Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 30, 2004 19:15:03 GMT
This interview took place at The House Of Blues on Thursday, May 18, 1995. The three original members, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore were live in the Rocktropolis Chat Room and on CUseeMe. It was very lively and fast moving so we apologise for not relaying who said what in some cases. Also, often questions continue to be asked why the band is talking, or questions get answered later on.
If you think the transcript is confusing now, then you should have seen it before it was edited!!
The_Doors: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Doors are here, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore.
Piranha: hello
wyzardking: Yeah!
Piranha: where are they
The_Doors: get your questions ready. The_Doors: ready?
Question?: when did you guys first get the idea to make this album, American Prayer?
The_Doors: After his death there was some recordings of poetry that Jim had recorded on his birthday.
The Doors: (Robby) I said to myself, gee, I bet you the doors could put some music tot that and it would be cool and Jim would love it. So we did.
The_Doors: Jim didn't think of the idea of putting music to the poetry--in fact he hired Fred Myro, and something happened that the project didn't get finished.
The Doors: (John) (joke)--Jim died. (ironic)
The_Doors: the point is, Jim did have music in mind with the poetry. So we finished it for him.
The_Doors: I remember when we were listening to the original. stuff, a bird flew in to the living room.
The Doors: We all got together for the first time to discuss this idea......
The Doors: So we're in this guy's house and all of a sudden there's a bird in the room. It flew around and round. We said, okay, jim's here. Let's do it!
The Doors: in classic mythology the bird is the symbol of the soul.
The_Doors: Living beings who haven't exited their fleshy forms. The bird was the soul of jim.
The_Doors: then he picKed up a glass of Jack Daniels...
The_Doors: so they can capture our soul through technology?
The_Doors: This is the first time for us and we will be logging on very soon.
The_Doors: Robbie will. He's a tech head.
The_Doors: The doors will have their own spot on the internet.
DRulz: ahh I see...
DRulz: coolness!
campusman: yes!!!
sunshine: hey!!!!any hidden trax on this new release?
The_Doors: he recorded this poetry on his last birthday, 1971.
The_Doors: ask questions, real questions.
jason: Whats new on the cd version of american prayer? wyzardking: Robbie, how do you feel about a WWW site devoted to Doors tablature?
The_Doors: That's called highway. You can find it at the new video...if you keep a quick eye open on the new video for ghost song, you will see bits and pieces. Entire is unavailable.
sunshine: how do you feel about spoken word poetry being picked up today? jim started it 20 yrs ago..
New Tracks? Singles? The_Doors: a single called the ghost song. New track is Bird of prey, an acapella vocal by Jim singing.
The_Doors: bird of prey is exactly the way Jim would sing a song to us when we were first getting started on some new number.
The_Doors: when he sang bird of prey to me
The_Doors: it was so sweet and vulnerable as an acapella.
palmetto: I heard BIRD Of PRAY on a boot..I loved it... its kind of short..was winter photography or underwaterfall added??
Matthew: Is there any plans for a box set?
QUESTION RE. THE POPULARITY OF SPOKEN WORD.
The_Doors: we're thrilled that mtv has had spoken word and all over the country there are beatniks in coffee houses. we're real happy. poetry has always been as important as rock and roll. we thought of jim's words ars poetry and set them in our format.
The_Doors: (John) i joined the band because i wanted to drum to jim's poetry. i htough it would be far out.
The_Doors: and groovy.
DRulz: I am 16...I really feel like I missed out on a lot of historic musical history...
flames: how do you feel that most of the 60's-70's music was created with heavy drugs, today it's a cleaner world but a little sterile, don't you think?
The_Doors: we only make them one at a time. we're concerned aobut this one now. the future is unertain. wide open. infinity is always near. Difficult to say.
Re:QUESTION: new material
The_Doors: unless jim comes back. It looks doubtful.
The_Doors: about the 60s and 70s and drugs.
=+= MoonChild has entered the chat room =+=
MoonChild: hehehe
DRulz: what are you talk ing about?
MoonChild: wow
MoonChild: lots of ppl
Alex: goodbye
sunshine: are you thrilled w/ the fact that your music is timeless & bands such as pearl jam...nirvana etc have you as being an influence?
The_Doors: well, i think the drugs of today are meth, which will drive you insane. the guy in japan who dropped the y busted him for making meth. the guys who bombed the oklahoma. buidling were associted with Arizona meth scene. it's the worst pssible drug. it harbors paranoia within its genetic makeup. you become strange dark andparanoid. worst thing.
DRulz: well, I missed out on experiencing Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, a lot of the 60s rock and 70s rock....and beatlemania...
The_Doors: in the 60s it was psychedelics, which helps you become creative and opens your mind. In the 90s its heavy drugs which don't do good.
palmetto: What about Winter Photography..that i heard without backup music is that gonna be released..anytime soon?
DRulz: I would do anything to live during that time..
flames: being the doors, who are some of the cool people you have been able to meet?
The_Doors: cocaine, etc., are body numbers but don't do anythign for your brain. in the 60s you never saw those drugs, it was consciousness expanding.
The_Doors: let me add, in the 90sthere are some people who shouldn't even dabble and that's why all these sub. abuse clincs. Know who are and act acordingsly.
fred: doors will you be getting on stage together anywhere?
The_Doors: Nancy regean was too simplistic, big diference between pot and crack!
DRulz: I think the thing you did with Eddie Vedder was cool
The_Doors: I think if you're an addict there oughta be a place where you can go, see a doctor and receive the medical help you need without going into the street to scam, rob, steal,
The_Doors: go to a local doc and get help.
The_Doors: the only alternative you have is to rob and steal. Give them something to keep them under control.
Piranha: do you guys think Glenn Danzig is ripping jim off
DRulz: hehe...yeah, he does sound like him The_Doors: England has progs now where you an get any drug you want and total low crime rates, no drug lords.
theresa: vedder?
sunshine: what did you think of the film "the doors"?
The_Doors: but we can't do it because. of purita ial foundations puritianical stance is wrong in response to people's sicknesses. It has to be handled as such. If you are an addict you should be able to see a doctor to cure its sickness.
The_Doors: glen danzig...
The_Doors: no not at all!!!!
The_Doors: i think he's a much larger body than Jim was, so....he reallyl pumps the iron.
The_Doors: no he's not ripping jim off, he's emulating him but that's okay. he's allowed. jim would be pleased.
Piranha: hahaha
DRulz: cool
The_Doors: have you met any interesting people
The_Doors: I met dorothy fujikawa in an art class. i thought she was so interesting i married her. we're still married.
DRulz: The Doors: what do you think about heavy metal bands out today? such as Metallica and Megadeth...
Piranha: go drulz..
The_Doors: we met one day while recordring, the sherrif of LA, Tom Reddin and Michelangelo Antonioni.
Helen: heh
theresa: hehe
The_Doors: They all came in together to the recording studio--we were running to hide the joints! We thought they were going to arrest us. jim had run into them at an art opening and he told them to come over
sunshine: what bands do you think would be influential now?
=+= Amy has left the chat room =+=
The_Doors: So the chief of police in a recording session
The_Doors: i met donavan. He thought i was john sebastian.
palmetto: The_DOORS : What about bootlegs do you think they are an asset to allow fans to here some rarer tunes or a problem to the music industry??
The_Doors: john....hello, wait a minute. You're not j sebastian , are you? But...you are...somebody. I couldn't resist. don, i called him don, We are all somebody. And we never spoke again.
The_Doors: Danny; We used to run into Donavan at the Maha Reishi's meditation festival.
The_Doors: in 1965.
The_Doors: Robby Kreider and I went to maha risihi also two years before the beatles. now it's the mcdonalds of spirituality.
The_Doors: at the time it was the study of yoga nand mantras. mantras are an internally spoken word... lets you obtain reduced state of calming consciousness, scatterin of mind. I took it because of lsd bummners. I thought i had to find another way to stay on natural high
The_Doors: rebhab of the 0s. And i met them in that class, jim from film school...that's where the indian spirituality comes from.
If you think the transcript is confusing now, then you should have seen it before it was edited!!
The_Doors: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Doors are here, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore.
Piranha: hello
wyzardking: Yeah!
Piranha: where are they
The_Doors: get your questions ready. The_Doors: ready?
Question?: when did you guys first get the idea to make this album, American Prayer?
The_Doors: After his death there was some recordings of poetry that Jim had recorded on his birthday.
The Doors: (Robby) I said to myself, gee, I bet you the doors could put some music tot that and it would be cool and Jim would love it. So we did.
The_Doors: Jim didn't think of the idea of putting music to the poetry--in fact he hired Fred Myro, and something happened that the project didn't get finished.
The Doors: (John) (joke)--Jim died. (ironic)
The_Doors: the point is, Jim did have music in mind with the poetry. So we finished it for him.
The_Doors: I remember when we were listening to the original. stuff, a bird flew in to the living room.
The Doors: We all got together for the first time to discuss this idea......
The Doors: So we're in this guy's house and all of a sudden there's a bird in the room. It flew around and round. We said, okay, jim's here. Let's do it!
The Doors: in classic mythology the bird is the symbol of the soul.
The_Doors: Living beings who haven't exited their fleshy forms. The bird was the soul of jim.
The_Doors: then he picKed up a glass of Jack Daniels...
The_Doors: so they can capture our soul through technology?
The_Doors: This is the first time for us and we will be logging on very soon.
The_Doors: Robbie will. He's a tech head.
The_Doors: The doors will have their own spot on the internet.
DRulz: ahh I see...
DRulz: coolness!
campusman: yes!!!
sunshine: hey!!!!any hidden trax on this new release?
The_Doors: he recorded this poetry on his last birthday, 1971.
The_Doors: ask questions, real questions.
jason: Whats new on the cd version of american prayer? wyzardking: Robbie, how do you feel about a WWW site devoted to Doors tablature?
The_Doors: That's called highway. You can find it at the new video...if you keep a quick eye open on the new video for ghost song, you will see bits and pieces. Entire is unavailable.
sunshine: how do you feel about spoken word poetry being picked up today? jim started it 20 yrs ago..
New Tracks? Singles? The_Doors: a single called the ghost song. New track is Bird of prey, an acapella vocal by Jim singing.
The_Doors: bird of prey is exactly the way Jim would sing a song to us when we were first getting started on some new number.
The_Doors: when he sang bird of prey to me
The_Doors: it was so sweet and vulnerable as an acapella.
palmetto: I heard BIRD Of PRAY on a boot..I loved it... its kind of short..was winter photography or underwaterfall added??
Matthew: Is there any plans for a box set?
QUESTION RE. THE POPULARITY OF SPOKEN WORD.
The_Doors: we're thrilled that mtv has had spoken word and all over the country there are beatniks in coffee houses. we're real happy. poetry has always been as important as rock and roll. we thought of jim's words ars poetry and set them in our format.
The_Doors: (John) i joined the band because i wanted to drum to jim's poetry. i htough it would be far out.
The_Doors: and groovy.
DRulz: I am 16...I really feel like I missed out on a lot of historic musical history...
flames: how do you feel that most of the 60's-70's music was created with heavy drugs, today it's a cleaner world but a little sterile, don't you think?
The_Doors: we only make them one at a time. we're concerned aobut this one now. the future is unertain. wide open. infinity is always near. Difficult to say.
Re:QUESTION: new material
The_Doors: unless jim comes back. It looks doubtful.
The_Doors: about the 60s and 70s and drugs.
=+= MoonChild has entered the chat room =+=
MoonChild: hehehe
DRulz: what are you talk ing about?
MoonChild: wow
MoonChild: lots of ppl
Alex: goodbye
sunshine: are you thrilled w/ the fact that your music is timeless & bands such as pearl jam...nirvana etc have you as being an influence?
The_Doors: well, i think the drugs of today are meth, which will drive you insane. the guy in japan who dropped the y busted him for making meth. the guys who bombed the oklahoma. buidling were associted with Arizona meth scene. it's the worst pssible drug. it harbors paranoia within its genetic makeup. you become strange dark andparanoid. worst thing.
DRulz: well, I missed out on experiencing Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, a lot of the 60s rock and 70s rock....and beatlemania...
The_Doors: in the 60s it was psychedelics, which helps you become creative and opens your mind. In the 90s its heavy drugs which don't do good.
palmetto: What about Winter Photography..that i heard without backup music is that gonna be released..anytime soon?
DRulz: I would do anything to live during that time..
flames: being the doors, who are some of the cool people you have been able to meet?
The_Doors: cocaine, etc., are body numbers but don't do anythign for your brain. in the 60s you never saw those drugs, it was consciousness expanding.
The_Doors: let me add, in the 90sthere are some people who shouldn't even dabble and that's why all these sub. abuse clincs. Know who are and act acordingsly.
fred: doors will you be getting on stage together anywhere?
The_Doors: Nancy regean was too simplistic, big diference between pot and crack!
DRulz: I think the thing you did with Eddie Vedder was cool
The_Doors: I think if you're an addict there oughta be a place where you can go, see a doctor and receive the medical help you need without going into the street to scam, rob, steal,
The_Doors: go to a local doc and get help.
The_Doors: the only alternative you have is to rob and steal. Give them something to keep them under control.
Piranha: do you guys think Glenn Danzig is ripping jim off
DRulz: hehe...yeah, he does sound like him The_Doors: England has progs now where you an get any drug you want and total low crime rates, no drug lords.
theresa: vedder?
sunshine: what did you think of the film "the doors"?
The_Doors: but we can't do it because. of purita ial foundations puritianical stance is wrong in response to people's sicknesses. It has to be handled as such. If you are an addict you should be able to see a doctor to cure its sickness.
The_Doors: glen danzig...
The_Doors: no not at all!!!!
The_Doors: i think he's a much larger body than Jim was, so....he reallyl pumps the iron.
The_Doors: no he's not ripping jim off, he's emulating him but that's okay. he's allowed. jim would be pleased.
Piranha: hahaha
DRulz: cool
The_Doors: have you met any interesting people
The_Doors: I met dorothy fujikawa in an art class. i thought she was so interesting i married her. we're still married.
DRulz: The Doors: what do you think about heavy metal bands out today? such as Metallica and Megadeth...
Piranha: go drulz..
The_Doors: we met one day while recordring, the sherrif of LA, Tom Reddin and Michelangelo Antonioni.
Helen: heh
theresa: hehe
The_Doors: They all came in together to the recording studio--we were running to hide the joints! We thought they were going to arrest us. jim had run into them at an art opening and he told them to come over
sunshine: what bands do you think would be influential now?
=+= Amy has left the chat room =+=
The_Doors: So the chief of police in a recording session
The_Doors: i met donavan. He thought i was john sebastian.
palmetto: The_DOORS : What about bootlegs do you think they are an asset to allow fans to here some rarer tunes or a problem to the music industry??
The_Doors: john....hello, wait a minute. You're not j sebastian , are you? But...you are...somebody. I couldn't resist. don, i called him don, We are all somebody. And we never spoke again.
The_Doors: Danny; We used to run into Donavan at the Maha Reishi's meditation festival.
The_Doors: in 1965.
The_Doors: Robby Kreider and I went to maha risihi also two years before the beatles. now it's the mcdonalds of spirituality.
The_Doors: at the time it was the study of yoga nand mantras. mantras are an internally spoken word... lets you obtain reduced state of calming consciousness, scatterin of mind. I took it because of lsd bummners. I thought i had to find another way to stay on natural high
The_Doors: rebhab of the 0s. And i met them in that class, jim from film school...that's where the indian spirituality comes from.