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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 23, 2004 12:18:48 GMT
I'd argue with anyone that this is the best tribute to Jim anybody has ever come up with....I criticise Ray often but the guy is a bone fide genius no matter how daft he gets.....  The Doors Tightrope Ride You're on a tightrope ride
Nobody by your side
When your all alone
Gotta find a new home
Don't go over the line
You better keep on time
Or you'll lose your mind
On your tightrope ride
Watch out don't fall
Careful, don't slip
You better get your balance
You have to feel the way
There are no more questions
No answers today
There are no reasons
There are no more rhymes
But if you can feel it
You can fly next time
You can fly next time
Or maybe this time
Did you think
We were all together
Did you think
We were all the same
Did you think
Maybe I could help you
Remember your name
Remember the game
What's the name of the game
Yeah!
It's a very good day
Never stays the same
It's the number one
From the muck to the sun
You're on a tightrope ride
We're all by your side
But you're all alone
And we're going home
And we're by your side
But you're all alone
Like a rolling stone
Like Brian Jones
On a tightrope ride
On a tightrope ride
On a tightrope ride
On a tightrope ride
On a tightrope ride
On a tightrope ride
 Ray never gets much credit for writing songs but this time .....damn cool Ray! |
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Post by ensenada on Dec 23, 2004 14:27:08 GMT
I do love this song, one of rays best! what do you think the message, the particular messag was to jim in it? when he said you can fly next time, i know ray believes in reincarnation, but is this what he specifically meant for his lost friend?
also who his brian jones?
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 23, 2004 14:34:24 GMT
I do love this song, one of rays best! what do you think the message, the particular messag was to jim in it? when he said you can fly next time, i know ray believes in reincarnation, but is this what he specifically meant for his lost friend? also who his brian jones? Brian Jones best guitar player The Stones ever had ......liked to play a Rick Grecth pearl drop guitar which my old buddy Sean from my Canuck mates Clay Orgy spent months trying to find. I think Ray was maybe trying to say to Jim that next time around maybe sensible to live ONE life than half a dozen.....I think Ray was both saddened and angry that Jim blew it when he still had so bloody much to offer. Rays best moment on record by a fookin' mile...... |
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Post by nick on Apr 17, 2005 14:03:11 GMT
Caught a video of that at the Beat Club not long ago. Great stuff!  |
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Post by ensenada on Apr 17, 2005 20:58:58 GMT
WTF is JD wearing on the front cover!?  did they lose style after jim aswell as the doors sound? |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Apr 17, 2005 21:41:35 GMT
They were all the rage back then Rick..Tank Tops I think they were called!  ....I am ashamed to admit I had several brightly coloured ones....  |
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Post by jimbo on Apr 24, 2005 1:04:12 GMT
TightRope Ride is a helluva song and marks up there on the all-time great Doors songs
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Post by jym on Apr 24, 2005 2:36:23 GMT
Brian Jones was a little more than the best guitar player The Stones ever had, Brian started The Rolling Stones it was his band when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards came in, he was the one who wore the stylish clothing & by all accounts Brian was a musical prodigy being able to play any instrument within 5 minutes of picking it up. Unfortunately Brian couldn't write lyrics and liked drugs a little too much, and when Mick & Keith discovered they could write Brian became depressed and withdrew. He should have fired the ingrates.
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Post by othercircles on Jun 12, 2005 19:12:52 GMT
did they lose style after jim aswell as the doors sound?
No they didnt loose the doors sound and John always dressed like a dweeb. And Rays cheap looking thrift shop striped suites.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 13, 2005 10:47:47 GMT
did they lose style after jim aswell as the doors sound?No they didnt loose the doors sound and John always dressed like a dweeb. And Rays cheap looking thrift shop striped suites. Hey OC we all dressed like that in the early seventies.......tank tops, cheescloth, bell bottoms, big collars, large ties.....we thought we looked cool at the time....but we were mistaken! Ray just thought he was a 'Beat' but he just looked like a chartered accountant in reality.....Robby is the only one who looks halfway normal in that photo but his hair always let him down so badly.......thankfully The Doors were never thought of as fashion icons as some other bands of the time were......  Morrison's idea of fashion was smelly 'bum' chic but thankfully it never caught on in a big way!  |
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Post by ensenada on Jun 13, 2005 14:16:08 GMT
did they lose style after jim aswell as the doors sound?No they didnt loose the doors sound and John always dressed like a dweeb. And Rays cheap looking thrift shop striped suites. i would def say they lost most of the doorsy sound OC. some tunes had the rec sound, but most didnt...perhaps SWS did, but songs like mosquito? no way hose a! |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 13, 2005 14:28:45 GMT
did they lose style after jim aswell as the doors sound?No they didnt loose the doors sound and John always dressed like a dweeb. And Rays cheap looking thrift shop striped suites. i would def say they lost most of the doorsy sound OC. some tunes had the rec sound, but most didnt...perhaps SWS did, but songs like mosquito? no way hose a! Other Voices had a decent Doors feel to it but Full Circle certainly didn't. OV was done pretty much during Jim's lifetime and he even participated in a song or two (usually by refusing to sing it)......the old chestnut that Ray and company were auditioning singers is doing the rounds on the boards again but in 30 odd years I have never ever seen ONE scrap of evidence from anywhere that they were doing any such thing whilst he was alive. Jim most likely would never have come back to being a Door and I am sure the other 3 knew that and were planning for it but they would have waited till it was confirmed before dragging Iggy Pop or anyone else along to the Doors Workshop. Its ironic but Tightrope Ride is probably the best Doors track ever recorded without Jim and it would never have came to pass had he not died. Robby plays his best Doors guitar ever and Ray has never sounded so passionate. |
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Post by ensenada on Jun 13, 2005 14:59:15 GMT
i know this has been discussed before. but what about the comment that jim made to John, saying that he would like to do another album? reading ROTS, john was saying that he hoped jim wouldnt come back duew o the atmosphere between them and prob between jim and the other doors. also john mentioned that he didnt like the blues sound as much as the others. but i really think jim could have made some good blues albums in the great doors style.
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Post by ensenada on Jun 13, 2005 15:03:05 GMT
have you got any photos of your good self wearing shite fashion from the 70's alex? |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 13, 2005 15:40:55 GMT
have you got any photos of your good self wearing shite fashion from the 70's alex? Thankfully no! As far as Jim's comment about wanting to make another album....it has to be taken in the context that he was talking to another band member and they were discussing that the album was doing well...he was hardly gonna tell John to fuck off and say he was never coming back.... Pretty much everything from the time points to Jim being done as a Door.....touring was out of the question....the guy didn't trust his mates anymore....his voice was going....he was overweight depressed and in ill health......Elektra were looking at new acts to replace The Doors as thier flagship act and Pam was busting his balls to be a poet! I cannot see any scenario where Morrison would have contemplated rock stardom anymore....film-making, writing a screenplay or novel maybe having a real go at poetry but The Doors never!!!  |
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Post by othercircles on Jun 14, 2005 1:47:39 GMT
Pretty much everything from the time points to Jim being done as a Door.....touring was out of the question....the guy didn't trust his mates anymore....his voice was going....he was overweight depressed and in ill health......Elektra were looking at new acts to replace The Doors as thier flagship act and Pam was busting his balls to be a poet!
I don't think the doors had any good reason to trust HIM anymore.
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Post by darkstar on Jun 14, 2005 2:15:56 GMT
"I don't think the doors had any good reason to trust HIM anymore."
The Doors contract was up with Elektra with the release of L.A. Woman, therefore relieving Jim of any obligation to the record company or the band.
How could the Doors not trust HIM anymore?
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Post by jimbo on Jun 14, 2005 2:22:39 GMT
Fogive me if I'm mistaken but after the six-record deal expired didn't the Doors sign a 5 album deal with them again but walked away after doing only two?
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Post by darkstar on Jun 14, 2005 2:48:42 GMT
If that's the case I don't recall ever reading about such a deal in any of the books that I have.
I can't recall ever reading an article about a 5 record deal following L.A. Woman that included all four original Doors members. Alex can tell us for sure.
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Post by othercircles on Jun 14, 2005 3:21:45 GMT
Jim was the unreliable one. And I think its a larf to say Jim couldn't trust the doors. lol
All I heard was that Elektra "offered them a generous sum to continue their recording career" I didn't hear much about a precise number.
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