I always heard this song on the radio along with the next song, "Blue Sunday", which is seamlessly connected to Peace Frog on the album. Without it, it sounds neutered.. You should take a listen with the two played together.
Quite possibly my favorite Doors track, when I just need a groove. From what I can glean across sources, Jim had a girlfriend who got pregnant and aborted the baby, and it left him very disturbed. The "Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding" part is his recollection of a terrible highway wreck as a child, like you said. Like a lot of great artists, he wove together a bunch of different experiences into a collage of feeling.
After The Doors released the album, 'Strange Days' in 1967, the band sort of "allowed" Jim Morrison to steer creative control. They released 2 more albums in '68 and '69 that didn't do as well although a single from each did. "Hello, I Love You" and "Touch Me," in '68 and '69 respectively. Many critics wrote them off as over. Then 1970 comes along and The Doors released 'Morrison Hotel,' and the record was hailed as their comeback album. The song, "Peace Frog" is from that LP. Jam packed full of banger tunes, it signalled that The Doors hadn't gone away. I mean, "Roadhouse Blues" also kicks some serious butt. Unfortunately, they would only release one more album with their unpredictable and charismatic lead singer. The Doors of Jim would only release 6 albums, but what a career. A mere 20 years later, Oliver Stone would direct the movie, "The Doors," which starred Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison. Well worth seeing it if you want to catch some type of a glimpse into the eclectic man that was Jim Morrison. Yeah, I was (and am) a big fan of The Doors. Hey, old school hippie chick here!! ✌💋👙😎
@@glenndespres5317 thanks. As I quickly approach my 63rd (gasp!) birthday, I can only wonder if the theorists are correct in positing that Jim faked his death in '71. I mean, he was facing possible jail time for the Miami incident. And he was growing weary of the rock star BS.
Doors play funk ~ here it is, ladies and gentlemen! This masterpiece song is yet another example that this band not only can jam a great, melodic hook but they also bang out an equally kick ass bridge, ... This combination rarely happens in songs, but the Doors did this over and over. I cannot forget to mention that this is absolutely, unequivocally my favorite Robbie Krieger solo. Krieger wrote the majority of this song ~ the intro riff, the bridge ~ and then he approached Morrison for lyrics. According to Krieger, this song lyric is primarily about something much more dark than protesters getting hurt and the current political turmoil, etc. Interview of Krieger discussing the origins of Peace Frog. ruclips.net/video/p24lgQv1r8w/видео.html Kreiger never cared much about getting recognized for writing the lyrics for Light My Fire, let Morrison take all the lyrical credit throughout the history of that band and beyond. ~ he is a most humble musician, ........even today.
Good man Wilburn. This is an under-rated and often overlooked Doors track. It has a proto-disco feel to it, and also sounds something like Shaft, if that makes any sense!! You're a young guy and it's great to see you so in to a band nearly 60 years old. It proves their timelessness. A jam is a jam in any decade and boy did they jam. I'm really enjoying your Doors discovery.
The song was about the 1967 riots that spread through the cities. New Haven was the home to Liberation House headquarters to the Black Panthers. When Bobby Seal was arrested it put the city on edge again after going through a week of riots and burning.
Looove the rhythm on this one - they basically came up with the Madchester beat 25 years ahead of its time (compare songs like The Soup Dragons' "I'm Free" and Stone Roses' "Fool's Gold"). That memory of the car wreck is a major point in the biopic "The Doors", starring Val Kilmer as Jim. Pretty good movie - it catches the vibe of Morrison in particular.
good ear.... the doors were ahead of the game in various offshoots of musical direction.... wasp is early college radio, before the genre emerged. LAmerica, is early death & goth metal. changeling is funk rock wh/ would get big 2-3 years later. who do you love, was allmans like rock before the allmans even recorded.... the doors had more cards up their sleeve imo then any of their music peers in re to creative versatility.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 good ear again.... the doors were so singular few could venture into their quirky yet sinisterly talented zipcode. stranglers fit. some of elvis costello, talking heads & even pretenders echoes the doors imo. certainly some of U2. in their own day, iggy, early alice, guess who & darker post syd floyd... they just dont really get their due though imo. the myth, debauchary & sex god idol side was too pumped & tends to overshadow the music & creativity. part of that is ray's fault post jims death & even the entire band in 68-69 who marketed that. but if you put that aside & just look at what they were doing, they were an amazing creative unit. inconsistent, but diamond when it was right. & like a great fighter that went out strong in their last album.
One of my fave from them is a bo diddley cover, called “who do u love?”, it was only done live, and it’s great....w.d.y.l.?, live , 1970....it starts with a super killer,drum solo, and just gets better from there...the great bands cover something and completely make it there own....it’s amazing
agree... it was the allman brothers, even before they had those georgia cats had their first album. the doors were performing that song as early as 67.
The reference to New Haven is where he was arrested onstage. The reference to Chicago was for the 1968 democratic convention riots. The references to LA is because that is where they are from.
This song was on "Morrison Hotel" which, when new, found my bedroom to be covered in black light posters, per dictates of youthful grooviness at the time. As a grade school psychologist curious of the brain's workings, I once performed an experiment involving the album. I would put on a song, hyperventilate until almost blacking out, then try and write my name on a piece of paper. For some reason, I could write perfectly clearly with "Peace Frog" playing, but when "Waiting for the Sun" was playing, it was a surreal mish-mash. I surmised that music influenced the brain. "Waiting for the Sun" is a song that is on nobody's lips. But it is one of the more intriguing songs of theirs. Similar in some way to "Riders on the Storm". "_____ __ the _____".
I forget exactly why I stopped going to your reactions. Maybe cuz my comments get ignored. And that might be cuz I don't subscribe. Anyway, you probably give the best reactions. I appreciate the research you did for this one. I think this is my favorite Doors song. I love the groove and I interpret as I hear it.
Morrison Hotel is a fabulous album. And never make the mistake of getting info on Jim from the Stone movie, it depicts him as some drug infested nutjob. Obviously, he had his issues with drug's and alcohol, but not to the extent that Stone portrayed it. That's why manzarek didn't want anything to do with it. Great reaction Chod 👍
Not too many name checks of CT towns in classic rock songs so I have to like this one. Jim Morrison was arrested in New Haven for public indecency and inciting a riot and dragged offstage in the middle of a concert.
Most of Jim Morrison's song were very personal and poetic. Morrison considered himself a poet. He was arrested a few times during his all too brief career, New Haven and Miami immediately come to mind, but he was all about the experience. Not very much peace in Peace Frog.
I grew up in a town next to New Haven but was a bit too young to see this show. New Haven Coliseum (which came a few years after the old arena closed) had some interesting issues at a number of shows over the years. Sadly, the coliseum was destroyed as well.
Very different for the Doors. But not really if you listen to the way they normally play....like a preview of what was to come......unfortunately didn't have the time to grow. One of those bands that really makes me wonder what they would have sounded like had they come to the 70's and 80's, etc...
I was hoping you would get back to the Doors. The only songs I knew from them where the ones played on the radio station. I keep wanting to go deeper into their music, but I get sidetrack by other bands.
Thank you! finally somebody in the comments gets it right. That’s what I always thought/heard it was about, abortion. Blood in the streets, reflecting the traumatic experience of one. Bloody red Summer in fantastic LA. Dark subject but what an awesome song
theme wise, wilburn, hes doing both.... morrison was a symbolist poetic wise. he used a technique many times wh/ told a narrative or reflected on it (like the childhood Indian death via car wreck that he observed), then like a hawk wh/ elevates into higher circles, he inserts another theme wh/ is a different reflection (the rising protest & violence increasing in the nation) wh/ doesnt seem connected at first. Yet if you, like the hawk look down on both from a higher level you see the convergence. Morrison liked to meld eternal themes of the West (such as violence) & show their cyclical nature. Yet witnessing violence on a personal level, like he did as a child, connects b/c it triggered in him the contemplation of death & suffering at a young age & made him more aware to its cycles in other realms of the culture he grew up in. The fact too, that they were native americans plays into the cylical reoccuring phases of violence in our nation, since that group of people suffered such loss early in its struggle w/ euros & americans. A nation borne in blood.
Read "No one here gets out alive" which is about Jim and his experiences throughout his life right up until his death...puts a lot of the stories in proper perspective, complicated guy
This song is a Timeless......Awesome....Brilliant. ..Funky ..Jam.
The funkiest of all Doors tracks. I find it interesting that the music contrasts so much with the subject matter.✌🏻
John Densmore was trained jazz drummer..it shows in many songs but this one it shines..IMO..
From Morrison Hotel, also fantastic songs are Waiting for the Sun, You Make Me Real, Land Ho, Queen of the Highway.... whole thing rocks.
Ya Chod! "Peace Frog" mo doors..."outta sight' as they used to say....
Love the funky groove of Peace Frog. Jim was just brilliant. Great recommendation and appreciate the research that you did. 👍
I always heard this song on the radio along with the next song, "Blue Sunday", which is seamlessly connected to Peace Frog on the album. Without it, it sounds neutered.. You should take a listen with the two played together.
Quite possibly my favorite Doors track, when I just need a groove. From what I can glean across sources, Jim had a girlfriend who got pregnant and aborted the baby, and it left him very disturbed. The "Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding" part is his recollection of a terrible highway wreck as a child, like you said. Like a lot of great artists, he wove together a bunch of different experiences into a collage of feeling.
I think it’s more about the multiple abortions JMs girlfriends had, not one incident .
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After The Doors released the album, 'Strange Days' in 1967, the band sort of "allowed" Jim Morrison to steer creative control. They released 2 more albums in '68 and '69 that didn't do as well although a single from each did. "Hello, I Love You" and "Touch Me," in '68 and '69 respectively. Many critics wrote them off as over.
Then 1970 comes along and The Doors released 'Morrison Hotel,' and the record was hailed as their comeback album. The song, "Peace Frog" is from that LP. Jam packed full of banger tunes, it signalled that The Doors hadn't gone away. I mean, "Roadhouse Blues" also kicks some serious butt. Unfortunately, they would only release one more album with their unpredictable and charismatic lead singer. The Doors of Jim would only release 6 albums, but what a career.
A mere 20 years later, Oliver Stone would direct the movie, "The Doors," which starred Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison. Well worth seeing it if you want to catch some type of a glimpse into the eclectic man that was Jim Morrison.
Yeah, I was (and am) a big fan of The Doors. Hey, old school hippie chick here!! ✌💋👙😎
Long may you run, old school hippie chick!
@@glenndespres5317 thanks. As I quickly approach my 63rd (gasp!) birthday, I can only wonder if the theorists are correct in positing that Jim faked his death in '71. I mean, he was facing possible jail time for the Miami incident. And he was growing weary of the rock star BS.
You are wrong. The Doors released six albums from 1967-71. That's more than 1 a year.
@@justineapril7922 He didn't fake his death. I just finished "Love becomes a funeral pyre : a biography of The Doors" by Mick Wall
@@splitimage137. A book was written and published. That means it HAS to be true, right? Lol
Doors play funk ~ here it is, ladies and gentlemen!
This masterpiece song is yet another example that this band not only can jam a great, melodic hook but they also bang out an equally kick ass bridge, ... This combination rarely happens in songs, but the Doors did this over and over.
I cannot forget to mention that this is absolutely, unequivocally my favorite Robbie Krieger solo. Krieger wrote the majority of this song ~ the intro riff, the bridge ~ and then he approached Morrison for lyrics.
According to Krieger, this song lyric is primarily about something much more dark than protesters getting hurt and the current political turmoil, etc.
Interview of Krieger discussing the origins of Peace Frog.
ruclips.net/video/p24lgQv1r8w/видео.html
Kreiger never cared much about getting recognized for writing the lyrics for Light My Fire, let Morrison take all the lyrical credit throughout the history of that band and beyond. ~ he is a most humble musician, ........even today.
One of the greatest bass grooves ever!!!
Good man Wilburn. This is an under-rated and often overlooked Doors track. It has a proto-disco feel to it, and also sounds something like Shaft, if that makes any sense!! You're a young guy and it's great to see you so in to a band nearly 60 years old. It proves their timelessness. A jam is a jam in any decade and boy did they jam. I'm really enjoying your Doors discovery.
My fav Doors track ❤! Thanks Wilburn for reacting and posting .. thoroughly enjoyed ❤
The percussions have to blow you away on this song. Peace out.
Oh hells yeah. This track is funky af. Love.
The Doors always sound like a time machine.
Grew up in a suburb right next to New Haven. New Haven was an A market at one time for many artists.
I saw the guitar player Robbie Kreiger live a couple years ago. Still sounds great!
The song was about the 1967 riots that spread through the cities. New Haven was the home to Liberation House headquarters to the Black Panthers. When Bobby Seal was arrested it put the city on edge again after going through a week of riots and burning.
Thank you for covering peace frog. Such an incredible song. Have you also checked out “I’m a changeling” by the doors also? So good!
this is one of my favs ....they kill this.
My favorite Doors song! The first time I heard this song It was the bass line that hooked me. Love it!
Jim singing about New Haven in this song refers to him getting arrested while performing on stage at the New Haven Arena.
Looove the rhythm on this one - they basically came up with the Madchester beat 25 years ahead of its time (compare songs like The Soup Dragons' "I'm Free" and Stone Roses' "Fool's Gold"). That memory of the car wreck is a major point in the biopic "The Doors", starring Val Kilmer as Jim. Pretty good movie - it catches the vibe of Morrison in particular.
good ear.... the doors were ahead of the game in various offshoots of musical direction.... wasp is early college radio, before the genre emerged. LAmerica, is early death & goth metal. changeling is funk rock wh/ would get big 2-3 years later. who do you love, was allmans like rock before the allmans even recorded.... the doors had more cards up their sleeve imo then any of their music peers in re to creative versatility.
@@kelvinkloud Every time I hear The Stranglers I'm reminded of what a debt they owe The Doors, too. They even got Ray to play on one of their tracks.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 good ear again.... the doors were so singular few could venture into their quirky yet sinisterly talented zipcode. stranglers fit. some of elvis costello, talking heads & even pretenders echoes the doors imo. certainly some of U2. in their own day, iggy, early alice, guess who & darker post syd floyd... they just dont really get their due though imo. the myth, debauchary & sex god idol side was too pumped & tends to overshadow the music & creativity. part of that is ray's fault post jims death & even the entire band in 68-69 who marketed that. but if you put that aside & just look at what they were doing, they were an amazing creative unit. inconsistent, but diamond when it was right. & like a great fighter that went out strong in their last album.
Funky fresh and my fave track.
This song is about the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. The police got into it with anti war protesters.
One of my fave from them is a bo diddley cover, called “who do u love?”, it was only done live, and it’s great....w.d.y.l.?, live , 1970....it starts with a super killer,drum solo, and just gets better from there...the great bands cover something and completely make it there own....it’s amazing
agree... it was the allman brothers, even before they had those georgia cats had their first album. the doors were performing that song as early as 67.
One of my favorite Doors songs!
Check out "Soft Parade" and "Moonlight drive."
Up tempo songs!
My favorite as well as “Five to One”
The reference to New Haven is where he was arrested onstage. The reference to Chicago was for the 1968 democratic convention riots. The references to LA is because that is where they are from.
Chicago 1968 DNC/Mayor Daley
Excellent Doors song. Thank you for the background information. I love hearing facts from music history.
My favorite Doors song from my all around favorite Doors album, still have a copy on vinyl.
This song was on "Morrison Hotel" which, when new, found my bedroom to be covered in black light posters, per dictates of youthful grooviness at the time. As a grade school psychologist curious of the brain's workings, I once performed an experiment involving the album. I would put on a song, hyperventilate until almost blacking out, then try and write my name on a piece of paper. For some reason, I could write perfectly clearly with "Peace Frog" playing, but when "Waiting for the Sun" was playing, it was a surreal mish-mash. I surmised that music influenced the brain.
"Waiting for the Sun" is a song that is on nobody's lips. But it is one of the more intriguing songs of theirs. Similar in some way to "Riders on the Storm". "_____ __ the _____".
My favorite Doors song! Great reaction Chod.
Very underrated Doors song that kind of runs under the radar, but also one of my favorites!
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this song sort of flys under the radar as far as great Doors songs.
I hope you get back to YES soon and check out the music from their first 2 albums. You'll really enjoy it.
Great song! Back in the '90s my band used to cover this song. If you haven't already done it you need to go to "Riders On The Storm" next.
I forget exactly why I stopped going to your reactions. Maybe cuz my comments get ignored. And that might be cuz I don't subscribe. Anyway, you probably give the best reactions. I appreciate the research you did for this one. I think this is my favorite Doors song. I love the groove and I interpret as I hear it.
Great Doors track!! One of my favorites. Check out Spanish Caravan next..
Hey Chod!☮🐸
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you would love the songs by the doors, Love Me Two Times, The Changeling, or The Soft Parade
I like The Doors better than any of my other favorite bands! Soul Kitchen, LA Woman, Light my Fire, The End
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Have to play Blue Sunday after, it's connected
LA Woman is a good jam.
Morrison Hotel is a fabulous album. And never make the mistake of getting info on Jim from the Stone movie, it depicts him as some drug infested nutjob. Obviously, he had his issues with drug's and alcohol, but not to the extent that Stone portrayed it. That's why manzarek didn't want anything to do with it. Great reaction Chod 👍
Not too many name checks of CT towns in classic rock songs so I have to like this one. Jim Morrison was arrested in New Haven for public indecency and inciting a riot and dragged offstage in the middle of a concert.
can you do a reaction to Cat by Bob Seger System
Most of Jim Morrison's song were very personal and poetic. Morrison considered himself a poet. He was arrested a few times during his all too brief career, New Haven and Miami immediately come to mind, but he was all about the experience. Not very much peace in Peace Frog.
I grew up in a town next to New Haven but was a bit too young to see this show. New Haven Coliseum (which came a few years after the old arena closed) had some interesting issues at a number of shows over the years. Sadly, the coliseum was destroyed as well.
Try Land Ho … funky 😊
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Check out the song The Changeling
Very different for the Doors. But not really if you listen to the way they normally play....like a preview of what was to come......unfortunately didn't have the time to grow. One of those bands that really makes me wonder what they would have sounded like had they come to the 70's and 80's, etc...
Great song, Go to The Soft Parade next. Game Changer
I was hoping you would get back to the Doors. The only songs I knew from them where the ones played on the radio station. I keep wanting to go deeper into their music, but I get sidetrack by other bands.
Have you listened to The Wasp ? As a drummer 🥁, I am sure you would appreciate it.
actually this is called Abortion Stories...."she came"
Thank you! finally somebody in the comments gets it right. That’s what I always thought/heard it was about, abortion. Blood in the streets, reflecting the traumatic experience of one. Bloody red Summer in fantastic LA. Dark subject but what an awesome song
Do frankie and the knockouts. Sweetheart
Smells like Smells Like teen Spirit.
theme wise, wilburn, hes doing both.... morrison was a symbolist poetic wise. he used a technique many times wh/ told a narrative or reflected on it (like the childhood Indian death via car wreck that he observed), then like a hawk wh/ elevates into higher circles, he inserts another theme wh/ is a different reflection (the rising protest & violence increasing in the nation) wh/ doesnt seem connected at first. Yet if you, like the hawk look down on both from a higher level you see the convergence. Morrison liked to meld eternal themes of the West (such as violence) & show their cyclical nature. Yet witnessing violence on a personal level, like he did as a child, connects b/c it triggered in him the contemplation of death & suffering at a young age & made him more aware to its cycles in other realms of the culture he grew up in. The fact too, that they were native americans plays into the cylical reoccuring phases of violence in our nation, since that group of people suffered such loss early in its struggle w/ euros & americans. A nation borne in blood.
You should really go back to reacting to bands like The Doors, Joe Walsh/James Gang, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and ERIC CLAPTON aka GOD
Read "No one here gets out alive" which is about Jim and his experiences throughout his life right up until his death...puts a lot of the stories in proper perspective, complicated guy