Ray Manzarek Plots New Doors Documentary, Another Live Album

The Doors' Ray Manzarek has a host of new Morrison and co. projects in the works for 2008. First up is another Doors live album Live in Pittsburgh 1970, the third installment in the "Bright Midnight Archives" collection of official bootlegs from the group's 1970 tour. To celebrate the forty-first anniversary of the band, there is also a Doors documentary on the way. "This is the anti-Oliver Stone. This will be the true story of the Doors," Manzarek said of the film, which will feature rare footage of the group. In the meantime, Manzarek, Doors guitarist Robby Kreiger and former Fuel singer Brett Scallions will tour Europe as the Riders on the Storm. Manzarek also has four scripts for other films he's shopping, including one based on the song "L.A. Woman."

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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