Ray Manzarek was the keyboardist for The Doors. Here he talks about the making of "Riders on the Storm".
He refers to being in the studio with a bassist but on tour, The Doors had no bassist - Ray would play the bass part with his left hand. On nights when Jim Morrison was incapacitated or arrested or otherwise unable to perform, Ray Manzarek would take over the vocals. So there you have one guy playing the bass part with one hand, playing the melody with the other and singing.
I find there's a certain set of songs - a certain collection of keyboard parts in popular music that I just find hypnotizing and feel like I could listen to them forever. It might be a blog post. This is one of those keyboard parts. The falling "rain" scale thing is as evocative to me as anything in music. I've been trying to figure out why but have not. If you think about it, it has nothing to do with rain at all. But it just so plainly evokes rain for some reason.
Part of the keyboard melody sounds like the original sample used in Beck's "Where It's At" but in actuality there is no connection (as far as I know).
In honor of a full day of constant rain.
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