Word: albums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...album took two careful years to produce, and Ray Manzarek, probably Morrison's closest friend, pieced together the fragments of taped conversation, poetry, and concert footage which remained from Morrison's short life...
...live cut of "Roadhouse Blues," performed in Detroit circa 1969, makes the album worthwhile all by itself. It is proof of The Doors' eminence at pure crank, which until 1978 was Jim Morrison's only claim to excellence as a recording artist...
...distinction of this album is Morrison's poetry, never before fully revealed. Here it is, artfully connected and coordinated by The Door's music, and the result is a vinyl package of a man's mind, and the lingering afterthought of his promise and potential. For all his rock'n'roll stardom, Morrison fancied himself a poet. But he chose death over promise, and what remains is "An American Prayer...
...This album is a haunting prophecy in the light of Morrison's alcoholic, drug-shot death, which finally found him at peace in a bathtub in Paris, dead at 27 after a massive heart attack. Jim Morrison could never grow...
Their favorite spot was the Whiskey-A-Go-Go, which the band immortalized when their first album. "The Doors," sold a million copies. It was their only gold disc, and perhaps fittingly so--it is arguably their best, with "Break on Through," "Light My Fire" (the anthem of a generation until it was precluded by "Gimme Shelter"), "Twentieth Century...