“Riders on the Storm” Carried out by John Densmore, Robby Krieger and 20+ Musicians Across the World

Fashioned in 1965, the Doorways burned scorching till Jim Mor­ri­son died in 1971, and the band closing­ly broke up in 1973. The group left behind quite a lot of effective songs—“Gentle My Fireplace,” “Break On By means of (To the Oth­er Aspect),” “L.A. Girl,” and “Street­home Blues,” to call a number of. Above, the music col­lec­tive Play­ing for Change pays trib­ute to anoth­er Doorways clas­sic, “Rid­ers on the Storm.” Fea­tur­ing per­for­mances by the 2 sur­viv­ing Doorways mem­bers John Dens­extra and Rob­by Krieger, the video additionally weaves in seem­ances by 20+ musi­cians, each­one from Lukas and Mic­ah Nel­son, to Don Was and Foo Battle­ers key­boardist Rami Jaf­price. Accord­ing to Play­ing for Change, the “per­for­mance reimag­ines the clas­sic anthem as a med­i­ta­tion on uni­ty, hope, and shared human­i­ty,” qual­i­ties that oth­er­sensible appear in brief sup­ply immediately. Get pleasure from!

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Relat­ed Con­tent 

The Doorways’ Ray Man­zarek Walks You By means of the Writ­ing of the Band’s Icon­ic Tune, “Rid­ers on the Storm”

How the Doorways Bought Banned from The Ed Sul­li­van Present (1967)

“The Misplaced Paris Tapes” Pre­serves Jim Morrison’s Remaining Poet­ry Document­ings from 1971

The Grate­ful Lifeless’s “Rip­ple” Performed By Musi­cians Across the World (with Cameos by David Cros­by, Jim­my Buf­fett & Invoice Kreutz­mann)

Jim Mor­ri­son Accu­fee­ly Pre­dicts the Way forward for Elec­tron­ic Music in 1969