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 …
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 …
A concert featuring The Doors will be held at the Arena, 46th and Market Streets, Philadelphia, on Sunday evening, August 4, at 8 p.m. The Doors are the Elektra Records stars of “Light My Fire” and the current “Hello, I Love You.” In addition, All That The Name Implied and The Mandrake Memorial will also …
Published in the Los Angeles Free Press Written by HARVEY PERR The Doors concert at the Hollywood Bowl could have (and should have) been great theatre. There was Jim Morrison, moving with animal grace, exuding his own peculiar sexuality, obviously in a good mood and ready to give his audience everything they wanted and possibly …
Published in NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS Third album from this American underground group who have recently surfaced over here with their “Hello I Love You” single. That is among the 11 Doors penned and arranged tracks but is hardly representative. None of the tracks can be faulted: Jim Morrison is one of the best vocalists in …