Chef Jim Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I've said it many times before we're going to start losing some great musicians many of us over 50 grew up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 (edited) One of my favorite tracks, ever... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCaDjpwuh08 Got to meet John Densmore just a few weeks ago...he did a book signing at the music store I work at. Super nice guy... I know that he was in a decades long feud with Ray and Robbie Krieger, but from Densmore said, they had kind of patched things up...sounded like the notion was out there that they might work together again...alas.... Edited May 21, 2013 by Buftex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Another great track..."Build Me a Woman". How unusual this band had to sound when they were new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOBILLS78 Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Sort of surprised this thread hasn't received more play. This guy was a legend, in my book. If Morrison was the soul, Manzarek was the legs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I'm sure I'm in the minority, but it's my opinion that the Doors were one of the most overrated bands of the greatest era of music. I think there was individual talent ... especially Ray Manzarek ... but overall, I think their music was "blah." I consider Jim Morrison to be a mildly-talented lyricist and a terrible singer. He was a poser. A showman ... which he was very good at. But he was no top tier singer/writer. Either way, RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Wow... I didn't think he was that old. He was born in 1939. He was almost as old as my parents and I am 45... Yikes, I am starting to get scared... RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Sort of surprised this thread hasn't received more play. This guy was a legend, in my book. If Morrison was the soul, Manzarek was the legs. The doors where not that big of a deal till the book the lizard king came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JÂy RÛßeÒ Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 The Doors music scared me as a youngster because to me they embodied the sound of what drugs felt like, and I was very anti-drug even as a kid growing up in the late 60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastaJoe Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I never heard of The Doors before I saw the movie Apocalypse Now, but after that I was hooked. One of my favorite bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I never heard of The Doors before I saw the movie Apocalypse Now, but after that I was hooked. One of my favorite bands. Really? You gotta be around the same age as me? Didn't your parents listen to them? My father liked the whole Jim Morrison/Native American Indian schtick... Crap, even when I went to Arizona alone in 1979 (age 11) to visit my friend, he had me wanting me to find him one of those metal "gaucho belts" Morrison would wear... No wonder I am so screwy. Mom and Dad weren't hippies (a bit older) but, sympathized with them... LoL... As early as I remember listening to stuff like "Riders on the Storm" cranked when it came on the radio... He'd always take me to the Coast Guard Station in BFLO to get his smokes @ the CGX/PX... It was the highlight of the trip if The Doors came on... It usually got cranked up! Anyway... I never knew that Morrison's dad was a high ranking Naval officer... Figures... Military brat grows up to rebel against "the system." Who'd a guessed? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helpmenow Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Great band! Every album was great. Robbie had that distintive sound Waiting for the sun, morrison's hotel and LA woman all killers. The first song on LA woman changling is the doors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in San Diego Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I'm sure I'm in the minority, but it's my opinion that the Doors were one of the most overrated bands of the greatest era of music. I think there was individual talent ... especially Ray Manzarek ... but overall, I think their music was "blah." I consider Jim Morrison to be a mildly-talented lyricist and a terrible singer. He was a poser. A showman ... which he was very good at. But he was no top tier singer/writer. Either way, RIP. You are indeed in the minority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 You are indeed in the minority. Well, I am Hispanic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in San Diego Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Well, I am Hispanic. That's the majority now in California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helpmenow Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Chula vista I left in 1999. Should have bought above the 8 freeway. Couldn't afford to live in poway, scripps ranch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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