"Peace Frog
" is a song by The Doors which appears on the album Morrison Hotel
. It was released on vinyl in February 1970 by Elektra/Asylum Records and produced by Paul Rothchild. The song blends seamlessly into the next track on the album, "Blue Sunday", so radio stations often play the two songs consecutively.
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PEACE FROG TICKETS
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Overview
The
hook of the song is a
distorted G5 chord played twice by guitarist Robby Krieger, followed by a brief percussive
Wah-wah effect. The rest of the band, as well as a
piano bass soon join in. Morrison begins nearly every line with the word blood, often referring to "
Blood in the streets...
" or "
Blood on the rise...
", and the line "
She Came
" is
overdubbed at the beginning of the lines. A brief musical interlude is next, followed by a guitar solo, and a spoken word verse ("
Indians scattered on dawn's highway...
"). The song ends with a final chord as it segues into the next track,
Blue Sunday
.
Imagery
The line "
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind
" originates from his poem, "Ghost Song," that describes an event that occurred when he was young. As Morrison described it in
An American Prayer
:
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The line "
Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven
" likely refers to Morrison's
December 9,
1967 arrest at the
New Haven Arena during a concert. After an altercation with a
police officer backstage, Morrison made the incident known to the concert audience, and was arrested for attempting to incite a
riot [1]. A similar line about
Chicago probably refers to the conflict surrounding the
1968 Democratic National Convention.
In other media
- Saccharine Trust covered this song on their Past Lives
compilation.
- The song is in the 1998 movie The Waterboy
.
- The song was used in Busey and the Beach
, an episode of the HBO television series Entourage
, originally aired on August 22, 2004.
- It is on the soundtrack of the 2005 video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
.
- The song also recently appeared on the television show My Name Is Earl
in episode 14 entitled "Monkeys in Space" where Earl tries repeatedly to complete a series of tasks.
- Widespread Panic played Peace Frog and Blue Sunday medley in 1998 three times, debuting it on Halloween in New Orleans, Louisiana. One of the versions appear on the live Halloween compilation album, Jackassolantern.
- A cover of this song was recorded in 2007 by the Intrepid Travelers.
- Smash Mouth recorded a version of this song for the Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors tribute album
References
- http://www.morbid-curiosity.com/id153.htm