This is the end, beautiful friend,

[marym625]

Can you picture what will be, so limitless and free
Desperately in need, of some, stranger's hand
In a, desperate land

[Aristus]

1. It's interesting how a short, simple song about a relationship breaking up

expanded in Jim Morrison's mind to become an epic tale of disillusionment, insanity, and murder...

I guess one has to expect that from The Doors...

[marym625]

2. I get lost in his voice

In his thoughts. In their music.

I love this song

[Aristus]

3. It's a good one. Here's my favorite:

[marym625]

4. omg that's mine too

Listened to it right before The End

There are so very many great ones.,Soft Parade is way up at the top of my list, as is

Not Moonlight Drive, though I love that too, but Spanish Caravan

[Aristus]

5. The harpsichord on 'Sanctuary' is achingly beautiful...

I couldn't find a YouTube video of just 'Sanctuary'...

[marym625]

7. Sanctuary?

[Aristus]

8. The second part of 'The Soft Parade'.

right after 'Seminary school'.

Can you give me sanctuary?
I must find a place to hide,
A place for me to hide...

Can you find me soft asylum?
I can't make it anymore
The man is at the door...

[marym625]

10. oh, I didn't realize it's not all Soft Parade

It is on the album

Corrected, copied wrong link at first

[Aristus]

11. And 'Wintertime Love' right after that.

Did you know 'Wintertime Love' is a waltz?

So technically not rock and roll, which is 4/4 time?...

[marym625]

13. I actually did know that

They were just such a great band

And I love Wintertime Love

[Aristus]

15. I'm a baritone, like Jim, so sometimes I like to croon along while listening.

I can't scream the way he could though.

[marym625]

16. so was my dad

Very cool. You have to sing along. I do too but I'm not a baritone. Just love to sing.

[Aristus]

17. My dad told me not long after I became a fan of the Doors how he and his buddies used to

listen to their music over in Vietnam.

That surprised me.

Growing up, all we ever listening to around the house was Glen Campbell, The Fifth Dimension, The Carpenters, and Wes Montgomery.

That was my parents' idea of funky...

[marym625]

18. my parents were older than yours

But they loved folk music. Heard Joni Mitchell, The Kingston Trio, The Weavers, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, etc.

Going to listen to some more Doors while I fall asleep

Good night. Thanks for the nice musical chat

[Aristus]

19. Yeah!

Good night...

[Joe Shlabotnik]

6. Great tune and one of my (many) fave's as well.

In a similar way:

[marym625]

9. Great choice

God damn music just is not that good anymore.

Another favorite

[Joe Shlabotnik]

12. Yes, another great.

The Beach Boys may be the official band of summer. But The Doors are the official band of summer nights (and everything cool, and a little more 'adult' that occurs between sunset to sunrise).

[marym625]

14. oh, the stories

[DFW]

20. I was our band's Ray Manzarek

In DC in the late sixties, I used to play in a band called the Clockwork Orange (3 years BEFORE the film came out--we got our idea only from the book, which most people in the States hadn't heard of).

When we played Light My Fire, we learned the whole long version, note for note, and I had my keyboard set up so that I could play bass on a bass keyboard with my left hand and organ with my right hand, just like Manzarek did (I had set this up before we ever had heard of the Doors).

One of my biggest teenage thrills was at some gig when we were in the middle of the LMF instrumental break and I heard someone shout to another "I thought it was the Doors playing!" I usually played just straight bass guitar, but could play a fair keyboard, too, in my day.