511. Peace Frog by the Doors 1970

Well that was a surprise. I always thought this was a sixties song and while looking it up on Google I find it actually came out in 1970. I still see the Doors as the sixties though I guess I'm working under the idea that the sixties went from about 1963 (the Beatles) to about 1972 (Bowie).
As I've written before we used to have Doors specials at Rubber Soul where I DJed in the eighties. These night were just crazy. The Carron Tavern in West Melbourne was licensed for 200 and the first Doors night pulled in 800 payers. It was madness. At the end the cops rolled up and dispersed the crowd outside the club.
Peace Frog was played a lot at Rubber Soul along with a handful of other Doors tunes including The End when Ronny was in the mood for a dramatic ending to the night.
The thing with Peace Frog was though it worked equally as well at the next club I opened up the Lizard Lounge. The Peace Frog rhythm seemed to fit really well with the whole baggy movement. Plus of course the keyboards and guitar sound meant it blended into sets featuring Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and the Charlatans.
And Janes Addiction.
The song is pretty timeless despite it's references to blood in nearly every line. The Doors keeping going in and out of fashion. Some of their songs don't.