Rolling Stone 5/4/06 issue

[jym]

The new issue of Rolling Stone has a blurb in the news section (on page 20) about The Doors & all the stuff they're putting out next year. I tried to find it online but it seems they don't have that up yet.

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

Jampol said something on the LL about a RS special on The Doors for 2006.......mite be interesting.....mite not....never been a fan of RS myself as I preferred Creem and ZigZag in the 70s......

[jym]

Doors Ride Again
Box set, movie and Vegas show in the works for the band's fortieth anniversary, by Evan Serpick

After years of public acrimony, the surviving members of The Doors have reunited for a slew of projects to celebrate the band's fortieth anniversary: Starting in November, the group will launch a documentary, TV special, coffee-table book, box set, and a Las Vegas extravaganza, "I feel good about it because it validates who the real Doors are, if you get my drift," says drummer John Densmore, who has been at odds with keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger for years over The Doors' music.

In 2002, Densmore objected to Manzarek and Krieger's plans to tour as The Doors with the Cult's Ian Astbury on vocals. Densmore and the Jim Morrison estate won an injunction in 2005, and the new band tours as Riders On The Storm. (In 1965, at Morrison's suggestion, every member of The Doors was given veto power over decisions relating to the group) "Everything will be worked out," Manzarek says. "In the next year and a half, we're going to be honoring the excitement, the passion, the rebellious nature that took place onn the beach in Venice, California, in 1965, culminating in the Doors' first album in '67."

The documentary, box set and book arrive first, in November. The as-yet-untitled film, produced by Dick Wolf (Law and Order) and directed by Bill Guttentag (who won an Oscar for 9/11 documentary Twin Towers), will include the first-ever interviews with Morrison's family. "We filmed the Admiral-Jim's da-and his brother and sister," says Doors manager Jeff Jampol. His sister, Anne, had drawings Jim made in high school, and his dad talked about the incident with the Indians on the highway"- which was dramatized in Oliver Stone's 1991 movie The Doors.

Former Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres teamed with the band to compile the book The Doors by The Doors, which incorporates archival photos and interviews with the group. The box set, tentatively titled Erotic Politicians (a phrase Morrison used to describe the Doors), will include remastered versions of the band's six studio albums, rarities and outtakes, and DVD's with surround mixes of each album. Looking farther down the road, the group is working on a multinight TV documentary, Six Albums, Six Years, Six Nights (no network has yet picked up the series), and the Las Vegas show, which Jampol describes as "Laserium meets the Haunted Mansion," will open in a specially built theater in 2008.

In addition to the new projects, all the surviving members have agreed, for the first time, to license Doors music for commercials. After Morrison dies, Krieger and Manzarek wanted to license the band's music, but Densmore nixed it. As recently as last year, Densmore told The Los Angeles Times, "Onstage, when we played these songs, they felt mysterious and magic. That's not for rent." Now, it seems, he's softened his position: "We might consider something technology-oriented, or some hybrid car or something, but it's gotta be right."

[darkstar]

Rolling Stone The News In Brief
Apr 24, 2006 6:05 PM

The Doors Unleash Unreleased Live Recordings

The surviving members of the DOORS will make more than a dozen live performances available for download through the band's Web site, including an intimate 1967 show at San Francisco's Matrix club just months after their debut album hit stores. The majority of the material, however, will come from shows recorded in 1970 for an album, Absolutely Live, which was never released. All the material will be remixed and remastered, and fans will be able to download individual songs. The move is a part of the Doors' fortieth anniversary celebration, also commemorated with the release of a twelve-disc box set -- featuring all six studio albums along with six DVDs -- this fall. A vinyl box set is also expected to be released sometime this year.

www.rollingstone.com/news/inbrief

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

Thats a bugger...I wish they had released 'Absolutely Live'.... I bet that would have been a good album...oh well....

[jym]

Yeah, that's an example of bad writing, right there!