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The Doors Launch Interactive iPad App

Ken Kelley — Wed, 08 May 2013 02:03:08 +0000

Together with Warner Music, the Doors have launched an interactive app exclusive to the iPad that will offer fans the chance to join the group on a fully interactive journey including music, videos, previously unpublished photos and more. The Doors App is the brainchild of Jac Holzman, the man responsible for having signed the group to Elektra [...]

Doors Drummer John Densmore Opens Up About Legal Battle With Bandmates

Michael Gallucci — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:46:31 +0000

Doors drummer John Densmore has been making the publicity rounds for his new tell-all memoir, ‘The Doors: Unhinged — Jim Morrison’s Legacy Goes on Trial.’ He recently told ABC News Radio that the legal battles between himself and the band’s other surviving members, Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger, stem from the group the two put [...]

John Densmore Picks Jimmy Fallon as Potential Jim Morrison Replacement

Billy Dukes — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:59:24 +0000

Should the remaining members of the Doors reunite (it seems unlikely), drummer John Densmore knows who he'd want to fill Jim Morrison's space in front of the microphone. It's not clear if he's being cute or funny, but during a recent radio interview he said Jimmy Fallon could get the job done.

Jim Morrison in Newly Discovered Interview: 'Fat Is Beautiful'

Jeff Giles — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:20:59 +0000

He's been dead for decades -- and the subject of countless retrospectives ever since -- but that doesn't mean we've heard and seen everything Jim Morrison committed to tape before he passed away. The latest example? A newly unearthed candid interview the Doors front man gave to director and journalist Howard Smith in 1969.

44 Years Ago: Jim Morrison of the Doors Allegedly Exposes Himself on Stage

Nick DeRiso — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:00:17 +0000

Did he or didn't he? The late Doors frontman Jim Morrison was charged with exposing himself before a stunned audience in Florida on March 1, 1969, though he vehemently denied the allegation. Bandmate Robby Krieger still says that no photographic evidences exists to prove it.

John Densmore of the Doors Hopes New Memoir Will Mend Fences With His Former Bandmates

Nick DeRiso — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:59:50 +0000

John Densmore won a court battle to keep the other surviving members of the Doors from using the band’s name on new projects. Now, he’s hoping to win back their friendship with a new book. Densmore says he’s mailed copies of ‘The Doors: Unhinged,’ due April 17, 2013, to both Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger in [...]

Doors Drummer John Densmore Plans Tell-All Memoir

Jeff Giles — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:24:42 +0000

This is the end, my only friend -- the end of any prayer that the surviving members of the Doors will ever be able to bury the hatchet and make music together again.

46 Years Ago: The Doors' Debut Album Released

Michael Gallucci — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:27:37 +0000

When the Doors entered a Hollywood recording studio to make their debut album at the end of August 1966, 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.

45 Years Ago: Jim Morrison of the Doors Maced and Arrested in New Haven

Sterling Whitaker — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:39:27 +0000

One of the most mythologized and romanticized figures in rock history, Doors front man Jim Morrison possessed a deep-seated anti-authoritarian streak that repeatedly landed him in trouble. On Dec. 9, 1967, the rebellious rocker was arrested at a Doors gig in New Haven, Conn., earning him the dubious distinction of being, as far as we know, the first rock star ever arrested onstage during a performance.

The Doors' Robbie Krieger Holds Out Hope for Reunion With John Densmore

Chad Childers — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:04:47 +0000

The Doors may be reflecting on the 'Live at the Bowl '68' DVD and live album, but for Robby Krieger it's a little bit bittersweet considering the rift that he and Ray Manzarek have with the band's longtime drummer John Densmore.

43 Years Ago: Jim Morrison Arrested in Arizona

Sterling Whitaker — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:00:10 +0000

There's no denying that Doors singer Jim Morrison was one of the most charismatic front men of his generation. Unfortunately he was one of the most troubled, too. The singer had a terrible alcohol problem that played a big role in his repeated arrests, including one on Nov. 11, 1969 in Arizona that resulted from Morrison and a friend drunkenly heckling a flight crew on a commercial airliner.

45 Years Ago: The Doors Banned from the Ed Sullivan Show

Sterling Whitaker — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:16:22 +0000

It was a clash of mainstream culture vs. the counterculture when the Doors were booked to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show in September of 1967. Things did not go as smoothly as the producers may have hoped. Fronted by charismatic-but-unpredictable singer Jim Morrison, the group had recently scored its first No. 1 hit with [...]

New Doors Song, 'She Smells So Nice,' Debuts Online

Shauna Wright — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:30:39 +0000

Since Jim Morrison died some 40 years ago, you’d think the Doors would’ve run out of new material to release by now — but you’d be wrong. In fact, they’re dropping a new single today.

The Doors to Release New Song 'She Smells So Nice' Shortly

Jeff Giles — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:30:33 +0000

It’s been more than 40 years since Jim Morrison died, and we haven’t exactly had a shortage of Doors compilations over the ensuing decades, so you could be forgiven for thinking we’d heard everything there was to hear from the band’s original lineup.

Record Store Day Will Bring Mega Vinyl Releases

Jon Michaels — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:15:20 +0000

November 25, will see a number of artist taking part in Record Store Day with many special releases. Expect album reissues, new singles and some rare never before released material all on vinyl!

Included in the list of releases are box sets from The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and, as previously reported, The Doors, each offering four seven-inch vinyl singles. Among the other special discs being issued in conjunction with the campaign are Pete Townshend's The Quadrophenia Demos 1 EP, which feature

The Doors Rare 1965 Acetate Sells For $3,650 on eBay

Karen Laney — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:00:41 +0000

An ultra-rare, six-song Doors acetate from 1965 sold via eBay on Monday (Oct. 10) to the highest bidder at the hefty price of $3,650. This collector’s dream piece had some serious action during the auction, pulling in no less than 40 bids before the magic words “you’re the highest bidder” came across the victor’s screen.