Fuck John Densmore! He’s a fuckin hurt little bitch. Even Morrison wanted him out of the band. Read “Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend”
by Stephen Davis.

right on luv the doors keep it going densmore an ass he came to a town back east in the paper it said in concert john densmore he came to promote his book and talked about jim there was no concert then he dosen’t want the other guy’s using the doors stuff f**** him use it.

Re the lawsuit: I’m with Densmore. ‘Nuff said!

More power to ya Ray! Saw 21st century Doors w/ Ian in 2003, awesome! Too young to see Jim, but it was dam close, better and tighter musically I thought. Missed densmore, but he is being a baby about it! the show was obviously a tribute to Jim not a rip off and ian was his own man on stage!!! loved it, Brett? Not so much…

Yo Ray Man., go,go,go ! I love the Doors since bout’67 on. They were unique as a rock band, using poetry, jazz, and even Kurt Wiehl !
i was sad when i heard Jim had died. I have heard Ray on a few talk shows that they have inteerviewed him on. and it is interesting what he has to say.I’m sure he knows the real story. By the way you play some mean keyboards Bro’. Peace. Stevr

Yo Ray Man., go,go,go ! I love the Doors since bout’67 on. They were unique as a rock band, using poetry, jazz, and even Kurt Wiehl !
i was sad when i heard Jim had died. I have heard Ray on a few talk shows that they have inteerviewed him on. and it is interesting what he has to say.I’m sure he knows the real story. By the way you play some mean keyboards Bro’. Peace. Stevr

Yo Ray Man., go,go,go ! I love the Doors since bout’67 on. They were unique as a rock band, using poetry, jazz, and even Kurt Wiehl !
i was sad when i heard Jim had died. I have heard Ray on a few talk shows that they have inteerviewed him on. and it is interesting what he has to say.I’m sure he knows the real story. By the way you play some mean keyboards Bro’. Peace. Stevr

The Doors were a band, not an individual or even a group of individuals. All bands are more than the sum of their parts. That is simply the way it works. Similar to any other work effort, the total output is reliant on the individual input. Morrison lyrics do not stand alone, Manzerek or Kreiger or Densmore music does not stand alone. The idea is these guys were in a band. They needed each other to succeed. I forget which band member said it to Morrison, but the story goes that one of The Doors asked the record label to stop crediting the songs as The Doors after The End was released because he was embarrassed by the lyrics. He didn’t want his parents to think that he wanted to kill his family or sleep hith his mother or whatever Morrison was saying as he walked down the hall of his drug induced phsycosis. By the way this story came from the Sugarman bio ‘No One Here Gets Out Alive’. He should be pretty aware since he was the most intimate member of the group that wasn’t part of the band. I believe that book is the reference from one of the other writers in this forum (and he is right, it is a great read).
Morrison poetry…UGH. For the most part it is not very good. A lot of what he wrote was so arcane and typically self centered that even if one could follow the sentence structure the meaning was unclear. Try reading the lyrics alone and a lot of it doesn’t even make sense. Especially without the music to drive it. HUH!?!? Granted some of the words are brilliant stories or touching love songs, but some is unapproachable on its own merit. Communication is the key to writing, otherwise why bother. One may have the greatest ideas around, but if no one else can comprehend the meaning, it is a useless endeavor.
I for one am looking forward to new songs and new ideas from whats left of The Doors. I however have never been very impressed with the quality of ANY live recordings by the group from any era and without Bruce Botnik and his genius at the production board, The Doors are not particularly good or listenable.
I am one of the unfortunate that had a ticket to the Cincinnati concert right that was scheduled right after Morrison pulled his stunt (no pun intended) on the stage in Miami. Needless to say the Cincinnati concert was canceled and I never got to see The Doors live. Too bad the only thing we have to go by is the poor recording quality of the Hollywood concert and a few other low level efforts.

The Doors were sublime - period. Densmore’s drumming, Krieger’s guitar and Manzarek’s keyboards topped off by the irreplacable Morrison will live for ever. Impossible to capture ‘in’ a Hollywood film but maybe in a unique documentary.

you wise guys keep mouthing off about ray. what do you know about it? his sounds set the stage for the group of the 60’s and you have anything bad to say about him. get over yourselves.

Doors music influenced my life and I know I am better for it. For those of you who don’t get it, my condolences!! Music is here to enlighten us

“No one here get’s out alive” if you can find it, get it. its a fantastic read. it will put you in the drivers seat of the doors machine while it was still fresh in the mind of the writer from about 25 years ago.

Its funny people buy the Oliver Stone movie on Jim Morrison yet they don’t buy into the one on JFK.

Go get your projects done Ray!

Godspeed to you from Canada!

I hope he get hit by a large bus!!!

Anti-Oliver Stone?

That movie brought an entirely new generation into the Doors, including me. We bought the soundtrack, the biographies and the little Morrison t-shirts. And Manzerek blasts it?

That movie even made Manzarek look decently handsome, something that is a stretch, I know.

Rusty and the others are right…

The hinges on the Doors couldn’t put up with Morrison’s antics and Stone immortalized their panziness.

And now, they have Hacks like a member of FUEL (Have we already forgotten how whack their music was?) singing songs by legend.

What’s that sound?

It’s Jim scratching on his coffin lid, trying to get out and strangle Manzarek.

After all those years of Ray and the others having to put up with Morrison’s shit, I think it’s great that they get to spend a lifetime capitalizing on the Doors’ success. I look forward to the music and documentary.

i like the doors.

they are hippies.

Hack poet??? What a moron!!
“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws”

Turn me on Deadman…

Good to see Ray is still riding the coat tails of a dead man.

Great Reporting….The Doors Live in Pittsburgh CD was released March 8th… I wish Manzarek would stop complaining about the “Doors Myth” that the surviving Doors and the late Danny Sugarman created.

Sounds to me like you’re just trying to be controversial. If don’t get the Doors vibe, I’m sorry for you.

They were one of the most dynamic and creative bands ever.

Maybe it’s easy to dismiss Morrison, but his sultry beautiful voice and vibe I think is one the main things made the Doors absolutely stellar.

For the love of all that is holy! Find something else to do man! Morrison was a fluke. He just happened to drop acid with the right person at the right time. Read his poetry, and tell me that he’s a genius…..without laughing.

Ray…..you are a great musician….but please……PLEASE utilize your time with something more meaningful.

Ray…….keep moving forward man! Get us some new tunes with Brett.