The Doors - Back Door Man (REACTION)
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Back then you have to imagine that teenagers all across the country were gathering at their friends house, sitting under black lights with psychedelic posters and chilling to this. That's what we did. And then we discussed the album. (There might have been the smell of some strange smoke 😅😅)
I wish I had some of those posters now. My walls were covered.
You could not lay your hand on my walls without touching a poster.... Black Lights, Strobe Light Red and Green and 300 Watt Stereo wit 15" JBL Speakers
@@AliasMark69 JBL Speakers. I haven't heard that in a long time. It's all about the woofers and the tweeters.😅
They were actually a Fender amp speakers that a friend stole from Fender in 1965. They sounded awesome in my bedroom. @@aileenturrietta7553
Now wait a minute the incense and Patchouli oil was supposed to cover up that smell. 😮
Backdoor man is the guy that sneaks in your back door to be with your wife when you go out the front door to work. That is what it meant in the 40s-60s.
I open my front door, hear my back door slam --Robert Plant
One of the best rock voices ever! RIP 🦎 🤴
I saw what you did there. 😄
Jim gave is all to his art.
This is the kind of blues rock song you have to wash your hands after listening to.
Willie Dixon is a legendary songwriter and bass player. He and Howling Wolf and the guys at Chess Records basically invented Chicago blues.
Along with Muddy Waters.
@@davescurry69 yup. Almost too many to name them all. John Lee Hooker too.
@jasonremy1627 Although Hooker recorded for Vee-Jay Records in Chicago. Pretty sure Dixon didn't play with him as he was the Chess records house bassist. Hooked did record briefly for Chess in 1951-52 under the name John Lee Booker!
He also recoded material in Detroit before moving to Chicago later on.
@@davescurry69 thanks for the correction!
The Doors and Jim Morrison are in a realm of their own.😊
This was The Doors at their best imo - dirty dirty rock. Five To One is another banger.
Incredible vocals when you figure Morrison was around 23 when the Doors recorded this.
@@betsyduane3461 That IS around 23
I stand corrected! I was too lazy to google the exact recording dates versus his age on those dates! 😂
When you figure the Doors was the first band he ever sang in.
@@shaunmccaul1695All the more amazing when you consider he had stage fright at the start! He used to sing with his back to the audience at the Whiskey A-Go-Go on the Sunset Strip!
@@midnightrambler7716 YES
There are things known, and there are things unknown...and in-between are The Doors
It was through songs like this that I discovered the blues. This is originally a song by the legendary Howlin' Wolf. If you don't know it, check it out! Peace!
The Wolf was IT!
I thought Willie Dixon was original. He definitely recorded it, but sure which was first now
@@Krust_Acean Willie Dixon did write it, he wrote a ton of the classic blues songs, but Wolf was the one who popularized it.
Nice. Thank you for that.
When Jim says, "I eat more chicken any man ever seen," he isn't talking about chicken.
Written by Willie Dixon and The Howling Wolf recorded it.
And he sued Zep for the Lemon Song.
Five to One is an incredible Doors song, really hard. Thanks for doing the Doors, they have so many great songs incl Dack Door Man.
"I eat more chicken any man ever seen". Hilariously brilliant.
One of the greatest and most electrifying debut albums of all time. 🔥🔥
So stark and to the point. No other band like them.
Willie was a prolific song writer in the 40's 50's and 60's. He was the main song writer at Chess Records in my hometown Chicago. Led Zeppelin was sued by him for recording his songs on their first album and taking credit for writing them and they lost.
Might have been Zeppelin II as well. They were sued for Whole Lotta Love for sure
@@paulprendergast3184 they had quite a rep for stealing.
They continue to be my all time favorite band 😎👍
The actual 1930s-40s Southern bluesmen usage is when the hard working man of the house comes home and he hears the back door slam as the “back door man” hurriedly sneaks out. Like in ‘Led Zeppelin's Since I've Been Loving You’ Lyrics:
I open my front door, I hear my back door slam. You know, I must have one of them newfangled. Newfangled back-door men.
But through the years the term changed meaning in many people’s minds like LZ said; 'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
This, the Doors 1st album, and Led Zeppelin's 1st album were full of songs by great older bluesmen. And the Stones first few albums were as well
This song and Alabama Song (written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill) are the only covers on the Doors first LP
Remember, in 67 there wasn't much choice in sounds. These new bands were the pioneers for all those new groveee toys.
You can never go wrong with the Doors, they always deliver! Try their incredible jam, When the Music's Over for more greatness from one of the best. Enjoy! 🎵🎹🎤🎸🎶
Aside from his own recordings, Willie Dixon played bass for Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters (and others) and also wrote some of their material.
Written by one of the greatest song writers ever, Willie Dixon and originally performed by Howlin’ Wolf. Take a moment and look up both gentlemen’s songs. It’s incredible how many of their songs have been covered over and over again. A testament to their brilliance
Love Howlin Wolf. He could rock your world and scare the shit out of you at the same time. Lots of his songs were about drinking, drugging and killing. You know, the blues.
Fun fact: everyone wanted to be in his band because he payed them well and offered insurance. Unheard of in those days.
Rock evolved from the blues style created by originators like Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson, and many others. Many of those guys traveled to Europe in the 40's and 50's where they could earn a living playing in small clubs as opportunities were limited in the US. Many of the great British rock musicians of the 60's (Jimmy Paige, Eric Clapton, Pete Townsend, Beatles, etc.) came of age listening to those guys and took their style to a whole new level. A very sincere tip-o-the-cap to Willie, Robert, and the founders of the blues format for a monumental contribution to music. BTW, if you do a little research you will find many bands from the 60's and 70's did covers of songs written and performed by Dixon, Johnson, and the other great blues musicians of their era.
My favorite vocal track from them. And that echo sound with the organ. 🔥
Badass, another great song… take a listen to ‘ Soul Kitchen’ another great song by the Doors
That groove is viscous
Ray Manzarek one of the greatest keyboardists in rock history.
Pure dope. Excellent reaction fellas!!
Lol😂 La “this could go many ways”!
I am the Lizard King, I can do anything. RIP Jim & Ray.
The Curse of The Doors.
..."that's what it's like"... 🤣.Brilliant! Keep up the good work
The Doors was the first album I bought with my own money because I knew my parents would not like the lyrics in all the songs…. BUT I LOVED THEM. 12 years old first time smoking Cannabis to "Light My Fire" on the album. After hearing the entire album it changed my life like so many other great albums from that time.
One of my all time favorite bands! And they’re one of the original greats that I never burned out on.
Listen to Howlin Wolf do this song. OMG what a voice. Jim is my favorite vocalist such range grit when it’s called for smooth and sultry when it fits. Great reaction.
Jim Morrison loved the Blues. No doubt about it. When he found out that Robbie could play slide guitar, Jim wanted it on every song. You can hear it on their early albums.
Howling Wolf song.
Willie mostly wrote for other people, and
they all played each other's songs as well. Plus Muddy's name isn't Muddy...its
McKinley Morganfield
I love The Doors and I've always felt they were together for too short a time and considered it a pity that Morrison couldn't have held it together longer because clearly, they made fantastic music.
And like Jimi Hendrix, it's mind blowing that they were able to make such a huge amount of iconic music in such a short time. They have such an incredible catalogue with one legendary song after another. Same with Jimi. Such a shame to lose them too soon.
The Howlin Wolf version is a bit naughty with lines like "I've eaten more chicken than any man alive" but stories suggest Jim Morrison did have a particular interest in the back door area.
One of the greatest debut albums. I compare it to Led Zeps first. Worth a full album review. Cheers ✌
Man, I'm 68 and I just ate some Chicken in Costa Rica in November. When I first heard this I was 12 and had no clue, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From Wikipedia:
"Back Door Man" is a blues song written by American musician Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1960. The lyrics draw on a Southern U.S. cultural term for an extramarital affair. The song is one of several Dixon-Wolf songs that became popular among rock musicians, including the Doors who recorded it for their 1967 self-titled debut album.
In Southern culture, the phrase "back-door man" refers to a man having an affair with a married woman, using the back door as an exit before the husband comes home. Dixon's lyrics include:
When everybody trying to sleep
I'm somewhere making my midnight creep
Every morning the rooster crow
He's telling me you got to go ...
I am the back door man[2]
The philandering "back-door man" is a theme of several blues songs, including those by Charley Patton, Lightnin' Hopkins, Blind Willie McTell and Sara Martin: "every sensible woman got a back-door man", Martin sang in "Strange Loving Blues" (1925).
Saw Albert King jam on stage with the Doors doing this song.
They were only around for a few years Ray played bass on a keyboard with his left hand and organ with his right hand. Their last album was blues also. Watch Val Kilmer play Jim Morrison and sing in The Doors movie.
Her man go's out the front door, and that lover man slides in the back door. Gotta keep your eye on your Shorty. There's always another
Mule wantin' to kick in your stall. Great song guys. Howlin' Wolf knew too.
One of there best. Also 5 to 1 is gritty. Love the doors. You make me laugh that's good. 😊
I can’t imagine seeing them live and performing this groove.
20th Century Fox is a great one as well. Thanks guys keep on movin'.
This is cool and smooth yet fiery and raw at the same time. Dangerous and magnetic. 4 great artists that happened to come together and steal the attention of the world for an all too brief period.
The Doors' 1967 of Howlin' Wolf's original written by Chess Records house band leader/writer/producer Willie Dixon. Willie played on tons of the greatest blues dongs and some rock songs, of all time as Chess had most of the greats. He was the bassist for all of Chuck Berry's 1950s through at least mid 1960s hits.
Willie released few albums, but his version of this song is one of his best recordings.
Yeahhhh Laa and Chee! Jim was a baaaad man!
I think this might be their hardest song
Great Doors track.
The Doors have so much...this is my fave! I love digging into lyric meanings!
A back door man sneaks in the back when the husband goes of to work to satisfy the lonely wife- been a blues slang since the 1920s
Been waitin for ya'll to peep the Doors 🚪
He would ho off on a vocal riff and the band would adjust. THEY NEVER KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
Short and sweet and straight to the point kinda song. 😅
Jim supposedly told a reporter one time: 'We're not a rock and roll band, we're a psychedelic blues band'.
Jim left out one of the Great Lines in this performance "Was Tried for Murder,
In the First Degree,
the Judge's Wife, said
"Let the Man Go Free!"
Just a straight-up blues--which The Doors loved.
That's the Willie Dixon/Howlin' Wolf song, done very well thank you.
When Morrison sings the line "I eat more chicken than any man ever seen.", you can tell he's been around the block 😂
Keep in mind guys, all that yelling and grunts is real Jim! They press record and he just sings and yells all his emotions out half in the wrapper!!! Very True, Very Genius!!!
Absolutely, you need to check out Willie Dixon's work! He wrote hundreds of songs, mostly as writer/performer at the legendary home of Chicago Blues, Chess Records. Even if he didn't record the song himself, some of the greats of the label would. Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Milton, Etta James, Koko Taylor, Little Walter, just to name a few. You'll discover just how many of Dixon's songs were eventually covered by a multitude of Rock acts. Without Willie Dixon, Blues Rock would be sorely lacking in quality and quantity.
Aloha gentleman, Willie Dixon wrote a ton of great songs. Played stand up base. He wrote for Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf , Led zeppelin bagged one of his tunes . He finally got some money out them . That Doors first album is master. Crystal Ship so under rated and under played, . As we used to say, TRIPPIN . Peace n love
The Doors/The Soft Parade 👍
Great one. Thanks guys
One of these days someone will make a movie out of Willie Dixon's life. One of the most talented and remarkable people ever in the entertainment business, the most remarkable thing about Dixon's life was that he fought to get paid, and eventually he did. Even those morally challenged people at Swan Records had to pay up for ripping him off.
There is a good Hollywood movie about CHESS records and the early 50s ans the Chess brothers with actors playing Muddy Waters Willie Dixon Howlin Wolf Little Walter.
@@JohnRawlings-o1g In that movie 6'3", 300lb Howlin' Wolf was played by Eamon Walker, a man who looks decidedly menacing on camera but in real life is much slender, shorter and shockingly amiable. And it's not just the English accent. Dude is disarmingly nice and unassuming.
Can't go wrong covering "The Wolf" The Stones did a great cover of "Little Red Rooster" as well. Just Sayin'... You be the judge. The Stones made their bones covering Chicago Blues, Motown, and Memphis Soul!
The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll...
old electric blues song by Willie Dixon, like so many of them. He had an album called I Am the Blues, that's about right.
Mad props!!!!!!! Ive seen many reactors do this song, and you are the only one who recognized that is just a blues song with some psychedelic embellishments..... well done. Well deserved like and comment.
Morrison is one of Iggy Pop's favorite singers and you hear that in some of Iggy's vocal registers and styling on the first two Stooges albums. Morrison and Lou Reed, two of Iggy's biggest vocal influences on the first two Stooges albums.
Check out the Willie Dixon Memphis Slim recordings. Willie wrote MANY of the great blues songs that define the sound.
Back Door Man is Willie Dixon! This is real blues, covered by a white band. An absolute MUST you two need to hear the original version by Howlin' Wolf (1960). The Doors did a great rock blues version; the "go to version" for many. Jim Morrison is doing his best to channel some of that Howlin' Wolf energy into his recording, starting with that growl in the very beginning. I think he did good.
Willie Dixon played bass on an enormous amount of great blues recordings, and took every opportunity he could to try to sell one of his songs to somebody. As it turned out, he is now regarded as the best and most popular blues composer of his time. He himself recorded his first album in the eighties, unless I'm mistaken.
Released on their debut album. I don’t believe The Doors get nearly enough credit for how much they influenced later music. This was in early 1967, and their mix of blues, rock n roll, jazz, and performance art was cutting edge. The whole album is awesome. John Desmore, the drummer. Ray Maxarek, keyboardist and Robby Krueger, guitars played all instruments.
Compare this album to the Beatles Rubber Soul or Sgt Pepper’s or any album by the Stones, The Who or any other group at this time and it is clearly one of the best
You should definitely check out some Willie Dixon! But for me, my absolute favorite version of this is the iconic Howlin Wolf version. It's so amazing and the cadence is quite a bit different than this. You could do a whole bunch of different Howlin Wolf songs for sure.
One of my FAV BANDS of ALL TIME!!! SUCH GOOD GROOVES!!! ...and, Ray Manzarek's keys, John Densmore's drums, and Robbie Kreiger's guitar were ALWAYS TOPS!! ...not to mention Jim Morrison's vocals and his naughty, and sometimes off-the-walls lyrics....LOVE THE DOORS!!! You might try Crystal Ship or Riders On The Storm....keys in Riders were SO GOOD!
Dang. Y’all killing it tonight. 👍🏼🫧🐟🍻
Positively 4th Street is a lyrical classic. The title isn’t in the song itself either.
Willie Dixon knew about publishing so he grabbed the credit for songs the originators didn't know how to get publishing rights for
Great reaction, you guys should check out Howlin Wolf’s version.
You 2 should check out "The Doors" movie, would love to hear your thoughts🤔
Just remember it's not Jim Morrison playing himself, Val Kilmer really looks like him and nailed the swagger❗️❗️
Plus Val does his own vocals as JM. That's what Oliver Stone wanted after hearing Val's singing. Val did it righteous 👍🏼❤️
@@olly8 I did not know that thank you!
King.💜
As you listen to the Doors, it’s interesting to keep in mind the guitarist, Robby Krieger, is playing without a pick…
You guys are awesome🤟✌️🚪🚪
That was fun! Hadn’t heard this in a long time. So dirty/sexy! 🔥 Thanks for your reaction 😊
"20th Century Fox" from the same album, check it out!
Gloria “dirty version” is real doors!
Jim Morrison got a Bachelor Degree in film from UCLA back in the 1960's.
Not sure what kind of a film maker Jim would have been but I for one am quite glad he made
the choice to follow a career in music instead.
This entire album deserves an Album Review please.🙏
**Luv** **Ray Manzarek** YAY **PixieTwirls**
There is more than one interpretation of the meaning of 'Back Door Man'...
Not for nothing The Doors and Morrison were a pretty dark and underbelly vibe for that Summer of Love, hippy, flower in your hair vibe. Straight out of Venice Beach, California. The Doors and The Stooges who came out with their debut album in 69, Iggy heavily influenced by Morrison, seemingly killed the 60’s hippy movement. Kind of👍👍🙏
Jim apparently didn't like the hippy culture. A lot of dark things were happening in the 60s, both Kennedy assassinations, Martin Luther King Jr, Manson killings, so many deaths from the Vietnam War etc. Their moodier music hit a chord with people for sure.
Consider when it was written, many women were locked in marriages that were loveless-to-abusive and had zero way to realistically get out of it and make a living (certainly in that county!). Not saying it’s necessarily right but consider what a man who has tenderness and affection can do in one of those relationships. Not always a skeevy situation maybe.
Willie Dixon is definitely worth checking out.
Willy Dixon.....next up ' Who do you love '. Cover by them written by Bo Diddley.
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