jim morrison: poseur or shaman?

[redrabid]

Of course there is more to it, music is never one-dimensional. But the glitter always shines through.

[Susan Butcher]

Iron Butterfly were a bit fake, but I get a giggle out of listening to them. I don't think they were as cluelessly fake as Strawberry Alarm Clock were. ("Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" is an accidental exception.) The Doors sound naff without being fun, and that's the problem for me.

Dream-like rather than glittery is how I think of it. We've all been to that place whether we remember or not. To bring back an entertaining and evocative chunk of it as music is a great achievement. I think of psychedelic music as a relative of Surrealism; horribly beautiful and blackly hilarious, a madness that is truth, terrifying ecstasies, and so on. Gloom just doesn't make it.

[usedtobebabson]

Sounds like your glass is half empty with the Doors Susan. As I recall they weren't all gloom. You could say JA was about gloom from Volunteers on.

[nicktecky]

Would that be gloom with a view?

[Susan Butcher]

I know, I'm probably not giving them a fair shake. It just annoyed me that they were considered so cool by my peers when better West Coast groups had been forgotten.