Friday, May 15, 1970
"Chr*st You Know It Ain't Easy"
In the November 2 67 issue of
Ch;etah magazine Peter Segal
TivrciVe of the Doors "I have a feel
ing the Doors fourth or fifth al
bum is going to be very worth
while".
Since then Cheetah and Segal
;have left the scene, the Doors
Iremain, a band of fallen heroes,
land no one seems to care. The
reason would seem obvious-on the
. .
isurtace," style changes, Morrisons
. copasles.. of the last few years,
. But it goes deeper than that,
a question of who should make
anges to accoznnmodate who, the_
group, or their - public. -
Obviously the changes have been
great, Morrison has become a
full-fledged reality freak, but
'then "he: 'always was, especially in
:t
is...realization that only death is
permanent and the rest of ex
istence consists of occasional ris
es from a rock bottom of bare ex
tentialism,- naturally then all of
the aroup's material (the roman
ttice numbers in particular) are
suicidal or Byronic.
; Too 'many people would just get
stoned . and listen to Doors al
bums saying "Yeah, weird and
trips, wow, gimmie another
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The "New Doors' were fully in
troduced to us in one track from
the. Soft Parade, Shamans Blues,
which is I. think, more autobio
graphical than even Morrison
realizes. The Doors have become
Morrison and Krieger's band and
the thoughts of the Doors are the
thoughts of Morrison and Krieger.
But the new album is all Morri-.
son's, and it would seem that he
has taken his memory of what
ever it is in. Shamans Blues that
"Walks the Meadows While I
Stalk the Fields" has moved into!
the Morrison Hotel, and we've
all been there at least once. The
Morrison Hotel album is divided
into two themes, the first side
the Hard Rock Cafe, which isn
what it would seem
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hit" they never would listen close
enough to realize things like
"Light My Fire," "Moonlight
Drive," and "My Eyes Have Seen
You", were a bit anguished in
their depression, so when the
"Soft Parade" came out, with a
few little rock croons on it the
general impression was one of
"What the fuck is he doing!?!"
In concert the group will som
imeS . break into some mean litt
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rockers from the fifties, I anti-
'--cipated the Hard Rock Cafe side
to be same recordings of that na
ture (Get out there and shake
yer asses folks).
The moods of the first side vary
from down and evil to sweet and
syrupy, but even the jubilant
sounding numbers have the taste
of trying to dance faster than
anyone else on a sinking ship.
It's depressing, but after all,
that's what's happening these
days isnt it?
Musically the first side is as
good as anything the group has
ever done. Morrison's voice rides
over everything, with Krieger
right along side, and Manzarek
and Densmore keeping things
straight (Manzarek even plays
some new organ riffs, which
is kind of nice, the variations of
"Light
. My Fire" which he's been playing• for the past three years
have gotten tiring) There are no
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distinctive tracks„ but then, any
overly distinctive numbers would
ruin the flow.
The second side consists of
Morrison's fantasies. Land Ho is
a sea chanty, Indian Summer is
Shamans Blues all over again,
Maggie McGill is what Twentieth
Century Fox from the first album
was all about.
Several of the numbers on the
albums are rock croons. At first
they sound sickeningly sentimen
tal but the idea behind Morrison
singing some actual crons isn't
as opposed to his image 'as it
would seem (here comes same
anguish again, etc). If you listen
to them enough it _ seems that
Morrison only begins , to insinuate
things, besides it's too gooey to be
anything other than sarcastic.
It would seem - that the Doors
have become a private and per
sonal group, and instead of try
ing to please everybody, they are
concentrating on the hard core
Doors freaks. Morrison is still a
perverted Billy Graham, Man
zarek is still the brooding elassi.-
cist, and Krieger and Densmore
are still the unseen drivers of
the group.
Those who keep saying "yeah,
ever since the first album they've
been going downhill" are the ones
who should listen again, and then
figure out whether it's their loss
or not that they still can't dig the
Morrison pretty much gets
on it in Roadhouse Blues
when he sings:
group
down
"The future. is uncertain and
the end is pretty near". There
are still some pretty weird scene's
in the goldmine.
NSERVATIVELY
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