felt by Ray, John, and Robbie. To me, it's just one of the many aspects that makes this music so alive & vibrant." So, perhaps it's you, Mr. Neuman, that needs to study, "How To Read and Comprehend for Dummies." Because, once you do, you'll be an official expert!
Demasiado buena !!!!!!!!!
I love you the doors forever
👍 good music. Can you also made An America Prayer too instrumental!
Thank you for response! Manzarek was/is a genius IMHO.
CARA...MUITO OBRIGADO POR TAMANHA GENTILEZA
Thank You God 4 this video.
yes they had to have a studio bass player
its on the documentary
and a member of the wrecking crew
Jim Ladd
Does anyone else notice the bass guitar part is different than the tabs they put out on it? I have this one distinct sound when I hear the bass part and sounds much different than the bass you hear on covers etc.
Don't trust tab because 80 % of them are in-accurate, done by players who think they know what is goin on in the songs. Sadly their ears can't be trusted. Tabs are hardly ever done by the original musicians themselves.
You're so right there.
Yes! Most of the people who post bass tabs don't know or hear that Ray Manzarek used a minor 7th interval in the verses. It is: a-g-c-e-c-e, f#-e-a-c#-a-c# :II Ray's bass pattern of notes cleverly outlines Robbie's guitar Amin7 - F#min7 :II of the verses. And he played this, using his left hand, on a Fender piano bass while playing the Vox Connie part with his right hand.
It was 1968, the summer of love, and I was 13 years old. My life changed forever that year.
Shit.
It was 1967. 1968 was the revolutionary and political year
@@kacema7062 : Yep, so true. I actually did turn 13 years old during the Summer of Love, June 22nd, 1967 while hanging out in the Haight-Ashbury. I used to listen to Light My Fire constantly on KFRC 610 AM in San Francisco, where I was born and raised while riding my skateboard with my transistor radio in hand looking for old Marvel comics. I would wait until I heard the crack of John Densmore's snare drum to signal the start of the song and then I would be in pure ecstasy for 2 minutes and 52 seconds. It was the first 45 single that I ever bought, part of a 10 record purchase with a $10.00 bill that I had found on the floor of an old school phone booth, you know the kind with the folding door. Instead of buying candy or comic books I bought ten 45 rpm records from our local record store on Leland Ave. I still have that record along with every single released in 1967. The 10 records that I bought that day: Light My Fire, Somebody to Love, Down on Me, Purple Haze, The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion, Not so Sweet Martha Lorraine, Get Together, Sing Me a Rainbow, San Franciscan Nights, San Francisco( Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair). That is still the single most best year of my life, hands down. And still being here at 65 years old to tell this story is a true blessing!
El mejor tema de la fucking historia
I LOVE!!😍😍😍
Amo esta parte 6:02-6:16
Um Brasileiro
Yo tambien
very good
on the first album Knetchel plays just a few bars here and there where the sound of the fenderpianobass is not satisfactory (for example on "take it as it comes" when there's a bridge with the bass playng solo the riff). For the res, on "the doors" the bass is essentially Ray (if you listened closely to Bruce Botnick as he explain that
A minute of silence for all the keyboardists who learned the song by ear in Am flat, only to discover years later it was in Am and slowed down all along.
Being able to just hear the guitar is nice. I really like it but Jim's vocals are so loud on the album version.
/s I'm 12 with 30 years experience and can appreciate this song.
SO FUCKING GOOD WHAT THE FUCK
This sounds in the normal tuning. The studio version is flat for some reason- like they slowed the tape for effect.
Can anybody explain how Manzarek is playing the bass-y part while also the keyboards??? Is Larry Knetchel playing the bass I hear? How does Manzarek play the bass sound at the same time as the keyboards? I don't know instruments that well...thanks in advance.
Yeah they had a bass player in the studio playing SOME songs. In order to play different rhythms with two different hands involves both parts of the brain. Left and right I mean. Two different instrument almost
"Ok, if I have to be honest, without Jim's vocals, it sounds like elevator music
Except, it's not bland and made to not bore you
But like an elevator to the spirit world, or something"
All I'm gonna say.
This is a very accurate description!!!!
I'd never leave that elevator :)
@@lancebukkake I go Whit that sounds to the heaven at their elevator
the best part is when jim shut up his mouth
😸😹😸😹
theres two different bass lines played on top of each other in soul kitchen- both sound keyboard to me- one of them is the same as in "when the musics over" except an A chord instead of an E
it's okay not perfect but what is .... top marks
What's perfect?
What's perfect ? well Gerry "The Original" I would say
not too bad though hungryherbie
There is only one synth that can truly replicate the Vox, and that is a Nord. This track reeks of technology of 1966 when it was recorded. 3 track and all instruments mic'd at the amps. Not a board feed. The distortion accurate, and plate reverb would be impossible to replicate. There is going to be some minor things that stick out minus Jim's vocals. Still, great to hear the guys.
There seems to be a little extra bite on the organ sound, too.
Thank you!
yes yes yes !
There is an overdubbed bass guitar as well.
I DEMIAN X DIAMOND would Like to Personally Thank The DOORs for All the Love Hard Work They have Given the World Through Arthur Lee and LOVE , Jim Morrison and
The DOORs, Baby Lemonade, Siddarthur, {Stereotype } Demian and the Inner Limits.Tim Bishop Thieves of Fire and Mike and Sonny Martin.Ray Manzarek on the keyboards John Densmore on the Drums and Robby Krieger Guitar. This Spirit will Continue long after all of us are gone! This is The END, Time to Begin.1
It's Manzarek on the keyboard.
El solo de órgano está un poco acelerado.
good
Ray was the brains of the bunch
Is the organ a Farfisa or Vox Continental on this recording?
Robert Nelson i believe it's a vox then ray switched to fender during the recording of strange days
Thanks, I wasn't sure. Didn't he use a Farfisa playing live?
Robert Nelson if memory serves me right from the interview I heard from him I believe he used the fender live he stopped using the Vox because the fender had a better sound
i believe is a vox, because, he plays the vox in the album doors, and sounds much rich
Ray used a Vox Continental between 1965 (when the band was formed) until 1968 when switched to a Gibson-G101
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