It is on this, the 40th anniversary of Jim Morrison’s death, that we choose to share with you our finest Doors-related sightseeing photos. Why? Because they trod upon some pretty cool parts of Los Angeles when it was the coolest place in the world… and it’s a hell of a lot better than streaming together [...]
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Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine
July 3, 2011Please Don’t Squeeze The Shaman
August 26, 2009Big news on the horizon for those Doors fans like us who really aren’t interested in anything after Strange Days: Bright Midnight, the band’s own archival label, finally acquired the first generation tapes of two shows at San Francisco’s Matrix club in March of ’67. To put things in context here, the Doors’ first album [...]
Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine
February 24, 2009Apparently, one of the highlights at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Tom DiCillo’s Doors doc When You’re Strange, which features a treasure trove of previously unreleased footage and hopfully no consecutive usage of the words “lizard” and “king”. Ray Manzarek says this will right Oliver Stone’s wrongs, though didn’t Ray consult on The Doors? Regardless, a happy [...]
He was the Lizard King, he could do anything!
July 3, 2008Except heroin in a Parisian nightclub toilet, apparently. So here we are on the 37th anniversary of Mr. Mojo Risin’s untimely demise. Actually, I’ve got nothing to add to the necrophiliac canonization of Jimbo as, you know, shaman by the likes of Oliver Stone, Danny Sugerman, and especially Ray Manzarek. Truth be told, I always [...]
Born to, um, skiffle?
March 5, 2008Ladies and gentlemen… please give a warm round of applause for Little Jimmy Page! Unfortunately, he never realized his ambitions in the field of “biological research”. And on a slightly more menacing note… “Admissions officer?” “Yes, son” “I want to kill yewww” You can rationalize the “film student” aspect of this all you want, but [...]
