Since January it has become a million-seller. In November, several Los Angeles deejays started playing excerpts from the first album and all at once they received many many requests for a song called "Light My Fire." So one such disc jockey asked Elektra, the Doors' recording company, to press a shorter version and release it as a single. The single, "Break on Through," tottered to number 11 in the City of the Angels, but made it nowhere around the country. But I have changed my mind about "Light My Fire." That song and most everything else the Doors have done is all their own.īy fall, 1966, the Doors had released one single and an album, which is still their only one to date. One year later I am still convinced that Morrison is not putting us all on when he sounds like he has just come down from a methadryne high. My first impression was that Jim Morrison was a real drug freak and that he must have stolen the idea for "Light my Fire" from the Stones' "Going Home," released earlier that summer. The audience's first reaction to the Doors was that they had never heard anything like this before and, by the way, how could anybody dance to "End of the Night?" I saw them three or four times behind Love, a group which has a sound somewhere between Ray Charles and the Stones, with a punch of Mothers of Invention. Throughout the summer of 1966, the Doors played second group at Whisky-A-Go-Go in Los Angeles. They are the prototypes of the drug, sometimes drugged, group. In less than one year they have become the world's most famous psychedelic musicians. ![]() The Door's brief career has paralleled the rising popularity of the New Sound. The new lyrics and the new musical mode are the ingredients of that often profaned-by listeners and musicians-"psychedelic music." In the vanguard of this small revolution in sound stands a group called The Doors. Quasi-religious LSD lyrics are replacing the generalities about sensual love which formed the core of popular music until after the Beatles' Rubber Soul. The product is "raga-rock," a sound that distinguishes the new Los Angeles and San Francisco groups which are setting the pace of current rock 'n' roll. ![]() The twang of Indian music, formerly known to Americans exclusively through Ravi Shankar and his sitar, has suffused popular music. Rock will never be the same again, ever since the obvious connection was made between the nirvana of an LSD trip and the inward spiritual traveling that Eastern mystics achieve through meditation. In the last few years, hallucinogenic drugs have had a greater affect on popular music than such other noteworthy events as the escalation of That War and the invention of the 100 mm cigarette have had on the American public in general.
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