Verfügbare Informationen zu "Feuding Doors reunite to promote CDs"
Qualität des Beitrags: Beteiligte Poster: Black Dog Forum: UNSERE LIEBLINGSMUSIK aus dem Unterforum: THE DOORS Antworten: 2 Forum gestartet am: Sonntag 25.09.2005 Sprache: deutsch Link zum Originaltopic: Feuding Doors reunite to promote CDs Letzte Antwort: vor 17 Jahren, 5 Monaten, 17 Tagen, 12 Stunden, 20 Minuten
Alle Beiträge und Antworten zu "Feuding Doors reunite to promote CDs"
Re: Feuding Doors reunite to promote CDs
Black Dog - 08.11.2006, 13:51Feuding Doors reunite to promote CDs
Feuding Doors reunite to promote CDs
Densmore, Kreiger and Manzarek will appear separately in Los Angeles
Updated: 3:17 p.m. ET Nov. 7, 2006
LOS ANGELES - Just like the Doors song, these are some “Strange Days” for the feuding survivors of the 1960s rock band, who are celebrating the 40th anniversary of their first album while waging a protracted legal battle.
Drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Krieger and keyboardist Ray Manzarek will temporarily bury the hatchet Wednesday. They have agreed to promote jointly a new book and CD boxed set during separate appearances at three locations on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, their old stomping grounds.
Densmore, who successfully sued Manzarek and Krieger to stop them touring as The Doors of the 21st Century, will be at a book store on one side of the street, his estranged colleagues at clubs on the other side.
If they agree on one thing, it’s that it is a coincidence they aren’t scheduled to appear together. Still, it does seem a metaphor for the split in a band that along with charismatic late singer Jim Morrison embraced the peace and love ethos of the ’60s
Densmore, 61, and Manzarek, 67, said in separate interviews that they do not communicate with each other. (A publicist declined to make Krieger, 60, available.)
“These things happen in a rock ’n’ roll band. If you stay together long enough in a rock ’n’ roll band, something will go wrong,” said Manzarek, who lives the life of a country gentleman in the Napa Valley, near San Francisco.
Densmore said there’s no bad blood at his end, “... but yeah, on his ...”
He was referring to an appeal filed by Manzarek, along with Krieger, of last year’s Los Angeles court decision that ordered the pair not only to stop touring as the Doors of the 21st Centur y— they now call themselves Riders of the Storm, after another Doors song — but to turn over all touring profits to the original Doors partnership.
The partnership includes the three survivors, as well as the estates of Morrison and his common-law wife Pamela Courson, who died in 1971 and 1974, respectively.
“Time is an incredible healer,” Densmore said. “The stupid appeal should wind up in a year or so.”
Close the Doors
Densmore said he only wanted to ensure the sanctity of the Doors name. He did not want it to be associated with an oldies act playing county fairs. He also wields his veto to block lucrative deals to license Doors songs, such as “Break On Through,” for TV commercials.
He wouldn’t mind getting a settlement check from the other two, just so that he can pay his legal bills.
Manzarek declined to discuss the litigation in detail, but said the democratic arrangement of the Doors partnership, instituted at Morrison’s behest in their early days, benefits Densmore in other ways. All songwriting royalties are split evenly four ways, and Densmore was a non-songwriter.
“That’s the way it is, man,” Manzarek said.
Densmore describes himself as “an ensemble guy” who allowed Morrison to shine during his poetic ramblings on such songs as ”The End,” Five to One” and “When the Music’s Over.”
To be sure, the infighting in the Doors does not exactly rival the festering hostility within the Beatles organization or the Beach Boys. And the fans don’t seem to mind. A spokeswoman said the Doors sell between 1 million and 2 million albums worldwide annually, and cumulative sales approach 90 million units.
The new boxed set, “Perception,” due in stores Nov. 21, boasts six CDs and six DVDs. Among the previously unreleased gems is video footage of the Doors recording their cover of bluesman John Lee Hooker’s “Crawling King Snake” in 1971.
The newly released book, “The Doors by the Doors,” features a “Rashomon” view of the band, both from its members, and from outsiders. Morrison’s father, retired U.S. Navy Adm. George Morrison, who joined Densmore in his lawsuit, even breaks his lifelong silence to contribute some musings about his son.
Re: Feuding Doors reunite to promote CDs
Black Dog - 10.11.2006, 13:40
Surviving Doors celebrate 40th anniversary
Chester Bennington, left, of Linkin Park, former Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell, second from left, former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash,center, and Robby Krieger, second from right, of The Doors perform at The Doors 40th anniversary at the Whiskey A Go Go.
Updated: 4:01 p.m. ET Nov. 9, 2006
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - The Doors last played the Sunset Strip’s Whisky a Go Go on Aug. 21, 1966, and lead singer Jim Morrison’s rebellious, shamanistic shouts burned memories into the audience.
The group, whose sound helped define the 1960s, was fired by the famous club that night — Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger. They never played the Whisky again ... until now.
On Wednesday night, the rock band’s remaining three members — all gray-haired and in their 60s — hosted a cacophony of events on the Strip to celebrate the group’s 40th anniversary, including a thunderous performance at the Whisky by Manzarek, Krieger and guest musicians. The repertoire included such Doors anthems as “L.A. Woman” and “Light My Fire.”
Densmore, estranged from his former mates after a lawsuit over use of the group’s name, showed up at the club, but didn’t play. A judge last year issued a permanent injunction banning Krieger and Manzarek from calling themselves the Doors and any likeness of the late Morrison to promote a renewed version of the band.
Earlier in the night, the 61-year-old Densmore expertly beat hand drums and joyfully read snippets of Morrison’s darkly sexual and quasi-political poetry down the street at Book Soup. The bookstore fills the site of Morrison’s old stomping ground, Cinematique 60.
All three Doors members signed copies of the newly released coffee-table book “The Doors by The Doors.”
“To honor whatever creative muse came to us, gifted to us, I do these things. Ray and Robby, whether we’re having a rift right now, are musical brothers. I thought if we lasted 10 years, that would be something. Forty? Really? Jeez...,” Densmore told the Associated Press in a recent phone interview.
Hundreds of fans, from parents toting kids to starry-eyed 21-year-olds and aging rockers, were ecstatic at meeting their idols, even without the larger-than-life presence of Morrison, who died of heart failure in 1971 at age 27 after years of hard living.
‘Jim ... would kind of be a mess’
“I miss Jim as a friend. Artistically, he was a great poet,” Manzarek said over the phone. “That’s why we put the band together in the first place, to marry poetry and rock and roll, like the beatniks married poetry and jazz.”
Morrison’s image, of course, will forever remain that of a hip, young voice of a generations. While impossible to know how the ensuing years might have changed that, Krieger, in a phone interview, offered his thoughts.
“Jim Morrison was not the kind of guy who would get old gracefully,” Krieger posited. “He would kind of be a mess. I wish he was still here, and I wish we were still making music.”
Self-described No. 1 Doors fan and collector Ida Miller, who runs the site www.idafan.com, stood in the VIP tent behind the Whisky watching videos of a young, lush-mouthed Morrison.
“The first time I saw Jim, I haven’t been right since,” said the smiling 59-year-old, who saw the group five times, starting in 1968. “I never got tired of the Doors.”
Twenty-one-year-old Kevin Bloomberg would agree.
The lanky, long-haired guitarist crushed into the packed Whiskey to see Krieger, who hosted a listening party earlier in the evening of the band’s new “Perception” box set, due out Nov. 21.
Wearing a ripped black Doors T-shirt, which he had Krieger sign, Bloomberg gushed about meeting the slight-of-build musician.
“It’s like my soul became one,” he said. “My parents were into the Doors, so I got into them.”
Just next to the Whisky, at the Cat Club — formerly the London Fog, where the Doors first played — a line of admirers snaked around the sidewalk to greet Manzarek, who hosted a mini-version of the Doors’ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit opening next year.
Appropriately, the night ended on musical notes.
Incense curled through the hot air as audience members sat and soaked in Densmore’s spiritually minded acoustic poetry performance.
Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington and Former Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell joined in with parts of Morrison’s “An American Prayer” and other poetry, backed by members of Farrell’s new band, Satellite Party.
Later, the two singers turned up the volume at the Whisky with Krieger and Manzarek, aided by Satellite Party members and former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.
As a bespectacled Manzarek pounded his keyboard, Krieger jammed on his guitar.
Though neither Bennington or Farrell could rival Morrison’s stage furor, and Densmore’s absence was felt, the joyful attempt brought the Whisky to roars of approval — mirroring earlier words of wisdom from Manzarek.
“You play music as long as you can breathe. When you stop breathing is when you stop playing rock and roll. Rock and roll will never die. It will always be, it will always go down in history.”[/img][img][/img]
Mit folgendem Code, können Sie den Beitrag ganz bequem auf ihrer Homepage verlinken
Weitere Beiträge aus dem Forum UNSERE LIEBLINGSMUSIK
Wer kennt denn die Drei? - gepostet von Ändy am Freitag 16.03.2007
Das Ende von Dime& Co!? - gepostet von Black Dog am Dienstag 19.12.2006
Kennt ihr Mr. Roboto? - gepostet von Black Dog am Samstag 02.06.2007
Mountain Studios - gepostet von Black Dog am Sonntag 18.11.2007
Robert Plant in Neumarkt/Oberpfalz - gepostet von Black Dog am Dienstag 14.03.2006
Whole Lotta Love kostet 3 Millionen - gepostet von Black Dog am Montag 08.01.2007
Brian May Slams Idol-Style TV Shows - gepostet von Black Dog am Dienstag 08.05.2007
'Before KISS' DVD Due This Week - - gepostet von Black Dog am Mittwoch 29.11.2006
Hotels in der Nähe vom SAGA-Fan Treffen - gepostet von Ändy am Montag 03.07.2006
Ähnliche Beiträge wie "Feuding Doors reunite to promote CDs"
3 Doors Down - thedamager (Mittwoch 01.08.2007)
3 DOORS DOWN - RollinCookie (Sonntag 16.01.2005)
Neue CDs/Platten/DVDs - Black Dog (Montag 30.04.2007)
"Zep-Story" + "Doors-Story" - Black Dog (Donnerstag 01.02.2007)
Passwords for doors & houses - Oblivion (Montag 18.09.2006)
Cds - Gothi (Dienstag 27.06.2006)
Suicide Doors - Imp (Montag 17.07.2006)
SOS - The Eddy Go Round Show - Released - welshabbalover (Samstag 08.11.2008)
The Doors - 30 Years Commemorative Edition - Blackmore (Donnerstag 04.10.2007)
The Doors - Dragonfire (Dienstag 03.07.2007)