POO!: The Doors

though my tolerance for the doors themselves is about as low as ever, i do find myself with increasing appreciation for bands that are obviously trying to sound like the doors. i like one st. stephen, for instance. and children of the mushroom - their archival rehearsal tape release is particularly on a heavy doors trip, and it sounds good.

but jim's poetry is just so profoundly awful. i can't imagine anybody writing poetry that bad and _not_ being serious about it. i mean obviously he wasn't serious about _everything_, nobody is, but the poetry? pretty sure he was serious about that.

structurally they are the most post-punk of all the name brand 60s bands....the chording and melodies are much more carried by the keyboards and bass and the guitar tends towards more textural or ornamental, clean tone single note picked lines

Also, echoing what several have said here is the correct Doors fandom trajectory

13-14 "OMG GOD THIS IS AMAZING"
15-16 "Fuck man the Doors really get me"
17-35 "This is so awful, this music is so corny! The lyrics is so dumb! No bass player? LAME"
36-37 "Eh this isn't so bad, the first record is pretty good"
38 and beyond "OMG GOD THIS IS AMAZING"

structurally they are the most post-punk of all the name brand 60s bands....the chording and melodies are much more carried by the keyboards and bass and the guitar tends towards more textural or ornamental, clean tone single note picked lines

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

if you don't consider the music machine "name brand", i guess. manzarek's playing gets a little too proggy to really fit in with post-punk imo

Also, echoing what several have said here is the correct Doors fandom trajectory

13-14 "OMG GOD THIS IS AMAZING"
15-16 "Fuck man the Doors really get me"
17-35 "This is so awful, this music is so corny! The lyrics is so dumb! No bass player? LAME"
36-37 "Eh this isn't so bad, the first record is pretty good"
38 and beyond "OMG GOD THIS IS AMAZING"

― chr1sb3singer

and this is why logan's run had it right

Also Jim poetry outside of the band is an entirely different kettle of fish and "An American Prayer" is this close to being the worst record made by anyone ever.

Ride the snake tho

structurally they are the most post-punk of all the name brand 60s bands....the chording and melodies are much more carried by the keyboards and bass and the guitar tends towards more textural or ornamental, clean tone single note picked lines

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

if you don't consider the music machine "name brand", i guess. manzarek's playing gets a little too proggy to really fit in with post-punk imo

― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, December 2, 2016 1:57 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno, what about the damned or magazine? and i'm not talking about playing styles i said "structurally"....you've got a case of doorsphobia man, you need to break on thru and accept how awesome they are

look i love "tequila" as much as anybody else but changing the lyrics to a superficial gloss on huxley does not improve the song.

Disagree

That's just like...your own mind man...you gotta...man...c'mon....hey be cool man.

look i love "tequila" as much as anybody else but changing the lyrics to a superficial gloss on huxley does not improve the song.

― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, December 2, 2016 2:08 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see what you just described actually sounds like the best possible approach to rock music a.k.a. the doors

Wait if they have no bass player then is that line in peacefrog guitar? Synth?

If getting loaded on whiskey and loudly pontificating on topics you are at best only dimly familiar with isn't rock'n'roll then I've got some serious explaining to do to myself circa age 20 until right now

structurally they are the most post-punk of all the name brand 60s bands....the chording and melodies are much more carried by the keyboards and bass and the guitar tends towards more textural or ornamental, clean tone single note picked lines

Very like the Seeds in fact. (I love both bands btw)

xxp there's bass on a lot of the doors' studio recordings. think it was one of the LA wrecking crew dudes?

Wait if they have no bass player then is that line in peacefrog guitar? Synth?

They had bass players in the studio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Scheff

... and Lonnie Mack sometimes!

Hey man bass is all like...in your mind man...think about it...you think bass is just like...a sound man? C'mon

me, i think the best art comes from those who share their personal experience with the world. and i can't possibly think of a better example of that than the lyrics to the champs' "tequila".

Also w/r/t bass

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cnz_c31WAAQDLEK.jpg

it's like he knew man

i want to start a morrison quotes thread, there are really good ones that are paired w/ photos like that

lol

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/da/89/7c/da897c13fc2e316de22509c354b7174a.jpg

http://inktank.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Jim-Morrison-quotes1.jpg

right on, jim

Hey man bass is all like...in your mind man...think about it...you think bass is just like...a sound man? C'mon

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, December 2, 2016 2:19 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bass is a concept not an instrument
- jim morrison, the white bob marley

RIP
https://img0.etsystatic.com/056/0/10451479/il_fullxfull.702847286_oss8.jpg

that bar has a lot of differnt types of beer glasses and mugs

winehouse is a waitress in rock n roll heaven

and zappa is just a picture on the wall

kurdt and lennon really getting put in the background for a couple of a-listers :/

or is the artist implying they are still misanthropes and wouldn't agree to pose w/everyone else?

also i'm dumb but why is gabriel byrne on the right?

oh lol it's supposed to be a last supper kinda thing

you can find in my painting Meir Ariel, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin , Bob Marley, Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison, Kurt cobain, Elvis Presly (on the I phone), Frank Zappa, John Lee Hooker (at the door), John Lennon, Bob Dylan (on the pin button), led zepplin symbols and more.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/216238475/the-last-supper-or-the-first-one-in

Meir Ariel, israeli songwriter, is the guy on the right, apparently

also i'm dumb but why is gabriel byrne on the right?

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, December 2, 2016 3:44 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea i also dont know who that is supposed to be

lol xp

Who's Meir Ariel? I thought that was Frankie Valli.

damn the King has to be on the iPhone! harsh toke...

frankie valli is still alive!

I know, that was the flaw in my thinking.

I also wondered why Dave Stewart of the Eurhythmics was lurking by the pool table.

Then I realized that was silly and it was obviously Roy Harper.

that bar has a lot of differnt types of beer glasses and mugs

In heaven there will be appropriate glassware for various styles of beer - thank God!

this is kinda cool, like the israeli serge gainsbourg or something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orGAJiCzXTY

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/45/7c/33/457c33ccf9c72ebf86fc7386448fd085.jpg

wino's calf muscle is off the chain

for real
kind of like the uncertain look jim and lou (?) are giving each other here
http://s6.favim.com/orig/150908/amy-winehouse-bob-marley-cielo-freddie-mercury-Favim.com-3258186.jpg

anyway, i could do this all day haha. back to the DOORS. the only band.

Also, weird that these paintings are all of dead people include Jim cuz he isn't dead.