The Doors
The Doors was an American rock band which formed in Los Angeles, California… Read Full Bio ↴The Doors was an American rock band which formed in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1965. The band consisted of Jim Morrison (vocals), Ray Manzarek (organ), Robby Krieger (guitar) and John Densmore (drums). In this configuration, the band released six albums, all of which were successful and released two US #1 hit singles - 1967's "Light My Fire" and 1968's "Hello, I Love You". After Morrison's death at his apartment at 17 Rue Beautraillis Paris in 1971, the band continued on as a trio, releasing two more albums that were ignored commercially and disliked critically before disbanding in 1973.
UCLA film school students Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek had known each other at college and met by chance on Venice beach in July 1965. Morrison told Manzarek he had been writing songs and, at Manzarek's encouragement, sang "Moonlight Drive". Manzarek immediately suggested they form a band.
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek was already in the band called Rick And The Ravens with Morrison and his brother Rick Manzarek while Robby Krieger and John Densmore were playing with The Psychedelic Rangers, and knew Manzarek from shared meditation instruction. In August Densmore joined the group and, along with members of the Ravens and an unidentified female bass player, recorded a six-song demo on September 2. This was widely bootlegged and appeared in full on the 1997 Doors box set.
That month the group recruited talented guitarist Robby Krieger and the final lineup—Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore—was complete. Manzarek solved their lack of bassist by playing bass on a Fender Rhodes bass keyboard with his left hand and keyboards with his right hand.
The band took their name from the title of a book by Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, which was in turn borrowed from a line of poetry by the 18th century artist and poet William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite."
By 1966 the group was playing The London Fog club and soon graduated to the prestigious Whisky a Go Go. On August 10 they were spotted by Elektra Records president Jac Holzman on the insistence of Love singer Arthur Lee, whose group was on Elektra. On August 18 the group signed with the label. The timing was immaculate when, on August 21, the band was fired from the club after a profanity filled performance of "The End". In an incident that was a foretelling of the controversy that would follow the group, a tripping Morrison bellowed during the "Oedipal" section of the song "Mother...I want to...fuck you!!!".
Early recording: 1967–1969
After Jack Holzman and Paul Rothchild saw two sets of the band playing at Whiskey A Go Go, the first uneven, but the second mesmerizing, the band was signed to the Elektra Records label beginning a long and successful partnership with producer Paul Rothchild and engineer Bruce Botnick. Their self-titled debut LP featured most of the major songs from their set, including the eleven-minute musical drama, "The End". With the band at the peak of their form and bristling with energy and ambition, the album was recorded in only a few days, in late August and early September 1966, almost entirely live in the studio, with most songs captured in a single take. Morrison and Manzarek also directed an innovative promotional film for the single "Break on Through", which was an important stepping stone in the development of the music video genre.
Released in January 1967, the album caused a sensation in music circles and the second single released from it, "Light My Fire", became a major hit, establishing the group alongside Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead as one of the top new American bands of 1967. It was released in April but did not hit the top, with the long middle solo cut out, until July. In September the group played the song live on the popular Ed Sullivan Show where Morrison sang the word "higher", despite being asked not to by the CBS Network. They also performed a new single "People Are Strange" which they repeated for DJ Murray The K's TV show on September 22. Earlier in the month the group recorded a dazzling version of "The End" for CBS in Toronto. It remained unreleased until the release of The Doors Soundstage Performances DVD.
With his saturnine good looks, magnetic stage presence and skin-tight leather trousers, Morrison quickly became one of the major pop sex symbols of his day, although he soon became frustrated with the strictures of stardom.
The second Doors LP, Strange Days, was almost as strong as the first, and it cemented the group's reputation. More subdued and less spontaneous than the debut, the album is notable for its evocative lyricism and atmosphere. Closing track "When The Music's Over" was again, like "The End" lengthy and dramatic and helped establish Morrison's reputation as the wild shaman of rock. Yet the album was also strongly commercial and featured well-known Doors songs, "Love Me Two Times" and "Moonlight Drive".
Morrison's status as a figure of rebellion was further cemented on December 9 when he was arrested in New Haven, Connecticut for badmouthing the police to the audience from the stage. Morrison said he had been maced by an overzealous cop after he was caught backstage with a girl. The group finished a successful year on December 27 by taping "Light My Fire" and "Moonlight Drive" for the Jonathan Winters Show. From December 26 to 28 the group played at The Winterland San Francisco and then two dates in Denver on December 30 and 31, capping off a year of almost constant touring.
As a result of their success, The Doors forfeited their status as Underground heroes. They allowed Sixteen magazine to portray them as teen idols and their "spontaneous" stage-show was exposed as not-so-spontaneous after all. An article by Jerry Hopkins in the February 10, 1968 edition of Rolling Stone typified the fall from grace:
"One shtick, or piece of stage-business, missing at the Shrine performance, was Morrison's carefully-executed 'accidental' fall from the stage into the crowd. For months this had been a part of the act. It got a lot of screams from the teenyboppers. Then a review appeared in a local newspaper which called the fall one of the phoniest things ever. Morrison was asked if he'd read the article. 'Yeah,' said Morrison, 'and I guess he's right.' Morrison did not take the fall that night at the Shrine."
Fraught sessions for the group's third album took place in April as Morrison became increasingly dependent on alcohol. Approaching the height of their popularity The Doors played a series of outdoor shows which led to frenzied scenes between fans and police, particularly at Chicago Coliseum on May 10.
Their third LP, Waiting for the Sun, (1968) showed the band beginning to branch out from their initial form, as they exhausted their original repertoire and began writing new material. It became their first #1 LP and the single "Hello, I Love You" was their second and last US #1 single. The album is eclectic in style, sometimes inconsequential, and much less unified than the first two, despite containing some fine material. It further isolated them from the underground cognoscenti. As Lilian Roxon described it in her 1969 Rock Encyclopaedia, the album "strengthened dreadful suspicion that the Doors were in it just for the money". It also included the song "The Unknown Soldier", for which they created another self-directed music video, and "Not to Touch the Earth", excerpted from their legendary thirty-minute concept piece Celebration of the Lizard, although they were reportedly unable to record a satisfactory version of the entire piece for the LP. This was eventually released on a later greatest hits CD compilation.
A month after riotous scenes at the Singer Bowl, New York the group flew for their first dates outside of North America, to England. The group held a press conference at the ICA Gallery, London and played shows at The Roundhouse Theatre. The results of the trip were broadcast on Granada TV's "The Doors Are Open" and were later released on video. The group then played dates in Europe including a show in Amsterdam without Morrison after he collapsed from a drug binge. Morrison returned to London on September 20 and stayed for a month.
The group played nine more US dates and got to work in November on their fourth LP. 1969 would be a very difficult year for the group but it started well with a sold out show at the prestigious Madison Square Garden, New York on January 24 and with the success of new single "Touch Me" (released in December 1968), which hit US #3.
That month Morrison attended a theatre production which changed the course of his and the group's life. At the University of Southern California's Bovard Auditorium The Living Theatre took to the stage for a highly charged show which urged people to cast aside their inhibitions to freedom.
The show appealed to Morrison's quest for personal freedom, the results of which can be heard the next evening, February 25, during a studio jam which became the legendary "Rock Is Dead" session, later released on the 1997 Doors box set. The stage had been set for the most controversial episode of Morrison's life and one of the most notorious rock stories.
To fans of The Doors, the music included socially, psychologically and politically charged lyrics mostly written by 'The Lizard King', Jim Morrison. The jazz drumming of John Densmore, the swirling keyboards of Ray Manzarek, whose left hand played the parts typically associated with bass guitar, and Robby Krieger's guitar playing, which showed the influence of flamenco, Indian, the blues and classical music, combined to form a distinctive sound. The Doors were unusual among rock groups in that they did not use a bass guitarist in concert, with Manzarek playing the bass lines on a Fender electric keyboard bass, an offshoot of the well-known Fender Rhodes electric piano. However, the group utilized bass players such as Jerry Scheff, Doug Lubahn, Harvey Brooks, Kerry Magness, Lonnie Mack jazz bassist LeRoy Vinnegar and Ray Neapolitan on their albums.
Many of The Doors' originals were composed communally, with Morrison usually contributing the lyrics and some melody, while the others hammered out the beat and flow of the song. While Morrison and Manzarek were walking on the beach in California, they passed an African-American girl, and Morrison wrote the lyrics to Hello I Love You in a single night, referring to the girl as the "dusky jewel". The song received some criticism at the time for its resemblance to The Kinks' 1965 hit "All Day and All of the Night". Ray Davies, lead singer of the Kinks, sued the Doors for stealing the rhythm of "All Day and All of the Night".
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Mid career controversy: 1969–1971
The Doors quickly earned a reputation as a challenging and entertaining live act, as well as having a rebellious reputation. Jim Morrison was arrested on stage in New Haven for foul language which he had directed toward police at the concert. In one appearance on September 17, 1967 with a live performance on the Ed Sullivan Show on the Columbia Broadcasting System network, the network's censors demanded the group change its lyrics in its song, Light My Fire, altering the line, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" because of the reference to drugs. However, Morrison sang the original line instead, and on live television with no delay CBS was powerless to stop it. Ed Sullivan was so furious that he refused to shake their hands and they were never invited back. Morrison later insisted he was nervous during the performance and forgot to change the line. (They weren't the only ones banned from the show. Eleven years earlier, Bo Diddley was banned from appearing on the show when he refused to sing Sixteen Tons.)
The most infamous incident occurred at the March 1, 1969 Dinner Key Auditorium concert in Miami, Florida. Morrison allegedly exposed himself during the performance. Morrison had been drinking since missing his flight to the show. The 6,900 seat auditorium had been oversold by almost double the hall's capacity and fans were sweltering without air conditioning. From the moment the band walked on stage Morrison started bellowing into the microphone:
"Now listen here, I ain't talking 'bout no revolution and I'm not talkin' about no demonstrations.
"I'm talking about having a good time, I'm talking about having a good time this summer. And you all come out to L.A., you all get out there, we're gonna lie down there in the sand and rub our toes in the ocean, and we're gonna have a good time, are you ready, are you ready, are you ready, are you ready, are you ready, are you ready, are you ready, are you ready?
"Now listen! I used to think the whole thing was a big joke. I used to think it was something to laugh about. And then the last couple of nights I met some people who were doing somethin'! They're tryin' to change the world! And I wanna get on that trip! I wanna change the world. Wanna change it. Yeeeeeeaaaaaahhh - change it."
Within a few minutes Morrison had changed his tune:
"Now listen, I'm not talkin' about no revolution, an' I'm not talkin' about no demonstration! I'm talkin' about having fun! I'm talkin' about dancin'! I wanna see you people get up and dance! I wanna see you people dancin' in the street this summer! I wanna see you have some fun. I wanna see you run around. I wanna see you paint the town. I wanna see you ringin' out. I wanna see you shout. I wanna see some fun. I wanna see some fun from everyone."
The recording nears its end with the ominous words:
"ANYTHING YOU WANT! LET'S DO IT! LET'S DO IT! LET'S DO IT!"
The incident remains inconclusive. Morrison said: "I wasted a lot of time with the Miami trial. About a year and a half. But I guess it was a valuable experience because before the trial I had a very unrealistic schoolboy attitude about the American judicial system. My eyes have been opened up a bit."
While Morrison as the lead singer received the most attention of the group, as well as getting a far larger image of himself on album covers, he was quite adamant about all the members of the group getting recognition. Before one concert when the announcer introduced the group as "Jim Morrison and The Doors", Morrison in a rage refused to appear unless he announced the group again, solely as "The Doors". While he never felt close to his real life family, he was extremely protective of the rest of the members of The Doors. Reportedly, he once told Ray Manzarek that he never felt comfortable in a social setting unless Ray or another member of the band were with him. Many people have since come to the conclusion that he viewed The Doors as his surrogate family. This may be attributed the fact that he not only repeatedly turned down every solo album opportunity he was ever offered, but that the remaining members of The Doors refused to replace him as the singer of the band after his death.
Although the band's reputation was damaged Morrison was quietly relieved by the results of the Miami incident. He later said: "I think I was just fed up with the image that had been created around me... and so I put an end to it in one glorious evening".
Released from the chain of touring Morrison recorded some of his poetry that month and, in April, began shooting footage for HWY, an experimental film about a hitchiker, played by Morrison. The poetry session was used for the 1978 album An American Prayer where it was set to new music by The Doors. HWY, which contains virtually no dialogue, circulates among collectors although an official release has been rumored.
In the last two years of his life Morrison curtailed his former prodigious intake of psychedelic drugs and began drinking heavily, which in turn soon began to affect his performance, both on stage and in the studio. Apparently trying to escape the image of "The Lizard King" that had come to dominate him, Morrison put on weight and grew a thick beard, forcing Elektra to use photos taken earlier in his career for the cover of their Absolutely Live LP, released in 1970. The album features performances recorded on their 1970 American tour and at the 1969 Aquarius Theatre gig and includes a full-length live performance of "The Celebration of the Lizard".
The group's only public appearance was on a PBS television special, recorded late in April and broadcast the following month. Here the group performed songs from the upcoming Soft Parade album, including a stunning version of the title track.
The group resumed touring at Chicago Auditorium Theater on June 14 and proceeded to play two dates at The Aquarius Theatre, Hollywood on July 21 and 22, both later released on CD. The shows were typical of a new kind of Doors concert where the emphasis was more on the band and fans having a good time than having a shamanistic experience. The bearded Morrison wore loose fitting clothes and steered the bands towards a bluesier direction with songs like "Build Me A Woman", "I Will Never Be Untrue" and "Who Do You Love". Yet his voice had lost none of its power and the band could still dazzle with performances of "When The Music's Over" and "Celebration of the Lizard".
Their fourth album, The Soft Parade (1969), released in July, further distanced the group from the "underground", containing extremely pop-oriented arrangements, complete with "Vegas-style" horn sections (their single, "Touch Me," featured saxophonist Curtis Amy).
Morrison's excessive drinking made him increasingly difficult and unreliable in the studio, and the sessions for the record dragged on for weeks (where they had formerly taken days). Studio costs piled up, and the group came close to disintegrating.
Critics of the record see the band as struggling to maintain momentum and attempting to expand their sound with a horn section and strings, resulting in a weak record suffering from bloated overproduction.
In its defense, The Soft Parade stands as an experiment that succeeded despite Morrison's erratic behavior and numerous technical challenges. In the context of the group's established repertoire, the record finds them exploring a new "quasi-prog-pop" direction. The more commercially-oriented songs such as "Touch Me" and "Tell All The People" are memorable; tracks such as "Wild Child" and "Shaman's Blues" are as stripped down and imaginitive as ever, with particularly excellent guitar and lyrics.
Amid the recording of their next album, in November 1969, Morrison found himself in trouble with the law again after becoming drunk and abusive to airline staff during a flight to Phoenix, Arizona to see The Rolling Stones in concert. He was acquitted the following April after a steward mistakenly identified Morrison as his traveling companion, American actor Tom Baker (Not the Tom Baker who played Dr. Who.)
The group started its year in New York again, this time over two nights at The Felt Forum. The two nights were well received.
The group staged a strong return to form with their excellent 1970 LP Morrison Hotel. Featuring a consistent, hard rock sound the album contains the memorable opener "Roadhouse Blues", which typified the high-spirited assuredness of the entire album. Morrison Hotel had a buoyancy and optimism that the band had never had before with a host of celebratory songs and a couple of lovely ballads. It hit US #4.
The group continued to perform at arenas throughout the summer and Morrison faced trial in Miami in August. The group managed to make it to The Isle of Wight on August 29th where a tired Morrison performed what was considered a below-par set. Songs from the show show up in 1995 on the Message To Love documentary.
On September 16th, Morrison took to the stand but it was in vain, the jury returning a guilty verdict for profanity and indecent exposure on September 20. Morrison was sentenced to eight months custody but was allowed to go free pending an appeal.
On December 8th, 1970, Morrison recorded another poetry session, on his 27th birthday.
The Doors last public performance was at the "Warehouse" in New Orleans, LA on Dec. 12th, 1970, where it appeared Morrison had a mental breakdown on stage (slamming the microphone numerous times into the stage floor).
The group looked set to regain their crown as one of America's premier acts with the superb L.A. Woman in 1971. It was conceived as a "back to basics" album which would explore their blues and R&B roots, although during rehearsals the group had a serious falling-out with Rothchild. Denouncing the new repertoire as "cocktail music", he quit and handed the production reins to Botnick. The result was widely considered a classic, featuring some of the strongest material and performances since their 1967 debut. Some dissenters, however, consider nearly half the album to be lackluster blues material, detracting severely from the album's overall quality. The atmospheric single "Riders On The Storm" became a mainstay of rock radio programming for decades.
Aftermath of Morrison's death: 1971–1989
In 1971, following the recording of L.A. Woman, Morrison decided to take some time out and moved to Paris with girlfriend Pamela Courson, in March. He had visited the previous summer and, for a time, seemed contented to write and explore the city. But by June he was once again drinking heavily and suffered a fall from a second story window in May. On June 16 the last known recording of Morrison was made when he befriended two street musicians at a bar and invited them to a recording studio. The drunken results were later released on bootleg CD.
Morrison died under mysterious circumstances on 3 July 1971; his body was found in the bathtub of his apartment. It was concluded that he died of a heart attack, although it was later revealed that no autopsy had been performed before Morrison's body was buried at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery on July 7.
Rumours persisted for many years that Morrison had faked his death to escape the spotlight, as did the rumour that Morrison had actually died at a Paris nightclub and that his body had been surreptitiously taken back to his apartment. However, in his book Wonderland Avenue, Morrison's former associate Danny Sugerman states that during his last meeting with Courson, which took place shortly before she died of a heroin overdose, she confessed to Sugerman that she had introduced Morrison to the drug and that, because he had a fear of needles, she had injected him with the dose that killed him.
The remaining Doors continued for some time. After initially considering replacing Morrison with a new singer, Krieger and Manzarek took over on vocals, and released two more albums, Other Voices and Full Circle. The Doors also toured during this time.
Both albums sold well, but not in the numbers of the Morrison era releases, and the Doors ceased all performing and recording activities at the end of 1972. While the first is unmistakably Doors in sound and style, the last album showed the Doors further expanding into jazz territory. While neither album have yet seen CD reissues in the U.S., they have been released on 2-on-1 CDs in Germany and Russia and are being heard via internet P2P networks and are undergoing fan reevaluation.
The remaining Doors recorded a third post-Morrison album, An American Prayer released in 1978, this time providing only backup music to recordings of Morrison's poetry.
In 1979 Francis Ford Coppola released Apocalypse Now with "The End" used prominently in the sound track. With this, "The Doors" were rediscovered by new fans. In 1983, "Alive, She Cried" was released, which included a cover version of the Them hit "Gloria", adding it officially to the Elektra Records discography.
The 1990s and beyond
In 1991, director Oliver Stone released his film The Doors, starring Val Kilmer as Morrison and with cameos by Krieger and Densmore. Ian Astbury of The Cult was Stone's preferred choice, but Astbury decided not to enter the acting world for reasons unknown. While all were amazed at Kilmer's impersonation, the film had numerous factual inaccuracies and members of the group later voiced displeasure at Stone's portrayal of Morrison, at times making him look like an out-of-control sociopath.
In 2002 Manzarek and Krieger reunited and created a new version of The Doors, called "The Doors of the 21st Century". In the place of Morrison, the new lineup was fronted by British vocalist Ian Astbury, former lead singer of UK band The Cult, with Angelo Barbera from Krieger's band on bass. At their first concert the group announced that drummer John Densmore would not perform, and it was later reported that he was unable to play because he suffered from tinnitus. Densmore was initially replaced by Stewart Copeland, formerly of The Police, but after Copeland broke his arm falling off a bicycle, the arrangement ended in mutual lawsuits and he was replaced by Ty Dennis, drummer with Krieger's band.
Densmore subsequently claimed that he had in fact not been invited to take part in the reunion. In February 2003 he filed an injunction against his former bandmates hoping to prevent them from using the name "The Doors of the 21st Century". His motion was denied in court in May that year, although Manzarek publicly reiterated that the invitation for Densmore to return to the group still stood. It was also reported that both Morrison's family and that of Pamela Courson had joined Densmore in seeking to prevent Manzarek and Krieger from using The Doors' name. In July 2005, Densmore and the Morrison estate won a permanent injunction; thereby preventing his former bandmates from using The Doors' name. The new band initially switched to the name "D21C" and now plays under the name Riders on the Storm, which is itself the name of a Doors tribute band in the northeastern US. They are allowed to play under names such as "former Doors" and "members of The Doors". Densmore has also been steadfast in refusing to license The Doors' music for use in television commercials, including an offer of $15 million by Cadillac to lease the song "Break on Through (to the Other Side)", feeling that that would be in violation of the spirit in which the music was created. Densmore wrote about this subject for The Nation, noting,
People lost their virginity to this music, got high for the first time to this music. I've had people say kids died in Vietnam listening to this music, other people say they know someone who didn't commit suicide because of this music…. On stage, when we played these songs, they felt mysterious and magic. That's not for rent.
Manzarek and Krieger maintain that touring as a Doors revival and licensing the music to advertisements are a means to keep The Doors from fading into history. Manzarek was quoted as saying, "We're all getting older. We should, the three of us, be playing these songs because, hey, the end is always near. Morrison was a poet, and above all, a poet wants his words heard."
The Doors are remembered for shamanistic live performances. Some members of the "establishment", however, felt that they were merely American rock music rebels. Jim Morrison said: "I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something."
Their enduring popularity is reflected by continuing sales of their early work.
Recorded output
The Doors left a reasonably concise discography for an era dominated by groups which seemed to rush out an album every six months and a high number of non-album singles. The first, self-titled album is generally thought to be the strongest and is a regular sight in greatest 100 album lists. Strange Days, Morrison Hotel and L.A Woman are all highly rated by fans and, due to their different styles, (psychedelic pop, hard rock, blues) appeal to some more than others. Waiting For The Sun contains some strong tracks but is thematically weak. The Soft Parade is considered by some to be "plain bad and for fans only".
1970's Absolutely Live and 1983's Alive She Cried are good examples of the band's live show and are available on CD. The 2CD In Concert is better value for money as it collects the two and adds an interesting version of "The End" from the Hollywood Bowl show in 1968.
Only three non-album tracks were released in the band's lifetime, the b-sides "Who Scared You", "Tree Trunk", and a cover of Willie Dixon's "(You Need Meat) Don't Go Further" sung by Ray. "Who Scared You" and "(You Need Meat) Don't Go Further" appeared on the 1972 compilation Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine while only "Who Scared You" has since been given a further CD release, on the 1997 box set.
In 1978 the surviving Doors re-united to add music to poetry recorded by Morrison in 1969 and 1970. The resulting album was "An American Prayer" and was re-issued on CD in 1995 with bonus tracks "Hour For Magic", "Freedom Exists", "A Feast Of Friends", "Babylon Fading", "Bird Of Prey" and "The Ghost Song (extended version)".
The group had always shied away from releasing archive Doors material but in 1997 relented with the release of The Doors box set. While hardcore fans complained that most of the material had been previously released on bootlegs the 4CD set, one of which was a "greatest hits" type CD, proved popular. It was notable for a CD of highlights from the 1970 Felt Forum concert and a cleaned-up recording of the (edited) 1969 "Rock Is Dead" session. The surviving members again re-united to add new musical backing to the solo Morrison song "Orange County Suite".
In November 2000 came the announcement many fans had dreamed of when The Doors announced the creation of Bright Midnight Records, a label through which 36 albums and 90 hours of previously unreleased Morrison-era Doors material would be made available on CD. This was launched with a sampler of forthcoming material, mostly from live concerts. The first full release was a 2CD set of the May 1970 show at Detroit Cobo Arena. It was followed by two CDs of interviews, mostly with Morrison, and the two 1969 Aquarius shows and one of the rehearsals. A 4CD set "Boot Yer Butt" unashamedly used bootleg quality material but sold out nevertheless. It was notable for the inclusion of the only known performances of songs from L.A Woman including the title track and "The Changeling" from The Doors' last but one show, in December 1970, Dallas, Texas. In 2005 a 2CD concert from Philadelphia in 1970 was released.
Many illegal bootleg recordings are available of the group. Most impressive is a wealth of shows from March 1967 at the legendary Matrix Club in San Francisco. Many shows are available from 1968 when the band reached the height of its popularity, notably two shows in Stockholm, Sweden. The infamous Miami show has become widely available while many 1970 shows, notably a radio broadcast of the June 6 Vancouver show, make the rounds. The complete 1969 "Rock Is Dead" studio jam was discovered in the mid 1990s.
Recently, a commercial for Star Motorcycles featuring the Doors song "Riders on the Storm" has been seen.
Discography:
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1. The Doors (1967)
2. Strange Days (1967)
3. Waiting for the Sun (1968)
4. The Soft Parade (1969)
5. Morrison Hotel (1970)
6. L.A. Woman (1971)
7. Other Voices (1971)
8. Full Circle (1972)
9. An American Prayer (1978)
UCLA film school students Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek had known each other at college and met by chance on Venice beach in July 1965. Morrison told Manzarek he had been writing songs and, at Manzarek's encouragement, sang "Moonlight Drive". Manzarek immediately suggested they form a band.
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek was already in the band called Rick And The Ravens with Morrison and his brother Rick Manzarek while Robby Krieger and John Densmore were playing with The Psychedelic Rangers, and knew Manzarek from shared meditation instruction. In August Densmore joined the group and, along with members of the Ravens and an unidentified female bass player, recorded a six-song demo on September 2. This was widely bootlegged and appeared in full on the 1997 Doors box set.
That month the group recruited talented guitarist Robby Krieger and the final lineup—Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore—was complete. Manzarek solved their lack of bassist by playing bass on a Fender Rhodes bass keyboard with his left hand and keyboards with his right hand.
The band took their name from the title of a book by Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, which was in turn borrowed from a line of poetry by the 18th century artist and poet William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite."
By 1966 the group was playing The London Fog club and soon graduated to the prestigious Whisky a Go Go. On August 10 they were spotted by Elektra Records president Jac Holzman on the insistence of Love singer Arthur Lee, whose group was on Elektra. On August 18 the group signed with the label. The timing was immaculate when, on August 21, the band was fired from the club after a profanity filled performance of "The End". In an incident that was a foretelling of the controversy that would follow the group, a tripping Morrison bellowed during the "Oedipal" section of the song "Mother...I want to...fuck you!!!".
Early recording: 1967–1969
After Jack Holzman and Paul Rothchild saw two sets of the band playing at Whiskey A Go Go, the first uneven, but the second mesmerizing, the band was signed to the Elektra Records label beginning a long and successful partnership with producer Paul Rothchild and engineer Bruce Botnick. Their self-titled debut LP featured most of the major songs from their set, including the eleven-minute musical drama, "The End". With the band at the peak of their form and bristling with energy and ambition, the album was recorded in only a few days, in late August and early September 1966, almost entirely live in the studio, with most songs captured in a single take. Morrison and Manzarek also directed an innovative promotional film for the single "Break on Through", which was an important stepping stone in the development of the music video genre.
Released in January 1967, the album caused a sensation in music circles and the second single released from it, "Light My Fire", became a major hit, establishing the group alongside Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead as one of the top new American bands of 1967. It was released in April but did not hit the top, with the long middle solo cut out, until July. In September the group played the song live on the popular Ed Sullivan Show where Morrison sang the word "higher", despite being asked not to by the CBS Network. They also performed a new single "People Are Strange" which they repeated for DJ Murray The K's TV show on September 22. Earlier in the month the group recorded a dazzling version of "The End" for CBS in Toronto. It remained unreleased until the release of The Doors Soundstage Performances DVD.
With his saturnine good looks, magnetic stage presence and skin-tight leather trousers, Morrison quickly became one of the major pop sex symbols of his day, although he soon became frustrated with the strictures of stardom.
The second Doors LP, Strange Days, was almost as strong as the first, and it cemented the group's reputation. More subdued and less spontaneous than the debut, the album is notable for its evocative lyricism and atmosphere. Closing track "When The Music's Over" was again, like "The End" lengthy and dramatic and helped establish Morrison's reputation as the wild shaman of rock. Yet the album was also strongly commercial and featured well-known Doors songs, "Love Me Two Times" and "Moonlight Drive".
Morrison's status as a figure of rebellion was further cemented on December 9 when he was arrested in New Haven, Connecticut for badmouthing the police to the audience from the stage. Morrison said he had been maced by an overzealous cop after he was caught backstage with a girl. The group finished a successful year on December 27 by taping "Light My Fire" and "Moonlight Drive" for the Jonathan Winters Show. From December 26 to 28 the group played at The Winterland San Francisco and then two dates in Denver on December 30 and 31, capping off a year of almost constant touring.
As a result of their success, The Doors forfeited their status as Underground heroes. They allowed Sixteen magazine to portray them as teen idols and their "spontaneous" stage-show was exposed as not-so-spontaneous after all. An article by Jerry Hopkins in the February 10, 1968 edition of Rolling Stone typified the fall from grace:
"One shtick, or piece of stage-business, missing at the Shrine performance, was Morrison's carefully-executed 'accidental' fall from the stage into the crowd. For months this had been a part of the act. It got a lot of screams from the teenyboppers. Then a review appeared in a local newspaper which called the fall one of the phoniest things ever. Morrison was asked if he'd read the article. 'Yeah,' said Morrison, 'and I guess he's right.' Morrison did not take the fall that night at the Shrine."
Fraught sessions for the group's third album took place in April as Morrison became increasingly dependent on alcohol. Approaching the height of their popularity The Doors played a series of outdoor shows which led to frenzied scenes between fans and police, particularly at Chicago Coliseum on May 10.
Their third LP, Waiting for the Sun, (1968) showed the band beginning to branch out from their initial form, as they exhausted their original repertoire and began writing new material. It became their first #1 LP and the single "Hello, I Love You" was their second and last US #1 single. The album is eclectic in style, sometimes inconsequential, and much less unified than the first two, despite containing some fine material. It further isolated them from the underground cognoscenti. As Lilian Roxon described it in her 1969 Rock Encyclopaedia, the album "strengthened dreadful suspicion that the Doors were in it just for the money". It also included the song "The Unknown Soldier", for which they created another self-directed music video, and "Not to Touch the Earth", excerpted from their legendary thirty-minute concept piece Celebration of the Lizard, although they were reportedly unable to record a satisfactory version of the entire piece for the LP. This was eventually released on a later greatest hits CD compilation.
A month after riotous scenes at the Singer Bowl, New York the group flew for their first dates outside of North America, to England. The group held a press conference at the ICA Gallery, London and played shows at The Roundhouse Theatre. The results of the trip were broadcast on Granada TV's "The Doors Are Open" and were later released on video. The group then played dates in Europe including a show in Amsterdam without Morrison after he collapsed from a drug binge. Morrison returned to London on September 20 and stayed for a month.
The group played nine more US dates and got to work in November on their fourth LP. 1969 would be a very difficult year for the group but it started well with a sold out show at the prestigious Madison Square Garden, New York on January 24 and with the success of new single "Touch Me" (released in December 1968), which hit US #3.
That month Morrison attended a theatre production which changed the course of his and the group's life. At the University of Southern California's Bovard Auditorium The Living Theatre took to the stage for a highly charged show which urged people to cast aside their inhibitions to freedom.
The show appealed to Morrison's quest for personal freedom, the results of which can be heard the next evening, February 25, during a studio jam which became the legendary "Rock Is Dead" session, later released on the 1997 Doors box set. The stage had been set for the most controversial episode of Morrison's life and one of the most notorious rock stories.
To fans of The Doors, the music included socially, psychologically and politically charged lyrics mostly written by 'The Lizard King', Jim Morrison. The jazz drumming of John Densmore, the swirling keyboards of Ray Manzarek, whose left hand played the parts typically associated with bass guitar, and Robby Krieger's guitar playing, which showed the influence of flamenco, Indian, the blues and classical music, combined to form a distinctive sound. The Doors were unusual among rock groups in that they did not use a bass guitarist in concert, with Manzarek playing the bass lines on a Fender electric keyboard bass, an offshoot of the well-known Fender Rhodes electric piano. However, the group utilized bass players such as Jerry Scheff, Doug Lubahn, Harvey Brooks, Kerry Magness, Lonnie Mack jazz bassist LeRoy Vinnegar and Ray Neapolitan on their albums.
Many of The Doors' originals were composed communally, with Morrison usually contributing the lyrics and some melody, while the others hammered out the beat and flow of the song. While Morrison and Manzarek were walking on the beach in California, they passed an African-American girl, and Morrison wrote the lyrics to Hello I Love You in a single night, referring to the girl as the "dusky jewel". The song received some criticism at the time for its resemblance to The Kinks' 1965 hit "All Day and All of the Night". Ray Davies, lead singer of the Kinks, sued the Doors for stealing the rhythm of "All Day and All of the Night".
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Mid career controversy: 1969–1971
The Doors quickly earned a reputation as a challenging and entertaining live act, as well as having a rebellious reputation. Jim Morrison was arrested on stage in New Haven for foul language which he had directed toward police at the concert. In one appearance on September 17, 1967 with a live performance on the Ed Sullivan Show on the Columbia Broadcasting System network, the network's censors demanded the group change its lyrics in its song, Light My Fire, altering the line, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" because of the reference to drugs. However, Morrison sang the original line instead, and on live television with no delay CBS was powerless to stop it. Ed Sullivan was so furious that he refused to shake their hands and they were never invited back. Morrison later insisted he was nervous during the performance and forgot to change the line. (They weren't the only ones banned from the show. Eleven years earlier, Bo Diddley was banned from appearing on the show when he refused to sing Sixteen Tons.)
The most infamous incident occurred at the March 1, 1969 Dinner Key Auditorium concert in Miami, Florida. Morrison allegedly exposed himself during the performance. Morrison had been drinking since missing his flight to the show. The 6,900 seat auditorium had been oversold by almost double the hall's capacity and fans were sweltering without air conditioning. From the moment the band walked on stage Morrison started bellowing into the microphone:
"Now listen here, I ain't talking 'bout no revolution and I'm not talkin' about no demonstrations.
"I'm talking about having a good time, I'm talking about having a good time this summer. And you all come out to L.A., you all get out there, we're gonna lie down there in the sand and rub our toes in the ocean, and we're gonna have a good time, are you ready, are you ready, are you ready, are you ready, are you ready, are you ready, are you ready, are you ready?
"Now listen! I used to think the whole thing was a big joke. I used to think it was something to laugh about. And then the last couple of nights I met some people who were doing somethin'! They're tryin' to change the world! And I wanna get on that trip! I wanna change the world. Wanna change it. Yeeeeeeaaaaaahhh - change it."
Within a few minutes Morrison had changed his tune:
"Now listen, I'm not talkin' about no revolution, an' I'm not talkin' about no demonstration! I'm talkin' about having fun! I'm talkin' about dancin'! I wanna see you people get up and dance! I wanna see you people dancin' in the street this summer! I wanna see you have some fun. I wanna see you run around. I wanna see you paint the town. I wanna see you ringin' out. I wanna see you shout. I wanna see some fun. I wanna see some fun from everyone."
The recording nears its end with the ominous words:
"ANYTHING YOU WANT! LET'S DO IT! LET'S DO IT! LET'S DO IT!"
The incident remains inconclusive. Morrison said: "I wasted a lot of time with the Miami trial. About a year and a half. But I guess it was a valuable experience because before the trial I had a very unrealistic schoolboy attitude about the American judicial system. My eyes have been opened up a bit."
While Morrison as the lead singer received the most attention of the group, as well as getting a far larger image of himself on album covers, he was quite adamant about all the members of the group getting recognition. Before one concert when the announcer introduced the group as "Jim Morrison and The Doors", Morrison in a rage refused to appear unless he announced the group again, solely as "The Doors". While he never felt close to his real life family, he was extremely protective of the rest of the members of The Doors. Reportedly, he once told Ray Manzarek that he never felt comfortable in a social setting unless Ray or another member of the band were with him. Many people have since come to the conclusion that he viewed The Doors as his surrogate family. This may be attributed the fact that he not only repeatedly turned down every solo album opportunity he was ever offered, but that the remaining members of The Doors refused to replace him as the singer of the band after his death.
Although the band's reputation was damaged Morrison was quietly relieved by the results of the Miami incident. He later said: "I think I was just fed up with the image that had been created around me... and so I put an end to it in one glorious evening".
Released from the chain of touring Morrison recorded some of his poetry that month and, in April, began shooting footage for HWY, an experimental film about a hitchiker, played by Morrison. The poetry session was used for the 1978 album An American Prayer where it was set to new music by The Doors. HWY, which contains virtually no dialogue, circulates among collectors although an official release has been rumored.
In the last two years of his life Morrison curtailed his former prodigious intake of psychedelic drugs and began drinking heavily, which in turn soon began to affect his performance, both on stage and in the studio. Apparently trying to escape the image of "The Lizard King" that had come to dominate him, Morrison put on weight and grew a thick beard, forcing Elektra to use photos taken earlier in his career for the cover of their Absolutely Live LP, released in 1970. The album features performances recorded on their 1970 American tour and at the 1969 Aquarius Theatre gig and includes a full-length live performance of "The Celebration of the Lizard".
The group's only public appearance was on a PBS television special, recorded late in April and broadcast the following month. Here the group performed songs from the upcoming Soft Parade album, including a stunning version of the title track.
The group resumed touring at Chicago Auditorium Theater on June 14 and proceeded to play two dates at The Aquarius Theatre, Hollywood on July 21 and 22, both later released on CD. The shows were typical of a new kind of Doors concert where the emphasis was more on the band and fans having a good time than having a shamanistic experience. The bearded Morrison wore loose fitting clothes and steered the bands towards a bluesier direction with songs like "Build Me A Woman", "I Will Never Be Untrue" and "Who Do You Love". Yet his voice had lost none of its power and the band could still dazzle with performances of "When The Music's Over" and "Celebration of the Lizard".
Their fourth album, The Soft Parade (1969), released in July, further distanced the group from the "underground", containing extremely pop-oriented arrangements, complete with "Vegas-style" horn sections (their single, "Touch Me," featured saxophonist Curtis Amy).
Morrison's excessive drinking made him increasingly difficult and unreliable in the studio, and the sessions for the record dragged on for weeks (where they had formerly taken days). Studio costs piled up, and the group came close to disintegrating.
Critics of the record see the band as struggling to maintain momentum and attempting to expand their sound with a horn section and strings, resulting in a weak record suffering from bloated overproduction.
In its defense, The Soft Parade stands as an experiment that succeeded despite Morrison's erratic behavior and numerous technical challenges. In the context of the group's established repertoire, the record finds them exploring a new "quasi-prog-pop" direction. The more commercially-oriented songs such as "Touch Me" and "Tell All The People" are memorable; tracks such as "Wild Child" and "Shaman's Blues" are as stripped down and imaginitive as ever, with particularly excellent guitar and lyrics.
Amid the recording of their next album, in November 1969, Morrison found himself in trouble with the law again after becoming drunk and abusive to airline staff during a flight to Phoenix, Arizona to see The Rolling Stones in concert. He was acquitted the following April after a steward mistakenly identified Morrison as his traveling companion, American actor Tom Baker (Not the Tom Baker who played Dr. Who.)
The group started its year in New York again, this time over two nights at The Felt Forum. The two nights were well received.
The group staged a strong return to form with their excellent 1970 LP Morrison Hotel. Featuring a consistent, hard rock sound the album contains the memorable opener "Roadhouse Blues", which typified the high-spirited assuredness of the entire album. Morrison Hotel had a buoyancy and optimism that the band had never had before with a host of celebratory songs and a couple of lovely ballads. It hit US #4.
The group continued to perform at arenas throughout the summer and Morrison faced trial in Miami in August. The group managed to make it to The Isle of Wight on August 29th where a tired Morrison performed what was considered a below-par set. Songs from the show show up in 1995 on the Message To Love documentary.
On September 16th, Morrison took to the stand but it was in vain, the jury returning a guilty verdict for profanity and indecent exposure on September 20. Morrison was sentenced to eight months custody but was allowed to go free pending an appeal.
On December 8th, 1970, Morrison recorded another poetry session, on his 27th birthday.
The Doors last public performance was at the "Warehouse" in New Orleans, LA on Dec. 12th, 1970, where it appeared Morrison had a mental breakdown on stage (slamming the microphone numerous times into the stage floor).
The group looked set to regain their crown as one of America's premier acts with the superb L.A. Woman in 1971. It was conceived as a "back to basics" album which would explore their blues and R&B roots, although during rehearsals the group had a serious falling-out with Rothchild. Denouncing the new repertoire as "cocktail music", he quit and handed the production reins to Botnick. The result was widely considered a classic, featuring some of the strongest material and performances since their 1967 debut. Some dissenters, however, consider nearly half the album to be lackluster blues material, detracting severely from the album's overall quality. The atmospheric single "Riders On The Storm" became a mainstay of rock radio programming for decades.
Aftermath of Morrison's death: 1971–1989
In 1971, following the recording of L.A. Woman, Morrison decided to take some time out and moved to Paris with girlfriend Pamela Courson, in March. He had visited the previous summer and, for a time, seemed contented to write and explore the city. But by June he was once again drinking heavily and suffered a fall from a second story window in May. On June 16 the last known recording of Morrison was made when he befriended two street musicians at a bar and invited them to a recording studio. The drunken results were later released on bootleg CD.
Morrison died under mysterious circumstances on 3 July 1971; his body was found in the bathtub of his apartment. It was concluded that he died of a heart attack, although it was later revealed that no autopsy had been performed before Morrison's body was buried at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery on July 7.
Rumours persisted for many years that Morrison had faked his death to escape the spotlight, as did the rumour that Morrison had actually died at a Paris nightclub and that his body had been surreptitiously taken back to his apartment. However, in his book Wonderland Avenue, Morrison's former associate Danny Sugerman states that during his last meeting with Courson, which took place shortly before she died of a heroin overdose, she confessed to Sugerman that she had introduced Morrison to the drug and that, because he had a fear of needles, she had injected him with the dose that killed him.
The remaining Doors continued for some time. After initially considering replacing Morrison with a new singer, Krieger and Manzarek took over on vocals, and released two more albums, Other Voices and Full Circle. The Doors also toured during this time.
Both albums sold well, but not in the numbers of the Morrison era releases, and the Doors ceased all performing and recording activities at the end of 1972. While the first is unmistakably Doors in sound and style, the last album showed the Doors further expanding into jazz territory. While neither album have yet seen CD reissues in the U.S., they have been released on 2-on-1 CDs in Germany and Russia and are being heard via internet P2P networks and are undergoing fan reevaluation.
The remaining Doors recorded a third post-Morrison album, An American Prayer released in 1978, this time providing only backup music to recordings of Morrison's poetry.
In 1979 Francis Ford Coppola released Apocalypse Now with "The End" used prominently in the sound track. With this, "The Doors" were rediscovered by new fans. In 1983, "Alive, She Cried" was released, which included a cover version of the Them hit "Gloria", adding it officially to the Elektra Records discography.
The 1990s and beyond
In 1991, director Oliver Stone released his film The Doors, starring Val Kilmer as Morrison and with cameos by Krieger and Densmore. Ian Astbury of The Cult was Stone's preferred choice, but Astbury decided not to enter the acting world for reasons unknown. While all were amazed at Kilmer's impersonation, the film had numerous factual inaccuracies and members of the group later voiced displeasure at Stone's portrayal of Morrison, at times making him look like an out-of-control sociopath.
In 2002 Manzarek and Krieger reunited and created a new version of The Doors, called "The Doors of the 21st Century". In the place of Morrison, the new lineup was fronted by British vocalist Ian Astbury, former lead singer of UK band The Cult, with Angelo Barbera from Krieger's band on bass. At their first concert the group announced that drummer John Densmore would not perform, and it was later reported that he was unable to play because he suffered from tinnitus. Densmore was initially replaced by Stewart Copeland, formerly of The Police, but after Copeland broke his arm falling off a bicycle, the arrangement ended in mutual lawsuits and he was replaced by Ty Dennis, drummer with Krieger's band.
Densmore subsequently claimed that he had in fact not been invited to take part in the reunion. In February 2003 he filed an injunction against his former bandmates hoping to prevent them from using the name "The Doors of the 21st Century". His motion was denied in court in May that year, although Manzarek publicly reiterated that the invitation for Densmore to return to the group still stood. It was also reported that both Morrison's family and that of Pamela Courson had joined Densmore in seeking to prevent Manzarek and Krieger from using The Doors' name. In July 2005, Densmore and the Morrison estate won a permanent injunction; thereby preventing his former bandmates from using The Doors' name. The new band initially switched to the name "D21C" and now plays under the name Riders on the Storm, which is itself the name of a Doors tribute band in the northeastern US. They are allowed to play under names such as "former Doors" and "members of The Doors". Densmore has also been steadfast in refusing to license The Doors' music for use in television commercials, including an offer of $15 million by Cadillac to lease the song "Break on Through (to the Other Side)", feeling that that would be in violation of the spirit in which the music was created. Densmore wrote about this subject for The Nation, noting,
People lost their virginity to this music, got high for the first time to this music. I've had people say kids died in Vietnam listening to this music, other people say they know someone who didn't commit suicide because of this music…. On stage, when we played these songs, they felt mysterious and magic. That's not for rent.
Manzarek and Krieger maintain that touring as a Doors revival and licensing the music to advertisements are a means to keep The Doors from fading into history. Manzarek was quoted as saying, "We're all getting older. We should, the three of us, be playing these songs because, hey, the end is always near. Morrison was a poet, and above all, a poet wants his words heard."
The Doors are remembered for shamanistic live performances. Some members of the "establishment", however, felt that they were merely American rock music rebels. Jim Morrison said: "I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something."
Their enduring popularity is reflected by continuing sales of their early work.
Recorded output
The Doors left a reasonably concise discography for an era dominated by groups which seemed to rush out an album every six months and a high number of non-album singles. The first, self-titled album is generally thought to be the strongest and is a regular sight in greatest 100 album lists. Strange Days, Morrison Hotel and L.A Woman are all highly rated by fans and, due to their different styles, (psychedelic pop, hard rock, blues) appeal to some more than others. Waiting For The Sun contains some strong tracks but is thematically weak. The Soft Parade is considered by some to be "plain bad and for fans only".
1970's Absolutely Live and 1983's Alive She Cried are good examples of the band's live show and are available on CD. The 2CD In Concert is better value for money as it collects the two and adds an interesting version of "The End" from the Hollywood Bowl show in 1968.
Only three non-album tracks were released in the band's lifetime, the b-sides "Who Scared You", "Tree Trunk", and a cover of Willie Dixon's "(You Need Meat) Don't Go Further" sung by Ray. "Who Scared You" and "(You Need Meat) Don't Go Further" appeared on the 1972 compilation Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine while only "Who Scared You" has since been given a further CD release, on the 1997 box set.
In 1978 the surviving Doors re-united to add music to poetry recorded by Morrison in 1969 and 1970. The resulting album was "An American Prayer" and was re-issued on CD in 1995 with bonus tracks "Hour For Magic", "Freedom Exists", "A Feast Of Friends", "Babylon Fading", "Bird Of Prey" and "The Ghost Song (extended version)".
The group had always shied away from releasing archive Doors material but in 1997 relented with the release of The Doors box set. While hardcore fans complained that most of the material had been previously released on bootlegs the 4CD set, one of which was a "greatest hits" type CD, proved popular. It was notable for a CD of highlights from the 1970 Felt Forum concert and a cleaned-up recording of the (edited) 1969 "Rock Is Dead" session. The surviving members again re-united to add new musical backing to the solo Morrison song "Orange County Suite".
In November 2000 came the announcement many fans had dreamed of when The Doors announced the creation of Bright Midnight Records, a label through which 36 albums and 90 hours of previously unreleased Morrison-era Doors material would be made available on CD. This was launched with a sampler of forthcoming material, mostly from live concerts. The first full release was a 2CD set of the May 1970 show at Detroit Cobo Arena. It was followed by two CDs of interviews, mostly with Morrison, and the two 1969 Aquarius shows and one of the rehearsals. A 4CD set "Boot Yer Butt" unashamedly used bootleg quality material but sold out nevertheless. It was notable for the inclusion of the only known performances of songs from L.A Woman including the title track and "The Changeling" from The Doors' last but one show, in December 1970, Dallas, Texas. In 2005 a 2CD concert from Philadelphia in 1970 was released.
Many illegal bootleg recordings are available of the group. Most impressive is a wealth of shows from March 1967 at the legendary Matrix Club in San Francisco. Many shows are available from 1968 when the band reached the height of its popularity, notably two shows in Stockholm, Sweden. The infamous Miami show has become widely available while many 1970 shows, notably a radio broadcast of the June 6 Vancouver show, make the rounds. The complete 1969 "Rock Is Dead" studio jam was discovered in the mid 1990s.
Recently, a commercial for Star Motorcycles featuring the Doors song "Riders on the Storm" has been seen.
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1. The Doors (1967)
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9. An American Prayer (1978)
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(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further (I You need meat--go to the market You need bread--try the…
01 Hello To The Cities Well, we gonna stop the show We're gonna stop the show H…
02-Love Street She lives on Love Street Lingers long on Love Street She has…
02. Who do you love Yeah, yeah I walked 47 miles on barbed wire Cobra snake for…
02_Love Her Madly Don't ya love her madly? Don't ya need her badly? Don't ya…
03-Been Down So Long Well, I've been down so goddamn long That it looks like…
03. Alabama song Well, show me the way To the next whisky bar Oh, don't…
04 Hyacinth House What are they doing in the Hyacinth house? What are they…
04 Peace frog There's blood in the streets, It's up to my ankles There's…
05. Love hides Yeah Love hides in the strangest places. Love hides in…
06- Ship of Fools The human race was dyin' out No one left to scream…
06. People Are Strange People are strange when you're a stranger Faces look ugly w…
06.- Moonlight drive Let's swim to the moon, uh-huh Let's climb through the tide …
07 Spanish Caravan Carry me, caravan, take me away Take me to Portugal, take…
07. Build me a woman Give me a witness, darling. I need a witness, babe.…
08 Easy ride And I know It will be An easy ride All right And I…
09-Alabama Song Well, show me the way To the next whiskey bar…
09. I Can’t See Your Face in My Mind I can't see your face in my mind I can't see…
1-06-Love Me Two Times Love me two times baby Love me twice today Love me two…
10 Merry, merry Christmas! Happy Christmas! Merry, merry Christ…
10 Spanish Caravan Carry me, caravan, take me away Take me to Portugal, take…
10- Riders on the Storm Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Into this house we…
10. Spanish Caravan Carry me, caravan, take me away Take me to Portugal, take…
11 Oh, Carol! Don't let him steal your heart away. Yeah I've …
12-Orange County Suite Well I used to know someone fair She had orange ribbons…
12-Shaman's Blues There will never be, Another one like you There will never b…
13-Backdoor man Wha, yeah!, c'mon, yeah, yeah, c'mon, yeah Yeah, c'mon, oh…
14. Wild child Alright Wild child full of grace Savior of the human race Y…
15 I'm staying up on the roof Enough to see what's far…
20th Century Fox Well, she's fashionably lean And she's fashionably late She'…
3 Shaman's Blues There will never be, Another one like you There will never b…
4 Billion Souls One, two, three, four billion souls are gonna rest If all…
4 Do It Yuppa tuppa ta ta Yuppa tuppa chic ta Do thang, do thang Do…
5 Love my girl She lookin' good, come on, one more Five to…
7 Runnin' Blue Poor Otis dead and gone, Left me here to sing…
8 I love you, the best Better than all the rest…
A Feast Of Friends Wow, I'm sick of doubt Live in the light of certain…
A Little Game Once I had a little game I liked to crawl back…
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler is still alive Ooooogh - sssssh I fucked …
Adolph Hitler Adolf Hitler is still alive Ooooogh - sssssh I slept with …
Adolph Hitler (live) Adolf Hitler is still alive Ooooogh - sssssh I slept with he…
Alabama Song Well, show me the way To the next whisky bar…
Alabama Song [Live at Felt Forum Well, show me the way To the next whisky bar…
Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) Well, show me the way To the next whiskey bar Oh, don't…
Alabama Song / Whisky Bar Well, show me the way To the next whisky bar Oh, don't…
Albinoni Rock is dead!…
America I took a trip down to L'America To trade some beads…
American Night All hail the American night! What was that? I don't…
An American Prayer Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you…
Angels and Sailors Angels and sailors Rich girls, backyard fences, tents Dream…
Announcer All right, wait a second. We have a long show,…
Arranging Don't Go No Further You need meat, Go to the market You need bread, Try the bake…
Arranging Close to You Ah, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you realize…
Astrology Rap JIM: Hey, hey! Hey, listen, listen, listen, man. Listen, ma…
Awake Is everybody in? (Yeah) Is everybody in? (Yeah) Is everybody…
Away in India Away, away, away, Away in India. Away, away, away, Away in I…
Babylon Fading Then we hear a whistle like a bison's pipe And the…
Back Door Man Ah, yeah C'mon, yeah, yeah, c'mon, yeah I am a, yeah, I'm…
Back Door Man #1 Wha, yeah C'mon, yeah, yeah, c'mon, yeah I am a, yeah, I'm…
Back Door Man #2 Wha, yeah!, c'mon, yeah, yeah, c'mon, yeah Yeah, c'mon, oh…
Back Door Man / Love Hides Wha, yeah C'mon, yeah, yeah, c'mon, yeah I am a, yeah, I'm…
Back Door Man [Live at Felt Forum Wha, yeah!, c'mon, yeah, yeah, c'mon, yeah I'm a back door…
Backdoor Man Wha, yeah C'mon, yeah, yeah, c'mon, yeah I am a, yeah, I'm…
Been Down So Long Well, I've been down so goddamn long That it looks like…
Bellowing Alright, Alright, Alright,Alright, Alright, Alright Yehhh..…
Bird of Prey Bird of Prey Bird of Prey Flying high Flying high In the sum…
Black Polished Chrome The music was new Black polished chrome And came over…
Black Polished Chrome / Latino Chrome The music was new, black polished chrome And came over the…
Black Train Song People get ready There's a train-a-coming You don't need a…
Black Train Song (live) People get ready There's a train-a-coming You don't need a t…
Blue Sunday I found my own true love was On a blue Sunday She…
Break on Through You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day Tr…
Break On Through [Live at Felt Forum You know the day destroys the night Night divides the…
Break On Through #1 You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day Tr…
break on through (to the other side You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day …
Break on Through (to the Other Side) You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day Tr…
Break on Through to th You know the day destroys the night Night divides the…
Break On Throught To The Other Side You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day Tr…
Break on Thru #2 You know the day destroys the night Night divides the…
Break On Thru To The Other Side You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day Tr…
Break on Trough You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day …
Breakn' a Sweat All right this is the breakdown I'm breakin'a sweat It's a…
BreakOnThrough You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day …
Build Me A Woman Give me a witness, darling. I need a witness, babe.…
Carol Oh, Carol! Don't let him steal your heart away. Yeah I've go…
Cars Hiss by My Window The cars hiss by my window Like the waves down on…
Carss Hiss By My Window The cars hiss by my window Like the waves down on…
Celebration Of The Lizard Lions in the street and roaming Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming…
Celebration Of The Lizard [Live at Felt Forum Lions in the street and roaming Dogs in heat, rabid, foamin…
Celebration Of The Lizard: A Little Game Once I had a little game I liked to crawl…
Celebration Of The Lizard: Lions In The Street Lions in the street and roaming Dogs in heat, rabid,…
Celebration Of The Lizard: Names Of The Kingdom We came down The rivers and highways We came down…
Celebration Of The Lizard: The Hill Dwellers Way back deep into the brain Way back past the…
Celebration Of The Lizard: The Palace Of Exile For seven years I dwelt In the loose palace of…
Celebration Of The Lizard: Wake Up Wake up! You can't remember where it was Had this…
Changeling Uh! Uh-ah! Ged-ow! I live uptown I live downtown I live all…
Close to You Ah, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you realize…
Crawling King Snake Well, I'm the crawlin' king snake And I rule my den I'm…
Crossroads I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my…
Crystal Ship Before you slip into unconsciousness I'd like to have anothe…
Curses Invocations Curses, invocations Weird bate-headed mongrels I keep expe…
Dawn's Highway Me and my, uh, mother and father And a grandmother and…
Dead Cats Dead cats, dead rats Can't see what they were at,…
Dead Cats, Dead Rats Dead cats, dead rats Can't see what they were at, all…
Do It Yuppa tuppa ta ta Yuppa tuppa chic ta Do thang, do thang Do…
Don I say a sad goodbye And then I move on Well baby…
Don't Go No Further You need meat, Go to the market You need bread, Try the bake…
Don’t Go No Further You need meat, Go to the market. You need bread, Try the …
Doors Ah, yeah C'mon, yeah, yeah, c'mon, yeah I am a, yeah, I'm…
Down on the Farm Don't need none today His mind has gone astray Cause we do…
Down Poison I've dreamed about this Sixteen days away. Now you're here…
Easy Ride And I know It will be An easy ride All right And I…
End This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my…
End of the Night Take the highway to the end of the night End of…
End The This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my…
Fever Everybody's got the fever That is something we all know Fe…
Five to One Love my girl She lookin' good, come on, one more Five to…
Five To One [Live at Felt Forum Love my girl She lookin' good, come on, one more Five to…
Freedom Exists Did you know freedom exists in school books Did you know…
Get Off My Life Get off of my life woman, You don't no love me…
Get Out of My Life Woman Get off of my life woman, You don't no love me…
Get Up and Dance Oh people, get up and dance The new days comin', it's…
Ghost Song Awake Shake dreams from your hair My pretty child, my sweet …
Gloria Yeah, right Did you hear about my baby? She come around She…
Gloria / End Of Show Yeah, right. Did you hear about my baby? She come…
Go Insane Once I had a little game I liked to crawl back…
Go No Further You need meat, Go to the market You need bread, Try the bake…
Good Rockin Well I heard the news, there's good rockin' tonight Well I…
Good Rockin Tonight Well I heard the news, there's good rockin' tonight Well I…
Graveyard Poem It was the greatest night of my life Although I still…
Hang on to Your Life Sweet bird of prey you've gone below All soft and black…
Hardwood Floor Gonna tell your daddy that we need some dough We're gonna…
Hello Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name? Hello,…
Hello To Cities Well, we gonna stop the show We're gonna stop the show Hell…
Hello to the Cities (live) (And now: The Doors Here they are With their newest hot reco…
Hello%2C I Love You Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name? Hello,…
Hello, I Love You Hello, I love you Won't you tell me your name Hello I love y…
Heroin I don't know just where I'm going But I'm gonna try…
Horse Latitudes When the still sea conspires an armor And her sullen and…
Hour for magic Resident mockery give us an hour for magic We of the…
House Announcer All right, wait a second. We have a long show,…
house of the rising sun There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising…
Hyacinth House What are they doing in the Hyacinth house? What are they…
I Standing humble, a fist of rage A silent army, they call…
I Believe In Democracy I believe in democracy, man. Democracy, man. Democracy of so…
I Can I can't see your face in my mind I can't see…
I Looked At You I looked at you You looked at me I smiled at you You…
I m A King Bee Well, I'm a king bee Buzzin' 'round your hive. Well I can…
I Will Never Be Untrue I will never be untrue Do anything you would want me…
I'm a King Bee Well, I'm a king bee Buzzin' 'round your hive. Well I can…
I'm A Man I was a young boy I was just about five I had…
I'm Horny Well I'm tired, I'm nervous, I'm bored, I'm stoned Don't you…
I'm Your Doctor Headache strike you, baby You begin to feel so glun Ain't …
In The Eye Of The Gun In the eye of the sun before the world had…
Indian Summer I love you, the best Better than all the rest I love…
It Slipped My Mind You know it just done slipped my mind Just done slipped…
I’m Horny I’m Stoned Well I'm tired, I'm nervous, I'm bored, I'm stoned Don't yo…
King Bee Well, I'm a king bee Buzzin' 'round your hive. Well I can…
L I took a trip down to L'America To trade some beads…
L-A- Woman Well, I just got into town about an hour ago Took…
Ladies Ready to be a lady 上げろテンション! 生まれ変わるんだ Ready to be a lady 羽根を…
Ladies & Gentlemen Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen... what time is i…
Lament Lament for my cock Sore and crucified I seek to…
lamerica I took a trip down to L'America To trade some beads…
Land Ho! Grandma loved a sailor Who sailed the frozen sea Grandpa was…
Latino Chrome My gang will get you Scenes of rape in the arroyo Seduction…
Light My Fire Ah keep your eyes on the road, Your hands upon the…
Light My Fire You know that it would be untrue You know that I…
Light My Fire #1 Ah keep your eyes on the road, Your hands upon the…
Light My Fire #2 You know that it would be untrue You know that I…
Light My Fire [Live at Felt Forum Ah keep your eyes on the road, Your hands upon the…
Lions In The Street Lions in the street and roaming Dogs in heat, rabid,…
Lite my Fire You know that it would be untrue You know that I…
Little Red Rooster All right, listen now. At this time I would like…
Little Red Rooster (feat. John Sebastian) I'm the little red rooster Too lazy to crow the day. I'm…
Little Red Rooster [Live at Felt Forum All right, listen now. At this time I would like…
Love Her Madley Don't ya love her madly? Don't ya need her badly? Don't ya…
Love Hides Yeah Love hides in the strangest places. Love hides in…
Love Hides (Live in Pittsburgh Yeah Love hides in the strangest places. Love hides in fam…
Love Hides [Live at Felt Forum Yeah Love hides in the strangest places. Love hides in…
Love Me 2 Times Love me two times baby Love me twice today Love me two…
Love Street She lives on Love Street Lingers long on Love Street She has…
L’america I took a trip down to L'America To trade some beads…
Mack The Knife Well the shark has pretty teeth, dear And he shows them…
Maggie M Miss Maggie M'Gill she lived on a hill Her daddy got…
Maggie McGill Unfortunately, we are not licensed to display the full ly…
Maggie MGill Miss Maggie M'Gill she lived on a hill Her daddy got…
Mean Mustard Blues Well baby You been away so long, woman I said baby You've…
Mental Floss All deserters will be shot at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning s…
Mental Floss (live) All deserters will be shot at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning so …
Mistery Train Train arrive Sixteen coaches long. Train arrive Sixteen c…
Money You know the best things in live are free You can…
Moonlight Drive Let's swim to the moon, uh-huh Let's climb through the tide …
Moonlight Drive (demo) Let's swim to the moon Let's climb through the tide Penetrat…
Moonlight Drive [Live at Felt Forum Let's swim to the moon, uh huh Let's climb through the…
More More More I'm running circles where you left me thinking it was…
My Eyes Have Seen You My eyes have seen you My eyes have seen you My eyes…
My Wild Love My wild love went ridin' She rode all the day She wrote…
Mystery Train Train arrive Sixteen coaches long Train arrive Sixteen coach…
Mystery Train / Crossroads Train arrive Sixteen coaches long Train arrive Sixteen co…
Mystery Train Rehearsal Train arrive Sixteen coaches long Train arrive Sixteen coach…
Mystery Train/Crossroads Train I ride, sixteen coaches long Train I ride, sixteen co…
Names Of The Kingdom We came down The rivers and highways We came down…
Newborn Awakening Gently they stir, gently rise The dead are newborn awakenin…
No Me Moleste Mosquito No me moleste mosquito No me moleste mosquito No me molest…
not to toch the earth Not to touch the earth Not to see the sun Nothing left…
Oleander / Hello I Love You Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name? Hello,…
Orange Country Suite Well I used to know someone fair She had orange ribbons…
Peace Frog There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles She…
Peace Frog (false starts & dialogue) There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles (She…
Peace Frog [Live at Felt Forum There's blood in the streets, It's up to my ankles There's…
Peace Frogs There's blood in the streets It's up to my ankles There's bl…
Peacefrog There's blood in the streets, It's up to my ankles There's…
People Are Srange People are strange when you're a stranger Faces look ugly w…
People Are Strange People are strange When you're a stranger Faces look ugly Wh…
People Get Ready People get ready There's a train a comin'. You don't need …
Petition The Lord With Prayer When I was back there in seminary school There was…
Petition The Lord With Prayer/Maggie M'Gill When I was back there in seminary school There was…
Poem The Doors Of Perception Come with me And find our reality In this world... Where is…
Power Turned Off Alright, alright, alright! Hey! Hey! Hey, hey! Hey, hey! Hey…
Prelude to Wake Up! WAKE UP! A soft radiant beach in a cool jeweled moon Cou…
Push Push Push, push, push Push, push, push... Push, push, push P…
Queen of the Highway She was a princess Queen of the highway Sign on the road…
Queen Of The Highway (alt vers She was a princess Queen of the highway Sign on the road…
Queen of the Magazines All right, all right, all right. All right, come on. B…
Rider on the Storm Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Into this…
Riders On Ohe Storm Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Into this house we…
Riders on the Storm Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Into this…
Road House Blues Ah keep your eyes on the road Your hands upon the…
Roadhouse Ah, keep your eyes on the road Your hands upon the…
Roadhouse Blues #1 Yeah Ah, keep your eyes on the road Your hands upon the…
Roadhouse Blues (feat. Eddie Vedder) Yeah! Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the…
Roadhouse Blues Shuffle Yeah Ah, keep your eyes on the road Your hands upon the…
Roadhouse Blues [Live at Felt Forum Ah keep your eyes on the road Your hands upon the…
Roadhouse Moan Well Well, right Ohh darlin' Yeaaah-ah-ha Good time Yea…
Roadhouse Talking Blues Yeah Ah, keep your eyes on the road Your hands upon the…
Roadhouse Vamp Yeah! Come on! Well, gonna start the show. Gonna start t…
Roadhouse-Blues Yeah Ah, keep your eyes on the road Your hands upon the…
RoadHouseBlues Ah keep your eyes on the road Your hands upon the…
Robbie Krieger What are they doing in the Hyacinth House? What are they…
Rock Is Dead Hi, you lady, alright, babe, gonna love ya When I was…
Rock Me Want you to rock me, baby Rock me all night long Want…
Rock Me Baby / Heartbreak Hotel I want you to rock me baby, rock me all…
Runnin There's too much work and I'm spent There's too much pressur…
Runnin blue Poor Otis dead and gone, Left me here to sing…
Running Blue Poor Otis dead and gone Left me here to sing his…
Runnin’ Blue Poor Otis dead and gone Left me here to sing…
Shaman There will never be Another one like you There will never be…
shamans blues There will never be, Another one like you There will never b…
She Smells So Nice Yeah, man, the first woman know she smells so nice And…
Ship Of Fools The human race was dyin' out No one left to scream…
Ships w/ Sails Well you asked how much I love you Why do ships…
Soft Parade When I was back there in seminary school There was a…
Someday Soon Someday soon Someday soon Familiar breeze will fill your liv…
Someday Soon (live) Someday soon Someday soon Familiar freaks will fill your liv…
Soul Kitchen Well, the clock says it's time to close now I guess…
Soul Kitchen [Live at Felt Forum Well, the clock says it's time to close now I guess…
Spanish Caravan Carry me, caravan, take me away Take me to Portugal, take…
Spy I'm a spy in the house of love I know the…
St. James Infirmary Blues I went down to St. James Infirmary. I saw my baby…
Start Alright... would all of you people in front kind of…
Start Show 2 Well, show me the way To the next whisky bar…
Stoned Immaculate I'll tell you this No eternal reward will forgive us now…
Strange Days Strange days have found us Strange days have tracked us down…
Summer Summer's almost gone Summer's almost gone Almost gone Yeah, …
Summertime Summertime The livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' And the co…
Summer’s Almost Gone Summer's almost gone Summer's almost gone Almost gone Yeah, …
Take It as It Comes Time to live Time to lie Time to laugh Time to die Take it…
Talking Blues Yeah How, me and my baby walking down the street We's bein…
Tell All The People Tell all the people that you see Follow me Follow me down Te…
Texas Radio %26 The Big Beat I want to tell you 'bout Texas radio and the…
Texas Radio and the Big Beat I want to tell you about Texas Radio and the…
The awake ghost Song Awake Shake dreams from your hair My pretty child, my sweet …
The Celebration of the Lizard Lions in the street and roaming Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming…
The Celebration of the Lizard: A Little Game Once I had a little game I liked to crawl…
The Changeling Uh! Uh-ah! Ged-ow! I live uptown I live downtown I live all…
The Cosmic Movie Is everybody ready Is everybody ready Me and the devil g…
The Crystal Ship Before you slip into unconsciousness I'd like to have anothe…
The Doors Ah, yeah C'mon, yeah, yeah, c'mon, yeah I am a, yeah, I'm…
The End This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my…
The End (From Apocalypse Now) This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only fri…
The End - This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my…
The End /LP Version This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end…
The end of the night Take the highway to the end of the night End of…
The End [Live at Felt Forum This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my…
The Ghost Song Awake Shake dreams from your hair My pretty child, my sweet …
The Hill Dwellers Way back deep into the brain Way back past the realm…
The Hitchhiker Thoughts in time and out of season The hitchhiker stood…
The Mosquito No me moleste mosquito Why don't you go home? No me moleste…
The movie The movie will begin in five moments The mindless voice…
The Palace Of Exile For seven years I dwelt In the loose palace of…
The Peking King and the New York Queen Well I heard a story, you can judge it's worth About…
The Piano Bird The bird sings outside my piano Lark of sweet love singing…
The Severed Garden Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do…
The Severed Garden (Adagio) wow, im sick of doubt live in the light of certain…
The Soft Parade When I was back there in seminary school There was a…
The Spy I'm a spy in the house of love I know the…
The Unknown Soldier Wait until the war is over And we're both a little…
The Wasp / Hello I Love You Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name? Hello,…
The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat I want to tell you 'bout Texas radio and the…
The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) I wanna tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big…
The Wasp /Hello I Love You Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name? Hello,…
The WASP Texas Radio And The Big Beat I want to tell you 'bout Texas radio and the…
The World Is On Fire Everyone is here except for me And I can feel the…
The World On Fire The world on fire, taxi from Africa, the grand hotel…
They Want More They want more! I guess they want more! It wasn't…
the_crystal_ship Before you slip into unconsciousness I'd like to have anoth…
This is the end This is the time for death the population thinning slowly Th…
Tightrope Ride You're on a tightrope ride Nobody by your side Well, you'r…
To Come Of Age A military station in the desert. Can we resolve the…
Touch Me Yeah Come on, come on, come on, come on Now touch me,…
Twentieth Century Fox Well, she's fashionably lean And she's fashionably late She'…
Under Waterfall Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have…
Unhappy Girl Unhappy girl Left all alone Playing solitaire Playing warden…
Universal Mind I was doing time In the universal mind I was…
Unknown Soldier Wait until the war is over And we're both a little…
Variety Is the Spice of Life Well variety is the spice of life That's what the judge…
Variety Is The Spice Of The Life Well variety is the spice of life That's what the judge…
Verdilac I'm gonna hang on your neck just like a verdilac Take…
Wait A Minute! Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute,…
Waiting for the Sun At first flash of Eden We race down to the sea Standing…
Wake Up Goodnight, daylight I won't remember you for long Sleep tigh…
Wake Up! Wake up! You can't remember where it was Had this…
Wandering Musician Please don't tell me what to do 'Cause even if I…
Wandering Musicians Please don't tell me what to do 'Cause even if I…
Wasp I want to tell you 'bout Texas radio and the…
We We could be so good together Yeah, so good together We could…
We Can't Instigate Now listen, we can't uh, we can't instigate anything up…
We Could Be So Good Together We could be so good together Yeah, so good together We could…
When the Music Yeah, c'mon Yeah When the music's over When the music's over…
When the Music's Over Yeah, c'mon Yeah! When the music's over When the music's o…
When You're Strange So far away from knowing where I am going I am…
Whicky Mystics and Men Well I'll tell you a story of whiskey and mystics…
Whiskey First there were women and children obeying the moon Then da…
whiskey mystics & men Well I'll tell you a story of whiskey and mystics…
Whiskey Mystics And Man First there were women and children obeying the moon Then da…
Whiskey, Mystics and Men Well, I’ll tell you a story of whiskey and mystics and…
Whisky Mystics and Men First there were women and children obeying the moon Then da…
Who Do You Love Yeah, yeah I walked 47 miles on barbed wire Cobra snake for…
Who Do You Love [Live at Felt Forum Yeeeah Yeeeah Yeeeah Yeeeah I walked 47 miles on barbed-wire…
Who Do You Love? Yeah, yeah I walked 47 miles on barbed wire Cobra snake for…
Who Scared You Who scared you? why were you born, my babe? In two-time's…
Who Scared You? Who scared you? Why were you born, my babe? In two…
Wild Child Alright Wild child full of grace Savior of the human race Y…
Wild Child [Live at Felt Forum All right Wild child full of grace Savior of the human race…
Wintertime Love Wintertime winds blow cold the season Fallen in love, I'm ho…
Wishful Sinful Wishful crystal Water covers everything in blue Coolin' wate…
Wiskey Mystic and Men First there were women and children obeying the moon Then da…
Woman Is a Devil Me and the devil, Walking side by side. Me and the devil, …
x Merry, merry Christmas! Happy Christmas! Merry, merry Christ…
Yachting Yeah, right. Did you hear about my baby? She come…
Yes Please believe me The river told me Very softly Want you to …
YesThe River Knows Please believe me The river told me Very softly Want…
You Ah, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you realize…
You Make Me Real I really want you Really do Really need ya baby God knows I…
You Need Meat You need meat, Go to the market You need bread, Try the bake…
You're A Lost Little Girl You're lost little girl You're lost little girl You're lost,…
You're Lost Little Girls You're lost little girl You're lost little girl You're lost …
Youre A Lost Little Girl You're lost little girl You're lost little girl You're lost,…
You´re Lost Little Girl You're lost little girl You're lost little girl You're l…
[Waiting for the s At first flash of Eden We race down to the sea Standing…
Richard Cain
on Soul Kitchen ( LP Version )
americas top poet
Josemanuel Orona
on Break on Through (to the Other Side)
algo para la banda