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Location: ms | I think at best they were average players with a drugged out, over the top want to be singer. |
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| What about ebay Dammit! I want to talk more about Ebay! |
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Location: Gardnerville, NV | George Winston redid a bunch of their songs on a cd a few years ago. Gives a cool take on how good some of the songs were when heard in a different context. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Originally posted by Tupperware:
Joplin, Hendrix, Moon, Cobain, Croce, Denver I'm with you with all except for Keith Moon. He was just amazing.
As to the Doors, I've never had much respect for acts that were as famous for their antics as they were for their music. If you took the same catalog of music, but had it produced by a bunch of guys who didn't drink and were always home by 10:00pm, it wouldn't have been as popular. The music doesn't stand on its own. Its the mystique of Jim Morrison that sells it. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by alpep:
but you really want dark?
discover
the velvet underground
lou reed
john cale
nico
music to bring you to the edge and have you jump over screaming I'm with Al. VU's the shizzle... |
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Location: Huntington Beach, CA | The Doors used to play at my highschool before they hit the big time. They were average. I think they were fairly together as a band but what made them stand out were Morrison's antics. I think he was more of an anti-establishment icon than an entertainer, always pushing the envelope. I remember the parents of his "fans" being just outraged at all the blatant sexual stuff.
A couple blocks from my house lived Bear's mother from Canned Heat. They used to jam in her garage. The neighborhood used to party with them.
I rode my bike to Newport 69, the SoCal answer to Woodstock. I sat on top of an icecream truck and watched one of Hendrix's worst performances ever, among others. The Hells Angels were taking tickets (or not) at the gate, the place stunk, no good seats (blankets on dirt really), bad lighting, bad sound equpment, lousy dope but the security sucked so I made every show for free and it was in my neighborhood so I could escape when I needed to.
When The Door' first album came out I though "you're kidding". Got to like them as background music for "dating" and recently bought a greatest hits CD. My kids like it. For me, I get a little stoned just from listening to it. Funny what the mind is capable of! |
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Location: CA | Another lifetime fan. Yeah, it was dark. That's why I liked it (and Pink Floyd and Sabbath), especially in my teens and early 20s. Flew in the face of 'the man' and of course my parents hated it. Right on! Ha ha ha.
Oliver Stone's movie 'The Doors' was, well, typical Oliver Stone. Go back and watch JFK if you think anything he does is historically accurate. The surviving Doors all had big problems with that movie, no one more than Ray M. He actually tried to get an 'accurate' movie made (never heard anything more about it) and maintained that Jim was in no way ALWAYS high. Ray says most of the time (in the early days anyway) he was just a regular guy. The part in the movie where he sang with his back to the audience in the early days was apparently accurate, as he had incredible stage fright. The Lizard King? Fright? Wha?
I never felt there was any standout talent in the Doors, although Jim was always the reference point. I saw them live twice and both times they were incredible. Jim had 'the way about him' and could entrance an audience. (The opening act for one show was Jerry Lee Lewis, which somehow didn't translate, but anyway...). I always thought the great sound and lasting power of the Doors was the sum of the parts. IMHO, they are one of the top five great rock bands of all time. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Top 5 Rock bands..
Deep Purple
Uriah Heep
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
van halen
..and there`s allways , Led Zeppelin , and..if only Steppenwolf had more hits..
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Location: Brisbane Australia | "I think they could have gotten some other idiot to be the front man when Morrison checked out and kept going."
It worked for ACDC
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Originally posted by alpep:
but you really want dark?
discover
the velvet underground
lou reed
john cale
nico
music to bring you to the edge and have you jump over screaming I'm with Al. VU's the shizzle... |
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Location: Tucson, AZ | ...their "LA WOMAN" is excellent stuff. |
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Location: Texas | "Riders on the Storm" for me. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Well this one got me thinkin...
How's this for simplification... I like most of their songs, one of the few groups I'd listen to a whole album at once.
No great deep meaning, no spiritual connection, didn't really "discover them" until I was in my late 20's. I just like the songs. I like covers of their songs too, which to me says something. Billy Idols LA Woman, and BOC's Roadhouse Blues to name a couple. Just good stuff. |
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OPINION ON THE BAND " THE DOORS "
