UH OH!! | The End - The Doors (Reaction)

[@patrickscutella836]

I cant hear this song without thinking of the Francis Ford Coppala movie Apocalypse Now. The movie starts with this song. Vietnam themed movie

[@Blue-qr7qe]

@patrick Absolutely. 'Worth seeing the film just to catch this as the opener with those napalm visuals. Incredible !!!

[@kelvinkloud]

coppola & morrison were classmates at ucla film school. jim dated his sister, talia (of rocky fame). they were friends. talked some after the band was formed. if morrison had lived, he may have collaborated or acted in the movie.... your right, it was a perfect score fit. symbolized the chaos, death and even tragic beauty and horror of war. notice, the character puts his boots on. perhaps morrison was alluding to where nam was going. he wrote and performed this in '66. at that point, nam was just starting to escalate into something that would later become very nasty & a trap that ensnared the usa.

[@waynehackney5812]

I love how Coppala used The End to begin his amazing movie.

[@RobertBreedon-c3b]

Siagon shit I am still in Siagon

[@RobertBreedon-c3b]

@@waynehackney5812 as well as the ending

[@AliasMark69]

John Densmore's drumming in this is phenomenal, captivating, brilliant. from start to finish in one take.

[@kelvinkloud]

densmore carries this musically, agree. he sets the wide scape but also changes the pace & turns it at key times. he also plays off jim's pivots perfectly. criminally underrated drummer.

[@pedrocerda2056]

What a beautiful tragic tale of a song this is just chilling.

[@rafehr1378]

I remember this tune coming out, 17 then. All-night LSD party with all the stunning music outlaw music, Doors, Led Zepplin, Country Joe & the Fish, Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf, the list goes on & on.

[@Grateful_Dad_54]

Those were the days! ✌🏻💀

[@franksullivan1873]

Shrooms , great weed and tequila,lol.

[@alycetaylor7138]

I could say the same! Great times!

[@t.j.payeur5331]

Santana, "Abraxas"...Hendrix..Jeff Beck "Truth"..UmmaGumma...

[@johnathanstruble1064]

Thanks for being courageous and reacting to this song...Jim Morrison never wanted to be a rock star, he studied film, and had a passion for Poetry...and the fates aligned, ...if every English teacher in America , gave two weeks to Dylan and Morrison, me thinks no one would thing Literature and poetry were boring ❤..great reaction my friend.✌️

[@kelvinkloud]

good point. they were the 2 best amer lyricist of their era. dylan was & is still lauded. he earned much of that, no doubt. yet, morrison in many circles is wrongly discounted. his style was different & misunderstood. if you got what he was doing though (blake symbolist style wide scape & theme poetry) one should give morrison a lot of credit, esp since this was literally penned in '66.

[@AliasMark69]

Hey JM, My son Mike called, I said...JM just did The Doors - The End.... He said, NO! KIDDING!!, That is one of the songs that you must hear to consider yourself a true connoisseur of Classic Rock, and some borderline insanity.... I said Yep.

[@AliasMark69]

In an interview Manzarek said Jim had no real lyrics and went into the booth empty handed and created most of the songs lyrics as they played following his hand gestures for intensity after one brief run through musically before recording. They had no idea what he was going to say and were not too surprised given the state of mind he was in at the time.

[@mimikurtz2162]

BS. The Doors were performing similar extended versions of this song on stage before they even signed a recording contract. Most of the lyrics are excerpts of Morrison's poetry written long before that.

[@RavenaDenver]

@@mimikurtz2162 What I love about his "performance" style. He did so much ad libbing and going into poetry or new thoughts, words, lyrics and the other 3 just had to go for the ride. I think Ray, John and Robby are seriously under rated, the pure talent and know how it would take to do great improv on stage live in front of thousands and make it seem like they weren't is magic. Jim was NOT an easy front man, but not for the usual reasons.

[@bugvswindshield]

Can't say enough about the Doors. Vocals, arrangements, and the keyboards..omg. so good. Once in a generation band. Tons of great , great music.

[@gregpearson9644]

Amazing looking back that The End and Light My Fire were on the bands first album! Nobody else sounds like the Doors. Sweet, dark melodies and lyrics.

[@kentclark6420]

Jim was an avid reader and philosopher, as well as a writer, and even playwright. He was almost obsessed with dark themes and death, and how they interact with life. He used to do things like walk on the railings of his hotel balconies, many stories high. While also high on drugs! This song has elements of the Greek Oedipus complex. "The End" is death, although the song also deals with Jim Morrison's parents - it contains Oedipal themes of loving the mother and killing the father. Morrison was always vague as to the meaning, explaining: "It could be almost anything you want it to be."

[@kelvinkloud]

listen close.... its actually not a death song. it examines it & he stares it down, as he stands over like ontop a canyon & looks down upon the culture. where its (the snake symbol) dna catalyst came from, where it led to & where the ancient lake is that its going. but its a pathway to a new way.... its a symbolist large scape poem performed as rite of passage ceremony, like natives who used to go to nature to find their guardian spirit.... by the end of the song, he is breaking from the established order (thats why the oedipal section is inserted) & declaring his own personal vision & strength to endure. the eyes hes looking into isnt a lover, rather a friend. hes breaking from the old ideal that is dying & imploding. hes drawn the line for sustainment and moving forward.

[@lugwrench9832]

Chief, I'm liking your channel. Found it by happenstance. ... Subscribed.

[@AliasMark69]

JM is the Best Classic Rock Reactor on YT. Check out his Playlist for artist.... Welcome to the "You Guys"

[@rafehr1378]

Jim wrote all the words. Ray Manzarek wrote all the music was the keyboard player.

[@caltagironeorologi8]

Krieger wrote more than manzarek

[@kobebean12]

Haha great reaction the doors are absolutely awesome the most unique band of all time

[@Serai3]

The End was Jim Morrison's improvisation song onstage. Every night he sang it, the extended poetry section in the middle was different. He used it to try out new ideas, scraps of poetry, lines he was toying with. But when they went into the studio and recorded it, that pretty much froze the song. Everyone expected to hear what was on the album, so the improvising faded out mostly. Onstage, he yelled out the climax of the Oedipal section, but that wouldn't fly on a record, so he mangled it. And all of those "fuck me"'s at the end were originally buried deep in the mix; you had to turn your speakers way up to hear them. Now it's not necessary to hide such stuff, of course, so when the album was remastered, those barking whispers were brought back up to the fore where they belonged. What Jim meant by this song, no one is sure. He had a habit of telling everyone who asked about it something different. I live in L.A., and I've met at least three people who say Jim told them the song was about their friendship, including the poet Michael Ford. Morrison was mischievous that way. (In one sense, this song really was the end, since it was the last song on their debut album.)

[@kelvinkloud]

its about shedding ones self away from an established decaying order. that can also extend to a plea for the culture to follow suit. its why the oedipal section is in there. it may not be about mary b/c he call this person, a friend. it may not be a person but an ideology thats played out. either way, by the end of the song, imo its clear its not a death song. rather a line in the sand for declarative power to move forward.

[@Serai3]

@@kelvinkloud It's about that to YOU. Jim never defined what the song was about, just like he never defined what ANY of his songs were about. Whatever deep meaning you're associating with it is your thing, not his.

[@kelvinkloud]

@@Serai3 no doubt, its up to interpretation... however, when one tries to interpret a story, painting, poem etc., structure means something.... it seems clear, much of the song is symbolic & not literal, but its referencing larger themes and structures. the oedipal device going back to its origins is a story of breaking vs established order.

[@willblood7082]

Great song, great reaction! There was a shorter, cleaned up version that was played on the radio at the time. Two reasons, 1) the length of the song was not considered radio friendly and 2) certainly not the repeated use of the F word 😂

[@DrVonChilla]

"The killer" DEFINITELY killed his Mother....but he "did something to her" first. It's ASTONISHING to me how many younger listeners/reviewers DON'T GET THIS Oedipal reference. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised but WOW.....just......wow.......

[@kelvinkloud]

agree. but its symbolic.... its to kill off the estblished order of society in re to beliefs of lifestyle and system. the father is the estblished order. the mother is nature, fertility, new frontier.

[@garfhayes9858]

Like the fact u play full songs before reacting was getting fed up with other reaction videos who keep stopping to give their options excellent keep up my friend.😊😊.

[@melissatuel862]

My husband is a Vietnam Vet and he said that during boot camp the Drill Instructors would repeatedly yell "KI*L! KI*L! KI*L!" which Jim also did in this song. He may have gotten that line from the military - his father was a rear admiral in the Navy.

[@AliasMark69]

The Doors are basically a three man band with a vocalist who played Tambourine on some tunes.. Formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist/Fender Keyboard Bass, Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore

[@bert0522]

This & When The Musics Over are my favoritesof theirs. And their version of Gloria (uncensored). Jim

[@AliasMark69]

At 11 years old I had to buy this album with my own money knowing my parents would never approve of some of the songs on this album. I never played it with them at home,,,, But... brought it to many PARTY and everyone was happy. Light My Fire.... Yep, every time I hear that song.

[@alixchavasse6437]

Morrison wrote this song in the beginning about a breakup he had a with his girlfriend Mary Weberlow. Before the Doors became famous they performed this song over and over at a club in LA called the London Fog, and then the Whisky a Gogo and one day when the band was about to perform, Jim hadn’t showed up and they went to pick him up at his hotel and he was stoned on acid and absolutely wanted to perform that song and he added the oedipus part. The blue bus thing is a reference to a bus he used to take as a teenager to school he just added it that up. To really understand the song you have to remember the 60s for teenagers was about rebelling so the oedipus thing is really Morrison call to tell kids to break up from all the very rigid attempts and restrictions parents used to place on kids in the 50s

[@AmateurScaleModelBuildi-lj3so]

From what I've read in all the other comments and being a very avid doors fan. This is the only explanation that hit the nail directly on the head. I'm guessing that you've also, like me, read "no one here gets out alive" where you learned a lot about Morrison . A genius poet, if ya ask me

[@redzone77p]

Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now this is the song they used, if you get a chance to see it do so.

[@toniyoung5131]

I admit i listen to the Doors without reference to the lyrics. Just Morrison's voice and the musicians' massive talent is enough for me. I'm more open minded now, in my 70's than i was in my teens in the 60s. I found Morrisons lyrics very disturbing then. Couldnt help but listen, though.

[@AliasMark69]

Recorded Live in One Take..... The Good Old Days Of Classic Rock.

[@AliasMark69]

Well JM... Now you truly have stepped through the door into the world of Jim Morrison and The Doors. Imagine you are only 11 years old when this experience changes your life as you knew it... Great Mother Natures Finest helped a lot.

[@Cashcrop54]

Another example of a band from the 60's that was totally unique. You can pretty much hear a song by the doors and you can tell it's them before 15 sec goes by. Love this song!

[@RavenFire4]

Most definitely 🙌🏼

[@djl9919]

a live version in Toronto Canada TV studio is just wicked. Rock on JMBOY TV

[@PeterOConnell-pq6io]

Strangeness of this one sets it apart even from other great Doors pieces. Its musical and vocal stream of conciousness excursions from psychedelia to psychosis to the ''electric kool aid acid test" (Cowboy Niel was at the wheel of the Blue Bus) to the farewells at the "end" are truly remarkable.

[@shallwocharlie]

I wish the song was longer. Now watch Apolcalypse Now. Film revised the song

[@AliasMark69]

BTW... Every song on that album is something you want to hear. I almost suggested you do an entire album reaction with this album.

[@RicoCosta317]

Morrison was a poet, what might be called a beat poet, in that it was very disjointed with fairly indecipherable meaning, more like setting a dark mood. He was also a great vocalist and a self-destructive person who died way too young. Ray Manzarek was the greatest keyboardist in rock history, Robby Krieger was an awesome, versatile guitarist and James Dinsmore a brilliant drummer. Together they formed one of the greatest bands ever assembled. You entered a deep well here bro!

[@Blue-qr7qe]

@Rico "Beat poet" referring to poets of the Beat or Beatnik era, which preceeded the Folk/Hippie era. Ginseng, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, et al.

[@kelvinkloud]

it has succinct beat density. yet, its also classical blake influenced symbolist technique also. like tyger. it incorporates both techniques.

[@kentclark6420]

If you do album reactions, try The Door's 'An American Prayer', an account of Jim's poetry that he recited on tape, which was backed up musically by his bandmates after he 'died'. Although I doubt he died- he had said at one point that he was going to fake his death one day. And only two people claimed to see his body- his girlfriend Pamela Courson, and I believe his manager.

[@williamstlouis3368]

Great reaction. Peace out.

[@bruceware8779]

Crystal ship

[@JimeLello]

Morrison was one of the greatest musical minds ever. He was also insane he would strip naked and think he was mind controlling the crowds tripping on acid😂

[@bugvswindshield]

Riders on the Storm Peace Frog Touch Me Back Door Man Hello, I Love You these are just few I can come up with off to the top of me puny lil head.

[@AliasMark69]

So many more... The Crystal Ship...Break On Through.... The Alabama Song.....

[@bugvswindshield]

One thing you MUST understand. LSD. It is as part of the Doors as the music itself. Same with Donavan and the Beatles after Sgt Peppers. The Moody Blues so many bands in the 60's were high AF. Take it for what you will. It's just a fact.

[@AliasMark69]

True, and many of us were HIGH all the time back then....still

[@RobertNored]

"Ride the snake to the lake" the man was a poet. AN EXTRORDINARY TALENT!!

[@kathywalbaum8523]

This was the most outrageous song in my teeny bopper mind way back then. To depict murder shocked my 13 year old self

[@brandonjones1349]

Cool story. But truth. Nobody will ever believe me. I was a mechanic workin on 18 whllrs in rva. I swear....I met Jim. After his....ahem...death. he wad drivin a 78 Pete. I asked him his name ....JOHNNY JOHNSON was his reply. Roadhouse Blues was on radio at the time. I asked him if he was Jim. He just replied ...."aint this a good song".....climbed in his Peterbilt. And sailed off on 95 south. No shit!!!

[@michaelhall2709]

It was “Light My Fire” that launched The Doors into the stratosphere. . . and I can only imagine how all those kids who bought their first album to get that very nice pop song reacted when they discovered that the record closed out on this epic of inspired lunacy. (Morrison’s torrent of obscenity is buried in the original mix, though the Oedipal material isn’t.) Not to everyone’s taste, but for my money the only thing more note-perfect than “The End” is its use in Francis Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW.

[@kevinsattler6603]

The Doors + Acid = Blowin Mind. 💥 💥

[@AliasMark69]

Often back in those wonderful years.

[@tenderwolfe]

Yeah, that’s as crazy as I remember it.

[@Patreides9]

Just a little bit, it was like the indian sitar music.

[@hankhaney3785]

This was Morrison's "death/suicide song"

[@kelvinkloud]

listen close, its not about death. rather declaration from it..... the end, is his commitment to the old estblished order or perhaps lover. by the end, he is drawing the line in the sand for his own move forward w/ his earned vision.

[@WillLlamas]

This does bring up the question of, has JM seen Apocalypse Now!?

[@cody8314]

Even after I started tripping once hearing this song again always make me think “yeah dude was tripping hard on this one” 😂

[@JpStewart0169]

Hi JMBOY, I liked your reaction/ Checkout the story/play by Sophocles Oedipus Rex ( aka Oedipus the King). There's great teleplay with Michael Pennington and Claire Bloom on KZbin. Sir John Gielgud even makes an appearance, the acclaimed Shakesperean actor. That play served as the basis for Aristotle's book, The Poetics, which is classic theatre knowledge. Enjoy. I subscribed.

[@AliasMark69]

This is another of those ICONIC songs that if you know all the lyrics... Much Respect For You.

[@laetitiacavinato2554]

In 2024, there's not one single rock band who can write and perform a song like that. And it's sad.

[@kathyrizzi8754]

I never heard this song before, but I love Jim Morrison’s music. He was quite the rebel in his day, the fans loved him, but the establishment, not so much. 😄🥰

[@AliasMark69]

JM, as you know I copy most all your videos. This is among my Top Ten Favorites of mine you have done. Thanks again.

[@brandonjones1349]

The revolution....will b televizd

[@lugwrench9832]

American Bohemia

[@christineostrom5187]

No commets . Just ❤️ for you! You have a new secriber from Sweden.

[@AutumnBlossom-c9i]

Would a patron be so kind to possibly suggest JM to consider reacting to "Inside Looking Out" by Grandfunk Railroad. The video, audio? I just think JM would immensely enjoy and his reaction would be epic to watch 😊

[@dawnstone610]

watch the movie The Doors by Oliver Stone. The song is about experiencing LSD when the group is in the desert and the psychedelic experience.

[@lugwrench9832]

1967

[@AliasMark69]

Great year to be 12 years old.... hearing the music we had.

[@sst3d]

Psychedelic….my youth. I really enjoy your reactions. You let the music play. And trust us to listen to your take on the performance A+… you have a subscriber. His mom…pretty much he wanted sex…

[@t.j.payeur5331]

Driver, where you taking us? When The Music's Over is easily as good as this tune...

[@jdm1066]

No....he didn't kill his mother. It's a reference to Oedipus.

[@danielnusser8604]

Snake=road.

[@georgedeborahkininmonth3104]

Back when music was creative and artistic. Created and celebrated, as opposed to creating a template and packaging it for mass consumption. IMHO

[@csedrivers2850]

Vietnam.

[@MusicMan61-j7o]

The Doors top 5?

[@jameswiglesworth5004]

This is one of the great songs of it's time/genre, but in truth The Doors this song apart and a few others, were one of the most overrated Bands of their time

[@naomifishman3175]

this is the end

[@ricardomurga224]

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