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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on May 4, 2006 21:09:47 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on May 4, 2006 21:13:08 GMT
The Doors Soundtrack 1991
The Movie Riders On The Storm Love Street Break On Through (To The Other Side) The End Light My Fire Ghost Song Roadhouse Blues Heroin (The Velvet Underground) Carmina Burana (Carl Orff) Stoned Immaculate When The Music's Over The Severed Garden (Adagio) L.A. Woman
The Doors soundtrack Released: March, 1991 US: Gold Billboard peak: # 8
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on May 4, 2006 23:12:07 GMT
Legacy: The Absolute Best 2003Not JUST THE BEST but The Absolute Best. A ridiculous title for any compilation. Nothing that came after could surpass a title this so what was the point of releasing anything after it?
Disc one "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" – 2:29 "Back Door Man" (Willie Dixon, Chester Burnett) – 3:34 "Light My Fire" – 7:08 "Twentieth Century Fox" – 2:33 "The Crystal Ship" – 2:34 "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:19 "Soul Kitchen" – 3:35 "The End" – 11:46 "Love Me Two Times" – 3:16 "People Are Strange" – 2:12 "When the Music's Over" – 11:02 "My Eyes Have Seen You" – 2:29 "Moonlight Drive" – 3:04 "Strange Days" – 3:09 "Hello, I Love You" – 2:16 "The Unknown Soldier" – 3:25 "Spanish Caravan" – 3:01 "Five to One" – 4:27 "Not to Touch the Earth" – 3:54
"Touch Me" (Krieger) – 3:12 "Wild Child" (Morrison) – 2:38 "Tell All the People" (Krieger) – 3:21 "Wishful Sinful" (Krieger) – 2:58 "Roadhouse Blues" (Morrison, the Doors) – 4:04 "Waiting for the Sun" (Morrison) – 4:00 "You Make Me Real" (Morrison) – 2:53 "Peace Frog" (Krieger, Morrison) – 2:58 "Love Her Madly" – 3:18 "L.A. Woman" – 7:51 "Riders on the Storm" – 7:10 "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)" – 4:15 "The Changeling" – 4:21 "Gloria" (Van Morrison) – 6:18 "Celebration of the Lizard" (Morrison) – 17:01
Celebration Of The Lizard (later removed from the disc)[/b] Very bizarre album Legacy! After lying their arces off about the plethora of out-takes they planned to bring out ...indeed putting BMR on hiatus to do just that .......and lying about the existence of an out-take of Celebration Of The Lizard The Doors release another Best Of with a version of COTL. Many (me included) thought it a cynical ploy to get fans to purchase another best of they already had and the equally cynical assertion that the version of COTL was a one from The Doors archive went toward making another shabby example of The Doors selling of The Doors. As it turned out the version of COTL was just the bootleg version tarted up by Bruce Botnick which made their lies even worse and the distrust fans felt increased. Now astoundingly COTL has been removed from Legacy completely a marketing bollock of monumental proportion which begs the question do they want that bootleg for their 2007 lie fest as they celebrate the fake 40th anniversary of The Doors (the band). A good compilation true for new fans to discover The Doors but the level of trust that The Doors and their fans had ten twenty years ago has been eroded by the constant distortions and utter lies that have come out of The Doors Ivory Towers in the last decade. I as a fan of nerer 40 years than 30 would not trust them as far as I could throw my record collection.The Doors - Legacy – The Absolute Best The Doors … just the mention of that name brings thoughts of the ‘60s, Los Angeles, sex, drugs, and the poignant and mysterious lead singer Jim Morrison. Legacy - The Absolute Best is a two CD set that successfully encapsulates the legendary and seemingly surreal career of one of rock music’s most important and timeless bands. Their music is still incredibly vital and strong today and that is exactly why best of sets such as this will continue to fly out of the stores. This music is sheer magic that will continue to find new audiences as long as man remains in the physical form he now inhabits, ummm … sounds like something Jim Morrison would have said while cruising along on an LSD trip.
The legend of the music will continue to evolve and gather attention for many years to come no doubt. There is something spooky and magical about this music and when you watch footage of Morrison singing and then look into his eyes, you see pools of darkness that are indefinable; it always gives me a chill. He was a troubled soul but a true poet and musical icon that will go unmatched in the chronicles of music.
So what makes this set the ultimate and absolute best in comparison to others? I am not sure I can agree it is the very best but I did enjoy every millisecond of it. Okay, it is the absolute best 2 CD set I have ever heard. It has one previously unreleased track, which is an ultra rare thing in and of itself when pondering the glut of best of sets that have hit the racks over the years, so it has that going for it right from the get go. The sound and production are beautiful and clear and the liner notes thoughtful, deep and descriptive, capturing the spirit of the band and the time they made the music. The pictures in booklet are wonderful as well, each one telling a story. For me all of these things are extremely important while listening to Doors music. Robbie Krieger (guitar), Jim Morrison (vocals), Ray Manzarek (keyboards) and John Densmore (drums) are looked upon as Shamans, holy men of music in the liner notes. Okay, I will buy that description. Today they sound like the saviors of rock ‘n’ roll compared to some of the bands that only pale in comparison. Despite that fact, the bands that cannot even cast a shadow on the Doors legacy are selling millions of copies of their albums. Unfortunately, there are not bands like them in existence today.
They were just as important and distinctive as other ‘60s legends and as revered and idolized now as they were at the height of their success before Morrison’s death. Morrison was the maniac genius with the heart and soul of an American poet and hero. What a package he was. How much more dramatic and cinematic does it get than the lyrics and music of this band? I would venture to say that this band would always give you plenty for your entertainment value.
The absolute best, that is debatable, if I listen a few more times it will become believable. This music holds a certain animal magnetism and power over me like no other; it is comparable to the appeal of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and The Who. Nothing can touch that kind of feeling nor duplicate it, it's special. I highly recommend this CD set. Play it loud and remember when the music was real and every word was felt like the sting of a bee. It does not get any better than this; it will have your brain squirmin’ like a toad. The Lizard King lives… Rating: 5/5 Keith "Muzikman" Hannaleck, from Progressive World August 2003 The Doors Legacy the Absolute Best 'Greedy Liars Try To Empty Doors Fans Wallets!' 'Celebration of The Lizard'. For a long time The Doors via thier website promised that due to a 'plethora' (thier word) of studio out-takes that had been 'discovered' they were going to release a new CD of unheard material including COTL. So important was this release that they put the release of live concerts 'on hold' until they had sorted out this plethora. But as so often with these people it was a pack of lies used to give them time to come to terms with BMRs disatrous showing caused totally by the incompetence of Bright Midnight management. Finally they just stopped talking about this plethora and released a 'Best Of' instead. Whats such a big deal about a Best of you might say....its a cool way to bring in new fans.. True. But this Best Of had a rather unusual selling point. A studio version of COTL. So instead of an out-take disc including COTL we were instead treated to another Best Of to go with the seemingly endless number of Best Ofs we already had but with the Doors 'Holy Grail' of the studio Celebration to ensure long time fans bought it as well as new fans.... Very cynical ploy from very cynical people... Add to this the rumour that this version of COTL was in fact a new version different to the one doing the rounds as a bootleg and it becomes even darker. As it turned out the version was in fact the same as the bootleg one and just tarted up by Botnick. I was lucky I had the studio COTL and someone burned me part 2 of Legacy with the upgraded COTL which is very nice BTW but not worth paying £25 for. So once more Doors fans manipulated by greedy people and fed lies to make a $ for them. Legacy is a nice compilation true and great for new fans but it exposed the darker side of The Doors PLC money making machine. BMR was shelved because of this? What followed was Boot Yer Butt a high priced bootleg box set and we are soon to have Best Of BYB which will be most likely equally expensive as a 2 CD set I imagine. So was Legacy worthwhile to you or are you like me just a tad fed up with being manipulated to keep these people in biscuits? Alex Patton TheDoors4Scorpywag 2003Here is another less angry review of it I did in my Scorpywag Fanzine from 2004.
The Doors: Legacy:- The Absolute Best
Sometimes I wonder what is wrong with being a Doors fan and most of the time the answers comes back that being a Doors fan brings a great deal of enjoyment as well as a great deal of frustration. Why do the remaining members of the band and their organization spend so much time ‘milking’ their fans. Surely a lack of respect? That and probably they think we are so dumb we will buy anything.
Probably true but that does not mean the world needs another ‘Best Of The Doors’ album. The most cynical aspect of this release must be that The Doors promised an out-take disc which would feature the studio version of ‘Celebration Of The Lizard’…..and not for the first time they lied as the COTL studio version is now part of another Greatest Hits compilation.
COTL studio version was always the ‘Holy Grail’ of Doors collectors and when a brave Doors fan defied the hoarders and released a rough cut to the general Doors public we finally got to hear one of the most enigmatic of Doors tracks in the studio which may or may not have given us an insight into the psyche of James Douglas Morrison poet/lyricist extraordinaire.
Expectations were high when the Doors rumour mill alluded to another lost studio version of COTL that was superior to the circulating tape….sadly like most Doors rumours it was unfounded.
So in order to get Doors fans to buy yet another version of the songs they probably own a dozen copies of the ‘cheeky chappies’ at Doors central came up with the wheeze of selling us an overpriced compilation album with the sole selling points that it has a nice new booklet and a rare bonus track….shades of ‘Less Than Essential Rarities’ and ‘Woman Is A Devil’.
Jim Ladd waxes lyrically about the band in the booklet and the same version of COTL that has been circulating for years turns up (better quality yes!) as part of ‘The Absolute Best Of The Doors’. Now this version is very interesting but ‘Absolute Best’? They are having a laff…. The reason its here is to get us to buy the bloody thing...not because it’s a sublime Doors moment. Some cool digitally re-mastered Doors tunes yes its true but nothing new to shout about except COTL which should have been released as part of an out-take disc as a ‘thank you’ to Doors fans for supporting the band through thick & thin….some fucking hope. Alex Patton TheDoors4Scorpywag 2004
Scorpywag rating: music 10/10…... concept 1/10 Only because of COTL...a cynical attempt to screw us again AP.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Oct 16, 2006 8:51:39 GMT
The Doors: The Best Of 1976(Elektra)This was the Quad LP released as a UK stereo pressing. It is interesting when you read the Sounds review how the band was being noted for the amount of Best Ofs they released. And this sis only 1976. Nigh on 50 years on the reviewer would have a heart attack if they saw the 'choice' we have today.Side 1 1 Who Do You Love 2 Soul Kitchen 3 Hello, I Love You 4 People Are Strange 2:10 5 Riders On The Storm
Side 2 1 Touch Me 2 Love Her Madly 3 Love Me Two Times 4 Take It As It Comes 5 Moonlight Drive 6 Light My Fire DOES THE WORLD honestly need another Doors compilation? The policy makers at Elektra appear to think so. And they could be right. But The Best Of The Doors isn't the one.
There have already been three Doors compilations albums, one of them (Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine) a double. You could reasonably call Best Of a compilation of the compilations. Would you believe that only two of the eleven tracks have not been compiled before?
Now, the Doors with Jim Morrison cut six studio albums, and released a live double set too.
That's a lot of tracks, and since the band's albums all maintain a very high standard – there isn't one Doors track that doesn't have redeeming features at the very least – there's enough obviously commercial, 45-style music to just about keep 2 single and one double compilation albums distinct from one another. Barely.
But, as I've already said, there's a lot of tracks untouched, and it isn't coincidence that they're all the ones that demonstrate Jimbo testing the outer limits of normal human behaviour. It was the hint of madness underlying Jim's work that gave him such a fatal fascination for both sexes. His appeal relates to the thrill of living on the San Andreas fault, threatening daily to envelop the whole of L.A. and San Francisco in one almighty, shuddering, volcanic, churning gape and gulp.
If you check Best Of, it's all chirpy, uptempo numbers – 'Hello, I Love You', 'Touch Me', 'Love Her Madly', 'Take It As It Comes' and so forth. All those songs are favourites of mine; they certainly deserve their place on the album in terms of musical merit, no question. But where's the mad, bad, and dangerous to know Morrison who intones with such crazed, stupefying splendour, "When all else fails we can whip the horses' eyes and make them sleep and cry..."? next time Elektra's planning on buying some new office furniture courtesy of Jim Morrison's posthumous charms, they should release the long-awaited out-takes from live tapes and studio sessions.
Vivien Goldman Sounds 30th October 1976
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 28, 2010 13:20:30 GMT
The Best Of The Doors 1985 DISC 1: 1. Break On Through 2. Light My Fire 3. Crystal Ship, The 4. People Are Strange 5. Strange Days 6. Love Me Two Times 7. Alabama Song - (CD only) 8. Five To One 9. Waiting For The Sun 10. Spanish Caravan 11. When The Music's Over
DISC 2: 1. Hello, I Love You 2. Roadhouse Blues 3. L. A. Woman 4. Riders On The Storm 5. Touch Me 6. Love Her Madly 7. Unknown Soldier, The 8. End, The NME 1985 This double album was the most successful Doors album to date in terms of album sales.The Best Of The Doors Released: 1985 US: 10x Platinum certified Diamond status 14/2/07 Billboard peak: # 32 UK #9Advert for digital remastered release 1987The Best of The Doors delivers exactly what it promises. Rather than relying solely on the hits, this collection also mines the darker, and often richer, recesses of The Doors material resulting in a fairly representative statement. The hits are here: "Light My Fire" with Ray Manzarek's keyboards on a dizzy, psychedelic spree; "People Are Strange," with Morrison's tortured psyche barely being held in check; "L.A. Woman," with its bluesy sexuality. More important, favorites of fans are here, like the controversially (at the time) explicit "The End," which was one of the first of Morrison's forays into narrative poetry. In hits like "Break on Through," "Hello I Love You," "Roadhouse Blues," and others, The Doors melded psychedelia, blues, hard-edged rock, and poetry from the edge like no other band before. The Best of The Doors is a trip in every sense of the word. -- Steve Gdula @ Amazon
Poster for limited release for the 40th anniversary 2007
With Diamond Award Certification, The Doors Records Join Select Few 10 Million Plus Sellers The Best of The Doors, the compilation of hits from The Doors records released throughout the band’s short lived career, has been awarded Diamond Certification. For those in the know, the RIAA tracks CD and record sales and has awarded Diamond status (that’s also known as 10 x Platinum) to only 104 releases in its history. Along with The Best of The Doors, Rhino publishes dozens of other Doors CDs, including remastered versions of The Doors records, the Perception box set collection and The Band box set of seven limited edition vinyl albums (dressed in faux lizard skin, naturally).
Doors singer Jim Morrison died in 1971, one in a long line of rock front men (and women) who have died prematurely. Fans of New Order cds likely know that the Manchester band was created when Joy Division singer Ian Curtis committed suicide; the rest of the band stayed together and vowed to continue recording but changed their name to New Order. The three surviving Doors members, (John Densmore, Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger) put their differences and feuding over use of the band’s name aside at least momentarily to accept their Diamond Award in New York City. Interestingly, given that Diamond indicates sales of over 10 million copies, every single person living in New York City could have been given a copy of the doors records and still not matched the 10 million copies The Best of The Doors has sold. In an age where the top selling CDs of the year are lucky to sell a million copies, this performance for a “best of” compilation nearly four decades after the band’s demise is especially impressive.
Doors receive Diamond award for 1985 Best Of LP in December 2009 but interestingly not together..
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Post by wplj on Jul 20, 2011 19:08:35 GMT
Please pardon my ignorance, but could you please provide the provenance of the version of COTL that appeard first on Legacy, and then on the 40th Anniversary Edition of WFTS?
You state this version had previously made the rounds on bootlegs and that the official version is the same, but "tarted up" by Botnick. What was done to "tart it up?" Was it a remix, re-EQ, what? Surely it had to have been better quality than a boot ...
Also, do you know if it is one complete take, or an edit of 2 or more takes? I have heard conflicting stories. Also, anyone know the recording date(s)?
Thank you.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 20, 2011 21:23:24 GMT
The recording date would be sometime between February 19th and late March 1968. No information better than that I am afraid. Regarding COTL. The first time fans got the chance to hear the studio COTL was when a version recorded from a tape, supposedly through a TV amplifier to boost the sound, came into the hands of DCM and was released without DCM knowledge to the trading world. This bootleg version appeared on Legacy tarted up and passed off as something from The Doors archive. Tarted up how? How do I know I am an engineer who built roads and bridges not mixed records It sounded a slight upgrade from the tape I had of the thing. The 40 year version was first reported to be the same version as Legacy but in fact may well have been either the original version of the tape that was recorded by fans through the TV or maybe the master of that tape from The Doors archive itself. Botnick described it as 'a demo' recorded by him 'without Paul Rothchild as a work in progress.' Which is as far as I am aware all the information we have on that. I am sure the tape trading community knows more about this but I have never been a trader so am not privy to their secrets. It seems to be the same version as the bootleg but a lot better. As to whether it was a complete take or not. Botnick described it as a demo so the answer to that would seem to me to be yes.
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Post by wplj on Jul 21, 2011 6:18:53 GMT
OK. Thought you meant tarted up as in overdubbed or remixed or something. The version the Doors released was probably just from a better source. Never heard the boot, obviously. I (usually) don't play that game ...
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 21, 2011 6:58:05 GMT
I been into bootlegs since the 70s. Used to tape gigs and give away and sell the tapes to mates and basically anyone who wanted the stuff. Doors boots were always like penguin shit in the Gobi desert until the 80s. Yep I meant tarted up in the respect it sounded slightly better than the bootleg copy. The Legacy release was I am pretty sure the same source as the bootleg. But the 40 year mixed one I am not as certain. It's difficult trying to play one against the other and my old ears ain't what they used to be due to Geezer Butler in the 70s. But I would put money on they are all the same source but it's probable that the 40 year mix was one The Doors actually had. I think that's why the Legacy COTL dissapeared. Maybe they did actually discover a copy themselves. Still does not alter the fact a lot of lies and deceit have come from The Doors camp about COTL. But that's par for the course for that lot. To be honest I no longer trust anything these liars say anymore and the latest bullshit about discovering some lost out takes from LA Woman shows the lengths these assholes will go to just to make a buck. They must have drawers full of 'lost' material just waiting for an opportunity to rip us off with some revamp of one of the albums with a rare 'lost' track. Being a fan of hundreds of bands since the 60s and 70s I notice how these guys treat their fanbase as well as how our guys perform and generally most of the bands from that period are fair to their fanbase and do not milk their back catalogue unduly. The Doors are a bunch of lying thieves in my eyes who would steal the pennies from our dead eyes if they could. Just look at how they treated Morrison alive and even dead. If they do that to their so called mate then we have not got a fucking chance of a decent shake from these crooks.
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Post by wplj on Jul 21, 2011 7:09:23 GMT
I hear ya. But, being the sucker I am ... I will check out the new LA Woman reissue this fall ... and the Hoffman-mastered box next year ... and (if I have a player by then) the HB Blu-Ray when it comes out! You are correct. They are very shitty to their fan base compared to most acts. Ah the perils of being a music nerd!
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Post by wplj on Jul 21, 2011 7:11:06 GMT
I did just order the Soundstage Performances DVD from amazon.co.uk ... from a private seller; Used. They aren't getting money from me for the moment, anyway!
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 21, 2011 7:40:34 GMT
Ah the perils of being a music nerd! Never suffered from audiophilia myself as I prefer the rawness of the lower tech end. The 40 year mixes are amazing but I am old fasioned and think too much tech is too much sometimes and just because you can remix something does not mean always that you should. I am sure Steve H is excellent at what he does but can he 'improve' on the 40 year mixes. I deliberately put improve in quotation marks as once again it depends on how you define the word. An improvement does not always equate into something 'better'. Once again quotation marks as it also depends on how you define the word better. It's a minefield the English language One of the things I enjoy about The Doors is how deep you can get into this kind of shit with them. They are not just the most unique rock act ever they are for me the most interesting and I have been listening to rock since it pretty much started as a genre. The leap from vinyl to CD was awesome but with some bands it came with a price. Sometimes something essential would be lost. I have noticed that with a few bands I happen to love from the 60s and 70s. Luckily I felt The Doors got away with it probably due to Rothchild and Botnick being involved. Since Paul died Bruce has kept up an interest and I feel he has done a good job in keeping the essential spirit of the albums alive. But how far can we go with these things until that 'spirit' is lost. Again it depends what you mean by spirit and that is a personal thing. I remember when Page remastered Zeppelin and eliminated Jones bass from the albums. Sometimes you go too far with this kind of stuff. It's like The Soft Parade nude argument. Be interested to hear your audiophile take on that one. Should we alter History to suit our mood and whims? It's a diffcicult question and merits tend to come from both arguments. I will of course get LAW this autumn as I too look forward to hearing it all but will not give those crooks one cent ever again
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Post by wplj on Jul 21, 2011 7:55:05 GMT
Not that interested in SP nude. It would be neat to hear the tracks with strings/horns stripped of all that, but it's not something I lose sleep over. Hoffman won't be working with the 2006 remixes. He will be working from the ORIGINAL 2-track master tapes. Should be interesting. I don't own any of the original mixes on CD anymore (save the 2000 Best of the Doors with Mosquito), so I look forward to it. Hey ... at least the music is all still out there and we're all still listening to it and talking about it! Do you listen to a little Doors on a daily basis? When I get deeply into a new artist, I pretty much play their stuff almost exclusively for MONTHS. Drives my wife batshit!
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 21, 2011 9:16:31 GMT
I have never listened to The Doors on a daily basis since the early 70s and even then probably didn't. I am into TOO much music to listen to ONE band all the time. Just this week I have been listening to Evanessence, The Waterboys, Iron Maiden and This Picture with some 60s stuff thrown in for good measure. I am like you in the respect that when I get into a new artist I will indeed play them repeatedly over a week or so. In the 70s I would buy a new album and take a week to hear it as I might not get past side 1 for a couple of days or maybe like a track so much I play it repeatedly not being able to get past it for maybe a day. Most of my mates were the same. That's how we all listened to music back then. we were in no hurry. Nowadays I don't listen to the Doors much at all. I don't really need to. This year maybe a coupla dozen times not counting Paris. I listened to SD all the way through a couple of months back but mainly just pick my fave tracks. The album I have heard most this year is Other Voices as I been making threads about the lyrics and music and just happen to have been listening to that a lot this year. I had it on last week even. I still have the original CDs but just use the cube or the 40 year mixes when I listen to the band. One of the old guys here corrected the speed and remixed FC and OV in his home studio and made a really great fist of it so I got a good copy of them as well. Mostly I will pick a band for the day and listen to them. Sometimes I pick and mix depending on my mood. I listen to Folk, Blues, Goth, all shades of rock and a little classical now and then. I particularly enjoy bands with female vocalists. My best ever Doors cover is a Goth band called Rhea's Obsession who do a great End Of the Night. I liked it so much I got their album. Now and then I might have a Doors day but there is too much to listen to for me to spend everyday on them. I agree about SP nude as I never favoured it without the strings. I don't like messing with History. It's like saying Stairway To Heaven might sound good with a banjo in it I doubt the Doors would ever do it anyway as there is no profit in it for them. As you say The Doors are really lucky as 40 years on they still get talked about. A lot of really great bands were not that fortunate. I used to talk about all sorts of music in the 70s and 80s but now it's mainly The Doors. They interest me on so many levels. Never quite come across a band like them. Doubt I ever will.
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Post by wplj on Jul 21, 2011 11:20:21 GMT
Yeah, there's certainly a lot to discuss re: The Doors. On more levels than just the music. Glad I got back into them. I probably would have eventually, after I bought The Future Starts Here: The Essential Doors Hits at the end of 2009 ... but certainly not to the level of near obsession being in a Doors tribute band has caused! Good times, good music, good playin'. I can dig it!
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Post by wplj on Jul 21, 2011 11:24:00 GMT
I myself listen to all sorts. Mostly rock, jazz, old country, some classical and some pop. I tend to favour 60s - 90s with rock, 20s - 70s with jazz (mostly from 50s onwards). Favourite jazz artists include Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Weather Report, John McLaughlin ... on and on ... Rock: Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Kiss, Jethro Tull, The Doors, Cream, Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, etc, etc. But right now ... mostly listening to The Doors ... work related ...
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 21, 2011 11:30:27 GMT
Never felt myself obsessed with music but I do take it very seriously as an art form. I consider rock to be on every level as serious as the classical snobs take their music. I don't consider it pop music as most of what I listen to is not remotely popular and never even was in the 60s and 70s. I have always discussed music with people on a bit higher plane than fan worship. Thats why Doors discussion was interesting to me as it was a bit better than what colour trousers X or Y wore on TOTP on June 4th 1968. Sadly Doors discussion collapsed a few years back when the war between the tribute band fans and the rest of us was going on. Never really recovered and I do miss it. Here is a nice level of discussion between a few people but would be nice if a dozen or so more took an interest. I will try and promote the forum on FB a bit more and maybe attract a few from that. Fans seem afraid to express an opinion about The Doors. The Official Forums don't like opinions but here we are fine with them. Does not mean they won't get argued with but people are free to expound any opinions they want about anything Doors related. Never liked Jazz I am afraid...or opera. the rest I am fine with. I am a big folk fan. Like anything from Lindisfarne to Fields Of the Nephilim Love Zepp, Tull and Neil...hate the beatles have done since 1962 for some reason.
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Post by wplj on Jul 21, 2011 12:32:11 GMT
Ha! (re: Beatles). Fair play. Can't please everyone ...
I am trying to get the other guys in The Strange Doors on here, but no luck so far, except for Grant, but he doesn't seem to participate.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 21, 2011 14:23:16 GMT
Thats quite common here and pretty much every Doors forum. I don't mind people looking but don't tolerate those who join and never log in again after the first 5 minutes. I have removed about a dozen of that type as I don't want them here. Anyone who joins and uses the forum is fine with me. I would prefer they expressed an opinion but at least they log in and look around. We had nearly 600 members here once but only about 20% ever posted once or more. Thats why I opened it to guests. If they wanna gawk fine but if they wanna talk they are more than welcome to join in.
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Post by wplj on Jul 21, 2011 15:12:39 GMT
Yeah, I see a lot of guests here ... god, it's just you and me on this thread now ... I hear crickets ...
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