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Philadelphia Metro News
Weekend – April 9-11 2010
By Heidi Patalano
Light This Fire
New Doors Documentary Restores Lost Footage Of The Legendary Band
Guitarist Robby Krieger On Jim Morrison’s Wild Ways and the Song That Says It All
The legacy of the 60’s L.A. band The Doors has hardly faded in the decades since lead singer Jim Morrison’s death at 27 in 1971. A new documentary about the band, “When Your Strange,” directed by Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny Depp, takes recovered footage from the height of their fame and also re-examines Morrison’s devilish magnetism. Metro chatted with guitarist Robby Krieger, who was responsible for penning their biggest hit, “Light My Fire,” about the history of The Doors.
The footage from the film highlights Morrison’s crazy behavior. Did you guys ever get sick of him hogging the spotlight?
Not really. I think Ray (Manzarek) and John (Densmore) and I were not the types that needed that. We were kind of happy that Jim was the kind of guy that needed that. It might sound like bullshit but it really didn’t offend us.
Even when his antics got the band in trouble?
Well yeah, that was Jim though. You never knew what he was going to do. You had to take the good with the bad. It might be amazing. It might be horrible. That was the chance you took.
If you could choose one song by The Doors that encapsulates everything that the band was about, which would it be?
I’d say “L.A. Woman.” The way we came up with that song was kinda cool. We were all just jamming together. Jim had some words and it just materialized. It had great organ, great drum stuff – the way it slowed down and sped up, great guitar stuff, and I just love the way Jim sang it, too. It’s very natural, not over produced like some of our stuff.
If there were no drugs in the 60’s, could the Doors have existed?
That’s a good one. Yeah, we would’ve existed. I don’t think it would’ve been the same. I don’t know if it would’ve been better or worse. I know possibly if there were no drugs, Jim would be with us today and that would be a good thing.
END.
90.5 NIGHT
Brookdale Public Radio
ROBBY KRIEGER SAYS JIM MORRISON “AGREED THAT HE WAS A DRUNK”
Posted on May 3, 2010 by Tom
NEW YORK (AP) — Doors guitarist Robby Krieger says the band tried to stop Jim Morrison from drinking himself to death. Krieger says they staged an intervention at Krieger’s dad’s house. He says Morrison “agreed that he was a drunk and should stop,” but he was back drinking a week later. Krieger says imagine how hard it is to stop a kid from doing something bad. He calls Morrison “like your kid on steroids.” ”When You’re Strange: A Film About the Doors” opened in more theaters Friday. It will come out on DVD on June 29.
wbjb.org/home.php/2010/05/03/robb....he-was-a-drunk/
The L Magazine (New York)
April 9 2010
The Doors Used to Be Cool
by Benjamin Strong
When You're Strange
Directed by Tom DiCillo
The Doors were already a joke 20 years ago when, at the height of Boomer nostalgia, Oliver Stone gave them the full feature-length treatment, complete with dancing Native Americans. These days, the band's reputation has fallen so low that Pitchfork has declared them aœ less hip than Journey.
Hard to believe, but the Doors were once cool. Tom DiCillo's mesmerizing new documentary about the psychedelic quartet cuts through the calcifying effects of four decades—and past billions of tie-dyed t-shirts—to focus on what matters most, the music. Drawing on the same sources as Stone, the story DiCillo has to tell isn't, on its face, any different. Still, When You're Strange has been assembled entirely from archival footage. Most of these clips, shot between 1966 and 1971, are familiar, and yet DiCillo arranges the material in such a way as to restore the band's seductive mystique, its hedonistic anti-hippie appeal.
Best known for cult indie comedies like Johnny Suede, DiCillo loves eccentrics, and he gives all four Doors their due. But inevitably, Jim Morrison dominates. Pretty obviously stoned out of his gourd all of the time, the Lizard King appears more uncertain, more vulnerable and pathetic, than he ever has before. Ambivalent about his own celebrity but hopelessly intoxicated by it, the self-styled latter-day Dionysus could appear wholly introverted on stage, even as he was inciting riots on the streets of New Haven or whipping his penis out. Nearly 40 years after his death, Mr. Mojo Rising has finally gotten the film he deserves.
Opens April 9
www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/the-....ent?oid=1587520
Weekend – April 9-11 2010
By Heidi Patalano
Light This Fire
New Doors Documentary Restores Lost Footage Of The Legendary Band
Guitarist Robby Krieger On Jim Morrison’s Wild Ways and the Song That Says It All
The legacy of the 60’s L.A. band The Doors has hardly faded in the decades since lead singer Jim Morrison’s death at 27 in 1971. A new documentary about the band, “When Your Strange,” directed by Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny Depp, takes recovered footage from the height of their fame and also re-examines Morrison’s devilish magnetism. Metro chatted with guitarist Robby Krieger, who was responsible for penning their biggest hit, “Light My Fire,” about the history of The Doors.
The footage from the film highlights Morrison’s crazy behavior. Did you guys ever get sick of him hogging the spotlight?
Not really. I think Ray (Manzarek) and John (Densmore) and I were not the types that needed that. We were kind of happy that Jim was the kind of guy that needed that. It might sound like bullshit but it really didn’t offend us.
Even when his antics got the band in trouble?
Well yeah, that was Jim though. You never knew what he was going to do. You had to take the good with the bad. It might be amazing. It might be horrible. That was the chance you took.
If you could choose one song by The Doors that encapsulates everything that the band was about, which would it be?
I’d say “L.A. Woman.” The way we came up with that song was kinda cool. We were all just jamming together. Jim had some words and it just materialized. It had great organ, great drum stuff – the way it slowed down and sped up, great guitar stuff, and I just love the way Jim sang it, too. It’s very natural, not over produced like some of our stuff.
If there were no drugs in the 60’s, could the Doors have existed?
That’s a good one. Yeah, we would’ve existed. I don’t think it would’ve been the same. I don’t know if it would’ve been better or worse. I know possibly if there were no drugs, Jim would be with us today and that would be a good thing.
END.
90.5 NIGHT
Brookdale Public Radio
ROBBY KRIEGER SAYS JIM MORRISON “AGREED THAT HE WAS A DRUNK”
Posted on May 3, 2010 by Tom
NEW YORK (AP) — Doors guitarist Robby Krieger says the band tried to stop Jim Morrison from drinking himself to death. Krieger says they staged an intervention at Krieger’s dad’s house. He says Morrison “agreed that he was a drunk and should stop,” but he was back drinking a week later. Krieger says imagine how hard it is to stop a kid from doing something bad. He calls Morrison “like your kid on steroids.” ”When You’re Strange: A Film About the Doors” opened in more theaters Friday. It will come out on DVD on June 29.
wbjb.org/home.php/2010/05/03/robb....he-was-a-drunk/
The L Magazine (New York)
April 9 2010
The Doors Used to Be Cool
by Benjamin Strong
When You're Strange
Directed by Tom DiCillo
The Doors were already a joke 20 years ago when, at the height of Boomer nostalgia, Oliver Stone gave them the full feature-length treatment, complete with dancing Native Americans. These days, the band's reputation has fallen so low that Pitchfork has declared them aœ less hip than Journey.
Hard to believe, but the Doors were once cool. Tom DiCillo's mesmerizing new documentary about the psychedelic quartet cuts through the calcifying effects of four decades—and past billions of tie-dyed t-shirts—to focus on what matters most, the music. Drawing on the same sources as Stone, the story DiCillo has to tell isn't, on its face, any different. Still, When You're Strange has been assembled entirely from archival footage. Most of these clips, shot between 1966 and 1971, are familiar, and yet DiCillo arranges the material in such a way as to restore the band's seductive mystique, its hedonistic anti-hippie appeal.
Best known for cult indie comedies like Johnny Suede, DiCillo loves eccentrics, and he gives all four Doors their due. But inevitably, Jim Morrison dominates. Pretty obviously stoned out of his gourd all of the time, the Lizard King appears more uncertain, more vulnerable and pathetic, than he ever has before. Ambivalent about his own celebrity but hopelessly intoxicated by it, the self-styled latter-day Dionysus could appear wholly introverted on stage, even as he was inciting riots on the streets of New Haven or whipping his penis out. Nearly 40 years after his death, Mr. Mojo Rising has finally gotten the film he deserves.
Opens April 9
www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/the-....ent?oid=1587520
