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Post by kds on Jul 26, 2019 18:08:59 GMT
I remember that, and have a DVD of the show. I think they did it to promote the Doors tribute album Stoned Immaculate. Although considering the album featured one or more living Doors on every track, it was almost like a new project rather than a standard tribute. Or, maybe just a much better executed Stars and Stripes. Yeah, it was different for a band to be playing on their own tribute album (like our Beach Boys on Stars & Stripes), but I liked it! There's some good stuff on Stoned Immaculate, but I don't think the album did as well as they expected. Tribute albums can be tough. I haven't listened to Stoned Immaculate for awhile. I'll have to give it another spin. I don't know how well the album sold, but I remember the Creed featuring Robbie version of Riders on the Storm getting a lot of airplay. Overall, the album was solid, and one of the better "tribute" albums out there.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 27, 2019 15:06:39 GMT
A story about "Touch Me" and some album rankings:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Sept 21, 2019 23:48:33 GMT
Two of my guitar heroes - Robby Krieger and Buck Dharma from Blue Oyster Cult. Both of them still out there doin' it!
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Post by kds on Sept 22, 2019 3:38:40 GMT
Two of my guitar heroes - Robby Krieger and Buck Dharma from Blue Oyster Cult. Both of them still out there doin' it!
Two very underrated guitar players. |
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Nov 27, 2019 3:19:09 GMT
R.I.P. Doug Lubahn (December 20, 1947 - November 20, 2019), studio bassist for The Doors on their albums, Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun, and The Soft Parade.
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Post by lonelysummer on Nov 27, 2019 6:35:56 GMT
i'll just pipe in here, I always enjoyed the stuff I heard on the radio, I think they're a great BAND - felt that the hype surrounding Morrison was a turn off; but I do have the first album. Definitely one of the essential albums of the 60s. And Love Her Madly and Riders on the Storm are on my mix tape of songs from the summer of 71.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Dec 1, 2019 11:23:01 GMT
Happy 75th Birthday to John Densmore!
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Dec 8, 2019 13:47:14 GMT
Had he lived, Jim would've been 76 years old today.
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Post by jk on Dec 8, 2019 14:04:09 GMT
Had he lived, Jim would've been 76 years old today.
That's a sobering thought. Thanks for reminding us, Sheriff. I've owned three Doors albums in my time (the first three; wasn't impressed with #3). The first is possibly the best debut album of all time. My favourites are the self-titled debut and L.A. Woman.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Dec 30, 2019 16:27:07 GMT
I recently came across this photo of Jim Morrison taken on Christmas Day, 1970:
This photo is very revelatory and confirming for a few reasons. First, this picture, as do several others from around this time frame, shows a Jim Morrison who is NOT fat. It has been mentioned in several Doors/Morrison biographies about how Jim gained a lot of weight due to his excessive drinking and frequenting restaurants around L.A. Yes, at one time (1966-67) Jim was rail thin. He couldn't have weighed more than 150 lbs. But, I think he basically "filled out" or matured physically (especially in the face), like most adult males do in their mid/late-20's. Yes, there are a few photos from late-1969/early-1970 that show Jim with a bit of a double chin and a belly protruding from his shirt. But I would hardly call Jim overweight. And by the L.A. Woman sessions in late 1970, Jim appeared to have lost that weight, even though his face was now covered with a full beard.
However, the main question that comes to mind when I see the above photo is, why was Jim spending Christmas Day with this young lady - and NOT then-girlfriend, Pamela Courson? I mean, this isn't a Memorial Day cookout. This is Christmas. The lady who Jim is sharing Christmas dinner with is Florentine Pabst. Florentine was a young
fashionista from Austria who Jim first met in Frankfurt, Germany in 1968:
Apparently they stayed in touch, and Florentine was among the friends who joined Jim for his poetry reading session (which was featured on An American Prayer) on his 27th birthday on December 8, 1970:
But the question is, where was Pam? Well, Pam had gone ahead of Jim to Paris (Jim joined her in March 1971) where she was living with Count Jean de Breteuil, a wealthy socialite and drug dealer. How crazy was that situation? And what does that tell you about Jim and Pam's relationship? Pam is in another country living with a Count, and Jim is sharing Christmas dinner with Florentine Pabst (note the burned turkey on the table).
Yet, Jim did, in fact, leave L.A. to join Pam in Paris. Here are some of the last photos of Jim, taken in Paris:
There hasn't been enough written about Jim and Pamela Courson's relationship. Complex would be an oversimplified term used to describe it. Pam didn't like the other Doors and she preferred to stay in the background, not being interviewed or photographed often. Most Doors' fans felt that, while supportive of Jim in many ways, Pam was also not a healthy influence on Jim. Jim already had enough unhealthy demons to deal with. Yet, Jim kept going back to Pam, right up to the very end. Jim died on July 3, 1971. The Count OD'd in 1972. Pam OD'd in 1974. Florentine Pabst? She is still with us. Here is a fairly recent picture:
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Post by jk on Dec 30, 2019 20:50:50 GMT
Cool post, Sheriff.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jan 8, 2020 12:27:33 GMT
Happy 74th Birthday to Robby Krieger!
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jan 11, 2020 17:11:30 GMT
Here is a new interview with John Densmore. I can totally understand how conflicting the surviving Doors' emotions must've been when Jim Morrison died, not just in 1971, but in the ensuing decades. I think about that a lot.
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Post by jk on Jan 13, 2020 22:09:48 GMT
I love their debut album. I always have--every track a winner. This is "I Looked At You":
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jan 14, 2020 0:53:31 GMT
I love their debut album. I always have--every track a winner. This is "I Looked At You"... With Wrecking Crew and Bread bassist, Larry Knechtel, adding electric bass over Ray Manzarek's Fender Rhodes keyboard bass.
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