The doors riders on the storm

It is known for being the last song that Jim Morrison recorded prior to his sudden death in Paris on July 3, The song reached number 14 on the U. Rothchild disparaged as "cocktail music", precipitating his departure from the L. Woman sessions, which was corroborated by guitarist Robby Krieger. Later in January , after Morrison had recorded his main vocals, the group gathered at Poppi Studios to complete the mixing of L.

Woman , [ 23 ] at which Morrison then whispered the lyrics over them to create an echo effect. Speaking with Krieger and Manzarek, the German philosopher Thomas Collmer argued that the line "Into this world we're thrown" recalls philosopher Martin Heidegger 's concept of " thrownness "—human existence as a basic state.

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In , at Florida State University in Tallahassee , Morrison heard an influential lecture for him, which discussed philosophers who dealt critically with the philosophical tradition, including Friedrich Nietzsche and Heidegger. I was in San Francisco with a friend at Christmas and we were coming down off some blue window pane acid. It was late at night and we were listening to a night time radio station and this came on.

Throughout the song there is the whispering of the title tracking the lead vocal and that whisper was so loud. It was in my ear, in my head.

The doors - roadhouse blues

I was brain-washed. I just love the real sound effects, too, the rain and the storm. You can just drift off into your own film scenario.