Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Aug 3, 2024 17:10:44 GMT
"Roadhouse Blues" was originally released as the B-side of "You Make Me Real", which crawled to #50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and # 41 in Canada.
"Released as an A Side backed with Blue Sunday it did even worse peaking at #76 in the Cash Box Top 100.
This single was on the jukebox of my favourite pub The Talbot cellar bar in Stockton on Tees and both sides received plenty of plays over the years.
UK 1970
Nevertheless it is the best song on the album and was rightly hailed by sound engineer Bruce Botnick as "the all-time American bar band song," "Roadhouse Blues" despite its poor chart showing received strong airplay on rock radio stations.
The song's title was considered for the name of the album, but it was eventually changed. It was ranked the eleventh best rock song of all time by Time Out.
France 1970
# Waiting For The Sun as B-Side
The song was recorded over two days in November 1969. Paul Rothchild insisted on several takes from Jim Morrison who was drunk during the first sessions and forgot the lyric and kept repeating "Money beats soul every time".
The next day they asked Elektra Records A&R representative Lonnie Mack to play bass as Ray Neapolitan, the regular bassist during the Morrison Hotel sessions, was stuck in traffic.
Although it had been thought that Mack also played the guitar solo, he confirmed that he had played bass and nothing else.
While Mack had stopped working as a professional musician at the time, he decided to return to his career following this session.
Greece 1970
# B Side is Backdoor Man a very Greek choice
Robby Krieger is responsible for all guitar parts on Roadhouse Blues, Morrison shouts "Do it, Robby, do it!" at the start of the guitar solo.
Ray Manzarek switched from a Wurlitzer electric piano to a tack piano.
Ex–Lovin' Spoonful frontman John Sebastian played harmonica but was credited as "G. Puglese" his real name for contractual reasons).
Alice Cooper claimed that he was the inspiration for the line "Woke up this morning and I got myself a beer": "We were sitting there drinking and Jim comes in and he flops down ... He asked how I was and I said 'same ole same ole I woke up up this morning and got myself a beer' and while we're talking he just writes that down. 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!'"
"Released as an A Side backed with Blue Sunday it did even worse peaking at #76 in the Cash Box Top 100.
This single was on the jukebox of my favourite pub The Talbot cellar bar in Stockton on Tees and both sides received plenty of plays over the years.
UK 1970
Nevertheless it is the best song on the album and was rightly hailed by sound engineer Bruce Botnick as "the all-time American bar band song," "Roadhouse Blues" despite its poor chart showing received strong airplay on rock radio stations.
The song's title was considered for the name of the album, but it was eventually changed. It was ranked the eleventh best rock song of all time by Time Out.
France 1970
# Waiting For The Sun as B-Side
The song was recorded over two days in November 1969. Paul Rothchild insisted on several takes from Jim Morrison who was drunk during the first sessions and forgot the lyric and kept repeating "Money beats soul every time".
The next day they asked Elektra Records A&R representative Lonnie Mack to play bass as Ray Neapolitan, the regular bassist during the Morrison Hotel sessions, was stuck in traffic.
Although it had been thought that Mack also played the guitar solo, he confirmed that he had played bass and nothing else.
While Mack had stopped working as a professional musician at the time, he decided to return to his career following this session.
Greece 1970
# B Side is Backdoor Man a very Greek choice
Robby Krieger is responsible for all guitar parts on Roadhouse Blues, Morrison shouts "Do it, Robby, do it!" at the start of the guitar solo.
Ray Manzarek switched from a Wurlitzer electric piano to a tack piano.
Ex–Lovin' Spoonful frontman John Sebastian played harmonica but was credited as "G. Puglese" his real name for contractual reasons).
Alice Cooper claimed that he was the inspiration for the line "Woke up this morning and I got myself a beer": "We were sitting there drinking and Jim comes in and he flops down ... He asked how I was and I said 'same ole same ole I woke up up this morning and got myself a beer' and while we're talking he just writes that down. 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!'"
