L.A. Woman (Doors)

YouTube ^ | April 19th, 1971 | Jim Morrison

[Mariner]

Jim Morrison's homage to Los Angels.

It used to be a great place.

I figured appropriate in light of the devastating fires.

Barely 3 months after release Jim Morrison was dead. And that was "The End" of one of the truly great bands of the 60's.

[Mariner]

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago

Took a look around, see which way the wind blow

Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows

Are you a lucky little lady from The City of Lights?

Or just another lost angel?

City of Night, City of Night

City of Night, City of Night

L.A. woman, L.A. woman

L.A. woman, Sunday afternoon

L.A. woman, Sunday afternoon

L.A. woman, Sunday afternoon

Drive through your suburbs

Into your blues, into your blues, yeah

Into your blues, into your blues!

I see your hair is burning

Hills are filled with fire

If they say I never loved you

You know they are a liar

Driving down your freeways

Midnight alleys roam

Cops in cars, the topless bars

Never saw a woman so alone

So alone, so alone

Motel money murder-madness

Let's change the mood from glad to sadness

[Outro] Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'

Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'

Got to keep on risin'

Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'

Mojo Risin', gotta Mojo Risin'

Mr. Mojo Risin', gotta keep on risin'

Risin', risin'

Gone risin', risin'

I'm gone risin', risin'

I gotta risin', risin'

Well, risin', risin'

I gotta, wooo, yeah, risin'

Whoa, oh yeah

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago

Took a look around, see which way the wind blow

Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows

Are you a lucky little lady in The City of Lights?

Or just another lost angel?

City of Night, City of Night

City of Night, City of Night, whoa, c'mon

L.A. Woman, L.A. Woman

L.A. Woman, you're my woman

Little L.A. Woman, Little L.A. Woman

L.A. L.A. Woman Woman L.A. Woman c'mon

[Steely Tom]

Cops in cars, the topless bars

Never saw a woman so alone

Those lines always reminded me of a line from the movie Rumble Fish.

The main character, Rusty James, dreams of going to California like his older brother, Motorcycle Boy. They both grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

At one point, he asks his brother what California is like, and Motorcycle Boy says this:

"California's like a beautiful, wild... beautiful, wild girl on heroin... who's high as a kite, thinkin' she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying even if you show her the marks."

[PGR88]

I’m a rust-belt, snow-belt midwesterner. When I first went to SoCal as a kid in the 70s with family to visit cousins who lived near the beach - I thought I had stepped through a time-space portal into some advanced version of western civilization.

[greenishness]

I’ve never been a doors fan but this song I love. There is something about this song.

[Puppage]

What about Peace Frog?

[Lurker]

I always preferred Peace Frog.

L

[Zeneta]

[Zeneta]

“Everything is broken up and Dances”

[Moonman62]

Billy Idol cover since he just became a citizen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3mFZzGM4M

[Zeneta]

“Awake”

Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day’s divinity
First thing you see.

A vast radiant beach in a cool jeweled moon
Couples naked race down by it’s quiet side
And we laugh like soft, mad children
Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy
The music and voices are all around us.
Choose they croon the Ancient Ones
The time has come again
Choose now, they croon
Beneath the moon
Beside an ancient lake
Enter again the sweet forest
Enter the hot dream
Come with us
Everything is broken up and dances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I86Qz5yEpME&list=PLkLimRXN6NKzIIhcdvNBef31NoJEFWmL0&index=2

[Mariner]

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564635/everything-is-broken-up-and-dances-by-edoardo-nesi/9781590519318/

Yeah, that’s the underlying cause of LA’s demise. That, and illegals.

[taildragger]

He's driving a studio leased 67' Mustang / Shelby GT-500 known as the "Blue Lady". Shelby fanatics have not found it, it has been missing 40+ years.

Barn Find of the century waiting to happen...

[Mariner]

The primal energy of the Doors was unsurpassed, and sealed their place in the pantheon of Rock.

They even moved the Beatles off the #1 spot several times in the 60s.

[Mariner]

“Barn Find of the century waiting to happen... “

My guess is somebody has it locked away in a climate controlled garage somewhere. With papers certifying its origin tucked away in a safe.

That specific car is worth $500k, easy.

[taildragger]

500k easily. Given he is such a musical historical figure, I’d say 7 digits, and it is not like he left a lot of worldly possessions to collect. Janis Joplin’s 356 Porsche w/ the crazy paint went for unworldly money. Steve McQueen’s cars, forgetaboutit, he was in a class of his own given he was a car nut.

[Zeneta]

Barn Find of the century waiting to happen..

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Can you imagine what that car would sell for?

[HonkyTonkMan]

So many great lyrics - Jim had a way of describing scenes in a way we can experience them. I'm partial to The Wasp, Texas Radio and the Big Beat.

[SamAdams76]

I first went to Los Angeles in 1981 and lived in that area for 3 years during the early 1980s. It was likely the tail end of the great years of LA. When I went back 20 years later, I hardly recognized the place.

But those early 1980s years had a lot of good memories. I remember taking two weeks of leave from the Marines in 1983 and spending the entire time on and around Venice Beach and Santa Monica. Used to take walks down Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevard, through Beverly Hills and into Hollywood. Some parts were getting seedy but it was still very much the Southern California of legend with a lot of surfers plying the waves and rock and roll music blaring out of the cars driving by.

[Fast Moving Angel]

I figured appropriate in light of the devastating fires.

Don't forget the fire reference in Jimmy Buffett's "Fruitcakes":

Paradise - Lost and found
Paradise - take a look around
I was out in California
Where I hear they have it all
They got riots, fires and mud slides
They got sushi in the mall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wneCa_yIuzg

There's a lot of truth in that ...

[Gay State Conservative]

I’m a child of the 60’s and 60’s music is still the soundtrack of my life.I used to love the Doors but IMO their work hasn’t aged well.Give me the early Stones,the early Who,the Beatles (through Revolver and Rubber Soul),the early Byrds...among others.