Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Sept 5, 2022 19:58:53 GMT
The Doors:: Ford Training Film "Love Thy Customer" May 1966
The Doors had just opened and were in search of paid work when in May 1966 the band are invited by Parthenon Pictures on behalf of The Ford Motor Company to provide the music to a 25 minute training film for their mechanics called 'Love Thy Customer'.
Considering they had just been dumped by Columbia, who had signed them in October 1965, they were just another hungry LA band and had just gotten their first proper (and low paid) gig at The London Fog, this opportunity was very welcome.
It involved the 3 musical Doors being recorded live, as they watched the film, in the tiny Rampart Studio in LA.
Watching the finished product the band are barely heard above the narration. They drift in and out until the end (pun intended).
Robby's guitar style can be made out and occasional Ray signature keyboard tinkling's but John seems absent.
According to Rolling Stone Jim may have added extra percussion but it is hard to give that any credence from the actual film.
Their input in the film is minimal to say the least amounting to barely 10 minutes of low volume inserts which are hard to make out.
Some bits of The Soft Parade, “Catacombs, Nursery Bones”, can be heard and in the films last minutes the the band, including JD, can be heard clearly and it ends with a proto musical I Looked At You over the credits.
The Doors are credited at the end but it's doubtful any real publicity benefit was accrued from such an exercise.
But $200 (nearly $2000 in todays currency) was a worthwhile addition to band funds as they would not sign their second record contract, this time with Elektra, until July 1966.
“The Doors piled into a cramped screening room at Los Angeles’ Rampart Studios, where they viewed the 25-minute clip on a small monitor. They composed a soundtrack largely on the spot, jamming live as the scenes flickered past. Fragments of what later became ‘I Looked at You’, ‘Build Me a Woman’ and ‘The Soft Parade’ can be heard in the finished product. Though they played only instrumental passages, Morrison is said to have contributed percussion and additional sound effects. The day of work earned them $200.”
Rolling Stone
Check the video out here.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=84pxNcqZDR4
The Doors had just opened and were in search of paid work when in May 1966 the band are invited by Parthenon Pictures on behalf of The Ford Motor Company to provide the music to a 25 minute training film for their mechanics called 'Love Thy Customer'.
Considering they had just been dumped by Columbia, who had signed them in October 1965, they were just another hungry LA band and had just gotten their first proper (and low paid) gig at The London Fog, this opportunity was very welcome.
It involved the 3 musical Doors being recorded live, as they watched the film, in the tiny Rampart Studio in LA.
Watching the finished product the band are barely heard above the narration. They drift in and out until the end (pun intended).
Robby's guitar style can be made out and occasional Ray signature keyboard tinkling's but John seems absent.
According to Rolling Stone Jim may have added extra percussion but it is hard to give that any credence from the actual film.
Their input in the film is minimal to say the least amounting to barely 10 minutes of low volume inserts which are hard to make out.
Some bits of The Soft Parade, “Catacombs, Nursery Bones”, can be heard and in the films last minutes the the band, including JD, can be heard clearly and it ends with a proto musical I Looked At You over the credits.
The Doors are credited at the end but it's doubtful any real publicity benefit was accrued from such an exercise.
But $200 (nearly $2000 in todays currency) was a worthwhile addition to band funds as they would not sign their second record contract, this time with Elektra, until July 1966.
“The Doors piled into a cramped screening room at Los Angeles’ Rampart Studios, where they viewed the 25-minute clip on a small monitor. They composed a soundtrack largely on the spot, jamming live as the scenes flickered past. Fragments of what later became ‘I Looked at You’, ‘Build Me a Woman’ and ‘The Soft Parade’ can be heard in the finished product. Though they played only instrumental passages, Morrison is said to have contributed percussion and additional sound effects. The day of work earned them $200.”
Rolling Stone
Check the video out here.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=84pxNcqZDR4
