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1. When was the album "Strange Days" released on vinyl? Making it The Doors' second studio album.
2. Jim Morrison was a poet long before he became a rock star. Morrison recited one of his poems to Ray Manzarek, who felt that it would make a great song. What song was it?
3. The following lyrics are from what song?
"I think that you know what to do
Impossible? Yes, but it's true
I think that you know what to do, yeah
I'm sure that you know what to do"
4. This song was performed many times live, early in The Doors' career when they were the house band at The Whiskey-A-Go-Go...it was not released on an album until "Strange Days," a year later.
5. This song features one of the earliest uses of the Moog synthesizer.
6. Robbie Krieger, The Doors' guitarist, wrote the music for this song and managed to do his guitar solo in only one take.
7. In this song, Ray Manzarek played the piano backwards, while listening to it in reverse.
8. The lyrics to this song were written by guitarist Robby Krieger; the theme of this song is "sex as a way to survive in strange times."
9. Some of the sound effects used in this song were created by dropping a Coke bottle in a garbage can and beating coconut shells on a tile floor.
10. This was one of the first songs ever written by The Doors, it was written in Ray Manzarek's parents' garage.
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