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Riders On The Storm

Composer: The Doors
Inspired by The Doors version

"Riders on the Storm" is a song by The Doors from their 1971 album, L.A. Woman. It reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US,[1] #22 on the UK Singles Chart,[2] and #7 in the Netherlands.[3]

Overview

According to band member Robby Krieger, it was inspired by the song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend". Also, Jim Morrison mentions spree killer Billy Cook, in passing, during at least one interview. Cook killed six people, including a young family, while hitchhiking to California. In all likelihood, the Cook murders were inspiration for the song's lyric, "There's a killer on the road / His brain is squirming like a toad [...] if you give this man a ride/sweet family will die.

"Riders On the Storm" is played in the E Dorian mode, and incorporates recordings of rain and thunder, along with Ray Manzarek's Fender Rhodes electric piano playing, which emulates the sound of rain.

The song was recorded at the Doors Workshop in December 1970 with the assistance of Bruce Botnick, their longtime engineer, who was co-producing the recording sessions. Jim Morrison recorded his main vocals and then whispered the lyrics over them to create the echo effect. This was the last song recorded by the members of the Doors, according to Manzarek, as well as Morrison's last recorded song to be released in his lifetime. The single was released in 1971, shortly before Morrison's death, entering the Billboard Hot 100 on 3 July 1971, the day that Morrison died.

Many incorrectly believe that this is the song longtime Doors producer Paul A. Rothchild disparaged as "cocktail music", precipitating his departure from the project. Rothchild actually applied this moniker to "Love Her Madly". Engineer Bruce Botnick was selected to produce the album instead.

The band's drummer John Densmore wrote a 1990 book called Riders on the Storm,[5] detailing the story of his life and his time with the group.

Ray Manzarek and guitarist Roy Rogers covered this song as an instrumental duet on their 2008 album "Ballads Before the Rain".
In November 2009, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame under the category Rock (track).

The song was among the first songs released for Rock Band 3 as downloadable content.[6][7]

The song, according to an interview with Ray Manzarek, was only performed live twice: on the L.A. Woman tour at the Warehouse in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 12, 1970, and in Dallas the night before that. Ray said playing those songs was "magic". This was The Doors' last public performance with Jim Morrison. It was only the second date of the tour, but was also the last, as the tour was cancelled after this concert.

According to the book FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio by Richard Neer, legendary overnight disc jockey Alison Steele would always play this song on Monday nights if it was raining in the city while she worked at New York City's WNEW-FM through most of the 1970s.

Heidegger's influence

Speaking with Krieger and Manzarek, the philosopher Thomas Vollmer argues that the verse "In this world we're thrown" recalls Heidegger's concept of thrownness (human existence as a basic state). In 1963 at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Jim Morrison heard an influential lesson for him, where were discussed philosophers who had a critical look at the philosophical tradition, including Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.[8]

In 2009, Simon Critchley dedicated his column on The Guardian to Heidegger's thrownness and explained it using the aforementioned verse of the song.[9]

The connection between the thrownness into the world and a dog's life was anticipated by the anti-Heideggerian author Ernst Bloch[10] in his main work The Principle of Hope (1954-9).[11]

Cover Versions:

• Annabel Lamb covered the song in 1983. It peaked at 27 in the UK Singles Chart of 27 August.[14]
• Cameo covered the song in 1990 as an homage to Jim Morrison's influence on the band.
• The Jacka sampled most of the song in 2008 for the single "Storm" featuring Cormega for his album "Tear Gas".
• Creed also covered this song in 2000 for the album Stoned Immaculate: The Music of The Doors, they also performed this song live at Woodstock 1999 alongside Robby Krieger.
• Infected Mushroom remixed the song, and it appears on the 2009 album, Legend of the Black Shawarma.
• Escape with Romeo covered the song on their 2001 album Come Here White Light.
• Living Legends sampled the song in their song "War Games" from their 2001 album Almost Famous.
• Nightmares on Wax remixed the song for the limited edition of The Best of The Doors, which appeared in 2000. Three other remixes are on the bonus cd by Baez & Cornell, Ibizarre and SpaceBats.
• Señor Coconut plays a merengue remix of this song on the 2003 album Fiesta Songs.
• Snoop Dogg covered the song for the 2004 game, Need for Speed: Underground 2, in a remixed version produced by Fredwreck. The cover was dubbed over the original track.
• New age/electronica music group Dancing Fantasy released a cover off their 1991 album California Grooves.[15]
• Rapture Riders, a 2005 officially-released mashup version of the song produced by Go Home Productions, featured Jim Morrison's vocal combined with music and vocals from Blondie's 1981 single "Rapture".
• Ray Manzarek & Bal collaborated on an electronic jazz version for their Atonal Head CD, 2006.
• Dezperadoz covered the song in 2008 for the album An Eye for an Eye.
• Wolfmother covered the song live from 2010 to 2011, blending it with their own "White Unicorn."[16]
• Yonderboi used a sample of the song for his track Riders On The Storm / Pink Solidism, found on the album Shallow And Profound.
• Carlos Santana covered the song on his 2010 album Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time. This version features Chester Bennington (of Linkin Park) on lead vocals and Ray Manzarek (of The Doors) on keyboards, as he did on the original. The lyric "sweet family will die" is changed to "sweet memory will die".
• Incubus is known to medley into the song while playing "Are You In?" during their live shows.
• Wednesday 13 covered the song with altered lyrics and an original chorus, retitling it "Welcome to the Strange", on the 2000 Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 album Songs from the Recently Deceased.
• Bob Sinclar used a small but highly-recognizable portion of 'Riders on the Storm' for his song 'For You' on his Western Dream album.
• Megan Washington's cover of the song was featured in a trailer for season six of the Lifetime series Army Wives.
• Kamyaniy Gist covered this song in Ukrainian (album «70/80», 2015).[17]


Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_on_the_Storm


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"Riders On The Storm"

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm

There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If you give this man a ride
Sweet family will die
Killer on the road, yeah

Girl, you gotta love your man
Girl, you gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man, yeah

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan.
Riders on the storm

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm

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from Cocoa Love, released June 11, 2016
The Vocal Chords (feat. The Cud Chewing Cows)

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