New film about The Doors

[guitartex]

For any fans of The Doors there's a new fiim narrated by Johnny Depp that looks interesting. I was 16 living in Dallas when The Doors played at Dallas Memorial Auditorium July 1968 and me and a couple of friends went to that show.
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[Hornoholic]

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[WorsterMan]

I'm envious


me too

 

[l00p]

wow, me three! They are a band that I always mention when the question, "What bands do you wish you could have seen but cannot now?", comes up.

Always the Doors are one of them along with Joy Division.

I have never seen the Val Kilmer movie because I was afraid it would suck and not do justice. Am I wrong about this and should I see it?

 

[arieshorn]

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[Texanne]

I, too, have the Doors at the top of my concerts-I-wish-I-could-have-attended list.

I did, however, see the Monkees when I was in 5th grade.

 

[WorsterMan]

Loop - dude, you need to rent the DVD if you are a fan of the Doors. I am not a huge fan of Stone, but this is a fairly accurate movie from what I recall from seeing it years ago when I last viewed it. IMO Val Kilmer did a fabulous job playing JM.

Unfortunately, I never saw the Doors or the Monkees in concert, but I did see Crosby Stills & Nash, sans Young in the early 70's and I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express a couple of years ago - damn... does seeing CS&N make me old or what

 

[FAST FRED]

In the '60s and the '70s, I saw The Doors, The Beatles, The Stones, The Animals, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Buffalo Springfield, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jimi Hendrix & The Band of Gypsies, James Brown, Rare Earth, The Young Rascals, The Association, The Mamas & The Papas, The Beach Boys, The Kingsmen, The Kinks, The Monkees, The Chambers Brothers, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Vanilla Fudge, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels with Jim McCarty, Van Morrison, Chuck Berry, Freddie King, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Johnny Rivers, Muddy Waters, The Guess Who, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Allman Brothers Band, CSN&Y, BB King, Bobby Blue Bland, Paul Buttererfield Blues Band, Canned Heat, Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, Joe Cocker, Pacific Gas & Electric, Procol Harum, Grand Funk Raikroad, Chicago Transit Authority, Mountain, Ravi Shankar, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Sam & Dave, Jefferson Airplane, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, Montrose with Sammy Hagar, Stevie Wonder, Spirit, Love, Poco, The Band, Fleetwood Mac, Bloodrock, Mott the Hoople, Cactus, Bruce Springsteen, Commander Cody & His Losr Planet Airmen with Bill Kirchen, ZZ Top, Shiva's Headband, Greezy Wheels, Balcones Fault, Linda Ronstadt, Doug Sahm, Talking Heads, Steely Dan, Jimmy Cliff, Michael Martin Murphey, Jerry Jeff Walker, Bob Seger, Roy Buchanan, The Clash, Journey, Genesis, Jimmy Buffett, Leon Redbone, Tony Joe White, Spiro Gyra, Three Dog Night, Peter, Paul & Mary, John Denver and others live at clubs, concerts, festivals and the Armadillo World Headquarters, etc.

Wish I'd saved the ticket stubs.

Good times.

 

[l00p]

A good many of those were at Aquafest, no? Leon Redbone was there on year I seem to want to remember. But this was in the 80s. Man, I miss Aquafest.

 

[FAST FRED]

Leon Redbone was at Castle Creek on what is now MLK.

Saw Bobby Blue Bland at the Victory Bar & Grill in the sixties.

Tony Joe White was at a little supper club in a converted house, north of Memorial Stadium and west of I 35.

Muddy Waters was at the Vulcan Gas Company.

AquaFest was great for years.

Saw Delbert McClinton, Cheap Trick, Bruce Hornsby, Eddie Raven, Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine, NRBQ and many more.

 

[Napoleon]

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[Heretic Horn]

Stone's movie was cheesy. Might as well read No One Here Gets Out Alive, which the movie seemed to draw heavily upon. You get many of the facts without the heavy-handed imagery of invisible Indians and over-romanticizing of the Lizard King.

 

[Duff_Man]

Most of you don't know that Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon) played John Densmore's part in the Oliver Stone movie. Seriously.

Does anyone know when this is coming to U.S. theatres?

 

[wedgie]

I was in school when No One Here Gets Out Alive came out and included it in my pruchase of school books for the semester. As an avid reader I found the book very good but it has been a decade or two.

 

[MAROON]

I was at Recoleta cemetary last month. What a cool place that is - amazing architecture.

That boxer was none other than Luis Firpo - The Wild Bull of the Pampas.