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!