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Home where The Doors hit ‘Light My Fire’ was written burns to ground in LA fires
NY Post ^ | 1/12/25 | Chris Nesi

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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To: Angelino97
Pacific Palisades was a sleepy, middle class neighborhood back then. Not the rich, celebrity enclave it later became.

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.

21 posted on 01/14/2025 10:37:07 AM PST by PGR88
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To: DallasBiff

Interesting that their best song was not written by Morrison.


22 posted on 01/14/2025 10:40:25 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The jokes almost write themselves....


23 posted on 01/14/2025 10:40:57 AM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: DallasBiff

And therefore what.?


24 posted on 01/14/2025 10:45:14 AM PST by laweeks (///)
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To: DallasBiff

No time to wallow in the mire.


25 posted on 01/14/2025 10:47:28 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mariner

Loved The Doors. I was young then and enjoyed dancing to their music.


26 posted on 01/14/2025 10:52:43 AM PST by Veto! (Kamalala Sux Rocks)
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To: lgjhn23

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


27 posted on 01/14/2025 10:53:07 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: PGR88

**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.


28 posted on 01/14/2025 10:59:03 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: AmericanNightmare

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.


29 posted on 01/14/2025 11:03:11 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: DallasBiff

**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?


30 posted on 01/14/2025 11:06:45 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Angelino97

“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.


31 posted on 01/14/2025 11:07:23 AM PST by Freee-dame ( )
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To: DallasBiff

Knowing what I know about Morrison, wherever he ended up, I’m sure he’s laughing his ass off.


32 posted on 01/14/2025 11:10:47 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: Freee-dame
This is why few people who live in inherited houses in Pacific Palisades will be able to rebuild.

Why not purchase a homeowners policy that covers the cost of rebuilding, they call it replacement cost insurance rider.

33 posted on 01/14/2025 11:12:02 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Professional Engineer

Hills are filled with fire


34 posted on 01/14/2025 11:12:43 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

Krieger’s LMF has one of the best rock guitar solos ever. Original, melodic, and ethereal.


35 posted on 01/14/2025 11:13:28 AM PST by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: DallasBiff

house is gone, song still here for now.


36 posted on 01/14/2025 11:20:01 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: DallasBiff

It’s not like it’s the only house on planet earth to burn. Who cares?


37 posted on 01/14/2025 11:23:22 AM PST by chuckb87
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To: dragnet2

Find a grove of tall trees
and 'decorate' them...



38 posted on 01/14/2025 11:25:46 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: DallasBiff

Where was LA Woman penned?


39 posted on 01/14/2025 11:45:47 AM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Because insurance companies won’t go along with it although they might now that it is cleared off.


40 posted on 01/14/2025 11:49:19 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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