- La Grande Odalisque and The Lizard King - "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is : infinite"William Blake La Grande Odalisque pourrait vous décrire, avec des étoiles dans les yeux, l'angélique et démoniaque beauté de Jim Morrison, poète maudit fauché en plein vol pour les uns, suppôt de Satan pour les autres.
La Grande Odalisque pourrait vous raconter, les yeux dans le vague, à quel point les paroles de la chanson Crystal Ship l'ont toujours troublée sans qu'elle sache vraiment pourquoi. La Grande Odalisque pourrait aussi vous casser les pieds en vous expliquant, arguments divers et variés à l'appui, le génie rythmique de John Densmore, l'incomparable doigté "bottlenecké" de Robby Krieger et la folle patte jazzy-bluesy-classical-psychedelic de Ray Manzarek. La Grande Odalisque pourrait vous parler du frisson qui l'a parcourue pendant toute la durée du film. [AVP] When you're strange : Aller simple pour les années rock'n'. The Doors. The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger.
The band took its name from the title of Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception, which itself was a reference to a William Blake quotation, from his famous work The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. Jim Morrison. James Douglas "Jim" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter and poet best remembered as the lead singer of The Doors.[1] Morrison developed an alcohol dependency.
He died at the age of 27 in Paris, allegedly of a heroin overdose. No autopsy was performed, and the exact cause of Morrison's death is still disputed.[8] Jim Morrison's grave is located at Père Lachaise cemetery in eastern Paris.[9] Early years[edit] His ancestors were Scottish, Irish, and English.[11][12] In 1947, Morrison, then four years old, allegedly witnessed a car accident in the desert, in which a family of Native Americans were injured and possibly killed. Morrison was arrested in Tallahassee after pulling a prank while drunk at a football game In January 1964, Morrison moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
John Densmore. Early life and The Doors[edit] He joined The Doors in 1965 and remained a member until the band's dissolution in 1973. Densmore met keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger at a Transcendental Meditation lecture.[3] Densmore says, "There wouldn't be any Doors without Maharishi. "[4] According to Densmore's own book, he quit the band on one occasion in reaction to Jim Morrison's increasingly self-destructive behavior, although he returned the next day. He repeatedly suggested that the band stop touring, but Krieger and Manzarek were resistant to this notion.
Later career[edit] Densmore formed a band with fellow ex-Doors Robby Krieger in 1973 called Butts Band. Densmore appears alongside Krieger and Manzarek in 2012's RE:GENERATION, a documentary directed by Amir Bar-Lev. References[edit] External links[edit] The Doors (film) The film portrays Morrison as the larger-than-life icon of 1960s rock and roll, counterculture, and the drug-using free love hippie lifestyle. But the depiction goes beyond the iconic: his alcoholism, interest in the spiritual plane and hallucinogenic drugs as entheogens, and, particularly, his growing obsession with death are threads which weave in and out of the film. The film's depiction of Morrison was not well received by his close friends and family.
The film opens during the recording of Morrison's An American Prayer and quickly moves to a childhood memory of his family driving along a desert highway. Young Jim sees an elderly native American dying by the roadside. Morrison convinces his bandmates to travel to Death Valley and experience the effects of psychedelic drugs. When You're Strange. When You're Strange is a 2009 documentary about the Doors.
It is written and directed by Tom DiCillo and for the first time makes material from Jim Morrison's 1969 film fragment HWY: An American Pastoral publicly available.[1] Production[edit] The documentary was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2009.[3] It received somewhat favorable reviews from that showing, but the narration (by director DiCillo) was singled out by most viewers as very seriously flawed for its monotonic delivery. Due to the rash of complaints about the narration, Johnny Depp was hired to redub it. A few months later, DiCillo pronounced the film "just about locked" and announced that there would be a showing of the new "redux" version.
The completed film was also shown at the London Film Festival on October 16-18, 2009. Introduction to "When you're strange" by John Densmore, The Door. The Doors - People are Strange. A 'Strange' New Film From the Doors.