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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 1, 2011 9:46:52 GMT
Uh! Uha! Gedu!
I live uptown I live downtown I live all around
I had money, I had none I had money, I had none But I never been so broke That I couldn't leave town
I'm a Changeling See me change I'm a Changeling See me change
I'm the air you breathe Food you eat Friends your greet In the swarming street, wow
See me change See me change I live uptown I live downtown I live all around
I had money, yeah, I had none I had money, yeah, I had none But I never been so broke That I couldn't leave town
I'm the air you breathe Food you eat Friends your greet In the swarming street,
wow Ew ma! Uh, ah! You gotta see me change See me change
Yeah, I'm leavin' town On the midnight train Gotta see me change Change, change, change Change, change, change Change, change, change Change, change, change Woa, change, change, change
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 1, 2011 9:51:01 GMT
One of the most interesting songs on LAW as using hindsight Jim Morrison sets out his agenda after leaving The Doors. Sort of an autobiographical song with him planning to make a new life and 'change' from being known as a crazed rocker to possibly a writer or film maker. Another LA Woman track that had been in construction for several years.
To the dismay of Jac Holzman this was the song the band agreed was to be the first single from LAW. He realised that Love Her Madly was the song he needed to plug the album and took a couple of weeks to change the bands mind. ##Unlike the ridiculous so called Doors documentary WYS which went with the more populist ROTS as that first choice of the band.
It was an awesome opener to the LAW album and set the scene nicely with the rest of the album. The rhythm section of Jerry Scheff and John Densmore a powerful underpinning of Robby Krieger's sawing screaming guitarwork and Ray swampy organ playing. Morrison vocally was not what he was in 1966/67 and his voice had become bluesier to compensate for his excesses drink and drug wise. But having said that he seemed to have become comfortable with that and LAW is a better album as a result. No longer looking for the perfect take the band went for the muse every time and Morrison's sometime cracking vocal on The Changeling a very fine example of this. For a band in disarray they ended up with a pretty damn good final statement and Changeling a pretty damn good opener to it.
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Post by casandra on Dec 1, 2011 18:49:17 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 1, 2011 18:58:24 GMT
Excellent stuff Elisa Did not know that one. No doubt at all where the rhythm for the song came from. I wonder if they heard it from the Otis version as he was due to support them during their Winterland shows and they obviously had high regard for him. The Doors were never shy when it came to borrowing from various influences. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Seems silly considering The Kinks sued over HILY which was actually swiped from Sunshine Of Your Love but nobody whined about Changeling. Hello I Love You
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Post by casandra on Dec 1, 2011 20:28:52 GMT
Thanks Alex. It shows the varied musical influences on them. It seems to me very well. I think Otis Redding was a great influence on them. I guess we should research a bit in that direction... It's likely The Doors saw him. He performed at Whisky a go go in April 1966. April 1-7, 1966 Otis Redding
Rhino released an Otis Redding album recorded at The Whisky in 1966, and it is likely the performances were from this week. Bob Dylan apparently attended one of these shows, and proposed writing a song for Otis (reputedly Just Like A Woman). www.chickenonaunicycle.com/Whisky-A-Go-Go%20History.htmOtis Redding did versions of Louie, Louie, Rock me and Lucille (The Doors also played this song. Jeff Jampol said that this song is on the London Fog tapes. I read it on The Doors forum).
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Feb 13, 2012 11:28:02 GMT
Ray Manzarek, Doors keyboardist: The lyrics are prophetic. "I've lived uptown. I've lived downtown, but I've never been so broke that I couldn't leave town." He'd lived on the beach and in the hills. He'd had money and been broke. He'd had his L.A. adventure, and he was out.
Bruce Botnick, L.A. Woman engineer/co-producer:
Jim was always writing in his notebook. When he wasn't drunk, he was quiet and introspective. He was amazingly well-read and one of the easiest people I've ever recorded. He had marvelous microphone technique. All the great singers backed off the mic when they'd sing loud, and he instinctively knew how and when to do it. He'd seen Sinatra perform and would pick things up immediately. He wasn't a trained singer but was never out of tune.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Nov 15, 2012 16:28:45 GMT
Jim had changed. You look at him when I met him, and he looked like Michelangelo's statue of David. When he left, he was overweight with a beard. That was a conscious reaction against the Mick Jagger sex-symbol image. John Densmore, Doors drummer:And still Densmore endorsed the film When You're Strange which portrays Morrison as a self obsessed fame junkie. And yet contradicts that with these sentences. I guess the money they all thought they would make out of that pile of shit outweighed any thought of integrity. Thankfully it was a disastrous flop and has since disappeared up it's own arcehole where it belongs.
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