Ray Manzarek & Robby Krieger from The Doors tell the story of 'Light My Fire'. A short documentary by Top 2000 a gogo (Dutch Public TV) from 2013.
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@yabbadabba19754 жыл бұрын
Ray Manzarek kept the Doors alive for 50 years after Jim passed on. RIP Ray. Thanks for the music.
@MrRichulan6 жыл бұрын
Ray Manzarek was not only a great musician, but a great story-teller too. On KZbin you can find a lot of examples to prove it.
@robertcraane79106 жыл бұрын
And such a sweet guy... An icon on his own!
@mikentx576 жыл бұрын
I agree. I always felt he was our American Pete Townshend. That is, he is the one that can explain what it all means. We lost a lot when he passed.
@guyincognito57065 жыл бұрын
mikentx57 Oh. I thought you meant he kept child pornography on his computer.
@willywilliams52724 жыл бұрын
Absolutely !
@ToadeRTroniX4 жыл бұрын
I like when he told the story behind Riders of the Storm on Behind the Music.
@PeterMayer6 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing this in 67 when I was 8 years old and thought this was definitely different. This song, White Rabbit, Strawberry Fields. I knew that music was changing
@brianshaffneraclc5 жыл бұрын
I was born in 66, and my parents listened to all three of the bands whose songs you mention, as well as the Moody Blues, Stones, and others. In my earliest musical recollections, vaguely 69 - 71, that stuff *was* music. It was what was played at home. My own tastes have been predicated on it for a lifetime.
@williamwilson64995 жыл бұрын
I was 8 also. 52 years later and I love the song as much as then.
@johnscanlan93354 жыл бұрын
I too was 8 in 1967 and was completely obsessed with LMF. I've often thought about why a young kid would be so fascinated by it. Do you have any definite ideas?
@Thelooneylink4 жыл бұрын
We grew up on the best music of all time. I was born in "57 and had siblings 6 and 7 years older than me.
@adrianekelly29664 жыл бұрын
Peter Mayer , hi there. I was born in '57, and Incense and Peppermints was one of my absolute favorites. Still is. ✌️🎶
@tubularbill6 жыл бұрын
I met Ray back around 2001. Really nice guy.
@morrisonreed15 жыл бұрын
yep he was always positive every time i saw him ;he is missed by many
@chrisn72596 жыл бұрын
Shows how much old fashioned craftsmanship went into songs that--at the time--many people just assumed were lucky drug-fueled accidents.
@patientmental8755 жыл бұрын
Some definitely are though
@morrisonreed15 жыл бұрын
@@patientmental875 yes for people who know how to play
@rjjcms14 жыл бұрын
14 chords - and my recommendations just sent me here directly from the one about the making of Wild Thing by the Troggs!
@Vpmatt2 жыл бұрын
You can't luck your way into a song as good as Light My Fire, no matter how many drugs you take. There's a reason this song sounds as good now as it did in '67. It's because it's GENIUS.
@SirG145 Жыл бұрын
So accurately put!
@lionheartroar31046 жыл бұрын
RIP Ray Manzarek
@macski69244 жыл бұрын
He was frickin' great.
4 жыл бұрын
1:14 Oooooooooh, wow, really no comments about that video edit? Amazing :)
@josemiguelcarrizo73734 жыл бұрын
Everybody talks about Jim and forget the other 3. They were all tanlented artists and they all deserve recognition.
@johnnyjabsco19994 жыл бұрын
Jose Miguel Carrizo - The Doors were nothing without Jim Morrison and Jim Morrison was nothing without The Doors. His words, his voice and their music together were magical. Nothing else comes anywhere near.
@jamesbarrick34034 жыл бұрын
You are not wrong... BUT they really are no better than countless musicians who remain nameless doing studio session work or relentlessly gig and never have massive success. What separates the really big acts (stars) is something extraordinary. Jim Morrison had that and that was undeniable. Jim is the only reason you ever heard of Ray manzerack
@horrortackleharry4 жыл бұрын
Jim could be a monumental asshole at times- but he was ALWAYS publicly respectful of his fellow Doors and their musical contributions. Indeed, he often criticised other bands precisely because they relied too much on 'feeling' and weren't musically talented enough....
@stubs12274 жыл бұрын
@@johnnyjabsco1999 you are correct after Jim died there was no doors. People need to Jim Morrison to the hilt. Rest in peace Jim mom and admiral Morrison. Best regards to your brother and sister.
@mickavellian4 жыл бұрын
WHO IS EVERYBODY?? GOD how i fucking hate these wide sweeping " he is so underrated., noone talks.. blah blah. I KNOW immediately that anyone who KNOWS MUSIC will NOT say the George Harrison was underrated ,or Ringo was underrated. It is your FUCK lack of knowledge in the matter that is sorely lacking.
@raygrange73123 жыл бұрын
For years The Doors influenced my life.
@sabrinan47924 жыл бұрын
A woman I worked with in 1985 told stories of seeing The Doors play at Venice High School before they were famous. Another friend knew Ray, having played tennis with him for 20 years. I was sad for my friend for his loss.
@janetwilhelm44354 жыл бұрын
My older sister was the "beautiful Breck Girl" of 1967 and met the Doors in San Francisco. Jim talked to her,with conviction and unbound fury. She enjoyed his company,but with reluctance she walked away...and we still have the photos...
@airsofttrooper084 жыл бұрын
I'm 24 now, wish I was alive back then. But I heard light my fire for the first time in high school and I've been a die hard fan since. My first experience with the door though was in 2003 when I was a little kid riders on the storm was featured in a car racing video game called "need 4 speed". I really liked it but I didn't become a fan until high school when I heard Light my fire, I wish todays music had soul like 50's and 60's music. I was definitely born in the wrong time ;(
@utoobia4 жыл бұрын
Ray reminds me of Stewart Copeland in the way he speaks. They both LOVE to speak. 😉
@hermanhelmich4 жыл бұрын
utoobia So true, great remark
@callithowiseeit58066 жыл бұрын
5 minutes to walk 40 yards? Boy those guys must've been loaded that day lol
@tommytwomommy6 жыл бұрын
CallitHowISeeIt story tellers have to exaggerate. Real life is boring.
@foljs58586 жыл бұрын
Not to walk straight down to 40 yards. 5 minutes walking around across 40 yards of beach.
@jay_hawk97626 жыл бұрын
CallitHowISeeIt walking 40 yards, then walking back. 80 yards WALKING and most likely TALKING too.
@TheWillog5 жыл бұрын
stopping every 5 yards for a bump of coke
@SpaceCattttt5 жыл бұрын
Well, they changed into their bikinis first.
@ihbarddx4 жыл бұрын
Has there ever been a song with such an eclectic array of hooks? You get Bebop, Latin, Rock, and Bach all working together! And that last chord sounds like it's coming from E. Power Biggs' pipe organ. Love it!
@blacksabbathmatters33653 жыл бұрын
I could watch this for 3 days straight.
@craigh86025 жыл бұрын
My favorite song/album as a kid---and it doesn't sound like it has 14 chords. Ray's keyboards were the band's bass...unusual and impressive.
@cjay25 жыл бұрын
There are about 7 in the verse/chorus of the song itself. There are 7 additional in the circle-of-fifths intro, used three times in the song. Total of about 14 chords.
@remygaron83115 жыл бұрын
We missed the Doors 👏👏🇨🇦🇨🇦
@jeffreydurrance54005 жыл бұрын
Genius song..its over 50yrs old & I can still listen to it every day
@gingercat7775 жыл бұрын
Jim Morrison and the band had been asked by the producer of the Sullivan show, Bob Precht, to alter the lyrics of the song so as to eliminate the phrase “we couldn’t get much higher.” Sullivan’s sponsors didn’t dig the idea that the song’s lyrics might suggest drug use. The band agreed to change the lyrics but come show time Morrison sang the lyrics as originally written. As a result, The Doors were banned from ever again appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show. As if it really mattered.
@joedanna18275 жыл бұрын
Fuck ed sullivan
@MarkBoninsegna5 жыл бұрын
No, he did not. That was Val Kilmer.
@marcwilding48044 жыл бұрын
Yeah, we’ve all seen the film mate...
@visualonestudio4 жыл бұрын
Marc Wilding that's what I was thinking. Not even sure if that really happened.
@PInk77W14 жыл бұрын
I’ve never done drugs But I get high
@johna.43344 жыл бұрын
I was 11 years young when I first heard 'Light My Fire' and from that day on I was a diehard Doors fan. The first album was their best; the ones that followed were good but none topped their first.
@airsofttrooper084 жыл бұрын
I'm 24 now, wish I was alive back then. But I heard light my fire for the first time in high school and I've been a die hard fan since. My first experience with the door though was in 2003 when I was a little kid riders on the storm was featured in a car racing video game called "need 4 speed". I really liked it but I didn't become a fan until high school when I heard Light my fire.
@johna.43344 жыл бұрын
@@airsofttrooper08 Trivia note: When LMF first aired it was offered in the long version format. DJs complained about the length of the song so it was shorted and soon became a number one hit.
@airsofttrooper084 жыл бұрын
john a. Yes I actually knew this and I’ve heard both versions and I hate the short version. I actually prefer the 13 minute version that the doors did in 1970 at the Isle it wight festival. Both the guitar solo and keyboard solos were doubled in length.
@Vpmatt2 жыл бұрын
LA Woman is pretty close. My 2 fave Doors albums - the first and the last. A perfect circle.
@MrKaywyn5 жыл бұрын
As a fan I miss Ray dearly.
@theveryground36104 жыл бұрын
I just love the Doors
@antoinebeauman4 жыл бұрын
I was born in1967 .. I later in early 90s when the Oliver Stone movie came out get to know about the Doors .. in the same year I also visited Jims grave in Paris, my girlfriend and I were on a train trip from the Netherlands to the South of Italy and everywhere people were playing the Doors on their radio/cassette players. The Doors never sounded like old music from the sixties. I think The Doors are from all times and Jim never really died !
@theveryground36104 жыл бұрын
@@antoinebeauman Timeless music isn't it.
@antoinebeauman4 жыл бұрын
@@theveryground3610 For me it is !
@SummerofKittyLove6 жыл бұрын
Ray's Bach/organ- sounding keyboard is everything in this song
@bobburroughs62415 жыл бұрын
No it's Robbie's break - still spine-tingling.
@Wardads15 жыл бұрын
That horrible organ shit dates it badly ,just utterly boring .
@donjohnson96885 жыл бұрын
Modern bands should try adding some organ and reduce the boring wall of mud guitar sound.
@eichbienyermaw4 жыл бұрын
Ray Manzarek was the hippiest sounding, old hippy, college professor type of guy🤣
@ReginaDillard4 жыл бұрын
Bobo's Gonna Get Yi Yes, he was. What a great, timeless story.
@hebneh6 жыл бұрын
One reason this song made such an impression when it was released was that it, along with some other songs then, suddenly broke away from the rigid time limit that had been imposed on American popular music by how much music could fit onto a single recording. That had started around 1900 and was strictly adhered to till "Light My Fire", "Time (Has Come Today), and a few others changed it in the late 1960s. We were all kind of astounded when this occurred, and some AM rock radio stations were kooky enough to play the full-length versions sometimes at night.
@npg686 жыл бұрын
Hey Jude?
@DavidSmith-ss1cg5 жыл бұрын
@@npg68 - I grew up in a town outside New York City, and the radio station I mostly listened to was the ABC station. I can still remember hearing edited versions of "Hey Jude" and "Light My Fire," and even the longer songs like "Smoke On the Water" and "Stairway To Heaven." I didn't hear a lot of albums, and didn't know until later that Stevie Wonder didn't write "We Can Work It Out!" Soon after that, I picked up the guitar, and part of the "homework" was to listen to the older recordings, the influences. And I grew to like the older artists, and I would listen to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. I also listened to jazz and classical music. I still prefer to listen to this older music rather than listen to a lot of what is released these days. Luckily, having eclectic tastes means that theres a lot of good music to listen to.
@dynjarren75235 жыл бұрын
FM Stations played the longer versions of every song Rock anthem that came out like Light my Fire and Like A Rolling Stone which was considered long at Six minutes. Now Six minutes is nothing! Stairway is 12 minutes!
@dynjarren75235 жыл бұрын
Hey Jude was considered long at Six minutes. Now it’s nothing exceptional! Stairway is 12 minutes!
@guitarslim565 жыл бұрын
I don't think there was much radio airplay going on in 1900.
@karajalbert60744 жыл бұрын
Trust me Jim you couldn't get much higher
@EdVanMeyer2 жыл бұрын
What a great song
@montythepython76144 жыл бұрын
Ray... perhaps the nicest person that has ever lived.. loved.... Thanks for the post.
@womanofsubstance87354 жыл бұрын
Actual talent: composing, lyrics, vocals, and no auto-tune.
@wpl66615 жыл бұрын
No mention of one of the biggest elements which was Jim Morrison's voice. So distinctive. Not replicable.
@robinrubendunst8695 жыл бұрын
wpl he had a really beautiful baritone. With proper training he could’ve been classical singer. Was a beautiful instrument
@jennyjohn7043 жыл бұрын
I thought it was nice not to focus just on Jim for once. Also, there wasn't any mention of guitar either...
@dynjarren75235 жыл бұрын
Light My Fire is still a great classic although I prefer Break on Through!
@mickavellian4 жыл бұрын
What an extraordinary foursome... The Line about "A funeral pyre" always fascinated me and I HAD to look up what a PYRE was and it was like an impossible line to fit in the meter.. It was like a HIGHER voice whispered it to them. AND Desmond. my childhood hero. I remember saying (as a kid) "FUCK Ringo man.. Fuck Moon THIS is drumming." Little did I know Desmond had been formally trained and was a GREAT pianist & percussionist .
@nguzoloveinlofi38324 жыл бұрын
Ray Manzarek: I've got to add an intro- we can't just play over A minor to F# minor for 5 minutes. Roby Kreiger: I put every chord I know into Light My Fire- I counted them, there are 14 chords...
@dennisxavier95134 жыл бұрын
God! What has music turned to, since then?
@russellcampbell91984 жыл бұрын
Taking rock music to a new level.
@weloveyouaqua3 жыл бұрын
I remember when this first came out it was one those songs if had a band back then you had to play it.
@jasonmarques14802 ай бұрын
I'm intrigued by the clip of "Play With Fire" by the Rolling Stones that appears in the video. Any idea where that came from?
@Lehearthos4 жыл бұрын
A very well made short documentar. One thing though - sounds like 'Light my Fire' is played only on one channel. You can't hear the organ. Would be nice to hear both channels. :)
@jofinsky84004 жыл бұрын
much respect to Ray Manzarek, but it seems like he always kept the cheesy Vox organ sound and never embraced the B3?
@kuhnslomoiravnz58154 жыл бұрын
Jim still has the best yell Ray Manzarek was the hippiest sounding, old hippy, college professor type of guy🤣
@ElvarMasson3 жыл бұрын
You've just copied two ("original") comments below this video and make them look as if they're your own expression
@oldsongsnew87974 жыл бұрын
Best American band ever.
@dennistoadvine96724 жыл бұрын
And a hit was born. Make way for The Doors!
@leelaturanga54614 жыл бұрын
Twenty yers of piano lessons - nuff respect!
@chuffpup3 жыл бұрын
When I was a punk I found the Doors very anachronistic and corny. The hippy trippy 6-6-60s, were destroyed damn it! > Boy, was I wrong. Now I'm 60. This is timeless. Of course, we were all hippies with haircuts. My childhood was set to this music and I loved it.
@adrianekelly29664 жыл бұрын
I LOVE THIS SERIES. Absolutely wonderful. So enjoyable. I want to see them all. Born in '57. I can't go long without immersing myself in the great music of this time. I can feel my inner soul vehicle getting up to speed on an open road of vibration and cellular memory, burning the fuel residue from the carburetor. The floods of electrical energy and goosebumps are intense, nearly painful. Almost orgasmic building of human response to what these artists brought through into this dimension, from who knows where. How fortunate we were to be imprinted with this music in our early years. There never has been anything like its particular power, probably never will be. Thank you so very much. 🙏✌️🎶💕🖖
@Top2000agogo4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@julianho76723 жыл бұрын
light my fire......................yeah!
@Alfa75V65 жыл бұрын
he said THE word higher !!!!!!
@vinskeeter5 жыл бұрын
When I heard the doors on the radio when I was a little kid, I thought the singer was a really old guy.
@wxnd3r455 жыл бұрын
Yeah I taught that too, when I first heard 'Riders on the storm'.
@ceciliawells10994 жыл бұрын
Thought
@JorgeLourenco0003 жыл бұрын
When you had to have talent to creat music. This was proper music, acroos all genres
@mattgreenfield3604 жыл бұрын
Could listen to manzerak all day long
@rabit8185 жыл бұрын
I would suggest to young musicians to get some ideas on composition, etc. from the Doors on youtube. But the age of laptop and ProTools just makes it a tad easier and cheaper for musicians.
@PInk77W14 жыл бұрын
I love the José Feliciano cover
@Arthur-Silva6 жыл бұрын
Why didn’t you guys interview John Densmore?
@camilleanderson4504 жыл бұрын
Cause he's a dick head
@samuelbasye35084 жыл бұрын
@@camilleanderson450 Right? 😄
@ancyber68764 жыл бұрын
Camille Anderson No he isn’t.
@mmarialexx4 жыл бұрын
Fabulous intro for a fabulous song 😍
@medic28075 жыл бұрын
Manzerak reminds me Neil Peart.
@elviroyoung50283 жыл бұрын
The LIGHT was on the Dutch island of Bonaire for over 250 years until IT fused with me in 1995 , the Glory of God is and was an orb of 4-5 yards wide with a multicolour interior with 100's of rays beaming out after 10 years while living on the island a cloud decided to park on top of me , can you alter the weather ? The LIGHT happened to chose someone that appreciates good musice and lyrics , songs like CrystalShip is a clear reference the Rapture by GOD'S crystalship of Revelations 21 .......... but even his bandmates didnt know and he was probably sceptical.
@Gumshrud15 ай бұрын
at 16 crusin' and walkin' the crowded Sunset Strip--was a trip--in late '66. The Doors played at the Whisky a Go Go, I was too young to enter.
@medpub5 жыл бұрын
They really worked together as a unit. Thats quite rare in a band.
@Vibeagain2 жыл бұрын
You can tell why Jim was the front man. In terms of charisma certainly couldn't have been Krieger
@athmaid2 жыл бұрын
Worrying about "funeral pyre" haha times have definitely changed
@raynic11732 жыл бұрын
I always thought it was funeral "fire" not pyre. It made no difference, I extracted the same meaning.
@BalboaBaggins3 ай бұрын
Why aren't songs like these made anymore?
@BuckRogers20004 жыл бұрын
I'm shocked this video doesn't have a ZILLION views. Thanks for bringing the rest of the band in the spotlight!
@bryanlongshore61823 жыл бұрын
Should have gone back to the long haired look he had when he was young ,before he died.... anyway RIP
@geinikan1kan5 жыл бұрын
incredible song. Apparently Morrison added that shit about wallowing in the mire and funeral pyre (corny poetic shite). But that song was viral in the 19760s and 70s. a cliche with incredible chords.
@SM-ht7qf4 жыл бұрын
geinikan1kan Ah yes, the 19760's were such great times, you must be a time traveler
@davidkent86066 жыл бұрын
I read somewhere that Frank Sinatra hated this song with a vengeance, don't know why. Perhaps he just hated a rock song becoming a standard.
@robertozaleta27805 жыл бұрын
Way better and more refreshing than any of his old boring songs.
@zekesterboospirit86585 жыл бұрын
Probably disliked the culture of hippies and weirdos in general. Old school whose time had past.
@fivestring65ify5 жыл бұрын
Frank hated rock and roll. It's well documented.
@edwardlagrossa12465 жыл бұрын
Old Frank thought Jim was stealing his phrasing and singing style. He was right. Jim used to brag that he used the same model vocal mic as Sinatra.
@chrisalberts91254 жыл бұрын
Yea because he was old by 67.... hey kid get off my lawn!!
@BalboaBaggins4 жыл бұрын
music of the past and todays music couldn't be more David & Goliath
@urbanothepopeofdeath4 жыл бұрын
wish all these "28 y.o.s" were alive today jst to see what they would be like in todays world
@jeffmoore94874 жыл бұрын
It has to be ok to agree with millions of others, because it is a unique and powerful opening. Without Jim's personality the lengthy A - FsharpM vamp would be tedious. Ray's opening makes the arrangement fresh and big!
@mfb30424 жыл бұрын
Great to see how they worked together. Makes me think of Sam Riddle hosting the KHJ TV station on Saturday nights in LA when he introduced the Doors. I wasn't that impressed because I thought Jim Morrison was copying Mick Jagger. Didn't know I was witnessing history.
@anonymousguy77234 жыл бұрын
Another excellent video
@rolandgerard60646 жыл бұрын
And so a great song was born
@CraigsOverijse4 жыл бұрын
For sure the whole band worked together the sum being more than the whole of the parts to make an amazing sound that is still resonating in other music to this day. However one wonders what would have happened had Jim not died so young maybe big break up like the Beatles or maybe still churning it out like the stones
@FB1BB1BB13 жыл бұрын
I was 10 when this came out. My 8 year old sister got the single, which was red, for Christmas along with a record player. It was the big song of the year.
@beveragescollections65294 жыл бұрын
One time I'm delivered Pizza with the heavy rain that night, stepped in the car and played radio just about right music from The doors "riders on the storm" KLOS station still got many good DJ in 80's and 90's The guy Jim Ladd..
@thetreblerebel3 жыл бұрын
Hey ..isn't this a Ford Motor Company song ? Lol
@hortondlfn19944 жыл бұрын
Totally interesting.
@RedArrow734 жыл бұрын
The bass is a P-Bass, likely CBS, thru an Acoustic 360/361, as pure as one could want. Yeah, Ray was a decent bass guitarist for an organ player.
@VictorPM15502 жыл бұрын
Interesting to see how they played a short (like the 7") version of the song live... by accentuating that cut-moment (4:25 min. into this video). First let the organ quiet down, and then burst out with the drums and everything. Unlike on the record, where it's more like a random moment in the guitar part of the long version. When listening to the long version, you have to pay some attention: oh yeah, that's where the single comes back in again :-) Edit: whoops, got it totally wrong... live footage in this clip comes from this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5PNYoV8ltSsgs0 which is anything but a short version :-))))
@durangomcmurphy15294 жыл бұрын
Morrison always hated the song , he split from the DOORS because they released it without his approval . I never understood why until now : the other guys wrote the ever popular potboiler . DOORS Forever .
@jofo31972 ай бұрын
Great to know the Bach part too. Liked this song!
@jcoghill22 жыл бұрын
Ray 20 years of piano lessons only facilitated Light My Fire. That was one of those pieces that comes from a place where songs already exist and are just trying to find a way to be heard. The song made itself didn't it? That's why.
@nemisisfinder1824 жыл бұрын
I mentioned the intro on the keyboard to my brother inlaw, who is a bit of a musician. He chuckled and said it was impossible to play it..🤣..
@renatacantore-gross88424 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece.
@trope51053 жыл бұрын
its crazy that i was born in mid 87, an that the 60's were ya, a while ago, but nowdays, they were a hot minute ago, n the tru muckers that were the revolutionists of what music really is, are now going to the separate realm! i hope theyre fuggin happy, because they are all the ones that influence me! i wont go into how parents nowdays are failing their kids by lettting the not live with what true ambition is, but i will leave, with knowing myself
@michaelelewis37484 жыл бұрын
5 minutes to walk 40 yards? Boy those guys must've been loaded that day lol wish all these "28 y.o.s" were alive today jst to see what they would be like in todays world
@ThomasSoles4 жыл бұрын
RIP, Ray.
@TheLochs5 жыл бұрын
I love these stories.
@barrybrown62395 жыл бұрын
Legend
@1979augistine4 жыл бұрын
Missing you and all you had to give maybe after the funeral pire whe will get to meet ... dreams
@guyincognito57065 жыл бұрын
“wE jUsT dId tHe Ed SuLlIvAn ShOw, MaAaAaN”
@soulvaccination86792 жыл бұрын
I was kicked out of the house back then.Parents at the time hated the music and the hair.So it was cut your hair or out of the house.Many of us left and we created crash pads.
@alejandrocorona17665 жыл бұрын
A masterpiece
@pbattis14 жыл бұрын
The Wrecking Crew were the band on the records.
@brianmc04 жыл бұрын
The wrecking crew played on The Doors albums or at least this song? I never heard that before.
@chrisalberts94143 жыл бұрын
They were on alot but they were not on the first record from my knowledge
@dynjarren83555 жыл бұрын
Robbie Krieger wrote Light My Fire 🔥. And Ray came up with intro. And Jim wrote the second verse and Viola! Magical! It was their big break through hit that put them in the big time! And they shared Royalties equally so they split everything 4 ways. I read that their first big royalty check was after the first album was successful and they each got a check for $50 Grand. 50 Grand back then in the late Sixties was like 250 grand now! They all bought houses except for Jim. He didn’t care about that so much. So the success of the first album gave them the financial stability to keep going afterwards. 💥👌🏻🔥🎸😎
@frankiebutler28944 жыл бұрын
Danny B Your story isn't quite right. Electra Records president asked each of them who they wanted as a "thank you", in addition to their first royalty check, which was $50,000. each. John and Robbie asked for recording equipment, Ray asked for thoroughbred horse, and Jim asked for his "Blue "Lady", a Mustang Shelby GT350. This can be read (hodgepodge.com) and heard from Ray, John and Robbie on various interviews on utube. BTW, Jim wrecked The Blue Lady and just walked off and gave her away!
@stevenhopkins28873 жыл бұрын
You are a genius sir...One of the best musicians in the world!
@Phoebedumplings5 жыл бұрын
He not only fell for her but that California lifestyle...a guy from Manchester , in the late 60s.....he must have thought he’d stepped into a different universe! Which of course, he had, I would have done the same. Great story
@MostCommentsAreFake-ud8by4 жыл бұрын
Who is from Manchester in the video ?
@momoney27206 жыл бұрын
talk bout blowin your own trumpet ,still a great intro
@TheGrouchDnD6 жыл бұрын
I think you mean tooting your own horn?
@frankiebutler28944 жыл бұрын
Mo Money IMO, Ray was not tootin his horn. The purpose of these videos is to give us, who care, an in depth review of songs and WHY they were written, the backstory. Pay attention.
@noitnova3 жыл бұрын
Ray is een schitterende man en een van de beste in zijn vak.