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Post by adam on Feb 1, 2011 22:37:36 GMT
  The Doors eponymous first album is universally regarded as their finest achievement and as one of the greatest debut albums in the history of rock music making it a worthy addition to the acclaimed Classic Albums series. The three surviving members of The Doors: Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore are all featured in new interviews along with original engineer Bruce Botnick, musicians Henry Rollins and Perry Farrell and executives Billy James (Columbia Records) and Jac Holzman (Elektra Records) plus many more. What emerges is the extraordinary story of the creation of a masterpiece. TRACKLIST Features excerpts from: * Break On Through (To The Other Side) * The Crystal Ship * Back Door Man * Soul Kitchen * Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) * Light My Fire * End Of The Night * The End and more... BONUS FEATURES * Additional & extended interview material not included in the broadcast version. * New instrumental demonstrations of songs from the album with Robby Krieger playing slide and flamenco guitar, Ray Manzarek performing the solo from "Light My Fire" and John Densmore showing his drum techniques. * The story behind "Moonlight Drive", which was cut from the album and later appeared in a different arrangement on the second album "Strange Days". |
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Post by adam on Feb 1, 2011 23:37:32 GMT
actually its prob best to wait until tomorrow, link speed is slow, if your in a hurry  its prob on sidereel or megavideo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Feb 2, 2011 7:11:02 GMT
alex, lemme know if this warez is a problemo, cos its copywrited but i dont give a fuck if you dont... cheers adam Adz mate you have known me long enough! What do you think?  cheers guys  ...the later albums (to me) almost seem to be jim resigned to his life, "ok so i'm a singer, so lets sing the blues & a little rock n roll" i (quite) enjoyed "when your strange" (enjoyed alex's review of it a lot more  ) i take it you've seen bbc classic albums 'the doors' utterly brilliant imho [if anyone hasn't pm me & i'll upload it to my drop box] despite a good bit of "jim is a god" publicity from all the 3 surviving members, to me the truth is inescapable..... .........jim had far less musical input into the doors than the myth would have you believe.... ....but please check it out.... Ray & Robby & John telling us how the songs were composed, which bits they stole from other artists to get the sound they wanted.... .....jim gave them words & a hint of melody, the doors were the tunesmiths... part of the "deal" of jim being the focal point saw the band having to down play their input & its great to hear them genuinely & excitedly explain their individual contributions.... almost worth the licence fee  ) I agree with what you say mate with the proviso..... Jim did as you point out have a slight input musically as he did have the melody in his head which was a useful starting point for the other 3 to get going with their magic. I don't think the Myth overstates Jim's musical input that much although The Doors do probably overestimate it to help push their agenda and subsequently sell more units via that Myth. I got this on DVD when it came out and it is bloody brilliant. |
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Post by adam on Feb 2, 2011 8:20:51 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Feb 4, 2011 13:06:37 GMT
A pretty good video that makes itself worth watching by concentrating on the subject matter rather than veering off on tangents about how crazy Jim Morrison was. Botnick is most watchable but even Ray does a great turn explaining the mechanics behind some of the songs on the album.
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Post by adam on Feb 4, 2011 16:38:27 GMT
my fav part is robby playing the soul kitchen riff, amazing :-)
you can download this doc from my link - although i think all 4 active members of this board have it already, no?
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Feb 4, 2011 17:07:50 GMT
I got it when it came out mate. Really enjoyed it. I don't think it has been featured on BBC as yet. Plenty of lurkers can enjoy the link as the whole forum is open to guests and hopefully some more will become active soon. I will pester a few this weekend. You and Cassandra are doing a good job with some interesting and inciteful posts I am not seeking members but rather people who want to talk about this shit. The rest can gawp for free if they don't have the grey matter to formulate a decent sentence. |
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Post by adam on Feb 4, 2011 17:29:17 GMT
it's been on sky arts a few times (the nirvana classic albums is good too)
i just taped it off the tv & then got it on my PC, since i bought a house, hemoraged a load of earnings from my n@zi employer & got a live in g/f i can't afford things like dvds, clothes, dental care & booze fuelled trips to paris :-(
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Post by casandra on Feb 4, 2011 19:50:58 GMT
my fav part is robby playing the soul kitchen riff, amazing :-) you can download this doc from my link - although i think all 4 active members of this board have it already, no? I bought very cheap (less 5€) in a departament store. It's very interesting. |
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Post by gizmo on Feb 5, 2011 11:54:37 GMT
cheers adam for that link, i thought it was the same as a dvd i got but it's a different one wich i didn't see before. great footage and coments.
thanx again mate
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Feb 2, 2012 22:01:25 GMT
Classic Albums series hits the mark again looking at The Doors’ debut.
THE DOORS
Classic Albums: The Doors
Eagle Rock
Like the lion mark on your breakfast egg, the ‘reassuringly expensive’ tag on your pint of Stella or the crocodile symbol on the spine of a copy of Classic Rock, a Classic Albums DVD is a guarantee of quality.
The latest in Eagle Rock’s estimable series deals with The Doors’ self-titled debut from 1967. Of course, it inevitably suffers from a lack of modern-day contributions from Jim Morrison, the band’s long-deceased frontman. His spectre looms large through the use of archive footage, but as matters progress a slight sense of frustration creeps in.
Choosing people such as Henry Rollins and Perry Farrell to dissect Morrison’s deeply personal musings perhaps wasn’t the wisest of moves. Rollins’s lack of insight is disappointing, and his concluding remark “The songs are more enquiries into the psyche, perception, and where you see a wall we see a door”
is just plain nonsense. Farrell is too wideeyed and reverential, although his comparison of Morrison and Frank Sinatra is a valid one.
The surviving members of The Doors come into their own when they stop speaking and start playing.
Drummer John Densmore excels when he demonstrates the bossa nova beat to Break On Through (To The Other Side); Robby Krieger seems blissfully unaware of his extraordinary guitar-playing gifts; Ray Manzarek demonstrates his signature jingles on a keyboard the size of a Rolf Harris Stylophone.
The unlikely star of the DVD is recording engineer Bruce Botnick. Balding and professorial, he sits at a studio console and conjures up ghosts from the past. On several occasions he fades down the music completely and isolates Morrison’s voice, to chilling effect.
Botnick clearly still finds The Doors’
music extremely moving. There’s an endearing moment at the beginning of Back Door Man when he smiles at Morrison’s exaggerated barking and responds with a little ‘ruff!’ of his own.
Densmore, who has become estranged from Krieger and Manzarek, comes across as the most likeable of the remaining Doors. And the drummer sums things up succinctly with the comment: “There’s magic on the record… the muse was hanging around and I’m grateful.”
Geoff Barton
Classic Rock Magazine June 2008
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Feb 5, 2012 11:19:13 GMT
 Poster The rather sad and pathetic 'booklet' that came with this release.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Mar 11, 2024 18:21:18 GMT
 French record store promo display   Promo copy Album cover gatefold sleeve DVD The lavish insert front & back.
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