Curious; On the rebound from a collapsed marriage at that time I was dating a girl who was crazy about the JM and the doors... no memory of that song at all. I picked up the term back in the 50's from a book by a comedy writer, H. Allen Smith: Lost in the Horse Latitudes. I didn't take the term as more than serendipity until a few years ago; looked it up and by golly I found it in Wikipedia.
Now you come along and tell me it was a song with a popular group from my middle years. Yikes! Where do the years go? đź‘´
***it was probably some drug-induced babble on Morrison’s part***
I (we) were extricating ourselves from 'nam at that time and drugs were everywhere... Alice's Restaurant and all that. Somehow a lot of that passed me by - or I passed it by. Typical rebound: the girl left me for someone else and I got stuck in the establishment: network TV news, NYC. No flowers in my hair, no beard, no drugs. sigh
Gasshog has good memory of it - It’s worth looking up because some of the doors music was really well done.
This had to be the early 70s when it came out. In 1970, I was in 5th grade and I recall distinctly watching the Ohio National Guard heading south (towards Kent) as I walked home from school.
Fast forward to a few nights later, and my dad (WW2 vet) and brother (new College student) had quite the conversation at the dinner table. I sat between them.
Torn between two distinct points of view, I was. Ironically, some 29 years later, I took a college course in my last year at Baldwin Wallace College entitled “The History of Vietnam”. It was the fast version, very birds-eye view, but during the course, the professor mentioned that he was teaching at the school when the Kent State shootings took place. His words mentioned that traveling rabble rousers tried to invade the Baldwin Wallace campus a few days before the Kent state episode, but were run off by the college football team. GO, YELLOWJACKETS!!!