Q: HOW MANY DOORS DO YOU SEE IN THE PHOTO?

If there was one band that represented Los Angeles to the rest of the world in the late sixties, it would have to be the Doors. I was thinking about that earlier today, followed by the thought that Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg kinda wore that hat in the second half of the nineties. Then I remembered something that I'd forgotten, a cut with Snoop doing his thing over the Doors "Riders on the Storm". More than just sampling, it's almost a mash-up because there's a lot of the Doors part. At six minutes long it's a minute less than the Doors original version but it's still longer than most Snoop cuts. I seem to remember that it was done for a video game, but don't quote me on that. Here's that cut with an assortment of Doors songs and a rare live video from 1968. Dig the spoken word part at 5:15, referred to in the notes at YouTube as "Texas Radio and The Big Beat" would later appear as "The WASP (Texas Radio and The Big Beat)" three years later on the L.A. Woman LP

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Listen:
The Doors - Twentieth Century Fox mp3 at Internet Archive
The Doors - L.A. Woman mp3 at Internet Archive
The Doors - Five to One mp3 at Internet Archive
The Doors - The WASP (Texas Radio and The Big Beat) mp3 at Internet Archive
The Doors - Riders On the Storm mp3 at Internet Archive
Snoop Dogg featuring the Doors - Riders on the Storm mp3 at Street Racing