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From childhood trauma-inspired poetry to early 20th-century operas, the Doors have no small shortage of interesting lyrical inspiration—including the time Jim Morrison directly quoted a heavy metal rocker for the third verse of “Roadhouse Blues.” The 1970 track’s driving guitar riffs and boisterous vocals make it a quintessentially rock and roll song, and where better to get inspiration than the Godfather of Shock Rock?

Jim Morrison’s reputation for spontaneous and dangerous antics affected more than his drug use and on-stage persona. He was equally as impulsive with his songwriting, according to Alice Cooper. During an episode of Planet Rock, Cooper remembered a seemingly mundane morning when he and Morrison were hanging out. “We were sitting there drinking, and Jim comes in, and he flops down,” Cooper said (via Uncut).

The year 1969 was not the best for The Doors. The band’s infamous concert in March where Morrison allegedly exposed himself led to a scandal that cost them dearly, due to cancelled tour dates and blacklisted records. Lead singer Jim Morrison’s alcoholism continued to run rampant. And although it produced a major hit in “Touch Me,” their ’69 album The Soft Parade found the band adrift amidst horns and string arrangements, leading to the worst reviews of their career.

When they reconvened in November 1969 to record (around the same time that Morrison caused a ruckus on a flight for more bad press and legal issues), they decided to nix all the embellishments of The Soft Parade for the making of Morrison Hotel, eventually released in February 1970 Naming the album after an LA establishment which shared the surname of their frontman, The Doors released their toughest and bluesiest album yet. There were no hit singles from it, but the critical applause was loud and clear. And much of that centered on the blast-off to the record, a stomper of a track that featured the band storming through their former acid rock haze into blues rock nirvana.