The Doors: We Could Be So Good Together
"The Doors were different, The Doors interested me. The Doors seemed unconvinced that love was brotherhood and the Kama Sutra. The Doors' music insisted that love was sex and sex was death and therein lay salvation. The Doors were the Norman Mailers of the top forty, missionaries of apocalyptic sex."
From Joan Didion's great essay on the end of the 60s "The White Album," where she writes, amongst other things, of visiting The Doors in the studio during the recording of "Waiting for the Sun." She also mentions Morrison's 'black vinyl pants' at least four times in as many pages.
4 comments:
Very nice post. A few days ago I nearly posted some Doors. I was walking down the Street and I Will Never Be Untrue came on my mp3 player. If it is possible, the Doors are underrated.
Great Didion quote as well.
Yep. I love the Doors too; I keep walking into them one way or another.
I feel quite fortunate that my conservative christian father's record collection included the Doors' debut and People Are Strange. I was hooked for life at a very young age...
I love Joan Didion!
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