CLASSIC TRACK: The Doors — L.A. WomanB

ot much ran smoothly for The Doors, and this was certainly so with sessions for their sixth album, ‘L.A. Woman’. In November 1970, regular producer Paul Rothchild, unconvinced by what he was hearing in the studio, decided to quit. Enter engineer Bruce Botnick, who joined the band in their old rehearsal space, the Doors Workshop on Santa Monica Boulevard. It was a back-to-basics move: “The metaphor for the city as a woman is brilliant — cops in cars, never saw a woman so alone… The physicality of the town and thinking of her and how we need to take care of her. It’s my hometown.”