[weegee]

"You can't call yourselves The Doors because you can't have The Doors without Jim Morrison," Densmore's attorney S. Jerome Mandel said.

Bull. The Doors carried on for 2 albums after Jim died.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Voices_(The_Doors_album)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Circle_(The_Doors_album)

I wonder if Densmore joined the lawsuit when he realized he might be put at financial risk if he sided with the band. If I recall, the threat of legal action was a factor in Stewart Copeland of The Police dropping out of the project.

And frankly I don't see how Jim's parents are due any money. The way Morrison's estate went was 100% to his wife and then 100% to her parents when she died.

[weegee]

Rock and Roll PING!

“The end is near for a bitter legal dispute between the three surviving members of The Doors now that the California Supreme Court has refused to take up their case.”

This is the end. the end. my friend...

[Revolting cat!]

Jim Morrison today (he on the right.)

[Snurple]

I found it interesting that Jims dad was an admiral in the United States Navy.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Finito the Sixties.

[Right Cal Gal]

Especially when you consider Morrison wanted NOTHING to do with his family - he wouldn’t even see or talk to them when they came to his concerts.

“Siddons, I don’t want to see them — You hear me Siddons?”

Beach Boys went through the same thing when Al Jardine wanted to tour as “Beach Boys Family and Friends” in 2000 and Mike Love went ballistic that HE and Bruce Johnston are the only ones allowed to use the Beach Boys’ name. But you have to admit, Mike would have been embarrassed, since Al’s band had people named WILSON singing in it.

[dmz]

LOL. Yes, you can put out a record with the name the Doors on it without Jim Morrison. But without Jim Morrison, there is no Doors music. Sorry. Unassailable fact. Or my humble opinion. It’s one of those, I’m sure :-)

According to the wiki pages you linked to, even the surviving band members realize that the only thing linking Other Voices and Full Circle to the Doors was the name on the record cover. Musically, not at all.

[MrLee]

“Other Voices” wasn’t THAT bad considering....

[EyeGuy]

“You can’t call yourselves The Doors because you can’t have The Doors without Jim Morrison,” Densmore’s attorney S. Jerome Mandel said.”

I guess it is a trademark or copyright issue, but it would be interesting to know if that is Mandel’s opinion, or a clean legal line.

Zeppelin never toured again as “Led Zeppelin” after John Bonham died, but that was always felt to be a sentimental decision, a hat tip to Bonham from Jimmy Page.