1967 Moonlight Drive is a song from The Doors second album Strange Days, and a B-side of Love Me Two Times. Though a conventional blues arrangement, Moonlight Drives defining feature was its slightly off-beat rhythm, and Robby Kriegers Bottle-neck guitar which creates an eerie sound. The song was recorded during the groups first demo recordings at Trans World Pacific Studios. The song is known to fans as being one of the first written by lead singer Jim Morrison. According to the Morrison biography by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman, Morrison wrote Moonlight Ride during his halcyon days on a rooftop in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California in 1965. Later on, when he happened upon friend and future band member Ray Manzarek, he uttered the memorable lines, Lets swim to the moon, lets climb through the tide, penetrate the evening that the city sleeps to hide. Reportedly Manzarek was awestruck, and they decided to form a band. Morrison already had a band name picked out; The Doors.
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