I'M CONFLICTED! | Peace Frog - The Doors (Reaction)

[@AliasMark69]

You recently realized that music from the 60's-70's is becoming your favorite era of Rock.... as expected, my intentions since Jan 2023. You had 38 videos back then. Now you're becoming an expert on the genre. I smile again

[@BaccarWozat]

"Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding, ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind" -- When Jim was a kid he saw a terrible traffic accident on the desert highway. It affected him more than anything else at this period in his life.

[@coopm3087]

I love this song! So glad you reacted to this

[@laurakali6522]

I lived one town away from New Haven CT when he was arrested. And went to 100s of concerts at that iconic arena. Which is long gone sadly.

[@InHisImage1161]

VMC, so many memories

[@laurakali6522]

@ the parking garage was always a challenge after any show. I miss it.

[@kathybwell]

Great breakdown of this song, I think you nailed it.. Glad to be going on this journey with you.

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

My favorite Door's album, THE SPY.

[@echo1855]

Jim Morrison was maced by police before a Doors show in New Haven, CT. Presumably that's why New Haven was included in this song. Jim was "entertaining" a female fan backstage when the cop, not recognizing him as being with the band, ordered him to leave the area. Jim told he cop to "Eat it". The cop responded by macing him. Later, during the concert, Morrison called out the "little blue man in his little blue hat" and the "little blue pig". Police then raided the stage and arrested Morrison, causing an uproar among the crowd, resulting in 13 other arrests. Morrison was charged with inciting a riot, among other charges, but the charges were later dropped.

[@AliasMark69]

Ray plays the bass notes on a 32 key Fender Electric Piano sitting on top of his organ. I used to assemble them for two days every month back in the day.

[@williammc866]

Good pick! Listening

[@pixelrancher]

Session musician Ray Neapolitan's bass guitar and Ray Manzarek's keyboard kept the funk pushing on this one. Originally recorded as an instrumental, Morrison added the lyrics from three poems he had written earlier.

[@AliasMark69]

This tune is a bit more lesser known without much radio play, but has the sound of The Doors in their classic style. Interesting Choice.

[@roydownes2458]

as the drummer from the doors, john densmore, said, "Jim's message was endarkenment."

[@krizzysummers]

Awesome song, great reaction 😊

[@christopherhuot2826]

You gotta play "BLUE SUNDAY" after this song, they go together 😅😊

[@deborahpaley21]

crackin' tune.

[@daveman15]

I played this song in a cover band a few years ago... it always got a huge positive reaction. It's one of those songs that doesn't get a lot of play, but people recognize it and really like it.

[@clint81]

Up until the early 70's, men were drafted year round.

[@brenthenderson3983]

The Indians on the highway bleeding came from a true life experience, at Morrison put it, he and his family were on a road trip when he was a youngster, and they came across a horrific accident when a truck full of Indians were involved or overturned or something, and he said one of the souls of a dying Indian leapt into Jim's body, and he's still there today..

[@itnow]

correct though I think he claimed various indian souls leapt into his mind, anybody?

[@AaronJoseph-t4b]

Yazza, & if you check out the " Live in the Hollywood Bowl" performance of " The End" Jim does some impromptu Pow-Wow dancing at the bridge part,even through the intoxicated haze he" Got rhythm all over" like Elvis was quoted" Rhythm you either got it or you don't but when you do you've got it all over"

[@AaronJoseph-t4b]

​@itnow yes,he was cross eyed & toe up in a camera interview when he was quoted" Maybe one or two of those souls went in me" he had his parents,grandparents, & sister where in the car when that ccurred

[@kelvinkloud]

he's using that image as both a personal experience as a impressionable youth but also as a larger metaphor for the own nations life span. when the nation was coming of youth, from 1770s-1860s, it too did that embedded in violence & conquest. driven by some good ideals but also ones centered around conquest..... reason, tranquility peace= her driving in, but then driving away. a nation has to bleed & fever itself he seems to imply, until it can humble or desire itself of peace.

[@mitchellbeston1033]

Not sure if you noticed but the chorus had two sets of lyrics played over each other. I love how different this is for The Doors...which is weird because they had so much variety in their music...i just can't think of a similar number by them...love this song!

[@bugvswindshield]

great song. I was really into the Doors in my late teens, early 20's Amazing band all the way around.

[@robertbobcat-xi1lm]

This song is very difficult to categorize!..,but it is a jewle of this time period!

[@Blue-qr7qe]

There was a draft quota and it escalated as they escalated the war. There was a lottery using your birthdate. You were eligible to be drafted at 18 years old. You couldn't buy a beer or vote (till you were 21), but you could be shipped off to Vietnam. The vote was given to 18 year olds in 1971 due to antiwar sentiment and protests. 58,000 Americans killed in Vietnam. We still don't know why.

[@msfoodiediva]

Part of references a car accident that Jim witnessed when he was younger

[@ericdeaver3051]

Read “No One Here Gets Out Alive” the Jim Morrison biography. It will answer all…

[@AliasMark69]

They ended the Draft 3 weeks before my number would have been up.... Lucky Me

[@VereinPlatzhirschamHirschenpla]

Funk Doors

[@AliasMark69]

I believe the story goes... they saw this hotel and got a camera, went inside took some pictures before the desk clerk asked them to leave. The photos ended up as the album cover/title

[@alexandergustafsson4245]

A lot in interesting reflections on your part. I think the blood part of the song is like a loose reference to abortions. and the Indians scattered part of the song, when it slows down is a reference to an experienced Jim had as a child, at least he says so himself. With that said, it is also very possible that the Vietnam war was in the back of his mind writing the lyrics of this song. Or that the lyrics started out about abortion perhaps before the Vietnam war, but morphed into a more anti war song, they did other songs like that, unknown soldier for example. But very interesting hearing what you took from it, obviously I didn’t came to hear the song as I heard it numerous times before.

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

BLOOD IS THE ROSE OF MYSTERIOUS UNION.

[@kapturelab]

Gorgeous line

[@kelvinkloud]

what is your take on the meaning of that phrase as it pertains to these lyrics?

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

@@kelvinkloud The mysterious union between people that are related.

[@kapturelab]

@@kelvinkloud Great question. Because I asked myself that too. What is it about it like? For me, "Blood is the rose of mysterious union" could be construed as something dark like a blood pact. Even a bad pact like the Cosa nostra. The cutting of the hand and blood pouring. Blood being the real and physical thing. The rose is the metaphorical. We like roses. And mysterious union could be the union of anyone making a blood pact. 'Mysterious union' is beautiful and dark for me in that way.

[@stephentierney9266]

Hell yeah bro. Blood on the streets of cities all over the world. Relevant today as it ever was. Turn it up!

[@kelvinkloud]

agree... the song strongly implies, like nature, that this is a cyclical occurrence.... hence freedom and peace trying to enter but having to drive away. that hints to cycles having to play out, decks cleared etc., before new seeds of freedom can come back to the fields.

[@Alifesalife]

Stoner rock

[@Heathcliff_hensel]

I feel like this song is slept on.

[@acb9231]

Great song! Nothing beats music from the 60s/70s. Next, check out “Good Lovin’ Gone Bad” by Bad Company, released in 75! ✌️

[@PaulSmith-gc2my]

Check out Jim Morrison and The Doors: An American Prayer. It expands on the "Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding" thing. But for the most part, you got it. I'm sure there were specific incidents in the assorted cities referenced, but I don't think knowing that adds any meaning to the song. Jim Morrison was more than a little nuts and he was doing sexual lyrics at a time when the censors were going nuts (and he got arrested for lewd behavior at one of his shows), but his material was about shock value and didn't have a whole lot of substance to it. (In spite of that people thought he was "deep", there really wasn't a whole lot of "there" there).

[@namesameasu]

Great analysis. Every male over 18 and not in college became part of the draft lottery. Any day a notice could've came in the mail.

[@cynthiaschultheis1660]

I'm a retired history instructor (Jr. College & University)and there's a whole lot to learn about 20 years of an unpopular war. We've been fighting the "War on Terror" for 20 years...WHERE ARE THE PROTESTS???? Our country cannot afford 60% or more of our taxes blown on WAR!!! 💀💀💀💀

[@kelvinkloud]

the protest came in trump being voted in.... fascism can shift left or right. it can also be sold as the other. sinner is the saint.... unlike the '60s, its the left that has become manifested in division and perma war currently. as imperfect as trump is, he and rfk jr were the only ones running on peace. they both reflected what the grassroots now want. amer is weary of perma war. they want to see us heal and strengthen w/in. its a key reason he won, but opposing the continuation of permawars.

[@mtnvalley9298]

Fantastic work. You are really thinking and working out the lyrics, and that puts you above your peers in the reaction space. Thanks for your thoughts, and spot on!

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Nope terrible song

[@mtnvalley9298]

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN why? you seem to be alone in your opinion

[@KlemenKavčič-c5o]

Leb i sol / Devetka

[@kimmi6151]

Spanish caravan and changeling

[@kelvinkloud]

'She' is not a person.... its an Ideal & needed goal: freedom & peaceful tranquility w/in the culture. lady liberty (freedom & safe home). break of day is the hopeful oppty for it to manifest itself.....his poetic point is how elusive that is in a time of violence (late '60s). 1968-'69 when this was written was not a good time in amer... Nam was raging. mlk, rfk shot and killed. protests turning violent. youth pitted against the older generation..... morrison is pointing to a cylically rough period in the nation.... a vison that was embedded as a youth seeing carnage on the hiway (a metaphor too, for Time: past, present, future).... then as he comes of age that foreshadowing vision manifests itself in the present of his day in rising cultural violence.... born in a nation hatched in blood. the cycle returns in his own life span.... agree it also spans the arc of the nation 1776-1969 (in his case). ghosts & indians in turn arent only his own childhood vision, but the nation early experiences too. For ex., as you point out, the early fight and conquering of native tribes in the nation.... the hope in the song, is that freedom & enlightment will provide another hopeful oppty. But the blood may have to come first. hence his metaphor that blood is the rose of mysterious union.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Whyvthis .. Not very good stop