Riders on the Storm - The Doors HD
Jim Morrison> was an America Singer Songwriter and Poet and lead singer of the "The Doors" Rock Band. Riders on the Storm is a song from their 1971 Album L. A. Woman. According to band members Rubby 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 on interview, Cook killed six people, includ- ing a young family while hitchhiking to California, in all likelihood. The Cook murders were 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 record- ings of Rain and thunder along with Ray Manzerek'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 assi- stance of B