Kimbabig Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I am just too damn obsessed with these guys. They made so many great songs that all sounded completely different. I promise you a cover of roadhouse blues, with vocals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnjONg6h5zA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flOvM4Z355A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 The Doors are great........good music......... ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 The Doors are great........I met Ray in the mid eighties; of all places in a small MA seaside town....A laid back quiet guy............... I don't view Morrison as some genius like some do........but as another interesting singer / song writer........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 Yeah, they deserved that double post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fl00dsm0k3 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Jim the best singer of all time Ray the best piano player of all time John one of the most underated drummers of all time Robby still a good guitar player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigh Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 The Doors were a great band. Stolen alot of licks from Robby thru the years. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG FAN Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Hell yeah, I LOVE the Doors! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDN9y2vTdUs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky scott 29 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Great group as well!! I loved them very much.. Ya know, I wonder how that movie with Val Kilmer was real?? The movie itself I enjoyed very much though.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoVJ-55ZloE&feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 . Love the band, love that SG player! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNigNUD8CKo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJeqIbnV7jw&feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duende Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I am just too damn obsessed with these guys. They made so many great songs that all sounded completely different. I promise you a cover of roadhouse blues, with vocals. They are up there in my top five favourite bands with Ozzy's original Blizzard of Ozz line up and Led Zeppelin!! We saw the 21st century Doors (minus John Densmore and obviously Jim) and it was bloody amazing. Robbie did a ten minute guitar solo on a spanish guitar too. His chops were a slap across the face i have to say! I knew he played Flamenco guitar, but not like this!! anyway who thinks he can only play chilled out tasteful slow blues licks must watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzPPrQsK3jo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 They are up there in my top five favourite bands with Ozzy's original Blizzard of Ozz line up and Led Zeppelin!! We saw the 21st century Doors (minus John Densmore and obviously Jim) and it was bloody amazing. Robbie did a ten minute guitar solo on a spanish guitar too. His chops were a slap across the face i have to say! I knew he played Flamenco guitar, but not like this!! anyway who thinks he can only play chilled out tasteful slow blues licks must watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzPPrQsK3jo I always thought he played beautifully on Spanish Caravan, and love it when he breaks into that fuzz and Manzarek's keyboard sounds like the wind. ___ I'll have the house empty this weekend so that I can do vocals, recording the guitar parts tonight. Downloaded a backing track at the site Tman5293 uses, with no vocals or guitar. I'm recording the guitar in two parts, a lead, and the other playing along with the bass line. I think the lead will come after I do the vocals though, as it will make a "call and response" kind of sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmurray Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Manzarek is one of my favorite musicians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I saw them a couple of times and had the chance to chat with them a little. Great band but Morrison's poetry got a bit weird at times. Kilmer's depiction was pretty close to how Morrison was, he did a good job of capturing Morrison's egotism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duende Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 People on here mention England and the Beatles - but jeez you guys in the USA had The Doors!! The goddamn Doors!!!! THE band that really truly 'stuck it to the man' and that wrote some of the most individual songs in rock ever...God that is something!!! I really don't think there will be bands like Zeppelin, The Doors, Pink Floyd and Hendrix again...pure gold all of them! Two of my favourites are Been Down So Long and Yes The River Knows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwMc0TjW_6Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i27t5txCrwg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak show Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I recently saw the Doors documentary "When you're strange". I found it to be very good. I think people sometimes forget just how fantastic this band really was. They had their own sound at a time when a lot of bands sounded the same, and IMO their music is just as interesting and revolutionary as it must have been back then. So many of the other bands from that time sound sort of "old-fashioned" to me, but Doors-songs are timeless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 The Doors are amazing, no doubt about it. I recently bought The Soft Parade on vinyl, and I don't think it deserves to be as under-appreciated as it actually is amongst Doors-fans. Sure, it's different. A good kind of different, at the end of the day you're still listening to The Doors doing music that differs quite a bit from their usual style. Not to mention the fact that you can basically feel the alcohol in Jim's voice . Also got The Doors and Morrison Hotel on vinyl some year ago (when the vinyl reissues came out). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Yeah, amazing musicianship and song writing; that rare mix of talent and taste. Without the sonic pallet of songs Morrison would not have been able to excel as he did. I like a lot of his lyrics and his ear for old fashion pop and blues melodies. The person I could do without. From what I have read in more than a few books the Doors movie was mostly embellished bunk. Kiwi - Good call. Vinyl copies of these albums are a must. It was how they were meant to be listened to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojorule Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 They are up there in my top five favourite bands with Ozzy's original Blizzard of Ozz line up and Led Zeppelin!! We saw the 21st century Doors (minus John Densmore and obviously Jim) and it was bloody amazing. Robbie did a ten minute guitar solo on a spanish guitar too. His chops were a slap across the face i have to say! I knew he played Flamenco guitar, but not like this!! anyway who thinks he can only play chilled out tasteful slow blues licks must watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzPPrQsK3jo Great post, thanks Matt. I was also aware of his untypical background in flamenco, but have never heard him playing nylon string, so this is rather nice to hear. I always thought he played beautifully on Spanish Caravan, and love it when he breaks into that fuzz and Manzarek's keyboard sounds like the wind. ___ I'll have the house empty this weekend so that I can do vocals, recording the guitar parts tonight. Downloaded a backing track at the site Tman5293 uses, with no vocals or guitar. I'm recording the guitar in two parts, a lead, and the other playing along with the bass line. I think the lead will come after I do the vocals though, as it will make a "call and response" kind of sound. I have to agree completely about Spanish Caravan, Kimbabig, and also love the fuzz, but it is the intro which always got me. I was completely blown away when I first saw this clip (or one almost identical) in The Doors Are Open, mainly because at the time I was learning classical, had only begun to get to grips with my first electric, and couldn't imagine that fast fingerstyle arpeggios were possible on anything as skinny as an SG neck, or on anything with such a small, thin body. He had amazing control. And hey, Albeniz on electric - I know you prefer the nylon, Matt, but the SG does it well too... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZhORUIKWtQ Notably this concoction is a piece of Krieger songwriting too, not Morrison or Manzarek. Albeniz should have got some royalties, I guess, but I'm quite impressed by Krieger's lyric writing too - at least as good as Morrison's 'the blue bus is calling us, driver where you taking us'. Manzarek is one of my favorite musicians. OK, here I disagree, McMurray. He is one of the greatest rock keyboard players of all time, I concede. When he 'sounds like the wind' it is very special. But I think he has done an awful lot of interviews about what a great keyboard player he is, and about how he came up with the (frankly cheesy) riff at the start of Light My Fire. (The song would be cooler without it.) I feel as though Krieger's brilliance has always been ignored because of Morrison's and Manzarek's egos. After all, great as Manzarek's contributions are to The End, it is ultimately Krieger's recurrent figures which make that song so special (and help transform some of Morrison's lamest improvised doggerel into epic poetry). The song is the better for Manzarek's organ, but it would survive without it, and even still be something rather splendid. Take away the guitar though, and the song would honk. Yet almost every account of the Doors I've read focuses on Morrison and Manzarek, while citing The End as one of their greatest works. On the Hammond front, I'd rather hear Booker T Jones, and if we expand to take in the Lowrey, then I'll take Garth Hudson over Manzarek too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG FAN Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Actually my SG has about the widest string spacing, I've ever seen on an electric guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I've always loved the doors, but never considered them a Rock Band in the traditional sense. The way Morrison wrote and the way the band followed his moods rather than some kind of melodic structure or chord count made them more akin to the Beat Poetry of the 50's with the sonic tools of the 60's. I meant, listen to "The End"! When it gets to the "Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine" it's pure 50's coffeehouse Beatnik stuff. Jim Morrison was a Poet backed by a Jazz Band playing mood music on Rock Instruments. Undefinable and inimitable, but pure expression through music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 I Used to play this in college. Always a hit when played at a party. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41ohFqkhASU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojorule Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Actually my SG has about the widest string spacing, I've ever seen on an electric guitar. Cool. How wide exactly, and which SG? And what about your Casino? My Casino has the narrowest string spacing I've ever seen on any guitar. I suspect that some mandolins have wider necks. I think that all electric necks seemed skinny when I first came to them from the classical guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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