Krieger & Manzarek Reunite As The Doors, With Stuart Copeland and Ian Astbury Bruce Simon, New York Thu Sep 5, 8:57 PM ET (9/5/02, 6 p.m. ET) -- The Doors come alive again Friday (September 6). Founding members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger will be joined by Police drummer Stewart Copeland, Cult singer Ian Astbury, and Krieger's bassist, Angelo Barbera, for a performance at the California Motor Speedway in Fontana, California. It's the latest show on the Harley Davidson Open Road Tour, a series of events celebrating the motorcycle maker's centennial. The Doors are also set for a second Harley Davidson date on September 29 at Molson Park in Barrie, Ontario. If all goes as expected, the Doors will set up a major tour of the U.S. and Europe for spring 2003, after which they'll hit the studio for a new album. Copeland has joined the Doors in place of John Densmore. The original drummer for the group, Densmore is battling the hearing disorder tinnitus, which makes him unable to play live on stage, but he reportedly has given his blessing for this lineup to continue without him. The band actually played its first reunion gig at the House Of Blues in Los Angeles on Tuesday (September 3). Initial reports from the club were that the show would be released on the Doors' Bright Midnight Records, but a spokesperson told LAUNCH there are no such plans at the present time.
I heard the Jimi Hendrix experience, Nirvana, and Janis Joplin's old group were getting back together as well, Hmmmm. J/K RH
Ian Astbury completely rocks. However, are they really going to record an album as THE DOORS without Jim Morrison? Sacrilege is the only adjective I can think of at the moment. You could just go down the line and name any number of bands -- the Stones without Jagger, the Beatles without John or Paul, some other dude posing as Elvis Presley....they need to call the band something else.
Manzarek has been milking money off Morrison's name for thirty years, this shouldn't be a shocker. I'm surprised they have decided to re-re-re-record more new music over the top of Jim's terrible poetry.
Exactly. I am a huge fan of Ian as well, but let's face it, Jim Morrison WAS the Doors. Period. Something tells me that the Doors will now join these following bands as bands that were once cared about but now, no one gives a damn about them: Journey Styx Judas Priest The Misfits What do all of those bands have in common with the Doors?? They all have different lead singers now that can't hold a candle to the original lead singers and thus no one cares about them now.
They won't be the Doors. It will be a parody, a farce. I was lucky enough to see them at the Coliseum in Houston (The Movin' Sidewalks opened with a killer set that the Doors definitely responded to... the Sidewalks became ZZ Top.) and the Doors without Jim Morrison are not the Doors. I hope they change their minds before they all embarrass themselves.
The only thing sadder than this (GnR) is a lead singer of a once popular band (GnR) replacing all the old musicans (GnR) of his old band with new ones (GnR) and passing it off as the original (GnR).
<b>ROCK AND ROLL HEAVEN</b> The Righteous Brothers Chorus: If you believe in forever Then life is just a one-night stand If there's a rock and roll heaven Well you know they've got a hell of a band, band, band Jimi gave us rainbows And Janis took a piece of our hearts And Otis brought us all to the dock of a bay Sing a song to light my fire Remember Jim that way They've all found another place, another place to play. Chorus Remember bad bad Leroy Brown Hey Jimmy touched us with that song Time won't change a friend we came to know And Bobby gave us Mack the Knife Well look out, he's back in town They'll all be there together When they meet in one big show Chorus There's a spotlight waiting No matter who you are Cuz everybody's got a song to sing Everyone's a star (Everybody's got to be a star) Chorus
My man, c'mon. You can't deny the El Lay blooze of "Roadhouse Blues," "Texas Radio and the Big Beat," or "Crawling King Snake."
