Defiance

The thing I notice is Robby saying "Venice was our home" which I think is a political answer, Liberal in nature. What is to gain with such a statement? More importantly, what is lost of Jim through such a response?

I look at a concert lineup like a UFC fightcard. You have the Facebook fights, then you have the prelims on FUEL, then the main card is on FOX. Glad that The Doors aren't the main event. God bless John for being tough...the ultimate fighter. Densmore is the champ in the band, though not all of his politics meet approval. Liberal is just not ok on certain issues.

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This day in history: June 6, 1970

Jim Morrison and The Doors played to a full house at the Pacific Coliseum, in what was considered to be one of their best live performances.

By Vancouver Sun June 6, 2012 Be the first to post a comment

Jim Morrison and The Doors played to a full house at the Pacific Coliseum, in what was considered to be one of their best live performances.

"Jim Morrison ... is The Doors and if he comes alive he can electrify those around him," wrote Sun reviewer Jurgen Hesse. "He can be crushingly arrogant, contemptuously bored, and devastatingly snobbish, and on Saturday we saw all three stances combined."

The concert was immortalized two years ago with the release of The Doors Live in Vancouver, 1970, a double CD of the show.

At the time of the release, key-board player Ray Manzarek said the band was "on a creative high," which meant the songs were longer than usual because everybody was improvising. (Light My Fire is 17 minutes and 55 seconds long.)

He credited the opening act, blues great Albert King, for putting everyone in a great mood. King jammed with The Doors on four blues-rock standards: Little Red Rooster, Money, Rock Me and Who Do You Love.

"We played dark and deep and funky," Manzarek recalled. "Morrison was just transfixed by Albert King's manual dexterity and adroitness on the guitar, so he was in blues-boy heaven. We were all blues boys, we had all gone to the south side of Chicago, which appeared magically in Vancouver, Canada. And we're playing the blues, we're a blues band on the south side of Chicago playing with Albert King." The Doors also loved playing Vancouver, a counterculture hot spot viewed as a "safety net" by Americans opposed to the Vietnam War.

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When it rains, it pours. The Doors draw in all the negative energy and negative people like a magnet. Kerry Humphreys shoud know that Jim had no children, and especially not a child like Cliff.

Jim Morrison - Doors Fansite Boss Receives Cease And Desist Letter Over Cd Sales
05 June 2012 01:31

Doors Fansite Boss Receives Cease And Desist Letter Over Cd Sales

The lawyers for a singer who insists he's tragic rock legend Jim Morrison's son have sent a cease a desist letter to the editor of a leading The Doors fansite urging him to stop selling their client's CDs online.

The Doors Collectors Magazine editor Kerry Humpherys tells WENN he was staggered to receive the missive last month (May12) - because he was just trying to do a favour for Cliff Morrison.

Humpherys insists he's far from convinced the former Cliff Marsden is the son of the Light My Fire singer, but he "felt sorry for him", adding, "He was so pathetic that I even bought a box of his CDs to sell on our website after his first flopped."

Humpherys bought up 200 of Know Peaking, which featured The Doors' guitarist Robby Krieger's son Waylon as a session musician, back in 2008, and he admits he has only been able to sell 50 in four years.

He says, "I received an email from Cliff's then-manager. He wanted me to try and sell them. The guitar on the album sounded great, due to Waylon, and for that fact alone, I thought the CD had some value - and was a big part of my decision to buy the CDs in the first place.

"These CDs were all legally purchased from Cliff's record label at the time - they are not bootlegs. I have no idea why (lawyers representing) Lizard Sun band want me to stop selling the CDs. I can only imagine they don't like the way I have promoted them online and also I gather they have remixed the album and are trying to sell a new issue."

Humpherys plans to keep selling the CDs, but, for the time being, he is giving them away free to anyone who spends more than $30 (£19) on memorabilia via his website

Source: contactmusic.com

I can't think this is true since Astbury was never in The Doors, he was in a cover band headed by Ray and Robby. Ian seems to refer to Ray and Robby as 'The Doors' while forgetting about Densmore... and forgetting about Morrison it seems.

He must be on bath salts to think that he was put in control of The Doors, as he refers to below. All he did was sing with Ray and Robby. The writer refers to him as The Doors' singer also, so he must be on bath salts as well.

Doors spent 13 years vetting Astbury

May 28 2012

Waiting game: Ian Astbury

The Cult singer Ian Astbury says it was worth the thirteen-year wait to cover Jim Morrison’s position in the Doors.

He thinks if he’d been much younger he wouldn’t have been able to do the job well – and he’s grateful for the musical education he received from the band.

Astbury first appeared with original members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger in 2002 and performed over 150 shows with them. For legal reasons the outfit has been variously known as The Doors of the 21st Century, D21C and Manzarek-Krieger.

The Cult frontman tells U-T San Diego: “They waited thirty years and the courtship was quite a long while. I was introduced to Ray, Robby and John Densmore when the Doors movie was being made in 1990.

“I was invited to a party in the Hollywood Hills. Michael Talbot, this famous metaphysical writer, was there. Timothy Leary and his partner was there. This Russian woman who was supposed to be a spiritualist was there. They were the only other people there – it was like I was being vetted in some way.

“Twelve or thirteen years later I got the gig.”

Astbury discovered the Doors as a young man, once describing his first hearing of The End as a “religious experience.” He’d glad he was in his forties by the time he was given the chance to perform with them.

“It was like a kid getting to fly a jet fighter,” he says. “All of a sudden, here I am at the helm of this incredible machine. It was terrifying and exhilarating all at the same time.

“After thirty shows with Ray and Robby, they never said anything – they just gave gestures. If Ray looked up at you, you knew you did something wrong. It he was nodding his head you were doing something right. It was one of the most incredible educations I’ve ever had.

“I was in my early forties and I’d done some growing. If I had joined the Doors in my twenties my head would have taken over and you probably couldn’t have kept me still.”

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