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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 14, 2006 12:01:36 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 14, 2006 12:07:22 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 14, 2006 12:11:20 GMT
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Post by sparky on Jun 14, 2006 13:13:42 GMT
LOL at scruffy bastards.
thats strange, i never knew the doors appeared on top of the pops!!!!!
alex you are a wonder of knowledge.
cool pics too!!
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Post by ensenada on Jun 14, 2006 16:24:20 GMT
the pics are mint dude....which songs did they do on totp? cant remember. Its funny how immaculate jim's hair is in the totp pcs compared to usual  they must have insisted...bloody BBC! |
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Post by miepie on Jun 14, 2006 18:06:49 GMT
very beautiful pictures alex!
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 14, 2006 18:56:16 GMT
the pics are mint dude....which songs did they do on totp? cant remember. Its funny how immaculate jim's hair is in the totp pcs compared to usual they must have insisted...bloody BBC! They did Hello I Love You mate......reached #15 ......The Doors were a ONE hit wonder whilst Jim was alive and nobody paid that much attention really. I do not recall any great debate in the schoolyard about this new American 'sensation'.....there was always plenty of talk about 'pop' music but The Doors were not part of it...  |
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Post by ensenada on Jun 14, 2006 22:07:05 GMT
well lets face it....british were hooked on the gay sounds opf the beatles then. and we had our own dark rockers in the stone i guess...and because the doors came from so far away, offering sounds that were a head of their time and beyond our reasoning they were ignored. now the beatles AND stones sound dated to fuck..whilst kids still fall in love with the doors and some cant even put some of the songs to a certain decade. I was walking out of my classroom last week and a year 11 girl asked if i was the doors fan we had a five minute conversation about the doors as she loves jim morrison....makes you think huh! |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 14, 2006 23:18:29 GMT
Its not exactly that simple mate as there were many US acts that were popular here at that time....Mama & Papas, Creedence, Monkees, Byrds.....but not The Doors.....its really weird. I knew guys into grand funk railroad and blue cheer in 1970 but nobody who was into The Doors........they did rub people up the wrong way..........luckily that changed or we would not be here today....  Noce anecdote about the school mate.....I do hope you give that girl a good mark for her homework. ;D |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 26, 2006 21:57:00 GMT
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Post by jym on Jun 26, 2006 22:08:33 GMT
I was walking out of my classroom last week and a year 11 girl asked if i was the doors fan we had a five minute conversation about the doors as she loves jim morrison....makes you think huh! Makes me think you better be careful of those little girls! That's a little too little of a girl |
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Post by ensenada on Jun 26, 2006 23:05:08 GMT
well year 11 is a 15 - 16 year old so its not so bad i reckon for the time...way back then i mean, the doors may have been way ahead of their time. I have always thought that anyway....they became more appreciated as time went by because our tastes had evolved and perhaps even society has changed us...i.e. what goes on in the world....have opened our ears to their sounds. something more meaningful, dark and hypnotic, intelligent is needed by the top percentage of our society..ie. the doors  |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 27, 2006 10:42:43 GMT
way back then i mean, the doors may have been way ahead of their time. I have always thought that anyway....they became more appreciated as time went by because our tastes had evolved and perhaps even society has changed us...i.e. what goes on in the world....have opened our ears to their sounds. something more meaningful, dark and hypnotic, intelligent is needed by the top percentage of our society..ie. the doors I dunno mate.....I don't think you will find a more perceptive generation musically than the kids who were like me born in the late 50s early 60s. Considering that the late 60s early 70s produced some of the most awe inspiring music imaginable and we were listening to everything from heavy rock to folk to jazz fusion to prog rock........we did not even have names for it all as we do now but a music explosion took place between 1965 and 1975 that has never been even neared since. So I think my generation back then had their ears more open to new sights and sounds than any of the 80s/90s/00s ever have had. Thats why its always amazed me why The Doors never took off here in the 60s and 70s. There was just something about them that caused a reaction here in the UK and Europe. I can't say what as I was into them but I knew hundreds of rock fans as a kid and young adult who were into bands you will never have heard of but I never met one single person who 'liked' The Doors. We had Doors singles on the juke box and they got played but it was just something about them that rubbed people up the wrong way. Maybe if they had toured in 1967 as they obviously had planned to do......Robby mentions this very fact on the Dick Clark Shebang show in July 1967........if LMF had been a hit here maybe they could have carved out a niche for themselves. It's really weird that the most innovative rock band ever was a one hit wonder here in the UK.....and even though it can be argued that a band like Led Zeppelin (one of our greatest ever bands) never had a hit single here ....it's worth pointing out that they never released an official single in the UK....The Doors tried hard to have hits here...Zepp never did. Clive Selwood, who was Elektra's UK man, was one of the smartest record guys on the planet....he was the guy who persuaded Jac Holzman to release Judy Collins version of Amazing Grace over here and had a massive hit for Elektra with a Hymn! So it wasn't as if Elektra was in some kinda backwater here....but they could never break The Doors in the UK...... An enigma of stellar proportions.....  |
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Post by ensenada on Jun 27, 2006 17:27:16 GMT
it is strange dude...perhaps they just didnt like the name? dont you think though for the time in britain that perhaps the doors sound wasnt poppy enough? cos lets face it back then, people did like very gay poppy music about flowers n shite.... |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 27, 2006 17:50:49 GMT
Yeah that probably explains it as the US did not have bands like The Archies and The Monkees they had bands like Cream and The Yardbirds No wait a minute.....................  We had more than our fair share of excellent rock acts here mate and lets face it The Doors had more in common with Brit music than they did with the love and peace movement of 1960s America such as West Coast Rock. They may have been a band from LA but they would have been right at home in 1960s London. So I don't think thats it mate |
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Post by ensenada on Jun 27, 2006 18:30:40 GMT
well in that case..i am all out of answers! |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Mar 24, 2011 9:57:26 GMT
"I didn't realise they turned out everyone like sausages on that show. I doubt if we'll do it again'Jim Morrison to Melody Maker May 2nd 1970 talking about the bands TOTP experience. It was interesting that Jim Morrison did not like to mime on TV shows. He had the same attitude in the US when he did not turn up for the Malibu U TV show a year earlier and left the bands roadie Ronny Krieger to take his spot for the filming. Top Of The Pops was a seminal TV show and out of it came the Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC and The Tube from my own Tyne-Tees ITV region. Both these programmes included live performances and went out of their way not to emulate the rigid TOTP formula. I think Jim would have enjoyed those two shows better but sadly he never got the chance.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Mar 24, 2011 11:40:01 GMT
It's interesting to note the photos that were taken of Top Of The Pops in 1968. Even though it was a mimed show the band would still have to do a rehearsal and the photos from that period tell the story. The ones with Jim in the shirt and pants are from the rehearsal and the one in the leather is the actual performance.  Jim rehearsing TOTP   Jim on the broadcast You can see that Jim is still wearing the same shirt but has put on leather trousers. To us here in the UK it was nothing special to see The Lizard King resplendent in leather as we had a different perspective in the 60s to America. It meant more to the US audience than it did here which is why the band were simply one hit wonders in Britain during their lifetime. |
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