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The Doors The Doors formed in 1965 in Los Angeles. The Doors' music included socially, psychologically, and politically influenced lyrics mostly written by 'The Lizard King', Jim Morrison. The precise drumming of John Densmore, the organ and bass organ of Ray Manzarek, and Robby Krieger's innovative guitar style, which showed the influence of flamenco, Indian, the blues and classical music, combined with Morrison's vocals to form a distinctive sound. The Doors were unusual among rock groups because they did not use a bass guitar in concert. Instead, Manzarek played the bass lines with his left hand on a Fender Rhodes bass keyboard, an offshoot of the well-known Fender Rhodes electric piano, and keyboards with his right hand. However, the group used bass players such as Jerry Scheff, Doug Lubahn, Harvey Brooks, Kerry Magness, Lonnie Mack, and Ray Neapolitan on their albums.
Many of The Doors' originals were composed communally with Morrison usually contributing the lyrics and some melody and the others hammering out the beat and flow of the song. While Morrison and Manzarek were walking on the beach in California, they passed a black woman, and Morrison wrote the lyrics to Hello, I Love You in a single night, referring to her as the "dusky jewel." Some criticized Morrison for stealing the rhythm to The Kinks' 1965 hit "All Day and All of the Night," and The Kinks' lead singer, Ray Davies, sued The Doors. By 1966 the group was playing The London Fog club and soon graduated to the prestigious Whisky a Go Go. On August 10 they were spotted by Elektra Records president Jac Holzman on the insistence of Love singer Arthur Lee, whose group was on Elektra. After Holzman and producer Paul Rothchild saw two sets of the band playing at Whisky A Go Go, the first uneven but the second mesmerizing, they signed the band to the Elektra Records label on August 18-- the start of a long and successful partnership with Rothchild and engineer Bruce Botnick. The timing was particularly fortuitous because on August 21 the club fired the band after a profanity-filled performance of "The End." In an incident that foreshadowed the controversy that would follow the group, a tripping Morrison bellowed during the "Oedipal" section of the song, "Mother...I want to...fuck you!!!"
Densmore has also been steadfast in refusing to license The Doors' music for use in television commercials, including an offer of $15 million by Cadillac to lease the song "Break on Through (to the Other Side)," feeling that that would be in violation of the spirit in which the music was created. Densmore wrote about this subject for The Nation, noting: "People lost their virginity to this music, got high for the first time to this music. I've had people say kids died in Vietnam listening to this music, other people say they know someone who didn't commit suicide because of this music…. On stage, when we played these songs, they felt mysterious and magic. That's not for rent." Manzarek and Krieger maintain that touring as a Doors revival and licensing the music to advertisements are a means to keep The Doors from fading into history. Manzarek was quoted as saying, "We're all getting older. We should, the three of us, be playing these songs because, hey, the end is always near. Morrison was a poet, and above all, a poet wants his words heard."
The Doors are remembered for shamanistic live performances. Some members of the "establishment", however, felt that they were merely American rock music rebels. Jim Morrison said: "I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something." Their enduring popularity is reflected by continuing sales of their early work. (Sourced by Wikipedia)
"Take it as it Comes" Time to live Time to lie Time to laugh Time to die Takes it easy, baby Take it as it comes Don't move too fast And you want your love to last Oh, you've been movin' much too fast Time to walk Time to run Time to aim your arrows At the sun Takes it easy, baby Take it as it comes Don't move too fast And you want your love to last Oh, you've been movin' much too fast Go real slow You like it more and more Take it as it comes Specialize in havin' fun Takes it easy, baby Take it as it comes Don't move too fast And you want your love to last Oh, you've been movin' much too fast Movin' much too fast Movin' much too fast -by The Doors-
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