Hello c 'n r,
Have you ever noticed that Robby Krieger has a very high forehead ?
That's because he's the son of a rocket scientist - lots of intelligence. Like Taylor in the Stones, he was the youngest bandmember and the leadguitarist.

I wonder what the DOors would have done had Jim lived, would they have the same aura or legend they have now?

I love their records but I've never been fond of them live.

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noughties
Shittiest thread ever! You must be quite young! The Doors used to be my number one group, but today I couldn`t care less.

I am not young at all and I dont care that you dont care

Eh, I'd never want to petition the lord with prayer.

The Cult's version of Wild Child blows The Doors version away.

On the last pic, Jim looks extraordinary slim and fit.

Alright welcome to The End

wanna say
hello to , Back Of My Palm, noughties Skipstone,
Humanriff77, Slew, Lightnin, Little queenie, Swaystones
Sohoe, shortfatfanny , Edith Grove, Rockman and Marhsall





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Morrison "Hey! is everybody having fun!! alright!"
The crowd was very enthusiastic in New Haven.
Jim responded by moving and jumping about the stage
then he asked them
"Now is that anyway to behave at a rock and roll concert?"











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Question
Hi!
I am a 19 years old fan of the band, but some things are
not clear for me. As you know the lyrics are quite dark
and hypnotic. It is very interesting for me to read the poems
and lyrics of the songs, but most of the times
my understanding of them is (i think) low because of the
symbols used. By example,
i am really stuck in THE END, what does the long snake
and the blue bus mean? and.. whose skin is old and cold?
the west is meant to be california?

Taking advantage of this opportunity, i would like to ask
you where can i find or get a copy from the HWY movie?

Love me one time
I could not speak
Love me one time

Yeah, my knees got weak
But love me two times, girl
Last me all through the week
Love me two times
I'm goin' away





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Answer
Hi Rodolfo,

When asked what The End meant, Jim replied,

“It started out as a simple goodbye song, it's sufficiently
complex and universal in its imagery that it could be almost
anything you want it to be.”
So you could ask five different people what any
Doors song means, and you would most probably get
five different answers….

Before I get to ‘The End', let's take a look at the album
as a whole, it begins with Jim probing life as something
to be lived, yet always recognising that life is mystical
and made of many realities. But living doesn't allow absolute
freedom, and people constantly search for sanctuary.

Since neither love nor sanctuaries offer security,
Jim turns to ‘The End' as his beautiful and only friend.







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Surrendering to a sense of hopelessness so beautifully
rendered in the song's opening, Jim takes the hand of his
only friend, the end.

The imagery and music then moves on as Jim seeks
freedom, riding the King's highway, riding the snake
to the ancient lake, going west, and answering the call .






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Yes, this song contains the whole Oedipus complex thing,
but it's about more than just wanting to kill/screw your parents.

Can you ride the snake this fridaynite?




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Jim's message was act now, search later.
Life is a journey, but any journey will be painful.
Life is pain, love is pain, and fear prevents people from
experiencing life, from accepting
what The Doors ultimately come to realize .





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"Though their residency at
the Whisky in the summer of 1966 afforded them a
fantastic opportunity to workshop the now famous songs
that would form their first album—songs such as “Break On Through,”
“Light My Fire,” and “The End”—the flower-power
kids didn’t always get Morrison’s Baudelaireisms or the
band’s jazz-odyssey explorations. As Densmore says,
“We were darker. We were not folk-rock. We would
scare people.”

And Morrison was even then a loose cannon,
prone to scream unprompted “ffffuCK! you, Elmer!” from the
stage when drunk or otherwise chemically altered. Nevertheless,
they became the toast of the Strip as the summer went on,
their music proving to be particularly conducive to
the Dionysian swaying of Vito’s dancers, whom
Densmore admired for their ability “to Martha Graham-ize
what they were hearing.”




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I found this passage googling .
"One night, however, the Doors’ fierce experimentalism
proved too much to bear even for the indulgent
Rolling Stones' flowers in attendance and it finished
them off as a Whisky band for good. "
When the serpent appears, his head
is ten feet long and five feet wide.
He has one red eye and one green
eye. He's deadly and he's seven miles
long. As he moves -- on his scales
is written all the history of the
world, all people, all actions, all
of us our little pictures on the
scales, God it's big! -- and it's
eating as it moves all the time,
devouring, digesting consciousness,
power, a monster of energy!
and all the children are insane>
Wierd scenes inside the goldmine





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But if we kiss it
without fear, the snake will take us
through the garden and out the gate.
To our freedom -we must ride this
snake. To the end of time.

Just three songs into the set, Morrison called for
“The End”—way prematurely, since they had about
40 minutes of performance time left. But the band obeyed
and kicked in.
As usual, they played a few verses before transitioning
into the improvisatory section, where the instruments
undulated in a raga style, leaving space for Morrison
to freestyle on top.






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“‘Father?’ ‘Yes, son?’ ‘I want to kill you.’”





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“At that point, I realized, My God, he’s doing Oedipus Rex!”
says Manzarek. “And then I thought, My God,
I know what’s coming next!”






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"Sure enough, Morrison, after a dramatic pause,

came forth with IT"






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