[Finny]

Interesting. Those guys all look like they were stoned out of their gourds. Like most guys I knew in rock bands, and they could get away with it. It wasn't like they were playing Chopin. Morrison in the live footage was gone, out there, poor sap. I suspect the "Light My Fire" version heard was recorded in the studio, because the footage doesn't look like it was live to the performance. Wow. How easy it is to forget how spine-chillingly ugly the early 70s were! *shivver*

On the other hand, "Riders on the Storm" was a really good, lasting tune and only Morrison could have delivered it the way he did.

[Drew68]

Those guys all look like they were stoned out of their gourds.

While nobody denies that Morrison dabbled in drugs, his real downfall was booze. In a period of less than 5 short years he went from chiseled rock sex symbol to fat, bloated alcoholic. In the later years, he was often too drunk to even perform live. He'd show up late, mumble a few bars incoherently and pass out on stage, urinating himself on more than one occasion.

The Doors should have soldiered on without him. There was some real musical talent amongst the other three members and guitarist Robby Krieger knew how to pen hit songs.

[jwh_Denver]

Trust me, that was the studio version. Heard it hundreds and hundreds of times.