WAITING FOR THE SUN

After two albums, The Doors were almost on top of the world (as were other LA Sunset- strip groups but also their Northern counterparts from Frisco), and it seemed nothing could stop them. But somehow with this album, things will come to a gradual stop, even if that stop was still exceeding normal speed limits. Graced with an outstanding shot of the group at sunrise in the dunes, the album boasts a bunch of really interesting tracks ever- widening their scope, and plans was for the sidelong Lizard King suite that will never be recorded in studio in its final state, for obscure reasons. But the inner fold of the album will boast the full poem and a picture of the lizard that was to be crowned the king.

So the album still gives to the ultra-commercial (Hello I love You etc.), the there are tracks which shows that the groups is still progressing in terms of dramatics, but Morrison's rebellion is getting sometimes a bit of an hindrance (especially on stage where his substances are increasingly hampering the concerts).

Tracks like Not To Touch The Earth (delightfully dynamic), The Unknown Soldier, Five To One (both the last two about the war in Nam, in Morrison's rebellion to his father being an admiral in the navy) and Spanish caravan (with Krieger's Flamenco intro) are all tracks which merits attention of the proghead, but let's face it, there is not much else for the proghead. Clearly this album is lacking the intended centrepiece that was supposed to be its centrepiece: The Celebration Of The Lizard King. Hardly essential really.