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Hahaha,

Thanks Mountaineer for your input, and actually I agree with you in some respects - The Doors, perhaps, weren't as wonderful as I think (I guess its "chalked up to [my] youth" (UGH)) but I will defend them on one point:

If you want to base an argument on the validity of one or more bands due to the amount of chords used to play their music, that just about invalidates 80% of all bands ever. Unfortunately (I'm sure you'll agree), even many "legendary" bands often make a habit of sticking to the sounds that get the greatest approval ratings from their fans, and I'd argue that it leads to many songs that are just mixed and matched chords in different orders, or what have you.

I'm certainly the farthest thing from some peacenik, hippie-centric whiner but I find that the Grateful Dead (for all their jackass-etry) have some stellar tunes - yet a great many of Garcia's four-fingered jammin' sounds utterly the same and can get boring.

Good music (IMO) is "in the ear of the beholder", I suppose, but I just cannot see this as a viable excuse for cRAP music or any of the whining little tarts with instruments these days.

However, I do see your point about The Doors, and Morrison's drugged out "poetic rants" are a bit overbearing, but they just sound so neat!! LoL.

Corey

Corey