Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 22, 2004 20:45:26 GMT
In the history of Elektra records 'Follow The Music' (page 285) Elektra executive David Anderle recounts how Jim phoned him one night and said "I want to do a blues record"
So he contacted John Haeny and without anyone else knowing organised several sessions over a couple of nights without any of his fellow Elektra colleagues or The Doors knowing about it.
"just Jim playing piano on which he was very bad sketching some things"
Anderle does not give a date so it is easy to dismiss this as the 1969 sessions where Jim read a lot of poetry.
It could well be that as we only know of a fraction of what was captured there....maybe Jim did induldge his blues side a bit during that period. But it may well have been something else....Anderle was not the Elektra office boy.....he was well thought of and is described in the book as 'the incarnation of Elektra in the 60s beloved of artists" by Holzman. So it would have been easy for him to sort out a session for Jim under the noses of his bosses and The Doors....
It begs the question that in all the years Jim was a Door with access to studios and engineers how many times did he actually go into a studio for 'himself' and play 'his' music and read 'his' poetry......John Haeny would be an interesting guy to hear from.....
So he contacted John Haeny and without anyone else knowing organised several sessions over a couple of nights without any of his fellow Elektra colleagues or The Doors knowing about it.
"just Jim playing piano on which he was very bad sketching some things"
Anderle does not give a date so it is easy to dismiss this as the 1969 sessions where Jim read a lot of poetry.
It could well be that as we only know of a fraction of what was captured there....maybe Jim did induldge his blues side a bit during that period. But it may well have been something else....Anderle was not the Elektra office boy.....he was well thought of and is described in the book as 'the incarnation of Elektra in the 60s beloved of artists" by Holzman. So it would have been easy for him to sort out a session for Jim under the noses of his bosses and The Doors....
It begs the question that in all the years Jim was a Door with access to studios and engineers how many times did he actually go into a studio for 'himself' and play 'his' music and read 'his' poetry......John Haeny would be an interesting guy to hear from.....
