the recording place. Rothchild came back and advised the studio owner to charge the damage to Elektra. The genesis and the use of the word "fuck" is described by Michael Hicks as follows: The Pop Chronicles documentary reports that critics found the song "Sophoclean and Joycean." "The End" was recorded live in the studio with no overdubbing. Two takes were recorded, with reportedly the second being used for the album. It was one of the last songs performed by the original group at their last concert on December 12, 1970, at The Warehouse in New Orleans. Musical style "The End" has been characterized as a precursor of the gothic rock genre. In a live review published in The Williams Record in October 1967, critic John Stickney described the Doors collation as "gothic rock", which was one of the first uses of the term in print; most notably, he was more pensive for their contribution to "The End", citing Morrison's vocal performance in particular as "male-violent, satanic, electric and on fire". In 2017, Pitchfork included it on their list of "The Story of Goth in 33 Songs". In his column, Rusty Pipes indicated the track to be as one of the early examples of art rock music. "The End" is performed into the pitches of the Mixolydian mode in the key of D, and incorporates aspects from Indian music. Krieger used an open guitar tuning, which he had learned from Ravi Shankar's music lessons at the Kinnara School of Music in Los Angeles, to create a sitar or veena sound; this enhances the raga rock mood. Author Peter Lavezzoli featured "The End" in his book, The Dawn of Indian Music; stating that Krieger also developed with his tuning an "Indian jhala style" and "rapid strumming alternating with the melody line" in his guitar playing. Scholars Aaron Barlow and Martin Kich distinguished in their book Pop Goes the Decade: The Sixties, that the song has influenced most of the acid rock genre. "The End" has also been classified as a psychedelic rock and hard rock piece. Other versions Studio While the 1967 release of the song is the best-known version, there are other, slightly different versions available. A significantly shorter edit, sometimes erroneously referred to as a "single version", was released on the CD version of the Greatest Hits album. The edited version is almost half the length of the original. The