Strange Days, The Doors (cover)

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#1

The Doors have been on my mind the last couple of days. Sandro (@Dro_1) recently posted a nice fingerstyle version of People are Strange and @TheMadman_tobyjennerā€™s missing mojo reminded me of Jimā€™s anagram, Mr. Mojo Risinā€™. I mentioned Strange Days on his thread and that led me to looking up chords and lyrics for the song on UG.
Well, less than 24 hours later, hereā€™s the unpolished diamond.
Hehe, not signing up for the OM, means I donā€™t have to keep playing the same song! :rofl:
Strange days indeedā€¦

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#2

Long time since I heard this but good to see you getting down and dirty here and there. Certainly a diamond but I dispute it being unpolished. You appear to be on a roll sir !
:sunglasses:

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#3

Well, what do I want to say hereā€¦
Brian, sometimes unpolished diamonds are very good :slightly_smiling_face:
Thanks for sharing!

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#4

Hi Brian,
That was a nice performance and certainly considering the speed with which you have prepared it and calling it a diamond in the rough I look forward to the day it is polishedā€¦nice distortion is in it ā€¦is that the guitar or the ampā€¦or both? strange days,ā€¦where what how???
Greetings

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#5

Good job, Brian. I enjoyed your earlier Doors reference and the anagram ā€¦ now thereā€™s a great song (LA Woman). I also think that their debut album is one of the all time great debuts. And Strange Days was a pretty good album as well. I donā€™t think there material is the easiest to pull off on solo guitar but with a little help from your Trio and amp youā€™ve delivered a fine rendition.

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#6

@TheMadman_tobyjenner Cheers, mate! Dirt & rock is like peanut butter & jelly, chocolate & coffeeā€¦ :wink:
@crocodile1 Thanks again, Leo :laughing:

@roger_holland Yes, I was kind of curious how quickly I could get a rough version down with this one. Iā€™m using three different preset tones on my amp which I control with a wireless footswitch. I donā€™t use it that often and it often throws me :roll_eyes:

@DavidP Cheers man. Iā€™m afraid most of my Doors listening was based on pirate cassette tape I bought in Madrid called Escenas extraƱas dentro de la mina de oro :rofl: They had some cracking songs, although I never bought into the Morrison cult.

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#7

Hey Brian. Iā€™m only a newbie on this website, but Iā€™m happy to have ā€œopened the Doorsā€ for you as you put it, haha.
The fun thing I find about this community is that people share and bounce ideas of each otherā€¦ so itā€™s an honour to have been tagged as one of the reasons that you decided to try one of their other songs out. Nicely done by the way!

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#8

Not a bad compilation, Brian, but I reckon it is worth listening to some of the original albums ā€¦ The Doors, Strange Days, Morrison Hotel, and LA Woman (OK thatā€™s about half the entire discography).

The Doors was popular Friday post varsity music on the corridor I stayed on in the residence (hostel). And weā€™ll need talk about the rest of the late afternoon activity for which it was the soundtrack :grin:

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#9

Haha, you have no idea :laughing:
Many of us have been ā€˜bouncedā€™ into performing songs we had no intention of covering or even worse: press-ganged into collaborations with musicians far above our pay-grade :roll_eyes:
As you say though, itā€™s all good funā€¦ and great experience :smiley:

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#10

Well you certainly got the Doors vibe going with that one Brian. Great use of your footswitch to change tones at the ā€˜yeahā€™ bit. Loved that.
To use the diamond analogy youā€™ve displayed another facet of your ability there. To get a new song up and running so quickly is testament to your ever evolving skill set.

Despite not being a Doors expert, Iā€™d heard that song before. Things are looking up with your repertoire. Before you know it folks will be calling you a populist! :wink:

ps. Iā€™m intrigued as to what @DavidP got up to on a Friday afternoon.

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#11

ā€œYEAH!ā€ You truly scared me! :scream: But the song was well done. Thanks for the listen.

#12

YEAH! Thatā€™s what I am talking aboutā€¦ A true diamond in the rough there Brian! Not quite Morison, but you put a good spin on this one. If the Inn is not open, you need to fire it back up and greet guests with this one!

Keep on rockā€™n and take care,
LB

#13

There is still time to raise your hand and get on the list though :grinning:

Another fine performance from Mr B, you did well and rough edges like these make it all more interesting! :grinning: all the best

#14

Great stuff Brian, like me a bit of the Doors!
Keep ā€˜em coming!

#15

Unsettling and foreboding and it sent me straight to Nina Simoneā€™s version of Strange Fruit. Powerful stuff Brian.

#16

Hi Brian,

Loving the Doors-fest; one of my top 5 bands.
Great to hear Strange Days get an outing.
You did Jimā€™s vocal great justice.

I always wanted to do a cover of Not To Touch The Earth. I need to start badgering Katja.

Good stuff.

Digger

#17

This song takes me back Brian

I wasnā€™t around for the original of course (come now, I am not that old) but they had a revival of interest in the early 80s and I knew a lot of people who played Doors all the time.

Dig that transition to the key change.
Some great dancing on the fx from you.

#18

We didnā€™t even know how ā€œstrange daysā€ could get when this was released. It was a bit playful and joyful back then in a dark humorous sort of way. Kind of a throw away really. Now that we are in an Orwellian vortex of authoritarianism, I find it far more ominous, special and prophetic. You found fertile ground (once again) with this one. Mad respect, sir!

Good on you to bring this up for re-examination in a topical context. When you threw on the dirt, I felt it, and I dug it. Ultimately we hear what we want to hear, and believe what we want to believe. One thing is for sure, we are going to need a bigger hand cart for where we are going. Well done my friend. :clap: :clap: :clap:

#19

Cheers, Gordon. Thatā€™s the kind of footswitch Iā€™ve been persuading you get for your Katana. I rarely use it for practice, but if Iā€™m recording/performing it adds another string :smiley:
Haha, I think Iā€™ve run out of obscure songs for the time being. My work must be nearly done!
Iā€™ll have to join the masses and learn how to play propā€™ly :laughing:

@pkboo3 Thanks Pam. And thanks for the PM :smiley:

@LBro Right back at you Dude. Happy to hear the Old Head is still around too :smiley:

@adi_mrok Cheers, Ade.
Haha, my in-laws are visiting next week, so I think not, although I hope to slip away to watch some of it. You never know, I have crashed a few parties in my youf :rofl:

@DarrellW Ta Darrell. I think they had something for everyone who grew up during that time :smiley:

@batwoman Now thereā€™s a song that makes even me shiver :wink:

@Digger72 Happy to see you were out on maneuvers yesterday. Lots of posts :smiley:
I was hoping that was a foreshadowing of something comfortably strange winding its way into the community. Get the mojo working, man :sunglasses:

@Richard_close2u Yes, I read Nobody gets out of here alive in college in the 80s and saw the Oliver Stone film when it came out.
Tbh just launched in and learnt this in a bit of a rush, not noticing any key changes :roll_eyes:
Funny you mention it though. The song I started working on yesterday is in minor until it changes to an uplifting major chorus, but much happier than the olā€™ circus story (take note: happy and well-known, @sairfingers :rofl:)
Having to incorporate footswitches adds another layer of complexity, but like everything, with practice becomes much more manageable.

@CT. Thanks man.
If you dug it, thatā€™s good enough for me :smiley:
We all live in our own private Idahos.
Having grown up in Beirut, lived with the cold war Armageddon threats, seen ā€˜The troublesā€™ in Northern Ireland, and witnessed countless wars on TV, nothing really surprises me anymore.
Re-calibrating and adapting to new circumstances are about the only things we humans do well (apart from playing guitar of course!)
Iā€™m fortunate and in a good place, thank goodness.

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#20

What a great rendition of one of many interesting Doors tunes (and yes, I am old enough to have been around when The Doors debuted, and Light My Fire was playing on AM radio every hour!)
You didnā€™t have to, but I see you cleaned up for this take. Kinda goes against the Jim thing, but hey, these are strange days :rofl: