Legend's FINAL SONG About SERIAL KILLER is TRULY DISTURBING | Professor of Rock
990Up next, the last musical will and testament of an all-time legend. Jim Morrison of the Doors! Taken from the planet at the age of 27… Today’s song, Riders on the Storm was nearly as haunting as his death… It’s a sinister and mystical epic about a spree killer that has some incredible insight into the artist who created it as well as the human psyche. After lighting up the world with Break on Through and Light My Fire the Doors took their mystical rock to a new level of brilliance, but at what cost? Original guitarist Robbie Krieger tells the story.
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The year is 1971 and breaking news has just arrived from Paris. James Douglas Morrison, musician, poet, and philosopher is dead at the age of 27. Sources say that he died from a heart attack or pneumonia. Stunned, the world of rock and roll mourns in disbelief. Mr. Mojo Risin’ leaves behind a storied and complicated legacy. we have the in-depth story of the Lizard King’s last musical will and testament, on the Professor of Rock.
In late 1970 The Doors began work on their sixth studio album, L.A. Woman. It was a chaotic season for the band. The fallout from the Miami indecency incident still weighed heavy. Morrison had been fighting multiple legal battles, The Doors were being blacklisted on the radio, and concert bookings were in decline. Jim for his part threw himself deeper into the grips of alcoholism, substance abuse, and a few other self-destructive behaviors.
Early in the writing process producer Paul Rothchild would reach his breaking point with the band and decided to call it quits. He was unimpressed with the new material and was completely fed up with Morrison’s antics.
“Jim was unhappy with his role as a national sex symbol,” Rothchild said, “and he did everything in his power to obliterate that. He gained enormous weight, he grew a beard. I quit because I’d grown tired of dragging The Doors from one album to another, especially an unwilling Jim.”
Manzarek recalls, “We were giving Paul a preview and he was bored. We played the songs very badly... there was no chi, no energy... and Paul couldn’t bring us back to life.” Densmore remembers Rothchild calling an early rendition of Riders on the Storm