When the Doors entered a Hollywood recording studio to make their debut album at the end of August , they knew what they wanted. Months of serving as house band at the Whisky a Go Go had sharpened their playing and performing skills to the point where one member of the quartet could abruptly swerve toward a new direction and the others would follow without missing a beat. And they had become adventurous songwriters in the process, coming up with a culture-tipping set of songs that sampled the flavors of , from blues and pop to folk and psychedelia.
I'm gonna make a living and this is gonna. Guitarist Robby Krieger says that looking back, the Doors' short time together was relatively free of ego problems or star trips: ["It was really, like, the perfect group, y'know, as far as working together and stuff. There was no ego problems, y'know, and petty jealousies and stuff like that that a lot of groups go through. Shortly before his death in , Ray Manzarek told us that whether they liked it or not, the Doors ended up being spokesmen for their generation: ["There was a war in Vietnam and, y'know, that had to be stopped, and we were gonna try to clean up the environment, and do all those good things that hippies were trying to do.
And everyone was angry, man, so, y'know, we tried to make the music as hard and as powerful and as exciting as possible. That was the birth of the Doors. Right there.
But inhibited by the unfamiliar studio setting, they were unable to recapture the magic of their first rehearsal. The piece was especially exhausting for Morrison, who delivered a lengthy mid-song poem inspired by the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex. The studio was very dark.
Morrison had a different idea. The rest of us left, but he snuck back into the studio and got pissed off that there was no one else around, so he sprayed the place down with a foaming fire extinguisher. He came back to the studio and the gate was locked.
That was locked. But the studio was open and the red lights were on. Manzarek recalled the story slightly differently. In his memoir, Light My Fire , he claims that Morrison began ranting about a fire while being driven home from the studio by his girlfriend, Pamela Courson. He was so persistent that Courson reluctantly returned to the studio, and Morrison immediately bounded over the fence.
The following day, a single boot, belonging to Morrison, was found among the destruction. No reason to call the police. We all knew right away what had happened. Come on, really? Elektra head Jac Holzman immediately cut a very large check to studio owner Tutti Camarata. The Doors used a secret bass player in the studio — Wrecking Crew session legend and future Bread member Larry Knetchel. The role originally fell to him out of necessity when the band first began to coalesce.
Then we auditioned another bass player and we sounded like the Animals. He quietly hired Larry Knechtel, of the ubiquitous gang of Los Angeles session players known as the Wrecking Crew, to thicken the sound. The medium had traditionally been used to push films, food, cigarettes and a host of other products, and this was the first time a rock band would appear on one. He was right, giving birth to a whole new field of artist promotion. He was so sexy.
He picked up a lot of things from us that wound up getting him into trouble, when he started doing them on stage. Jim would later bail the Living Theater out of jail in after they returned to the U. It just started out as a simple goodbye song…Probably just to a girl, but I could see how it could be goodbye to a kind of childhood.
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