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Post  misery guts Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:08 pm

Legendary late 60s American rock group, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore. They managed a string of decent albums in a relatively short space of time, combatting increasing notoriety, until the fateful Parisian end of their lead singer/songwriter. But their place in history was assured, a product of four greater musicians than is often given credit for. Here are a few of their gems:

Light My Fire

People Are Strange

Break On Through

Riders On The Storm

The End (live)

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Post  misery guts Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:47 am

The Doors: No-One Here Gets Out Alive
From 1981 (!), a pleasant run-through of how The Doors got together, how they made some classic songs, and then Jim Morrison burned out. The highlight for me was the footage of them performing 'Light My Fire' on The Ed Sullivan Show in front of a backdrop... of doors Very Happy Sullivan wanted them to omit the word 'higher', and naturally enough they didn't (a bizarre censorship still in use today).

The Doors in Europe
From 1988, footage of the classic American rock band in varying performances from 1968, interspersed with some comment from Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, who toured with the Doors and offers a contemporary analysis. The music's still good, I have learned that Ray Manzarek is the under-rated genius of the band.
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Post  misery guts Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:55 am

Mr Mojo Rising: The Story of LA Woman
Yes, more from the Doors, this time analysing their fateful last album. I've really warmed to this band over the course of watching all these shows about them, some cracking songs in their battery.

The Doors: Soundstage Performances
From 2002, interviews with the 3 survivors, interspersed with shows from Toronto in 1967, Denmark in 1968 and New York in 1969. The archive footage is great, especially the Denmark show, and Ray, Robby & John all remain likeable and passionate guys.
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Post  misery guts Tue Apr 14, 2015 12:13 pm

Rock Poet
Over an hour & a half on Jim Morrison, but from the perspective of his status as a poet, rather than a rock god. Jon Brewer's film spends an interminable time discussing beat poets, the poetical status of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, John Lennon and others, and also the weird mystery of his final hours in Paris, and the subsequent disappearance of a book of his poetry. I didn't really buy into the thesis presented, I'll be honest.

The Doors: Live at the Hollywood Bowl
From Jul 5, 1968, over an hour helped along by some vamped elongation, most typically in closing number 'The End'.
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Post  misery guts Thu Apr 16, 2015 12:24 pm

Total Rock Review: The Doors
An album-by-album effort taking nearly 2 hours, with the usual inclusions, and vt of the guys themselves too. Their first and last albums seem to be their peaks.
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Post  misery guts Sat May 02, 2015 12:06 pm

The Doors - The Halcyon Years
Two x 1 hour shows, with 3 albums covered in either half. Many familiar faces and names like Alex Solunac and Robin LaRose were on hand, with archive of the three band members. Their experimentation on the 4th & 5th albums were seen as bold but self-defeating. It remains uncanny how their last album seemed like such a great return to form, and a sort of ending.
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Post  misery guts Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:53 am

The Doors - Video Biography
Familiar but always entertaining story, here only covering the first 3 albums, with more on the debut than the other two. Archive of Ray, Robby and John enriched the form, as it always does. That Krieger wrote Light My Fire, Densmore contributed salsa sounds, and Manzarek had his piano-bass virtuosity really encompasses that this was far more than just a one-man band.

Classic Albums: The Doors
Engineer Bruce Botnick and record label boss Jac Holzman were useful voices, the then-three surviving members were happy to recreate the magic, and Perry Farrell and Henry Rollins made entertaining celeb fans, too. It is a great album, a great mixture too.
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Post  misery guts Wed Dec 23, 2015 11:14 am

Mojo Working: The Doors
Was Morrison really a poet? Did the others deserve more credit? Delightfully, Screaming Lord Sutch was chosen to add his $0.02 here, and I'm sure he would have been just as useful on some of the others, too.
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Post  misery guts Sun Feb 14, 2016 11:00 am

Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend, by Stephen Davis
Davis has form with a major biog on Led Zeppelin. This tome is an entertaining and thorough read, from his unhappy home life, college struggles, musical evolution, poetic odysseys, and finally his fateful love affairs. Clearly he didn't have to die at 27, but the people he mixed with personally were as deadly as any poison.
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Post  misery guts Wed Mar 15, 2017 9:02 am

Discovering: The Doors
Not much more to say from this that hasn't already been said many times. Jim took tips as a performer from watching Van Morrison in Them! They were already experimenting by their 2nd LP. On stage arrests cemented their place in the counter culture. Drink and drugs took the shine off their middle albums. A disastrous gig in Miami brought the issue to a head. They did sort some things out for their penultimate and final LPs, but Jim had gone to Paris, never to return.
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Post  misery guts Thu Aug 24, 2017 7:46 am

Conspiracy: Drugs, Punk, Pop & Death
A fun little hour from 2015 looking into 4 notorious cases which might have had more to them than is often said. The first was about the time that the Rolling Stones were busted for drugs - was it an FBI plot to stop them getting US visas? It seemed that it backfired and Jagger and Richards were soon off the hook, and the story of Marianne Faithfull's Mars Bar merely enhanced their myth.
Next was the idea that the Sex Pistols were cheated of being #1 during Jubilee week in the summer of 1977. A chap from Radio 1 denied it could have been their work, if it happened. It had the most plausibility on this show.
Next a new one to me, that Eddie and the Hot Rods saw their promising career nosedive because Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page put a black magic curse on them for mocking Aleister Crowley. Unsurprisingly, this got very short shrift, but at least some of the original band are still around and playing "Do Anything You Wanna Do".
Finally, did Jim Morrison die in his Parisian bath-tub, or did he have a misadventure with heroin in a nightclub and get moved to the bath-tub to disguise this fate? It's well-known that there's no way to prove this one as his body was disposed of very quickly, and his girlfriend Pamela was a junkie and unreliable. Might as well argue that aliens got him.
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Post  misery guts Wed Oct 18, 2017 7:09 am

Feast of Friends
A short film from their tour in Summer 1968, musical footage from on stage and off, finishing with a long version of The End, as often seen in other compilations. There was audio mixed in discussing events in Vietnam, too. Also chat about Happenings, and man's lifelong quest for a new womb.
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Post  misery guts Fri May 29, 2020 7:38 am

Rock N Roll RoadTrip w/Sammy Hagar - Guitar Legends 2
An event called "Guitar Legends - America Salutes You", gave Sammy the chance to interview Robby Krieger about his career. He was more blues than people think, and concerned with sound more than style. He mentions Segovia. He wanted a red guitar like Chuck Berry. He was working on a book (this in 2019, so who knows?) The Doors only played shorter tours, but they balanced that with more recording, getting 6 albums done in 4 years. He's a Capricorn, and regrets not being able to do enough to save Jim Morrison.
Sammy also chatted to Joe Bonamassa at the same event, and his first band Bloodline with the kids of other rockers. Phil Ramone encouraged him to sing and write. He did a gig at the Royal Albert Hall in 2009 with Eric Clapton as a guest which was a turning point for him. He drinks Diet Coke and has hundreds of guitars. He's a Taurus.
They rounded off the show playing Roadhouse Blues.
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Post  misery guts Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:20 am

Mixtape - Robby Krieger
The Doors reached the R&R HoF in 1993. The young Robby was drawn to his dad's flamenco guitar records. Then blues groups, giving respect to Eric Burdon and Van Morrison. The band had wide influences. They met the infamous Maharishi - Jim was not impressed. He's kept experimenting in the years after the Doors, working with young upcoming talents where suitable.
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Post  misery guts Mon Jan 11, 2021 8:39 am

Robby turned 75 on Friday, so a belated Happy Birthday to himĀ  Cool
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Post  misery guts Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:42 am

No One Here Gets Out Alive, by Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman
I recall seeing this book on sale around 1995, so it's fun to finally have got a copy to read. An impressive run-through of the life and times of Jim Morrison, his rise and fall. It's odd how the Miami court case seems to fade out, even after Jim is found guilty. He just seems to drift off to Paris and die.
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Post  misery guts Mon Jul 19, 2021 7:31 am

The Big Interview w/Dan Rather - Robby Krieger and John Densmore
In 2018, at the very Whiskey-a-Go-Go, Dan asked a mix of predictable and random questions. John was 72 and proud. They talked about Jim, they talked about Ray, about how they found each other, how they impressed each other, what they all brought to the party, whether they could have really saved Jim (his death was 50 years ago this month I note), the effects of alcohol, and LSD, usage of their music by Francis Ford Coppola, making Doors albums after Jim's death, and being successful in the Spanish market.
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Post  misery guts Fri Oct 15, 2021 7:30 am

Classic Albums: Morrison Hotel
Their 5th album found John and Robby in sprightly verve, with Bruce Botnick also helping along. Photographer Henry Diltz was rightly proud of his cover shot, and mentioned the back featured the original Hard Rock Cafe too. The music was thoroughly hailed, and Ray Manzarek was included from some 2011 production too.
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Post  misery guts Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:27 am

The Doors
At long last, the 1991 biopic directed by Oliver Stone, and arguably his most atypical film. Val Kilmer plays Jim Morrison, Kyle MacLachlan is Ray Manzarek, and Meg Ryan is Jim's girlfriend Pamela, and nobody else much matters. In fact, two of the most recognisable cast members are Michael Madsen (before Reservoir Dogs, as it happens) and Billy Idol, who play two of Jim's partying mates. It's a steady experience, touching easy bases.
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Post  misery guts Mon Dec 05, 2022 8:46 am

When You're Strange
A curiously cheap 2010 account of the band, narrated by Johnny Depp, with some archive of Jim, and also the other three. Rare & exclusive footage seemed to be the main selling point, and it helped in telling the story.
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