Poll: Who Do You Think Played The Bass Guitar On The Doors 'Light My Fire'

But a pentagram is more ominous and mystical and more appropriate for a shaman - Jim was a shaman, man! - to be at the head of, innit?

More to the point, perhaps Manzarek was afraid of being pushed to the back of the stage in order to get the "shape" right.

 

Is that why the keyboard and guitar are crammed together on the first album?

 

Have you heard the master tapes? He's not saying there isn't a bass guitar in there just that that isn't the actual isolated bass part. It's definitely a different bass part than on the recording, there are some different notes and timings. There's one minor flub on the final recording at the end of the solo break that is absent on the "isolated bass track" that was posted earlier.

 

No need to say you are sorry Mr Hoffman. I was pointing out, I thought in a mildly humorous way, how we post stuff (and I include myself) without checking even this website for what has been said previously.

 

I could care less who played bass. I want to know which lead guitar part was recorded first on When The Music's Over. I think it was the right channel.

 

I just enjoy The Doors for what they where.Remember they were only in their very early 20's and to be able to make music like they did, it was heaven send!

 

Betty Jo was just such a Nancy!

 

It states, "Larry Knechtel - bass guitar, credited by Robby Krieger". What does this mean exactly?

The Wikipedia page for The Doors (self-titled debut album) states that Larry Knechtel played bass on Light My Fire, Soul Kitchen, Twentieth Century Fox, Back Door Man, I Looked At You and Take It As It Comes but was uncredited.

There's no mention of Krieger at all regarding the bass player on the album on that page, however, Ray Manzarek is credited for playing keyboard bass on the album.

I'm very confused now.

 

Simple: they're saying Robby Krieger says that Larry Knechtel doubled Ray Manzarek's bass keyboard parts on those songs.

 

From the same guy who posted the isolated Bass from Light My Fire, are these fake too? Of course not.

 

Yes, here's Robbie about it:

Why did you record with a bassist but play live without one?
"Mainly what the bassist would play was what Ray [Manzarek, Doors' keyboardist] would play with his left hand and he used a Fender Rhodes Piano Bass that sat on top of his organ – it was like a small Fender Rhodes but just the bass notes.
"So the bass player would pretty much copy what Ray was doing, but not all the time. We had some great players. The first guy we had was Larry Knechtel and he played on Light My Fire and some other songs on the first album. He pretty much copied was Ray played with his left hand.
"On the second album [Strange Days] we had a guy named Doug Lubahn, he played in a band called The Clear Light who were also on Elektra at that time. He was a really creative player he came up with the line on Strange Days. Love Me Two Times is cool too. He did a lot of cool stuff.
"But you're right when we played those songs live we were missing that bass.

 

Well, at the very least, the bass part isn't the same one that made the final recording. There are audible differences in the two recordings.

 

Lubahn was a great bassist. His playing on Wintertime Love is just perfect.

 

Doug is still a great bassist, he's working on some new material at this very moment.

 

Check out the songs he played on...
http://www.douglubahn.com/doorsmusic.html

(Doug was the bass player on Billy Squire's hits!)

 

Jerry Scheff's bass on "Love Her Madly" !

 

I heard that Harvey Brooks did some stuff for them, but I don't know which ones if any.......Historically, especially for Doors fans, it would be nice to know who contributed.

 

As to the pics on that video, is that Scheff? Kinda looks like the old CCR bass player haha. And who is the other guitar player with the long straight hair sitting next to Robbie? From the pics alone, I would've loved to have heard the Doors as that 6-piece band rather than what my ears had to endure when I saw the 4-piece in 67.

 

Harvey was credited of playing bass on the Soft Parade LP on four tracks, Tell all the people, Touch me, Wild child and Wishful sinful. The rest where played by Doug Lubahn.

 

That's Scheff....and I think Marc Benno on guitar

 

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