The Doors are in Fashion Again

The End

It seems there is a emergence of The Doors going on at the moment. As the many videos on YouTube suggest the dark poetic revelry of The Doors is still very popular, with a $15 million dollar deal offered in 2001:

Seven years ago, for instance, General Motors offered the partnership $15 million to use "Light My Fire" to sell Cadillacs, and everyone but Densmore wanted to take the deal.

Yesterday the news came that the name The Doors cannot be used without Jim Morrison, a nice gesture by John Densmore (whose book Riders on the Storm: My Life With Jim Morrison and The Doors from 1991 is worth reading if you are interested in a myth-free take on the band and the man) who won in a California court for himself and the estate of Morrison. He was opposed by Ray Manzerak and Robby Kreiger also of The Doors but who can no longer use the name for performances. More on the case and the intense dynamic of the band HERE.

At the same time this is going on, Classic Rock magazine is selling this month's edition at my local newsagent (at a rather inflated price). This month's issue features Jim Morrison on the cover and offers a 'Free DVD' (ha ha ha) on The Doors and is titled The Doors and the Psychedelic Revolution.

Finally in my RSS the other day came the tip that someone had posted some film of The Doors live in 1970:


The Doors Bakersfield 1970 rare footage

Expect more books, documentaries, films, box sets, DVDs, and so on and on....But what I remember in all this is the strength and beauty of the language and music that The Doors were capable of. I advise checking out some of the many videos on YouTube to reacquaint yourself with the Brechtian theater of the psychedelic dark ones.