Jim Morrison

[Hepcat]

Actually I find in a lot of cases a bands first couple of albums are usually they're best/most original.

Well they say you have your whole life to work on your first album, and then barely six months to work on your second.

[Dr.Cyclops]

Well they say you have your whole life to work on your first album, and then barely six months to work on your second.

This should tell us how great the Doors were,because the second album was amazing too.

[Hepcat]

It was indeed! Here are another couple of great songs from that album:

THE DOORS - You're Lost Little Girl

The Doors - Love Me Two Times

[Dr.Cyclops]

Here's an interesting interview with Paul Rothschild:
http://archives.waiting-forthe-sun.net/Pages/Interviews/OtherInterviews/rothchild_bam.html

[Dr.Cyclops]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTgzWcLB00w

[Allhallowsday]

...and Riders of the Storm was their best song! 

That's "Riders On The Storm" ...and their best song...?  That's debatable.  Though, let me point out that it is my own favorite!! 

This should tell us how great the Doors were,because the second album was amazing too.

I like all their albums, even The Soft Parade, but I still kind of think THE DOORS (typically) broke the model by making their best album last... (an album which "Riders On The Storm" closes).

[Wich2]

As an artist, a talent.

As a person, a mess.

[Allhallowsday]

As an artist, a talent.

As a person, a mess.

Indeed.  It looks like he basically killed himself like so many of the "27 Club".  I still come across AMAZING JIM MORRISON stories (including one that's stunning in a JIMI HENDRIX biography). 

I read that No One Here Gets Out Alive biography too, and still remember it vividly.  I was just ahead of the curve buying all the DOORS albums on vinyl in the late 1970s maybe a year or two before everybody was buying DOORS albums...now of course we know THE DOORS were having a resurgence. 
I subscribed to Rolling Stone magazine (to my amazement) in the late 1970s, early 1980s, and there was a color photograph cover of JIM MORRISON and the story was something like "He's Cool, He's Hot, He's Dead..."  I was too young for THE DOORS (originally) but by the time I was buying records, THE DOORS were a favorite and I had them all on vinyl... even some sought after weird sh!t.   

[Hepcat]

I was just ahead of the curve buying all the DOORS albums on vinyl in the late 1970s maybe a year or two before everybody was buying DOORS albums...now of course we know THE DOORS were having a resurgence.

I bought their first three LPs within months of their initial release, and then the last three plus their first compilation, Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine, within days of their release. And I really liked them all!

[Allhallowsday]

I bought their first three LPs within months of their initial release, and then the last three plus their first compilation, Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine, within days of their release. And I really liked them all!

Wasn't their first compilation 13?  I think it may have been released before MORRISON's death. 

[Hepcat]

Yes, you are correct. Doors' 13 was the Doors' first compilation and it was released 30 November 1970. Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine wasn't released until January 1972. The latter is a double record album with a couple of previously unreleased tracks which makes it more interesting than 13.

[Allhallowsday]

Yes, you are correct. Doors' 13 was the Doors' first compilation and it was released 30 November 1970. Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine wasn't released until January 1972. The latter is a double record album with a couple of previously unreleased tracks which makes it more interesting than 13.

Oh yeh, I know them DOORS albums, had a lot on vinyl and wanted more than I had like Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine... I have another DOORS vinyl compilation on Elektra: The Best of DOORS (1973 probably the only DOORS I still have on vinyl, unfortunately).  I'm holding it now (oh, my DOORS records)!! 

[Mike Scott]

The Doors are one of my favorite bands! Had all the LPs. Long gone, now.

I have this box set with the mini album cover replicas.


And this box with lots of rare tracks and live stuff.
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18921

[Allhallowsday]

Nice, I love those mini-album covers!  Here's my DOORS records... 

[Mike Scott]

Here's my DOORS records... 

You need more DOORS!