Afterlife Interview with Jim Morrison
In the mist at Père Lachaise, Riffs and Beats finds Jim Morrison in a leather jacket, poetry book open.
The Doors – Riders on the Storm
The Doors’ Riders on the Storm (L.A. Woman, 1971): Rhodes, rain FX, Morrison whisper overdub, Botnick.
The Doors – Organ groove with no bass guitar
In Venice Beach in 1965, Ray Manzarek met Jim Morrison on the sand and heard a notebook of lyrics that already sounded like songs waiting for an organ to carry the bass.
The Doors – Riders on the Storm
In December 1970, The Doors moved into their own room on Santa Monica Boulevard and started the sessions that became L.A. Woman.
The Doors – The End
In August 1966, The Doors recorded "The End" in the dark at Sunset Sound, after the Whisky a Go Go had already thrown them out.