Doors Interview with Emmett Lake

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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. …

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DOORS INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION

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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. …

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Crawdaddy Magazine – Unknown Soldier

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 …

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Rock is Rock: A Discussion of Doors Song

Published in CRAWDADDY Magazine By PAUL WILLIAMS Very few people have the balls to talk about “rock and roll” anymore. Revolver made it difficult. Between the Buttons, Smile, and the Doors’ lp are making it impossible. “Pop music” is definable only by pointing at a current chart; the Doors are not “pop,” they are simply …

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Paul Rothchild Speaks About Recording The Doors

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This interview was taped in Englewood, New Jersey, in March 1967, shortly after the release of the first Doors album, which Paul Rothchild produced. Last names are used throughout to avoid ambiguity. Also, if you watch Robbie play, even when he’s playing very quickly he looks like he’s playing slowly — if you watch his …

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FOUR DOORS TO THE FUTURE: GOTHIC ROCK IS THEIR THING

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***Note: not a full article Published in the Williams College News By: John Stickney “Which one is “Jim Morrison?” one girl said to another. But he was not on stage, and a drummer and an organist and a guitar player looked impatiently toward a curtain door. They sat in darkness punctuated by the steady red …

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L.A. Times 1st Album Review

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The Doors, a quartet who have been playing in the Los Angeles area for some time have come up with their first album, which is named after them. This Elektra album has a strange, new sound, but it is not strange in the fascinating directions pursued by the Rolling Stones, Dylan, Donovan or the Beatles. …

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Article on The Doors in Hullabaloo Magazine

A hundred dollars buys a lot of daisies, and you need a lot of daisies if you’re going to use them as a floral surrounding for Cass Elliot, who was being photographed lying naked among them. When the shooting was over, I hung around Schatzberg’s studio to help David Hoff – who was his assistant …

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