The Doors(band name taken from Aldous Huxley's book The Doors Of Perception)BREAK THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE with their debut album on Jan 4, '67 with a 4-track tape machine shaping hard bluesy acid rock like a psychedelic trip, and bringing new expectations for musicians to come.It was the groovy 60s man!The Doors debut album(released Jan 4, '67)light up the trippy midnight of music with hit's such as "Light My Fire"(#2 behind "The Beatles" "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" released May 26, '67.Producer Bruce Botnick said The Doors were inspired when writing the "Strange Days" album recorded between May-Aug '67), and the long drawn out trippy poetry, dramatic, heartbreaking love story, Vietnam bloody killing musical instrumental improv "The End".Dangerous lyrical intense hard music that demonstrated and pushed parental advisory over the edge of sanity.Hey sweet heart, cover your kids ears because this is rock'n roll."The Lizard King" Mr. Jim Morrison expressing his creative poetry, and inter demons inside of him in music.The Doors form with the start of keyboarder Ray Manzarek and finger picking, bluesy bottleneck, guitar god flamenco guitarist(type of classical guitar music)Robby Krieger.Robby picking up the electric guitar just 6 months before joining The Doors and attended the "Kinnara School of Music" in LA prior to going the group.Robby taken an LSD acid trip to the music store and hallucinating while staring at the beautiful '64 or '67 Gibson Cherry Red SG Special(possibly a Melody Maker)with P-90's with it's double cutaway body shaped like devil horns.The devil drew him to the guitar of choice, he was in love with a guitar in the color of his favorite influences like Chuck Berry's Gibson ES-335, or Freddie King's Gibson ES-355 etc.Jazz rock drummer John Densmore was asked to play the skins in the gig.Also old college friend of Ray's from "UCLA" School of Theater, Film and Television, on "Venice Beach" in summer of '65 was asked to be the lead vocalist after hearing Morrison sing "Moonlight Drive".A poor hippy man with a whole rock concert going on in his head with sound and poetry while living on rooftops on "Sunset Strip" in LA.Oh that's right The Lizard King Jim Morrison that is.A shy artist that would have his back towards the audience during a set on stage in the early years before growing confidence and morphing into the black leathered demon that he became.The Doors were first turned down by Columbia Records and then later signed by Elektra Records after playing an extraordinary live performance at the "London Fog" and the "Whisky a Go Go".Moving out of the "Whisky" because the groups contract was done playing as the house band, NOT for the language in their song "The End" according to Oliver Stone/Val Kilmer's March '91 film "The Doors"(According to Robby's Oct 2021 book "Set The Night On Fire").The Doors played on the "Ed Sullivan Show" on Sept 17, '67 to perform #1 hit "Light My Fire" but were asked not to sing the word higher because it was a drug reference.Jim being as outrageous as he was, sang the composition as it was written."HIGHER" sung loud and clear on national live television and in a result The Doors were banned to play on the show ever again.Jim Morrison's remark, "Hey man.We just did the Sullivan Show".Robby Krieger was using a mid 60's Gibson SG Melody Maker or Special with P-90 pickups(Stolen in the '70's)in a Fender amp on a loud clean or tube break up setting all through the 1st album and even a '58 National Town & Country in late '66-'67 seen on the "Break On Through" promo video.Even a white Gibson Custom SG/Les Paul once!His amps were a Magnatone Custom(small combo amp with two 12 inch speakers), Acoustic 260(used by Robby and Ray and can be seen on stage possibly at the "Hollywood Bowl" show on July 5, '68), Fender Twin Reverb(customized by Vince Traenor),Fender Hot Rod DeVille.Pedals in the early days was a Maestro Fuzztone, Vox Tone Bender.Here you are listening to a ROUGH DEMO MIX VERSION(LOL AND I MEAN ROUGH LOL!)I put together between March 2017-May 2017(I was 24 years old)which was my first guitar attempt learning how to record using the "amateur musicians choice" "Garage Band" and the guitar software "Amplitube 3" HA.I even recorded an instrumental version of "Waiting For The Sun" in standard guitar tuning with myself on all the instruments(which is rough, but again it was my first attempt at overdubbing, mixing, quantizing etc. all on my own)and a instrumental version of "Spanish Caravan" with my "Robby Kreiger style" LOL classical flamenco guitar improv approach over a backing track.I like to take this demo disc out from time to time and listen.
6.People Are Strange("Strange Days" released Sept 25, '67)
The Doors
Jim Morrison–vocals
Ray Manzarek–keyboards
Robby Krieger–guitar
John Densmore–drums
Gear
Gibson SG Standard P-90's(Cherry)
Gibson/Epiphone Custom Les Paul SG(Pelham Blue)
Boss AC-3 Acoustic Simulator
Roland TDK-4PVDrums
Amplitube 3
Garage Band

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