Eff Sargent Pepper.
Beat Doors’ song.
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.
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!
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.