Independent publisher Primary Wave Music announced Monday that it has acquired the rights of guitarist Robby Krieger and late keyboardist Ray Manzarek pertaining to their band, the Doors. It includes the Doors’ music publishing catalog, recordings, trademarks, merchandise rights, and income. The deal does not include the late Jim Morrison entities’ and drummer John Densmore’s interests.
The financial terms of what Primary Wave Music described as a “monumental acquisition” have not been disclosed, but it includes their classic hits such as “Break on Through (to the Other Side),” “Light My Fire,...
The financial terms of what Primary Wave Music described as a “monumental acquisition” have not been disclosed, but it includes their classic hits such as “Break on Through (to the Other Side),” “Light My Fire,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure of an iconic vocalist. Some of them stayed in their bands for years, while others lasted just a few months. In the end, however, they all found out that replacement singers can themselves be replaced. This edition features former Manzarek–Krieger singer Dave Brock.
In the aftermath of Jim Morrison’s death in 1971, the surviving members of the...
In the aftermath of Jim Morrison’s death in 1971, the surviving members of the...
- 1/14/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
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Rock and roll lives on in the history of this Tudor-inspired 1938 home in Hollywood Hills. Previously owned by The Doors drummer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member John Densmore, the home played host to band rehearsals downstairs in a room made from the garage. Led by frontman Jim Morrison, the LA-born 1960s band could be seen rehearsing through the windows, where neighbors would often watch them playing.
Tucked away in Laurel Canyon with views overlooking Los Angeles from downtown all the way to the Pacific Ocean, the 1,813 square foot residence sits on an 8,495 square foot lot with three bedrooms. Famous past neighbors of the canyon include old Hollywood movie stars such as Ginger Rogers, Errol Flynn, Laurence Olivier, and Mary Astor, as well as singers Carole King and Joni Mitchell.
Currently on the market for 2,199,000, the home is centrally located near Hollywood nightlife,...
Rock and roll lives on in the history of this Tudor-inspired 1938 home in Hollywood Hills. Previously owned by The Doors drummer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member John Densmore, the home played host to band rehearsals downstairs in a room made from the garage. Led by frontman Jim Morrison, the LA-born 1960s band could be seen rehearsing through the windows, where neighbors would often watch them playing.
Tucked away in Laurel Canyon with views overlooking Los Angeles from downtown all the way to the Pacific Ocean, the 1,813 square foot residence sits on an 8,495 square foot lot with three bedrooms. Famous past neighbors of the canyon include old Hollywood movie stars such as Ginger Rogers, Errol Flynn, Laurence Olivier, and Mary Astor, as well as singers Carole King and Joni Mitchell.
Currently on the market for 2,199,000, the home is centrally located near Hollywood nightlife,...
- 7/29/2022
- by Sydney Odman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
John Densmore vividly remembers the words longtime Doors producer Paul A. Rothchild used to describe “Riders on the Storm”: “cocktail music.” “When he heard it, it was in an early rehearsal and it hadn’t evolved into what it became,” the drummer says of the dramatic track, a cowboy ghost story set to haunting rain and thunder. “But it really is one of our most important songs.”
The full story of the track will finally be told in an upcoming, 50th-anniversary box set reissue of L.A. Woman, the...
The full story of the track will finally be told in an upcoming, 50th-anniversary box set reissue of L.A. Woman, the...
- 9/1/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The Doors’ Ray Manzarek was known as a skilled keyboardist and respected music producer (his credits include seminal albums by X), but he was also a knowledgeable movie buff, having graduated from UCLA’s film program and receiving his Mfa in cinematography in 1965. Forty days after school let out, he met Jim Morrison by chance on Venice Beach and the rest is rock ‘n’ roll history.
The Doors provided musical psychedelia that the youth of 1960s America, staring down a war in Vietnam that proved tragically futile, yearned for. And the four members — Manzarek, Morrison, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robbie Krieger — did so while espousing the use of mind-altering substances like marijuana, LSD and other hallucinogens. All of which was reason enough to include Manzarek in a book called “Reefer Movie Madness,” which this author co-wrote with Steve Bloom ten years ago to serve as a guide to “more than 420 mind-bending flicks.
The Doors provided musical psychedelia that the youth of 1960s America, staring down a war in Vietnam that proved tragically futile, yearned for. And the four members — Manzarek, Morrison, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robbie Krieger — did so while espousing the use of mind-altering substances like marijuana, LSD and other hallucinogens. All of which was reason enough to include Manzarek in a book called “Reefer Movie Madness,” which this author co-wrote with Steve Bloom ten years ago to serve as a guide to “more than 420 mind-bending flicks.
- 4/14/2021
- by Shirley Halperin
- Variety Film + TV
An upcoming benefit concert, Food for Love, will feature David Byrne, Jackson Browne, the Chicks, Kurt Vile, and dozens of other artists performing to help raise money to feed New Mexico’s hungry. The stream will be broadcast on February 13th via the Food for Love website and on YouTube.
“February 13th (Valentine’s Day Eve), some musician friends of mine, and many I’ve never met, are doing a virtual concert to raise money for meals for New Mexico’s hardest hit,” Byrne wrote in a statement, mailed to his newsletter subscribers.
“February 13th (Valentine’s Day Eve), some musician friends of mine, and many I’ve never met, are doing a virtual concert to raise money for meals for New Mexico’s hardest hit,” Byrne wrote in a statement, mailed to his newsletter subscribers.
- 2/1/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Kevin Dillon will portray Warner Bros. Studios founder Jack Warner in Dennis Quaid’s upcoming “Reagan” biopic, Variety has learned.
Production on “Reagan” in Oklahoma was halted for two weeks in late October and early November due to a Covid-19 outbreak among crew members. Shooting resumed on Nov. 5 and will be moving to California, according to producer Mark Joseph.
“Reagan” is directed by Sean McNamara, produced by Joseph and written by Howard Klausner. Penelope Ann Miller plays Nancy Reagan, Jon Voight portrays a Kgb agent who tracked Reagan for 40 years and Mena Suvari plays Reagan’s first wife Jane Wyman.
Reagan signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. in 1937 and made most of his movies there. He starred in “Dark Victory,” “Knute Rockne, All American” and “Kings Row,” which was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture in 1943. Reagan portrayed a double amputee in “Kings Row” and gained renown for the line,...
Production on “Reagan” in Oklahoma was halted for two weeks in late October and early November due to a Covid-19 outbreak among crew members. Shooting resumed on Nov. 5 and will be moving to California, according to producer Mark Joseph.
“Reagan” is directed by Sean McNamara, produced by Joseph and written by Howard Klausner. Penelope Ann Miller plays Nancy Reagan, Jon Voight portrays a Kgb agent who tracked Reagan for 40 years and Mena Suvari plays Reagan’s first wife Jane Wyman.
Reagan signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. in 1937 and made most of his movies there. He starred in “Dark Victory,” “Knute Rockne, All American” and “Kings Row,” which was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture in 1943. Reagan portrayed a double amputee in “Kings Row” and gained renown for the line,...
- 11/15/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Doors drummer John Densmore discusses his musical and personal relationship with the band’s keys maestro Ray Manzarek in this new excerpt from the drummer’s upcoming book, The Seekers: Meetings With Remarkable Musicians (And Other Artists), out November 17th.
The book, as its title suggests, is less a straight memoir or autobiography than an exploration of the creative life and process. Inspired by Greek-Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff’s 1927 book, Meetings With Remarkable Men, Densmore says in the intro to The Seekers that his goal was to assemble “my own...
The book, as its title suggests, is less a straight memoir or autobiography than an exploration of the creative life and process. Inspired by Greek-Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff’s 1927 book, Meetings With Remarkable Men, Densmore says in the intro to The Seekers that his goal was to assemble “my own...
- 11/13/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Before the Doors recorded the first take of “Roadhouse Blues,” the boogieing lead-off to their fifth album, Morrison Hotel, frontman Jim Morrison set the scene for the band by describing a vivid scene with his natural gusto.
“Now the subject of this song is something that all of you have seen at one time or another, it’s an old roadhouse,” he told the band, as heard in the previously unreleased recording premiering on Rolling Stone. “We’re down in the South or in the Midwest or maybe on the way to Bakersfield,...
“Now the subject of this song is something that all of you have seen at one time or another, it’s an old roadhouse,” he told the band, as heard in the previously unreleased recording premiering on Rolling Stone. “We’re down in the South or in the Midwest or maybe on the way to Bakersfield,...
- 10/1/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Like many younger fans of the Doors, Leah Moore was intoxicated by their aura, their mystery, when she was a teen. The comics writer recalls being introduced to the band via 1987’s The Lost Boys, particularly the Jim Morrison poster the vampire teens kept in their cave. Then, in 1992, she convinced her physics teachers to take her class to visit Morrison’s grave during a class jaunt to Paris.
“It was pouring with rain, absolutely battering it down, and there was us, a really unpromising gang of nerdy 13- or 14-year-old kids in raincoats,...
“It was pouring with rain, absolutely battering it down, and there was us, a really unpromising gang of nerdy 13- or 14-year-old kids in raincoats,...
- 6/10/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
The Doors’ Robby Krieger will release his first solo album in 10 years this spring, The Ritual Begins at Sundown. Ahead of the LP’s arrival, the guitarist also shared the first single “The Drift.”
Krieger’s first album since 2010’s Singularity was influenced by another classic rock icon, Frank Zappa: The Ritual Begins at Sundown was co-written and produced by Zappa collaborator Arthur Barrow, features Zappa alumni among Krieger’s backing band and also boasts a cover of Zappa’s “Chunga’s Revenge” on the tracklist.
“I was hanging...
Krieger’s first album since 2010’s Singularity was influenced by another classic rock icon, Frank Zappa: The Ritual Begins at Sundown was co-written and produced by Zappa collaborator Arthur Barrow, features Zappa alumni among Krieger’s backing band and also boasts a cover of Zappa’s “Chunga’s Revenge” on the tracklist.
“I was hanging...
- 2/21/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The Doors: Break On Thru – A Celebration Of Ray Manzarek Screens at Tivoli Theatre February 12th at 7pm. Ticket information can be found Here. A Facebook invite for the event can be found Here
The Doors: Break on Thru – A Celebration of Ray Manzarek is a hybrid concert and documentary capturing a 2016 performance in Los Angeles by surviving Doors members John Densmore and Robby Krieger to honor fellow Doors member Ray Manzarek on what would have been his birthday on February 12. The Doors were born when Ray Manzarek met Jim Morrison on Venice Beach in 1965. Ray became the beating heart of The Doors and the architect of their intoxicating keyboard sound. Manzarek’s evocative playing fused rock, jazz, blues, bossa nova and an array of other styles into something utterly, dazzlingly new. The setlist from the concert consists of Doors songs performed by John and Robby alongside a cast of...
The Doors: Break on Thru – A Celebration of Ray Manzarek is a hybrid concert and documentary capturing a 2016 performance in Los Angeles by surviving Doors members John Densmore and Robby Krieger to honor fellow Doors member Ray Manzarek on what would have been his birthday on February 12. The Doors were born when Ray Manzarek met Jim Morrison on Venice Beach in 1965. Ray became the beating heart of The Doors and the architect of their intoxicating keyboard sound. Manzarek’s evocative playing fused rock, jazz, blues, bossa nova and an array of other styles into something utterly, dazzlingly new. The setlist from the concert consists of Doors songs performed by John and Robby alongside a cast of...
- 2/10/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In this lacklustre documentary, surviving members of the Doors reunite on stage to pay tribute to the band’s late keyboard player
Here’s a deeply uncool, almost embarrassingly un-rock’n’roll Doors documentary; it’s unlikely to get toes a-tapping let alone light a fire. It’s essentially a filmed gig, reuniting the two surviving Doors, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, on stage with assorted members of Foo Fighters, Jane’s Addiction, Stone Temple Pilots and more filling in for Jim Morrison and keyboardist Ray Manzarek. The hits comes thick and fast, tightly arranged and slickly performed, but this lineup of well-preserved mostly male musicians gives the show the bland atmosphere of a celebrity tribute band.
The gig is dedicated to Manzarek, who died in 2013, and director Justin Kreutzmann pads out the gig footage with an interview the keyboardist gave and fresh input from Krieger and Densmore.
Here’s a deeply uncool, almost embarrassingly un-rock’n’roll Doors documentary; it’s unlikely to get toes a-tapping let alone light a fire. It’s essentially a filmed gig, reuniting the two surviving Doors, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, on stage with assorted members of Foo Fighters, Jane’s Addiction, Stone Temple Pilots and more filling in for Jim Morrison and keyboardist Ray Manzarek. The hits comes thick and fast, tightly arranged and slickly performed, but this lineup of well-preserved mostly male musicians gives the show the bland atmosphere of a celebrity tribute band.
The gig is dedicated to Manzarek, who died in 2013, and director Justin Kreutzmann pads out the gig footage with an interview the keyboardist gave and fresh input from Krieger and Densmore.
- 2/6/2020
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
The two surviving members of the Doors gathered an eclectic group of friends and peers Thursday, for a special one-night-only reunion performance at a charity concert in Los Angeles.
John Densmore and Robby Krieger were joined on stage by Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic on bass for the first-ever “Homeward Bound” concert, a fundraising event for Path (People Assisting the Homeless), a non-profit focused on affordable housing and services for the homeless population in California.
Densmore and Krieger were supported on the bill by Ingrid Michaelson, Fitz and the Tantrums, and Jason Mraz,...
John Densmore and Robby Krieger were joined on stage by Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic on bass for the first-ever “Homeward Bound” concert, a fundraising event for Path (People Assisting the Homeless), a non-profit focused on affordable housing and services for the homeless population in California.
Densmore and Krieger were supported on the bill by Ingrid Michaelson, Fitz and the Tantrums, and Jason Mraz,...
- 1/24/2020
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins fronted the surviving members of the Doors for a bluesy performance of “Love Me Two Times” in 2016. The performance is part of The Doors: Break on Thru, an upcoming concert documentary honoring the late keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who died from cancer in 2013.
In the clip, Hawkins takes Jim Morrison’s lead vocals on the 1967 song, backed by Doors guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore. They’re joined by Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert DeLeo as well as Foo Fighters keyboardist Rami Jaffee, who plays Manzarek’s iconic parts.
In the clip, Hawkins takes Jim Morrison’s lead vocals on the 1967 song, backed by Doors guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore. They’re joined by Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert DeLeo as well as Foo Fighters keyboardist Rami Jaffee, who plays Manzarek’s iconic parts.
- 1/23/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Next Thursday, January 23rd, the two surviving members of the Doors — drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger — will make a rare appearance together at the Homeward Bound charity concert at the Wiltern in Los Angeles.
It’s been a couple of years since the pair last took the stage together, and one week out, Densmore admits to Rolling Stone that he and Krieger have yet to finalize a setlist — or even rehearse.
“I’m used to it!” Densmore says. “I was the one who did the setlists in the Doors,...
It’s been a couple of years since the pair last took the stage together, and one week out, Densmore admits to Rolling Stone that he and Krieger have yet to finalize a setlist — or even rehearse.
“I’m used to it!” Densmore says. “I was the one who did the setlists in the Doors,...
- 1/17/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
In today’s film news roundup, one-night showings of a Ray Manzarek tribute and the season premiere of “Doctor Who” have been set for 2020, and the MPAA hires a copyright expert.
One-night Showings
The Doors and Trafalgar Releasing are teaming on the worldwide Feb. 12 release of “The Doors: Break on Thru – A Celebration of Ray Manzarek.”
The film has been dated on the birthday of Manzarek, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors. He passed away in 2013.
The concert/documentary was filmed at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles and brought surviving members from The Doors, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, on stage for the first time in 15 years to celebrate Manzarek’s birthday. The film also includes performances from Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins and Rami Jaffee, Stone Temple Pilots’ Robert DeLeo, Paul McCartney’s Brian Ray, X’s Exene and John Doe, Jane’s Addiction’s Stephen Perkins and Gov’t Mule’s Warren Haynes.
One-night Showings
The Doors and Trafalgar Releasing are teaming on the worldwide Feb. 12 release of “The Doors: Break on Thru – A Celebration of Ray Manzarek.”
The film has been dated on the birthday of Manzarek, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors. He passed away in 2013.
The concert/documentary was filmed at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles and brought surviving members from The Doors, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, on stage for the first time in 15 years to celebrate Manzarek’s birthday. The film also includes performances from Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins and Rami Jaffee, Stone Temple Pilots’ Robert DeLeo, Paul McCartney’s Brian Ray, X’s Exene and John Doe, Jane’s Addiction’s Stephen Perkins and Gov’t Mule’s Warren Haynes.
- 12/10/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The Doors have announced a new concert documentary to honor the legacy of late keyboardist Ray Manzarek. The Doors: Break on Thru – A Celebration of Ray Manzarek will premiere in theaters around the world in a one-night only event on February 12th, which would have been Manzarek’s birthday. Tickets can be found at TheDoorsFilm.com.
Filmed at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, California, in 2016, the “hybrid concert/documentary” will feature surviving Doors members Robby Krieger and John Densmore — on stage for the first time in 15 years — alongside...
Filmed at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, California, in 2016, the “hybrid concert/documentary” will feature surviving Doors members Robby Krieger and John Densmore — on stage for the first time in 15 years — alongside...
- 12/9/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
When the Doors’ producer, Paul A. Rothchild, suggested adding orchestral strings and horns to guitarist Robby Krieger’s song “Touch Me,” Krieger was not happy. It was two years after Sgt. Pepper, and he says he was wary of the band being seen as copycats. “I said, ‘Oh, God. Now we’re copying the Beatles,’ and the Stones had just done their version of the orchestra thing,” he recalls. “So it was like we were keeping up with the Joneses or something.” Also, he worried the move might alienate the band’s fan base.
- 9/19/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Tom Jennings, a retired Hollywood talent agent and casting director, was killed in a household fire on Bainbridge Island in Washington State on April 18, his family announced Tuesday. He was 81.
Jennings’ notable clients during his long career included Julian Fellowes, Burl Ives, Lee Van Cleef and Gene Simmons.
Along with partner Walter Beakel, he founded the boutique talent agency Beakel and Jennings in 1976.
Also Read: Peggy Lipton of 'Mod Squad' and 'Twin Peaks' Dies at 72
Born in Evanston, Illinois in 1937, Jennings grew up in Santa Barbara, California, and later attended Hanover College in Indiana before serving in the Marine corps. He began his career in Hollywood in the late 1950s as an agency assistant to Bing Crosby at Artists Agency Corporation, later moving on to General Artists where he assisted Bill Sargent with the cult music series “The Teenage Music International.”
Following his departure from General Artists in the early ’60s,...
Jennings’ notable clients during his long career included Julian Fellowes, Burl Ives, Lee Van Cleef and Gene Simmons.
Along with partner Walter Beakel, he founded the boutique talent agency Beakel and Jennings in 1976.
Also Read: Peggy Lipton of 'Mod Squad' and 'Twin Peaks' Dies at 72
Born in Evanston, Illinois in 1937, Jennings grew up in Santa Barbara, California, and later attended Hanover College in Indiana before serving in the Marine corps. He began his career in Hollywood in the late 1950s as an agency assistant to Bing Crosby at Artists Agency Corporation, later moving on to General Artists where he assisted Bill Sargent with the cult music series “The Teenage Music International.”
Following his departure from General Artists in the early ’60s,...
- 5/15/2019
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Alice in Chains enlisted the Doors guitarist Robby Krieger for a special performance of the grunge band’s classic “Rooster” during their concert Wednesday at the Palladium in Los Angeles, California.
Krieger added bluesy, atmospheric fills to the Dirt song, countering Jerry Cantrell’s wild wah-wah leads. The psych-rock veteran visibly smiled during Cantrell’s solo as he locked in-sync with singer-guitarist William DuVall.
The Doors-Alice in Chains connection runs deep: In December 2017, surviving Doors members Krieger and John Densmore reunited during an award ceremony at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle,...
Krieger added bluesy, atmospheric fills to the Dirt song, countering Jerry Cantrell’s wild wah-wah leads. The psych-rock veteran visibly smiled during Cantrell’s solo as he locked in-sync with singer-guitarist William DuVall.
The Doors-Alice in Chains connection runs deep: In December 2017, surviving Doors members Krieger and John Densmore reunited during an award ceremony at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle,...
- 8/31/2018
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
“What a great opener, ‘Hello, I love you, tell me your name,'” the Doors‘ drummer John Densmore says. “Like, whoa, Ok. That’s aggressive. You’re in love with me but you don’t know my credentials?”
He laughs and says that kind of pickup line was not frontman Jim Morrison’s style at all, even if he did write the lyrics. “He was sort of ‘Southern shy,'” the drummer says. “Well, if he got loaded, he got a little more open – a little too open sometimes.” But...
He laughs and says that kind of pickup line was not frontman Jim Morrison’s style at all, even if he did write the lyrics. “He was sort of ‘Southern shy,'” the drummer says. “Well, if he got loaded, he got a little more open – a little too open sometimes.” But...
- 7/30/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
There are plenty of streets in Los Angeles. But, there are only two named for The Doors legendary John Densmore and Jim Morrison. Los Angeles was the place where The Doors came to be in 1965. The influential rock band is truly one of the best to emerge from the huge megalopolis. It’s also typical of Los Angeles that streets are ubiquitous. Los Angelenos appreciate their functionality, and normally elevate them to places of honor when they develop the regular reputation for easier or faster access to or from someplace. With literally thousands of streets in use daily, it always
Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Day of The Doors Celebration...
Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Day of The Doors Celebration...
- 1/10/2018
- by Judy Greenlees
- TVovermind.com
The Doors' legendary performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival will be available for the first time on DVD and CD February 23rd. The festival is thought to be the last filmed Doors concert.
A new trailer for The Doors: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 teases snippets of the Doors' 2 a.m. set and includes shots of them performing "Light My Fire" and "Break on Through." The clip also teases unique footage of the Isle of Wight crowd, a particular fascination of the film's director, Murray Lerner.
Live at...
A new trailer for The Doors: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 teases snippets of the Doors' 2 a.m. set and includes shots of them performing "Light My Fire" and "Break on Through." The clip also teases unique footage of the Isle of Wight crowd, a particular fascination of the film's director, Murray Lerner.
Live at...
- 12/14/2017
- Rollingstone.com
The Doors' legendary performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival will be available for the first time on DVD and CD February 23rd. The festival is thought to be the last filmed Doors concert.
A new trailer for The Doors: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 teases snippets of the Doors' 2 a.m. set and includes shots of them performing "Light My Fire" and "Break on Through." The clip also teases unique footage of the Isle of Wight crowd, a particular fascination of the film's director, Murray Lerner.
Live at...
A new trailer for The Doors: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 teases snippets of the Doors' 2 a.m. set and includes shots of them performing "Light My Fire" and "Break on Through." The clip also teases unique footage of the Isle of Wight crowd, a particular fascination of the film's director, Murray Lerner.
Live at...
- 12/14/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Even legends have to start somewhere.
For the Doors — the psych rock pioneers who pushed the limits of minds and music with tracks like “Light My Fire,” “Love Me Two Times” and “L.A. Woman”— it can all be traced to the London Fog on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip. Just months after forming, the nascent group was offered a residency at the down-at-the-heels club in early 1966. Having played little more than the odd college party for their UCLA film school friends, the London Fog became the Doors’ home base and testing ground. Six nights a week, from 9 p.m. to 2 a.
For the Doors — the psych rock pioneers who pushed the limits of minds and music with tracks like “Light My Fire,” “Love Me Two Times” and “L.A. Woman”— it can all be traced to the London Fog on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip. Just months after forming, the nascent group was offered a residency at the down-at-the-heels club in early 1966. Having played little more than the odd college party for their UCLA film school friends, the London Fog became the Doors’ home base and testing ground. Six nights a week, from 9 p.m. to 2 a.
- 12/30/2016
- by Jordan Runtagh
- PEOPLE.com
It used to be that you couldn’t find too many Hollywood celebrities who were willing to go on the record as Bernie Sanders supporters. Even as Hillary Clinton’s numbers were sliding amid news reports that she used a private email server during her years as secretary of state, Hollywood remained squarely in Clinton’s camp. But these days more and more A-list names are publicly coming out in support of the Vermont senator, something unfathomable just a few months ago. “I witnessed 20,000 people screaming for this guy at the L.A. Sports Arena and he wasn’t even wearing leather pants,...
- 11/29/2015
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
"You know how you explore the history of music in Los Angeles?," Dave Grohl asks. "You get out of Los Angeles."
For the fifth episode of Sonic Highways, the Foo Fighters frontman mainly eschewed the city proper and traveled three hours east to Rancho de la Luna, the Joshua Tree-based studio that was ground zero for desert rock and recorded Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age and Fu Manchu, among others.
"I didn't want to focus on all of those iconic studios like Ocean Way Recording or Record Plant and...
For the fifth episode of Sonic Highways, the Foo Fighters frontman mainly eschewed the city proper and traveled three hours east to Rancho de la Luna, the Joshua Tree-based studio that was ground zero for desert rock and recorded Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age and Fu Manchu, among others.
"I didn't want to focus on all of those iconic studios like Ocean Way Recording or Record Plant and...
- 11/15/2014
- Rollingstone.com
wiki
The Doors came onto the Los Angeles scene in the late sixties armed with just a handful of tunes, a limited amount of time spent together as a band and only a residency at the not so trendy London Fog as their splintered rung on the ladder to stardom. From this humble platform, the band performed and experimented and then performed some more, creating lengthy renditions of songs we’ve since come to love. Following a promotion to regular players at the Whisky a Go Go, the buzz around this wildly unpredictable band grew enough for Elektra Records president, Jac Holzman, to slip on his loafers and head on down to see what the fuss was about. What followed was a musical journey like no other.
The great thing about putting together a list focusing on The Doors’ greatest tracks is it reminds you that everything the band did was a group effort.
The Doors came onto the Los Angeles scene in the late sixties armed with just a handful of tunes, a limited amount of time spent together as a band and only a residency at the not so trendy London Fog as their splintered rung on the ladder to stardom. From this humble platform, the band performed and experimented and then performed some more, creating lengthy renditions of songs we’ve since come to love. Following a promotion to regular players at the Whisky a Go Go, the buzz around this wildly unpredictable band grew enough for Elektra Records president, Jac Holzman, to slip on his loafers and head on down to see what the fuss was about. What followed was a musical journey like no other.
The great thing about putting together a list focusing on The Doors’ greatest tracks is it reminds you that everything the band did was a group effort.
- 8/20/2014
- by Shaun Davis
- Obsessed with Film
One member of The Doors is amped the Mars Rover mission plays "Break on Through" as a wake-up call in the morning -- telling TMZ, it's the perfect song for an extraterrestrial ... because The Doors are basically aliens.In case you didn't know, several crew members on the Mars Curiosity Rover Mission answered a bunch of questions on Reddit yesterday -- and one question involved the the rover's "wake-up" songs ... i.e. songs played by...
- 8/17/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Call John Densmore a skeptic. Newly-minted Grammy winner Skrillex had his work cut out for him when he paired with the Doors, including drummer Densmore, to create a new song based on “Riders on the Storm” in “Re:Generation,” a new documentary that links well-known DJs, such as the Crystal Method, DJ Premier and Mark Ronson, with artists in other genres. The film, which plays in theaters Feb. 23 before finding a TV and then DVD home, chronicles the musical journey that all the musicians travel when they step out of their comfort zones. [More after the jump...] Though Skrillex wasn’t born...
- 2/23/2012
- Hitfix
Everett The Doors: (front) John Densmore, Robby Krieger, (back) Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison.
The Doors have always defied a simple description.
Was the band pop or avant-garde? Were they pompous or profound? And what should observers make of the cult around lead singer Jim Morrison, who died in Paris in 1971 but remains a vivid presence in the minds of his fanatical fans?
The Los Angeles quartet took the pop-music world by storm in 1967 with their first hit, “Light My Fire.
The Doors have always defied a simple description.
Was the band pop or avant-garde? Were they pompous or profound? And what should observers make of the cult around lead singer Jim Morrison, who died in Paris in 1971 but remains a vivid presence in the minds of his fanatical fans?
The Los Angeles quartet took the pop-music world by storm in 1967 with their first hit, “Light My Fire.
- 11/29/2011
- by Jon Friedman
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 20, 2011
Price: DVD $14.98, Blu-ray $19.98
Studio: Eagle Rock
Jim Morrison is Mr. Mojo Risin' in The Story of L.A. Woman.
The music-filled documentary film Mr. Mojo Risin’: The Story of L.A. Woman chronicles the creation and legacy of rock group The Doors’ landmark 1971 album L.A. Woman, featuring the inimitable vocal stylings of late singer Jim Morrison.
The movie is told through new interviews with surviving Doors members Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore, as well as Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman, original Doors manager Bill Siddons and engineer/co-producer Bruce Botnick. Produced with the full involvement, approval and cooperation of The Doors, the film also features live and studio performances and rare archival photos.
The group’s final album (Morrison died a few months after its release), L.A. Woman marks its 40th anniversary this year and is being reissued as a...
Price: DVD $14.98, Blu-ray $19.98
Studio: Eagle Rock
Jim Morrison is Mr. Mojo Risin' in The Story of L.A. Woman.
The music-filled documentary film Mr. Mojo Risin’: The Story of L.A. Woman chronicles the creation and legacy of rock group The Doors’ landmark 1971 album L.A. Woman, featuring the inimitable vocal stylings of late singer Jim Morrison.
The movie is told through new interviews with surviving Doors members Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore, as well as Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman, original Doors manager Bill Siddons and engineer/co-producer Bruce Botnick. Produced with the full involvement, approval and cooperation of The Doors, the film also features live and studio performances and rare archival photos.
The group’s final album (Morrison died a few months after its release), L.A. Woman marks its 40th anniversary this year and is being reissued as a...
- 11/23/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
This fall has already given us the interesting (ahem) Lou Reed-Metallica collaboration "Lulu," but now the remaining members of gloom-jam pioneers The Doors have one-upped that mismatch with "Breakin' A Sweat (It's Alright)," which they recorded with white-hot dubstep producer Skrillex. Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robbie Krieger have seemingly never known quite what to do with the legacy of The Doors after frontman Jim Morrison died in 1971, leaving behind 6 studio albums that can still be heard in dorm rooms across the country. After several post-Morrison Doors LPs and brief reunions, drummer Densmore separated from the other two. In...
- 11/17/2011
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
What happens when you take 5 prominent DJs, pair them with artists from 5 contrasting genres, and film it? Well that’s exactly what the Re:Generation Music Project is looking to find out with their upcoming Documentary entitled Re:Generation.
The film, sponsored both by The Grammys as well as Hyundai’s new Veloster sports car, follows 5 electronic musicians as they are faced with the tedious task of adapting to genre’s uniquely different from their own. Some artists such as DJ Premiere and Skrillex, find the experience to be entirely humbling and gratifying, while others like Pretty Lights and The Crystal Method, encounter nothing but resistance as both genres and personalities race towards a head on collision.
Check Out The Trailer:
Unlike similar films like 2009′s It Might Get Loud, this film will not be released in theaters, but will instead see an exclusive premiere on YouTube in February 2012. Now at first...
The film, sponsored both by The Grammys as well as Hyundai’s new Veloster sports car, follows 5 electronic musicians as they are faced with the tedious task of adapting to genre’s uniquely different from their own. Some artists such as DJ Premiere and Skrillex, find the experience to be entirely humbling and gratifying, while others like Pretty Lights and The Crystal Method, encounter nothing but resistance as both genres and personalities race towards a head on collision.
Check Out The Trailer:
Unlike similar films like 2009′s It Might Get Loud, this film will not be released in theaters, but will instead see an exclusive premiere on YouTube in February 2012. Now at first...
- 10/31/2011
- by Ty Cooper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ray Manzarek's The Poet in Exile says Jim Morrison is alive The film explores the urban legend that Jim Morrison, Manzarek's bandmate in The Doors, is still alive. Variety reports that Manzarek Tim Sullivan is set to direct, script as well as produce via his Clubhouse Entertainment. Manzarek co-founded of The Doors with Jim Morrison, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore, back in 1965 and was the keyboardist. He'll produce with an eye to start filming some time in 2012.
- 10/10/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
From acoustic guitarists, James Lee Stanley and Cliff Eberhardt comes "All Wood And Doors", available on DVD, July 12, 2011, featuring original "Doors" band members, John Densmore (percussion) and Robby Krieger (lead guitar) with Peter Tork ("Monkees"), Timothy B Schmit ("Eagles"), Laurence Juber ("Paul McCartney & Wings"), Paul Barrere ("Little Feat"), Scott Breadman ("Lindsay Buckingham") and a whole lot more :
"...can you imagine what 'The Doors' songs would have sounded like if they had been created with acoustic guitars? Would 'Light My Fire', 'Riders On the Storm' or 'Touch Me' been as powerful played on acoustic guitars and filled with vocal harmonies? James Lee Stanley and Cliff Eberhardt, have been purveyors of acoustic rock music for decades. They took 12 'Doors' classics and turned them into something totally unthought of...an amazing collection of 'Doors' tunes laden with soulful vocals and joyous harmonies..."
Tracks include "Break On Through", "Love Me Two Times", "Take...
"...can you imagine what 'The Doors' songs would have sounded like if they had been created with acoustic guitars? Would 'Light My Fire', 'Riders On the Storm' or 'Touch Me' been as powerful played on acoustic guitars and filled with vocal harmonies? James Lee Stanley and Cliff Eberhardt, have been purveyors of acoustic rock music for decades. They took 12 'Doors' classics and turned them into something totally unthought of...an amazing collection of 'Doors' tunes laden with soulful vocals and joyous harmonies..."
Tracks include "Break On Through", "Love Me Two Times", "Take...
- 6/30/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
"Riders on the Storm" hitmaker, John Densmore has taken to his website to kindly ask fans to stop requesting his signature.
He writes, "The last several years I have been so flooded with requests that it is interfering with my personal life, and I am going to have to stop."
"Fans (or opportunists from ebay) track me when I land at any airport, follow me into the bathroom, and hang around my hotel, looking for my John Henry (autograph). It is unfortunate, but I have to draw the line."
Former The Beatles star Ringo Starr did a similar thing in 2008, when he posted a video online and pleaded with admirers to stop sending him fanmail and autograph requests.
Starr insisted he would retire his signature and quit responding to mail after 20 October, 2008.
He announced: "This is a serious message to everyone watching my update right now... I want to tell you,...
He writes, "The last several years I have been so flooded with requests that it is interfering with my personal life, and I am going to have to stop."
"Fans (or opportunists from ebay) track me when I land at any airport, follow me into the bathroom, and hang around my hotel, looking for my John Henry (autograph). It is unfortunate, but I have to draw the line."
Former The Beatles star Ringo Starr did a similar thing in 2008, when he posted a video online and pleaded with admirers to stop sending him fanmail and autograph requests.
Starr insisted he would retire his signature and quit responding to mail after 20 October, 2008.
He announced: "This is a serious message to everyone watching my update right now... I want to tell you,...
- 4/21/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Oliver Stone may forever be accused of making politically-interfering films, informed more by the director’s own sensibilities and ideological leanings than on actual fact, but in The Doors, he at least offered an appropriate- and appropriately pretentious- celebration of Jim Morrison‘s life, death and genius. This is not just a fluff piece or a vehicle simply for the kaleidoscopic music of The Doors, it is punctured and punctuated by a cautionary tale against the evils of celebrity and drugs, and as of this week it’s aiming to blow a few minds now on blu-ray.
The Doors is of course a sprawling biopic of the legend that was Jim Morrison, focusing on his childhood and college studies, his rise to fame and infamy with the band formed with fellow ex-ucla students Ray Manzarek (Kyle MacLachlan), Robby Krieger (Frank Whaley), and John Densmore (Kevin Dillon), and his untimely death...
The Doors is of course a sprawling biopic of the legend that was Jim Morrison, focusing on his childhood and college studies, his rise to fame and infamy with the band formed with fellow ex-ucla students Ray Manzarek (Kyle MacLachlan), Robby Krieger (Frank Whaley), and John Densmore (Kevin Dillon), and his untimely death...
- 4/19/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
Elton John attends 26th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Photo copyright Janet Mayer / PR Photos. Alice Cooper attends 26th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Photo copyright Janet Mayer / PR Photos. John Densmore attends 26th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Photo copyright Janet Mayer / PR Photos. Neil Diamond attends 26th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Photo copyright Janet Mayer / PR Photos. Darlene Love attends 26th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Photo copyright Janet Mayer / PR Photos. 03/14/2011 - Alice Cooper - 26th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony...
- 3/16/2011
- by Michelle Wray
- Monsters and Critics
With more stagger than swagger this Jim Morrison biopic looks great, but there's not a lot going on underneath
Director: Oliver Stone
Entertainment grade: D–
History grade: B
Formed in 1965 in California, rock band The Doors have sold more than 90m albums worldwide.
Childhood
The film begins with the aftermath of a road accident in the desert. Driving past in his family car, four-year-old Jim Morrison sees scores of grievously injured native Americans. The real Morrison's parents and sister disputed his memory of the incident, which is referenced in several Doors songs ("Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding… All over the highway, bleeding to death"), as exaggeration. But this movie is concerned with creating a historical picture of Jim Morrison's psyche, not necessarily with creating a historical picture of reality. Jim Morrison's psyche and reality were not closely acquainted. So the film may be on factually dubious territory here,...
Director: Oliver Stone
Entertainment grade: D–
History grade: B
Formed in 1965 in California, rock band The Doors have sold more than 90m albums worldwide.
Childhood
The film begins with the aftermath of a road accident in the desert. Driving past in his family car, four-year-old Jim Morrison sees scores of grievously injured native Americans. The real Morrison's parents and sister disputed his memory of the incident, which is referenced in several Doors songs ("Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding… All over the highway, bleeding to death"), as exaggeration. But this movie is concerned with creating a historical picture of Jim Morrison's psyche, not necessarily with creating a historical picture of reality. Jim Morrison's psyche and reality were not closely acquainted. So the film may be on factually dubious territory here,...
- 2/17/2011
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Johnny Depp's well known obsession with Keith Richards has a new outlet, a full fledged documentary that he's directing on the legendary Rolling Stone guitarist. "It's coming along great," Depp told Entertainment Weekly. "Any time that he's got a minute, any time I've got a minute. We've done one, let's say, installment, that was fairly intense. We shot for a few days, and we got 35 hours of footage -- that's me and Keith sitting and talking in a room that's very, you know, apropos of Keith. We're sitting on couches, having a drink, and talking."
"Pirates of the Caribbean" cinematographer, Dariusz Wolski, is behind the camera on the untitled doc. Depp claims that it looks like "a cross between "The Godfather" and a painting by Caravaggio." It's really something to see Keith in that atmosphere."
The documentary combines interviews, performance footage of Richards including that of his band the X-Pensive Winos,...
"Pirates of the Caribbean" cinematographer, Dariusz Wolski, is behind the camera on the untitled doc. Depp claims that it looks like "a cross between "The Godfather" and a painting by Caravaggio." It's really something to see Keith in that atmosphere."
The documentary combines interviews, performance footage of Richards including that of his band the X-Pensive Winos,...
- 1/17/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
Jim Morrison's former bandmates have claimed that his recent pardon has come too late. The late Doors singer was officially pardoned earlier this month by the governor of Florida for an indecent exposure charge dating back more than 40 years. Morrison was convicted of the charge after allegedly exposing himself to a crowd during a 1969 concert in Miami. Former Doors members Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby Krieger have spoken out about the gesture and called the original charges against Morrison "an affront to free speech". "We don't feel Jim needs to be pardoned for anything," the surviving members of The Doors said in a statement. "The charges against him were largely an opportunity for grandstanding (more)...
- 12/23/2010
- by By Mike Moody
- Digital Spy
Former The Doors drummer John Densmore is adamant Jim Morrison didn't expose himself on stage at a gig in Florida in 1969 - and he's urging officials to finally see sense and offer his late bandmate a pardon.
The band's frontman was handed a six-month jail term and a $500 fine after he was convicted of drunkenly exposing himself on stage at a show in Miami. He was appealing the sentence when he died in Paris, France in 1971.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has now put the star forward for a pardon which will be decided at a clemency hearing on December 9, and the move has the full backing of Morrison's former bandmate. Densmore tells the Hollywood Reporter, "He didn't do it! I was there; if Jim had revealed the golden shaft, I would have known."
"There were hundreds of photographs taken and tons of cops and no evidence. Yeah, Jim was a drunk and a sensational,...
The band's frontman was handed a six-month jail term and a $500 fine after he was convicted of drunkenly exposing himself on stage at a show in Miami. He was appealing the sentence when he died in Paris, France in 1971.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has now put the star forward for a pardon which will be decided at a clemency hearing on December 9, and the move has the full backing of Morrison's former bandmate. Densmore tells the Hollywood Reporter, "He didn't do it! I was there; if Jim had revealed the golden shaft, I would have known."
"There were hundreds of photographs taken and tons of cops and no evidence. Yeah, Jim was a drunk and a sensational,...
- 12/4/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
One of the most infamous events of rock and roll took place on March 1, 1969 when The Doors played a hot, oversold show in a converted airplane hangar in Miami, Florida. The show was delayed and the crowd had grown restless. Jim Morrison showed up late to a wild throng, fortified with alcohol, and let loose with his free form anti-establishment ranting. It was then that forces aligned against the band during that politically charged summer, claim Morrison whipped out his penis. He was charged, then convicted with indecent exposure and the whole ensuing debacle nearly destroyed the band.
Drummer John Densmore, along with many others, has long claimed that he never saw Morrison expose himself. He talked with Shirley Halperin for THR and reiterated as much with the news that outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is considering a posthumous pardon for Morrison. "He didn't do it! I was there; if...
Drummer John Densmore, along with many others, has long claimed that he never saw Morrison expose himself. He talked with Shirley Halperin for THR and reiterated as much with the news that outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is considering a posthumous pardon for Morrison. "He didn't do it! I was there; if...
- 12/3/2010
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
(Jim Morrison in his experimental film, Hwy, from When you're Strange.)
By Terry Keefe
(Currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
Many a visitor to Venice Beach has spent some time wondering the exact location where Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek reportedly ran into each other in 1965, after having attended UCLA Film School together previously, and decided to form the Doors. The legend of the band needs no recounting here, not after a number of books, the 1991 Oliver Stone film, and endless television clip show assemblies, along with various live albums and re-releases of recordings. Which does raise the question of whether a 2010 documentary on the Doors fills any real need, at least that was the initial reaction from this Doors fan when hearing about director Tom Dicillo’s When You’re Strange - A Film About the Doors. Then, Morrison appeared on screen in the Dicillo documentary, in pristine,...
By Terry Keefe
(Currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
Many a visitor to Venice Beach has spent some time wondering the exact location where Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek reportedly ran into each other in 1965, after having attended UCLA Film School together previously, and decided to form the Doors. The legend of the band needs no recounting here, not after a number of books, the 1991 Oliver Stone film, and endless television clip show assemblies, along with various live albums and re-releases of recordings. Which does raise the question of whether a 2010 documentary on the Doors fills any real need, at least that was the initial reaction from this Doors fan when hearing about director Tom Dicillo’s When You’re Strange - A Film About the Doors. Then, Morrison appeared on screen in the Dicillo documentary, in pristine,...
- 4/19/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
My first interview regarding the fantastic new film, When You’re Strange was with Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek. Next up, I found myself chatting with the film’s writer/director Tom Dicillo and The Doors drummer, John Densmore. Not only was I thrilled to meet Densmore, but I have a lot of respect for Dicillo as a filmmaker. From Box Of Moonlight to Living In Oblivion, he is a skilled director with a knack for character. And in many ways, his latest may be his best. To truly capture the spirit of Jim Morrison and of course, Krieger, Manzarek and Densmore is a tough job. While many of these stories have been told, he truly brings it all to life. And when I finished talking to both John and Tom, they stated that it was one of their favorite interviews they had done, I’m sure somewhat jokingly, but...
- 4/9/2010
- by James Oster
- GordonandtheWhale
London, Apr 9 – Former members of The Doors have given Johnny Depp the green signal for his role in a new film about the legendary rock group.
The Pirates Of The Caribbean star will be narrating When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors and reading Jim Morrison’s poetry in the feature-length documentary, reports The Mirror.
Drummer John Densmore said of Depp: “He just got it, he is an icon, he understands Jim.”
Guitarist Robby Krieger added: “He has got this great voice and it sounds like.
The Pirates Of The Caribbean star will be narrating When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors and reading Jim Morrison’s poetry in the feature-length documentary, reports The Mirror.
Drummer John Densmore said of Depp: “He just got it, he is an icon, he understands Jim.”
Guitarist Robby Krieger added: “He has got this great voice and it sounds like.
- 4/9/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline's weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. This week, we hear from Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek about the band's new documentary When You're Strange, which opens Friday in limited release.
For a rock band whose filmed legacy includes at least a dozen concert and video compilations -- not to mention a full-scale Hollywood biopic -- it's not just a little bizarre that The Doors were never the subject of a feature documentary until now. Enter When You're Strange, director Tom Dicillo's fairly straightforward doc (narrated by Johnny Depp) interweaving archival performance and interview footage with extended, never-before-seen footage of late vocalist Jim Morrison's own experimental film, Hwy: An American Pastoral. Some of it looks like it was shot yesterday, reinforcing Morrison's enduring mythology as a half-martyr, half-ghost whose mission is carried forward here by surviving members Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore.
For a rock band whose filmed legacy includes at least a dozen concert and video compilations -- not to mention a full-scale Hollywood biopic -- it's not just a little bizarre that The Doors were never the subject of a feature documentary until now. Enter When You're Strange, director Tom Dicillo's fairly straightforward doc (narrated by Johnny Depp) interweaving archival performance and interview footage with extended, never-before-seen footage of late vocalist Jim Morrison's own experimental film, Hwy: An American Pastoral. Some of it looks like it was shot yesterday, reinforcing Morrison's enduring mythology as a half-martyr, half-ghost whose mission is carried forward here by surviving members Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore.
- 4/8/2010
- Movieline
In 1965, four university students came together to form a band that would only make six albums over the course of the next six years, but albums that would go on to sell over 75 million copies worldwide in the forty years since their singer's untimely demise. That band was The Doors--Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John Densmore and the late but legendary Jim Morrison--one of the groups from the '60s that would become hugely influential on waves and waves of rock groups trying to integrate poetry and psychedelia they made famous into their own music. Fast forward to a few years ago when downtown New York filmmaker Tom Dicillo was hired to put together a lot of newly-found and rarely-seen footage of Morrison and The Doors into a documentary feature called When You're Strange: A Film...
- 4/8/2010
- Comingsoon.net
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