Any Doors Fans?

Jim Peters · From: St. Louis, Missouri, USA, R.I.P.

Saw the Doors of the 21st Century this past Sat, with original members Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger. It was a great show,very tight band, great drummer, decent "Morrison", and a bass player. Robbie K. is truly unique, one of my all time 6string heroes, but man, does he look old!!
They did all their more famous tunes, and a really cool accoustic Crystal Ship. Any other Doors freaks? JimP

Bob Watson · From: Champaign, Illinois, U.S.

Jim, I've been listening to the Doors since I was a kid, they were one of my favorite bands. The first album I bought was "Strange Days" and then my older brother bought the first album. At one time my brother and I owned every one of there albums between us. I just got done reading John Densmore's book, " My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors". I thought it was a great book and I highly recomend it. It has kind of a birdseye view perspective. It seems that he felt a little guilty for not trying harder to help save Morrison from killing himself with drugs and alcohol. I guess the good die young. BTW, I played a gig last Saturday night with Dave Black in Danville Illinois ( Dave and I go way back ), your name came up and he told me that you are taking lessons off of him occasionally. Dave is a great guy and a fantastic guitar player. I bet he is also a great teacher.

Mark Metdker · From: North Central Texas, USA

I still have their first album that I bought brand new. I guess I was about 10 or 11 years old when I bought it. Loved it then, and still love it. Our band even does a couple of Doors covers.

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Ray Minich · From: Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra

1968, Chautauqua Lake (Western NY), a bunch of us kids sittin' around the fire listening to "Light My Fire" on the AM radio. My dad's older brother walks by and asks "How can you kids stand that music, it's the same thing over, and over, and over again?"

Little did he know what the future was to bring...

"Roadhouse Blues" is always good for a "pick me up".

[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 28 April 2005 at 07:54 AM.]

Jim Peters · From: St. Louis, Missouri, USA, R.I.P.

Bob, Dave is a GREAT player and teacher, as you know. I called my lessons with him "humility lessons".
Mark, I played guitar and keys in a group that used to cover Backdoor Man, 20th Century Fox and When the Music's Over. They were always the best received songs of the night. There are always Doors fanatics everywhere I play. JP

David L. Donald · From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand

Doors yep. Still holding up well musically. Even that FArfiza!

I did visit Jim, the one time, in Pere Lachaise when I lived in Paris

chas smith R.I.P. · From: Encino, CA, USA

Fall 1967, Colgate College, I saw their concert at a venue that must have been the gymnasium. They were set up on the floor and you could walk up and talk to them. The opening band was the Stone Poneys with Linda Ronstadt on lead vocal. Very fun evening.

HowardR · From: N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville

I saw them I guess 1968 at the Felt Forum. That is the smaller concert hall of Madison Square Garden.

They never sounded like anyone else, & nobady else ever sounded like them.

Dems were the daze...

Jon Light · From: Saugerties, NY

I actually saw them in Madison Sq Garden, the arena itself. Horrendous sound. It was the C'mon C'mon C'mon and Touch Me Babe period. There is so much great about the Doors. Unfortunately, for me, there is also an almost equal amount of pompous pretentious nonsense coming from Morrison that leaves me amused and embarrassed. But all I've got to do is watch the opening of Apocalypse Now to be reminded of how strong some of the music is.

Marc Friedland · From: Fort Collins, CO

Jim,
Sounds like a great show you got to see.
I think I would have enjoyed it too.
I'm a fan of the Doors.
Finally a post I can respond positive to. I also like disco music and corporate rock as described in other posts, but it seemed like the person posted was looking for people who agreed with their point of view, so I declined to comment.
I'm originally from New Haven CT, where Doors historians will know that's where Jim Morrison was arrested at The Arena. I wasn't there that night but saw them live about a year later at another CT venue. I was in a few different bands that were doing covers of The Doors songs at the time they were popular. One group, The Coconut Conspiracy, actually played about 6 different songs of theirs during 1967. I was 16 years old and the guitar player during that time period. The drummer I currently work with a lot is a BIG fan of the Doors even though he was born in the early 70's. -- Marc
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[This message was edited by Marc Friedland on 28 April 2005 at 05:54 PM.]

Dave Mudgett · From: Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee

Overall, I think their music has held up well. Not everything - some of it was truly pretentious, to me at least. But the great stuff will be played long after we're gone, I think. Like 'em or not, gotta admit that they were original. I saw them once, in Boston, they had a good night.

Webb Kline · From: Orangeville, PA

I remember I got my first gig as a keyboard player when I was 13 because I could nail the solo to Light My Fire on my Farfisa.

CrowBear Schmitt · From: Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France

an english band i was roadie for opened for the Doors quite few times round 68/69

they were in a league of their own & contributed greatly to the ambient subversion
i dug their sounds & lyrics
the end was my favourite
when the musik's over,break on through, riders on the storm, moonlight drive, many others were some great stuff

like premod posted
dems were the daze

yes i have been to see Jim at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paree a few times

Michael Johnstone · From: Sylmar,Ca. USA

I saw the Doors at Ondine's in NY in late 66 or early 67. My memory is a bit drifty concerning those years.....They sounded just like their record as I recall and I remember seeing Morrison arguing with his girlfriend in the cloakroom after the show which I remember thinking was uncool. My girlfriend,Dane who was a DJ at Ondine's turned me on to them and I pretty much dug where they were coming from poetically but they did NOT swing.They had no stink,no funk whatsoever and they were a horrible blues band.I did think the musicians were all good players though and liked a lot of what they did. I ran into Ray Manzarek again in 1980 when he dropped in on a taping of the USA network underground music show "New Wave Theatre" of which I was the technical director and editor. We had a chat and he invited me to look at a lot of old Doors films that had never seen the light of day and see if I wanted to be involved in putting together some kind of Doors retrospective or something. The more I got into it the more it sounded like a snipe hunt - for one thing I could never get Ray to admit Jim was actually dead - he'd just "disappeared" - plus,I never did actually get to see any films. So I drifted out of that scene rather quickly.There was just nothing going on there.I'm aware that Ray and Robbie have gigged as The Doors with various "Jims" and I also know that Densmore will have nothing to do with it.Kinda sad.Reminds me of when Mitch and Noel were actually touring with a Hendrix imposter. I liked the Doors movie though and thought Val Kilmer was brilliant. -MJ-

[This message was edited by Michael Johnstone on 29 April 2005 at 09:52 PM.]

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