Many critics have recently been bringing up artists’ “quintessential” concerts, citing The Rolling Stones’ Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out or The Who’s Live At Leeds as examples. With the newly-remastered release of the Doors’ 1968 concert at the Hollywood Bowl, cleverly titled, The Doors Live at the Bowl ’68, this filmed performance is being hailed as the closest thing to a “quintessential” [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jim Morrison’
The Doors, Harrison Ford & the Hollywood Bowl…
Posted: November 14, 2012 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: Harrison Ford, Jim Morrison, Paul Rothchild, The Doors, The Doors Live at the Bowl, The Hollywood Bowl
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Revealing the Identity of “The Phantom” in One of the Most Notorious After-Death Jim Morrison Conspiracies
Posted: April 25, 2012 by Dion in History, Music, Music ReviewTags: Iggy Pop, Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, The Doors, The Phantom, The Phantom's Divine Comedy Part 1
It was back in 1997 in the now-defunct “Record Explosion”, a record store chain in New York City that had a large amount of hard to find music and bootleg material, that I first came across one of the weirdest albums of the 1970’s: Phantom’s Divine Comedy, Part 1. This album may ring a bell for [...]
40th Anniversary of L.A. Woman
Posted: March 4, 2012 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: 1971, Jim Morrison, L.A. Woman, Morrison Hotel, The Doors
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the most iconic albums of all time, the Doors have released a special edition of their final exit, unknowingly their last work together as a band, L.A. Woman. It is a two-disc edition, featuring the original album with never-before released alternate takes and two newly-discovered jams caught [...]
The Doors Live in New York at the Felt Forum, Boxset
Posted: October 31, 2011 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: Blues, Bo Diddley, Bobby Bland, Crosby Stills and Nash, Jim Morrison, John Lee Hooker, John Sebastion, Kurt Weill, The Beatles, The Black Plague, The Doors, The Felt Fourm, Van Morrison, Willie Dixon
(Dion’s review was posted on The Official Doors Facebook and Myspace pages in January, 2011) For hardcore Doors fans, attempting to locate a live recording of the band, aside from the official releases like “Alive She Cried” or “Absolutely Live”, (both which begot the double disc release of “The Doors, In Concert”), was next to [...]