Up next one of rock’s most mesmerizing frontmen, Jim Morrison, was playing one of The Doors's new songs "The End" as the house band for one of California’s most happening clubs... when Jim suddenly went off on a creative tangent that hearkened back to a story from Greek mythology. But the audience had no idea what was going on… Jim Morrison took a song that was already about death, birth, freedom, sex, murder, madness, and whatever else you can think of and put some relish on it. He screamed out a profanity-laced desire that would shock every generation thereafter who would hear the story or the song. and that’s not all. There are some insane stories that go with this epic 12-minute song… including how Morrison was fired for performing it and how he got buck-naked and hosed down a recording studio with a fire extinguisher. And there’s plenty more where that came from… It’s all coming up NEXT on the Professor of Rock.

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How do I even introduce today’s song… It’s so messed up. so insane I have wondered for some time if I should even cover it. But it’s also one of the most interesting songs of its time. So after pondering on it for a few months i’ve decided to enter the doors of perception and tackle this strange and tortured song. On today’s episode, from their 1966 debut record, it’s The Doors with their haunting and enigmatic 11 plus minute epic, The End.

The beginning of The Doors goes back to a chance meeting between lead singer Jim Morrison and keyboardist Ray Manzarek. The two acquaintances had previously met at UCLA’s film school, but crossed paths again on the beach in Venice, California. This was in the summer of 1965. Originally, Morrison had no aspirations of becoming a singer. But a poet by nature, he had started writing songs based on, in his words, “a fantastic rock concert that was going on inside my head.” After the subject of songwriting came up, Manzarek’s asked Morrison to sing some of his lyrics… Jim then serenaded Ray with the opening words of "Moonlight Drive”, a song that would later make its way onto The Doors’ sophomore record, Strange Days.

After hearing Jim’s lyrics, Ray was in shock. He had never heard anything like them. So he invited Jim to join his group Rick and the Ravens. The line-up featured Ray’s two brothers Rick and Jim, drummer John Densmore, and bassist Patricia Hansen. With Morrison on the mic, the Ravens recorded a demo that included several future Doors tracks. However, EP failed to garner any interest in the music industry. And so Ray’s brothers, along with Patricia left the band.

From there, the remaining trio renamed themselves The Doors after Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, and enlisted guitarist Robby Krieger. By 1966, The Doors were hired on as the house band at the famed LA club the Whisky a Go Go.