Light My Fire (Live)
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First Released On:
26th September 1994
Duration:
03:15
Variations/Remixes:
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Credits:
Written by Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger
Produced by Andrew Vowles, Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall and Nellee Hooper
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Sampled:
Light My Fire (Live) uses a sample from the song Light My Fire by the Young Holt Trio. It appears primarily on their 2002 Best Of release Best of Young-Holt Unlimited: Ten Best Series. It is credited officially by Massive Attack.
Covered:
Several cover versions of Light My Fire exist but all are based on the original The Doors song and not the Massive Attack recording.
Vocalist(s):
Horace Andy and Grant Marshall
Lyrics:
History:
Light My Fire (Live) was an attempt to replicate Massive Attack's early roots as being apart of The Wild Bunch soundsystem by producing a dancehall friendly cover version of a classic rock song, namely The Doors iconic Light My Fire. They choose this song to cover because of Horace Andy's familiarity with it (even if it was the Jose Feliciano version of it he knew and not The Doors original).
Additional Info:
Even though the title of the Massive Attack song Light My Fire (Live) would seem to explicitly state that this song was recorded live (making it the only Massive Attack live song to ever been released officially), this is actually not the case. The audience hubbub in the background is actually a looped recording. The vocals of Horace Andy were actually recorded in the studio. As for Daddy G, his shout-outs may have been recorded and sampled from an old Wild Bunch party, however this is unconfirmed.
Live Appearances:
Light My Fire (Live) was played on the majority of dates on the 1995/1996 tour in a pretty much identical dancehall reggae style as the album version, with Horace Andy on vocals with Daddy G providing the MC toasting. Since 1996, it has not seen the light of day on any live setlists.
Quotes:
Mushroom on Horace Andy's experience with singing Light My Fire live - "He'd been singing it for years at mic checks, but when we asked him if he'd heard The Doors original, he went, 'Who are The Doors?'. Apparently the old Jose Feliciano version was a big Jamician hit in the late Sixities and, as far as Horace was concerned, that was the original" [The Face Magazine - September 1994]
3D on why they choose to cover Light My Fire as a live version - "Just to annoy everyone. And that is quite simply it. Horace used to sing it for fun in the studio and we thought, let’s do it and make it sound like a jam with a live sound system. We knew everyone would be disappointed, dismayed and disgusted" [BPM Magazine - March 2003]
