Was never a fan of The Doors as a wee lad when my father played it

[Naer]

But am a fan nowadays now that I'm grown. Playing on my new Samsung phone's speakers. My fav songs are the end, and LA woman

 

[lxskllr]

Light My Fire has a great guitar solo, and I like the mellow Riders On The Storm.

 

[zinfamous]

There are things I like about the Doors...I like their grooves, as mentioned above, specifically; I just mostly don't like Morrison so much. He's an effing boar. His voice is fine, I just think he's not interesting otherwise.

 

[Captante]

 

[BoomerD]

Some of their stuff has good bits...but overall, I've never really been a fan.

 

[KMFJD]

The End, Peace Frog, Spanish Caravan , Roadhouse Blues, Riders on the Storm are my favourites

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

'When The Music's Over' caps all of the others.

'The End' is fine, but I'm planning on editing out the dialog portion.

Then there's 'Break On Through' and 'L'America', 'The Alabama Song', 'Hyacinth House' .....

 

[stargazr]

I love some of their stuff, but not really a favorite of mine. I think in a discussion of 60's music and culture you would want to talk about their influence. The musicians were great. Interestingly they didn't have a bass player.

Not real crazy about Jim Morrison. He was the perfect front man for the group but got too far out there (exposing himself onstage etc). He wrote some great lyrics but I think he is overrated as a 'poet'.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Make sure you listen to this....while Jim Morrison gets all the credit, Ray Manzarek was the defining baseline.

You should listen to this recording from 1998 as Ray talks about the doors, writing Light My Fire, and some stuff to demystify the band. Ray is very fun to listen to....great story teller. I've shared this link to quite a few friends over the years just because it's such a great interview.

Remembering Ray Manzarek, Keyboardist For The Doors : Fresh Air

The mythology surrounding The Doors generally centers on its lead singer, Jim Morrison. Morrison is still considered one of rock's tortured poets, but The Doors' sound was based largely on Ray Manzarek's keyboard playing. His are the riffs immortalized in songs like "Riders on the Storm."

www.npr.org

 

[Muse]

It was a very fertile time for popular music. The Doors first album burst upon radio in Los Angeles, the first song they played was Break On Through, the first song on the first album... it is a great song. Then Light My Fire caught on bigtime. The whole first album and most everything on the first 3-4 albums was more than worth listening to. Their live performances were inconsistent. Ray Mansurek mused later that they could be really good, also could be quite bad.

Morrison was quite the artist, but lost his mojo considerably later on. That doesn't diminish what he did earlier. I'm not going to turn up my nose on him because of what happened in Florida.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Fame ruins people. They think they're gonna live forever. He burned out long before the legend ever did.

 

[Mai72]

Always liked Jimi Hendrix over the Doors. I can groove to a few Doors song though.

 

[Charmonium]

I'm sure I've heard their music since they stayed popular even w/o JM. Although what I mean there are tunes created before his death.

One interesting diff is that Ray Manzarek was on KBs for the debut platter and one more. Died in 2013. I thought he was pretty awesome. That frazzled sounding 60s is such a unique addition to a fairly unique band.

 

[WilliamM2]

I'm sure I've heard their music since they stayed popular even w/o JM. Although what I mean there are tunes created before his death.

One interesting diff is that Ray Manzarek was on KBs for the debut platter and one more. Died in 2013. I thought he was pretty awesome. That frazzled sounding 60s is such a unique addition to a fairly unique band.

Confusing post, not sure what you are trying to say. And Manzarek played KB's on all the Doors albums, not just two.

 

[Charmonium]

Ok. I was actually talking about the 80's 90's punkish band "X" first album was Los Angles and RM was on that antd the next.'

I loved the way he played. His rig had frazzled junk box (?) sound and the muddfoker could jam.

edit: only first 2 albuns Los Angeles and Wild Gift are any good. But OMG, I think that band ran mainly on crank, no band has ever used it to wider and greater effect than anyone else except maybe x-ray spex

 

[NutBucket]

One of the best shows I've seen was a one-man performance by Manzarek in a tiny room about 20 years ago. He was excellent both musically and as a person.

Growing up in the LA/Venice Beach area I have to be a Doors fan, right?

 

[Meghan54]

Got their entire collection but not surprising since I grew up listening to them. But I’d still take Steely Dan over The Doors for my “one and only” band.

 

[sdifox]

Who cares what you are a fan of or not? As long as you are the one choosing, who cares what others think?

Except if you are a fan of Nickelback then I'll look at you with distain.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

^^^ Or a Mariah pariah.

 

[Muse]

I broadcast a ~ 1 hour special on June 30, 2021on Jim Morrison on my KALX, Berkeley radio show, called "Just Jim," created by Kathleen Murphy, from Seattle.

If there's interest here I could put it up on Wetransfer as an 87kb MP3, available for download for a week.

 

[sdifox]

I broadcast a ~ 1 hour special on June 30, 2021on Jim Morrison on my KALX, Berkeley radio show, called "Just Jim," created by Kathleen Murphy, from Seattle.

If there's interest here I could put it up on Wetransfer as an 87kb MP3, available for download for a week.

Your name is Kathleen Murphy? Always thought you were a dude.

 

[Muse]

Your name is Kathleen Murphy? Always thought you were a dude.

I was not clear? The special I aired was created by her, but I AM not her. She supplied me with the material, I assembled what I aired but it was practically everything she supplied. I edited out a couple swear words, that's all.

 

[sdifox]

I was not clear? The special I aired was created by her, but I AM not her. She supplied me with the material, I assembled what I aired but it was practically everything she supplied. I edited out a couple swear words, that's all.

do I need to include a smiley in every joke post? like most of my posts are not serious.

 

[Muse]

The Doors are still a big deal. I was a bit surprised to discover that a few years ago.

 

[Muse]

do I need to include a smiley in every joke post? like most of my posts are not serious.

Why add to the confusion in this world, dude? Can't you speak plainly? What's your problem?