Miles said:

I have to agree with you about the musicianship about the doors. Ray keyboard playing ability was an amazing compliment with drums and lyrics. Some of my favorite cuts by the Doors was: Hello, I Love You, Riders on The Storm, Come And Touch Me,& Love Me 2x.

Did anyone else notice how badly they did the Ed Sullivan scene in this movie? I've seen the real life footage of that performance and Jim DID NOT emphasize the word "higher" like they portray in the movie.

There was always a lot of mystique and intrigue surrounding the Doors, even in their early years....my guess is Jim Morrison died from overindulgence of booze and drug, no foul play.

A picture I took of his grave at Pere Lachaise in Paris:



People young and old still flock to his grave, leave candles, flowers, some even stand there with CD players listening to his music whist gazing at his grave.....after all this time.

The movie does made Jim look like this egotistical, druggy, out-of-control sociopath. I know that is not who the real Jim was. But that whole depiction of the infamous 1969 Miami concert incident was classic stuff, man. Val Kilmer played that role from top to bottom.

I have no real interest in the movie, but the Doors - the band imo were one of the great rock bands of the late '60s - very early '70s. They had a unique sound, and were a thoroughly capable, grooving, purring, psychedelic rock n' roll band.

Yes, Jim Morrison's lyrics were a touch on the first year college lit. student side at times, but some of them I find either quite powerful and striking in their imagery or amusing (some intentionally on his part, some not). For the tracks 'LA Woman' and 'Riders On the Storm', they deserve to be legends.

Ray Manzarek's jazz infused organ, Robbie Krieger's unique, spidery guitar style, and John Densmore's powerful, again often jazz influenced drumming made up a powerful band, with a seemingly telepathic connection and grooving dynamic, and Morrison's leering, preening, ironic darkness makes the icing on the cake. A lot of people don't seem to realise that Morrison had a sense of humour. Also, it's less well known that Morrison wasn't the only song writer/ wordsmith in the group, with Kreiger in particular delivering a couple of hits for the band too.

The Doors - one of my favourate rock bands. There's some fine musicianship there.

JuliePurplehead said:

They had to make it more dramatic for the sake of the movie probably.

wildgoldenhoney said:

Yep!

I remember a Rolling Stone special where Ray Manzarek talked about that incident. They were on live and refused NOT to say the word "higher" and afterwards the network man told them "You will never ever be on the Sullivan Show!" - amd Morrison answered with "Man, we just did the Sullivan Show."

I finally got around 2 watching the movie by Oliver Stone about the Doors. Was that movie accurate as it portrayed Jim Morrison? Was there any foul play suspected in his death?