Post by darkstar2 on Sept 17, 2008 14:04:49 GMT
The New York Post
September 16 2008
TALES BEHIND THE DOORS
September 16, 2008 --
WHO knew 1950s rockabilly icon Gene Vincent was such a big influence on 1960s psychedelic band The Doors? Former Doors drummer John Densmore, fresh from a victory in a California court forbidding his two surviving former bandmates from using the name The Doors, turned up for the opening of "Be Bop A Lula," Rex Weiner's play about the late Vincent and fellow rocker Eddie Cochran, at the Cat Club on the Sunset Strip last week. "Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran were as important to rock 'n' roll as Chuck Berry and Little Richard," Densmore told the standing-room crowd from the same stage where The Doors got their start four decades ago, adding that Cochran's rollicking "Summertime Blues" just celebrated its 50th anniversary. Vincent's sister, Tina Craddock, recalled that Doors frontman Jim Morrison "had a man- crush" on Vincent.
www.nypost.com/seven/09162008/gossip/pagesix/tales_behind_the_doors_129243.htm
September 16 2008
TALES BEHIND THE DOORS
September 16, 2008 --
WHO knew 1950s rockabilly icon Gene Vincent was such a big influence on 1960s psychedelic band The Doors? Former Doors drummer John Densmore, fresh from a victory in a California court forbidding his two surviving former bandmates from using the name The Doors, turned up for the opening of "Be Bop A Lula," Rex Weiner's play about the late Vincent and fellow rocker Eddie Cochran, at the Cat Club on the Sunset Strip last week. "Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran were as important to rock 'n' roll as Chuck Berry and Little Richard," Densmore told the standing-room crowd from the same stage where The Doors got their start four decades ago, adding that Cochran's rollicking "Summertime Blues" just celebrated its 50th anniversary. Vincent's sister, Tina Craddock, recalled that Doors frontman Jim Morrison "had a man- crush" on Vincent.
www.nypost.com/seven/09162008/gossip/pagesix/tales_behind_the_doors_129243.htm