Like many '60s rock stars, Jim Morrison lived fast, died young, and became a music icon. Known for his soothing voice, poetic lyrics, and public antics, The Doors' leadman was celebrated for pushing boundaries with his music and lyrics after bursting onto the rock scene in the late '60s. In addition to pushing boundaries on stage, Morrison exposed himself on stage, mocked concert audiences, and experimented with hard drugs. In 1971, "The Lizard King" joined the tragic 27 club when he died of heart failure in a french bathtub. It's suspected that drugs contributed to Morrison's death, but an autopsy wasn't performed.
Never one to shy away from a controversial event or character, Oliver Stone co-wrote and directed "The Doors," a biopic focused on Morrison and his chaotic life. After portraying an elite navy pilot in the '80s hit, "Top Gun," Val Kilmer grew his hair, slid into skintight leather pants,...
Never one to shy away from a controversial event or character, Oliver Stone co-wrote and directed "The Doors," a biopic focused on Morrison and his chaotic life. After portraying an elite navy pilot in the '80s hit, "Top Gun," Val Kilmer grew his hair, slid into skintight leather pants,...
- 9/27/2022
- by Christian Gainey
- Slash Film
John Densmore vividly remembers the words longtime Doors producer Paul A. Rothchild used to describe “Riders on the Storm”: “cocktail music.” “When he heard it, it was in an early rehearsal and it hadn’t evolved into what it became,” the drummer says of the dramatic track, a cowboy ghost story set to haunting rain and thunder. “But it really is one of our most important songs.”
The full story of the track will finally be told in an upcoming, 50th-anniversary box set reissue of L.A. Woman, the...
The full story of the track will finally be told in an upcoming, 50th-anniversary box set reissue of L.A. Woman, the...
- 9/1/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
When the Doors’ producer, Paul A. Rothchild, suggested adding orchestral strings and horns to guitarist Robby Krieger’s song “Touch Me,” Krieger was not happy. It was two years after Sgt. Pepper, and he says he was wary of the band being seen as copycats. “I said, ‘Oh, God. Now we’re copying the Beatles,’ and the Stones had just done their version of the orchestra thing,” he recalls. “So it was like we were keeping up with the Joneses or something.” Also, he worried the move might alienate the band’s fan base.
- 9/19/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Janis: Little Girl Blue director Amy Berg addresses D.A. Pennebaker with Michael Winship Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
D.A. Pennebaker, joined Janis: Little Girl Blue director, Amy Berg, and Writers Guild of America East President, Michael Winship, at Symphony Space in New York for a discussion that led to Janis Joplin's breakthrough performance in Monterey Pop, Kris Kristofferson singing to Odetta, Cat Power, Bob Dylan, Judd Apatow's family tree, poker with Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson and Owen Wilson at David Niehaus', John Cooke, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Rothchild, Vincent van Gogh, Lester Young and Billie Holiday.
Amy Berg with Michael Winship: "The accomplishment is in having patience because this has taken me eight years." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Amy Berg, clearly a filmmaker who doesn't shy away from tackling issues of childhood trauma, as she did in her feature film Every Secret Thing, chose Janis Joplin as the subject of her...
D.A. Pennebaker, joined Janis: Little Girl Blue director, Amy Berg, and Writers Guild of America East President, Michael Winship, at Symphony Space in New York for a discussion that led to Janis Joplin's breakthrough performance in Monterey Pop, Kris Kristofferson singing to Odetta, Cat Power, Bob Dylan, Judd Apatow's family tree, poker with Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson and Owen Wilson at David Niehaus', John Cooke, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Rothchild, Vincent van Gogh, Lester Young and Billie Holiday.
Amy Berg with Michael Winship: "The accomplishment is in having patience because this has taken me eight years." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Amy Berg, clearly a filmmaker who doesn't shy away from tackling issues of childhood trauma, as she did in her feature film Every Secret Thing, chose Janis Joplin as the subject of her...
- 11/4/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Love: Black Beauty (High Moon)
Black Beauty is a previously unreleased album from 1973 produced by Paul Rothchild (producer of the Doors, among others); the label went out of business before it could be issued. Given that the band's best songs were written by Bryan MacLean and Burt Bacharach, I wasn't expecting much from something from 1973, by which point MacLean was long gone and Arthur Lee was the only original member.
I suppose that while some fans could protest that Black Beauty is not really a Love album, that's fine with me. It's an all-black band led by Lee, in the context of which he frequently indulges his love of Jimi Hendrix ("Midnight Sun" makes this particularly obvious) and gets a little funky -- both for the better.
Surprise! I like it more than any of Love's other albums. I'm aware that that will be a minority opinion, but I've never...
Black Beauty is a previously unreleased album from 1973 produced by Paul Rothchild (producer of the Doors, among others); the label went out of business before it could be issued. Given that the band's best songs were written by Bryan MacLean and Burt Bacharach, I wasn't expecting much from something from 1973, by which point MacLean was long gone and Arthur Lee was the only original member.
I suppose that while some fans could protest that Black Beauty is not really a Love album, that's fine with me. It's an all-black band led by Lee, in the context of which he frequently indulges his love of Jimi Hendrix ("Midnight Sun" makes this particularly obvious) and gets a little funky -- both for the better.
Surprise! I like it more than any of Love's other albums. I'm aware that that will be a minority opinion, but I've never...
- 1/14/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Everett Janis Joplin in the 1960s in the documentary, “Janis,” released in 1975.
Janis Joplin was a blowtorch blues singer and hell-raiser who never missed an opportunity to whip herself into a possessed frenzy. But with the release on April 17 of “The Pearl Sessions” (Legacy), we learn that Joplin in the fall of 1970 also was a tireless, passionate studio artist who had finally figured out how to dial back her scorching delivery without sacrificing emotion.
On the new two-cd set—recorded...
Janis Joplin was a blowtorch blues singer and hell-raiser who never missed an opportunity to whip herself into a possessed frenzy. But with the release on April 17 of “The Pearl Sessions” (Legacy), we learn that Joplin in the fall of 1970 also was a tireless, passionate studio artist who had finally figured out how to dial back her scorching delivery without sacrificing emotion.
On the new two-cd set—recorded...
- 4/13/2012
- by Marc Myers
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Stars team up for Prayer Cycle 2: Path to Zero, a benefit record that also features a cameo from late Doors singer Jim Morrison
Sting, Sinéad O'Connor, Robert Downey Jr and, er, Korn's Jonathan Davis are among the contributors to a new album of "world prayers", due this spring. Created by composer Jonathan Elias, Prayer Cycle 2: Path to Zero also features the late Doors singer Jim Morrison reading an unreleased poem.
Although its title sounds like a post-apocalyptic video game, Prayer Cycle 2: Path to Zero is a "classically influenced" benefit LP for anti-nuclear organisation Global Zero. The follow-up to a similar 1999 compilation, which featured James Taylor, Alanis Morissette and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the album is a "sort of prayer for continuation", Elias told Billboard.com, "as it relates to the world today".
If this sounds like hippie talk, it comes form a hippie with lots of friends.
Sting, Sinéad O'Connor, Robert Downey Jr and, er, Korn's Jonathan Davis are among the contributors to a new album of "world prayers", due this spring. Created by composer Jonathan Elias, Prayer Cycle 2: Path to Zero also features the late Doors singer Jim Morrison reading an unreleased poem.
Although its title sounds like a post-apocalyptic video game, Prayer Cycle 2: Path to Zero is a "classically influenced" benefit LP for anti-nuclear organisation Global Zero. The follow-up to a similar 1999 compilation, which featured James Taylor, Alanis Morissette and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the album is a "sort of prayer for continuation", Elias told Billboard.com, "as it relates to the world today".
If this sounds like hippie talk, it comes form a hippie with lots of friends.
- 1/21/2011
- by Sean Michaels
- The Guardian - Film News
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