The Doors

Morrisson was a big influence on my late teenagehood, As I had read "Noone here gets out alive" (which Oliver Stone used for his movie some 12 years later), but reading further books (most notably Stephen Davies) , I think that he was deranged enough and borderline asshole (especially on Densmore ..... and Krieger) , but lacked the most elementary respect for a lot of people.

Can you blame the man, as he had an admiral for a father and this was Vietnam times, though?

Although not prog per se, The doors had many overtones to be worthy of mention in the PA but not inclusion.

Strange Days and LA Woman were their best album.

The Doors were a great band......Riders on the Storm is another awesome song.

Guillermo wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Morrisson was a big influence on my late teenagehood, As I had read "Noone here gets out alive" (which Oliver Stone used for his movie some 12 years later), but reading further books (most notably Stephen Davies) , I think that he was deranged enough and borderline asshole (especially on Densmore ..... and Krieger) , but lacked the most elementary respect for a lot of people. Can you blame the man, as he had an admiral for a father and this was Vietnam times, though? Although not prog per se, The doors had many overtones to be worthy of mention in the PA but not inclusion. Strange Days and LA Woman were their best album. Hello, Sean Trane: Well, it seems to me that you are a Psychiatrist or a Psychologist. Maybe this is not the Forum to comment these things, but maybe you are talking about Morrison being a "borderline", or maybe  that he had a "Borderline Personality Disorder", or  maybe I`m understanding wrongly your comment! I think that Morrison had several problems in his life and in his behaviour.But I don`t like Oliver Stone`s movie about The Doors and the way  he describes Morrison with the acting of Val Kilmer. In 1997 I read in an English  rock magazine (now defunct) called "VOX" an interview with Ray Manzarek. He was asked about this movie and he said that it is "crap". I also read in the Internet that Stone worked with John Densmore about the script for the film, and that Densmore wrote a book about his life with The Doors, and that he also described Morrison`s behavior as Stone did in the movie. This led to some problems between Densmore and the other ex-members of The Doors who also didn`t like the way Morrison was described by Desnmore in his book. So, it was one of the reasons why Densmore is not playing with them. Another reason is that Densmore didn`t like that Krieger and Manzarek were using the name "The Doors" anymore, so there were some legal problems between Densmore and the other two, and the new line-up of the band is now called "The Doors of the XXI Century".

By using borderline I meant as limit . Although I admired him greatly and still think of him as a poet , and a half genious , his cocky attitude would severely bother me nowadays. He cwould be no more than the OAsis Gallagher bros. But he did write the book on obnoxious rock stars

As for Densmore, He would've been part of the The Doors reunion tour had the other guys not left him sidetracked as he had health problems , had to be operated . Manzarek and Krieger did not want to postpone and wait for him, took on another drummer. This pissed off Densmore who then tried to stop them.

Then came in the Morrison family , trying to recuperate the fame and money by also stopping the use of name The Doors. This has to be the most scandalous behaviour from estranged family ever. Even Hendrix estates fights are less scandalous than that.

As Stone's movie , it was not succesful, but it was also dumb to even try to romance the life of a band so well documented.

PS: I am not psych-iatrist/ologist!

I agree with the opinion that Doors are one of the psych/proto-prog bands, since they first popped up in 1967. I think it was likely for them to go into prog completely, had Morrison not died, of course otherwise was also possible.

I love light my fire since the day I first heard it. It has one of the most beautiful organ-guitar jams made on rock scene ever. (no matter if it's prog or not, besides, you can find many other prog-like songs in their discography)

The aspect what I don't like about them is that they get too bluesy sometimes, which is also true for Led Zep, Hendrix, and even Zappa.

Those who mentioned albums upstairs: you might want to check out The Soft Parade, which is definitely an unusual doors album!

P.S. :I believe Doors are more prog than Asia and Barclay James Harvest for most of the time!!!