During the short time the Doors spent in London not long ago, Kim Morrison managed to get himself a reputation for being “difficult” with the Press. NME colleagues were returning with strange tales of Morrison’s behavior. Add to that his record company’s claim that Jim can be extremely civil, even erudite on day, and be …
Published in Rolling Stone By Jim Miller One night recently the Mothers were performing “Plastic People Louie Louie” when Frank Zappa stumbled onto the monologue that graces “The End” (“he took a face from the ancient gallery and he walked on down the hall…”). It was terribly funny, and it was nice to see Zappa …
NEWS OF MUSIC BY DONALD MINTZ Star Staff Writer The East Opera, The Doors. At the Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Md. The lights go out. In the darkness, twelve neon pilot lights glow on twelve amplifiers. The disc jockey from WEAM says, “Ladies and gentlemen, The Doors.” The spots come up and with them cascades …
VARIETY MAGAZINE AUGUST 7, 1968 City streets are not the only place where there is unrest and mobs get out of hand. On Friday night (2) at the Singer Bowl, which is located on the grounds of the old New York World’s Fair, a melee broke out involving several young patrons of a concert headlining …
DOORS, 5th DIMENSION, Jones, Sly, Burdon & Animals, Purple, Miller, Darrell, Willows, Circus Top LPs DOORS: “WAITING FOR THE SUN” (Elektra) The Doors continue their winning score here with their bizarre ideals, innovating musicianship and haunting sounds and abstractions fronted by Jim Morrison’s wild lead singing. This new program of originals is another sure charttopper …
Published in New York Magazine By Richard Goldstein ‘Morrison’s eyes glow as he discusses the Apollonian-Dionysian struggle for life’s force. It’s an easy guess which side he’s on.” “The shaman…he was a man who would intoxicate himself. See, he was probably already an…uh…unusual individual. And, he would put himself into a trance by dancing, whirling …
Two persons were arrested and three others slightly injured early today during a chair-throwing melee at the close of a pop music concert in the Singer Bowl in Queens, attended by 8,00 persons, mostly teenagers. The violence began when Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, ended his last song, called “End,” by falling back …
EVENING NEWS PATERSON, N.J. 68,000 NEW YORK (UPI)—Three persons were injured and two were arrested early today when a teen-age audience at a folk rock concert suddenly charged the stage. Police said about 200 teenagers in a capacity audience of 10,000 listening to a group called “The Doors” began breaking up the wooden chairs at …
The Doors Concert, located at the Arena, 46th and Market sts. Tomorrow at 8 P.M. Featured with the Doors will be, “The Mandrake Memorial,” and “All That the Name Implies.” Tickets are priced at $3, $4, and $5
Bridgeport, CONN. TELEGRA- AUGUST 2, 1968 The four-man rock group, the Doors, authors of today’s number one tune “Hello I Love You,” performed before 5,000 in Kennedy Stadium last night, singing, among other, the song that earned them their initial popularity, “Light My Fire.” Preceded by the five-man Graffiti, a credible, although somewhat eclectic group …