Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/09/02/listen-the-newly-discovered-killer-original-demo-of-the-doors-riders-on-the-storm.html
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Well cool. A great find!
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Cocktail music is cool
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I guess some will say they’re great
Jim’s insipid lazy rhymes I just hate
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It’s fashionable to mock The Doors these days but I loved their music, saw them live twice, and hated Oliver Stone’s terrible movie about them almost as much as Stone hated The Doors.
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It is missing that signature keyboard cascade that really defines the song for me.
Maybe it’s because practicing that very bit is what got me a spot in a band in 1979!
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Got you squirmin like a toad, eh?
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Very nice alternate play, the vocals were in good form, as Jim got towards the end his voice was getting ragged out.
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Mayhap you should have found
another article on which your wisdom to expound
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Yeah, 'boros ‘n’ whiskey’ll have that effect.
ETA: A box set of remasters were released for the 40th anniversary of their first LP, and they’re also well cool. I found the Japanese edition. Some of the quieter tracks are brought closer to the fore - some vocal, some instrumental - and it makes listening to them very interesting indeed. The discs also have other cool alt takes & demos, much better than the usual reissue demo fare.
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It’s also missing Morrison’s whispered overdub, which was the last thing he ever recorded.
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It pays to keep all that ancient equipment running. Don’t throw out the reel-to-reel.
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I always forget how much I like this song, any and all versions of it, from The Doors to Lorne Greene. I suppose Pat Boone could have fucked it up, but it’s a great song all around.
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Under rated crooner. Really smoooooooth.
I used to always put on Siouxsie Sioux records on 33, she was a Morrison fan and when you slow her down she sounds really like him.
One of my favourites was I found a 12" of Right Now by the Creatures in a charity shop in the 90s. It’s an old Mel Tormé song and slow it down it sounds like Morrison could have done a stint in Vegas like Fat Elvis. Except better.
Also, put on the b side of Dear Prudence (Tattoo) on 33. I knew Tricky had been playing those records slowed down already before he did a cover of it.
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I was in college watching a local cover band (who were pretty damn good) and in the middle of a different song, which I simply cannot remember right now, the keyboardist played that cascade. I was right in front of him and mouthed “The Doors?”. He just smiled and kept on playing. A small moment, but something that has stuck in my head over the years.
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Ohhhhh
I thought you said The Killers covered The Doors’ “Rider’s On The Storm”
This is much less interesting.
Yeah - not ashamed to say I took that major-scaled version and then swingified it just to see… and it was kind of cool in a rather wrong way. 
Sadly, the swingify site is now defunct. Someone should bring it back.
Still, I have that Riders on the Storm version filed away for posterity.
ETA Swingify seems to still be there - wouldn’t load on Brave but did eventually load on Safari. I recommend Swingifying Riders on the Storm major-scaled.
http://www.musinformatics.com/swingify
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Hate is a strong word… I’m finding the mix of dumb poetry and casual misogyny grinds my gears.
“Girl you gotta love your man” has always sticked in my craw.
