Haystak Music (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
L.A. Woman is the sixth and last studio album that the American rock band The Doors recorded with lead singer Jim Morrison, who died in July 1971. The album's style is arguably the most blues rock -oriented of the band's catalog. Following the departure of their record producer Paul A. Rothchild (who dismissed the group's differing style as "cocktail music") around November 1970, the Doors...
Exploding Celluloid Inevitable (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
One’s likely enjoyment of a music documentary is proportional to one’s liking of the music in question, however good the documentary is. Therefore I love Fearless Freaks (the Flaming Lips documentary), but hate No Direction Home (even with Martin Scorsese directing, for me Bob Dylan is a jerk with a hideous singing voice). A film about the Doors was always going to appeal to me, even just...
LAist (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Strength will be playing tonight at Echoplex | Photo by Leslie McCollom via Strength's Myspace Our Pick: Starfucker, Deelay Ceelay, Strength @ The Echo Tonight English singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock will be headlining Spaceland with none other than local indie pop outfit the Parson Red Heads (LAist Review , #2 , #3 ) in tow. Philadelphia's own psych rockers Dr. Dog ( LAist Review ) are poised to...
LAist (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Metronomy will be performing Friday at the Roxy | Picture via Metronomy's Myspace This week Seattle-based indie rock progenitors Sunny Day Real Estate will be making their triumphant return to the Henry Fonda Music Box with local indie rockers the Jealous Sound in tow. Legendary Austin-based art rock sextet ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are poised to take on the Henry Fonda Music Box...
Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
You asked for ‘em, we got ‘em: your chance to see the iconic musicians up close & personal at Club Nokia. Info on the show is here; to win, tell me your fave Doors quote in the comments. We’ll pick a few lucky winners at random.
Notes From The UndergroundBastard (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Bonus: Trance version by Deborah Harry From the dub: "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is a country and cowboy-style song. It was written on June 5, 1948 by Stan Jones. [1] A number of versions were also crossover hits on the pop charts in 1949. The ASCAP database lists the song as "Riders in the Sky" (title code: 480028324[2]), but the title has been varied numerous...
The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Robalini's Note: Jim Morrison blows smoke here. I love the little smirk on Robby Krieger's face after Jimbo says "Girl, we couldn't get much higher," which was forbidden by the Sullivan show. In the movie The Doors , Val Kilmer is in your face over the line while Jimbo is actually pretty casual. Speaking of which, that's one of Stone's real underrated gems, with both Kilmer & Crispin...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Filed under: News , MP3 , Songs , Exclusive Back in 1970, the Doors played four nights at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum. The shows, which would be the band's last in New York City, were part of 12 recorded for the 'Absolutely Live' album. "We would use one song from here, one song from there to make a live album. We didn't really think about using an entire show, letting people hear an entire...
My Favourite Music Albums (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
1: The Changeling 2: Love Her Madly 3: Been Down So Long 4: Cars Hiss By My Window 5: L.A. Woman 6: L'America 7: Hyacinth House 8: Crawling King Snake 9: The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) 10: Riders on the Storm Well, The Doors are my all time favourite music group, no questions asked. Also, 'L.A. Woman' is my favourite Doors album, again, no questions asked. There's many reasons why this album...
KoreAudio (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
THE DOORS! read on... Before you shower me with hate mail and death threats I will ask you to put the leather trousered vision of pops biggest buffoon out of your mind and spare a thought for poor frizzy haired guitarist Robby Krieger. Its a little known fact but Robby wrote all The Doors hit songs, not the long boring freakouts about fucking your mother, they were 100% Jimbo, but the really varied...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Photo: Kempin/WireImageNext month, Hall & Oates will hit the road for a short tour before Daryl Hall returns to work on his latest solo album. Hall, whose jam-session Web series “Live From Daryl’s House” celebrated its year-and-a-half anniversary in May, marked the occasion with a special episode featuring the Doors’ Robby Krieger and keyboardist Ray [...]
Minor Wisdom (Free subscription) | 03/14/2009
Here’s a little blues medley by the Doors—Back Door Man (previously done by Howlin’ Wolf) and Crawling King Snake (previously done by John Lee Hooker, and many before him). Note Robby Krieger’s finger-style guitar playing. That wasn’t bad. But if...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 02/06/2009
I hear there’ll be an announcement about this Saturday night at the Berlin Film Festival. Every frame of the footage, most of it never-before-seen, was shot between 1966 and 1970. And all the surviving Doors were at Sundance supporting the film—Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John Densmore. The doc covers the entire 54 months of the band, starting with Jim and Ray in film school, and includes...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 01/19/2009
The Doors members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger experienced more than tears watching the Sundance Film Festival world premiere of When You're Strange , Tom DiCillo's documentary of their fabled band.
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 01/18/2009
Tyson director James Toback, Mike Tyson, Sony Pictures Classics co-chief Michael Barker at last night's dinner at Park City's Bon Appetit in honor of the forthcoming Sony Classics release -- Saturday, 1.17.09, 10:55 pm. Ran into, spoke briefly with Doors guitarist Robby Krieger and keyboardist Ray Manzarek yesterday afternoon at the Yarrow hotel. They were on their way out to the Temple theatre for...
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