Raiders On The Storm (Petko Turner Edit)

Smooth Attack - Riders On The Storm DJ Friendly Edit By Petko
Turner "Riders on the Storm" is a song by The Doors from their 1971
album, L.A. Woman. 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 July 3, 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, 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. The song was
among the first songs released for Rock Band 3 as downloadable
content. 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. Download for free on
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