Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on May 24, 2024 16:55:40 GMT
I got this when it came out in 1982 and quite looked forward to it.
Sadly after an initial enthusiasm for it it became boring and was rarely played after that.
It needed a singer in the way Robin Trower was able to share his guitar skills.
Instrumentals are cool but a whole album of them??
Robby was/is one of Rocks Greatest Guitar players but his vocals are usually awful.
But why he could not have found a singer and got some good songs for him/her is a mystery.
If he wondered why his albums never sold that was the reason. The difference between selling 100s and selling 1000s.
Doors fans deserted him in the same in the same way they deserted Ray.
But at least Ray made an effort and his catalogue is well worth a listen while Robby's is not.
"Tattooed Love Boys" (Chrissie Hynde)
"Her Majesty" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
"East End, West End" (Gale)
"The Crystal Ship" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison)
"Street Fighting Man" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
"Reach Out (I'll Be There)" (Dozier, Holland)
"Gavin Leggit" (Krieger, MacKenzie)
"Underwater Fall" (Krieger)
"I'm Gonna Tell on You" (Krieger)
"Harlem Nocturne" (Hagen)
Promo copy
Versions/Robby Krieger
Although the same basic band plays on the two Robby (aka Robbie) Krieger instrumental albums combined on this disc, they take two different approaches. Former Doors member Krieger is the guitarist, of course, accompanied by former Mothers of Invention keyboard player Don Preston, Arthur Barrow on bass, and usually Bruce Gary on drums. The songs making up 1982's Versions, as the title implies, largely are covers of familiar tunes, starting with the Pretenders' "Tattooed Love Boys" and including treatments of the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man" and the Four Tops' "Reach Out (I'll Be There)." The two other surviving Doors, keyboard player Ray Manzarek and drummer John Densmore, join Krieger on a version of the Doors song "Crystal Ship" as well as a Krieger original, "Her Majesty." Whether originals or covers, the tunes on Versions are tightly played interpretations.
