L.A. Woman

Their longtime producer walked out during rehearsals, reportedly dismissing the new material as cocktail music, so the Doors recorded this themselves in their rehearsal room on Santa Monica Boulevard, with engineer Bruce Botnick co-producing and Morrison singing in the bathroom doorway because the tile sounded better. It is the bluesiest record they made, loose on purpose, with Elvis Presley's bassist Jerry Scheff holding it down. Weeks after finishing it Morrison moved to Paris to write. He was dead by July, at twenty-seven, and the album became a goodbye nobody had planned.