Ahead of this year's 50th-anniversary box set reissue of 'L.A. Woman,' hear the Doors' long-forgotten, raw-sounding 'Riders on the Storm' demo.
, which had seen the return to a harder, bluesier sound than the pop detours they had taken recently. They wanted to keep the momentum going on, and together, they wrote “Love Her Madly,” “L.A. Woman,” and “Riders on the Storm,” among other fan favorites on the record, before inviting Rothchild to their rehearsals and eventually recording the rendition of “Riders,” featured here, at Sunset Sound.
While overseeing the reissue, Botnick recently discovered the long-forgotten demo on what he called a hub, the aluminum center of a reel that the tapes wound around. That one take was all that was on the unlabeled hub. “We came upon that and went, ‘Oh, my God,'” the producer says. “And the funny thing is, when it got transferred, it got transferred backwards. So I had to flip it electronically, and when I heard it, I went, ‘Holy tamales, look what we’ve got.
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