The Doors - The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) | REACTION/REVIEW

[@Hemprechaun]

"I'll tell you this, no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn." Not even a huge Doors fan, but that has always been 1 of my favorite lyrics.

[@NativWorld]

Me2. I Don't think most, esPECially now, gets it.

[@trappenweisseguy27]

You can feel this swamp groove oozing from the morass. And 6 puffs into my homegrown I am “stoned immaculate”.

[@snakeinthegrass7443]

8:12 "I don't know what the fuck he is talking about, but it's dope". Exactly how I've been feeling for decades!!🤘🤘

[@danielcrain12]

53 years ago today this came out ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 april 19th 71 we miss you Jim

[@hongfang2348]

LA Woman is my favorite Doors album. Morrison was on a different plane from most of humanity and his lyrics reflect it. Ray Manzarek is one of the greatest keyboardist in rock history.

[@johnathanstruble1064]

Jim never wanted to be a Rockstar, he was a poet..who just happened to meet 3 amazingly talented musicians, that allowed him to express poetry, in music. ❤

[@bluebird3281]

Old Time Liberty

[@kelvinkloud]

He wanted both early and when they morphed he chased the Sun and got too close… by the time of this album he was entering a new fertile stage of taking off the leather jacket and leather pants but making peace w/ still wanting to hold the mic…. Real shame he didn’t make it back from Paris. As this album clearly shows he still had legs. He was also keen to screenwriting and directing in film & had the skil set to do well…. He was a great when dialed in. More importantly singularly brave to his vision. But it’s also a cautionary tale. More and even better coukdve come. 27 is very young. What is good for us is on this last work album wise he certainly did not go gently into that good night.

[@helenwhite2379]

❤❤ My first love. Jim Morrison changed my life, he opened my eyes & influenced me more than any other person. Literature, poetry, philosophy & music. I had the privilege of visiting his resting place twice ❤❤

[@craxanshards3139]

Strange Days has always been my favorite Doors album!

[@jimdonahue7230]

Roadhouse Blues from the album Morrison Hotel is a must.

[@claytonpaul4259]

Excellent choice. Always been a fav of mine. You gotta check out Maggie McGill (studio box set version), Been Down So Long, Crawling King Snake and Road House Blues if you haven't already. All bangers

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

There is some very good poetry in this song.

[@davescurry69]

The penultimate track on their LA Woman album. And just on that really cool bass on this track, it's played by the great Jerry Scheff, who was Elvis Presley's bassist from 1969 to the great man's death.

[@danielcrain12]

They were around for 4 YEARS 4 lol and have sold 114 million records world wide INCREDIBLE ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@ericoberlies7537]

On their albums they used a bass player frequently. On this LA Album the bass player was Jerry Scheff; Elvis Presley’s bass player.

[@jrmahan3405]

This album was my introduction to The Doors. I listened to it in the mid 80's when I was a teenager. I have always wondered where their music would have gone if Jim had lived.

[@kentclark6420]

Of course you have the two big songs on this album, 'LA Woman' and 'Riders on the Storm', which are epic songs, but you also have a bluesy 'Cars hiss by my Window', the mysterious 'Hyacinth House', eerie 'Crawlin' King Snake', and many other trippy songs on the album. Their last, and best, album.

[@RDGOTTS]

thank you for hearing!

[@pb68slab18]

Next suggestion, Land Ho!!! On Morrison Hotel. Thank you from an old sailor-USN!

[@garyspeed8961]

one of my favourites too...

[@lucasnavajas4166]

This whole album is classic

[@danclark745]

i've got somewhere in the neighborhood of 10k lps and this simple little mysterious song has always been a big favorite ...don't waste the dawn, never waste the dawn...WAKE UP!

[@kendalton2115]

Like alot of y'all, this LP happens to be my favorite, too. But there's a tune on the "Soft Parade" LP called "Shamans Blues" written by Jim that I believe really encapsulates him. It's probably my favorite Doors song. If you haven't heard it, please treat yourself...

[@Hail_To_The_King]

The inclusion of these more minor tracks is why the Doors movie soundtrack is my favourite Doors album

[@MichaelBrown-x1q]

Jim Morrisson in his 20's, being So Maturally creative with his lyrics, and the depth of them!!! God given genius!!!!

[@alrivers2297]

Unique song by them. The organ gives them their signature sound

[@66.6FMRadio]

Jim was a poet. His words were supposed to be vague and open to interpretation.

[@zunbake3]

My favorite stream of consciousness by them.

[@grindhouseglitch]

On some of the albums they did use a session bassist - this was one of them. It's not easy to interpret Jim's lyrics - some of them are very personal, so unless you knew him well, you probably won't get the references, and others are purely psychedelic poetry - just trying to evoke trippy images by stringing together interesting and unusual phrases. Jim was a military brat and lived in both Texas and Virginia as kid - both mentioned in this song. I always thought that "the land where the pharaoh died" was a sneaky reference to Memphis, TN (being named after Memphis in Egypt), known for its Blues scene.

[@kelvinkloud]

Nice insight… mlk was killed in Memphis… a man trying to carry forward that thin raft of Spirit freedom and enlightment. The body dies, yet the spirit lives on (maiden w/ wrought iron soul) if we don’t forget it & grab for it too.

[@mikecaetano]

Graceland is also in Memphis. Also Stax Records. Gotta figure that "Green Onions" created space for The Doors to fill a couple of years later.

[@grindhouseglitch]

@@mikecaetano All true!

[@jerrydelacruz5119]

He's talking about the lure of the blues, and the african origin of rhythm. After the destruction of the atlantis civilization, survivors depended on natives for survival, it's where sumarian civilization came from --- they left pyramids in their honor, Egypt, pre-ptolymaic.

[@kelvinkloud]

You’re onto something. It does transcend present time and is tracing an arc of a culture, start to present. It scales back to ancient Egypt starting point. Many would say the genesis of western culture itself. He uses symbols of movement as tools for passage thru eras. Roads, cars, snakes, thin raft etc. He does this to draw out a large scale scape that spans generation to draw out the arc of an entire history of culture. Agree, it’s being done here. I always felt he’s tracing African cultural ideas thrown into the bloody clash of cultures here in the 1600s and then how that spirit manifested itself into creation of new music forms from that. The birth of blues, jazz and high lonesome… then of course what that manifested into in modern times. Rock, rap etc.

[@WhyFeartheTruthNow-ih4pm]

Also the land where JFK died.

[@maynardkrebs5288]

The American Prayer album was always one of my favorites. It's basically recordings of Jim's poetry and story telling to which the surviving members added music after his death.

[@thesoundlikechameleons2082]

Early grunge sound here too..

[@migi5374]

So happy to hear the DOORS popup anywhere.

[@mineduck3050]

I deeply love the doors, theres joy and spirit and thought in what they tried to do. My oldest biy is 12, my youngest girl is 8, and they all since about 2 or 3 have been requested "the seven sone" (track 7 on a cd) which is the alabama song when we drive.

[@troyshilanski380]

Ah this is a crazy one for me. Very funky for a 13 year old, loved it.

[@jonrobinson9578]

Quite simply, and awesome track from an awesome bands final album together (excluding An American Prayer). Great choice to play

[@NativWorld]

My Favorite Doors song

[@jonathanlocke6404]

Anybody else have that album "American Prayer"? I always expect this song to fade into that next spoken word section...

[@migi5374]

I'm here for it!

[@williamhopper7873]

I have that American Prayer vinyl. Found it at the used record store for 2 dollars several decades ago. Didn't know what I was getting into.

[@StanSwan]

This song is mostly about a 50,000 watt radio station in Mexico that played blues music by black artists in the 1950s and 60s when those records were banned in the south. Dickson, Reed, Diddly just to name a few. Those men were gods that mixed country with blues and us white boys ate it up it feels so good in your ears. If you never listened to a Jimmy Reed album please check on out. He is a founding father of modern music.

[@TeresaMount-t9o]

Wow The Doors great musicians, thank you Biz

[@DaveSmith-cq5yo]

Thanks for the depth and consideration in your reaction. I saw the Doors in Jersey City and it was rather trippy.

[@kelvinkloud]

What year?… how did they compare live to their peers in the industry back then?… was morrison as much a force field on stage as the legend portends?

[@barbarascotto3873]

Wow, I'd forgottwn how great this song is.

[@suemontague3151]

"Riders on the storm ", "Light my fire 🔥 ", "Love her madly ", I'm sure you've probably already reacted to them

[@kelvinkloud]

Nice work. You picked a gem… here’s what I’ll say first wh/ should be MUCH more recognized. This song was a creative vanguard shot thru the dark. People, this was fall 1970, go back and listen to anything then, nobody was doing anything like this. It’s literally its own genre real-time. I’d define it as tribal blues funk folk w/ antecedents to rap and college radio 10 years later w/ bands like the violent femmes. Again people this was freaking 1970. These guys were americas best artist in rock as far as innovation… lyrically theme wise, I’ve read interviews and here’s what I think he was aiming at… he’s distilling the dna of amer roots blues and jazz and tracing its origins of creation. Then in the same song he is scaling it forward to the present into what it manifested into. He’s using historical symbolic reference points to trace this. To decide: Egypt is the Africa genesis. The knowledge and insights from Africa were carried to thw western shores thru brutal bondage and pain via the middle passage (Jamestown va ) from the start in the 1600s. Their political power killed (pharaoh died) but their spirit could not be killed (maiden w/ iron soul). Thus that driving spirit found live thru escape and music. The.swamps is metaphor for those who created new forms of music and also merged w/ native amer sounds (Cherokee, Seminole) . Blue was eternal to natives. Forest of azures in turn is the creation anew of blues, jazz etc from this struggle for freedom and merging of influences…. Morrison is tracing the birth of blues from its origins to creation. Deep ingenious material here lyrically… finally, he then shows out that original form and spirit morphed in modern times to the creation of rock and modern blues and folk to his own native ears coming of age in NM heating rock for the first time as a kid blasted from the Mexico radios across the SW by dj’s like wolf man Jack…. Again ask yourself who did stuff like this in 1970 and furthermore a new sound and method to produce a song and vision… la woman was as great as the debut and was striking into new fertile grounds. Forest of azure. RIP ray and Jim at the back of the church as you keenly pointed out.

[@Stylus1]

Morrison in his Col. Kurtz phase.

[@kelvinkloud]

If he had lived… he would’ve been a good choice to get Brandos role…. Or even sheens… Copolla was friends with Morrison at ucla met with the band a couple of times post college. Jim even dated his sister, Talia of rocky fame.

[@jenniferfoster1692]

Next Doors: 'Five to One'!! You'll absolutely love the beat, it goes hard. It was sampled by Kanye West as producer for Jay Z's 'Takeover". The beat, the keys, the guitar solo & Jim's vocals really just go off. Has been noted to be kind of a pre-heavy metal sound but still has the blues influence that the Doors loved. Studio version, please 🙏 Thank you for your work!

[@donevans2299]

Doors make some excellent music, but this one of those HOLEEEEE SHIT numbers

[@AaronJoseph-t4b]

One song that is a must is "Awake(The Ghost Song)" from Re-Evolution video compilation, the Indian that smudged off the band was a medicine man,the song derived from a series of poems Jim recorded on his 27th birthday, music was composed & recorded posthumously for "An American Prayer",a reference Jim makes to seeing an accident scene strown with Mexican Indians on the Highway(as a child) & Jim believed the souls of one or two dead children entered his body & cohabitated with Jim's,also referenced in "PeaceFrog/BlueSunday" two songs that go together like puddin'pie,tea&toast,milk&honey&you know that I ain't bein'funny,enjoy the ectstactic eclectic electric😊❤❤

[@danielcrain12]

Oh also YES SIRRR ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@jasonmccluskey3623]

Get it Ray

[@axlcanada6511]

Stoned emaculate

[@dannymcgovern40]

To be stoned without taking drugs

[@jasonmccluskey3623]

Play that shit Robbie

[@mikecaetano]

Jim Morrison, American poet. The Doors brought in a bass player on that album. Robbie Krieger also laid down bass tracks. Way back when I first heard the song the title left me thinking of ZZ Top "Heard It On The X", except with the radio station in Virginia rather than Mexico and playing music from Texas. W-A-S-P. Gotta be east of the Mississippi. But now it hits on many levels, but mostly I get a sense of Morrison dropping acid and talking about Nietzsche and the Heart of Darkness. Carpe Diem!

[@ezed3902]

Was here

[@JamesDimond-l7u]

🎉

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

L'AMERICA, HYACINTH HOUSE, CRAWLING KING SNAKE, same side of the album.

[@RDGOTTS]

i know the n word was used but art with its roots!

[@robertday3873]

Review def leppard album HIGH N DRY

[@cindyfalstrom7231]

That was different....

[@billbates5475]

My friend let me tell you something. Any other band that ever picked up an instrument after the Doors definitely KNOWS who they are. They just flow man They play very TIGHT and crisp. Tightest band ever, hands down.

[@jimdonahue7230]

Awesome choice🤟

[@brianfisher6165]

Hands down Dylan, Paul Simon is great, but very few can even come close to touching Dylan!!! Neil Peart, Lennon McCartney, Jim Morrison, Robert Hunter, The Eagles and a few others are in my opinion the greatest lyricists!!!

[@robertday3873]

REVIEW THIS SONG OPEN YOUR EYES BY DEF LEPPARD

[@djhoneylove5710]

Jim was in bad shape when he made this album. His alcoholism had gotten terrible. He was coughing up blood etc. If he didn't stop drinking he was going to die whether he went to Paris or not. He did go to Paris and was semi-stable for a few weeks and then allegedly, on a whim, ingested some of his girlfriend's H, and went to the club and allegedly died in a bathroom stall. His friends allegedly dragged his body to his apartment in a vain attempt to try to revive him with a cold bath. No autopsy - to protect the guilty and a small, quick, funeral.

[@edb6690]

I think they were influenced by Frank Zappa on this song.

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

8:05 What Morrison is writing about is facing the loss of God squarely and without remorse. It's a bridge too far for me. I have been to the edge of the abyss and know that God exists. I also know that Jesus is my savoir. Morrison was a secularist.

[@kelvinkloud]

It is partly about the edge of the abyss and survival. But I never sensed he’s rejecting God. Rather he’s acknowledging the death of it around him via the perversion of the spirit thru organized institutions corrupted by power and control… he was a seeker imo different from a securlist. In this song he acknowledges the power of Spirit thru endurance and a search for something pure again… the wasting of the Dawn is a reference to how the west brought sin thru bondage and greed. That will play out and not forgiven. But that is not the same thing as death to spirit, mankind or even the best of what the west can do forward.

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

@@kelvinkloud I shouldn't have written that Morrison was secularist. I was incorrect. Morrison was a hedonist.

[@edmundp123]

Nobody ever knows what the fuck he's talking about.

[@briancotter2666]

The Doors have always written songs like some type of a church sermon. Ray Manzarek on key board always tuned into the vibe undeniably over the years. Blues.........Blues..........With a West California Psychodelic Strut. Check out "The Soft Parade",,.............A Dynamic Song that exemplifies their exceptional skills as artists.

[@kelvinkloud]

Soft parade had interesting moments, but imo too fragmented… esp sound wise. The weakest of their long epics.

[@briancotter2666]

@@kelvinkloud I Agree....."The End'...'When the Musics Over'....are more masterful. I think it's amazing that, 50yrs later, artist are getting a taste of the music from the 60's and 70's. They are astonished at the talent. It does take time however to ease into such bands.......kinda like savoring the rabbit hole they go deeper and deeper. Took me a while to absorb their music along with so many other bands of the time. anyway......have a good good one.

[@jimjim-ms7sf]

jimbo did a lot of drugs and wrote and said alot of things...we all had a friend like him..

[@kelvinkloud]

Morrison was off acid by ‘68… this is pure poetic vision… he was heavy into Blake symbolism. He was also reading a lot of Joseph campbells thoughts… it’s abstract but there is a line of connection in what he’s doing here. It’s not just random trippy lines wh/ sound hallucinated.

[@jimjim-ms7sf]

@@kelvinkloud he was a drug addict