The Official The Doors/Jim Morrison Thread (white stripes, jimi hendrix, member)

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^ That's not a bad list, esp. Moonlight Drive, My Wild Love and Texas Radio and the Big Beat. I'd add the title tracks of Soft Parade and L.A.
Woman, Cars Hiss By My Window, Spanish Caravan, Twentieth Century Fox and their live version of Gloria.
Also, assuming it's not one of the above, the song that has the excellent line, "Her fingers weave quick minerets, speak in secret alphabets."

Originally Posted by Gavin B.

I did learn a little bit more about Robbie Krieger's highly unorthodox guitar style. I never realized he played most of his guitar parts in open tunings using a right hand finger picking style. I also didn't realize he used a bottleneck on many of most memorable guitar leads. Apparently Robbie was almost as good a songwriter as Morrison, but it really didn't matter because all the Doors shared the songwriting credits and royalties regardless of the principal composer. It was very generous of Morrison to share credit with the band for every song he wrote.

The late Ray Manzarek was also a highly unconventional keyboard player. Since the Doors didn't have a bass player, Manzarek used a
Fender Rhodes Piano Bass to play the bass parts with his left hand while using his right hand to play the organ/piano parts on Gibson Kalamazoo G101 organ, which was his main touring keyboard rig from 1967 to 1970.

^ This was interesting to me as I used to have a Robbie Krieger solo album. It had a great version of Harlem Nocturne, but that song doesn't turn up on Youtube. Sorry guys, you'll just have to buy the album!