Post by darkstar3 on Feb 8, 2011 19:13:47 GMT
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Doors, A Way In and A Way Out, Rock On Coast
By Robert Windeler
Nov 20 1967
The Doors is one pop music group that may make it to the end of this rock generation, which is to say it may last another five years.
An audience of 4,500 packed Winterland, and abandoned ice skating rink in a run down section of San Francisco, last night and Friday night to find out why or to pay tribute.
When The Doors came on to do their thing, there was sudden silence and the crowd sat as if it were about to hear a chamber music concert.
And they did hear everything from Bach chord changes to a Brecht-Weill song and The Doors Top 40 hit ‘Light My Fire.’ But more important, they sat in rapt attention to every visual and vocal gyration of The Doors lead singer, Jim Morrison, as if in homage to some primitive ritual.
It is precisely this total attention that The Doors’ audiences seek and The Doors exploit. “For me it’s a religious involvement,” said Ray Manzarek, the group’s organist. “For the public it’s total submersion into our music.”
Consequently, public performances are what The Doors do most, although they have all the requisites of a top pop group.
On stage the twenty three year old Mr. Morrison, dressed in skintight black vinyl, mouths each lyric – sung or spoken – as if it were poetry, which it sometimes is, albeit punctuated by ear piercing blasts by organ, guitar, and drums. The other members of the group, Mr. Manzarek, twenty-five, Robbie Krieger, twenty one, and John Densmore, twenty two are essentially instrumentalists.
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Doors, A Way In and A Way Out, Rock On Coast
By Robert Windeler
Nov 20 1967
The Doors is one pop music group that may make it to the end of this rock generation, which is to say it may last another five years.
An audience of 4,500 packed Winterland, and abandoned ice skating rink in a run down section of San Francisco, last night and Friday night to find out why or to pay tribute.
When The Doors came on to do their thing, there was sudden silence and the crowd sat as if it were about to hear a chamber music concert.
And they did hear everything from Bach chord changes to a Brecht-Weill song and The Doors Top 40 hit ‘Light My Fire.’ But more important, they sat in rapt attention to every visual and vocal gyration of The Doors lead singer, Jim Morrison, as if in homage to some primitive ritual.
It is precisely this total attention that The Doors’ audiences seek and The Doors exploit. “For me it’s a religious involvement,” said Ray Manzarek, the group’s organist. “For the public it’s total submersion into our music.”
Consequently, public performances are what The Doors do most, although they have all the requisites of a top pop group.
On stage the twenty three year old Mr. Morrison, dressed in skintight black vinyl, mouths each lyric – sung or spoken – as if it were poetry, which it sometimes is, albeit punctuated by ear piercing blasts by organ, guitar, and drums. The other members of the group, Mr. Manzarek, twenty-five, Robbie Krieger, twenty one, and John Densmore, twenty two are essentially instrumentalists.
END.