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bowdean- i respect ray a lot as an arranger, muscian, jims' friend & bands glue. So don't think im trashing, esp after his death. I just have problems w/ some who always try to push acid as a bow ontop the music. its a disservice to how good the music is. this isnt the '60's when all this anew & people didnt know the effects. if u choose to do acid, fine, but dont play it off as a benign enlightment rite of passage. its not a frivilous party favor. people can scrambled for for good ie syd barret

i too wonder, Anton, In some of the doors songs & jim's writings theres an eerie prophetic vibe. & i'm not sure if it was as much intentional as subconscious.i do know he dug deep in a Blakean symbolist search into what is & was the undercurrents of the West. both present & for the Ages. i think at times he struck motherlode veins. 2 scores forward & some of it chillingly connects moreso. look around Rome's alive & in pain. kids confused & parched. & the wolves feast & encircle in growing #'s.

an arrangement alchemist genious, bar none... RIP

feels as if an era is passing. sad day. a heavyweight just laid his hands to rest. RIP ray, the glue to the whole experience wh/ was the doors.

Jim may have read the stars, but ray kept the ship on course. the glue of arguably america's most important band of their era. Today Jim got his organ back... RIP

jim got his organ back... RIP

time+ masses= obama's best friend. im not talkin year, month,week. Sadly->days. something really strange going on w/ collective mind this decade. hard to pinpt b/c happens in real time, like a min. hand on a clock. not sure if its technology, convergence thereof or unresolved trauma, but bottomline, most are alarmingly ADD.They seek transient sensation like flies going from sugar to meat. Mental channel surfing. Events dont soak. All will be forgotten. Media r necro rapist & public likes it.

song for tapgate era.

while most play mental checkers, morrison enjoyed 3 dimensional chess. u can take dylan, cash, zappa, bowie, waters, bono, tupac or eminem & none more knowedgable of the connecting thread of Western thought, from Ancient Egypt to Lamerica, then jim. Anyone who knew him echos this. He was a scholar/poet/seer who stumbled onto music. The looks & onstage persona overshadows it. His Blakeian lyrics map out the underlying veins of a 20-21st century amer. Listen to WASP or end for ex., its all there.

insightful. i'll add, la woman was a real finger to the wind in re to how la & usa were metastasizing. the vibe of the manson murders & the fragmented psyche implosion that nam's unraveling wrought is weighted in the album's vibe. essentially, it puts a stake thru hippie idealism, exposing the confusion & nihilism that was filling the void. though not punk in sound, it's to some degree in theme. well before others would stake that flag. sad b/c shows they still had good cards in their hands.

say what you will about savage... but the dude has iron testicles. this general angle runs deep & is frankly chilling in its implications.

canada's hank williams sr.

wouldve loved to have heard morrison jam some w/ the allman brothers... this proves how both talented & versatile the doors were. this is funky sinister southern blues & they deliver anywhere as much ccr or the allmans couldve.

bluerose... i just get so sick of the double standards when it comes to people w/ conservative or libertarian views.

tebow will get another shot & he will prove the legion of discounters wrong. what's being overlooked is intangibles. tebow puts a d on their heels & has the ability to attack a D w/ feet. he's also very tough & knows how to change momentum in crunch time. all the things guys like sanchez and romo fail at.What a team has to do is give him the keys & let the offense jell around his skillset. it takes the ability of a coach to have courage & think outside the box. give the keys, tebow is a winner.

class act

morrison was 2 scores deep w/ this song. it speaks to the current social plight moreso now, then even in his day. this guy was more lyrically entrenched into the myths, history, psychological underpinnings & collective impulses of the West then any modern poet/singer this nation has borne. he was the american blake w/ a mike. who now will run w/ the hunt?

well said

hank had that silent lonely place inside that the truely original artist many times have. it was both a curse and a gift. w/o it, he never writes the enduring material he did. w/ it he had to face the pit of loneliness. that pit can swallow you up.

great shape and clarity of mind for 70. dempsey was a product of a time and place wh/ shaped both mentally and physically sharp men.

3:37 pic... is this at monterey?... the gray headed longhaired guy looks a lot like the feared albert grossman.... manager of both dylan and joplin.

this theater had a unique echo reverb to it... give's hendrix's sound added echo chamber. he sounds like a shelby ac cobra ready to rip the skin off anything come his way.

have to give it to the french... they have a way of allowing the most cutting edge art to display itself on canvas or in this case on stage, first. this is very historical. its like the first time chopin played infront of the court.

hopefully elevator fans want make this into a commercial for acid taking. if anything, the elevators should be the yellow light of rock. caution before you go forward. not blaming them, it was the times & all was anew. yet for fans to pump acid now w/ all the carnage since those days is a disservice. enjoy the music, but take caution in re to enlightment. its much better had thru sweat as opposed to a tab. the elders in India would tell u the same.

it also points to the limiations (not weakness) the doors had when playing in a large open stadium type venue. sure they were strong, but they also werent at their best. unlike the stones who seem to work the opposite way, the closed venues serve the doors. it assimilates the attention into the stage as oppossed to visa versa. w/ morrison's ability (unlike jagger) to sense, draw in & then transform an audience...closed intimate settings were optimum. hence the power of the fillmore performances.

why wont comedians go after the current pres like phil did here w/ clinton

mystery: whose the blind tiger? whose the monster?... pam & jim; avarice & greed; western ambition & conquest; national dna & interests?.... wedded all in one, one in all. monsterous eye. present, naked & untethered.

the essential underlying weakness to the enlightment via acid position is that its frankly too easy. it goes against nature & physics. anything of sustaining value & currency must be built by parallel sweat. acid is ingested as easy as a flintstone vitamin tablet. one who claims pinnacle wisdom via that pathway is sitting on a throne of quicksand. ask the real guru's in India, they would also concur.

is that danny bondaduce at 4:22?

the animals bass player discovered hendrix & their lead singer discovered war. sharp ear for talent.

the most overlooked artist of his generation.

such a beautiful west coast sound captured here. love did a really special thing w/ this album in re to amalgamizing all the musicial influences of that particular time & space. this song is moving & timeless.

the energy of this album is intoxicating... these guys bore a hole right thru the middle of pretenders like the airplane. consider this was '66. who was at this plateau in this genre at this point? maybe the doors at the whisky... yet this surpasses even them in re to raw passion for their vision... beatles, stones, paige all knew when they heard this, amer beat them to the punch again.

it can also be argued, it's why euro fans in general (obviously there were exceptions) never gravitated in large #'s to the doors.the doors sensibility is too american, too libertarian.euro mind is more steeped in socialism. morrison's singular vision & stance is much more foreign to their sensibilities, unless of course you're talkin about the scots & irish. they dig that indiv rebel stance. goes back from william wallace to guys like bono digging guys like morrison. england, not as much so.