Roadhouse Blues - The Doors (Completed)
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"Roadhouse Blues" is a song by the American rock band the Doors, which appears on the 1970 album Morrison Hotel. It was released as the B-side of "You Make Me Real", which peaked at number 50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The song became a concert staple for the group and it has been covered by numerous artists.
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You know, "the roadhouse blues is generally thought to be about an old club that used to be in Topanga, in my park the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. With my NPS Ranger Band we were working on (but never had the chance to perform) a version of this song where instead of emulating Jim Morrison's drunk mumblings I would recite a brief history of the roadhouse and the road during a long instrumental vamp in the middle of the song. It goes like this:
You gotta roll, roll, roll, you gotta thrill my soul, all right.
Roll, roll, roll, roll…
You know, once upon a time there was a wonderful, very eclectic nightclub called the Topanga Corral. It was at 2034 North Topanga Cyn Blvd, on the big horseshoe bend near the top of the grade where the road crosses the creek. Back in the 1960s and 70s when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, everybody who was anybody in the LA rock scene hung out and performed there.
Jim Morrison of The Doors wrote “Roadhouse Blues” about the Topanga Corral and the crazy, curvy, mountain road that led to it. It was easy to get back home after a show if you lived in Topanga, but if you came up from LA you had to drive really carefully to make it up there and back in one piece. Drive Topanga Canyon Blvd north or south and you had better keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel.
The Topanga Corral burned down in the 1970s, but they rebuilt it. A generation later hippie rock was history, and all the best up-and-coming bands from the LA punk scene played there. The Corral burned down again in 1986 and, like a chaparral shrub burned too frequently, it did not resprout. Today it’s just an empty lot where trucks park among the piles of old memories.
Now the Lizard King always had designated drivers to get his drunken rock star butt safely home from the Topanga Corral. And the iconic last verse of this song takes place the next morning, as Jim reaches for a little hair of the dog, and a morning news story about a tow truck pulling some dead someone’s crushed car out of the creek and up the steep rocky slopes of Topanga Canyon causes him to think about the ephemeral nature of our lives. It goes like this…
Well I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer…
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