
The Doors
A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
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Greil Marcus
The best critic of popular culture in America considers the attraction of the Doors, which has endured despite the band’s short life, sampling the lasting songs and legendary performances that made Jim Morrison and his band rock ’n’ roll legends.
A fan from the moment the Doors’ first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock ’n’ roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group disbanded, one could drive from here to there, changing from one FM pop station to another, and be all but guaranteed to hear two, three, four of the Doors’ songs in an hour - every hour. Whatever the demands in the music, they remained unsatisfied, in the largest sense unfinished, and absolutely alive. There have been many books on the Doors. This is the first to bypass their myth, their mystique, and the death cult of both Jim Morrison - and the era he was made to personify - and focus solely on the music. All these years later, it is a new story.
Griel Marcus is the author of Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, When That Rough God Goes Riding, The Shape of Things to Come, Mystery Train, Dead Elvis, In the Fascist Bathroom, Double Trouble, Like a Rolling Stone, and The Old, Weird America. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America. Since 2000 he has taught at Princeton and Berkeley, in Minnesota, and at the New School in New York. His column Real Life Rock Top 10 appears regularly in the Believer. He has lectured at University of California, Berkeley, the Whitney Museum of Art, and Princeton University. He lives in Berkeley.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
An excellent trip if you’re willing to push past the hippy, happy, bullshit 1960s sheen most people want to gloss over everything from the era with and look at the broader, narrower picture.
The Doors’ story is a dark one, full of excess and tragedy, but out of that came some of the most incisive music and poetry of those last mean years of the sixties. This book captures the spirit of those times, and of The Doors, their music and its impact, beautifully.
Highly recommended.
Great stuff if you’re willing to to cleanse your doors.
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depressing
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What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
If you buy this book hoping to learn anything about the doors then don't bother. There is no factual information about the doors, no real research whatsoever. A total waste of time I'm afraid.What was most disappointing about Greil Marcus’s story?
This book is the self indulgent ramblings of the author with no clear or relevant information to impart to the listener.You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
No.The worst book ever written
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