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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 14, 2005 10:18:21 GMT
The 3 Doors were given a multiple album deal by Jac Holzman after Jim Morrison died.
In Jac's words "my way of showing them it wasn't all Jim and saying thank you with Warner's money"......Elektra by that time was part of WEA.
Holzman also admitted that he did not believe there would be another Doors album after LA Woman and asked Bill Harvey to produce a collectors sleeve for the album which explained why the first batch was so unusual with its clear window effect.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 19, 2005 14:43:34 GMT
From Pt III
Section 13.
Statement of facts….
Proposed Statement of Decision
The New partnership Agreement for the surviving Members of The Doors October 1st 1971.
On October 1st 1971 Abe Somer negotiated a new recording contract between Elektra and the 3 surviving Members of The Doors for 5 albums at a minimum guaranty of $250.000 per album.
Also 'section 14' same document deals with the new partnership agreement that was drawn up to create the company Alchemical which owns the publishing rights for all the post Jim Doors material for the 3 surviving Doors.....
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Post by pep on Apr 8, 2006 15:46:32 GMT
If you go to www.youtube.com you can watch the Video of 'Tightrope Ride' from The Beat Club.. just search 'The Doors' in Videos  there is some great Doors and Doors related stuff on that place as well as other great bands...  |
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Post by othercircles on May 29, 2006 16:05:14 GMT
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Post by strangenightvstone on Jul 1, 2006 1:27:25 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. Yes, Brian was a blues master. The first time Bill Wyman saw him was on stage with Alexis Korners Blues band. Brian was playing Elmore James's "Dust My Broom" on slide. Bill Wymans Blues Odyssey is filled with amazing footage of old blues, and also offers you a chance to see Brian's hands on the fretboard. Brians hands were the center of attention of the band. Mick and Keith became jealous of Brian. He also attracted more girls than every British band combined. I feel Brian did write lyrics, and also sang them. There is a rumor of demo home recording made by Brian which feautre his songs. The tapes were looted from his house when he died, all his guitars, saxophones, sitars, records, everything was ransacked. Brian was also the fifth Beatle if there ever was one. He played jazz sax on "You know my name(look up the number). Brian could have kept the Beatles together, and added a Cannonball Adderley Be Bop sound to the Beatles. |
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Post by jym on Jul 1, 2006 1:38:22 GMT
Wouldn't that have been wild if Brian had joined The Beatles? That would've really rubbed in Mick's & Keith's faces.
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Post by strangenightvstone on Jul 2, 2006 8:15:27 GMT
Wouldn't that have been wild if Brian had joined The Beatles? That would've really rubbed in Mick's & Keith's faces. Brian was too good for even the Beatles, Brian was a musician. That is something I can not say about the rest. George Harrison would not have allowed a better sitar player into The Beatles. That would have been the definition of a super group. It would have been like Ozzy Ozbourne and Jim sharing the stage, trading off songs on vocals. Meaning, Ozzy is amazing and his voice gets better every year. |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 9, 2006 8:04:39 GMT
Doors Alive played Tightrope Ride (sung by Christian the keyboard player) as part of thier set at last nites gig at The Standard Walthamstow.....
Nice little tribute to Jim.....well done gents
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 23, 2011 12:58:20 GMT
The Doors: Tightrope Ride
40 years ago this July one of the most brilliant lights in the rock music world was dimmed in a nondescript Paris street to be reborn as a Legend than still today impacts upon the psyche of the young folks in search of a 'rebellion of the spirit' in the same way kids did back then. This single which was released in Autumn 1971 was The Doors tribute to their fallen comrade and for me has never really been equalled by anyone as a eulogy for James Douglas Morrison.
Ray Manzarek has unfairly come in for a lot of flak for his vocals during The Doors era but comparing him to Jim is a bit of an injustice. He was always an enthusiastic singer and his performance here is full of fire and passion as he almost seems 'angry' at his friend throwing away so much with so much still left to give. The band is 'tight as shite' as they used to say in the 70s and with this song give their most passionate performance on vinyl ever after the death of Jim Morrison. The intro is pure class with Robby and John merging perfectly with Ray's organ (not very often you get to sat that in a review) for one of The Doors finest Post Morrison moments. John Densmore's drumming was its usual solid self and Ray's keyboards reliable as they ever were but it's the Robby Krieger moments on this record that are most noteworthy as he shone during the whole Other Voices era and is at his brightest on this the first Doors single without Jim Morrison. The lyrics, which were written by Ray, are a plaintive cry to History for a second chance that could never come to The Doors story which was 'buried' in a Paris graveyard on July 7th 1971.
Ray seems to get 'angrier' as the song progresses pleading for Jim to come down off the wall he was walking on but knowing he never could.
"You're on a tightrope ride
We're all by your side
But you're all alone
And we're going home"
The 'angry' feel is compounded at the conclusion of the song as John's drumming turns almost punk-like in its sparseness and Robby gives us his best ever Doors guitar solo as Ray screams in frustration for a lost Morrison to beware the pitfalls of this particular 'wall walk' knowing it's far too late.
But you're all alone
Like a rolling stone
Like Brian Jones
On a tightrope ride
On a tightrope ride
One of the most under rated gems of the entire Doors era!
Originally from From Scorpywag Fanzine Summer 2006
By Alex Patton from Stockton On Tees, England.
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Post by gizmo on Jan 23, 2011 19:47:30 GMT
i have the original single somewhere on the attic, nicked it when i had to clean out a house coz there was fire the day before when the heater exploded on the attic so i had to clean and sort out the house. i found the single in a crate with vinyl(33's and 45's) and hid it under my sweater and took it home. it is in a good condition(both cover and single).
i'm really happy with it and they aren't missing it(i hope)
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 23, 2011 21:59:35 GMT
 UK Original 45 rpm |
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Post by gizmo on Jan 24, 2011 9:05:43 GMT
UK Original 45 rpm lol at the caterpillar, is that becouse the (scream of the) butterfly label was already used when jim was still alive? so they took a caterpillar and waited for the changeling to transform to a new buterfly? |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 24, 2011 19:54:39 GMT
 German 7" single from 1971. lol at the caterpillar, is that becouse the (scream of the) butterfly label was already used when jim was still alive? so they took a caterpillar and waited for the changeling to transform to a new buterfly? It's interesting you should say that mate cos I am not sure when that actually came in. My OV, FC and American Prayer albums are all originals and have the Elektra butterfly on them. I wonder if they just introduced the caterpillar as a single. That would make sense of course. 45 caterpillar. 33 butterfly. I had orange label singles by The Doors and a couple from 1971 and 1972 which must have had caterpillars on them. Never paid that much attention before but it's quite interesting. |
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Post by gizmo on Jan 26, 2011 9:22:23 GMT
it has the same collors in the background and the leaf as on the butterfly label the only thing is the caterpillar and the place on the label, so , i think they wanted something different after jim died, no major difference but a caterpillar instead of a butterfly. maybe this is the sighn for ian ashbury to show up and sing instead of jim. but from what i've heard ray seems to be a bit supersticious about life and death so maybe he thought that jim had to start all over again so .....caterpillar?
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 26, 2011 18:23:12 GMT
Apparently mate the LP Butterfly evolved from the 45 caterpillar.
Which makes sense.
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Post by gizmo on Jan 27, 2011 14:27:39 GMT
i didn't know that singles had the caterpillar logo before the lp. it does make sense that the caterpillar is the start od a butterfly(and in that way is a single the smaller version of an lp) but what is the meaning on the lp's with the big e electra logo, red lables and butterfly lables?i thought the first pressing was a gold E logo, 2nd pressing the red E logo and after that the butterfly logo (but that is just a thought)?
i got a purple (cover) version of la woman with a gold e label on it but i can't find it anywhere on the net, same as a vinyl boot named open up and bleed(white vinyl) got different songs from different liveshows on it but i can't find it anywhere and noone has heard of them. i know that the la woman album is israelic import (but it still is the original electra cover with purple instead of red and the lp has the gold E logo so it should be pressed by electra).
maybe you know why there are different logo's, i'd love to get an answer for that
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 27, 2011 16:59:19 GMT
Some of those labels are just pirate knock offs mate. The UK Elektra label was Orange in the 60s and the US one Red. The german label was different and also Germany put out Elektra stuff like this on the Midi label but was an official release.  There was also a gold label and also a spun gold label which was WEA. I will look at my Elektra History at the weekend and see if there is anything in there about it.  Original UK single.  THE DOORS Tightrope Ride (1971 UK Elektra 'caterpillar' logo 'A' label DEMO 2-track 7'' single, backed with Variety Is The Spice Of Life, both tracks taken from the album Other Voices. This gem comes from the vast personal archive collection of aformer music reviewer and journalist and has been locked away in storage for more than 30 years. The vinyl, housed in its original company sleeve, has its 4-prong centre intact and is in near mint condition K12036). |
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Post by gizmo on Jan 30, 2011 1:17:28 GMT
cheers mate i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Mar 3, 2011 7:41:18 GMT
The Doors: Tightrope Ride/Variety is the Spice of Life
This single contains two songs taken from their first album recorded without JIm Morrison, titled "Other Voices" and released in late 1971.
The A-Side, "Tightrope Ride", was the best choice for a single, in my opinion. Sung by Manzarek and composed by Krieger-Densmore-Manzarek (as all the songs were credited in that album, but in the single, if I remember well after seeing one scan from the record label in ebay, the song was only credited to Manzarek-Krieger), which is one of the best of the album. It is an upbeat song influenced by Rock and Roll, with a good guitar solo, good lead vocals, and it also has the particularity of having two recorded drums parts: one in one channel, which only plays the rhythm, while in the other channel the other recorded drums part has drum fills. This song was the only song from their post-Morrison period to be included in one of the Boxed Sets released from The Doors in the 90s or in the present century (sorry, I can`t remember on which, but it was also included in Prog Archives). The A-side reached the number 71 in the U.S. singles charts.
The B-side, the song "Variety is the Spice of Life" (credited only to Krieger as composer in the record label of the single, but credited to Krieger-Densmore-Manzarek in the album) is a funny song also sung by Krieger with somewhat humorous lyics. In this song, it is evident that Krieger wasn`t the best choice as lead singer in the band, but he did a good job. Maybe Manzarek had a better voice.
Prog Archives
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Nov 11, 2011 9:26:15 GMT
40 years ago this month The Doors released Tightrope Ride as a tribute to the fallen singer.
Slightly hypocritical as the band never mentioned he had left nor what they did to hamstring him because they feared he would swipe the band name and start a new Doors in Europe.
But nontheless a poignant eulogy to Jim Morrison courtesy of Ray Manzarek and still today 40 years later nobody has written a better tribute to Morrison than Ray.
Charted in Holland and made #27 in Dec 1971 and had 3 weeks in the chart.
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