The Doors

[Billy Underdog]

LSD was his early drug of choice, and for months he tripped every day, but soon he wound up on the booze - not at all hip in the California of the late Sixties - and became a shambolic drunk and the laughing stock of Sunset Strip. "He would vomit on people without warning. He pissed on walls in public. He was bruised from jumping out of moving cars at high speed. He had alcoholic tremors,"

"Ride the snake, he's old, and his skin is cold". Then there's the myth of him living on a rooftop, taking acid and writing poems for a month.

But, yeah, all accounts describe him as a horrible drunk, lying in the Sunset Strip gutter. Sounds somewhat familiar...

[Axefiend]

One from the new DVD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj405bbDsoY

[Billy Underdog]

^^^ Noone in the band is really on fire there. It's not as bad as the clips on the Message Of Love film, but it's not representative of how great they could be either. Jim really doesn't look like he want to be there at all. I think a full performance DVD is mostly of interest to gung-ho fans (like i am with Sabbath), musically i don't think the world would've missed anything if it wasn't released. Sad to say...

But cool to have seen it atleast.

[Zzzptm]

I once went to his grave at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. I went there to see the people that went there just for that one grave. So many other amazing stones and markers there, but that's the one they beeline to... and it's all cordoned off with zero people being hippies, smoking dope and reading poetry. Just a lot of people disappointed that there's no scene going on there.

Whereas, if you see the Oscar Wilde tomb, especially after a Pride parade... that's a party, right there!

[JSTHECONQUEROR]

^^^ Noone in the band is really on fire there. It's not as bad as the clips on the Message Of Love film, but it's not representative of how great they could be either. Jim really doesn't look like he want to be there at all. I think a full performance DVD is mostly of interest to gung-ho fans (like i am with Sabbath), musically i don't think the world would've missed anything if it wasn't released. Sad to say...

But cool to have seen it atleast.

I always liked the performance of The End at the Isle of Wight. That one was pretty good. Not a damn thing can top their Hollywood Bowl performance. They band was at their pinnacle and best of all at their most psychedelic and experimental. I love the set list, all kinds of Celebration of the Lizard scattered throughout!

[Axefiend]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RlrPV3cHag