Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on May 2, 2011 13:50:06 GMT
One, two, three, four billion souls are gonna rest
If all our friends don't try their best
To change the way this world is headed for
We can find our hapiness
It aint so hard to find
Just look a little further up the line
Just a little further up in time
Don't you see that we could be the first in history
Leavin' all that we don't need behind
We could clean it up and make it shine
Robby Krieger's attempt to emulate Jim Morrison's Ship Of Fools.
A more poppy song than Jim's but still a serious if naive attempt to appeal to us all to cut out the shit.
As with all these appeals it ended up being ignored and we carried on digging our own graves.
Today a very topical song but lost in the mists of time like so many other better songs.
Musically it is a hit and miss affair.
A jangling countryfied guitar undercurrent that suited Robby Krieger on vocals overlaid with the full gamut of instruments thrown into the mix it seems like a song that summed up the confusion The Doors had as to the direction they wanted to go.
The Doors feature acoustic and electric guitars mixed in with piano and organ and some powerful drumming from John Densmore and a nice bass line from Jack Conrad who would become a bit player in the final days of The Doors in concert.
But the song can't decide whather it is a funky ditty or country or rock so just becomes an amalgam of everything and would have ended up going nowhere if not for Krieger ending it on a high with some blistering guitar to finish off.
Robby was never suited to taking on the lead vocals and this illustrates why but it has to be said it was among his better efforts all the same.
Full Circle
The Doors-4 billion Souls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwT2bjGXY-s
What direction do YOU think the band would have gone in if they had carried on after Full Circle?
What could have the doors become?
Should the band have carried on at all without Jim Morrison in 1971?
35 Years On....should The Doors have carried on?
Could an effective Doors replacement have been found for Jim Morrison in 1972/73?
Could Jim have been replaced in 1972?
What has been the best Post Jim Doors moment for YOU in the last 35 years?
Best Post Jim Moment
Check these links
Vote for the Post Jim albums
Full Circle
Tightrope Ride
Post Jim Singles
Other Voices
If all our friends don't try their best
To change the way this world is headed for
We can find our hapiness
It aint so hard to find
Just look a little further up the line
Just a little further up in time
Don't you see that we could be the first in history
Leavin' all that we don't need behind
We could clean it up and make it shine
Robby Krieger's attempt to emulate Jim Morrison's Ship Of Fools.
A more poppy song than Jim's but still a serious if naive attempt to appeal to us all to cut out the shit.
As with all these appeals it ended up being ignored and we carried on digging our own graves.
Today a very topical song but lost in the mists of time like so many other better songs.
Musically it is a hit and miss affair.
A jangling countryfied guitar undercurrent that suited Robby Krieger on vocals overlaid with the full gamut of instruments thrown into the mix it seems like a song that summed up the confusion The Doors had as to the direction they wanted to go.
The Doors feature acoustic and electric guitars mixed in with piano and organ and some powerful drumming from John Densmore and a nice bass line from Jack Conrad who would become a bit player in the final days of The Doors in concert.
But the song can't decide whather it is a funky ditty or country or rock so just becomes an amalgam of everything and would have ended up going nowhere if not for Krieger ending it on a high with some blistering guitar to finish off.
Robby was never suited to taking on the lead vocals and this illustrates why but it has to be said it was among his better efforts all the same.
Full Circle
The Doors-4 billion Souls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwT2bjGXY-s
What direction do YOU think the band would have gone in if they had carried on after Full Circle?
What could have the doors become?
Should the band have carried on at all without Jim Morrison in 1971?
35 Years On....should The Doors have carried on?
Could an effective Doors replacement have been found for Jim Morrison in 1972/73?
Could Jim have been replaced in 1972?
What has been the best Post Jim Doors moment for YOU in the last 35 years?
Best Post Jim Moment
Check these links
Vote for the Post Jim albums
Full Circle
Tightrope Ride
Post Jim Singles
Other Voices