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You get to hear some raw Doors. Better than a live recording. Intro creations, Jim s sarcastic attitude and slurred speech. It is stated that Riders on the Storm was Jim s last recording, so it is good to hear a different track. The many tracks makes this a good buy.
Everyone in the entire world is in Austin this week, guys. But that doesn't mean that you and I can't still hang out! We'll grab some records, have a beer or a soda or something, eat some cheese puffs; just unwind, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, you do. It's probably hot and messy down there with all that incredible live music anyway. Let's do this! The Decemberists, We All Raise Our Voices To The Air… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »
The Doors were open to everything, and that was the key to their success; to their crashing out of the gates in 1967 with "Light My Fire," to their overcoming the excesses of lead singer Jim Morrison and managing to produce six studio albums before Morrison's departure to Paris in 1971, never to return. Despite Morrison's self-destructive ways - climaxing in his arrest for onstage indecency in Miami in 1969 - the Doors had eight Top… more »
Has any '60s band had such a prolific afterlife as the Doors? The Los Angeles quartet - singer Jim Morrison, keyboard player Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robbie Krieger and drummer John Densmore - broke on through with the near-perfect self-titled debut album in January 1967; the band's immortal hit, "Light My Fire," was the No. 1 song in the country in July 1967 and helped define that "summer of love." At the end of 1970, an… more »
