Post by darkstar2 on Aug 27, 2008 13:47:18 GMT
No. Listen. This Really Is A Different Version Of Light My Fire
December 16 1999
Pop Update Music Corner
By: Lou T. Katts, Assistant Editor
We all know that part of the movie, “The Doors” where Jim Morrison sees the naked Indian after taking acid in the desert. Little did we know that the band continues to practice traditional Native American customs, almost 30 years after Morrison’s death. This would be the tradition of using every part of a killed animal, to get maximum benefit from it. Use the skin, use the meat, use the bones, use the organs, use the tail, use everything fro something – even as a paper weight, or a door prize for some community event. Find something to do with the animal parts.
So now the surviving, and we’re using the term survive loosely, members are doing the same thing. Sonic Net reports the last three Doors are trying to start an internet based record label to remaster and release crap from their archives. This is on top of their latest box set – The Complete Studio Recordings – which has all six of their studio albums remastered and a seventh CD of even more rarities. This band has so many rarities, the word doesn’t even have any meaning. If answering machines had been around in the 1960’s I’ll guarantee that there would be like seven Door’s releases of drunken messages left by Morrison now set to music.
They use every part of the dead animal.
They’ll re-release anything. Above and beyond the rights of any classic rock band, they’ll release anything. They have their two-CD “Best Of” album, which is probably now free with the purchase of any multi-pack of black lights. There’s last year’s four CD The Doors Box Set which had “Rare Out-Takes” (hmmmm. That sounds familiar), b-sides, sound checks and live crap. It also featured a disc of the band’s favorite songs, all from their studio albums, so most fans, who being fans would own all six studio albums, were paying for a disc of songs they already owned. The Box Set also featured, “Orange County Suite,” a new Doors song that had the band putting music underneath an old Morrison demo. Don’t worry if you don’t have the song though. You can find it on the “Essential Rarities” separately. I wish winning lottery tickets were as rare as this song is.
And now, just to recap, we have The Doors releasing 11 CD’s worth of music in the past two years, and of those 11 CD’s, seven feature Doors music that is not only readily available to fans, but probably already owned by fans too. That leaves you, the fan, with seven expensive drink coasters, and four CD’s of stuff you want to hear. You’re being screwed. Dude.
And don’t think that the archive stuff they want to release can possibly be any good. If it was any good, it would probably already be released, and if it was somehow missed the first time, but actually was good, it’s for god-damn sure that Elektra wouldn’t be releasing this over the internet. They’d be pressing it.
I’d almost pay the band to just go away and stop releasing the same music over and over and over again. Can you imagine how bad it would be if Morrison had lived another five years? We’d probably have to shoot Doors releases and merchandise into space, just to leave room for the rest of us on Earth.
People are strange, and the Doors are greedy.
www.popupdate.com/doors.html
December 16 1999
Pop Update Music Corner
By: Lou T. Katts, Assistant Editor
We all know that part of the movie, “The Doors” where Jim Morrison sees the naked Indian after taking acid in the desert. Little did we know that the band continues to practice traditional Native American customs, almost 30 years after Morrison’s death. This would be the tradition of using every part of a killed animal, to get maximum benefit from it. Use the skin, use the meat, use the bones, use the organs, use the tail, use everything fro something – even as a paper weight, or a door prize for some community event. Find something to do with the animal parts.
So now the surviving, and we’re using the term survive loosely, members are doing the same thing. Sonic Net reports the last three Doors are trying to start an internet based record label to remaster and release crap from their archives. This is on top of their latest box set – The Complete Studio Recordings – which has all six of their studio albums remastered and a seventh CD of even more rarities. This band has so many rarities, the word doesn’t even have any meaning. If answering machines had been around in the 1960’s I’ll guarantee that there would be like seven Door’s releases of drunken messages left by Morrison now set to music.
They use every part of the dead animal.
They’ll re-release anything. Above and beyond the rights of any classic rock band, they’ll release anything. They have their two-CD “Best Of” album, which is probably now free with the purchase of any multi-pack of black lights. There’s last year’s four CD The Doors Box Set which had “Rare Out-Takes” (hmmmm. That sounds familiar), b-sides, sound checks and live crap. It also featured a disc of the band’s favorite songs, all from their studio albums, so most fans, who being fans would own all six studio albums, were paying for a disc of songs they already owned. The Box Set also featured, “Orange County Suite,” a new Doors song that had the band putting music underneath an old Morrison demo. Don’t worry if you don’t have the song though. You can find it on the “Essential Rarities” separately. I wish winning lottery tickets were as rare as this song is.
And now, just to recap, we have The Doors releasing 11 CD’s worth of music in the past two years, and of those 11 CD’s, seven feature Doors music that is not only readily available to fans, but probably already owned by fans too. That leaves you, the fan, with seven expensive drink coasters, and four CD’s of stuff you want to hear. You’re being screwed. Dude.
And don’t think that the archive stuff they want to release can possibly be any good. If it was any good, it would probably already be released, and if it was somehow missed the first time, but actually was good, it’s for god-damn sure that Elektra wouldn’t be releasing this over the internet. They’d be pressing it.
I’d almost pay the band to just go away and stop releasing the same music over and over and over again. Can you imagine how bad it would be if Morrison had lived another five years? We’d probably have to shoot Doors releases and merchandise into space, just to leave room for the rest of us on Earth.
People are strange, and the Doors are greedy.
www.popupdate.com/doors.html