From '' I Am The Fly ''
Label: Chemical Imbalance -- CI 003
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Limited Edition, Promo
Country: UK
Released: Oct 1987
Tracklist
A1 fIREHOSE - From 1 Cums 1
Written-By -- Kira Roessler, Mike Watt
A2 The Leaving Trains - Heartbreak Wizard
B1 Opal - Indian Summer
Written-By -- The Doors
B2 Slovenly - Enormous Critics
Written-By -- Slovenly
7" which came with the Chemical Imbalance fanzine. Issue 6. 4300 copies pressed.
A1 recorded 3/12/87 at 9:30 Club, Washington D.C.
A2 recorded 2/4/87 at Nobarano Bar and Grill, Muncie, IN.
B1 completed Sept. '87 in some L.A. studio.
B2 recorded 4/5/87 at Music Machine, Los Angeles, CA.
EP title inspired by William Burroughs' "The Wild Boys" of which a citation adorns the back cover.
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Songfacts
'Indian Summer' was one of the first songs The Doors recorded.
They played it on a demo they recorded in 1965.
They did not release it until 1970 (Morrison Hotel album) because they didn't feel the recording quality was up to standard.
Indian Summer is an extended warm spell in Autumn.
This hypnotic piece was inspired by a car accident in the desert when Jim Morrison was four years old, and his family was on the way to New Mexico.
A family of Native Americans were injured and possibly killed.
Morrison was quoted as saying: "The souls of the ghosts of those dead Indians... were just running around freaking out, and just leaped into my soul.
And they're still in there."
This scene is portrayed at the beginning of Oliver Stone's movie The Doors.
Even though this was one of the first songs they wrote, The Doors never played it live because they thought it would sound insignificant compared to "The End," an Oedipal opus that was a staple of their early live shows.
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