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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 29, 2011 13:15:14 GMT
Yeah, keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel Yeah, we're goin' to the Roadhouse We're gonna have a real Good time
Yeah, back at the Roadhouse they got some bungalows Yeah, back at the Roadhouse they got some bungalows And that's for the people Who like to go down slow
Let it roll, baby, roll Let it roll, baby, roll Let it roll, baby, roll Let it roll, all night long
Do it, honey, do it
You gotta roll, roll, roll You gotta thrill my soul, all right Roll, roll, roll, roll Thrill my soul You gotta beep a gunk a chucha Honk konk konk You gotta each you puna Each ya bop a luba Each yall bump a kechonk Ease sum konk Ya, ride
Ashen lady, Ashen lady Give up your vows, give up your vows Save our city, save our city Right now
Well, I woke up this morning, I got myself a beer Well, I woke up this morning, and I got myself a beer The future's uncertain, and the end is always near
Let it roll, baby, roll Let it roll, baby, roll Let it roll, baby, roll Let it roll, all night long
Jim came up with the line about keeping your "Eyes on the road, your hands up on the wheel" after riding with Pamela Courson, to a cottage they owned outside Los Angeles. She was driving erratically.
Jim asked Alice Cooper how he was the morning after a party in LA. Alice quipped 'woke up this morning and got myself a beer'.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 29, 2011 13:17:29 GMT
Jim Morrison used a line from a conversation with Alice Cooper in the classic Doors track 'Roadhouse Blues'.
“We were sitting there drinking and Jim comes in and he flops down,” says Cooper on his breakfast show on Planet Rock radio.
“I said that I had got up this morning and got myself a beer and while we’re talking he just writes that down. So they go in and they’re doing the song and the next thing I hear is ‘Woke up this morning and I got myself a beer’ and I went ‘I just said that a second ago!’”
“He was very spontaneous in the way things were written,” he adds.
The revealing story forms part of a Doors special which is due to air July 27 at 6pm (UK time) and repeated on August 1 6pm on Planetrock.com.
Cooper and The Doors were both based in Los Angeles at the height of their fame in the late ‘60s and he witnessed some of Morrison’s legendary bad behaviour.
“The thing about Jim was it was sometimes dangerous being around him because there was no such thing as a dare. He would jump out of cars and roll down hills,” says Cooper.
“At a big party for The Doors at the 6000 building on Sunset he’s got a bottle of whiskey in each hand, on top of the building balancing like a high wire act. One gust of wind and he is over. I’m sitting there going ‘How come no one is pulling him off the ledge? It’s Jim Morrison!’ and they’re like ‘If he falls, he falls.’
“It was very odd to me that there wasn’t a little more of reigns pulled in especially as he was the biggest rock star in the world at that point.”
Uncut Magazine/Planet Rock Radio July 2011
Interesting as Morrison did have a habit of using stuff he saw or heard in his songs. The bathroom is clear, the blue bus, the Blake line in End Of The Night.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 9, 2011 14:44:39 GMT
There was a bar near The Doors workshop on Santa Monica that Jim and his friends would hang out at called the Roadhouse. Robby Krieger
The groove on the two bridge sections is so deep that the mud splattered half way up our pants leg John Densmore
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Oct 24, 2012 11:24:52 GMT
The line “I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer” was inspired by Alice Cooper. He and Morrison were talking at the recording studio just before Jim went to record this song. He asked Alice about his day and he responded “Ehh.. Woke up this morning…. got myself a beer.” Morrison decided to use the line in the song. Repeated in many interviews with Alice Cooper over the years.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Mar 24, 2024 17:15:39 GMT
A nicely done tribute to those who were murdered in Paris attending a rock concert at the Paris Bataclan in 2015.
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