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STRANGE DAYS (Elektra). The Doors have reached that point in fame at which they can now simultaneously have police problems in New Haven, Conn., appear in Vogue, and be praised for this album. Some high points: Moonlight Drive and My Eyes Have Seen You have a rare quality of quiet sensuality, while Strange Days and Unhappy Girl tell of alienation and aloneness with cool emotion...
...City of the Angels, but made it nowhere around the country. In November, several Los Angeles deejays started playing excerpts from the first album and all at once they received many many requests for a song called "Light My Fire." So one such disc jockey asked Elektra, the Doors' recording company, to press a shorter version and release it as a single. Since January it has become a million-seller. The record made history, of some kind...
...organist, Ray, had a freshly showered ascetic appearance, like a preppie who has gone hip with recently acquired metal rimmed glasses and striped pants. Jon is small and mouse-like and, according to Elektra producer Paul Rothchild, one of the most brilliant drummers around. The third Door was Robby, and I will tell you he is very quiet and seemed like he had a lot inside because you will not hear from him again except for two or three phrases...
...includes Randolph-Macon students only, the male roles are all played by women. But after all this simply reverses the ancient practice, which allowed all-male casts only. A few of the big roles could have stood better acting; yet Jeannette Hume has a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this makes more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
...DOORS (Elektra), a new group from Los Angeles, tend to keep the decibels down and spread the shivers with a shuffling beat, a spooky kind of bluesy undercurrent and free, Freud-laden verse. The End, for example, which lasts eleven minutes, spells out the Oedipus legend: "Father, I want to kill you. Mother, I want to. . ." Shrieks ensue...