Other Voices

[jym]

I think they could have gone on as The Doors with someone new, BUT they had to do it 71-72 & not having Howard Werth or whomever doing a "jimitation" & I don't think they would have done that then anyway, the times were different & there was artistic integrity even if it was only something they wore on their sleeves (as we would find out later).

[ensenada]

hold on a minute, i thought ships w/ sails was the last track!

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

jym said:

I think they could have gone on as The Doors with someone new, BUT they had to do it 71-72 & not having Howard Werth or whomever doing a "jimitation" & I don't think they would have done that then anyway, the times were different & there was artistic integrity even if it was only something they wore on their sleeves (as we would find out later).

Thing is Jim if any of the candidates, Brits or otherwise, in the frame in 72/73 had come in the last thing they would have done is a Jimitation......that would have been the last thing on thier minds....they would have come in as themselves .......Jim was not a big deal in the UK anyways so doing a kereoke Jim would not have been a priority............
the guys in the 70s had more respect for themselves back in those days

ensenada said:

hold on a minute, i thought ships w/ sails was the last track!

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

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Despite the fact that Jim Morrison cast a long shadow, it must be remembered that the Doors were first and foremost a band. After Morrison's passing in Paris in the summer of 1971, the group received a generous offer from Elektra president Jac Holzman to continue their recording career. Most fans of the group wondered if the band would even have any appeal without Morrison. Would they still be powerful? Would they progress? Well, the answer is yes and no. The Doors did a very smart thing on this record -- they didn't try to replace or approximate Morrison. The result is a less serious but still focused album that, in hindsight, has real appeal. "Ships W/Sails" basically takes off where "Riders on the Storm" left off: its Afro-Cuban groove is an absolute gas, and shows that three remaining Doors were indeed progressing as musicians. The vocals on the album, while not disastrous, certainly don't have the impact that the band had with Morrison. The Doors knew this, and only tried to make an honest statement of where they were as musicians and not a social force. On this level, the effort succeeds admirably.

Source: allmusic.com

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The Doors after Jim Morrison: "Other Voices"

With a personality like Jim Morrison fronting the band, there's little wonder that the intensely brilliant musicianship of Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby Krieger was often eclipsed by his looming figure. Once Morrison was dead, in July 1971, there must have seemed little point in the trio continuing. Luckily, however, they did continue as a band, recording Other Voices and Full Circle.

When I first read about these albums in Danny Sugerman and Jerry Hopkins' biography of Jim Morrison No One Here Gets Out Alive, my first thought was, "Damn, how depressing must that have been, going into the studio with Jim Morrison dead and buried in France?" But hearing both albums, now, my verdict is that I'm thrilled the remaining Doors continued to record. The demise of Morrison (rumors of him having faked his death aside) following the release of the astonishing L.A. Woman LP was the height of anti-climax -- or, maybe just too pat an ending to this real-life story.

By December 1971, The Doors as a trio released Other Voices:


1. "In the Eye of the Sun" – 4:48
2. "Variety Is the Spice of Life" – 2:50
3. "Ships With Sails" – 7:38
4. "Tightrope Ride" – 4:15
5. "Down on the Farm" – 4:15
6. "I'm Horny, I'm Stoned" – 3:55
7. "Wandering Musician" – 6:25
8. "Hang on to Your Life" – 5:36


Without Jim Morrison at the lyric and vocal helm, it's fair for the passing music fan to wonder, "What's the point?" Well, the point is that The Doors, musically, had much life left in them after July 1971.

The first track of the album, "In the Eye of the Sun," is a rock/blues fusion with Ray Manzarek on vocals. Musically, most of the tracks are absolutely amazing in the breath of sonic landscape they cover. Think of the numerous changes of mood and tempo in the song "L.A. Woman," and multiply that by three or five.

The lyrics throughout the album tend toward the crackpot mystical. I didn't detect any outright attempts to imitate Morrison's style; maybe that pseudo-L.A. mysticisim was more a product of the times.

"Variety is the Spice of Life" is sung by Robby Krieger, and sadly, the song is as lame as its title. Regardless of how weak or strong the vocal performances are (and they never rise far beyond weak), Krieger's guitar work mesmerizes. The man seems wonderfully incapable of repeating himself.

"Ships with Sails," musically, is classic Doors. Robby Krieger's guitar is reminiscent of "Love Street," "Blue Monday" and "Indian Summer." There is a stand-up bass played alongside Manzarek's subdued "Riders on the Storm" keyboards, which makes for a wonderfully atmospheric piece.

"Tighrope Ride" is a great little upbeat rock 'n' roll song that might really have turned into something with Jim Morrison at the microphone and handling the lyrics. Still, very much worth hearing. Manzarek, whose vocals are pretty lousy throughout the album, comes as close to singing well on this track.

"Down on the Farm" is another wonderful moody track that adds xylophone to the sonic mix. This is one of the songs that morphs and transitions through an improbable series of sound textures -- from hypnotic, drugged-out L.A. nodding-off in the sunset into jughead country hick twanging, from which the song draws its title.

If you've ever tried downloading rare Doors tracks you might have run into "I'm Horny, I'm Stoned." It's an upbeat sort of throwaway song sung by Robby Krieger. On its own, hearing it for the first time in 2001, I thought it an interesting novelty track that didn't hold anything beyond the first listening. But on this album it's a bit more of a kick.

"Wandering Musician" begins with slow, meditative keyboards that build into something rock steady and quite beautiful. As the track unfolds, Ray Manzarek's genius for invention is on full display. Nowhere on the album do The Doors attempt to recreate the past. These tracks are fresh compositions. Had the tracks been allowed to flourish as instrumentals, it would have been interesting what directions they might have taken not being hemmed in by lyrics.

"Hang on to Your Life" is upbeat, with a livelier performance from John Densmore than anywhere else on the album. Robby Krieger, once more, is in flying form with one fresh, signature Doors lick after another. This is a jazzier song in which each musician has truly shown up to play. Their inventiveness as a trio is painfully evident -- painfully, because the tragedy of The Doors' story is that neither this, nor their next album got much notice before utterly fading away.

There are no odes to Jim Morrison on the album. His absence is a gaping blackhole -- no sense drawing even more attention to that fact. For as blinding and impressive as the musicianship is here, The Doors were really not The Doors without Morrison. Manzarek and Krieger make their attempts on vocals, but I think this album might have been much better had it been conceived as straightahead instrumental. Jim Morrison was an exceptional rock 'n' roll singer and a first-rate writer of rock 'n' roll song lyrics. This album is all about the remaining Doors and the ideas they migth have brought into the studio had Morrison arrived from France after the summer of '71, alive, refreshed and ready to follow-up L.A. Woman.

If you're a Jim Morrison fan, you probably won't find anything worthwhile in Other Voices because the album truly lives up to its title. For fans of The Doors' music, this will prove to be a surreal, interesting, and at times, weirdly satisfying journey through the veil of "what might have been." The imagination and talent of Jim Morrison is sorely missing, but to their credit the remaining Doors made no attempt to replace him -- either with a new vocalist or by their own efforts to round things out by writing lyrics of their own and doing vocals.

Music doesn't get much more haunting and interesting than this.
Saturday, March 31, 2007 The Hotdog Factory



Despite the fact that Jim Morrison cast a long shadow, it must be remembered that the Doors were first and foremost a band. After Morrison's passing in Paris in the summer of 1971, the group received a generous offer from Elektra president Jac Holzman to continue their recording career. Most fans of the group wondered if the band would even have any appeal without Morrison. Would they still be powerful? Would they progress? Well, the answer is yes and no. The Doors did a very smart thing on this record -- they didn't try to replace or approximate Morrison. The result is a less serious but still focused album that, in hindsight, has real appeal. "Ships W/Sails" basically takes off where "Riders on the Storm" left off: its Afro-Cuban groove is an absolute gas, and shows that three remaining Doors were indeed progressing as musicians. The vocals on the album, while not disastrous, certainly don't have the impact that the band had with Morrison. The Doors knew this, and only tried to make an honest statement of where they were as musicians and not a social force. On this level, the effort succeeds admirably.
Matthew Greenwald, All Music Guide

[mae77]

I have a copy signed by ray, it's my REAL treasure at home.

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

The Doors - Other Voices (1971)

In 1971 Ray Manzarek, Robby Kreiger, & John Densmore decided to soldier on without Jim Morrison.

Wait, the Doors without Jim Morrison?! That does not compute, doesn't make sense by any stretch of the imagination.

But at the same time Morrison was constantly trying to shift focus away from himself to his bandmates. There are group photos where, while he is front and center, he's kind of cowering lower to try to put the focus on Kreiger, Densmore, and Manzarek. So something tells me, on some level, this is a decision that Morrison might have smiled down on.

I have to give credit where it's due. The music is actually pretty damned good and the three remaining Doors did right by Morrison by not trying to replace him, they merely continued on without him-- Kreiger and Manzarek taking on the vocal duties in the Lizard King's absence.

Manzarek was no stranger to singing for the Doors as he was known to sing lead for them on many ocassions when Jim was still alive but too inebriated or incapacitated to perform. Rather than cancel or reschedule, often times the Doors would perform with Manzarek handling the vocals.

But Manzarek is no Morrison, nor for that matter is Robby Kreiger. It took some serious stones to soldier on without Mojo Risin' but as a tribute to Morrison perhaps they should have changed their name.

In order to listen to this album objectively it's best to forget it's a Doors album. Close your eyes and listen to it for its own sake. The music IS good and good music should be enjoyed without prejudice. The keyboard/organ playing is trademark Manzarek, the drums are still John Densmore, and the guitar is still good ol' Robby Kreiger.

When a person goes blind or deaf his or her other senses tend to grow stronger to compensate for the loss of that sense. As a trio the Doors play even tighter than as a quartet. It's almost as if Morrison's passing brought the remaining three members of the band that much closer together.

Even if deep down inside I can't bring myself to refer to Other Voices as a true Doors album, I also can't deny that it's thirty-nine plus minutes of damned good music. I just wish that Densmore, Manzarek, and Kreiger had made a fresh start and recorded under a new band name. They and their music deserves to be appreciated free from the ghosts and constraints of their past. Retaining "The Doors" moniker severely handicapped the album's potential success before the first note was even recorded.

The Review Revue
A repository for CD, movie, and occassionally book reviews.
Thursday, January 28, 2010

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The Doors - Other Voices (1971)
In 1971 Ray Manzarek, Robby Kreiger, & John Densmore decided to soldier on without Jim Morrison.

Wait, the Doors without Jim Morrison?! That does not compute, doesn't make sense by any stretch of the imagination.

But at the same time Morrison was constantly trying to shift focus away from himself to his bandmates.
There are group photos where, while he is front and center, he's kind of cowering lower to try to put the focus on Kreiger, Densmore, and Manzarek.
So something tells me, on some level, this is a decision that Morrison might have smiled down on.

I have to give credit where it's due. The music is actually pretty damned good and the three remaining Doors did right by Morrison by not trying to replace him, they merely continued on without him-- Kreiger and Manzarek taking on the vocal duties in the Lizard King's absence.

Manzarek was no stranger to singing for the Doors as he was known to sing lead for them on many ocassions when Jim was still alive but too inebriated or incapacitated to perform. Rather than cancel or reschedule, often times the Doors would perform with Manzarek handling the vocals.

But Manzarek is no Morrison, nor for that matter is Robby Kreiger. It took some serious stones to soldier on without Mojo Risin' but as a tribute to Morrison perhaps they should have changed their name.

In order to listen to this album objectively it's best to forget it's a Doors album. Close your eyes and listen to it for its own sake. The music IS good and good music should be enjoyed without prejudice. The keyboard/organ playing is trademark Manzarek, the drums are still John Densmore, and the guitar is still good ol' Robby Kreiger.

When a person goes blind or deaf his or her other senses tend to grow stronger to compensate for the loss of that sense. As a trio the Doors play even tighter than as a quartet.
It's almost as if Morrison's passing brought the remaining three members of the band that much closer together.

Even if deep down inside I can't bring myself to refer to Other Voices as a true Doors album, I also can't deny that it's thirty-nine plus minutes of damned good music. I just wish that Densmore, Manzarek, and Kreiger had made a fresh start and recorded under a new band name. They and their music deserves to be appreciated free from the ghosts and constraints of their past.
Retaining "The Doors" moniker severely handicapped the album's potential success before the first note was even recorded.
The Review Revue
January 28, 2010

I agree with much of the review but Ray did not fill in for Jim on MANY occasions as this is a bit unfair to Morrison and comes into 'When You're Strange' territory.
Jim was not as unreliable as people like DiCillo tried to make us think. Although it's true he did miss Doors gigs but then so did Densmore due to his constant whining and quitting the band.
The only member who was constant throughout was Ray as Robby even missed the earliest days as he did not join until after the band made the demo.
I like the point about Jim smiling down on this effort and I find much to agree on about this point.
It's pretty much a certainty that Morrison had left The Doors when he went to Europe and he had expressed a wish for them to carry on without him at the meeting Bill Siddons revealed to the Doors world.
Of course the band was distrustful of Jim and thought he was planning to hijack the name which tells you more about them than it does Jim.
I doubt very much whether Jim would have been so disloyal to his band mates as they were to him and without trying to speak for him I would imagine he would have appreciated Other Voices for what it was.
A good solid Doors album well worthy to bear the name.

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It isn't widely known that The Doors carried on without Jim. Which in itself may seem to suggest something about the quality of their post-morrison output. There is at least one gem on this album, though. Well, a couple actually. Let your ears not your mind do the talking on this one, is my advice. Well, The Doors without Jim? Crap, right? Wrong. At least, wrong as far as this album is concerned. Musically, they carry on from where they left off with 'LA Woman'. Well, more or less. They certainly don't sound as confident and the mixing seems lacklustre. Ray sings the majority of the songs here, by the way. He does the best Jim impersonation he can, although it's readily apparent he's nowhere near in the same class. I can bear to listen to him, though. The lyrics are decent enough too, which may come as a shock to many of you, I know. One thing that's obviously missing then, the vocals of Jim. What's less obvious is his role as a decision maker in the creative process. I guess Ray took it upon himself to lead proceedings a little more than he did before. This is all by the by. This is a Doors album without Jim. Is it any good? Short answer is yes. It's pretty good and actually, woefully underated. Elektra would do well to get this and the album that followed out on CD, methinks. Anyway, what are these gems I was speaking of then, case you want a sampler before tracking down a copy of the album in full, which currently might be expensive for you? Well, 'Ships Without Sails' is the one. Seven and a half minutes of musical glory of the type everybody knows The Doors can do. A glorious rhythm, good lyrics, passable vocals. A great Doors track actually that had Jim sang on it would today be hailed as a minor Doors classic, of that i've absolutely no doubt. 'Tightrope Ride' is a rocking track of the type that fans of 'LA Woman' and 'Morrison Hotel' will quickly recognise. Along with the superb 'Ships With Sails', this is the other true highpoint of the record.

On the down side, 'I'm Horny, I'm Stoned' begs to have been sung by Jim. Certain matters begin to conspire against the remaining doors. This is a song that really needed a better sound than the thin sound heard here. The vocals, if they'd been Jim vocals would have lent this song a comedy value in a good way, instead of the bad way the song has comedy value as presented here. It's not all that bad, but it's a track I can certainly live without. Jim was meant to be the dark-lord, yeah? Well, funnily enough, I do miss his humour on this album. Anybody listening to the likes of 'I'm Horny, I'm Stoned' will know exactly what I mean. 'In The Eye Of The Sun' is decent Doors, 'Variety Is The Spice Of Life' pretty much the worst Doors song i've heard to date. Of the remaining songs, 'Hang On To Your Life' almost sounds like Jim Morrison in places, 'Wandering Musician' has some lovely musical passages. Controversially then, I enjoy this album slightly more than I do 'The Soft Parade'. The vocals are an obvious point to concentrate on but the album, with the one or two obvious mis-steps, is as good a collection of actual songs as we could realistically have expected from them at this stage. Most importantly, ignoring any leniency I may be giving the other three guys, it's a pretty enjoyable listen.

Other Voices 7/10 ( 1971 )
In the Eye of the Sun / Variety is the Spice of Life / Ships Without Sails / Tightrope Ride / Down on the Farm / I'm Horny, I'm Stoned / Wandering Musician / Hang On To Your Life

Adrian Denning

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Other Voices will be 40 this October and here is a rare copy autographed by three of The Doors.

Obviously it's value would have soared if it had been autographed by all 4.

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Other Voices 40 years on the overlooked Doors Gem!

The rehearsal phase of the album actually began while former lead singer Jim Morrison was in France.
The song "Down on the Farm" was allegedly already written at the time of the recording of the LAW album but Morrison did not want to include it.
According to Manzarek, some of the songs had been rehearsed with Morrison before he left for Paris during the LAW rehearsals but were rejected by the singer.

The OV recording phase began 40 years ago this August and the album was released in October 1971.

The band still to this day maintain Morrison was intending to return to The Doors but enough 'evidence' exists to pour cold water on this as it does seem pretty certain that what Band Manager Bill Siddons said in the 90s was in fact the truth and Morrison had told the rest of the band that he was done with The Doors.

Sadly the album will always be compared to LA Woman which is a bit unfair as that was one of the two perfect Doors albums.
The other being Strange Days.
Musically OV is quite brilliant and even vocally it stands up well to a lot of 70s artists. Ray Manzarek had a very good bluesy voice and even Krieger managed the odd decent vocal.
It seems a shame that the band 40 years on do not even acknowledge this LP.
Of course there is no profit in a release of the post-Morrison albums as very few would buy them and remastering for CD would be an expense that could not be recouped.
So both post-Morrison albums seemed doomed to obscurity except for the margins of the album world where a few hardy souls have checked them out.
Other Voices is indeed worthy of taking it's place as a Doors album although a good argument can be made against Full Circle.

OV contains several Doors classics with Tightrope Ride and Ships w/ Sails and several of the other tracks are worthy of attention.
It does flag a little in the middle but starts of robustly and finishes well enough and has enough Doors in it to take it's place alongside the six Doors albums with Morrison.
We here will at least try to celebrate this albums 40th anniversary even if it will be lost alongside the 40 year celebration for LA Woman.

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

Both Other Voices and Full Circle now avaialable from i-Tunes.
Whether it is a remaster or a vinyl rip is not known but the samples sound decent.


itunes.apple.com/us/album/other-voices/id466329116

itunes.apple.com/us/album/full-circle/id466330442

[gizmo]

strange that ov is compared with la woman, not the same sort variety of songs and jim wasn't doing the vocals, not that he does a bad job on singing but it's not as raw as jims voice

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

It's from the same time period as LAW and some songs even were put forward for LAW.
People will always compare the Doors trio to the Morrison Doors. Wrongly in my view but that is what has held the albums back for so long.
They have their own merits and faults. Female backing singers was a big mistake on FC and some of Robby's vocals are utterly wretched but overall musically The Doors but missing their focal point.
OV especially is a very good Doors album and explores several similar themes to Morrison Doors albums musically and even lyrically on some songs.
Some of Robby's best guitar work is on OV and Ray showed he could do a very good blues vocal. JD plays some fine drumming here and even had his only drum solos during his Doors career on an OV track. Ship's W/Sails.
A couple of OV songs would grace Doors Morrison LPs.
Obviously without Ray and Robby singing

Comparisons with the Morrison Doors has haunted these three for 40 years and that's probably why they pretty much gave up and just mooched of a corpse.
Sad because they are three very fine musicians.

Also the album is 40 years old this late October so round about NOW!
Happy 40th Anniversary Other Voices.

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

Great but Forgotten



"Other Voices" -- the Doors
(Music) Robbie Krieger (guitar), Ray Manzerek (keyboards), John Densmore (drums).

Everyone who knows rock music knows about the Doors. Jim Morrison's apocalyptic personal history and dominant stage personality made him into a legend. And when he died, he became one of rock music's immortals. Of course, the group broke up without Jim, except for a controversial attempt to reform the past year or so.

Well, not really.

The legend of Jim Morrison obscured the truth: the Doors were always a band, not just backup musicians for the Lizard King. Songs for their albums* were originally credited to "The Doors," partly so the group could share royalties and partly as a recognition that they worked as a group. This led to odd confusion. I remember one reviewer talking about how Morrison's songwriting was what made the group a success, completely ignoring the fact that "Light My Fire," their biggest hit and the song that put them on the map, was written by Robbie Krieger.

So when Jim Morrison died, the rest of the group had a unique problem. They were musicians and songwriters who really weren't dependent to their front man, but who were only considered backing musicians for him. They also owed albums to their record company and had already been working on songs and musical ideas for it. So what do you do?

The answer was "Other Voices."

The title, of course, refers to Morrison being gone. Krieger and Manzerek handle the vocals, and, though no Morrison, are certainly as good as most rock singers. The songs are also generally good. "Ships with Sails" is a pretty tune, a more upbeat version of "Riders on the Storm." "I'm Horny, I'm Stoned" is a funny tune about the madness of being a rock star. "Variety is the Spice of Life" ("That's what the judge is gonna tell my wife.") is a funny tune about a man's wandering eye. The other songs are all quite good. If it had been a debut album from a new band, it would have led to at least a cult following and maybe a successful career.

But these were the Doors. Though the album was moderately successful, making the top 40 albums), the legend of Morrison overshadowed the group's attempt to redefine themselves. They put out a second album, "Full Circle," which just dented the charts (I'm not familiar with it), then broke up.

And the Morrison legend continues. Alas, any story of the Doors ends in a Paris bathtub, so the fact that the group tried to continue with him has gotten lost. Doors fans are Jim Morrison fans and aren't interested in the rest of the people who worked side by side with him, and often gave him the words and music he was singing.

It wasn't until 2004 that "Other Voices" (and "Full Circle") made it onto CD, and that's out of print. It doesn't deserve this sort of obscurity.

Chuck Rothman
Saturday, January 26, 2008

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The Doors - Other Voices

While Jim Morrison was vacationing in France, Ray Manzarek, John Desmore, and Robbie Krieger began laying down tracks for The Doors next album. Little did they realize at the time that he was not coming back. He was found dead in his apartment bathtub on July 3, 1971. His gravesite in Pere Lachaise Cemetery is one of the leading tourist attractions in Paris.

The remaining members of the group would forge ahead and release Other Voices during the fall of 1972. It would be critically panned at the time but did become a moderate commercial success reaching number 68 on The American album charts.

The album is not all bad, just half bad. It can be divided into two parts. The first four songs range from competent to good while the last four are increasingly poor. The beauty of the original vinyl release is you could listen to side one without ever turning the record over.

“In The Eye Of The Sun” is close to a classic Doors song. It contains excellent lyrics, some creative guitar work by Krieger, and some surprisingly good vocals from Manzarek. “Variety Is The Spice Of Life” has a different beat than the usual Doors material. While Robbie Krieger’s vocals are inoffensive, they make you yearn for Morrison. “Ships With Sails” would have been a good fit for L.A. Woman and is one of the few times the band sings harmony. “Tightrope Ride” is the album's best track and is one of the better productions of Krieger’s career.

Now for the bad news because there is a flip side to the release. “Down On The Farm” is basically a poorly constructed song. “I’m Horny, I’m Stoned” was a humorous song that ended up laughable. The vocal by Krieger is listless at best. “Wandering Musician” may be an old Doors style song but the quality is not there. “Hang On To Your Life” concludes the album on a dismal note.

The remaining Doors had the unenviable and impossible task of producing an album without the vocal point of the group. Jim Morrison was the key piece of The Doors puzzle, and without him everything just did not come together. There is some acceptable music here but the album pales when compared to any of their six classic studio releases.
Music Review
David Bowling
July 2010

You wonder where the hell in this day and age these people get their information from.

While Jim Morrison was vacationing in France, Ray Manzarek, John Desmore, and Robbie Krieger began laying down tracks for The Doors next album. Little did they realize at the time that he was not coming back.

Apart from the fact he had told them he had left the band and was done with The Doors.
The Myth still as strong as ever both within those mildly interested and even Doors fans that Jim was somehow going to come back and make another album.
The evidence of the trial 2003/2008 and the infamous March amendment to the Doors contract tells you that they knew he was NOT coming back and did not trust him in the slightest to not go across to England and form a new band called The Doors.
So the three who had backstabbed and sold out Jim Morrison decided to make sure he did not do the same to them.
What a lovely bunch Jim's bandmates really were.

See :Doors Trial info

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

'No tangible sense of loss'? Did they listen to Tightrope Ride?
And the ones from LAW are easily identified as Jerry Scheff plays bass on them.

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Even today Other Voices is compared to the Jim albums.
Reviews better then than now.
Nobody seems to give them credit for trying and they did not milk Jim during the period of OV and Full Circle.
They did not attempt any Jim material and only did 2 4 Doors songs throughout 4 tours, Love Me Two Times & Light My Fire.
This was a 'new' band and Ray was more than competent at singing these songs.
But how anyone else was expected to give them credit when they ignored the existence of these albums for nigh on 50 years.

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