Posted on 05/07/2023 1:48:26 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Soul Kitchen · The Doors
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Eff Sargent Pepper.
Beat Doors’ song.
Best.
For a certified nutcase, he did pretty good.
Clearly they earned a most esteemed place in the pantheon of rock.
Very underrated songwriting.
No better American band.
excellent tunage!!
Yeah, I hate that Album. About 6 good Songs, nothing with the power of Revolver, The White Album or Abbey Road.
Got to interview Robby Krieger in 2010 for our film “Rockin’ the Wall.”
And no, SGT PEPPER is the best album ever made.
I second this. Best American rock band ever.
I was a huge Doors fan from the very beginning.
I moved to Hollywood shortly after the Doors' first album and their big billboard advertising on Sunset.
Eventually, as an entrepreneur in high-end audio, I provided technical assistance to a critically acclaimed mastering engineer. He gifted me with copies of their first album "Doors" and "LA Woman" burned direct from the original studio master tape - incredible sound quality far superior to the commercial pressed CDs.
That said...
The best American rock band was the original Little Feat group led by Lowell George...and no other band was close. .
Song was about a soul food restaurant that Morrison was getting kicked out of when the restaurant would close for the evening. Poor Morrison...an alcoholic, psychotropic drug abuser, as well a mean man to his women. I read his biography and it seems like in his later days, the group had trouble getting him to work on their songs as JM was under the influence of many chemical compounds...reading his biography I was not surprised he died so young. Sad....but drugs do kill....
The Doors wuz Kangs! I saw them twice. At one of them, Jim Morrison went off on a five minute nonsensical, philosophical rant/discourse. Drugs!
“The best American rock band was the original Little Feat group led by Lowell George...and no other band was close. . “
Put 100 classic rock fans in a room, those who lived through the era, and not 5 could name 2 songs by Little Feat.
And not even 10 could name one.
While all of them could name at least 2 from the Doors.
Songwriting matters.
Musicianship often comes second.
“The best American rock band was the original Little Feat group led by Lowell George...and no other band was close. . “
The best rock band. Period.
The best rock musicians. Period.
I love The Doors especially having lived in Hollywood when they began their career.
But they cannot hold a candle to the musical brilliance of LF w/LG.
Now go back and read your Teen magazines....
“Now go back and read your Teen magazines....”
Now you sound stupid
What I always found so fun about The Doors is that there’s really 2 versions of the band. There’s the Robby Krieger that got them a huge teenybopper audience. And the Jim Morrison chunks of insanity that made them important. And of course they were in the age when singles still mattered, and those singles mostly Robby’s songs. I often wonder what it must have been like for those 14 year old girls that bought all the singles but not the albums and then they went to the shows and Lizard King starts rolling.
Then I remember the Monkees tour that had Jimi Hendrix opening for them. Probably a lot like that.
LOL...
Believing a “popular” band is the best rock band is...well...stupid.
The Cowsills were far more popular than Little Feat - does that make them a better rock band than LF?
Within the industry, Little Feat w/Lowell George was widely known/accepted as the best American rock band.
Thanks for outing yourself as a someone with an IQ of a woketard.
Good Comment! I will be sure to tell my First Cousin: Robby Krieger {in the future} about your interesting "take" on the DOORS! I was a 13 year old boy growing up in Surf City USA, Huntington Beach, CA & had so much fun, as I took the DOORS first album to the radio station to play, {in late 1966}.....
I do love both “parts” of the catalog. My mom had Doors 13 on 8 track when I was a kid. Which of course is mostly Krieger’s songs. Then I started picking up Doors albums on my own. First time I heard “The End” it was... a bit shocking to be sure. But that was the great part about that era too, the record companies had no idea what would sell and bands could be more than 1 thing. And we’re kind of back to that, because rock doesn’t sell, so the record companies don’t care, and the bands are once again free.
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