Strange Days (1LP)

The success of The Doors debut album including the #1 smash Light My Fire kept the band in-demand and on the road in early 1967. When Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Ray Manzarek werent playing live, they recorded songs for Strange Days at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, the same studio they used to record their debut.Having a larger budget for Strange Days allowed the band to spend more time experimenting in the studio. They used an eight-track recorder for the first time, which resulted in some memorable overdubs like Kriegers double-tracked guitar on When The Musics Over. Surprisingly, the trippy keyboard sound heard on the albums title track is actually one of the earliest appearances of a Moog synthesizer in a rock song.Strange Days mixed new songs written on the road with some written before the bands 1967 debut. In fact, the band performed Strange Days during its 1966 residency at the London Fog in L.A., while My Eyes Have Seen You dates back to 1965. Another early track is Moonlight Drive, which was one of the very first songs that the band practiced together, and where the band heard Kriegers haunting bottleneck guitar playing for the first time. Its also the song Morrison sang to Manzarek at Venice Beach in 1965 when the two former UCLA film students reconnected and decided to start the Doors.