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The Doors — Live At The Matrix 1967

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 10, 2008 1:00 pm
Jim Morrison has often been described as a poet, but famed music journalist Lester Bangs once called him a "drunken buffoon." Whatever Morrison was, it's clear he was a brilliant frontman, and this double-disc set makes that very obvious. These oft-bootlegged recordings (among the first to document the band's sound in a live environment...
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I Fought The Law... For The Week Ending June 17, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 17, 2011 3:09 pm
The Gallagher brothers have pretty bad tempers, but would they ever send someone a bullet through the mail? (Okay, maybe they might do that to each other, but...) Liam Gallagher's bodyguard is being accused of doing just that. A Paris bar covered in Jim Morrison's image may be forced to close because the band doesn't approve of its owner hanging...
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The Doors — Live In Vancouver, 1970

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 24, 2010 5:04 pm
By mid-1970, you were taking a gamble if you saw The Doors live. It was becoming more and more difficult for Jim Morrison to make it through a show without stopping and haranguing the audience, and of course, there was the danger the entire gig would turn into complete chaos. The best example of this is probably the band's notorious, aborted show...
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Don't Look Back (In Anger): "The End" By The Doors

Submitted by Edward Skira on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 11:51am
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By Edward Skira (CHARTattack) July 19, 2010 11:51 am
I started this blog a few weeks back with The Doors' "Light My Fire". When I was putting that post together I uncovered a pretty cool version of "The End". While "Light My Fire" epitomized sunny 1960's California "The End" represented the dark side of psychedelia. It was long and mysterious just the way Jim Morrison used to portray himself. The 70...
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Don't Look Back (In Anger): Light My Fire By The Doors

Submitted by Edward Skira on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 9:13am
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By Edward Skira (CHARTattack) July 9, 2010 9:13 am
Today I am starting a new daily posting. I've decided to call it Don't Look Back (In Anger). If you know music, you get the references. That's right, there's more than one reference in that title. I'll be spotlighting one song per posting. The songs I choose will be ones that have impacted my life greatly. And they'll be songs that I believe...
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The Cult's Ian Astbury Calls Eddie Vedder, Trent Reznor, Dave Grohl "Fakes"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 18, 2010 4:03 pm
Cult lead singer Ian Astbury spent five years pretending to be Jim Morrison (you could actually argue he's spent almost all of his career doing that) as a member of The Doors Of The 21st Century. That's the previous moniker of the reunited Doors featuring original members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger, who've since renamed themselves to...
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When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors Has Genuine Insight

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By Dan Lovranski (CHARTattack) April 15, 2010 2:04 pm
Proving that the best way to have a lengthy career is to live fast, burn bright and and leave a good looking corpse, The Doors are once again up for examination. It happened in the '80s with the book No One Here Gets Out Alive, again in the '90s with Oliver Stone's movie and more recently, with the various multi-set releases highlighting old...
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John Lennon Biopic, Doors Documentary Getting Canadian Premieres During CMW 2010

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 17, 2010 5:47 pm
Canadian Music Week 2010 looks to not only be a great week for fans of live music, but also for those who enjoy music-related films. Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor Wood's John Lennon biopic which premiered in the U.K.  in December, will have its Canadian premiere on March 13 at Toronto's Royal Cinema. The 98-minute film, which stars newcomer Aaron...
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Researchers: Jim Morrison "Ghost" Picture Not Fake

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 13, 2009 3:59 pm
In 1997, rock historian Brett Meisner visited late Doors frontman Jim Morrison's grave at Paris, France's Pere Lachaise cemetery. His assistant took a photo of him at the grave, and that was that. But five years later, he looked at the photo and saw something kind of frightening: A very faint image in the background that looked like Morrison....
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Doors' Final New York Shows With Morrison Coming To CD

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 27, 2009 12:34 pm
The Doors played their final four New York shows with Jim Morrison on Jan. 17 and 18, 1970 at the city's Felt Forum. The songs played at those shows will be released as a six-CD set dubbed Live In New York on Nov. 10. Many of the live tracks on the CDs are previously unreleased, and the set sees the band playing material just before the release...
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Doors Documentary Coming

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 18, 2009 1:21 pm
A trailer is making the rounds online for When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors. It's the first feature length documentary about the rock band featuring singer Jim Morrison, guitarist Bobby Krieger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and drummer John Densmore. When You're Strange premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January with narrations by...
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Depp Does Doors Doc

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) February 12, 2009 3:03 pm
Actor Johnny Depp has signed on to re-narrate When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors. The Doors documentary was initially narrated by writer/director Tom DiCillo when it premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "Johnny saw the film early on," said producer Peter Jankowski. "We showed him an early cut and he responded...
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Pumping: The Doors - Live At The Matrix

Submitted by The Stereo on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 3:01pm
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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) December 2, 2008 3:01 pm
The sound quality on this two-disc set that features songs from The Doors' self-titled debut and Strange Days (along with some later songs like "Crawling King Snake") isn't that great, since Jim Morrison's voice sounds more like a yelp at certain points than anything that even remotely sounds like it's been soaked in whiskey. Whoever...
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Plaque Marks Where Jim Morrison Peed

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) November 19, 2008 5:17 pm
Jim Morrison would have turned 65 on Dec. 8 if he hadn't died in a bathtub in his Paris apartment in 1971. To commemorate the occasion, Los Angeles restaurant Barney's Beanery will dedicate a plaque that evening to something else involving Morrison and soaking: the bar he allegedly urinated on at the night spot he used to spend time at with...
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Time Capsule: Sept. 17, 1967

Submitted by Kate Harper on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 10:20am
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 17, 2008 10:20 am
The Doors were banned from The Ed Sullivan Show after they performed "Light My Fire" on the program. At the time, the band were appearing on the show to promote their second album, Strange Days, which was to be released the next week. They performed "People Are Strange" from that album and "Light My Fire," from...
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Musical Moment #1

Submitted by Kate Harper on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 10:10am
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 11, 2008 10:10 am
Every so often, I have these strange little moments while listening to my CD player or iPod where the music matches whatever I'm doing at a particular time or fits a situation I'm in. Some of these moments are "wow"-inducing, while others are just unsettling. Here's the latest: I had what's probably the strangest moment I've had in a...
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Ian Astbury Rides Out Of The Storm To Re-energize The Cult

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By CHARTattack Staff February 20, 2007 5:30 pm
Jeff Martin's dream job just became available. Ian Astbury is leaving Riders On The Storm — the band he's performed in with Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger for the past four years — to focus his attention back on The Cult. "I have decided to move on and focus on my own music and legacy," Astbury said in a...
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Robert Plant And The Doors Boxed Sets Coming From Rhino

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By CHARTattack Staff August 28, 2006 5:00 pm
Two classic rock icons, Robert Plant and The Doors, will be the subject of Rhino boxed sets aimed at baby-boomer holiday season shoppers. Nine Lives, featuring all nine of Plant's post-Led Zeppelin albums and a DVD, will arrive first on Nov. 14. Each of the records will be expanded to include bonus tracks. The first solo disc from Alannah...
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Forty Years On, The Doors Are Still Lighting Fires

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By CHARTattack Staff May 5, 2006 7:30 pm
There's a lot of activity surrounding The Doors' 40th anniversary, including a box set, reissues, a documentary, a television special, coffee-table books, downloadable concerts, merchandise, plans for a Las Vegas attraction, exhibits and, possibly, the group's music being licensed for commercials. Rhino will release a 12-disc box set this fall...
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Doors Drummer Wins Suit Against Bandmates

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By Ashley Spegel (CHARTattack) July 25, 2005 3:30 pm
The Doors Of The 21st Century have been ordered to change their name after the a permanent injunction was won by the original band's drummer. John Densmore told Reuters he was concerned the Doors' legacy was being tarnished by its reincarnation as an oldies act. "They're playing Doors songs and calling themselves The Doors Of The 21st...
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