The Doors

I’d love to watch, but I’m not at home, so can’t get Sky Arts, damnit

Time for a bootleg. Bought in LA in the 80’s IIRC - returned home with a box of em! Good times…
Celebration
Mixture of the early demos and live stuff.
The version of COTL’s Once I Had A Little Game section, done a la Little Richard, is something else!


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Interesting photos there, including Jim Morrison sans beard or paunch and one of (perhaps) his father’s funeral ceremony. Famously, Jim did not get on with his father, a retired US Navy admiral, with many thinking at the time that the notorious Oedipal section to ‘The Celebration Of The Lizard’ (kill the father, scr*w the mother) was a barely disguised swipe at his parents.

Just my initial thoughts on seeing the photos. Or am I reading too much into them?

I also note that the lyric used on the cover to promote ‘Celebration’ is taken from another song, ‘Endless Night’.

The grave photo is Jim’s grave, before the two bust headstones (first was stolen) and the final Greek one. As such, its the earliest photo I’ve seen of his grave.

Admiral Morrison did in an interview say he was proud of his son’s acheivement. He admitted that he knew little of the music scene Jim was part of, but was still proud.

A far cry from Jim putting in the group’s profile in 1967, under ‘Parents’: ‘none’.

He had good relations with Andy and Anne, I believe. Parents? Well, maybe not at first!

End Of The Night…“some are born to sweet delight…some are born to the endless night…end of the night…”

Um… the Oedipal section was The End surely?

Re your final sentence, yes indeed, brain fade on my part! Moron!

No worries…I have brain fades all the time, despite the multiple espresso’s that are keeping my senses together!

Yes, but The Doors have been a big part of my life since I was 10 or 11 years old!!

I really ought to be able to remember things about them.

You’d be surprised… there was a guy on Hoffman, said he’d listened to Wild Child for 40 years (a newbie then, lol) yet he still hadn’t heard the ancient lunatic part of the lyrics

‘An ancient lunatic reigns in the trees of the night’, eh?

Morrison’s lyrics are like no one else. He saw himself as following in the footsteps of poets such as William Blake.

Yep… though I think he really should’ve rethought “Im sick of these stinky boots” :woozy_face:

But, if I may quote from New Creatures

"The assassin’s bullet
Marries the King
Dissembling miles of air
To kiss the crown

The Prince rambles in blood.
Ode to the neck
That was groomed
For rape’s gown"

Great stuff.
Comparable to any of the Beat poets.
Michael McClure was an admirer.

Watching it now - good stuff. Viewed a lot of the footage before, but certainly not all of it. Thanks for the tip off.

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It’s beyond infuriating. I can see the record cover, but my sick Mac won’t let me place an order. Maddening.

Jim wasn’t afraid to tell the whole world he was a very old soul about to step into a young fools soul.

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Do you have a smartphone to hand?
I tend to do most of my browsing/buying now with one rather than my laptop.

But…it should be relatively easy to get a copy of Felt Forum once you’re better and back at home.

Nicely put!

More lo-fi boots, but this time officially released.
The Boot Yer Butt 4 CD set, compiled chiefly by Robbie. Not a set to show off yer hi-fi with, but wonderful nonetheless. Even Ray sounds OK duetting with Jim on Moonlight Drive

The worst Doors cover art ever, though!

Yes, I do have my iPhone, which backs up from my Apple laptop, which won’t back up from the crap wifi in the care home, and so on…

One of the many reasons that I want to get home, to let the wretched things back up, so that we can start afresh. Buy lots more vinyl, then give them all a spin on the LP12.

Kinda glad I don’t have Apple, lol.

Wish you well and home soon, so you can give AL a spin and enjoy the Labyrinth.

Looking again at your post, I am struck by your comment that ‘even Ray sounds OK duetting with Jim…’, which I can’t let pass. Ray was a cr*p singer, as were Robbie and John. The ‘Other Voices’ LP, which they made after Morrison’s death features some of the worst ‘singing’ (which I use in inverted commas) ever recorded or released by a serious record company.

Elektra would have done better to record the sounds of cats being strangled. I think that I played my copy twice - the second time just to make sure that I had heard what I heard on the fist play through. Unbelievable and appalling noise, they might as well have asked Freddie Flipping Mercury to sing!

Oh, how were the mighty fallen.

Yet, unbelievably, Elektra let them come back for more, with the release of ‘Full Circle’, which may be even worse than ‘Other Voices’. I’ll go and try to recover my wits now.

Not old enough to see them live but I did catch them live when Ian Astbury fronted them in Birmingham a while ago. Great fun.

As for the music, simply wonderful.

Gary

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