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Composed as a series of poems, the piece includes both spoken verse and sung lyrics, musical sections, interpretive dance, audience reaction (triggering by performing the piece after telling the audience that they were going to perform "Light My Fire" instead), and passages of allegorical storytelling, though the Doors often performed abridged ...
The Doors: A Tribute to Jim Morrison (1981) The Doors: Dance on Fire (1985) The Soft Parade, a Retrospective (1991) The Doors: No One Here Gets Out Alive (2001) Final 24: Jim Morrison (2007), The Biography Channel [234] When You're Strange (2009), Won the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Video in 2011. Rock Poet: Jim Morrison (2010) [235]
In 2011, the Doors received a Grammy Award in Best Long Form Music Video for the film When You're Strange, directed by Tom DiCillo. [ 180 ] In 2012, Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included three of their studio albums; the self-titled album at number 42, L.A. Woman at number 362, and Strange Days at number 407.
The Doors Collection is a music video compilation by the American rock band the Doors, released on Laserdisc and DVD in 1995 and 1999, respectively. It compiles three films previously released on VHS by MCA/Universal Home Video: Dance on Fire (1985), Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1987) and The Soft Parade – A Retrospective (1991).
A VHS video of the concert was also released, containing 14 songs. The full version of the concert, entitled Live at the Bowl '68, was released in October 2012 on CD, LP and Blu-ray Disc. A shortened version of the concert is on The Doors - 30 Years Commemorative Edition DVD.
According to the biography No One Here Gets Out Alive, Morrison hated the album cover for Absolutely Live.He had changed his appearance dramatically since the band's early days, growing a beard and discarding his onstage leather attire in an attempt to overcome his "rock god" image, but was dismayed to find that his record label opted for an earlier photograph of him for the cover.
The Doors started recording Waiting for the Sun in late 1967 at Sunset Sound Studios, [a] with early versions of "The Unknown Soldier" and "Spanish Caravan". The group soon moved at TTG Studios in Hollywood, California, where the majority of the album's recording took place; the same time Frank Zappa was recording. [7]
Live in New York is a six-disc box set of four complete concerts performed American rock band the Doors on January 17 and 18, 1970 at the Felt Forum in New York City. [3] Two shows were played each night, with 8:00pm and 11:00pm scheduled start times on January 17, and 7:30pm and 10:00pm scheduled start times on January 18.