"First New York Opening In A While. The Doors - Fresh From Los Angeles With An Underground Album Of The
"First New York opening in a while. The Doors - Fresh from Los Angeles with an underground album of the hour - return. This time, they are worshipped, envied, bandied about like the Real Thing. The word is out or 'in' - 'The Doors will floor you'. So not all the pretty people in New York were present at opening night, but enough to keep a few publicity agencies busy. The four musicians mounted their instruments. The organist lit a stick of incense. Vocalist and writer Jim Morrison closed his eyes to all that Arnel elegance, and the Doors opened up. Morrison twitched and pouted and a cluster of girls gathered to watch every nuance in his lips. Humiliating your audience is an old game in rock 'n' roll, but Morrison pitches spastic love with an insolence you can't ignore. His material - almost all original - is literate, concise, and terrifying. The Doors have the habit of improvising, so a song about being strange which I heard for the first time at Ondine may be a completely different composition by now. Whatever the words, you will discern a deep streak of violent - sometimes Oedipal - sexuality. And since sex is what hard rock is all about, the Doors are a stunning success. You should brave all the go-go gymnastics, bring a select circle of friends for buffer, and make it up to Ondine to find out what the literature of pop is all about. The Doors are mean; and their skin is green." (Richard Goldstein, "Pop Eye," Village Voice, Mar. 25, 1967)
🔻March, 1967, photo shoot inside Ondine NYC, New York, photo by Thomas Monaster.
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On August 8, 1967, The Doors recorded the play "The End" in Toronto for the Canadian television series 'Rock Scene: Like It Is'. The band were given the priceless opportunity to choose the song they would perform, and they wisely decide to do their epic masterpiece, “The End”. Although advertised as appearing in the O'keeffe Centre it was actually filmed at CBS studios in the former Carlton Theatre with a live audience. date October 16th is the actual broadcast date. The band in 'white' (light) clothing and Gym in black highlighted the two tones within The Doors. Jim was always the darkest band member and loved being a 'Door' 24/7 whilst the others could relax into a sort of 'renowned anonymity' away from the insanity of The Doors.
The Doors shot an early morning photo session with Bobby Klein atop a billboard on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California. Photo Credit: Bobby Klein © January 1967.
The first Doors album – simply titled The Doors – took just five days to make. Yet it took five months for Elektra to finally release it. Jim and Ray had pushed at that point for the album to be released immediately, in time for Christmas. But Jac, the wise old label head, knew better and talked them into allowing Elektra to hold back its release until the new year. Jim threw a tantrum and again needed to be talked down.Jac painted Jim a picture of the kind of campaign Elektra would build around the album when it was finally released in January 1967: “I said: ‘We’ll have more time to prepare for you and I’ll release no other album that month, which means you’ve got Elektra working a hundred per cent on your album for the first month. And by the way, I have this idea about putting a billboard up on Sunset Strip…’ Well, that caught Jim. He loved that idea. He said: ‘Where’d you come up with that?’”
Jim Morrison with model Donna Mitchell, VOGUE magazine session, New York, September 1967. Photo by Alexis Waldeck.
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