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Whistle Stopper - The Doors - Live at the Hollywood Bowl
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison
Directed By: Ray Manzarek
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300186002
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 155880756X
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: 1991-07-01
Running Time: 62
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1987
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Summary: Complete Doors Concert On Film - May Be The Only One
Comment: This is the legendary Doors at their peak in this, the only complete concert ever filmed of the controversial superband. The concert was filmed live at the Hollywood Bowl during the July 4th weekend in 1968. The concert includes my favorite Doors' song "light My Fire" (extended version.)
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Summary: The Doors-Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Comment: I watched the video twice and came to the conclusion Jim Morrison
was backed up by excellent musicians. It seemed to me that he did
his performance under the influence of drugs or alcohol. His movements were slow and not defined. He spent a lot of time wandering in a fog around the stage, not really getting anywhere, trying to light a cigarette, bending over with his rear to the audience, then leaping in the air, screaming into the microphone. I read he was going to "dump" his musicians which would have been a poor decision on his part. Sorry he died so young but the excessive use of drugs and alcohol will shorten the lifespan. I think he would have had a great career if he would have cleaned his act up. My four stars are for the musicians who kept the performance moving.
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Summary: It Blew My Mind
Comment: I was there.... July 1968 in the Hollywood Bowl. What a show!!! When I watch this video in retrospect, I'm unsure why I was so enraptured. I'm a lot older today, my musical tastes have changed. However, it is part of my history and music's as well. This is a very fine show for the younger generation to understand what it was like in 1968. People are strange, indeed.
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Summary: "Dance On Fire"?
Comment: It's hard to understand--now--that the Doors were thought of as being "theatrical" in their day. Rock extravaganzas didn't really get off the ground until the mid-70s (with KISS and their ilk, although I guess you can create a case for people like Alice Cooper a bit earlier than that). The only little acting bit in this concert performance is a brief moment in "Universal Soldier" when Robbie Krieger uses his guitar as a gun, and standing in for an entire firing squad, shoots Jim Morrison dead (well, dead for about 30 seconds), then he's back to life with all his glowering intensity.Not exactly elaborate staging, but effective enough. Morrison's intensity had less to do with frenzied movement than with his sullen, sneering stance. Actually, his footwork--such as it is--is pretty stiff and uninspired. He's not Prince; not even Iggy Pop. The "dance on fire" bit was mostly in his head and in yours. But that can be enough. There has been a lot of revisionist criticism of the Doors. Lots of people who were taken in by the Lizard King jive are embarrassed about all that now. But this performance video shows that the group WAS tight, that Morrison did have a commanding presence and a solid if limited vocal delivery. For a brief moment, they were on to something. It wasn't the revolution--but it wasn't such bad theater after all.
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Summary: not as good as the roundhouse, but still captivating
Comment: you get the feeling that morrison was sorta distant and cold when the doors gave this performance at the hollywood bowl, and it's also obvious that he was tripping on acid (no surprise). this show is still certainly worth watching, though, and occasionally we hear genuine passion in morrison's voice, especially when he recites a piece from celebration of the lizard. when asked what he thought of this performance, mick jagger allegedly called it "a bore". this may be true for some of the songs, but when they start playing "the end" morrison really turns on, and any fan of his will be utterly hypnotized by probably the best recorded version of that song that they have on tape. watch how he covers his eyes with his hand during the oedipal section and then breaks out in depraved and evil laughter while expressing his frantic desire to do something a little unsavory with his mother--utterly fascinating. this should give you some idea of how complex and brilliant morrison was:even his mediocrities and half hearted efforts are totally hypnotic.
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Watching The Doors Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a sobering experience, for the viewer must confront the painful truth that popular music, to judge by its increasingly infantile and banal state, will never see their like again. Either that, or admit the Doors were an irrelevant footnote in the history of pop--an idle thought that a few minutes of this extraordinary concert will dispel. Fortunately for posterity, this July 5, 1968 performance was captured by four cameras and recorded in 16-track audio, resulting in generally excellent stereo sound that is far better than most archive footage of this band. On stage Jim Morrison has the aura of an intense performance artist, whose dark, smoky voice forms only a part of his complex persona. Guitarist Robby Krieger, keyboard player Ray Manzarek, and drummer John Densmore complement Morrison's free-associative outpourings with improvisational, jazz-inspired interjections. They make music like no other band before or since. Who else could segue effortlessly from Kurt Weill's "Alabama Song" to Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man"? And just when they're in danger of becoming too pretentious, Morrison bursts any lurking self-importance with a wry smile, a jokey aside, or even a belch. But the seriousness remains, at least implicitly, throughout as Morrison's edgy lyrics (from "When the Music's Over" to "The Unknown Soldier" and "The End") constantly hint at disturbing social undercurrents outside the concert arena. Is it fanciful to imagine that in the minds of his audience the ghosts of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement are hovering just out of view? Such thoughts are what make the Doors so unique. Their music invites questions, positively dares the audience to ask them. That's why they remain so endlessly fascinating well over three decades later. And that's why this concert performance will find a home with any and every fan of the band. "The time to hesitate is through." --Mark Walker, Amazon.co.uk
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