Smooth Attack - Riders On The Storm (Petko Turner Edit)
b'Smooth Attack - Riders On The Storm \\nDJ Friendly Edit By Petko Turner\\n\\n"Riders on the Storm" is a song by The Doors from their 1971 album, L.A. Woman.\\n\\nAccording 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 ..."\\n\\n"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.\\n\\nThe 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.\\n\\nMany 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.\\n\\nThe 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.\\n\\nRay Manzarek and guitarist Roy Rogers covered this song as an instrumental duet on their 2008 album "Ballads Before the Rain".\\n\\nIn November 2009, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame under the category Rock.\\n\\nThe song was among the first songs released for Rock Band 3 as downloadable content.\\n\\nThe 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.\\n\\nAccording 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.\\n\\nDownload for free on The Artist Union'