Doors Musical Tributes

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There are quite a few musical tributes to The Doors.
Some decent, mostly awful with one or two decent tracks.

Of course it is nice to see The Doors spread around different genres with bands unknown in Doorsworld.
But it got carried away with tributes coming at us left and right.
I've heard quite a few but none are worthy of note including Stoned Immaculate which actually has The Doors on the whole album.

I list them in this section as I don't want to put them with Doors albums.

DARKEN MY FIRE GOTH TRIBUTE



One of the couple I actually bought. Not bad with a good selection of listenable tracks.
Rhea's Obsession's version of End Of The Night the highlight.
I liked it so much I got their album.

A PSYCH TRIBUTE TO THE DOORS







Listened to a few tracks and not impressed.

THE DOORS IN JAZZ

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A TRIBUTE TO JIM MORRISON & THE DOORS


thought it was a spoof when I saw the lizards on the cover but apparently not.
Came in Green & Red vinyl and a CD.
The vinyl LP has less tracks than the CD version.












THE ELECTRONIC TRIBUTE TO THE DOORS





The Electronic Tribute to The Doors
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the record shop along comes another bloody Doors tribute album but like the very underrated Gothic Tribute once again a bunch of musos not even famous in their own living rooms put a bit of effort into what they do. Although not quite emulating their Gothic cousins who did a brilliant job these guys deserve praise for daring to interpret Doors songs in their own Garage/Industrial whatever the genre goes under nowadays and damn what we ‘the fans’ think …….which gets my vote.
Interspersed with lots of ‘beeps’ and bizarre rhythms the music is eminently listenable and the bands involved have obviously put some thought into what they set out to do.
A very neat outfit called Motor Industries do cool versions of ‘When The Music’s Over’ and a wickedly weird ‘People Are Strange’ whilst Bugs Funny Foundation and their cool lady singer cover ‘Break On Through’ excellently and even manage to do ‘The End’ justice. The rest is pretty cool too including the strange Dogooder who tackle ‘Peace Frog’, The Galactic Achievement Society who chip in with a doomy rendition of ‘Riders On The Storm’ and Dissolve who contribute a worthy version of Robby’s ‘Touch Me’ which is just one of the albums many highlights. Coooool…..
Scorpywag Rating 8/10. Well worth a listen ….. SP.
Summer 2002

OPENING THE DOORS THE BLUES TRIBUTE TO THE DOORS





Opening The Doors: The Blues Tribute to The Doors
For years we had not a whiff of a Doors tribute album and now we are up to our asses in them. Goth, Classical, whateverthehell Stoned Immaculate could be classed at. What next? Barbershop or maybe Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber present ‘The Celebration Of The Lizard’.
A rather innocuous effort from the blues chaps which was a shame really as Jim always considered The Doors to be basically a blues outfit and a blues tribute should have really rocked our ass off instead of mldly interested us..
Featuring among others trumpeter Mitch Manker (wasn’t he in Sparks?), John Nau on piano, brothers Rich Meijer on guitar and slide and Peter on harp who produced a tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd prior to this and are probably great playing blues standards but not very good at interpreting Doors songs..
Some of the better efforts are naturally ‘Roadhouse Blues’ which features some neat fuzz guitar and harp playing and ‘Love Me 2 Times’ which has a cool sax to it and the few innovative sections revolve around ‘20th Century Fox’ which was a strange one to choose but it works rather well with an interesting guitar/bongo combination ‘Break On Through’ with a bit of lively harp playing and some cool piano and ‘LA Woman’ which works well with brass.
Other than that it is a pretty lame excuse for an album.
Among the worse tracks are ‘Moonlight Drive’ which sounds more like jazz than blues and an awful ‘Love Her Madly’ more akin to Acker Bilk than Jim and whoever told the guys ‘When The Music’s Over’ worked well with a trumpet instead of a guitar was having a laugh.
‘Hello I Love You’ is piss poor ‘Soul Kitchen’ is pretty daft and ‘Light My Fire’
one of the most pedestrian versions I have heard. The worst moment comes with the only non-Doors track on the whole sorry episode during ‘Alabama Song’ which is bloody pitiful and not unlike the sound one would get strangling a hyperactive ferret . Overall it’s time this stopped and these people returned to their first love…. boring us rigid whilst we are getting pissed in pubs.
Scorpywag Rating 3/10. A load of cobblers!! AP.


THE DOORS A TRIBUTE BY STUDIO 99

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RIDERS ON THE STORM: THE DOORS CONCERTO WITH JAZ COLEMAN & NIGEL KENNEDY

I bought it when it first came out and the digipack scans are from my own copy.



So! Is it any good? Not remotely.
A bunch of classical musicians seem to think they can in any way capture the power and the terror of The Doors.
I've not heard it for a long time but am listening to The End as I type.

The Doors/Strange Days LPs give me chills even today.
Especially The End and When The Music's Over.
But also shorter songs such as End Of The Night or I Can't See Your Face.
The power of Ray's keyboards was the palette on which Jim, John and Robby could weave their tapestry
Robby could send a tingle up your spine drifting in and out of the song.
John and Jim would duel as Jim's words spoke of worlds beyond our imagination and John accented them perfectly.
This shit would blow your mind.

Listening to the first two LPs fill me with doom and dread.
Listening to this garbage bored me stupid.

The idea some highbrow types who think their musical field is serious, whilst bands like The Doors are more like pop bands with
little or no depth, and presume they are able to capture the staggering phenomenal majesty of a Doors song.
My music is certainly serious to me whether it is pop, rock, folk or yes classical. I quite like a bit of that.
But not these stupid pretentious tributes whether to The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Genesis (I saw recently) or Gary fucking Glitter.



You cannot capture even a scintilla of what rock music is to us fans.
All you produce is elevator music and not even good elevator music.
If this shit was playing while I was waiting to be connected to someone on the phone I would hang up.
ROTS, The End, LMF or The Unknown Soldier all they do is miss literally everything that made those records legendary.



Utter annoying shite with no redeeming features whatsoever.



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A TRIBUTE TO THE DOORS 2001 PRESENTED BY OUT OF PHASE



Out Of Phase are an electronica/trance band who produce tributes to bands such as Doors, The Who & Pink Floyd.
Here they pay tribute to The Doors debut LP. Not exactly brilliant but not the worst either.
Pretty pedestrian covers of the debut LP in order that rarely (if at all) rise above the mildly interesting.




GEORGE WINSTON NIGHT DIVIDES THE DAY: THE MUSIC OF THE DOORS.





There is no doubting George is a Doors fan and the piano is a nice instrument to pay tribute to them as they were a keyboard driven band.
But having said that this 'homage', Night Divides the Day: The Music of the Doors, is more pleasant and uninspiring & fails to capture the actual essence of The Doors.
The cover is interesting and George tells his Doors story which is rather nice.







George obviously is an excellent musician and Ray liked this as you would expect a keyboard player.
It's a worthy effort even if it never reaches above the ordinary.
An overly ambitious attempt to capture The Doors but sadly a failure.
But I give the guy credit for tackling some interesting songs that were not the usual suspects










He does not mention the pair of 3 man Doors LPs which is odd as they were filled with great Ray moments.
Especially Full Circle which had some great music even if the lyrics and singing was pretty dire.

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THE MANY FACES OF THE DOORS 3 CD SET

I've not heard this but seem to recall seeing it on one of my record store hunts.
Have to say they have made an effort rather than just stick the usual crap on their 3 CD Digipack set.
It's got an interesting cover as well.
None of this is specially done for the album and it is just a selection of tracks to elucidate each section of the set.
1 NOW AND THEN
2 THE SONGS
3 THE ROOTS