[Rummyfan]

[Paladin2]

He’s still dead; Jim.

[Gay State Conservative]

In the 60’s I loved the Doors but,IMO,their music hasn’t “aged” well.I’m still a fanatical believer in the superiority of 60’s music over that of all other decades but the Doors are never played...today...on my “jukebox”.Others will certainly disagree.

[Larry Lucido]

Even the Doors used paragraph breaks.

[Mr. K]

ew...blackberry brandy

bad memories

[frankenMonkey]

Out here on the perimeter there are no stars,
Out here we is stoned immaculate.
;-)

[bigbob]

Watch his Youtube interviews and you’ll see that he loved life and felt blessed for the opportunities he had. One of the greats...

RIP Ray, and may you find a Vox Continental and Fender Rhodes bass piano to replace that harp.

[left that other site]

My 12 year old keyboard student played “Riders of the Storm” at his last recital.

It was essence of awesomeness.

But there are NO other Doors Songs that any of my students perform except for that one.

What used to be a 4 door is now a 2 door.

RIP, Ray.

[lone star annie]

Went to Paris and saw Jim Morrison’s grave. It was unbelievable the crowd that was there. That was after his bust was stolen. I wonder where it is? Interesting trip. I loved the Doors in the 60’s.
RIP Ray!

[dagogo redux]

A very inconsistent body of work, as was the 60’s in general, but the few peaks were, and still are, haunting.

If they produced nothing else of note, Coppola’s use of “This is the End” to open Apocalypse Now remains the most indelible moment in my mind from any movie ever made. Genius.

[needmorePaine]

Do teenagers still go through a Doors phase?

Heh. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, but I remember going through a Doors phase, a Beatles phase, a Zeppelin phase, a Floyd phase, a Skynyrd phase, a CCR phase, but never a Stones phase for some reason.

Anyway, yes, Doors music is dated, but so is a lot of other great rock music. I still enjoy it, especially the not-so-played-out tracks.

I never understood this desire to, as as an adult, trash your former tastes. I rotate through my music collection all the time and still love hearing everything, from the metal and grunge and alternative I grew up with to the classic rock that came before me to the jazz and blues and crooners and big band and country and classical that I picked up when I decided to explore other genres.

Rant mercifully over.

[muir_redwoods]

It was (or nearly was) their last hit on the pop charts but Touch Me is always a song I'll listen to. Curtis Amy hit it so well, IMHO.

[Puppage]

I guess he’s broken on through to the other side....