The Doors were a few months away from stardom in March 1967 when they played five sparsely attended shows at a small club in San Francisco called The Matrix. These uninhibited performances would have been fleeting if not for Peter Abram, who co-owned the pizza parlor-turned-nightclub with Jefferson Airplane founder Marty Balin. An avid recordist, …
For the very first time, The Doors’ Golden Album, their 1968 Japanese compilation, is available worldwide. This is an authentic re-creation now pressed on red vinyl and includes a 6-track 7” also on red vinyl. This record will not be available in any stores and is exclusively available on store.thedoors.com. Limited to 5,000 copies worldwide …
UK Doors fans can now purchase an extremely limited-edition release of L.A.WOMAN from HMV… the The 1921 Centenary Edition Yellow Vinyl. The 1921 Centenary Edition range is a carefully curated selection of the finest albums and soundtracks from the last 100 years, specially pressed onto beautiful colored vinyl, all of which is now available exclusively …
The Doors limited-edition Mini Turntable with 3” Singles originally released as a Record Store Day 2023 exclusive is now available in The Doors store for the very first time in a very limited quantity. The Doors limited-edition RSD3 mini-turntable sports The Doors branding on the dustcover and unit itself. Each of these editions of the RSD23 comes in a special box …
Recorded in 1966 and released the following year, The Doors self titled debut album was the soundtrack to the summer of love. Widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest debut albums of all time, it still continues to influence the evolution of the psych-rock genre. Possessing the hypnotic magnetism of pure transcendence this album containing so …
The Doors have released the last known unreleased song from The Doors vault today, “Paris Blues”. “Paris Blues” traveled a long and winding path to its release, taking on a mythic quality among Doors fans along the way. An original blues song written by the band, the track was recorded during one of the band’s recording sessions for …
We cannot wait for Record Store Day 2022, the party that’s become the Largest Single Day Music Event in The World. In celebration of the 15th annual celebration, we are thrilled to announce the L.A. Woman Sessions, which is being released as a limited-edition 4-LP set on April 23rd. On a slate chalk board, Jim …
During the period in late 1970 and early ’71 when Jim Morrison and his bandmates in the Doors were recording their sixth and final studio album, “L.A. Woman,” at their West Hollywood rehearsal space, the singer was drowning in a booze-fueled bender: drunk nearly every night but sober by morning and ambling across Santa Monica …
Check out the brand-new trailer for the upcoming Marvel film Morbius. Features a remix of “People Are Strange!”
CBS Mornings WHAT TO WATCH is helping Robby Krieger hunt down his iconic red Gibson SG Special, a crucial piece of early Doors history. Check out this segment discussing the missing guitar.