First listen to The Doors - Peace Frog (REACTION) |What is happening...|

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[@1953jazzman]

In my younger days this was often played back to back with their Blue Sunday!

[@nathanweiss5174]

Such a harsh ending if you don't, they kinda had no choice

[@An_Cat_Dubh]

On the original album, Peace Frog segues immediately into the next song, Blue Sunday.

[@FizzFop1]

Morrison Hotel is one of their best albums. Peace Frog is an awesome jam. When it was played on the radio...it was followed with the next song on the album Blue Sunday.

[@soleclaw6521]

Still is sometimes

[@matthintz9468]

The whole Morrison Hotel album is amazing! Check out Roadhouse Blues and Waiting for the Sun!

[@mattshaw6180]

Couldn't agree more.

[@TheCybertiger9]

good album

[@brookechaplain6931]

Indian summer and the spy as well

[@lylewicks4112]

Nobody but nobody could control an audience like Morrison. I was fortunate enough to see The Doors 4 times in Chicago, including the infamous 1968 riot concert. Always the provocateur, near the end of that show during the long keyboard solo in "Light My Fire", he went and sat down on the drum riser and started beckoning the crowd with his hand. Soon. several people started dancing down the aisle toward the stage. As the solo continued to blare thru the Chicago Coliseum he began to gesture harder and faster, causing even more people to come to him. At this point the police started trying to push them back. He stood up and ran to the mic and started screaming "Come on! Come on! Don't let 'em stop you! The crowd overwhelmed security and got up onto the stage. As the police chased and threw the revelers off the stage, The Doors exited one by one. Morrison, of course, was the last to leave as he seemed to enjoy the chaos. Then with a wide grin and an "oh well" shoulder shrug, he was gone. Now the crowd really started going nuts. The radio DJ who emceed the show got on the P.A. and implored the crowd over and over to "Sit down. Sit down. If you're good maybe they'll come back." With the promise of possible reappearance of the band most everyone calmed down and got quiet for several minutes hoping they would come out and do their closing song, "The End" Then the announcement came that "The Doors have left the building." All hell broke loose. People started breaking their seats which were all folding chairs. And some of the people on the second level began to throw their chairs down to the main floor as people ran to the exits. The girl I was with and I were very fortunate to escape uninjured. To this day I can still feel the exhilaration combined with fear that concert evoked.

[@surfrunnerd8457]

Try the song "The Soft Parade."

[@daveking9393]

I like the entire album. Big Does fans say it is a sellout album to the man of pop culture of the day... I like all of them, even if they are too mainstream for true Doors fans...

[@mattshaw6180]

"Morrison Hotel" is the tightest, least self-indulgent Doors LP musically; "Roadhouse Blues" is such a great tune. For total Morrison madness though, you could listen to "Not to Touch the Earth"!

[@TTM9691]

.....and it's got "Land Ho"! I love that song! Great lyrics!

[@folkmusicvideo]

I had every single Doors album in High School. Listened to them so much I had to not listen for about 10 years, then fell in love with the band again. Then after a few years, needed another 10 year break. This cycle has repeated my whole life. After 50 years, this is currently my favorite album. Four best songs on this album are The Spy, Roadhouse Blues, Peace Frog & Maggie M'Gill. This album and the song you picked, Kick Ass !

[@kelvinkloud]

Did you get to see the band?

[@sonnypearce5279]

Same here

[@jimike7297]

Robby Krieger the lead guitarist is so underrated!! Just listen so some of his work on this,The END,Light my Fire!!

[@Katehowe3010]

The Indians section is a real event that Jim witnessed as a small child! Apparently he was travelling with his family, when he came across a road crash, involving the death of some of the Native Americans. He believed that one of the their souls leaped into his own, and is living there still! You have to remember he had an amazing imagination, but who knows?

[@russallert]

Admiral Morrison, Jim's dad, said many years later that Jim somewhat exaggerated the incident. There had been an accident involving Native workers in a truck, but when the Morrisons stopped to help, they were told help was already on the way, and there apparently weren't any bodies or dead people on the road (there were several injured people).

[@Katehowe3010]

@@russallert I thought i'd read something like that in the many books i've devoured over the years, but wasn't sure whether i'd made it up or not! Thanks for the clarification.

[@RalphMasielloArt]

My favorite Doors song. Bought this album with my paper route money back in 1970. “Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven”. You have to listen to the album the way it flows from one song to another

[@jimd7260]

Check out "When the Music's Over".

[@nevetszinodas6654]

A MUST!

[@nancyaugustine9000]

turn out the lights,,,,,

[@franciscoramirez4179]

Oh absolutely! 👌

[@downburst1]

Man, I’m shocked folk aren’t listening to this everyday.

[@ilariatremolada379]

Ciao Daniel, thanks for reaction to this one ❤️ One of my faves along with "People are Strange" and "The Unknown Soldier". The line "Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind" describes an event that JM witnessed when he was young while driving through the desert with his family. This event is also referenced in "The Ghost Song" off An American Prayer and the opening scene of Oliver Stone's movie, The Doors, portrays this memory as well. "The Frog" doesn't actually end abrupt, it seamlessly blends into the next track on the album, "Blue Sunday. The Doors are definitely a journey, a slow and psychedelic one and very much connected to JM vision and poetic. Enjoy the ride! On a different note, truly enjoyed yesterday live stream, so fun! :) And my name is Ilaria, Ila if that's easier 😉 Take care!

[@tommycanadasmobazimmer]

One of my fave Doors songs - so unique - filled with tension

[@Lwize]

I'm surprised The Doors YT channel abruptly cut off the song. It blends into the next song on the album, but had it's own ending a couple of seconds later.

[@kentclark6420]

It transitioned into 'Blue Sunday', but Blue Sunday continued for minutes.

[@daveking9393]

Speaking of the song The End... It becomes even more powerful after watching it's adaptation into the iconic ending of the Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now...

[@onlysleeping7874]

Hey Daniel Dethstrok! Glad your channel got so big! Congrats! Great song. I used to play this song in my cover band. Rock on dude!

[@melissakhalar1842]

My brother purchased " The Doors" album and when my mother heard " Light My Fire" she forbid me from listening to them. Of Course I heard them on my transistor radio so her rule was broken daily. Lol

[@franciscoramirez4179]

Lol awesome! 😆👍

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

6:29 Not an insult. Have a distant fondness for fragile eggshells, but life has hardened my heart and mind.

[@enchantedwooddesigns3462]

Crystal ships is a nice one I really like.

[@Rhiannon011]

When Jim M. speaks in the middle of the song Peace Frog, saying> "Indians scattered on dawns highway bleeding ghost crowd the young Childs fragile egg shell mind" is a true experience Jim M. said he had, as a young boy, witnessing a horrible accident on a highway of many Native American Indians dying and bleeding, Jim said he felt "one of the American Indians that died "entering his soul".. Jim M. may have died young, but he was most definitely an "old soul"..

[@user-fe8yp1rb9m]

Absolutely love Peace Frog. Soooo funky! And Jim’s lyrics!

[@barrywerdell2614]

Another great Doors song (if you can find it) is "Who Scared You" It was originally on their kind of best of double album Titled "Weird Scenes inside the Gold Mine" Which is hard to find these days. It also included Ray Manzerack singing "If You Need Meat" an old Willie Dixon song.

[@daveking9393]

I had Weird Screens... Along with American Prayer, I thought it was too early on his journey to share...

[@jimilgenfitz6998]

Glad you found this "deep cut" . ...one of my favorite Doors tunes. Thanks. 👍

[@CharlesDunkley]

It's so strange to hear this song without it's companion song Blue Sunday, which is what was about to happen when it cuts off. Yet another excellent transition but this time into a soft, melodic tune, bringing such a juxtaposition to Peace Frog. For more on the Indian wreck on the road you should check out An American Prayer. It's counted as the final studio album of The Doors. A few years after Morrison's death they took his recordings of his poems and set them to music. It's a fascinating album of poetry, some of which touches on his experience with the Indian wreck on the highway. As far as The Doors go, whenever I try and sit down to list my Top 5 all time favorite US bands, they seem to always manage to find their way as I compile the list to the top.

[@Yosef1952]

"Roadhouse Blues" starts the album this is on, and it's killer. I think that when Jim Morrison was a kid he actually did see the aftermath of a terrible accident involving an American Indian family, and that may be what he's referring to in the spoken part.

[@kentclark6420]

And in his poetry entitled, 'An American Prayer'. I'd suggest a reaction video on that! It's also an album, set to Doors music.

[@dixiechatty958]

I never saw them but the stories of their live shows are legendary. I have a friend who saw them and while he said it was a great show it was uneventful with regard to law enforcement. He was disappointed! Another song from Morrison Hotel, Roadhouse Blues, is a straightforward blues rocker. It was a little unusual for them but one of their best. Well worth a listen.

[@14gilbertst]

There were also massive protests in New Haven in 1970 because of the Black Panther Trial. May Day specifically. Big Headlines. Also, for perspective, The Doors were playing High School dances in Connecticut a year earlier.

[@kelvinkloud]

bulls eye.

[@curtadams7406]

When I think of the pandemic, I always come to Morrison's 1967 lyric "Strange days have found us, strange days have tracked us down."

[@Rgvjr]

I’m from new haven!!.. was 6 years old when Jim was arrested....lol

[@firebird7479]

This is one of my favorite Doors songs...and the album is fantastic! I don't know if I am the only one, but does anyone else get and appreciate the subtle nuances of John Densmore's drumming? You need to react to Roadhouse Blues...you'll be wanting to learn the guitar on that one!

[@kelvinkloud]

densmore is dynamic pace & accent wise. he had a great instinct for flow but also direction. the doors music was curvy hill down, more then power straight aways. takes a special type of drummer who can drive tempo like a porche. one of the all time best in those regards.

[@firebird7479]

@@kelvinkloud He has these little pauses where he seems to skip a beat, and that gentle touch he does with cymbals. It's evident in Peace Frog and The WASP.

[@kelvinkloud]

The quintessential non top 40 doors song that isn’t 7+ min. It incorporates everything that made them not only singular, but shows off how really talented they were as musicians. The syncopated funk, chord progression, bridge changes and symbolist poetry w/ a topical and even prophetic theme in this song are seamless. It also has a crispness to it that sometimes lags in some doors songs.... the doors could be inconsistent, but when they dialed into their A game like here they were very special and unique.... imo they’ve aged better then any of their peers in that era. This song will still intrigue a youthful listener.

[@daveking9393]

Love that... Inconsistent, but when dialed in...

[@daveking9393]

The Doors wall hanging you received references this New Haven show...

[@denomane7962]

I never could figure out if JM was a complete genius or a complete lunatic .

[@zora_noamflannery2548]

- They are not mutually exclusive or necessarily complete.

[@humboldtharry4248]

Yes he was

[@warmswarm]

@@humboldtharry4248 - "Yes he was" What? A complete genius or a complete lunatic?

[@humboldtharry4248]

@@warmswarm both

[@2157shamrock]

Peace Frog/Blue Sunday & Indian Summer are, in my opinion, the best Jim Morrison has ever written. "Indians scattered on Dawn's highway bleeding, Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind."

[@lloydclevenger6756]

The Changeling off LA Woman album is a masterpiece, WASP texas radio and the big beat off of same album is masterpiece. Soft Parade is a masterpiece, When The Musics Over is masterpiece, Soul Kitchen is a masterpiece, Five to One is a masterpiece

[@foxandscout]

Morrison and keyboardist Ray Manzarek met casually as students, both graduating from UCLA with a degree in cinematography. Met again after, and started the band. The other two joined soon after. Krieger wrote and co-wrote many of the songs. Light My Fire was their first hit and probably most played song. There were a few years where it was played as often as Stairway to Heaven. Would rather you react to many other songs by the Doors, but Not croony Blue Monday. LA Woman, Riders of the Storm (another mega hit), Hello, I Love You; Soul Kitchen, The Soft Parade, Running Blue, People Are Strange, Running Blue, Love Street, Love Me Two Times, Touch Me, Break on Through.... I could name a dozen more...

[@kelvinkloud]

morrison was also a classmate & friend w/ francis ford copolla while at ucla.... hence, apocolypse now incorporating the end, into the film score.

[@blanewilliams5960]

Your reactions while listening to this song ere priceless. great job on another great song. You have done "People are Strange" like Jim himself so how about "Strange Days". Thank you, Daniel.

[@freudsigmund72]

In the song Newborn Awakenings on the album American Prayer (produced after Jim Morrisson's death, but with voice-recordings of his poems, parts of peace frog are reused, including the "Indians scattered on Dawn's highway" part. There it is followed with my favourite lines: Indian, Indian What did you die for? Indian says nothing at all.

[@susanb.5807]

When Jim says blood in the streets the town of New Haven, he's t alking about New Haven CT when he was pulled off the stay and arrested - look it up. Loved dancing to this song in the clubs👍☮️🐸

[@susanb.5807]

He took his pants off on the stage in New Haven CT 🤣

[@TTM9691]

Great reaction to a funky Doors song! This is an old video but since you're talking lyrics: during this time (not unlike now!), it certainly felt like "Blood in the streets is up to my knees." Between '68 and '69, you had Vietnam, civil rights protests turning violent, the riots in Chicago and MLK and RFK being shot, the Manson family, Altamont. The "Indians on dawn's highway bleeding...." evokes the "original sin" of America that haunts the kid who's living now ("ghosts crowd the child's fragile eggshell mind"). Obviously, as you said: Robbie came up with a riff, and they rummaged through Jim's notebook to find lines that were suitable, but to many listeners, these lyrics evoked what was going on in America at the time...and for me, it could have been written now, about these times.

[@dolfinpt]

The Doors! My 2nd Fav Band! You understand a lot of Jim’s lyrics when you read some of the books about the band. His childhood, his deep thoughts, curiosity about what lies on the other side of death, etc. Such awesome time to grow up! So many many new & incredible bands & music!

[@MisterWondrous]

Mind blown. I had this great album, and loved it, but never had a clue about what he was saying. And that bit about the Indians entering his soul struck a chord, but I had a similar experience, on I-85, of all places. I was west of Charlotte, heading west, near Mount Holly, when all of a sudden, while on a bridge, I had the experience of souls entering my body, which is as good a description as I have heard, of the feeling. Anyway, I soon found out that a carload of people had died, having crashed off that same bridge a few days before. It was also as if I have entered their fear cloud, which may have been generated. I don't know, but it still gives me the willies. "The sides were like glass, in the thick of a forest without a road." In Fleetwood Mac's "Hypnotized" they talk of a place in North Carolina that looks like that. And since that river of death flows over a dam, it gives it the appearance of a mirror, as it is calm waters, generally. This song is not calm waters. Up until today, I grooved mostly on the music, having no clue of what was being said. This is one of their most advanced songs of all. Thanks for opening my eyes. Lastly, and sorry for my wordiness, but I am a writer and can't help myself, back in those days, people that look like you would often get harassed by policemen. Once I was with two other hip friends at Myrtle Beach, and the two of them were arrested for "inciting a riot"...which must have been something they used against longhairs. Kay and Ken were two of the most peaceful, non-violent, unintimidating people you could meet. But they didn't conform. Rather we didn't. And today we honor Jim. Not those who beat him.

[@chevken1831]

The Doors did this when I was two years old. My Uncle was obsessed with The Doors early in my childhood. Don't let this music take you over.

[@JamesSavik]

The Doors and their time, the late sixties, early seventies, are inextricably linked: the meat grinder of Vietnam, a very polarized political climate and protest movements. Was it political? You bet. When you watch movies set in that time period, you will often hear Doors songs that add to the ambiance of the setting. Peace Frog was in American Animals, The Blacklist and The Waterboy, You mentioned The End- it had a prominent place in Apocalypse Now. I think Doors songs have appeared in ~100 movies and television shows. From wikipedia: "During this period, the de facto blacklisting continued to persist in more socially conservative markets, particularly the Deep South..." Which only served to sell more albums. I was in 3rd grade and came to school and the flag was at half-mast. A guy that had gone to our school some years before and had a younger brother in sixth grade had been killed in Vietnam. That's when the war came home. A year later mu cousin lost his foot. It was a huge shit sandwich, and we all got a bite.

[@kelvinkloud]

It was also a period of Cold War paranoia. Some of it sensible due to Russia spying, spread into Cuba, s amer and assasinatiin plots and nuke escalation. Some of it however, built around growing fear of the other. Not to touch the earth echoes both. It also sped along a further then normal generation gap gulf. Part of this was a rising Econ and suburbs and rising consumerism for boomers, but part of it was rising tension against estbl institutions wh/ controlled mores rigidly from the 30s-50s. When the musics over plays off that. Morrison understood and was fascinated by this much more then your avg rock composer. He was much more a writer in heart and mind then just about anyone ever in rock. Much like Dylan but more fascination in power struggle, psychological neurosis and crowd think.

[@Yaktahbay]

Goes immediately into Blue Sunday. In hindsight, you'd have been better off doing both together. Edit: I see you discovered that at the end of the reaction.

[@TheCybertiger9]

exactly

[@anthonyblakely399]

I think you are going to like this! I love your reaction!!!

[@MurkuryMagick]

his stuff can be wired you should give a listen to An American Prayer it's a bunch of his poems put to music by the doors

[@daveking9393]

Yes, I spent a few hours, okay dozens of hours listening to American Prayer. Almost sent it to him, but I thought it might be too much too soon....

[@foxandscout]

@@daveking9393 I get it...

[@tireshredderjoe8894]

When you listen to Peace Frog you must listen to Blue Sunday which comes right after this song on the recorded album, LP, and CD. They are connected. Great review!

[@lesliesylvan]

One of many fine songs by The Doors and Jim Morrison . . . R.I.P. Poet Laureate, of Rock 'n Roll; along with Dylan.

[@monsterkhan3414]

If you want to learn more about the history of Morrison and The Doors you should watch Oliver Stone's "The Doors" (1991) starring Val Kilmer. It's not 100% accurate but no biopic truly is. However it does cover the important events in the band's history and Val Kilmer's performance is amazing! As a Los Angeles Times reviewer wrote, "It's one hell of a ride!"

[@randomname2805]

You have to check out Roadhouse Blues

[@annfreels3071]

Thank you for introducing me to this song. I love The Doors~

[@matthintz9468]

Oh, I had mentioned the Beach Boys to you on another video, 66-73 and 77. Well, listening to the Doors made me think of another band you should check if you like this stuff - the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Their album, East-West, has some great blues/rock numbers, and the title track is this epic, 13 minute jazz/rock/blues number. The album "The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw" is just fantastic, from top to bottom, and another album, "It All Comes Back," is also amazing! On Pigboy, the song "One More Heartache" and "Driftin' and Driftin" are great and epic, respectively.

[@cindydepriest3720]

My favorIte Doors song!

[@robertnathan2843]

Exactly why it stops, so yes please react to Blue Sunday. Happy New Year, Great reactions

[@firebird7479]

Daniel, have you had a chance to watch the "People are Strange" DVD? A lot of great insight on the band and Jim in particular.

[@imambaybars3405]

I think the title is a reference to the the frog in boiling water anecdote, as a symbol for us being desensitized to violence

[@Lightmane]

Such a fun happy song 🙂

[@tamagotchidoctor5207]

Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers die today. R.I.P. Gerry.

[@foxandscout]

Oh no!!!! Didn’t hear that. I loved that band when I was very young! Ferry Cross the Mercy. Rip Gerry.

[@cartercarter645]

This is a true story from Jim’s childhood. He was in the car riding with his parents. They came across a car wreck with Native Americans on the road hurt and dead. Jim says the spirit of one lept into his body. That’s why they show Jim seeing an Indian spirit guide throughout the movie.

[@eileendobbs8574]

Great song. I haven't heard it in quite a while

[@nealpierson9072]

Jim Morrison was kind of a lunatic. I had a big Doors phase back in college. I'm kinda mixed on their music now. My favorite Doors song is LA Woman, but I like quite a few of their songs and albums.

[@fredklein3829]

It does not just stop there. More insight into the Indians scattered on the desert highway can be found in the album An American Prayer.

[@dvbeattie]

Check out Roadhouse Blues. A classic.

[@timwirasnik5878]

Great Track!

[@trentbresler3179]

This song was only 2 years after the Democratic convention of Chicago in 1968 and about the same time as the trials for the Chicago 8. Where the news would show the cops beating peoples heads in reminding people what happened. The part about the dead Indian on the highway Morrison claimed happened to him as a kid and his family was driving across country. He thought the soul of that native American entered him and that's how he was able to tap the forces he did.

[@TimNorton]

It doesn't stop there..It goes into Blue Sunday...so weird to not here Blue Sunday...it goes right into Blue Sunday. ARRRGGGH!

[@ravensshadow2179]

Chicago is also where Ray Manzarek was born. There's a odd relationship that's claims many of the Doors songs are political and the band claims they are not. There is also a video of Jim getting arrested on stage

[@kelvinkloud]

not overtly political, but certainly aware & reflective of power & violence wh/ can be perpetuated by the body politic.

[@Earthtime3978]

It stops because it segues into Blue Sunday . I suppose your source material is not letting you have anymore than you asked for . Peace Frog is made to be played in conjunction with Blue Sunday.

[@vovindequasahi]

A nice little hello to the loving California in the midst of the Manson Family.

[@bobmessier5215]

To appreciate the poetic genius of Jim Morrison, you should listen to the "American Prayer" album which came out after his death based on his book of poetry. He recites his poetry and The Doors play the background music. Interesting combination of music and poetry that shows off the shaman side of Morrison.

[@georgeditzel3504]

If you The End by The Doors, you should the sequence in the movie Apocalypse Now that features the song. It works great together.

[@daveking9393]

I spent too much time with the doors but, oh the days of our youth.... This song absolutely rocks! So many tunes rock by the Doors. But many are far too deep a hole to want to experience over and over... They actually have a lot of material beyond the many popular hits... His poetry can be cool and interesting but many can just take you down Jim's depths and that is not a healthy place to be. I think after many moves as a son of a high ranking Naval officer, he grew up in California so LA is a big part of his life.

[@jackbaxter-williams8059]

I'm new and I like it. Your Intro was funny because you messed it up. I like that you restart and actually notice the influences. The palm mute and that you realize nirvana used this same stuff

[@bobdelp2023]

THE SONGGGG IS CALLED THE DOORS HUH??? :) YOU JUST MADE MY LATE NIGHT DANIEL, COOL!

[@dimestorephilosopher3308]

Whether it be this, or Riders of the Storm or The End or whatever other song, Jim has a fascination with the dark side of the human soul and the people out there, waiting to act.

[@jamiedimond9419]

Child's mind is not weak but is absolutely formative and easily broken

[@joesnow739]

Jim was mainly a poet. He understands how to explore all aspects of creation, which includes death. Its funny you mentioned Kurt Cobain because he was another artist (in the truest sense of the word) that had an obsession with the dark and unseen, the culturally inpolite. The mixture of styles The Doors incorporate is nothing short of astounding, overriding natural instincts of the way something should be, and how it is presented. We no longer see their kind anymore, to a wannabee free society's detriment.

[@GoldTopSlinger]

PS: Daniel, you might want to read the Doors biography, No One Here Gets Out Alive. Their story is beyond fascinating. All of the events from this song are well covered in the book. I think the author was Danny Sugarman, who was employed by the band at the time and lived through a lot of this stuff with them.

[@lantose]

What a great song to choose Daniel, a favorite of mine and I’m sure many others! By the way, the song does stop abruptly like that as there is a fade-out! Probably one of my top ten albums of all time! “Roadhouse Blues” is a must along with Soul Kitchen!

[@murdockreviews]

Not the biggest Doors fan, I can't even tell exactly why. But the album I would recommend is 'L.A. Woman' (their last with Morrisson). A friend of mine was absolutely immersed in Morrisons lyrics in our later teenage years. I guess you could analyse them for years...

[@daveking9393]

Yup, a rabbit hole Daniel does not need to spend all that much time with. That call is from experience. Many many great hits and not so big hits to get lost in before getting REALLY lost in his poetry and really obscure stuff. Just isn't worth the time, in my experience/opinion.

[@kelvinkloud]

@@daveking9393 I would disagree to some degree. the doors have aged well in comparison to their peers in the industry from that time period. thematically, their honesty, perception & observations of the culture not only rang more true, but have also in some cases had a cylical prophetic nature to it. morrison should get his due in that regards. he was a very smart cat in re to understanding the big arc & view of western culture & the usa's role in it. when I later read a lot of joseph campbell & blake, morrison made a lot more sense.... I would agree some of his excesses were tiresome, along w/ the god rock star image that the media hyped & the band in fairness (esp ray) over marketed. he also lack consistency & had some bad misses. but to his credit he stuck to his guns & usually went for the fences. la woman was a strong coda as an album lyrically too. his writing was maturing. sad and far too early death. wouldve loved to have seen what he wouldve done if he had branched into screenwriting or direction for film.

[@daveking9393]

@@kelvinkloud all good points. And agree. His gifts are timeless and imagine what else he / they could have done... I've certainly spent my fair share of time with them. Probably more disappointed than others at those paths to nowhere and bad misses as you put it because of it. I liked most of their stuff even the obscure, but it just was not as satisfying a journey as how much I loved not just liked Floyd, Who, Boston, Tull, Rush, Zeppelin, etc.

[@kelvinkloud]

@@daveking9393 I too liked those bands, esp zep & who & to a lesser degree floyd. I go to all 4 bands for different reasons, but whats impressive, is I still find reasons to.... zep is the best band ever to mix metal/blues w/ old brit//scot folk, myths & celtic themes. Paige & Jones were super talented as arrangers & at his best plant had presence & a great range, feel & an underrated lyricist. The who were a juggernaut of organized rock energy w/ townsend arrangement gifts & moon's abandon & talent. Floyd got too full of themselves & imo too over produced, but there is no denying their creativity & conceptual scope in their prime. I also liked their early stuff w/ syd wh/ was more spontaneous & unpredictable.... imo all 3 bands were influenced by the doors. More then they would admit. brits were intriqued & somewhat intimidated by american music (since it was the cradle for blues). the doors didnt intimidate them as musicians, but I think they took note of their creativity & conceptual boldness. plus morrison's stage presence & courage was straight up smash mouth amer balls. syd wrote much of his material for pipers in late '66 early '67. I'm sure he was aware of the doors, velvet undergrd & also hendrix. it gave him license to experiment & go long scape. beyond that syd did his own thing & before he lost it mentally was one of the most creative forces in brit music. by the time he got to the states & calif he was sadly fried. they played the whiskey. he may have met morrison. morrison was always a fan of the band. but the real influence came post syd. ummagumma was much more doors influenced. waters explored some of the same darker themes jim did, & their sound became much more blues based. dark side scaled up sound and production wise, but thematically doors influence was clear. w/ zep & the who, plant & daltry realized via jim that the lead singer should be fearless and a focal point. also w/ zep & the who they shifted to epic structure & theme on longer pieces. the doors laid the blueprint w/ songs like the end, when the musics over & riders.

[@daveking9393]

@@kelvinkloud more great points. And thanks for the details (one of the great things we get from this channel). As I said, I have spent my time with the doors so I see where you are coming from and respect the influences they had and may have had regarding what I just learned to consider from you... As far as the other groups you are spot on as well. Had limited funds as a kid and divided and conquered with the neighborhood kids I others took the who and others took Zeppelin. So I knew them more before Zeppelin. I remember the back and forth which group was better at certain things... It wasn't until college when I could afford more time with Zeppelin that I realized how full of crap I was. Love the Who but the consistent Zeppelin production quality really makes them just a slight higher caliber... Don't like to compare either to Rush who is too different and in a league of their own for me (first rock concert). As far as Floyd goes I love some and never ever get enough and just only listen to other cuts and some can skip altogether... I will be giving your points on Doors influence more thought. Thanks for the exchange.

[@spiritscar]

You still haven’t listened to “Not to Touch the Earth”. The most Doorsy of all Doors songs!

[@doctorfraudchi8084]

Such a tasty Jam

[@kelvinkloud]

Dan, when you enter Morrison land theme and lyrically I find it helps to remember his goals were poetic and his themes aimed broad.... he was influenced a lot by Blake who wrote succinctly but used dense symbolist imagery to weave broad themes that scale from the moment but layer out to incorporate the past and forward, along with the present.... Morrison also liked to use nature scape in physical form and incorporate it to the body, city and even the broad collective culture... this song is using violent imagery of possibly abortion and blood to imply a rising fever or profuse wound to an unraveling and growing violence in the culture. He mentions Chicago a city wh/ in 68 saw escalating violence over a greater rising of blood in nam wh/ was going off the rails in rising violence. There was a sense of rising nearly apocalyptic violence and disunion rising in the USA culture when this was written.... the ghost eggshell is Morrison’s own experience as a child witnessing a horrific accident where Indians were killed in a car wreck in NM. He felt that stayed with him spiritually and haunted him with forward shaman like visions at times. Again past, present future, a broad view of Cyclical and rising violence swelling up. The cycle could apply now too.

[@robinraan]

I wonder if rising violence is compared with the apocryphal story of a frog not jumping out of the cooking pot when the temperature is increased gradually, hence the title

[@kelvinkloud]

@@robinraan you may very well be onto something.... morrison used very succinct metaphors that tied to broad cultural themes.... what differentiates the doors from nearly all the other bands (w/ the few exceptions like velvet undergrd, mc5, love) in that era wh/ were incorporating topical themes of that period in re to nam, civil rights & peace movement was their honesty & examination of the violence as an undercurrent & its reality to power & change. furthermore, they were honest in the platitude hypocrisy of the movement itself wh/ could resort to violence or sell out corruption and/or commercialization. not so much ray and john, but jim had a real libertarian streak in his views wh/ allowed him to look more honestly at both the potential for fascism and hypocrisy on both the right & left... a frog being boiled slowly is a duped animal blind to its envir & consequences. If you are right, this indeed may be a pleading wake up call to the growing violence that was to come. Also that the nature of power & change in amer history is also realistically wedded many times w/ violence. It also may be a jaded view that the summer of love & peace movement was a naive & perhaps no more then a fashion as opposed to a earnest movement for change.

[@MrDuneedon]

Ah, my favorite Doors song -- short, and sweet, but what a groove!

[@johnhouse9983]

Have you checked out jims' solo album American Prayer.... kinda puts things into a perspective as regards where jim was coming from & going to..... by that i don't mean dead in bath.

[@kjd7351]

Cool, nice choice.

[@nancyaugustine9000]

ya',,,wow lol loved watching you hear this,,,

[@richardmiller1289]

Peace frog and blue Sunday go together that's the song that follows it that's why it ended so abruptly.

[@justinscrivner5457]

If you liked the madness of the end, listen to 11 min when the music's over from the doors!

[@danreed5171]

DUDE @ 3:00 Jim sings insteaf of She Came, he say's Dan Reed, my name,,,,,,,,go back check...he is my unknown father. Mom was a groupie......and I was born about 2 months after Jim passed.....................I can sing like him....I look like him..............please check @ 3:00 Jim sings Dan Reed instead of singing She Came

[@stephenpriola4301]

RIP JIM AND RAY ....❤️✝️🍺🌑🍄🌺🥀🌼🌻🍀

[@RicoBurghFan]

You gotta do The Soft Parade, will blow your mind.

[@recyclerhopkins]

Daniel, listen to Peace Frog again but let it continue right into Blue Sunday to get the full effect of these two songs. There is a marked contrast between both songs musically and lyrically but they are meant to be heard together. A good song for you to react to would be the title cut The Soft Parade from that album from 1969. It's a longer (8 min.) song that is sort of the Doors' attempt at a progressive sound with jazz elements and a stream of consciousness style of lyrics that you could get into. If you are fascinated by the music of the Doors, eventually you must watch The Doors an Oliver Stone film and read the book No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman. That will give you a better understanding of Jim Morrison and the history of the Doors.

[@stephenpriola4301]

After peace frog , connect the next , blue Sunday

[@gamalon]

I've never been too passionate about The Doors but their last two studio albums with Jim Morrison are really great ! Morrison Hotel and L.A. Woman are my favorite albums by the band. They put more emphasis on blues rock and put aside the psychedelic aspect of their first albums which i like least.

[@danreed5171]

Jim believes that Indian soul went into him................

[@bobdelp2023]

1 GR8888 THING ABOUT THE DOORS DANIEL, YOU NEVERRRR REALLY KNEW WHERE THE SONG WAS GOING WITH MORRISON'S WRITINGS. AND THE PROGGINESS OF THE BAND! LOLOL :) IT JUST NEVERRR GOT OLD, ANOTHERRRR WHAT, 50 YEAR OLD ALBUM! ( MORRISON HOTEL ) :)

[@theplanetruth]

Love the tribute album STONED IMMACULATE