Caption under Picture 1, Page 1 – “We went off the stage, and, 10 minutes later, they started breaking chairs and going crazy. So we got in a whole bunch of trouble – and got a terrible review. “ A little history never hurts. Just a short time ago, the Doors came to Minneapolis for …
Published in Poppin Magazine By EDD JEFFORDS Something has happened to the Doors. Ray Manzarek knows it, several thousand people who attended the Seattle Pop Festival know, and probably so does Jim Morrison. Once one of the vital influences in rock, the Doors apparently have been captured entirely by the ego-tripping of Morrison. Instead of …
THE SOFT PARADE- The Doors- Elektra EKS 75005 This, the Doors long-awaited fourth LP is a furiously exciting and intense program of rock poetry. At the top of his form is vocalist-writer Jim Morrison whose work here is his finest to date, and the work of the group as a whole is sheer brilliance. With …
Published in ROLLING STONE By JERRY HOPKINS NEW YORK—Jim Morrison, looking like Che Guevara with heavy beard and long cigar, was in town with the Doors last week taping a Critique show for the National Educational Television network. The Gig (an Elektra Records brainchild) consisted of a ten-minute interview with rock writer Richard Goldstein and …
TOP POPS – JULY 12, 1969 AMERICAN NEWS BEAT “THEY CAN KEEP THEIR DIRTY HABITS TO THEMSELVES” The Mayor of Honolulu cancels DOORS concerts Three more doors concerts have been cancelled – thanks to city authorities in St. Louis and Honolulu who think the group’s vocalist Jim Morrison is “obscene.” The Doors had been scheduled …
VARIETY WEDNESDAY JULY 9, 1969 Mexico City, July 8. Concert by The Doors skedded for June 28 in Plaza Monumental bullring here was cancelled at the last moment when it was recalled that the date also marked the first anniversary of the 1968 student revolt in this city. It was feared that the crowds of …
VARIETY MAGAZINE JULY 8, 1969 By Pat Alisau Mexico City, July 7 – The Doors were received enthusiastically by Mexican youth, but not by the city officials of the Mexican Press. The Doors were brought don to open up Mexico for future presentations by other top rock groups, according to Mexican promoter, Mario Olmos. It …
***Not a full article BALTIMORE—Among the more disgusting sights on the contemporary social scene is a Decency Rally run wild. That is exactly what happened in Baltimore late in April after a Sunday afternoon crowd of 40,000 jammed into Memorial Stadium on behalf of decency and righteousness. It was the worst violence in Baltimore since …
Observations, comments, and pithy remarks excepted from Jim’s book The Lords, printed this spring- about 200 copies for his friends, he says, There will also be a simultaneous private printing of Morrison poems; the fourth Doors album; a screenplay he’s writing in collaboration with poet Michael McClure; a movie he wants to make based on …
Jim Morrison of the Doors is quiet and unassuming almost to the point of shyness, treating all questioners with equal sincerity and thinking carefully about each question before answering it to what is obviously the best of his ability. Even after months of clamouring journalists – all asking basically the same questions – he is …