![]() ![]() Recordings of live performances of the song reveal a link to a sort of death by drowning – whether murder, suicide or simply going too far. This version was finally released as an outtake, on the 40th Anniversary edition of the debut album. It was recorded the following year for the band's eponymous debut album, but eventually did not appear this was due to the band members' dissatisfaction with the result, which differ from the later album version. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Moonlight Drive" was recorded along with other songs during the group's first demo recordings at Trans World Pacific Studios. Morrison already had a band name picked out: the Doors. Later on, when he happened upon his friend and future band member, Ray Manzarek, he uttered the memorable lines, "Let's swim to the moon, let's climb through the tide, penetrate the evening that the city sleeps to hide." Reportedly Manzarek was awestruck, and they decided to form a band. According to the Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman biography No One Here Gets Out Alive, Morrison wrote "Moonlight Ride" during his halcyon days on a rooftop in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California, in 1965. The song is one of the first written by the lead singer Jim Morrison. Venice Beach, Los Angeles, where Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison met ![]()
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