the doors

VEDHEAD27 · March 2007

Hell yes!

**adding more love**

Love this groove.

<<)PEACE FROG(>>

There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles
She came
There's blood on the streets, it's up to my knee
She came
Blood on the streets in the town of Chicago
She came
Blood on the rise, it's following me
Think about the break of day

She came and then she drove away
Sunlight in her hair

She came
Blood in the streets runs a river of sadness She came
Blood in the streets it's up to my thigh She came
Yeah the river runs red down the legs of the city
She came
The women are crying rivers of weepin'

She came into town and then she drove away
Sunlight in her hair

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind

Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven
Blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of Venice
Blood in my love in the terrible summer
Bloody red sun of fantastic L.A.

Blood screams the pain as they chop off her fingers
Blood will be born in the birth of a nation
Blood is the rose of mysterious union

There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles
Blood in the streets, it's up to my knee
Blood in the streets in the town of Chicago
Blood on the rise, it's following me

VEDHEAD27 · March 2007

Hey wash_! Regarding the spinner.com site---I'm not sure if you've figured it out already but I'm hearing now that if you change the clock on your computer to a US time zone that it should work.
As a backup there's also this site that has it viewable through Winamp-
http://www.winamp.com/music/artist.php?id=134417&p=0.
I hope one of those works for you!

I was just showing off the performances with Ed earlier today actually. It just makes me feel so proud seeing our guy up there completely fuckin nailing it & doing this legendary sound serious ass justice. He really captured the essesence, power, firey passion and intensity of Jim. It blows my mind!

Here's an old but good read of the amazingness of it all and the connections between the 2 from Five Against One of course....

http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=1232

So The Doors spent the next three decades mostly deprived of playing their own music with the all-important vocals—until their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, when Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder gave what many have called the only real tribute to the legacy of Jim-era Doors. Vedder, with a voice “uncannily like Morrison’s,” sang three songs (“Break on Through,” “Roadhouse Blues,” “Light My Fire”), fronting the surviving Doors in a performance that “sent chills down jaded spines all over the room,” according to Pearl Jam biographer Kim Neely.

Neely’s 1998 bio makes an interesting case for the Morrison-Vedder connection (besides both growing up in San Diego). And while I wish the new version fronted by former Cult figure Ian Astbury (another Morrison disciple) all the best, Neely’s book makes the incredibly unlikely vision of a Vedder-fronted Doors seem like the least offensive of possibilities:

“...[T]he two were very much alike. More than a throaty tenor, it was this rage-against-the-machine outlook Eddie had in common with Morrison, a hunger for truth and a hatred for hypocrisy that both strove to communicate... even when it meant angering.... Most notably, like Morrison, Vedder abhorred... the industry icon factory even as he clearly benefited from it. Both men were haunted by the same internal conflict, longing to be respected as artists rather than pinup gods....

They both needed their fame as desperately as they hated it.”
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I've always thought the 2 were very similar. And then to hear Ed nail these songs?! I mean damn! :eek:

Robby Krieger : The thing with Eddie Vedder was great at the Hall Of Fame induction. You know, he didn't want to do it at first, because he thought, "I can't do that, how can I fit into Jim Morrison's shoes?" But the Hall Of Fame people kept after him: "Come on, Eddie!" So finally he decided to do it. Two or three days before the rehearsals were set to begin, he decided to drive down to L.A. from Seattle in probably the biggest rainstorm we've ever had on the West Coast. He made it a third of the way in two days. He said he was listening to Jim the whole time, to the Doors. He said he really got into it. He finally made it on the last day of rehearsals. We had a few hours to rehearse and it came together real good.

Quite the trip Ed had getting there! I can just totally invision him blastin Riders On The Storm.

haha. The "theme" song.

And check out Robby. It came together "real good", huh?
Well isn't he modest.

emily18 · March 2007

i loooove the doors
it's impossible to get tired of them, too. which is awesome.

wash_ · March 2007

VEDHEAD27 wrote:

Hey wash_! Regarding the spinner.com site---I'm not sure if you've figured it out already but I'm hearing now that if you change the clock on your computer to a US time zone that it should work.
As a backup there's also this site that has it viewable through Winamp-
http://www.winamp.com/music/artist.php?id=134417&p=0.
I hope one of those works for you!

Hey! Yes...i've finally watched it! Great early stuff from Ed. And the performances are incredible. It's really haunting that Ed sounds so much like Morrison.

Pearl Jam and toast · March 2007

Love em. I can't understand why there are so many people who hate them out there.

Hippyvik · March 2007

I grew up on The Doors man! My mum was really into them in the 70's, so when they had a coach trip to Paris on the 30th anniversary of Jims death in 2001 me & my husband made the trip over. While we were there we got to see Ray playing some Doors songs, and Manager Danny Sugarman talking about Jim, then they showed Jims film 'Hiway', which was really bad. but the whole weekend was awesome, lots of Doors music going on and some pretty cool people too. My fav song has to be 'Wild Child', I love that song

iluvcats · March 2007

you guys need to check out ray manzarek's website and forum for the latest news

http://www.raymanzarek.us/rots.html

haven't you heard about the new front man replacing ian astbury?

yosi1 · March 2007

My dad saw Jefferson Airplane open up for the doors. Lucky bastard... :cool:

VEDHEAD27 · March 2007

Damn! I know what you mean yosi. My parents saw The Doors too! Not to mention all the other bands. Bastards indeed!

wash_! Glad to hear it finally worked for you.
And completely agree about Ed and Jim.

OMG Hippyvik! That sounds amazing!!
Oooh Wild Child love! Excellent.

I got some Blue Sunday going on at the moment.
I want a super extended version of this beauty. haha. Even so, it's 2 minutes of pure bliss. So soothing and beautiful!

Speaking of extended pleasure...GLORIA?? :eek: Had that blastin earlier and it always hits me like a ton of bricks. JIMMY BOY! Good god! One of the most amazing things ever! Attacks me everytime.

...~If the doors of perception were cleansed / All things would appear infinite~ ...

bookmuse · March 2007

Around twelve years of age (1980) I was up very late watching a documentary on the "The Doors" and my stepdad caught me. He wanted to know why I was watching it and I said I really liked their music. He let me borrow his albums and eventually have them. he told me how Jim lived down the road for a time in this place called the "Beau Arts". This was in Florida. I knew it as an artsy home for gay men so it freaked me out a little but he told me at the time Jim lived there it wasn't the same type of place.

So, everytime I drove past I thought of Jim. I went home in 2001 and took a drive to see it and it was torn down. Bummed me out.

The Doors were my favorite band until Pearl Jam. Ed and Jim will be my two favorite singers I'm sure til the day I die. Same with the bands however Zeppelin joins those two.

VEDHEAD27 · March 2007

Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day’s divinity
First thing you see.

A vast radiant beach in a cool jeweled moon
Couples naked race down by it’s quiet side
And we laugh like soft, mad children
Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy

The music and voices are all around us.

Choose they croon the ancient ones
The time has come again
Choose now, they croon
Beneath the moon
Beside an ancient lake

Enter again the sweet forest
Enter the hot dream
Come with us
Everything is broken up and dances.

*sigh*

:o:o
SO fuckin beautiful. My god!
Hail Hail The American Poet!

That's cool bookmuse! I love how quite a few of us in here have Jim history in places we've grown up.

pjoasisrule · March 2007

I am a huge fan and I would like to say this.............they are the second most important band of all time next to The Beatles, that is all.

primussucks · March 2007

http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=237298

VEDHEAD27 · March 2007

primussucks wrote:

http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=237298

WHOA! I'm trippin out over here! Had never seen that before. Thank you for sharing. I'm convinced that's our Jimmy. It is kinda weird hearing him without the music we're use to hearing him with.

It's a really cool song though. So raw! That voice and these amazing ass lyrics are undeniable. I love them! Thanks again for posting this. Very interesting indeed.

So I have a question for you all. I want to start reading another music book and I was thinking a Doors one sounds perfect.

I read Break On Through back in High School but that's about it.

I was thinking of getting Light My Fire : My Life With The Doors by Ray (the man) Manzarek. Has anyone here read that one? If so what did you think? I've heard pretty good things about it. Just curious what others here might have to say. Thanks.

VEDHEAD27 · May 2007

This is in need of a GIANT BUMP!

I got my Riders on The Storms tickets!

Gonna see them the day before PJ!! :eek: Talk about ecstasy overload! I cannot believe that I'm actually going to see Ray and Robby perform their magic live! *faints* I can already see myself standing there, paralyzed, with my jaw on the floor. haha. Have you people SEEN the recent setlists? Good god! I am completely overwhelmed with excitement!!! To be in the presence of these musical legends!? Wow!! It makes my stomach flutter just thinking about it. I seriously dont even care who's singing at this point. Just to have the chance to see these 2 perform is a blessing I can't pass up. I can't wait!! I'm going to go visit Jimmy's grave too.

*tears* Something I've wanted to do all my life. Wow. Next month is going to be insane!!!

Also, I finished reading Ray's book!

INCREDIBLE! I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend it everyone. It is hands down one of the greatest rock auto bios/bios I have ever read. The book made me fall in love with this band on a whole new deeper level. A very personal one. Ray is seriously such a brilliant writer. What a way with words. He is the quite the poet himself. His words pulls you in right from the beginning. He tells it all and is such an enticing, real, relateabe, chilling with your buddy kinda way. Start, middle to THE END. He shines the light on so many things. You feel like you're right there with him the whole time. His relationship with and his love for Jim was such a beautiful thing. I found myself tearing up often at his heart warming stories. He takes you behind the scenes in the studio on the recording of several albums...explaining the background and recording processes on certain songs. Now when I listen to some of them I have these images flash through my head. It's awesome!! So many cool things I had NO idea about before. The details the man dishes out, on such a wide variety of things, is truly astounding. Each chapter had me more and more excited. The book honestly wrapped itself around me and wouldnt let go!!! I couldnt put it down. I'm actually sad that I finished it. haha. That's how great it was!!

He really digs into the relationships within the band and the alcoholism that destroyed Jim and all those that loved him. He also had very interesting points of view on personality conflicts within the band. I found myself shocked by quite a few things. Anyways, I am most definitely reading John Densmore's book next. That's all I gotta say about that. I already ordered it. I'm curious to hear things from his perspective.

Before that though, I've just started reading ANGLES DANCE AND ANGELS DIE. The story of Jim and Pam. One that's always peaked my interest. So far it's really fuckin interesting and offers more information on the background of Jimmy than I have ever heard of before. This chick really did her homework. I'm really looking forward to this book!!!

Speaking of which, BUMP it up with another fav. I've actually been stuck on this one a lot lately.

*WE COULD BE SO GOOD TOGETHER*

We could be so good together
Ya, so good together
We could be so good together
Ya, we could, I know we could

Tell you lies
I tell you wicked lies
Tell you lies
Tell you wicked lies

Tell you 'bout the world that we'll invent
Wanton world without lament
Enterprise, expedition
Invitation and invention

Ya, so good together
Ah, so good together
We could be so good together
Ya, we could, know we could

Alright!

Do da do do do do do bup bup de day

We could be so good together
Ya, so good together
We could be so good together
Ya, we could, know we could

Tell you lies
Tell you wicked lies
Tell you lies
Tell you wicked lies

The time you wait subtracts the joy
Beheads the angels you destroy
Angels fight, angels cry
Angels dance and angels die

Ya, so good together
Ah, but so good together
We could be so good together Ya, we could, know we could

concretepillow · May 2007

One of the greatest rock bands of all time!

catefrances · May 2007

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

I like the dark carnival of their first two albums.

is that carnival in the bakhtin sense fins?

FinsburyParkCarrots · May 2007

Nope, they're not that dialogic.

norm · May 2007

the doors are the reason i got into pj........:o

catefrances · May 2007

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Nope, they're not that dialogic.

and who would you consider to be?

and to stay on topic i love peace frog, cars hiss by my window and been down so long.

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