Within 5 years all the places The Doors played were punk venues. Pure nihilism, not happy peace and love crap!
As Jim Morrison said: "Blues beats rock and whiskey beats pot."
They were waaay ahead of their time!
LA has never been a hippy town--not like San Fran; and The Doors were, and are, hopelessly linked with LA.
LA Woman? It opens with the sound of an American small block V-8 revving.
The New Doors stuff with Ian Astbury (Southern Death Cult) as lead singer is pretty damned good....
Admiral Morrison has good reason to remember his boy fondly.
I agree mostly but I don't think the Whiskey-A-Go-Go ever went punk. I don't know much about the 70s there but by the 80s I think it was hair-metal.