Roadhouse Blues

Okay, The Doors.

You guys know the song Roadhouse Blues with The Doors?

Yeah.

Okay, one of my tricks was...

Do you know that song Roadhouse? That reminds me.

So wasn't that the name of the song, Chris? Roadhouse Blues, that's right.

It reminds me of, uh, we were in Japan.

We were in Japan doing some training.

It kind of brought the band a unique sound.

Obviously, their best-known songs are Light My Fire, Break On Through, People Are Strange, Hello I Love You, Touch Me, Roadhouse Blues, Lover Madly, Riders on the Storm.

They go on and on and on.

They've released six studio albums with Morrison in just five years.

Through the Wonders of a Recording Studio.

That's a song there, a duet between John Lee Hooker and Jim Morrison in the Doors, a track there called Roadhouse Blues.

Many of us are probably familiar with that from the Doors, particularly their live album, right? And prior to that, of course, Jim Morrison doing kind of his shtick in concert, right? And so...

All started, I was listening to Bo Diddley and thinking about Bo Diddley, and I found out he did a cover of The Doors called Love Her Madly, which, you know, kind of the king of that Bo Diddley beat, that great sound.

We got another block of movi- m- music coming up for you.

We got No Matter What by Badfinger, Roadhouse Blues, The Doors, Paranoid, Black Sabbath, and Into The Mystic by Van Morrison.

I hope you all realize you are listening to songs that are well over 50 years old.

Man.

Um, yeah.

We are doing, though, we are d- we're doing "Roadhouse Blues" by the B- by The Doors.

That's always a good-

Yes

We're going to play CCR, Fortunate Son, one of my favorites.

And I think everyone's favorite from the Doors, Roadhouse Blues.

So here's Fortunate Son and Roadhouse Blues.

Ooh, they're red, white, and blue And when the band plays Hail to the Chief Ooh, they want the candidate, Julia It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no Senator Salsa Like a rummage saying It ain't me

Boy, you don't get much better than The Doors, Jim.

He could not use his name because of, you know, a lot of musicians used fake names in those days because of contracts on record labels.

But, well...

Two great songs, Fortunate Son and Roadhouse Blues.

Man, this guy's drumming is like a waterfall of toms and stuff.

It's like Roadhouse Blues.

So they will change styles really, really often.

Hey, distorting the vocal.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I believe it was Jim Morrison in Roadhouse Blues.

I woke up this morning.

I got myself a beer.

Although I can't personally, uh, confirm that, um, because I haven't heard either bootleg.

So, uh, Most of the Time and Roadhouse Blues, a very long sort of 12-minute version, is included on there, which explains, uh, the lack of tracks on side four.

Um, and it finishes with Honky Tonk Angel.

Now, Honky Tonk Angel is the demo for Wild Side of Life, and to my ear, Wild Side of Life and Honky Tonk Angel, the demos, sound pretty much the same, although there might be some, uh, mixing differences in there somewhere.