Published in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner By Richard Baxter The horse latitude lie at sea, 30 degrees north and south of the equator. They are characterized by unpredictable clams and storms and, in the day of the sailing ship, were treacherous. Vessels, becalmed or doomed to a brutal storm, dumped many a cargo to …
Published in Rolling Stone The Doors are an amazing group. Each of them are highly competent and talented musicians, yet music is only secondary to what they are doing. They are violently anti-commercial in their stance and their approach and yet the finished product is highly commercial. And it would also appear that vocalist Jim …
Published in NY Times By ROBERT WINDELER SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19— The Doors is one pop music group that may make it to the group that may make it to the end of this rock generation, which is to say it may last another fiver years. An audience of 4,500 packed WInterland, and abandoned ice-skating …
Published in Spec Magazine BY GLORIA STAVERS People are strange when you’re a stranger – When you’re strange no one remembers your name. Somewhere just outside the very busy and very rich city of Hollywood there is an abandoned, decaying old office building. It’s deserted rooms occasionally echo the sounds of passing cars or the …
Paul Williams, Intrepid Crawdaddy! Editor, flew to Englewood New Jersey, in March 1967 to record the following interview with Paul Rothchild, producer for Elektra Records. Cowboy Paul (see enclosed hat) Is 32, and had produced albums by the Butterfield Blues Band, Love, Koerner, Ray and Glover, etc.; the Top 20. Paul is happy about that. …
Published in HAPPENING By Hank Zevallos We’re sitting on a sofa in the control tower of studio one, Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood. Before us, on the other side of a huge picture window, engineer Bruce Botnik is setting up mikes and speakers. To the left, behind another window, in a dark cell of a room …
We’re sitting on a sofa in the control tower of studio one, Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood. Before us on the other side of a huge picture window, engineer Bruce Botnick I setting up mikes and speakers. To the left, behind another window, in a dark cell of a room is Jim Morrison, waiting…doing things with …
Lake: What do you think of the scene in San Francisco as compared to LA? John: It’s a great audience to play to…and there’s so many kids there, just open… Robby: Although the crowd there is getting a little spoiled. Like every week they have either the Yardbirds, or the Who, or some great group. …
by Michael Horowitz **(continued on from previous page?)…service, they’d choose Navy. But they’re just not interested in a military life altogether.” At the time, I did not let on that I knew that one of the “boys” Admiral Morrison was referring to was the nations leading rock personality. Yet the Admiral couldn’t be so sure …
