![]() And, as it happens, it was a song a lifetime in the making for Morrison, himself a careworn wayfarer of the highroads by now. When it comes to ‘Riders on the Storm’, The Doors managed to capture enough atmosphere to sustain life in space. With the evocative image of a road-weary traveller, the band crafted an atmospheric masterpiece that housed more imagery than the Museum of Modern Art. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom”. Woman: “I’m interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. As Jim Morrison said long before the band arrived at the opus of L.A. In the eternal summer of peace and love, the flowery sanguine sound that most of the mainstream music in the era propagated was in direct contrast to the iconoclasm that followed shortly after. When The Doors first formed in 1965, starting a song with a lightning crack and an apocalyptical atmosphere was out of the question. His farewell to that short life was his masterpiece, ‘Riders on the Storm’ is undoubtedly one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll songs ever written. This notion of the long unfurling roads of America stretching out like lonely ventricles is not just a vignette to open a film, but a singular fascination that Morrison seemed to hold throughout his short life. The opening shot of the movie sees a stretch of asphalt unspool with the credits painted onto it before the camera eventually arcs towards the bruised sky of a moody desert dusk where the desolate moon hangs like a milk bottle top on a washing line awaiting the hissing company of the night. “We had internet, limited, but internet and small satellite phones to talk to our families, but it still doesn’t replace the fact that you’re missing your family, missing your kids.In 1969, Jim Morrison made a film called HWY: An American Pastoral. “Not being able to see your kids grow up, basically missing all the major things that they go through, is probably the hardest part,” Hernandez said. Hernandez also said it made him appreciate his friends and family. “When we were there for Iraqi freedom, southern and central Iraq, people were basically living open sewers in the small cities. “Being able to see different parts of the world and how people lived then coming back to our country and the standards of living that we have made me grateful for what we have,” Hernandez said. Hernandez said his experience taught him the value of being grateful. The missions, the work itself was very satisfying.” I enjoyed the deployments even though they could be a little bit stressful. “The unit was very rank-heavy, meaning there were a lot of colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors, upper enlisted. “We would have staff sergeants that would run their own businesses,’” Hernandez said. I enjoyed the deployments even though they could be a little bit stressful.” Hernandez said he worked alongside people who didn’t fit the stereotype of a “typical army person.” “They deal with a lot of interactions between the civil population and the military.” ![]() “I thought civil affairs would be good for me,” Hernandez said. Hernandez stayed in Signal Corps for two years until switching over to civil affairs. “I was still working on my music ed degree at Texas Tech, and Signal Corps was heavy on electronics. “I had no idea what Signal Corps was about,” Hernandez said. But it was a pretty good deal.”Īfter completing military police training, Hernandez was put into Signal Corps. I decided to go the ‘reserve’ route which, in the long run, didn’t really work out that way. My older brother graduated from West Point. “It was more of a family tradition thing. “ My dad was in the military for 35 years,” Hernandez said. He grasps both tightly as he takes his next step in life.Īssistant band director Luis Hernandez served for 24 years in the Army Reserve and as a Veteran of Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom. Clarinet in one hand, his notice in the other.
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