Legend's Final Song was a HAUNTING 7 Minute Epic That SHOOK Radio to Its CORE! | Professor of Rock

Up next, the last musical will and testament of an all-time legend. Jim Morrison of the Doors! Taken from the planet at the age of 27… Today’s song, Riders on the Storm was nearly as haunting as his death… It’s a sinister and mystical epic about a spree killer that has some incredible insight into the artist who created it as well as the human psyche. After lighting up the world with Break on Through and Light My Fire the Doors took their mystical rock to a new level of brilliance, but at what cost? We break down the epic rock track and the band next on Professor of Rock.
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The year is 1971 and breaking news has just arrived from Paris. James Douglas Morrison, musician, poet, and philosopher is dead at the age of 27. Sources say that he died from a heart attack or pneumonia. Stunned, the world of rock and roll mourns in disbelief. Mr. Mojo Risin’ leaves behind a storied and complicated legacy. we have the in-depth story of the Lizard King’s last musical will and testament, on the Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another edition of our show #1 in Our Hearts, where we honor songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, be it radio play, lack of marketing, label support or just sheer stupidity, it came up short. Just to give you an idea of what this is all about, on previous episodes we have covered Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie, Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty, and Dream On by Aerosmith. Today we are going all in on Jim Morrison and The Doors’ haunting last rite, Riders on the Storm. I’ve been waiting to do this for a while.
In late 1970 The Doors began work on their sixth studio album, L.A. Woman. It was a chaotic season for the band. The fallout from the Miami indecency incident still weighed heavy. Morrison had been fighting multiple legal battles, The Doors were being blacklisted on the radio, and concert bookings were in decline. Jim for his part threw himself deeper into the grips of alcoholism, substance abuse, and a few other self-destructive behaviors.
Early in the writing process producer Paul Rothchild would reach his breaking point with the band and decided to call it quits. He was unimpressed with the new material and was completely fed up with Morrison’s antics.
“Jim was unhappy with his role as a national sex symbol,” Rothchild said, “and he did everything in his power to obliterate that. He gained enormous weight, he grew a beard. I quit because I’d grown tired of dragging The Doors from one album to another, especially an unwilling Jim.”
Manzarek recalls, “We were giving Paul a preview and he was bored. We played the songs very badly... there was no chi, no energy... and Paul couldn’t bring us back to life.” Densmore remembers Rothchild calling an early rendition of Riders on the Storm