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Posted on 01/14/2025 9:58:56 AM PST by DallasBiff
The Los Angeles home where The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger penned the band’s hit psychedelic rock single “Light My Fire” was destroyed in the Palisades Fire.
Krieger — a founding member of the legendary genre-bending LA band — wrote the lyrics to the classic in the living room of his parents’ Pacific Palisades home in 1966.
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Had an uncle who after WWII, stayed in LA, rather than return to (now rust belt) PA. Married a local girl whose father farmed watermelons at what is now Manhattan Beach. They kept a few parcels which have slowly been sold off
My uncle was an accountant for the LA Govt. Very average middle class, although I always envied by cousins who lived the life of the Beach Boys.
House prices in their old neighborhood are now $5-$10 million.
Interesting that their best song was not written by Morrison.
The jokes almost write themselves....
And therefore what.?
No time to wallow in the mire.
Loved The Doors. I was young then and enjoyed dancing to their music.
I see your hair is burnin’
Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Drivin down your freeways
Midnight alleys roam
Cops in cars
The topless bars
I never saw a woman so alone
So alone
**My uncle was an accountant for the LA Govt. Very average middle class, although I always envied by cousins who lived the life of the Beach Boys.**
Similar to a couple of my mother’s cousins. One stayed out in LA after the war, and another went back to the Illinois to farm. Winter of 55-56 he took his wife and kids out to LA to visit the brother. They came back, sold out of farming, and moved there.
One summer about 10 years later, they came back to visit a a family reunion on his parents farm. Their spiffy west coast dressed sons made fun of us second cousin farm boys, dressed in jeans and leather work shoes. Soon their spiffy clothes were all grass stained, having been demolished in good ol farm boy wrasslin matches. Their mother was not pleased.
The Doors? I liked ‘Touch me’. Nice love song. Other than that, I just never cared for singer(s) screaming into a microphone.
Things haven’t changed in the entertainment world. Most can’t handle being rich and being looked upon as gods and goddesses.
**Have a friend, who has been at that house in the 60’s as a cousin to Robby Krieger.**
Are you actually former MO congressman Dick Gephardt?
“Pacific Palisades was a sleepy, middle class neighborhood back then. Not the rich, celebrity enclave it later became”
This is why few people who live in inherited houses in Pacific Palisades will be able to rebuild. They may get a lot of money for their land from developers or a much smaller amount if the government invokes the (IMHO) misguided Supreme Court Kelo decision and takes their land. The wonderful life they had there is over.
Knowing what I know about Morrison, wherever he ended up, I’m sure he’s laughing his ass off.
Why not purchase a homeowners policy that covers the cost of rebuilding, they call it replacement cost insurance rider.
Hills are filled with fire
Krieger’s LMF has one of the best rock guitar solos ever. Original, melodic, and ethereal.
house is gone, song still here for now.
It’s not like it’s the only house on planet earth to burn. Who cares?
Where was LA Woman penned?
Because insurance companies won’t go along with it although they might now that it is cleared off.
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