Live in Copenhagen, 1968 captures the early and late show by The Doors on September 17, 1968 at Falkoner Centret. It will be released as a limited 2LP set (5300 copies worldwide) and CD on Black Friday (November 28).
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October 05, 2025
February 21, 2025
The Doors: "Strange Days 1967 – A Work In Progress" for Record Store Day
Recently discovered early alternate mixes for Strange Days, the second studio album by The Doors, will be released on numbered translucent blue vinyl for Record Store Day (April 12). 7500 copies worldwide. No alternate versions of Moonlight Drive, People Are Strange and My Eyes Have Seen You.
October 19, 2024
The Doors: "Live in Detroit" Black Friday release
Live in Detroit, recorded at the Cobo Arena on May 8, 1970, captures The Doors in full flight. The show will be released as a pricey 4LP set on Black Friday (November 29). 5000 copies worldwode. It was previously released in 2000 as a 2CD as part of the band's Bright Midnight series. Also: 2025 marks the 60th anniversary of the band when they got the ball rolling in California, so there will be plenty of reissues and the like.
April 23, 2024
Steven Wilson & Tim Bowness: The Album Years 1968 Part #2
English musicians and music geeks extraordinaire Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness have posted a new episode of their podcast The Album Years. They talk about 1968, discussing albums by The Incredible String Band, The Doors, The Byrds, The Grateful Dead, and a whole lot more. This is part #2 about this year.
February 20, 2024
The Doors: "Live At Konserthuset, Stockholm, September 20, 1968 " for Record Store Day
The Doors will release Live At Konserthuset, Stockholm, September 20, 1968, featuring the radio broadcast from their early and late shows, for Record Store Day (April 20). Fingers crossed that they will fix the distorted vocals that take away quite a bit from the listening enjoyment on theplethora of bootlegs that exist. The release is being discussed (at length) at Steve Hoffman Music Forums. It will be available as a 3LP and 2CD.
August 26, 2023
Cover Me: The End
Watch Nico perform The Doors classic The End. Recorded at the Shibuya Live Inn in Tokyo, Japan on April 11, 1986. It can be found on the Nico in Tokyo album.
February 04, 2023
Cover Me: Pablo Picasso > Love Me Two Times
Watch John Cale tackle the Modern Lovers' Pablo Picasso and The Doors' Love Me Two Times. Broadcasted live on German TV as part of the long running series Rockpalast @ Grugahalle in Essen, Germany - October 14, 1984. The show was released in 2010 in multiple formats.
December 03, 2022
Cover Me: People Are Strange
Watch Tom Van Heel, member of English indie band The Moons, perform The Doors classic People Are Strange.
November 17, 2021
The Dead South: People Are Strange
Leave it Canadian folk-bluegrass quartet The Dead South to take on the Doors classic People Are Strange and make a no-budget sci-fi video featuring a banjo from outerspace as the means of transport for a bunch of aliens. Also: they act out the anxiety of the lyrics really well. It will included on their forthcoming EP Easy Listening for Jerks, Pt. 2, due for release on Six Shooter Records.
February 28, 2019
ORBI: The Oscillating Revenge of the Background Instruments
Dutch quartet ORBI are a band without peers, consisting of three renowned classical musicians and Hollands finest blues rock Hammond player. Bram van Sambeek (bassoon), Sven Figee (Hammond Organ), Rick Stotijn (double bass) and Marijn Korff de Gidts (drums, percussion) bonded over a shared love of progressive hard rock and metal. Their instruments of choice are not in the spotlights that often, hence the title of their album, The Oscillating Revenge of the Background Instruments, on which they play well-known songs by bands like Led Zeppelin, Muse, Metallica, Alkaloid, and Pink Floyd.
While they are not the first to try to dress up rock and metal in classical attire - check the second hand crates for orchestras doing the sane and of course the Finnish cello quartet Apocalyptica - ORBI are tackling it with a whole new palette of sound. Can a bassoon sound like a guitar? Try shouting down the mouthpiece and you can fool the listeners ears quite convincingly. A double bass can give Jimmy Page something to think about too. Case in point: Since I've been Loving You is turned into a note perfect blues exercise that honours the tight but losse approach of Led Zeppelin. Dream Theater have a tendency to be a bit bombastic and self-indulgent when they play Octavarium, but they narrowed it down to a piece of music that could have been written by Igor Stravinsky in a mellow mood. Metallica's Cliff Burton, bass player extraordinaire who single-handedly turned a struggling trash metal act into a risk taking powerhouse, is honoured with three tracks (Fight Fire With Fire, Orion, and (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth).
December 20, 2015
Cover Me: People Are Strange
Watch the video for German psych trio Camera's instrumental version of People Are Strange. Ir was released on the A Psych Tribute To The Doors album.
August 22, 2013
Gov't Mule: new album "Shout!" 09/24, covering The Doors at Halloween shows
Blues rockers Gov't Mule will release their new studio album Shout! on September 24. They will tout extensively behind the release.
Two special Halloween shows at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles (10/30) and The Fox Theater in Oakland, CA (01/31) wil feature lots of songs from The Doors. Fingers crossed that Robbie Krieger and John Densmore will join them on stage.
Live dates:- 09/05 Interlocken Festival, Arrington, VA
Gov't Mule & The Warren Haynes Band Performing On The Same Day - 09/13 Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival, Fredericton, Canada
- 09/14 Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, NH
- 09/15 Grand Point North, Burlington, VT
- 09/17 Best Buy Theatre, New York, NY
- 09/18 Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
- 09/19 Fillmore Detroit, Detroit, MI
- 09/20 House of Blues, Cleveland, OH
- 09/21 Calvin Theatre, Northampton, MA
- 09/26 The Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA (w/ The London Souls)
- 09/27 Brown Theatre, Louisville, KY (w/ The London Souls)
- 09/28 Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN (w/ The London Souls)
- 10/01 Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN (w/ The London Souls)
- 10/02 LC Pavilion (Indoor), Columbus, OH (w/ The London Souls)
- 10/04 The Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL (w/ The London Souls)
- 10/05 The Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL (w/ The London Souls)
- 10/24 Neptunes, Seattle, WA
- 10/25 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Canada
- 10/26 Roseland Theatre, Portland, OR
- 10/27 McDonald Theatre, Eugene, OR
- 10/30 The Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
- 10/31 The Fox Theater, Oakland, CA
- 11/01 House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
- 11/02 Harrah's Tahoe, Stateline, NV
- 11/04 The Depot, Salt Lake City, UT
- 11/05 The Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO
- 11/07 Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa, OK
- 11/08 Stubbs, Austin, TX
- 11/09 Bayou Music Center, Houston, TX
- 11/10 House of Blues, Dallas, TX
» mule.net
May 21, 2013
Ray Manzarek: 1939-2013
Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist of The Doors, died of complications related to bile duct cancer yesterday, aged 74. He gave the band its signature sound when the instantly recognizable Continental combo organ and Gibson G-101 Kalamazoo combo organ , and holding down the deep end s on a Fender Rhodes piano. H ecame up with the intor for Light My Fire.
Manzarek family's statement:
Ray Manzarek, keyboardist and founding member of The Doors, passed away today at 12:31PM PDT at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany after a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer. He was 74. At the time of his passing, he was surrounded by his wife Dorothy Manzarek, and his brothers Rick and James Manczarek.
Manzarek is best known for his work with The Doors who formed in 1965 when Manzarek had a chance encounter on Venice Beach with poet Jim Morrison. The Doors went on to become one of the most controversial rock acts of the 1960s, selling more than 100-million albums worldwide, and receiving 19 Gold, 14 Platinum and five multi-Platinum albums in the U.S. alone. "L.A.Woman," "Break On Through to the Other Side," "The End," "Hello, I Love You," and "Light My Fire" were just some of the band's iconic and ground-breaking songs. After Morrison's death in 1971, Manzarek went on to become a best-selling author, and a Grammy-nominated recording artist in his own right. In 2002, he revitalized his touring career with Doors' guitarist and long-time collaborator, Robby Krieger.
"I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today," said Krieger. "I'm just glad to have been able to have played Doors songs with him for the last decade. Ray was a huge part of my life and I will always miss him."
Manzarek is survived by his wife Dorothy, brothers Rick and James Manczarek, son Pablo Manzarek, Pablo's wife Sharmin and their three children Noah, Apollo and Camille. Funeral arrangements are pending. The family asks that their privacy be respected at this difficult time. In lieu of flowers, please make a memoriam donation in Ray Manzarek's name at standup2cancer.org.
April 17, 2013
John Densmore: The Doors: Unhinged - Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes On Trial
Drummer John Densmore goes on a record store tour promoting his new book The Doors: Unhinged - Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes On Trial. He looks back on the court case against his former band mates Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger over a $15 million advertising deal for or a Cadillac commercial. He was adamant that there would be no sell-out of The Doors legacy.
Book tour dates:- 04/20 - 2pm Bull Moose, Scarborough, ME
- 04/21 - 4pm Porter Square Books, Boston, MA
- 04/22 - 5pm Record Archive, Rochester, NY
- 04/23 – 7pm Vintage Vinyl, Fords, NJ
- 05/02 – 7pm The Sound Garden, Baltimore, MD
- 05/06 - 7pm Criminal Records, Atlanta, GA
- 05/07 - 7pm Waterloo Records in Austin, TX
- 05/15 - 7pm Independent, Denver, CO
- 05/16 - 7pm Dimple Records, Sacramento, CA
- 05/17 - 7pm Rasputin (Haight Street), San Francisco, CA
- 05/18 - 1pm Silver Platters / 5pm Elliot Bay Books, Seattle, WA
- 05/19 - 3pm Music Millennium, Portland, OR
February 27, 2007
Words about music (149): John Densmore
You will be able to move around the content as you see fit, which is the future. This is kind of a 'fix your own pizza' concept. There are some real jewels in these concerts that haven't been put out before, and this kind of effort will make the legacy [of The Doors] even better.
John Densmore
February 24, 2007
The Celebration of The Doors: wrong date, lame excuse
Can somebody please tell those morons in Hollywood that The Doors were not founded in 1967, so a celebration of the band's 40th anniversary is just a lame excuse?
The Doors will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday (February 28th), in celebration of the band's 40th anniversary. Surviving members John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Ray Manzarek will attend, along with Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman, who signed the Doors to the label.
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