eagle87
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Anybody catch The Doors on Classic Albums on VH1 Classic tonight?
It's a repeat, but still a must see for any Doors fan.
I am sure it will re-air again.
I hope because I never saw it...
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Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) - The Doors
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People said: "... we want Doors, we want Doors..."
Damn right...
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Old Love - Eric Clapton
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Last year I heard about an special album for the 40 year of The Doors.
some one has it?
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Apostrophe ' and Over-Nite Sentation, then.
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Sweet Child o' mine - Guns and Roses
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Staying alone at home, what can be better!
Staying at home, with a woman! That's better
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Hey Hey - Eric Clapton
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Let see...
I weak up around 12:15 I think... It's raining. Is a good day to stay at home.
PS2 and drinks.
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Sometimes people might say that "Apostrophe (') " is his most accessible, and in my case, I say it is. So it's good to start there. I happen to find Hot Rats to be a more experienced listen,that you should tackle only after you've heard a couple albums. Same for Lumpy Gravy, that's avant garde. So, I'd say get Apostrophe', We're Only In It For The Money, and Uncle Meat (one of my favorites.) And once you feel good enough to want more, get Weasels Ripped My Flesh, that's my favorite Zappa album thus far.
Oh, ok. Thanks
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Where do I start? I started to learn about the doors in the fall of 1980, right after Bonzo passed. In fact, Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman release their book that year and I received it for Christmas 1980. Having just turned 17 in August of that year, I was totally devastated by the news of John's passing. In addition to some serious substance abuse issues I had at that time, I was being overwhelmed with panic attack/anxiety attacks/flashbacks---I did't know what they were and during Christmas of '80, my dad and step-mom had me admitted to an "adolesecent" center for troubled youths...While I was in their for 2-3 weeks, I devoured "NO One Here Gets Out Alive", the doors first real biography. I was hooked...my life, my attitude changed overnight. And not necesarily for the better. Hell, if Jim Morrison did 250 hits of pure LSD in one year, why couldn't I? Well, he was the Lizard King and I wasn't.
I became a doors fan with a vengeance after that winter. I have followed them in great detail over the years, never surpassing my love for LZ, but right up there with them. The reason for that? Well, the bands were light years apart as far as the type of music they created. I always have my "exalted three" Jimi, lz, and the doors...never in competition with each other simply because they were so disimmlar...love them all....
But back to the original question. Favorite disc/album? Probably would have to go with their 1967 debut, if not just for "Light My Fire", which was really groundbreaking at the time. Musically, this song is incredible, with the jazzy solo's and the such...all culminating in the most unbelievable freaking sound-gasm I had heard (up to that point)...not many other have come close to this orgiastic explosion of 'music, sweet music'....(to quote Jimi).
Fave Doors songs: too many to list, though I definately like the more "obscure" songs, not "the hits", as it were. For example, I'd much rather hear "My Eyes Have Seen You" than a more recognizable one such as, "Love me two time".
I'll try to keep this brief: You're lost little girl, Twentieth Century Fox, Crystal Ship, Love Street, End of the night, Moonlight Drive, Strange Days (really love this one!), wintertime love, summer's almost gone, spanish caravan, yes the river knows, tell all the people, shaman's blues, ezy ride (sp?), do it, wild child, wishfull sinful, soft parade, waiting for the sun, you make me real, Peace Frog/Blue Sunday, indian summer, the changeling (awesome!), been down so long, the cars hiss by my window, l.a. woman, l' america (sp?), hyacynth house (the "demo" version on the '97 box set is freaking awesome!), whoops, forgot "Queen of the Highway". And yes, the "jazz" version on the same box set (imho) is better than version on the Morrison Hotel lp. Yeah, I almost forgot the JL Hooker cover (as mentioned above) of "Crawling Kingsnake". And of 'course, "Riders..." This was all from memory, so I may have missed a few. I loved his "crooner songs", all though they were certainly never marketed as such. He had an assload of charisma, though he was obviously a very flawed individual. I learned a lot from them and their music.
In the early eighties, my good friend (whom I met in the adolescent "center") became mega-doors fans (whatever that is!
). He began to acquire a bunch of doors boots on lp---almost all of which I recorded by putting my cassete recorder in front of the speakers as the album played! This is how I recorded many lp's in the late 70's and early eighties (pre-82, anyway)! Some were really crappy sound, but one, probably my fave (boot) is the two sets from Stockholm, Sweden Sept. 20th (?) 1968. Sound near pristine, albeit in mono. You get to hear a version of "Love Street" live...in fact, at the beginning of the song, Jim has to give them a loud "shush" so they can hear it....also during one of the sets they preface "Alabamba Song" with the (early, I think) sixties song by bobby darin, "Mack the Knife" unbelievably good! I also have purchased all (but one) the live shows they have released on "Bright Midnight Records", which I think is a frickin' AWESOME endeavor! LZ take heed: I can only imagine all the reels and reels of shows that Jimmy probablly has in his possesion...throw us a bone James Patrick!
Finally I'll finish with a few items: The one they released pre-x-mas, I believe was "live in Boston 1970". DO NOT BUY THIS SHOW. JIM MORRISON WAS DRUNK ON HIS ASS FOR BOTH SETS THEY PERFORMED THAT NIGHT. AND IT SHOWS!! Three remaining doors tryed to make it through the show, and they did. I had even more respect for them after hearing these shows. It gave me much perspective on what they had to endure...Dont buy it unless you want to keep it with the tempe, arizona lz performance....as some of the worst concerts by some of the best artists ever...
Finally, "An American Prayer" is simply stunning, imho. They have a (relatively) new version of it with a few bonus tracks which are very poigiant (sp?), such as, "Bird of Prey" and a couple others...
Finally (really, I swear this time!), I and my "teen rehab buddy" and his wife got tickets to see Ray Manzerak and poet Michael McClure perform at a StLouis area basement bar sometime early nineties. All three of us, uh, "riding the snake", so to speak! And this in the basement bar of a University City establishment that probaly held no more than a hundred people-max. Ray played electric piano while MM recited some of his poems -all night. I remebered he did one as a tribute to Jim called, "In memorium". They were both less than 10-12 feet away from me and my friends -the whole time!
If you recall, Michael McClure was one the poets Jim looked up to before he was ever even in the doors...
What a sotry...
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Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
DAMN RIGHT!
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I want to buy some CD of Zappa. But I don't know him realy. I was thinking... Hot Rats.
But I need some recommendations...
Any?
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Hey you - Pink Floyd
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Show me the Way - Peter Frampton
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Road Dogs - John Mayall
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You can't always get what you want - Rolling Stone
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Before you accuse me - Eric Clapton
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Pretty Woman - Van Halen
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Woman from Tokyo - Deep Purple
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Back Door Man - The Doors
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Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
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I want to hear some song from John Mayer since last year.
But I need to hear more...
Im busy with Old School Music now.
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Agreed.
I don't like that, at all. Thats songs are Clasics...