“The Wasp” by The Doors

"The Wasp" buzzes in from L.A. Woman, the sixth Doors album, which Elektra released in April 1971, the last one Jim Morrison made in his lifetime. Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore are credited with the music and Morrison with the words, and he sings lead, with Jerry Scheff on bass beside Krieger's guitar, Manzarek's keyboards and Densmore's drums.

The sessions went ahead without Paul A. Rothchild, who walked away because he didn't rate the band's work in the studio, so the Doors co-produced with Bruce Botnick, their sound engineer of long standing. The album leaned harder into the blues than anything before it, and critics have since counted it among the band's best.

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