Jim Morrison in Vegas?

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

[glow=red,2,300]Jim Morrison The Vegas Experience[/glow]

OK here is your chance to air a view......
With the recent unveiling of a statue of Jimi Hendrix in the IOW
Jeff Jampol the so called manager of The Doors has already set out a vision of a Doors/Jim Morrison show that will be presented in Las Vegas for 2008 featuring all sorts of lights and Doors music promoted by various opportunists to pay tribute to The Doors for their fake 40th anniversary and in particular Jim Morrison the bands lead singer (deceased).
Showing as much 'vision' as your average Bat, Jampol seems to think that this kind of show (with a nice cover charge of course)epitomises The Doors and is a worthy tribute to a band that tried to stand for something during the 60s.
Most disturbing is that all 3 Doors seem OK with this idea......Ray Manzarek you expect to enthuse all over it as it makes a 'buck' which is all he ever cared about anyway but the other two seem to be drooling over the prospect as much as R$ay!
Place any news about plans for the show here (as many of us are out of the loop Doors wise) and share your opinion of Jim Morrison The Vegas Experience.........

[glow=red,2,300]Relighting the Doors' fire in film -- and maybe Vegas[/glow]

This is the end? Not for the Doors, not even close. Jim Morrison died in Paris in summer 1971, but his music not only keeps playing, it's getting louder. The surviving members of the band — Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby Krieger — have been mired in assorted legal disputes in recent years, but now word is coming from their reunifying camp that they believe it's time to put their band's legacy (and, ahem, potential profitability) front and center.

Official news came last week that Dick Wolf, the force behind the ubiquitous "Law & Order" franchises, is producing a full-length documentary on the Doors for theatrical release — with all three surviving Doors on board as co-producers. Also on tap is a project from Stacy Peralta (a principal in the two "Dogtown" films) titled "Six Nights, Six Records, Six Years," which is described by Daily Variety as a "social history" documentary that plugs into the Doors jukebox.

Next year is the 40th anniversary of the band's first album, and those films lead a flurry of tie-in projects that include lavish new coffee-table books, albums of poetry and, of course, plenty of music releases that range from the rare to the repackaged.

And talk about strange days, there's even a plan to take the Doors to Vegas in 2008. Jeff Jampol of Doors Music Co. said the surviving members and Morrison's estate are negotiating a deal in the "tens of millions of dollars" to build a special theater of 800 to 1,200 seats at a Las Vegas casino and tailor-design a standing show. Although the music of Queen, Bob Dylan and Billy Joel has in recent years been repurposed as stage shows, Jambol said: "We don't feel a Broadway show or dance piece or circus piece fits what the Doors stand for."

So how would the Doors handle it? One of the ideas now is a midnight show with no live actors that borrows from both Disneyland's Haunted Mansion and those old Pink Floyd laser-light shows. The audience would enter the venue single-file through a dark hallway with piped-in Morrison poetry. Inside, the seats would be individually wired for sound and surrounded by an iMax screen, holograms, computer-generated special effects and all manner of weirdness. The story line and characters are a work in progress, but it would be fiction, not the band's story.

"We've got something very special in the works…. We're creating something, but we're not sure what it's called," Jampol said. "The overarching watch-phrase is we want to do something that speaks about the ethos and vibe and feeling and meaning of the Doors: dark, edgy, dangerous, questioning authority, otherworldly." If all goes well, the Doors might even keep their eyes on the road. "If it works in Vegas, I'd love to make it transportable."

Mike Boehm and Geoff Boucher LA Times April 10, 2006

[jym]

I remember in some interview, probably around the time of The Doors movie that Robbie said had Jim lived he envisioned him in Vegas like Elvis. So, now they put him there.

& 2 bucks says that in multimedia presentation you'll hear the announcer from the end of Absolutely Live saying "take the trip!"

[sparky]

Hmmmmm, whats next???
the doors on broadway???

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

There has already been a Broadway show about The Doors gemma........it bombed......also COTL the musical which was the one Ray was involved with that had a night in San Diego and then bombed.
Cheese knows no bounds when it comes to exploiting Jim Morrison's corpse............

But "tens of millions of dollars" It's what Jim would have wanted!

[ensenada]

How the fuck can robbie say he could see jim in fuckin vegas.... thats a fuckin laugh in itself.....an anti capitalist like morrison wanting to have a show in vegas...?!!!? not fuckin likely really is it...i guy who stands for poetry and all things not particularly associated with a world revolving around money.....

at first I thought this idea would be quite cool....as how about the doors in vegas, with great atmosphere etc etc plus, since i love poker...quite frankly,....what could be better than having a sit and go tourney of poker, only to fuck off and watch a doors show after!? i thought "how fuckin cool"...but not really......infact its sickening really....a franchise show with one in fuckin blackpool probably......another shitty way f exploiting the work of a great man and a great band.....its wrong! and considerably distasteful..considering jim's values.