It was 40 years ago this weekend, The Doors entered the charts.

January 5, 2007

[Dane]

Just heard on the radio that it was 40 years ago, this weekend(January 7, 1967) The Doors entered the charts.

I'm getting old. I first heard Doors music when their records had their "second wind" back in the late 70's and early 80's.

Just as a LOL! Jim Morrison pre-dated the Elvis is still alive rumors. Back then the rumor was that Jim Morrison faked his death in Paris and was living in South Africa.

I also wonder if Paul McCartney in June of this year will sing it was "40 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play".

Just some nostalgia for a Friday night.

[AdvisorB]

Mr. Mojorisin is hanging out with Elvis on some Island south of Australia.

[Tanniker Smith]

You should post this in the Freeper Canteen. They're playing Music for the Troops tonight.

[ICE-FLYER]

...And Bill Clinton was making his first unwanted sexual predator advance on an innocent woman.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Wow, I can remember taking my transistor radio to the part to swing, listening to Light My Fire.

How did 40 years go by already?

[nmh]

Light My Fire!

[pinz-n-needlez]

part = park

[nmh]

I feel old ... .

Where did the time go?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You like the other "Doors" too.

[dighton]

This is the end ...

(Warning, strong language)

[Afronaut]

It's a gift to get old, not everyone get the chance.

It's my Birthday today and I have said this about a 100 times today...

[vetvetdoug]

And the #1 hit of '66 and '67 highlighted Alex Chilton on the vocals. Nothing like the music from Mussel Shoals and Memphis.

[LibWhacker]

Oh, God... I had just arrived at my first permanent duty station after AIT. Put it this way... There were A LOT of Doors fans there, lol.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

Denis Leary summarized the career of Jim Morrison quite succintly:

"I'm drunk, I'm nobody. I'm drunk, I'm famous. I'm drunk, I'm dead."

[Mr. Mojo]

The first Doors album was by far their best. ....every song is noteworthy.

also wonder if Paul McCartney in June of this year will sing it was "40 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play".

Paul was dead 40 years ago.

....and now he's 64, although his prediction that he'd be losing his hair was wrong.

[pandoraou812]

Have you heard the new Doors? A few years ago or maybe last year... one (I think ) of the old members brought back the Doors. It was terrible, sort of like a lounge band in a Holiday Inn. Jim would be rolling.

[Clemenza]

And I thought that I felt old when it seems like yesterday that Sgt. Pepper was released on CD and MTV kept playing promos of the 20th anniversary of the "Summer of Love" with Randy and the Redwoods...

[Clemenza]

Are you kidding me? The Doors were the ULTIMATE Vegas act! Just listen to the "Soft Parade" album.

If Jim would have lived, he'd be overweight, playing Caeser's to women 55 and up.

[Dane]

I read the news today oh, boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, i just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the house of lords

A "tin foil" conspiracy theory, before "tin foil" became a household word. :^)

[NormsRevenge]

HaPPy
Birthday,
Afronaut!

[pandoraou812]

I wasn't much of a Doors Fan, my father didn't approve of them and I think you are right about Vegas. This new band was just so bad. I don't think they would have got a 2nd gig at the Holiday Inn.

[Dane]

Supposedly, Jim Morrison was very angry when the record lable for the Doors, sold the rights to "Light to My Fire" for a Pontiac commercial.

Also before he died Morrison stated that Robby Kreiger never got the recognition he deserved.

Ray Manzeric though is the epitomie of a publicity whore.

[Afronaut]

Thanks Pal.

[bannie]

I also wonder if Paul McCartney in June of this year will sing it was "40 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play".

Poor Paul: I guess she wouldn't "still feed [him]" or "still need [him]" now that he's 64.

[ThomasThomas]

WHO?

[Clemenza]

Robby Krieger was actually a flamenco guitarist before he got involved with the Doors.

Ray Manzerek was an attention whore back when he was in elementary school in Chicago, according to my sources in that city...

[FreeReign]

The Doors were the ULTIMATE Vegas act! Just listen to the "Soft Parade" album.

The Monk bought lunch.

When all else fails, we can whip the horses eyes
And make them sleep, and cry.

When I was back there in seminary school, there was a person there
Who put forth the proposition, that you can petition the lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer, petition the lord with prayer
YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!

Not sure what all of that was about but yes it was Vegas-like.

[SouthTexas]

Well happy birthday to you!

[Mr. Mojo]

Ever heard the album Jim Morrison: An American Prayer?

His freakiest work by a wide margin.

[Afronaut]

Thank Tex! Funnt it I would find all my greetings in a Rock and Roll thread! HA!

[TEEHEE]

The first Doors album was by far their best. ....every song is noteworthy.

A solid and brilliant piece of work. Not many debut albums can claim such wall-to-wall substance.

[vetvetdoug]

American Prayer opened up and answered a good many questions about the origins and lyrics of several of the songs the Doors released. OTOH, some of the poems really weirded me out.

[Mr. Mojo]

"...Indians scattered along dawn's highway bleeding; ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind."

"The moon is a dry blood beast."

[SouthTexas]

Well there ain't no race thread up! :)

[FreeReign]

Ever heard the album Jim Morrison: An American Prayer? His freakiest work by a wide margin.

Yes, my roommate's girlfriend bought me that one for Christmas way back. If I remember correctly it was a double album and it had a plain cover.

I think it was the one where Jim mostly rambled...yes it was very freaky.

We eventually used it as a Frisbee. :)

[sully777]

Jim was overweight when he died. The guy went from skinny kid to fat man in five short years.

[sully777]

Ray Manzerek was an attention whore back when he was in elementary school ...

NO WAY! Ray an attention whore...the guy who started the whole thing about Morrison alive and well? I cannot listen to such trash talk about a saint that gave his heart to the Hammond Organ company and the distorted memory of James Morrison.