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The Doors foi uma banda de rock americana formada em Los Angeles em 1965, com o vocalista Jim Morrison, o tecladista Ray Manzarek, o guitarrista Robby Krieger e o baterista John Densmore. Eles estavam entre as bandas de rock mais controversas e influentes da década de 1960, em parte devido às letras e voz de Morrison, junto com sua personalidade errática no palco. O grupo é amplamente considerado como uma figura importante da contracultura da época.
A banda tirou o nome do título do livro de Aldous Huxley, "The doors of perception", uma referência a uma citação de William Blake. Depois de assinar com a Elektra Records em 1966, The Doors gravou e lançou seis álbuns de estúdio em cinco anos, alguns dos quais são geralmente considerados entre os maiores de todos os tempos, incluindo seu primeiro álbum, "The Doors" (1967), "Strange days" (1967). e "L.A. woman" (1971). The Doors foi uma das bandas de maior sucesso naquela época e em 1972 a banda vendeu mais de 4 milhões de álbuns no mercado interno e quase 8 milhões de singles.
Morrison morreu em circunstâncias incertas em 1971. A banda continuou como um trio até se separar em 1973. Os membros restantes lançaram mais três álbuns na década de 1970, um dos quais apresentava gravações anteriores de Morrison, e ao longo das décadas se reuniram no palco em várias formações. Em 2002, Manzarek, Krieger e Ian Astbury, da The Cult, nos vocais começaram a se apresentar como The Doors of the 21st Century. Densmore e a propriedade de Morrison os processaram com sucesso pelo uso do nome da banda. Depois de um curto período como Riders on the Storm, eles escolheram o nome Manzarek-Krieger e viajaram em turnê até a morte de Manzarek em 2013.
The Doors foi a primeira banda americana a acumular oito LPs de ouro consecutivos. De acordo com a RIAA, a banda vendeu 34 milhões de álbuns nos Estados Unidos e mais de 100 milhões de discos em todo o mundo, tornando-se uma das bandas mais vendidas de todos os tempos. The Doors foi listada como um dos maiores artistas de todos os tempos por revistas, incluindo a Rolling Stone, que a classificou em 41º lugar em sua lista dos "100 maiores artistas de todos os tempos". Em 1993, a banda foi incluída no Hall da Fama do Rock and Roll.
HISTÓRIA
ORIGENS: JULHO DE 1965 A AGOSTO DE 1966
The Doors começou com um encontro casual entre os conhecidos Jim Morrison e Ray Manzarek em Venice Beach em julho de 1965. Eles se reconheceram desde quando ambos frequentaram a Escola de Teatro, Cinema e Televisão da UCLA. Morrison disse a Manzarek que estava escrevendo canções. Como Morrison mais tarde relataria a Jerry Hopkins na Rolling Stone, "Aquelas primeiras cinco ou seis canções que escrevi, eu estava apenas fazendo anotações em um show de rock fantástico que estava acontecendo dentro da minha cabeça. E depois de escrever as canções, eu tinha que cantá-las". Com o incentivo de Manzarek, Morrison cantou as palavras iniciais de "Moonlight drive": "Vamos nadar até a lua, vamos escalar a maré, penetrar na noite que a cidade dorme para se esconder". Manzarek ficou inspirado, pensando em todas as músicas que poderia tocar para acompanhar essas letras "legais e assustadoras".
Manzarek estava então em uma banda chamada Rick & The Ravens com seus irmãos Rick e Jim, enquanto o baterista John Densmore tocava com a The Psychedelic Rangers e conhecia Manzarek das aulas de meditação. Densmore se juntou ao grupo no final de agosto de 1965. Juntos, eles combinaram origens musicais variadas, de jazz, rock, blues e idiomas da música folk. Os cinco, junto com a baixista Patty Sullivan, e agora batizada de The Doors, gravaram uma demo de seis canções em 2 de setembro de 1965, no World Pacific Studios em Los Angeles. A banda tirou seu nome do título do livro de Aldous Huxley, "The doors of perception", derivado de uma linha de William Blake, "The marriage of Heaven and Hell": "Se as portas da percepção fossem nítidas, tudo apareceria para o homem como é: infinito". No final de 1965, depois que os dois irmãos de Manzarek saíram, o guitarrista Robby Krieger se juntou.
De fevereiro a maio de 1966, o grupo teve uma residência no "decrépito" e "desprezível" clube London Fog de Los Angeles, aparecendo no projeto com a "dançarina exótica Rhonda Lane". A experiência deu a Morrison confiança para se apresentar para um público ao vivo e para a banda como um todo desenvolver e, em alguns casos, alongar suas canções e trabalhar "The end" e "Light my fire" nas peças que apareceriam no seu álbum de estréia. Manzarek disse mais tarde que no London Fog a banda "se tornou essa entidade coletiva, essa unidade de unidade ... foi aí que a mágica começou a acontecer". O grupo logo se formou no mais estimado Whiskey a Go Go, onde eles eram a banda da casa (a partir de maio de 1966), bandas de apoio, incluindo o grupo de Van Morrison, Them. Em sua última noite juntos, as duas bandas se juntaram para "In the midnight hour" e uma jam session de vinte minutos de "Gloria".
Em 10 de agosto de 1966, eles foram vistos pelo presidente da Elektra Records, Jac Holzman, que estava presente por recomendação do cantor da Love, Arthur Lee, cujo grupo era da Elektra Records. Depois que Holzman e o produtor Paul A. Rothchild viram duas apresentações da banda tocando no Whiskey a Go Go, eles os assinaram com a gravadora Elektra Records em 18 de agosto - o início de uma longa e bem-sucedida parceria com Rothchild e o engenheiro de som Bruce Botnick. The Doors foi demitida do Whiskey em 21 de agosto de 1966, quando Morrison adicionou uma releitura explícita e uma versão carregada de palavrões do mito grego de Édipo durante "The end".
THE DOORS AND STRANGE DAYS: AGOSTO DE 1966 A DEZEMBRO DE 1967
The Doors gravou seu álbum de estreia autointitulado por volta de agosto de 1966, no Sunset Sound Studios. O disco foi lançado oficialmente na primeira semana de janeiro de 1967. Incluía muitas canções populares de seu repertório, entre elas, o drama musical de quase 12 minutos "The end". Em novembro de 1966, Mark Abramson dirigiu um filme promocional para o single principal "Break on through (To the other side)". O grupo também fez várias aparições na televisão, como no "Shebang", um programa de televisão de Los Angeles, imitando uma reprodução de "Break on through". No início de 1967, o grupo apareceu no "The Clay Cole Show" (que foi ao ar nas noites de sábado às 18h no Channel 11 do WPIX da cidade de Nova York), onde apresentaram seu single "Break on through". Como o single adquiriu apenas um pequeno reconhecimento, a banda mudou para "Light my fire" que tornou-se o primeiro single da Elektra Records a alcançar o número um na parada de singles da Billboard Hot 100, vendendo mais de um milhão de cópias.
De 7 a 11 de março de 1967, The Doors se apresentou no Matrix Club em San Francisco, Califórnia. Os shows de 7 e 10 de março foram gravados por um co-proprietário do Matrix, Peter Abram. Essas gravações são notáveis, pois estão entre as primeiras gravações ao vivo da banda a circular. Em 18 de novembro de 2008, The Doors publicou uma compilação dessas gravações, "Live at the Matrix 1967", no selo da banda Bright Midnight Archives.
The Doors fez sua estréia internacional na televisão em maio de 1967, apresentando uma versão de "The end" para a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) no O'Keefe Centre em Toronto. Mas depois de suas transmissões iniciais, a performance permaneceu inédita, exceto em forma pirata até o lançamento do DVD "The Doors soundstage performances" em 2002. Em 25 de agosto de 1967, a banda apareceu na televisão americana, estrelando como convidada na série de TV "Malibu U", apresentando "Light my fire", embora não tenha aparecido ao vivo. A banda é vista em uma praia e Morrison está dublando a música na reprodução. O videoclipe não obteve nenhum sucesso comercial e a performance caiu em relativa obscuridade. Foi só quando apareceram no "The Ed Sullivan Show" que a banda ganhou atenção na televisão.
Em 17 de setembro de 1967, The Doors fez uma apresentação memorável de "Light my fire" no "The Ed Sullivan Show". Segundo Manzarek, os executivos da rede pediram que a palavra "alto" (pode ser traduzida como "chapado") fosse retirada, devido a uma possível referência ao uso de drogas. O grupo pareceu concordar, mas executou a música em sua forma original, porque ou nunca tiveram a intenção de atender ao pedido ou Jim Morrison estava nervoso e se esqueceu de fazer a mudança (o grupo deu relatos conflitantes). De qualquer maneira, "higher" foi cantado na televisão nacional, e o apresentador do programa, Ed Sullivan, cancelou outros seis shows que haviam sido planejados. Depois que o produtor do programa disse à banda que eles nunca mais se apresentariam no programa, Morrison teria respondido: "Ei, cara! Acabamos de fazer o The Sullivan Show".
Em 24 de dezembro, The Doors apresentou "Light my fire" e "Moonlight drive" ao vivo para o "The Jonathan Winters Show". Sua performance foi gravada para transmissão posterior. De 26 a 28 de dezembro, o grupo tocou no Winterland Ballroom em San Francisco - durante um set, no meio de "Back door man", a banda parou de se apresentar para se assistir no "The Jonathan Winters Show" em um aparelho de televisão colocado no palco.
The Doors passou várias semanas no Sunset Studios em Los Angeles gravando seu segundo álbum, "Strange days", experimentando a nova tecnologia, principalmente o sintetizador Moog que eles agora tinham disponível. O sucesso comercial de "Strange days" foi mediano, chegando ao número três na parada de álbuns da Billboard, mas caindo rapidamente, junto com uma série de singles de baixo desempenho. O refrão de "People are strange" inspirou o nome do documentário de 2009 da The Doors, "When you're strange".
Embora o músico Larry Knechtel tenha ocasionalmente contribuído com o baixo no álbum de estreia da banda, "Strange days" foi o primeiro álbum da The Doors gravado com um músico de estúdio, tocando baixo na maior parte do álbum, e isso continuou em todos os álbuns de estúdio subsequentes. Manzarek explicou que seu baixo de teclado era adequado para situações ao vivo, mas faltava a "articulação" necessária para gravação em estúdio. Douglass Lubahn tocou em "Strange days" e nos dois álbuns seguintes - mas a banda usou vários outros músicos para essa função, muitas vezes usando mais de um baixista no mesmo álbum. Kerry Magness, Leroy Vinnegar, Harvey Brooks, Ray Neopolitan, Lonnie Mack, Jerry Scheff, Jack Conrad (que desempenhou um papel importante nos anos pós Morrison em turnê com o grupo em 1971 e 1972), Chris Ethridge, Charles Larkey e Leland Sklar são creditados como baixistas que trabalharam com a banda.
INCIDENTE DE NEW HAVEN: DEZEMBRO DE 1967
Em 9 de dezembro de 1967, The Doors realizou um concerto agora infame na New Haven Arena em New Haven, Connecticut, que terminou abruptamente quando Morrison foi preso pela polícia local. Morrison se tornou o primeiro artista de rock a ser preso no palco durante uma apresentação. Antes do início do show, Morrison estava tendo uma conversa privada ou beijando uma fã nos bastidores em um chuveiro do banheiro quando um policial os encontrou. Sem saber que ele era o vocalista da banda prestes a se apresentar, o policial disse a Morrison e ao fã para irem embora, ao que Morrison disse: "Coma". O policial pegou uma lata de maça e avisou Morrison, "Última chance", ao que Morrison respondeu: "Última chance de comê-la". Há alguma discrepância quanto ao que aconteceu a seguir: de acordo com "No one here gets out alive", a fã fugiu e Morrison foi espancado, mas Manzarek relata em seu livro que Morrison e a fã foram expulsos.
O ato principal da The Doors foi adiado por uma hora enquanto Morrison se recuperava, após o que a banda subiu ao palco bem tarde. Segundo a jornalista musical Gillian G. Gaar, a polícia ainda não considerou o assunto resolvido e queria acusá-lo. No meio do primeiro set, Morrison começou a criar uma música improvisada sobre sua experiência com o "homenzinho de azul". Foi um relato obsceno para o público, descrevendo o que havia acontecido nos bastidores e provocando a polícia, que cercava o palco. Mais tarde, um oficial abordou Morrison, durante o qual Morrison enfiou o microfone em sua boca e comentou: "Diga o que pensa, cara". O show teve um fim abrupto quando Morrison foi arrastado do palco pela polícia. O público, já inquieto de esperar tanto pela apresentação da banda, tornou-se indisciplinado. Morrison foi levado a uma delegacia de polícia local, fotografado e autuado sob a acusação de incitar tumulto, indecência e obscenidade pública. As acusações contra Morrison, bem como contra três jornalistas também presos no incidente (Mike Zwerin, Yvonne Chabrier e Tim Page), foram retiradas várias semanas depois por falta de provas.
WAITING FOR THE SUN: DE ABRIL A DEZEMBRO DE 1968
A gravação do terceiro álbum do grupo em abril de 1968 foi marcada pela tensão como resultado da crescente dependência de álcool de Morrison e a rejeição de "Celebration of the lizard" de 17 minutos pelo produtor da banda Paul Rothchild, que considerou o trabalho não comercial o suficiente. Aproximando-se do auge de sua popularidade, The Doors fez uma série de shows ao ar livre que levaram a cenas frenéticas entre fãs e policiais, particularmente no Chicago Coliseum em 10 de maio.
A banda começou a se ramificar de sua forma inicial para este terceiro LP e começou a escrever um novo material. "Waiting for the sun" se tornou o primeiro e único álbum a alcançar o número 1 nas paradas americanas, e o single "Hello, I love you" (uma das seis canções tocadas pela banda em sua demo de 1965 da Aura Records) foi sua segundo single número 1 dos EUA. Após o lançamento de "Hello, I love you" em 1968, o editor do hit de 1964 da The Kinks, "All day and all of the night", anunciou que estava planejando uma ação legal contra a The Doors por violação de direitos autorais. No entanto, o compositor Ray Davies acabou optando por não processar. O guitarrista da The Kinks, Dave Davies, ficou particularmente irritado com a semelhança. No show, Morrison ocasionalmente desprezava a música, deixando os vocais para Manzarek, como pode ser visto no documentário "The Doors are open".
Um mês depois de um tumultuado show no Singer Bowl em Nova York, o grupo voou para a Grã-Bretanha para sua primeira apresentação fora da América do Norte. Eles deram uma coletiva de imprensa na ICA Gallery em Londres e fizeram shows no Roundhouse. Os resultados da viagem foram transmitidos no programa "The Doors are open" da Granada TV, posteriormente divulgado em vídeo. Eles tocaram na Europa, junto com Jefferson Airplane, incluindo um show em Amsterdã, onde Morrison desmaiou no palco após uma farra de drogas (incluindo maconha, haxixe e pílulas não especificadas).
O grupo voou de volta para os Estados Unidos e tocou em mais nove datas antes de retornar ao trabalho em novembro em seu quarto LP. Eles encerraram o ano com um novo single de sucesso, "Touch me" (lançado em dezembro de 1968), que alcançou o número 3 na Billboard Hot 100 e o número 1 no Cashbox Top 100 no início de 1969 - este foi o terceiro e último álbum americano de single número um do grupo.
INCIDENTE EM MIAMI: MARÇO DE 1969
Em 1º de março de 1969, no Dinner Key Auditorium no bairro de Coconut Grove em Miami, Flórida, a The Doors fez a apresentação mais polêmica de sua carreira, uma que quase "atrapalhou a banda". O auditório era um hangar de hidroaviões convertido que não tinha ar-condicionado naquela noite quente, e os assentos haviam sido removidos pelo promotor para aumentar a venda de ingressos.
Morrison bebeu o dia todo e perdeu vôos de conexão para Miami. Quando ele chegou, bêbado, o show estava atrasado mais de uma hora. A multidão inquieta de 12.000 pessoas, lotada em uma instalação projetada para acomodar 7.000 pessoas, foi submetida a silêncios indevidos no canto de Morrison, que sobrecarregou a música desde o início da apresentação. Morrison havia assistido recentemente a uma peça de um grupo de teatro experimental, o The Living Theatre, e foi inspirado por seu estilo "antagônico" de arte performática. Morrison provocou a multidão com mensagens de amor e ódio, dizendo: "Me ame. Não aguento mais sem um bom amor. Quero um pouco de amor. Ninguém vai comer meu rabo?" e alternadamente, "Vocês são todos um bando de idiotas!" e gritando "O que você vai fazer sobre isso?" uma e outra vez.
Quando a banda começou sua segunda música, "Touch me", Morrison começou a gritar em protesto, forçando a banda a parar. A certa altura, Morrison tirou o chapéu de um policial no palco e o jogou na multidão. O oficial, em reação, jogou o chapéu de Morrison também. O empresário Bill Siddons relembrou: "O show foi uma coisa bizarra, parecida com um circo, havia um cara carregando uma ovelha e as pessoas mais selvagens que eu já vi". O chefe do equipamento, Vince Treanor, disse: "Alguém pulou e derramou champanhe em Jim, então ele tirou a camisa, estava encharcada. 'Vamos ver um pouco de pele, vamos ficar nus', disse ele, e o público começou a tirar a roupa". Depois de tirar a camisa, Morrison segurou-a na frente da virilha e começou a fazer movimentos com as mãos atrás dela. Manzarek descreveu o incidente como uma "alucinação religiosa" em massa.
Em 5 de março, o escritório do xerife do condado de Dade emitiu um mandado de prisão de Morrison, alegando que Morrison expôs seu pênis enquanto estava no palco, gritou obscenidades para a multidão, simulou sexo oral em Krieger e estava bêbado no momento de sua apresentação. Morrison recusou um acordo judicial que exigia que a The Doors realizasse um show gratuito em Miami. Ele foi condenado e sentenciado a seis meses de prisão com trabalhos forçados e condenado a pagar uma multa de $500. Morrison permaneceu em liberdade, aguardando um recurso de sua condenação, e morreu antes que o assunto fosse resolvido legalmente. Em 2007, o governador da Flórida, Charlie Crist, sugeriu a possibilidade de um perdão póstumo para Morrison, que foi anunciado como bem-sucedido em 9 de dezembro de 2010. Densmore, Krieger e Manzarek negaram a alegação de que Morrison se expôs no palco naquela noite.
THE SOFT PARADE: MAIO A JULHO DE 1969
O quarto álbum da The Doors, "The soft parade", lançado em julho de 1969, foi o primeiro e único a apresentar arranjos de metais e cordas. O conceito foi sugerido por Rothchild à banda, depois de ouvir muitos exemplos de vários grupos que também exploraram o mesmo afastamento radical. Densmore e Manzarek (ambos influenciados pela música jazz) concordaram com a recomendação, mas Morrison se recusou a incorporar acompanhamento orquestral em suas composições. O single principal, "Touch me", contou com a participação do saxofonista Curtis Amy.
Enquanto a banda tentava fracamente manter seu ímpeto anterior, os esforços para expandir seu som deram ao álbum uma sensação experimental, fazendo com que os críticos atacassem sua integridade musical. De acordo com Densmore em sua biografia "Riders on the storm", os créditos individuais de composição foram notados pela primeira vez por causa da relutância de Morrison em cantar a letra da canção "Tell all the people" de Krieger. A bebida de Morrison o tornava difícil e pouco confiável, e as sessões de gravação se arrastaram por meses. Os custos do estúdio aumentaram e a The Doors quase se desintegrou. Apesar de tudo isso, o álbum fez imenso sucesso, tornando-se o quarto álbum de sucesso da banda. A essa altura, Morrison havia se distanciado da música e pretendia deixar o grupo, mas foi persuadido por Manzarek a ficar por mais seis meses.
MORRISON HOTEL E ABSOLUTELY LIVE: NOVEMBRO DE 1969 A DEZEMBRO DE 1970
Durante a gravação de seu próximo álbum, "Morrison Hotel", em novembro de 1969, Morrison novamente teve problemas com a lei após assediar funcionários da companhia aérea durante um vôo para Phoenix, Arizona, para ver o show da The Rolling Stones. Tanto Morrison quanto seu amigo e companheiro de viagem Tom Baker foram acusados de "interferir no vôo de uma aeronave intercontinental e embriaguez pública". Se condenado pela acusação mais grave, Morrison poderia ter enfrentado uma sentença de prisão federal de dez anos pelo incidente. As acusações foram retiradas em abril de 1970, depois que uma aeromoça reverteu seu depoimento para dizer que identificou Morrison por engano como Baker.
The Doors voltou a uma direção mais convencional após o experimental "The soft parade", com seu quinto LP "Morrison Hotel" em 1970. Apresentando um som de blues rock consistente, a abertura do álbum foi "Roadhouse blues". O recorde alcançou o número 4 nos Estados Unidos e reviveu seu status entre sua base de fãs e a imprensa de rock. Dave Marsh, o editor da revista Creem, disse sobre o álbum: "o rock and roll mais horrível que já ouvi. Quando são bons, são simplesmente imbatíveis. Sei que este é o melhor disco que já ouvi. ... até agora". A Rock Magazine chamou-o de "sem dúvida o álbum mais corajoso (e melhor) até agora". A revista Circus elogiou-o como "possivelmente o melhor álbum da The Doors" e "bom hard rock, evil rock, e um dos melhores álbuns lançados nesta década". O álbum também viu Morrison retornar como compositor principal, escrevendo ou co-escrevendo todas as faixas do álbum. A reedição em CD do 40º aniversário de "Morrison Hotel" contém outtakes e tomadas alternativas, incluindo diferentes versões de "The spy" e "Roadhouse blues" (com Lonnie Mack no baixo e John Sebastian da The Lovin' Spoonful na gaita).
Julho de 1970 viu o lançamento do primeiro álbum ao vivo do grupo, "Absolutely live", que alcançou a 8ª posição nas paradas. O álbum foi concluído pelo produtor Rothchild, que confirmou que a mixagem final do álbum consistia em muitos fragmentos de vários e diferentes shows da banda. "Deve haver 2.000 edições naquele álbum", disse ele a um entrevistador anos depois. "Absolutely live" também inclui o primeiro lançamento da longa peça "Celebration of the lizard".
Embora a The Doors continuasse a enfrentar proibições em mercados americanos mais conservadores e ganhasse novas proibições no Salt Palace de Salt Lake City e no Cobo Hall de Detroit após shows tumultuados, a banda conseguiu fazer 18 shows nos Estados Unidos, México e Canadá após o incidente de Miami em 1969, e 23 datas nos Estados Unidos e Canadá ao longo da primeira metade de 1970. O grupo mais tarde chegou ao Isle of Wight Festival em 29 de agosto: se apresentando no mesmo dia que John Sebastian, Shawn Phillips, Lighthouse, Joni Mitchell, Tiny Tim, Miles Davis, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Who, Sly and The Family Stone e Melanie - a performance foi a última capturada na "Roadhouse blues tour" da banda.
Em 8 de dezembro de 1970, seu 27º aniversário, Morrison gravou outra sessão de poesia. Parte disso acabaria em "An American prayer" em 1978 com música, e atualmente está na posse da família Courson. Pouco tempo depois, uma nova turnê para promover seu próximo álbum seria composta por apenas três datas. Dois shows foram realizados em Dallas em 11 de dezembro. Durante a última apresentação pública da The Doors com Morrison, no The Warehouse em Nova Orleans, em 12 de dezembro de 1970, Morrison aparentemente teve um colapso no palco. No meio do set, ele bateu o microfone várias vezes no chão do palco até que a plataforma abaixo fosse destruída, então se sentou e se recusou a se apresentar pelo restante do show. Após o show, Densmore, Manzarek e Krieger decidiram encerrar sua apresentação ao vivo, citando seu acordo mútuo de que Morrison estava pronto para se aposentar das apresentações.
L.A. WOMAN E A MORTE DE MORRISON: DEZEMBRO DE 1970 A JULHO DE 1971
Apesar da condenação de Morrison e das consequências de sua apresentação em Nova Orleans, The Doors decidiu recuperar seu status de banda principal com o álbum "L.A. woman", gravado em Los Angeles em 1971. O álbum incluiu o guitarrista rítmico Marc Benno em várias faixas. e o baixista de destaque Jerry Scheff, mais conhecido por seu trabalho na TCB Band de Elvis Presley. Apesar de um pico comparativamente baixo da parada da Billboard no número 9, "L.A. woman" continha dois sucessos no Top 20 e passou a ser seu segundo álbum de estúdio mais vendido, superado em vendas apenas por sua estréia. O álbum explorou suas raízes R&B, embora durante os ensaios eles tenham se desentendido com Paul Rothchild, que estava insatisfeito com o esforço da banda. Denunciando "Love her madly" como "música de coquetel", ele saiu e entregou a produção a Bruce Botnick e a The Doors.
A faixa-título e dois singles ("Love her madly" e "Riders on the storm") continuam sendo os pilares da programação de rádio de rock, com o último sendo introduzido no Grammy Hall of Fame por seu significado especial para a música gravada. Na música "L.A. woman", Morrison faz um anagrama de seu nome para cantar "Mr. Mojo Risin'". Durante as sessões, um pequeno clipe da banda tocando "Crawling king snake" foi filmado. Até onde se sabe, este é o último clipe da The Doors se apresentando com Morrison.
Em 13 de março de 1971, perto do final da mixagem de "L.A. woman", Morrison tirou uma licença da The Doors e mudou-se para Paris com Pamela Courson - ele havia visitado a cidade no verão anterior. Em 3 de julho de 1971, após meses de assentamento, Morrison foi encontrado morto na banheira por Courson. Apesar da ausência de uma autópsia oficial, o motivo da morte foi listado como insuficiência cardíaca. Ele foi enterrado no "Poets' Corner" do Cemitério Père Lachaise em 7 de julho.
Morrison morreu aos 27 anos, a mesma idade de várias outras estrelas do rock famosas no 27 Club. Em 1974, a namorada de Morrison, Pamela Courson, também morreu aos 27 anos.
DEPOIS DE MORRISON
"A morte de Morrison carimbou
a The Doors com um selo de lenda
e imortalidade. Não houve oportunidade
para a banda entrar intacta nos anos 70.
Talvez isso seja uma coisa boa. Não
consigo imaginar a The Doors
na era da disco".
- Henry Rollins
O álbum posterior a "L.A. woman", "Other voices", estava sendo planejado enquanto Morrison estava em Paris. A banda presumiu que ele voltaria para ajudá-los a completar o álbum. Depois que Morrison morreu, os membros sobreviventes consideraram substituí-lo por várias pessoas novas, como Paul McCartney no baixo e Iggy Pop nos vocais. Mas depois que nenhum dos dois deu certo, Krieger e Manzarek assumiram os vocais principais. "Other voices" foi finalmente concluído em agosto de 1971 e lançado em outubro de 1971. O álbum apresentava o single "Tightrope ride", que foi tocado nas rádios. O trio começou a se apresentar novamente com membros de apoio adicionais em 12 de novembro de 1971, no Pershing Municipal Auditorium em Lincoln, Nebraska, seguido por shows no Carnegie Hall em 23 de novembro e no The Hollywood Palladium em 26 de novembro.
As gravações de "Full circle" ocorreram um ano depois de "Other voices" durante a primavera de 1972, e o álbum foi lançado em agosto de 1972. Para as turnês durante este período, The Doors recrutou Jack Conrad no baixo (que tocou em várias faixas em "Other voices" e "Full circle"), bem como Bobby Ray Henson na guitarra base. Eles começaram uma turnê européia cobrindo França, Alemanha, Holanda e Reino Unido, incluindo uma aparição no programa alemão Beat-Club. Como "Other voices", "Full circle" não teve um desempenho comercial tão bom quanto seus álbuns anteriores. Enquanto "Full circle" foi notável por adicionar elementos de funk e jazz ao som usual da The Doors, a banda lutou com Manzarek e Krieger liderando (nenhum dos álbuns pós-Morrison alcançou o Top 10 enquanto todos os seis de seus álbuns com Morrison teve). Assim que seu contrato com a Elektra terminou, a The Doors se desfez em 1973.
REUNIÕES
O terceiro álbum pós-Morrison, "An American prayer", foi lançado em 1978. Consistia na banda adicionando faixas musicais de apoio a apresentações de palavras faladas, gravadas anteriormente, de Morrison recitando sua poesia. O disco foi um sucesso comercial, adquirindo certificado de platina. Dois anos depois, foi indicado ao Grammy na categoria "Álbum de palavras faladas", mas acabou perdendo para "The ages of man" de John Gielgud. "An American prayer" foi remasterizado e relançado com faixas bônus em 1995.
Em 1993, The Doors foi introduzida no Hall da Fama do Rock and Roll. Na cerimônia, Manzarek, Krieger e Densmore se reuniram mais uma vez para tocar "Roadhouse blues", "Break on through" e "Light my fire". Eddie Vedder ocupou os vocais principais, enquanto Don Was tocou o baixo. Para o box set de 1997, os membros sobreviventes da The Doors se reuniram para completar a "Orange County suite". A faixa foi escrita e gravada por Morrison no início de 1969, fornecendo vocais e piano.
The Doors se reuniu em 2000 para se apresentar no "Storytellers" da VH1. Para a apresentação ao vivo, a banda foi acompanhada por Angelo Barbera e vários vocalistas convidados, incluindo Ian Astbury da The Cult, Scott Weiland, Scott Stapp, Perry Farrell, Pat Monahan e Travis Meeks. Após a gravação de "Storytellers: A celebration", os membros da banda se juntaram para gravar músicas para o álbum tributo "Stoned immaculate: The music of The Doors". Em 29 de maio de 2007, o grupo de Perry Farrell, o Satellite Party, lançou seu primeiro álbum "Ultra payloaded" pela Columbia Records. Apresentava "Woman in the window", uma nova música com uma performance vocal pré-gravada por Morrison.
Posteriormente, Manzarek junto com Krieger, Densmore e o DJ/produtor Skrillex (Sonny Moore) gravaram uma nova música, da qual Manzarek disse: "Gosto de dizer que esta é a primeira faixa nova da The Doors no século 21". A sessão de gravação e a música fazem parte de um documentário, "Re:GENERATION", que recrutou cinco DJs/produtores populares para trabalhar com artistas de cinco gêneros distintos e os fez gravar novas músicas. Manzarek e Skrillex tiveram uma conexão musical imediata: "Sonny toca sua batida, tudo o que ele precisava fazer era tocar algo. Eu ouvi e disse: 'Puta merda, isso é forte'", diz Manzarek. "Basicamente, é uma variação de 'Milestones', de Miles Davis, e se é que posso dizer, soa muito bem, quente como o inferno". A faixa, chamada "Breakn 'a sweat", foi incluída no EP "Bangarang" de Skrillex.
Em 2013, os demais integrantes da The Doors gravaram com o rapper Tech N9ne a música "Strange 2013", presente em seu álbum "Something else", que traz nova instrumentação da banda e samples dos vocais de Morrison da música "Strange days". Em sua colaboração final antes da morte de Manzarek, os três membros sobreviventes da The Doors forneceram apoio para o álbum do poeta Michael C. Ford "Look each other in the ear".
Em 12 de fevereiro de 2016, no The Fonda Theatre em Hollywood, Densmore e Krieger se reuniram pela primeira vez em 15 anos para se apresentar em homenagem a Manzarek e beneficiar o Stand Up to Cancer. Aquele dia seria o aniversário de 77 anos de Manzarek. A noite contou com Exene Cervenka e John Doe da banda X, Rami Jaffee da Foo Fighters, Robert Deleo da Stone Temple Pilots, Stephen Perkins da Jane's Addiction, Emily Armstrong da Dead Sara, Andrew Watt, entre outros.
DEPOIS DA THE DOORS
Depois que Morrison morreu em 1971, Densmore e Krieger foram para Londres em busca de um novo vocalista. Eles formaram a Butts Band em 1973 lá, assinando com a Blue Thumb Records. Eles lançaram um álbum intitulado "Butts Band" no mesmo ano, então se separaram em 1975 após um segundo álbum com Phil Chen no baixo.
Manzarek fez três álbuns solo de 1974 a 1983 e formou uma banda chamada Nite City em 1975, que lançou dois álbuns em 1977-1978. Krieger lançou seis álbuns solo de 1977 a 2010. Em 2002, os dois juntos formaram uma nova versão da The Doors, que chamaram de The Doors of the 21st Century. Devido a batalhas legais com Densmore e a propriedade de Morrison sobre o uso do nome The Doors, eles mudaram seu nome várias vezes e, por fim, fizeram uma turnê com o nome de Manzarek-Krieger ou Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of The Doors. O grupo viajou extensivamente ao longo de sua carreira. Em julho de 2007, Densmore anunciou que não se reuniria com a The Doors a menos que Eddie Vedder da Pearl Jam fosse o vocalista.
Em 20 de maio de 2013, Manzarek morreu em um hospital em Rosenheim, na Alemanha, aos 74 anos devido a complicações relacionadas a um câncer nas vias biliares. Krieger e Densmore se reuniram em 12 de fevereiro de 2016, em um concerto beneficente em memória de Manzarek. Todos os lucros foram para Stand Up to Cancer.
LEGADO
A partir do final dos anos 1970, houve um ressurgimento sustentado do interesse pela The Doors, o que criou uma nova geração de fãs. A origem do renascimento remonta ao lançamento do álbum "An American prayer" no final de 1978, que continha uma versão ao vivo de "Roadhouse blues" que recebeu airplay considerável em estações de rádio de rock voltadas para o álbum. Em 1979, a canção "The end" foi apresentada de forma dramática no filme "Apocalypse now", e no ano seguinte a biografia mais vendida de Morrison, "No one here get out alive", foi publicada. O primeiro álbum da The Doors, "The Doors", voltou a entrar na parada de álbuns da Billboard 200 em setembro de 1980 e a Elektra Records relatou que os álbuns da The Doors estavam vendendo melhor do que em qualquer ano desde seu lançamento original. Em resposta, um novo álbum de compilação, "Greatest hits", foi lançado em outubro de 1980. O álbum alcançou a posição 17 na Billboard e permaneceu nas paradas por quase dois anos.
O renascimento continuou em 1983 com o lançamento de "Alive, she cried", um álbum de gravações ao vivo inéditas. A faixa "Gloria" alcançou a posição 18 na parada Billboard Top Tracks e o vídeo estava em alta rotação na MTV. Outro álbum de compilação, "The best of The Doors" foi lançado em 1985 e foi certificado como Diamante em 2007 pela Recording Industry Association of America pelas vendas de 10 milhões de unidades certificadas.
Um segundo renascimento, atraindo outra geração de fãs, ocorreu em 1991 após o lançamento do filme "The Doors", dirigido por Oliver Stone e estrelado por Val Kilmer como Morrison. Stone criou o roteiro a partir de mais de cem entrevistas de pessoas que estiveram na vida de Morrison. Ele projetou o filme escolhendo as músicas e adicionando as histórias apropriadas a elas. Os membros originais da banda não gostaram da representação dos eventos no filme. No livro "The Doors", Manzarek afirma: "Aquela coisa de Oliver Stone causou danos reais ao cara que eu conhecia: Jim Morrison, o poeta". Além disso, Manzarek afirma que queria que o filme fosse sobre todos os quatro membros da banda, não apenas Morrison. Densmore disse: "Um terço de sua ficção". No mesmo volume, Krieger concorda com os outros dois, mas também diz: "Podia ter sido muito pior". O álbum da trilha sonora do filme alcançou o número 8 na parada de álbuns da Billboard, enquanto "Greatest hits" e "The best of The Doors" voltaram a entrar na parada, com o último alcançando uma nova posição de pico de número 32.
PRÊMIOS E RECONHECIMENTOS DA CRÍTICA
- Em 1993, The Doors foi introduzida no Hall da Fama do Rock and Roll.
- Em 1998, "Light my fire" foi introduzida no Grammy Hall of Fame na categoria "Rock (faixa)".
- Em 1998, o VH1 compilou uma lista dos "100 maiores artistas do rock and roll". The Doors foi classificada em 20º lugar pelos principais artistas da música, enquanto os leitores do "Rock on the Net" a classificou em 15º lugar.
- Em 2000, The Doors foi classificada em 32º lugar na lista dos "100 maiores artistas de hard rock" do VH1, e "Light my fire" foi classificada em sétimo lugar nas "Melhores canções de rock" do VH1.
- Em 2002, o álbum autointitulado foi introduzido no Grammy Hall of Fame na categoria "Rock (álbum)".
- Em 2004, a Rolling Stone classificou a The Doors em 41º lugar em sua lista dos "100 maiores artistas de todos os tempos".
- Também em 2004, a lista da revista Rolling Stone das "500 melhores canções de todos os tempos" incluía duas canções da banda: "Light my fire" no número 35 e "The end" no número 328.
- Em 2007, The Doors recebeu um prêmio Grammy pelo conjunto da obra.
- Em 2007, The Doors recebeu uma estrela na Calçada da Fama de Hollywood.
- Em 2010, "Riders on the storm" foi introduzido no Grammy Hall of Fame na categoria "Rock (faixa)".
- Em 2011, The Doors recebeu um prêmio Grammy de "Melhor videoclipe de longa duração" pelo filme "When you're strange", dirigido por Tom DiCillo.
- Em 2012, a lista da revista Rolling Stone dos "500 melhores álbuns de todos os tempos" incluía três álbuns de estúdio da banda: o álbum autointitulado no número 42, "L.A. woman" no número 362 e "Strange days" no número 407.
- Em 2014, The Doors foi eleita pelos leitores da revista British Classic Rock para receber o prêmio Roll of Honor Tommy Vance "Inspiration" daquele ano.
- Em 2015, a Biblioteca do Congresso selecionou The Doors para inclusão no Registro Nacional de Gravações com base em seu significado cultural, artístico ou histórico.
- Em 2016, The Doors recebeu um prêmio Grammy em reedições e compilação favoritas pelo álbum ao vivo "London fog 1966".
- The Doors foi homenageada pelo 50º aniversário do lançamento de seu álbum autointitulado, 4 de janeiro de 2017, com a cidade de Los Angeles proclamando essa data "O dia da The Doors". Em uma cerimônia em Venice, o membro do conselho de Los Angeles, Mike Bonin, apresentou os membros sobreviventes Densmore e Krieger, presenteando-os com uma proclamação emoldurada e acendendo uma placa da The Doors sob as famosas letras 'Venice'.
- O Asbury Park Music & Film Festival 2018 anunciou os vencedores do prêmio de apresentação de filmes. A cerimônia foi realizada no domingo, 29 de abril, no Asbury Hotel, apresentada por Shelli Sonstein, duas vezes vencedora do Gracie Award, co-apresentadora do Jim Kerr Rock e do Roll Morning Show no Q104.3 e membro do Conselho da APMFF. O filme "Break on thru: Celebration of Ray Manzarek and The Doors", ganhou o prêmio de melhor longa do festival.
- Em 2020, a Rolling Stone listou a edição de luxo do 50º aniversário de "Morrison Hotel" entre "Os melhores box sets do ano".
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The Doors was an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were among the most controversial and influential rock acts of the 1960s, partly due to Morrison's lyrics and voice, along with his erratic stage persona. The group is widely regarded as an important figure of the era's counterculture.
The band took its name from the title of Aldous Huxley's book "The doors of perception", itself a reference to a quote by William Blake. After signing with Elektra Records in 1966, The Doors with Morrison recorded and released six studio albums in five years, some of which are generally considered among the greatest of all time, including their self-titled debut, "The Doors" (1967), "Strange days" (1967), and "L.A. woman" (1971). They were one of the most successful bands during that time and by 1972 The Doors had sold over 4 million albums domestically and nearly 8 million singles.
Morrison died in uncertain circumstances in 1971. The band continued as a trio until disbanding in 1973. They released three more albums in the 1970s, one of which featured earlier recordings by Morrison, and over the decades reunited on stage in various configurations. In 2002, Manzarek, Krieger, and Ian Astbury of The Cult on vocals started performing as The Doors of the 21st Century. Densmore and the Morrison estate successfully sued them over the use of the band's name. After a short time as Riders on the Storm, they settled on the name Manzarek-Krieger and toured until Manzarek's death in 2013.
The Doors was the first American band to accumulate eight consecutive gold LPs. According to the RIAA, they have sold 34 million albums in the United States and over 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. The Doors have been listed as one of the greatest artists of all time by magazines including Rolling Stone, which ranked them 41st on its list of the "100 greatest artists of all time". In 1993, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
HISTORY
ORIGINS: JULY 1965 TO AUGUST 1966
The Doors began with a chance meeting between acquaintances Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek on Venice Beach in July 1965. They recognized one another from when they had both attended the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Morrison told Manzarek he had been writing songs. As Morrison would later relate to Jerry Hopkins in Rolling Stone, "Those first five or six songs I wrote, I was just taking notes at a fantastic rock concert that was going on inside my head. And once I'd written the songs, I had to sing them". With Manzarek's encouragement, Morrison sang the opening words of "Moonlight drive": "Let's swim to the moon, let's climb through the tide, penetrate the evening that the city sleeps to hide". Manzarek was inspired, thinking of all the music he could play to accompany these "cool and spooky" lyrics.
Manzarek was then in a band called Rick & The Ravens with his brothers Rick and Jim, while drummer John Densmore was playing with the Psychedelic Rangers and knew Manzarek from meditation classes. Densmore joined the group later in August 1965. Together, they combined varied musical backgrounds, from jazz, rock, blues, and folk music idioms. The five, along with bass player Patty Sullivan, and now christened The Doors, recorded a six-song demo on September 2, 1965, at World Pacific Studios in Los Angeles. The band took their name from the title of Aldous Huxley's book "The doors of perception", itself derived from a line in William Blake's "The marriage of Heaven and Hell": "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite". In late 1965, after Manzarek's two brothers left, guitarist Robby Krieger joined.
From February to May 1966, the group had a residency at the "rundown" and "sleazy" Los Angeles club London Fog, appearing on the bill with "Rhonda Lane exotic dancer". The experience gave Morrison confidence to perform in front of a live audience, and the band as a whole to develop and, in some cases, lengthen their songs and work "The end" and "Light my fire" into the pieces that would appear on their debut album. Manzarek later said that at the London Fog the band "became this collective entity, this unit of oneness ... that is where the magic began to happen". The group soon graduated to the more esteemed Whisky a Go Go, where they were the house band (starting from May 1966), supporting acts, including Van Morrison's group Them. On their last night together the two bands joined up for "In the midnight hour" and a twenty-minute jam session of "Gloria".
On August 10, 1966, they were spotted by Elektra Records president Jac Holzman, who was present at the recommendation of Love singer Arthur Lee, whose group was with Elektra Records. After Holzman and producer Paul A. Rothchild saw two sets of the band playing at the Whisky a Go Go, they signed them to the Elektra Records label on August 18 - the start of a long and successful partnership with Rothchild and sound engineer Bruce Botnick. The Doors were fired from the Whisky on August 21, 1966, when Morrison added an explicit retelling and profanity-laden version of the Greek myth of Oedipus during "The end".
THE DOORS AND STRANGE DAYS: AUGUST 1966 TO DECEMBER 1967
The Doors recorded their self-titled debut album around August 1966, at Sunset Sound Studios. The record was officially released in the first week of January 1967. It included many popular songs from their repertory, among those, the nearly 12-minute musical drama "The end". In November 1966, Mark Abramson directed a promotional film for the lead single "Break on through (To the other side)". The group also made several television appearances, such as on "Shebang", a Los Angeles television show, miming to a playback of "Break on through". In early 1967, the group appeared on "The Clay Cole Show" (which aired on Saturday evenings at 6 p.m. on WPIX Channel 11 out of New York City) where they performed their single "Break on through". Since the single acquired only minor recognition, the band turned to "Light my fire", which became the first single from Elektra Records to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, selling over one million copies.
From March 7 to 11, 1967, The Doors performed at the Matrix Club in San Francisco, California. The March 7 and 10 shows were recorded by a co-owner of the Matrix, Peter Abram. These recordings are notable as they are among the earliest live recordings of the band to circulate. On November 18, 2008, The Doors published a compilation of these recordings, "Live at the Matrix 1967", on the band's boutique Bright Midnight Archives label.
The Doors made their international television debut in May 1967, performing a version of "The end" for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) at O'Keefe Centre in Toronto. But after its initial broadcasts, the performance remained unreleased except in bootleg form until the release of "The Doors soundstage performances" DVD in 2002. On August 25, 1967, they appeared on American television, guest-starring on the variety TV series "Malibu U", performing "Light my fire", though they did not appear live. The band is seen on a beach and Morrison is lip-synching the song in playback. The music video did not gain any commercial success and the performance fell into relative obscurity. It was not until they appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" that they gained attention on television.
On September 17, 1967, The Doors gave a memorable performance of "Light my fire" on The Ed Sullivan Show. According to Manzarek, network executives asked that the word "higher" be removed, due to a possible reference to drug use. The group appeared to acquiesce, but performed the song in its original form, because either they had never intended to comply with the request or Jim Morrison was nervous and forgot to make the change (the group has given conflicting accounts). Either way, "higher" was sung out on national television, and the show's host, Ed Sullivan, canceled another six shows that had been planned. After the program's producer told the band they would never perform on the show again, Morrison reportedly replied: "Hey, man! We just did The Sullivan Show".
On December 24, The Doors performed "Light my fire" and "Moonlight drive" live for The Jonathan Winters Show. Their performance was taped for later broadcast. From December 26 to 28, the group played at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco - during one set, in the middle of "Back door man", the band stopped performing to watch themselves on The Jonathan Winters Show on a television set wheeled onto the stage.
The Doors spent several weeks in Sunset Studios in Los Angeles recording its second album, "Strange days", experimenting with the new technology, notably the Moog synthesizer they now had available. The commercial success of "Strange days" was middling, peaking at number three on the Billboard album chart but quickly dropping, along with a series of underperforming singles. The chorus from the album's single "People are strange" inspired the name of the 2009 documentary of The Doors, "When you're strange".
Although session musician Larry Knechtel had occasionally contributed bass on the band's debut album, "Strange days" was the first The Doors album recorded with a studio musician, playing bass on the majority of the record, and this continued on all subsequent studio albums. Manzarek explained that his keyboard bass was well-suited for live situations but that it lacked the "articulation" needed for studio recording. Douglass Lubahn played on "Strange days" and the next two albums - but the band used several other musicians for this role, often using more than one bassist on the same album. Kerry Magness, Leroy Vinnegar, Harvey Brooks, Ray Neopolitan, Lonnie Mack, Jerry Scheff, Jack Conrad (who played a major role in the post Morrison years touring with the group in 1971 and 1972), Chris Ethridge, Charles Larkey and Leland Sklar are credited as bassists who worked with the band.
NEW HAVEN INCIDENT: DECEMBER 1967
On December 9, 1967, The Doors performed a now-infamous concert at New Haven Arena in New Haven, Connecticut, which ended abruptly when Morrison was arrested by local police. Morrison became the first rock artist to be arrested onstage during a concert performance. Prior to the start of the concert, Morrison was either having a private conversation or kissing a female fan backstage in a bathroom shower stall when a police officer happened upon them. Unaware that he was the lead singer of the band about to perform, the officer told Morrison and the fan to leave, to which Morrison said, "Eat it". The policeman took out a can of mace and warned Morrison, "Last chance", to which Morrison replied, "Last chance to eat it". There is some discrepancy as to what happened next: according to "No one here gets out alive", the fan ran away and Morrison was maced, but Manzarek recounts in his book that both Morrison and the fan were sprayed.
The Doors' main act was delayed for an hour while Morrison recovered, after which the band took the stage very late. According to music journalist Gillian G. Gaar, the police still did not consider the issue resolved and wanted to charge him. Halfway through the first set, Morrison proceeded to create an improvised song about his experience with the "little man in blue". It was an obscenity-laced account to the audience, describing what had happened backstage and taunting the police, who were surrounding the stage. Later, an officer approached Morrison, during which Morrison thrust the microphone at his mouth and remarked, "Say your thing, man". The concert came to an abrupt end when Morrison was dragged from the stage by the police. The audience, already restless from waiting so long for the band to perform, became unruly. Morrison was taken to a local police station, photographed and booked on charges of inciting a riot, indecency and public obscenity. Charges against Morrison, as well as those against three journalists also arrested in the incident (Mike Zwerin, Yvonne Chabrier and Tim Page), were dropped several weeks later for lack of evidence.
WAITING FOR THE SUN: APRIL TO DECEMBER 1968
Recording of the group's third album in April 1968 was marred by tension as a result of Morrison's increasing dependence on alcohol and the rejection of the 17-minute "Celebration of the lizard" by band producer Paul Rothchild, who considered the work not commercial enough. Approaching the height of their popularity, The Doors played a series of outdoor shows that led to frenzied scenes between fans and police, particularly at Chicago Coliseum on May 10.
The band began to branch out from their initial form for this third LP, and began writing new material. "Waiting for the sun" became their first and only album to reach number 1 on the US charts, and the single "Hello, I love you" (one of the six songs performed by the band on their 1965 Aura Records demo) was their second US number 1 single. Following the 1968 release of "Hello, I love you", the publisher of The Kinks' 1964 hit "All day and all of the night" announced they were planning legal action against The Doors for copyright infringement. However, songwriter Ray Davies ultimately chose not to sue. The Kinks guitarist Dave Davies was particularly irritated by the similarity. In concert, Morrison was occasionally dismissive of the song, leaving the vocals to Manzarek, as can be seen in the documentary "The Doors are open".
A month after a riotous concert at the Singer Bowl in New York City, the group flew to Great Britain for their first performance outside North America. They held a press conference at the ICA Gallery in London and played shows at the Roundhouse. The results of the trip were broadcast on Granada TV's "The Doors are open", later released on video. They played dates in Europe, along with Jefferson Airplane, including a show in Amsterdam where Morrison collapsed on stage after a drug binge (including marijuana, hashish and unspecified pills).
The group flew back to the United States and played nine more dates before returning to work in November on their fourth LP. They ended the year with a successful new single, "Touch me" (released in December 1968), which reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 in the Cashbox Top 100 in early 1969 - this was the group's third and last American number-one single.
MIAMI INCIDENT: MARCH 1969
On March 1, 1969, at the Dinner Key Auditorium in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida, The Doors gave the most controversial performance of their career, one that nearly "derailed the band". The auditorium was a converted seaplane hangar that had no air conditioning on that hot night, and the seats had been removed by the promoter to boost ticket sales.
Morrison had been drinking all day and had missed connecting flights to Miami. By the time he arrived, drunk, the concert was over an hour late. The restless crowd of 12,000, packed into a facility designed to hold 7,000, was subjected to undue silences in Morrison's singing, which strained the music from the beginning of the performance. Morrison had recently attended a play by an experimental theater group The Living Theatre and was inspired by their "antagonistic" style of performance art. Morrison taunted the crowd with messages of both love and hate, saying, "Love me. I can't take it no more without no good love. I want some lovin'. Ain't nobody gonna love my ass?" and alternately, "You're all a bunch of fuckin' idiots!" and screaming "What are you gonna do about it?" over and over again.
As the band began their second song, "Touch me", Morrison started shouting in protest, forcing the band to a halt. At one point, Morrison removed the hat of an onstage police officer and threw it into the crowd. The officer in reaction threw Morrison's hat too. Manager Bill Siddons recalled, "The gig was a bizarre, circus-like thing, there was this guy carrying a sheep and the wildest people that I'd ever seen". Equipment chief Vince Treanor said, "Somebody jumped up and poured champagne on Jim so he took his shirt off, he was soaking wet. 'Let's see a little skin, let's get naked,' he said, and the audience started taking their clothes off". Having removed his shirt, Morrison held it in front of his groin area and started to make hand movements behind it. Manzarek described the incident as a mass "religious hallucination".
On March 5, the Dade County Sheriff's office issued a warrant for Morrison's arrest, claiming Morrison had exposed his penis while on stage, shouted obscenities to the crowd, simulated oral sex on Krieger, and was drunk at the time of his performance. Morrison turned down a plea bargain that required The Doors to perform a free Miami concert. He was convicted and sentenced to six months in jail with hard labor, and ordered to pay a $500 fine. Morrison remained free, pending an appeal of his conviction, and died before the matter was legally resolved. In 2007 Florida Governor Charlie Crist suggested the possibility of a posthumous pardon for Morrison, which was announced as successful on December 9, 2010. Densmore, Krieger and Manzarek have denied the allegation that Morrison exposed himself on stage that night.
THE SOFT PARADE: MAY TO JULY 1969
The Doors' fourth album, "The soft parade", released in July 1969, was their first-and-only to feature brass and string arrangements. The concept was suggested by Rothchild to the band, after listening to many examples by various groups who also explored the same radical departure. Densmore and Manzarek (who both were influenced by jazz music) agreed with the recommendation, but Morrison declined to incorporate orchestral accompaniment on his compositions. The lead single, "Touch me", featured saxophonist Curtis Amy.
While the band was trying faintly to maintain their previous momentum, efforts to expand their sound gave the album an experimental feel, causing critics to attack their musical integrity. According to Densmore in his biography "Riders on the storm", individual writing credits were noted for the first time because of Morrison's reluctance to sing the lyrics of Krieger's song "Tell all the people". Morrison's drinking made him difficult and unreliable, and the recording sessions dragged on for months. Studio costs piled up, and The Doors came close to disintegrating. Despite all this, the album was immensely successful, becoming the band's fourth hit album. By this time, Morrison had become distant from the music and had intended to quit the group, but was persuaded by Manzarek to stay for six more months.
MORRISON HOTEL AND ABSOLUTELY LIVE: NOVEMBER 1969 TO DECEMBER 1970
During the recording of their next album, "Morrison Hotel", in November 1969, Morrison again found himself in trouble with the law after harassing airline staff during a flight to Phoenix, Arizona to see The Rolling Stones in concert. Both Morrison and his friend and traveling companion Tom Baker were charged with "interfering with the flight of an intercontinental aircraft and public drunkenness". If convicted of the most serious charge, Morrison could have faced a ten-year federal prison sentence for the incident. The charges were dropped in April 1970 after an airline stewardess reversed her testimony to say she mistakenly identified Morrison as Baker.
The Doors staged a return to a more conventional direction after the experimental "The soft parade", with their fifth LP "Morrison Hotel" in 1970. Featuring a consistent blues rock sound, the album's opener was "Roadhouse blues". The record reached number 4 in the United States and revived their status among their core fanbase and the rock press. Dave Marsh, the editor of Creem magazine, said of the album: "the most horrifying rock and roll I have ever heard. When they're good, they're simply unbeatable. I know this is the best record I've listened to ... so far". Rock Magazine called it "without any doubt their ballsiest (and best) album to date". Circus magazine praised it as "possibly the best album yet from The Doors" and "good hard, evil rock, and one of the best albums released this decade". The album also saw Morrison returning as main songwriter, writing or co-writing all of the album's tracks. The 40th anniversary CD reissue of "Morrison Hotel" contains outtakes and alternative takes, including different versions of "The spy" and "Roadhouse blues" (with Lonnie Mack on bass guitar and The Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian on harmonica).
July 1970 saw the release of the group's first live album, "Absolutely live", which peaked at number 8 position on the charts. The record was completed by producer Rothchild, who confirmed that the album's final mixing consisted of many bits and pieces from various and different band concerts. "There must be 2000 edits on that album", he told an interviewer years later. "Absolutely live" also includes the first release of the lengthy piece "Celebration of the lizard".
Although The Doors continued to face de facto bans in more conservative American markets and earned new bans at Salt Lake City's Salt Palace and Detroit's Cobo Hall following tumultuous concerts, the band managed to play 18 concerts in the United States, Mexico and Canada following the Miami incident in 1969, and 23 dates in the United States and Canada throughout the first half of 1970. The group later made it to the Isle of Wight Festival on August 29: performing on the same day as John Sebastian, Shawn Phillips, Lighthouse, Joni Mitchell, Tiny Tim, Miles Davis, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Who, Sly and The Family Stone and Melanie - the performance was the last captured on the band's "Roadhouse blues tour".
On December 8, 1970, his 27th birthday, Morrison recorded another poetry session. Part of this would end up on "An American prayer" in 1978 with music, and is currently in the possession of the Courson family. Shortly thereafter, a new tour to promote their upcoming album would comprise only three dates. Two concerts were held in Dallas on December 11. During The Doors' last public performance with Morrison, at The Warehouse in New Orleans, on December 12, 1970, Morrison apparently had a breakdown on stage. Midway through the set he slammed the microphone numerous times into the stage floor until the platform beneath was destroyed, then sat down and refused to perform for the remainder of the show. After the concert, Densmore, Manzarek and Krieger decided to end their live act, citing their mutual agreement that Morrison was ready to retire from performing.
L.A. WOMAN AND MORRISON'S DEATH: DECEMBER 1970 TO JULY 1971
Despite Morrison's conviction and the fallout from their appearance in New Orleans, The Doors set out to reclaim their status as a premier act with the album "L.A. woman", recorded in Los Angeles in 1971. The album included rhythm guitarist Marc Benno on several tracks and prominently featured bassist Jerry Scheff, best known for his work in Elvis Presley's TCB Band. Despite a comparatively low Billboard chart peak at number 9, "L.A. woman" contained two Top 20 hits and went on to be their second best-selling studio album, surpassed in sales only by their debut. The album explored their R&B roots, although during rehearsals they had a falling-out with Paul Rothchild, who was dissatisfied with the band's effort. Denouncing "Love her madly" as "cocktail lounge music", he quit and handed the production to Bruce Botnick and The Doors.
The title track and two singles ("Love her madly" and "Riders on the storm") remain mainstays of rock radio programming, with the latter being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for its special significance to recorded music. In the song "L.A. woman", Morrison makes an anagram of his name to chant "Mr. Mojo Risin'". During the sessions, a short clip of the band performing "Crawling king snake" was filmed. As far as is known, this is the last clip of The Doors performing with Morrison.
On March 13, 1971, near the end of the mixing of "L.A. woman", Morrison took a leave of absence from The Doors and moved to Paris with Pamela Courson - he had visited the city the previous summer. On July 3, 1971, following months of settling, Morrison was found dead in the bath by Courson. Despite the absence of an official autopsy, the reason of death was listed as heart failure. He was buried in the "Poets' Corner" of Père Lachaise Cemetery on July 7.
Morrison died at age 27, the same age as several other famous rock stars in the 27 Club. In 1974, Morrison's girlfriend Pamela Courson also died at the age of 27.
AFTER MORRISON
"Morrison's passing stamped
The Doors with a seal of legend
and immortality. There was no opportunity
for the band to go into the seventies intact.
Perhaps that's a good thing. I can't
imagine The Doors in
the era of disco".
- Henry Rollins
"L.A. woman"'s follow up album, "Other voices", was being planned while Morrison was in Paris. The band assumed he would return to help them complete the album. After Morrison died, the surviving members considered replacing him with several new people, such as Paul McCartney on bass, and Iggy Pop on vocals. But after neither of these worked out, Krieger and Manzarek took over lead vocal duties themselves. "Other voices" was finally completed in August 1971, and released in October 1971. The record featured the single "Tightrope ride", which received some radio airplay. The trio began performing again with additional supporting members on November 12, 1971, at Pershing Municipal Auditorium in Lincoln, Nebraska, followed by shows at Carnegie Hall on November 23, and The Hollywood Palladium on November 26.
The recordings for "Full circle" took place a year after "Other voices" during the spring of 1972, and the album was released in August 1972. For the tours during this period, The Doors enlisted Jack Conrad on bass (who had played on several tracks on both "Other voices" and "Full circle") as well as Bobby Ray Henson on rhythm guitar. They began a European tour covering France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, including an appearance on the German show Beat-Club. Like "Other voices", "Full circle" did not perform as well commercially as their previous albums. While "Full circle" was notable for adding elements of funk and jazz to the usual The Doors sound, the band struggled with Manzarek and Krieger leading (neither of the post-Morrison albums had reached the Top 10 while all six of their albums with Morrison had). Once their contract with Elektra had elapsed The Doors disbanded in 1973.
REUNIONS
The third post-Morrison album, "An American prayer", was released in 1978. It consisted of the band adding musical backing tracks to previously recorded spoken word performances of Morrison reciting his poetry. The record was a commercial success, acquiring a platinum certificate. Two years later, it was nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Spoken word album" category, but it ultimately lost to John Gielgud's "The ages of man". "An American prayer" was re-mastered and re-released with bonus tracks in 1995.
In 1993, The Doors was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In the ceremony, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore reunited once again to perform "Roadhouse blues", "Break on through" and "Light my fire". Eddie Vedder filled in on lead vocals, while Don Was played bass. For the 1997 boxed set, the surviving members of The Doors reconvened to complete "Orange county suite". The track was one that Morrison had written and recorded in early 1969, providing vocals and piano.
The Doors reunited in 2000 to perform on VH1's "Storytellers". For the live performance, the band was joined by Angelo Barbera and numerous guest vocalists, including Ian Astbury of The Cult, Scott Weiland, Scott Stapp, Perry Farrell, Pat Monahan and Travis Meeks. Following the recording of "Storytellers: A celebration", the band members joined to record music for the "Stoned immaculate: The music of The Doors" tribute album. On May 29, 2007, Perry Farrell's group the Satellite Party released its first album "Ultra payloaded" on Columbia Records. It featured "Woman in the window", a new song with a pre-recorded vocal performance by Morrison.
Subsequently, Manzarek along with Krieger, Densmore and DJ/producer Skrillex (Sonny Moore) recorded a new song, of which Manzarek said, "I like to say this is the first new Doors track of the 21st century". The recording session and song are part of a documentary film, "Re:GENERATION", that recruited five popular DJs/producers to work with artists from five separate genres and had them record new music. Manzarek and Skrillex had an immediate musical connection: "Sonny plays his beat, all he had to do was play the one thing. I listened to it and I said, 'Holy shit, that's strong'", Manzarek says. "Basically, it's a variation on 'Milestones', by Miles Davis, and if I do say so myself, sounds fucking great, hot as hell". The track, called "Breakn' a sweat", was included on Skrillex's EP "Bangarang".
In 2013, the remaining members of The Doors recorded with rapper Tech N9ne for the song "Strange 2013", appearing on his album "Something else", which features new instrumentation by the band and samples of Morrison's vocals from the song "Strange days". In their final collaboration before Manzarek's death, the three surviving The Doors' members provided backing for poet Michael C. Ford's album "Look each other in the ears".
On February 12, 2016, at The Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, Densmore and Krieger reunited for the first time in 15 years to perform in tribute to Manzarek and benefit Stand Up to Cancer. That day would have been Manzarek's 77th birthday. The night featured Exene Cervenka and John Doe of the band X, Rami Jaffee of the Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots' Robert Deleo, Jane's Addiction's Stephen Perkins, Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara, Andrew Watt, among others.
AFTER THE DOORS
After Morrison died in 1971, Densmore and Krieger went to London looking for a new lead singer. They formed the Butts Band in 1973 there, signing with Blue Thumb Records. They released an album titled "Butts Band" the same year, then disbanded in 1975 after a second album with Phil Chen on bass.
Manzarek made three solo albums from 1974 to 1983 and formed a band called Nite City in 1975, which released two albums in 1977-1978. Krieger released six solo albums from 1977 to 2010. In 2002, the two together formed a new version of The Doors which they called The Doors of the 21st Century. Due to legal battles with Densmore and the Morrison estate over use of The Doors name, they changed their name several times and ultimately toured under the name Manzarek-Krieger or Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of The Doors. The group toured extensively throughout their career. In July 2007, Densmore announced he would not reunite with The Doors unless Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam was the lead singer.
On May 20, 2013, Manzarek died at a hospital in Rosenheim, Germany, at the age of 74 due to complications related to bile duct cancer. Krieger and Densmore came together on February 12, 2016, at a benefit concert memorial for Manzarek. All proceeds went to Stand Up to Cancer.
LEGACY
Beginning in the late 1970s, there was a sustained revival of interest in The Doors which created a new generation of fans. The origin of the revival is traced to the release of the album "An American prayer" in late 1978 which contained a live version of "Roadhouse blues" that received considerable airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations. In 1979 the song "The end" was featured in dramatic fashion in the film "Apocalypse now", and the next year the best-selling biography of Morrison, "No one here gets out alive", was published. The Doors' first album, "The Doors", re-entered the Billboard 200 album chart in September 1980 and Elektra Records reported The Doors' albums were selling better than in any year since their original release. In response a new compilation album, "Greatest hits", was released in October 1980. The album peaked at number 17 in Billboard and remained on the chart for nearly two years.
The revival continued in 1983 with the release of "Alive, she cried", an album of previously unreleased live recordings. The track "Gloria" reached number 18 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart and the video was in heavy rotation on MTV. Another compilation album, "The best of The Doors" was released in 1985 and went on to be certified Diamond in 2007 by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 10 million certified units.
A second revival, attracting another generation of fans, occurred in 1991 following the release of the film "The Doors", directed by Oliver Stone and starring Val Kilmer as Morrison. Stone created the script from over a hundred interviews of people who were in Morrison's life. He designed the movie by picking the songs and then adding the appropriate storylines to them. The original band members did not like the film's portrayal of the events. In the book "The Doors", Manzarek states, "That Oliver Stone thing did real damage to the guy I knew: Jim Morrison, the poet". In addition, Manzarek claims that he wanted the movie to be about all four members of the band, not only Morrison. Densmore said, "A third of it's fiction". In the same volume, Krieger agrees with the other two, but also says, "It could have been a lot worse". The film's soundtrack album reached number 8 on the Billboard album chart and "Greatest hits" and "The best of The Doors" re-entered the chart, with the latter reaching a new peak position of number 32.
AWARDS AND CRITICAL ACCOLADES
- In 1993, The Doors was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- In 1998, "Light my fire" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame under the category "Rock (track)".
- In 1998, VH1 compiled a list of the "100 greatest artists of rock and roll". The Doors was ranked number 20 by top music artists while Rock on the Net readers ranked them number 15.
- In 2000, The Doors was ranked number 32 on VH1's "100 greatest hard rock artists", and "Light my fire" was ranked number seven on VH1's "Greatest rock songs".
- In 2002, the self-titled album' was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame under the category "Rock (album)".
- In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked The Doors 41st on their list of "100 greatest artists of all time".
- Also in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 greatest songs of all time" included two of band songs: "Light my fire" at number 35 and "The end" at number 328.
- In 2007, The Doors received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.
- In 2007, The Doors received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- In 2010, "Riders on the storm" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame under the category "Rock (track)".
- In 2011, The Doors received a Grammy Award in "Best long form music video" for the film "When you're strange", directed by Tom DiCillo.
- In 2012, Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 greatest albums of all time" included three of band studio albums: the self-titled album at number 42, "L.A. woman" at number 362, and "Strange days" at number 407.
- In 2014, The Doors was voted by British Classic Rock magazine's readers to receive that year's Roll of Honour Tommy Vance "Inspiration" Award.
- In 2015, the Library of Congress selected The Doors for inclusion in The National Recording Registry based on its cultural, artistic or historical significance.
- In 2016, The Doors received a Grammy Award in Favorite Reissues and Compilation for the live album "London fog 1966".
- The Doors was honored for the 50th anniversary of its self-titled album release, January 4, 2017, with the city of Los Angeles proclaiming that date "The day of The Doors". At a ceremony in Venice, Los Angeles Councilmember Mike Bonin introduced surviving members Densmore and Krieger, presenting them with a framed proclamation and lighting a The Doors sign beneath the famed 'Venice' letters.
- The 2018 Asbury Park Music & Film Festival has announced the film submission award winners. The ceremony was held on Sunday, April 29 at the Asbury Hotel hosted by Shelli Sonstein, two-time Gracie Award winner, co-host of the Jim Kerr Rock and Roll Morning Show on Q104.3 and APMFF Board member. The film "Break on thru: Celebration of Ray Manzarek and The Doors", won the best length feature at the festival.
- In 2020, Rolling Stone listed the 50th anniversary deluxe edition of "Morrison Hotel" among "The best box sets of the year".
Membros
Jim Morrison - vocal,
gaita, percussão (1965-1971)
Ray Manzarek - teclados, órgão, vocal
principal e de apoio (1965-1973, 1978)
Robby Krieger - guitarra, vocal principal
e de apoio (1965-1973, 1978)
John Densmore - bateria,
percussão, vocal de apoio
(1965-1973, 1978)
Patty Sullivan -
baixo (1965)
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STUDIO ALBUMS
The Doors (1967)
[Elektra Records, 1999]
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01. Break on through
(To the other side)
02. Soul kitchen
03. The crystal ship
04. Twentieth
century fox
05. Alabama song
(Whisky bar)
06. Light my fire
07. Back door man
08. I looked at you
09. End of the night
10. Take it as it comes
11. The end
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The Doors (1967)
[Warner Music, 2005]
.jpg "The Doors - The Doors - 1967 (Warner Music, 2005, front)")
01. Break on through
(To the other side)
02. Soul kitchen
03. The crystal ship
04. Twentieth
century fox
05. Alabama song
(Whisky bar)
06. Light my fire
07. Back door man
08. I looked at you
09. End of the night
10. Take it as it comes
11. The end
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Strange days (1967)
[Elektra Records, 1999]
.jpg "The Doors - Strange days - 1967 (Elektra Records, 1999, front)")
01. Strange days
02. You're lost little girl
03. Love me two times
04. Unhappy girl
05. Horse latitudes
06. Moonlight drive
07. People are strange
08. My eyes have seen you
09. I can't see your
face in my mind
10. When the
music's over
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Strange days (1967)
[Warner Music, 2005]
.jpg "The Doors - Strange days - 1967 (Warner Music, 2005, front)")
01. Strange days
02. You're lost little girl
03. Love me two times
04. Unhappy girl
05. Horse latitudes
06. Moonlight drive
07. People are strange
08. My eyes have seen you
09. I can't see your
face in my mind
10. When the
music's over
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Waiting for the sun (1968)
[Elektra Records, 1999]
.jpg "The Doors - Waiting for the sun - 1968 (Elektra Records, 1999, front)")
01. Hello,
I love you
02. Love street
03. Not to touch the Earth
04. Summer's almost gone
05. Wintertime love
06. The unknown soldier
07. Spanish caravan
08. My wild love
09. We could be
so good together
10. Yes, the
river knows
11. Five to
one
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Waiting for the sun (1968)
[Warner Music, 2005]
.jpg "The Doors - Waiting for the sun - 1968 (Warner Music, 2005, front)")
01. Hello,
I love you
02. Love street
03. Not to touch the Earth
04. Summer's almost gone
05. Wintertime love
06. The unknown soldier
07. Spanish caravan
08. My wild love
09. We could be
so good together
10. Yes, the
river knows
11. Five to
one
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The soft parade (1969)
[Elektra Records, 1989]
.jpg "The Doors - The soft parade - 1969 (Elektra Records, 1989, front)")
01. Tell all
the people
02. Touch me
03. Shaman's
blues
04. Do it
05. Easy ride
06. Wild child
07. Runnin' blue
08. Wishful sinful
09. The soft parade
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The soft parade (1969)
[Warner Music, 2005]
.jpg "The Doors - The soft parade - 1969 (Warner Music, 2005, front)")
01. Tell all
the people
02. Touch me
03. Shaman's
blues
04. Do it
05. Easy ride
06. Wild child
07. Runnin' blue
08. Wishful sinful
09. The soft parade
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Morrison Hotel (1970)
[Elektra Records, 1991]
.jpg "The Doors - Morrisin Hotel - 1970 (Elektra Records, 1991, front)")
01. Roadhouse blues
02. Waiting
for the sun
03. You
make me real
04. Peace frog
05. Blue sunday
06. Ship of fools
07. Land ho!
08. The spy
09. Queen of
the highway
10. Indian summer
11. Maggie M'Gill
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Morrison Hotel (1970)
[Warner Music, 2007]
.jpg "The Doors - Morrison Hotel - 1970 (Warner Music, 2007, front)")
01. Roadhouse blues
02. Waiting
for the sun
03. You
make me real
04. Peace frog
05. Blue sunday
06. Ship of fools
07. Land ho!
08. The spy
09. Queen of
the highway
10. Indian summer
11. Maggie M'Gill
Bonus
12. Talking blues
13. Roadhouse blues
(11/4/69, takes 1-3)
14. Roadhouse blues
(11/4/69, take 6)
15. Carol (11/4/69)
16. Roadhouse blues
(11/5/69, take 1)
17. Money beats
soul (11/5/69)
18. Roadhouse blues
(11/5/69, takes 13-15)
19. Peace frog (false
starts & dialogue)
20. The spy (version 2)
21. Queen of the highway
(jazz version)
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L.A. woman (1971)
[Elektra Records, 1999]
.jpg "The Doors - L.A. woman - 1971 (Elektra Records, 1999, front)")
01. The changeling
02. Love her madly
03. Been down
so long
04. Cars hiss
by my window
05. L.A. woman
06. L'America
07. Hyacinth house
08. Crawling king snake
09. The WASP (Texas
Radio and the Big Beat)
10. Riders on
the storm
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L.A. woman (1971)
[Warner Music, 2005]
.jpg "The Doors - L.A. woman - 1971 (Warner Music, 2005, front)")
01. The changeling
02. Love her madly
03. Been down
so long
04. Cars hiss
by my window
05. L.A. woman
06. L'America
07. Hyacinth house
08. Crawling king snake
09. The WASP (Texas
Radio and the Big Beat)
10. Riders on
the storm
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Others voices + Full circle (2015)
.jpg "The Doors - Others voices + Full circle - 2015 (front)")
CD 01: Other voices (1971)
.jpg "The Doors - Other voices - 1971 (front)")
01. In the eye of the sun
02. Variety is the spice of life
03. Ships W/Sails
04. Tightrope ride
05. Down on the farm
06. I'm horny, I'm stoned
07. Wandering musician
08. Hang on to your life
CD 02: Full circle (1972)
.jpg "The Doors - Full circle - 1972 (front)")
01. Get up
and dance
02. 4 billion souls
03. Verdilac
04. Hardwood floor
05. Good rockin'
06. The mosquito
07. The piano bird
08. It slipped my mind
09. The Peking King and
the New York Queen
10. Treetrunk (bonus)
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An American prayer (1978)
.jpg "The Doors - An American prayer - 1978 (front)")
01. Awake
02. Ghost song
03. Dawn's highway
04. Newborn awakening
05. To come of age
06. Black
polished chrome
07. Latino chrome
08. Angels and sailors
09. Stoned immaculate
10. The movie
11. Curses, invocations
12. American night
13. Roadhouse blues
14. The world on fire
15. Lament
16. The hitchhiker
17. An American prayer
18. Hour for magic
19. Freedom exists
20. A feast of friends
21. Babylon fading [bonus]
22. Bird of prey [bonus]
23. The ghost song
[bonus]
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COMPILATION AND
LIVE ALBUMS
13 (1970)
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01. Light my fire
02. People are strange
03. Back door man
04. Moonlight drive
05. The crystal ship
06. Roadhouse blues
07. Touch me
08. Love me two times
09. You're lost, little girl
10. Hello, I love you
11. Land ho!
12. Wild child
13. The unknown
soldier
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Absolutely live (1970)
.jpg "The Doors - Absolutely live - 1970 (front)")
01. House announcer
02. Who do you love?
03. Alabama song
04. Backdoor man
05. Love hides
06. Five to one
07. Build me a woman
08. When the music's over
09. Close to you
10. Universal mind
11. Petition the
Lord with prayer
12. Dead cats, dead rats
13. Break on through #2
14. Lions in the street
15. Wake up
16. A little game
17. The hill dwellers
18. Not to touch the Earth
19. Names of the Kingdom
20. The palace of exile
21. Soul kitchen
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Weird scenes inside
the gold mine (1972)
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CD 01
01. Break on through
(To the other side)
02. Strange days
03. Shaman's blues
04. Love street
05. Peace frog/
Blue sunday
06. The WASP (Texas
Radio and the Big Beat)
07. End of the night
08. Love her madly
09. Spanish caravan
10. Ship of fools
11. The spy
12. The end
CD 02
01. Take it as it comes
02. Runnin' blue
03. L.A. woman
04. Five to one
05. Who scared you?
06. (You need meat)
Don't go no further
07. Riders on the storm
08. Maggie M'Gill
09. Horse latitudes
10. When the
music's over
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Alive, she cried (1983)
.jpg "The Doors - Alive, she cried - 1983 (front)")
01. Gloria
02. Light my fire
03. You make me real
04. Texas Radio
& the Big Beat
05. Love me two times
06. Little red rooster
07. Moonlight drive
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The best of The Doors (1985)
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CD 01
01. Break on through
02. Light my fire
03. The crystal ship
04. People are strange
05. Strange days
06. Love me two times
07. Alabama song
08. Five to one
09. Waiting for the sun
10. Spanish caravan
11. When the music's
over
CD 02
01. Hello, I love you
02. Roadhouse blues
03. L.A. woman
04. Riders
on the storm
05. Touch me
06. Lover her madly
07. The unknown soldier
08. The end
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The Doors (1991)
[original soundtrack recording]
![The Doors - The Doors [original soundtrack recording] - 1991 (front)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvtvy__-289Pn4RFt2YwlhHR7yLpoU8ZJ8qzUAg7_rBkm71IN9we8iEHKh9Y1KodMWycaXLJEbnZvq5NdvQj4xPTHevo7FjHradvq1NJwhDsB_h5qOWbl4z6E6aNWstGLN2WAfJpaeXTdTR1BvVKEsJBaUu6WIV7eiPow_7oisatLjGH4y2e7hL9kPLw/s3000/The%20Doors%20-%20The%20Doors%20%5Boriginal%20soundtrack%20recording%5D%20-%201991%20(front).jpg "The Doors - The Doors [original soundtrack recording] - 1991 (front)")
01. The movie
02. Riders
on the storm
03. Love street
04. Break on through
05. The end
06. Light my fire
07. Ghost song
08. Roadhouse blues
09. Heroin
10. Carmina Burana
(Introduction)
11. Stoned immaculate
12. When the
music's over
13. The severed
garden (Adagio)
14. L.A. woman
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Bright midnight:
Live in America (2001)
![The Doors - Bright midnight [Live in America] - 2001 (front)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPNBR_E-m_STtZfZp3GOe6yg8neFRZjnAp1eIhEFv1dD05Ognt7GxeUgngDJ75zQLwd4RqFqNgZY9GhncKn9h5FcBf3O6_ic_A3rK7A51ULH4o5vv4KKjFPoUUm3aOq9Zt120DABlbbrJrFvr69g9FPXB96ui7EnEFefQGbXQKS57IG-xSi1iFOusK2Q/s3000/The%20Doors%20-%20Bright%20midnight%20%5BLive%20in%20America%5D%20-%202001%20(front).jpg "The Doors - Bright midnight [Live in America] - 2001 (front)")
01. Light my fire (Philadelphia)
02. Been down so long (Detroit)
03. Back door man (Pittsburgh)
04. Love hides (Pittsburgh)
05. Five to one (Pittsburgh)
06. Touch me (Hollywood)
07. The crystal
ship (Hollywood)
08. Break on through
(to the other side) [New York]
09. Bellowing (Boston)
10. Roadhouse blues (Boston)
11. Alabama song
(Whisky bar) [New York]
12.Love me two times/
Baby please don't go/
St James Infirmary
(Bakersfield stage
recording)
13. The end
(Detroit)
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Live in Philadelphia '70 (2005)
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CD 01
01. Announcer
"sit down"
02. Tuning
03. Roadhouse blues
04. Break on through
(To the other side)
05. Back door man/
Love hides
06. Ship of fools
07. Universal mind
08. When the music's over
09. Mystery train
10. Wake up!
11. Light my fire
CD 02
01. The
concert continues
02. Maggie M'Gill
03. Roadhouse blues (reprise)
04. Been down so long/
Rock me baby
05. The music capital
of the world, Philadelphia
06. Carol
07. Soul
kitchen
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Perception (2006)
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(To the other side)
02. Soul kitchen
03. The crystal ship
04. Twentieth
century fox
05. Alabama song
(Whisky bar)
06. Light my fire
07. Back door man
08. I looked at you
09. End of the night
10. Take it as it comes
11. The end
Bonus
12. Moonlight
drive (version 1)
13. Moonlight drive
(version 2)
14. Indian summer
(19-08-1966 vocal)
CD 02
.jpg "The Doors - Perception - 2006 (CD 02, front)")
02. You're lost little girl
03. Love me two times
04. Unhappy girl
05. Horse latitudes
06. Moonlight drive
07. People are strange
08. My eyes have seen you
09. I can't see your
face in my mind
10. When the music's over
11. People are strange
(false starts & studio
dialogue) [bonus]
12. Love me two
times (take 3)
[bonus]
CD 03
.jpg "The Doors - Perception - 2006 (CD 03, front)")
02. Love street
03. Not to touch the Earth
04. Summer's almost gone
05. Wintertime love
06. The unknown soldier
07. Spanish caravan
08. My wild love
09. We could be
so good together
10. Yes, the river knows
11. Five to one
Bonus
12. Albinoni's
adagio in G minor
13. Not to touch the
Earth (dialogue)
14. Not to touch the
Earth (take 1)
15. Not to touch the
Earth (take 2)
16. Celebration of the
lizard (An experiment/
Work in progress)
CD 04
.jpg "The Doors - Perception - 2006 (CD 04, front)")
the people
02. Touch me
03. Shaman's blues
04. Do it
05. Easy ride
06. Wild child
07. Runnin' blue
08. Wishful sinful
09. The soft parade
Bonus
10. Who scared you?
11. Whiskey, mystics
and men (version 1)
12. Whiskey, mystics and
men (version 2)
13. Push, push
14. Touch me
(dialogue)
15. Touch me
(take 3)
CD 05
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02. Waiting for the sun
03. You make me real
04. Peace frog
05. Blue sunday
06. Ship of fools
07. Land ho!
08. The spy
09. Queen of the highway
10. Indian summer
11. Maggie M'Gill
Bonus
12. Talking blues
13. Roadhouse blues
(1969/11/04, takes 1-3)
14. Roadhouse blues
(1969/11/04, take 6)
15. Carol (1969/11/04)
16. Roadhouse blues
(1969/11/05, take 1)
17. Money beats soul
(1969/11/05)
18. Roadhouse blues
(1969/11/05, takes 13-15)
19. Peace frog (false
starts & dialogue)
20. The spy (version 2)
21. Queen of the highway
(jazz version)
CD 06
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02. Love her madly
03. Been down so long
04. Cars hiss
by my window
05. L.A. woman
06. L'America
07. Hyacinth house
08. Crawling king snake
09. The WASP (Texas
Radio and the Big Beat)
10. Riders on the storm
Bonus
11. Orange county suite
12. (You need meat)
Don't go no further
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Live at Boston Arena (2007)
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CD 01
01. Start
02. All right, all right
03. Roadhouse moan
04. Roadhouse blues
05. Ship of fools
06. Alabama
song (Whisky bar)
07. Back door man
08. Five to one
09. When the
music's over
10. Rock me
11. Mystery train
12. Away in India
13. Crossroads
14. Prelude to
"Wake up!"
15. Wake up!
16. Light
my fire
CD 02
01. Start
02. Break on through
03. I believe in democracy
04. When the music's over
05. Roadhouse blues
06. The spy
07. Alabama
song (Whisky bar)
08. Back door man
09. Five to one
10. Astrology rap
11. Build me a woman
12. You make me real
13. Wait a minute!
14. Mystery train
15. Away in India
16. Crossroads
CD 03
01. Band intros
02. Adolf Hitler
03. Light my fire
04. Fever
05. Summertime
06. St. James
Infirmary blues
07. Graveyard poem
08. Light my fire (reprise)
09. More, more, more!
10. Ladies & gentlemen
11. We can't instigate
12. They want more
13. Been down so long
14. Power turned
off
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Live in Pittsburgh
Civic Arena (2008)
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01. Back door man
02. Love hides
03. Five to one
04. Roadhouse blues
05. Mystery train
06. Away in India
07. Crossroads blues
08. Universal mind
09. Someday soon
10. When the music's over
11. Break on through
12. Push push
13. The soft
parade vamp
14. Tonight you're
in for a special treat
15. Close to you
16. Light my fire
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Live in New York (2009)
[CD version - 6 CDs]
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CD 01
01. Start of show 1
02. Roadhouse blues
03. Ship of fools
04. Break on through
(To the other side)
05. Tuning/Breather
06. Peace frog
07. Blue sunday
08. Alabama
song (Whiskey bar)
09. Back door man
10. Love hides
11. Five to one
12. Tuning/Breather
13. Who do you love?
14. Little red rooster
15. Money
16. Tuning/Breather
17. Light my fire
18. More, more, more
19. Soul kitchen
20. End of show
CD 02
01. Start of show 2
02. Jim 'how ya doing'
03. Roadhouse blues
04. Break on through
(To the other side)
05. Ship of fools
06. Crawling
king snake
07. Alabama
song (Whisky bar)
08. Back door man
09. Five to one
10. Pretty neat,
pretty good
11. Build me a woman
12. Tuning/Breather
13. Who do you love?
14. Tuning/Breather
15. Wild child
16. Cheering/Tuning
17. When the music's
over
CD 03
01. Tuning/Breather
02. Light my fire
03. Hey,
Mr. Light Man!
04. Soul kitchen
05. Jim's fish joke
06. The end
07. End of
show
CD 04
01. Start of show 3
02. Roadhouse blues
03. Ship of fools
04. Break on through
(To the other side)
05. Tuning/Breather
06. Universal mind
07. Alabama song
(Whisky bar) (false start)
08. Alabama song
(Whisky bar)
09. Back door man
10. Five to one
11. Tuning/Breather
12. Moonlight drive
13. Who do you love?
14. Calling out
for songs
15. Money
16. Tuning/Breather
17. Light my fire
18. More, more, more
19. When the music's over
20. Good night/
End of show
CD 05
01. Start of show 4
02. Roadhouse blues
03. Peace frog
04. Alabama song
(Whisky bar)
05. Back door man
06. Five to one
07. We have a special treat
08. Celebration of the lizard
09. Alright let's boogie
10. Build me a woman
11. When the music's over
12. More, more, more
CD 06
01. Soul kitchen
02. For fear of
getting too patriotic
03. Petition the
Lord with prayer
04. Light my fire
05. Only when the
moon comes out
06. Close to you
07. The encore begins
08. Rock me
09. What to do next
10. Going to N.Y. blues
11. Tuning/Breather
12. Maggie M'Gill
13. Tuning/Breather
14. Gloria/
End of
show
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Live in New York (2010)
[LP version - first show]
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LP 01
01. Start of show
02. Roadhouse blues
03. Ship of fools
04. Break on through
(To the other side)
05. Tuning/Breather
06. Peace frog
07. Blue sunday
08. Alabama song
(Whisky bar)
09. Back door man/
Love hides
10. Five to one
LP 02
01. Tuning/Breather
02. Who do you love?
03. Little red rooster
04. Money
05. Tuning/Breather
06. Light my fire
07. More, more, more
08. Soul kitchen
09. End of show
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Live in Vancouver 1970 (2010)
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CD 01
01. Start of show
02. Roadhouse blues
03. Alabama song
04. Back door man
05. Five to one
06. When the music's over
07. Applose Jim talk
08. Love me two times
09. Applose Jim talk
10. Little red rooster
11. Tuning
12. Money
13. Tuning
14. Rock me
15. Tuning
16. Who do you
love?
CD 02
01. Tuning
02. Petition the
Lord with prayer
03. Light my fire
04. Tuning
05. The end
06. Thank you &
good night
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Backdoor man (2015)
[live at Seattle Center Coliseum]
![The Doors - Backdoor man [live at Seattle Center Coliseum, June 5, 1970] - 2015 (front)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggTSpC6oXifaMl4PHlixVSkrLUyd1ta37NDbOEseTZrZBu5Ftp5kPRXJ191e2-fXT4fuXr9TiQiT-9tpYEMYJxPjXUOUIq1k_pXfQQy2J75xhAqTVkajbpI50yqkyQjAxDJK7ddJsiH5Q9zhgTCmLhpggaeRfCvOVyNBdiOJUmb9Hd2hzZNzVtylgrUg/s3340/The%20Doors%20-%20Backdoor%20man%20%5Blive%20at%20Seattle%20Center%20Coliseum,%20June%205,%201970%5D%20-%202015%20(front).jpg "The Doors - Backdoor man [live at Seattle Center Coliseum, June 5, 1970] - 2015 (front)")
01. Hitler (poem)
02. Roadhouse blues
03. Back door man
04. When the
music's over
05. Train jam I:
People get ready/
Baby please don't go
06. Train jam II:
Mistery train/Crossroads
07. Five to one
08. Break on
through
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The Doors (1967)
[Elektra Records, 2017]
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CD 01: stereo
01. Break on through
(To the other side)
02. Soul kitchen
03. The crystal ship
04. Twentieth
century fox
05. Alabama song
(Whisky bar)
06. Light my fire
07. Back door man
08. I looked at you
09. End of the night
10. Take it as it comes
11. The end
CD 02: mono
01. Break on through
(To the other side)
02. Soul kitchen
03. The crystal ship
04. Twentieth
century fox
05. Alabama song
(Whisky bar)
06. Light my fire
07. Back door man
08. I looked at you
09. End of the night
10. Take it as it comes
11. The end
CD 03: live at the Matrix
01. Break on through
(To the other side)
02. Soul kitchen
03. The crystal ship
04. Twentieth
century fox
05. Alabama song
(Whisky bar)
06. Light my fire
07. Back door man
08. The end
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The singles (2017)
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CD 01
01. Break on through
(To the other side)
02. End of the night
03. Light my fire
04. The crystal ship
05. People are strange
06. Unhappy girl
07. Love me two times
08. Moonlight drive
09. The unknown soldier
10. We could be
so good together
11. Hello, I love you
12. Love street
13. Touch me
14. Wild child
15. Wishful sinful
16. Who scared you?
17. Tell all the people
18. Easy ride
19. Runnin' blue
20. Do it
21. You make me real
22. Roadhouse blues
23. Love her madly
24. (You need meat)
Don't go no further
25. Riders on the storm
CD 02
01. Tightrope ride
02. Variety is the
spice of life
03. Ships W/Sails
04. In the eye of the sun
05. Get up and dance
06. Treetrunk
07. The mosquito
08. It slipped my mind
09. The piano bird
10. Good rockin'
11. Roadhouse blues (live)
12. Albinoni: Adagio
13. Gloria (live)
14. Moonlight drive (live)
15. Hello, I love you
(mono radio version) [bonus]
16. Touch me (mono
radio version) [bonus]
17. Wishful sinful
(mono radio version) [bonus]
18. Tell all the people
(mono radio version)
[bonus]
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Waiting for the sun (1968)
[Elektra Records, 2018]
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CD 01
01. Hello,
I love you
02. Love street
03. Not to touch the Earth
04. Summer's almost gone
05. Wintertime love
06. The unknown soldier
07. Spanish caravan
08. My wild love
09. We could be
so good together
10. Yes, the
river knows
11. Five to
one
CD 02
01. Hello, I
love you (rough mix)
02. Summer's almost
gone (rough mix)
03. Yes, the river
knows (rough mix)
04. Spanish
caravan (rough mix)
05. Love street
(rough mix)
06. Wintertime
love (rough mix)
07. Not to touch
the Earth (rough mix)
08. Five to one (rough mix)
09. My wild love (rough mix)
10. Texas Radio & the Big Beat
(live in Copenaghen 1968)
11. Hello, I love you
(live in Copenaghen 1968)
12. Back door man (live
in Copenaghen 1968)
13. Five to one
(live in Copenaghen 1968)
14. The unknown soldier
(live in Copenaghen
1968)
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Paris blues (2022)
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01. Paris blues
02. I will never be untrue
03. Me and the devil blues
04. (You need meat)
Don't no go further
05. I'm your doctor
06. Jim's introduction
07. Little red rooster
08. Rock me baby
09. Who do
you love?
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Link para a pasta CDs (parte 01): enjoy!
Link para a pasta CDs (parte 02): enjoy!
DVD
Collection (1999)
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Dance on fire
01. Main titles Intro
02. Opening explosion #1
03. Break on through
(To the other side)
(Elektra promo clip,
November 1966)
04. People are strange
(Elektra promo clip,
September 1967)
05. Light my fire
(The Ed Sullivan show,
September 17th, 1967)
06. Wild child (Recording
studio, October 1968)
07. L.A. woman (1985
short film by Ray Manzarek)
08. Unknown soldier (Elektra
promo clip, March 1968)
09. Roadhouse blues (filmed
during the 1968 American tour)
10. Love me two times (filmed
for Danish television,
September 18th, 1968)
11. Touch me (The Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour,
December 6th, 1968)
12. Horse latitudes/
Moonlight drive
(Jonathan Winters Show,
December 4th, 1967)
13. Crystal ship (American
Bandstand, July 7th, 1967)
14. Adagio
15. Riders on
the storm
Live at the Hollywood
Bowl (July 5th, 1968)
16. Explosion #2
17. When the
music's over
18. Alabama song
(Whiskey bar)
19. Back door man/
Five to one
20. Moonlight drive/
Horse latitudes/
"Celebration of the
lizard" excerpts
(A little game/
The hill dwellers)
21. Spanish caravan
22. Light my fire
23. The end
24. Unknown soldier
25. When the
music's over
The soft parade
26. Explosion #3
27. The changeling
(1991 short film)
28. Wishful sinful (PBS TV
show critique, April 28th, 1969)
29. Wild child (Recording
studio, October 1968)
30. The Doors interview #1
(PBS TV show critique,
April 28th, 1969)
31. Build me a woman (PBS TV
show critique, April 28th, 1969)
32. The Doors interview #2
(PBS TV show critique,
April 28th, 1969)
33. Unknown soldier
(Elektra promo clip, 1968)
34. The soft parade
(PBS TV show critique,
April 28th, 1969)
35. Hello, I love you
(Frankfurt TV show,
September 13th, 1968)
Bonus
01. Doors memorabilia
02. Evergreen (Ray Manzarek's
UCLA student film, 1964)
03. Henry Diltz photographs (1969)
04. John Densmore: Riders on the storm
05. Induction (Ray Manzarek's
UCLA student film, 1965)
06. Robby Krieger: The end
(instrumental)
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30 years commemorative edition (2001)
.jpg "The Doors - 30 years commemorative edition - 2001 (DVD, front)")
Live at The Hollywood
Bowl (July 5th, 1968)
01. When the music's over
02. Alabama song
(Whiskey bar)
03. Back door man
04. Five to one
05. Moonlight drive
06. Horse latitudes
07. From the "Celebration
of the lizard": A little game/
The hill dwellers
08. Spanish caravan
09. Light my fire
(extended version)
10. The unknown soldier
11. The end
Dance on fire
01. Break on through
(To the other side)
(Elektra promo clip,
November 1966)
02. People are strange
(Elektra promo clip,
September 1967)
03. Light my fire
(The Ed Sullivan
Show, September
17th, 1967)
04. Wild child (Recording
studio, October 1968)
05. L.A. woman (1985 short
film by Ray Manzarek)
06. The unknown soldier
(Elektra promo clip, March 1968)
07. Roadhouse blues (filmed
during the 1968 American tour)
08. Texas Radio and the Big Beat/
Love me two times (filmed for Danish
television, September 18th, 1968)
09. Touch me (The Smothers Brothers
Comedy Hour, December 6th, 1968)
10. Horse latitudes/
Moonlight drive (Jonathan
Winters Show, December 4th, 1967)
11. The end (live at the Hollywood
Bowl, July 5th, 1968)
12. Crystal ship (American
Bandstand, July 7th, 1967)
13. Adagio
14. Riders on
the storm
The soft parade: A retrospective
01. The changeling
(1991 short film)
02. Wishful sinful
(PBS TV show critique,
April 28th, 1969)
03. Wild child (Recording
studio, October 1968)
04. Build me a woman
(PBS TV show critique,
April 28th, 1969)
05. The unknown soldier
(Elektra promo clip, 1968)
06. The soft parade (PBS TV
show critique, April 28th, 1969)
07. Hello, I love you (Frankfurt
TV show, September
13th, 1968)
Bonus
01. Break on through
(To the other side)
(Isle of Wight
Festival track, 1970)
02. The ghost song
(1995 Elektra video)
Link para o download do DVD: enjoy!
When you're strange (2010)
.jpg "The Doors - When you're strange - 2010 (DVD, front)")
documentário musical sobre a
banda de rock americana The Doors.
Foi escrito e dirigido por Tom DiCillo
e narrado por Johnny Depp.
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"When you're strange" is a
music documentary film about
the American rock band The Doors.
It was written and directed by Tom
DiCillo and narrated by Johnny Depp.
(inclui arquivo de legendas em Português)
Live at The Bowl '68 (2012)
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01. Show
start/Intro
02. When the
music's over
03. Alabama song
(Whisky bar)
04. Back door man
05. Five to one
06. Back door
man (Reprise)
07. The WASP (Texas
Radio and the Big Beat)
08. Hello, I love you
09. Moonlight drive
10. Horse latitudes
11. A little game
12. The hill dwellers
13. Spanish caravan
14. Hey, what would you
guys like to hear?
15. Wake up!
16. Light my fire
17. Light my fire (segue)
18. The unknown soldier
19. The end (segue)
20. The end
Bonus
01. Echoes from The Bowl
02. You had to be there
03. Reworking The Doors
04. "Wild child" - from
The Smothers Brothers Show
05. "Light my fire" - from
The Jonathan Winters Show
06. "Gloria" - music video
Link para o download do DVD: enjoy!
Link para a pasta DVDs (parte 01): enjoy!
Link para a pasta DVDs (parte 02): enjoy!
The Doors - People are strange - 1967
The Doors - Love me two times - 1967
The Doors - The unknown soldier - 1968
[live at the Bowl]
The Doors - Roadhouse blues - 1970
The Doors - When the music's over - 1970
[live at the Isle of Wight]
The Doors - Gloria - 2013
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