Product Description
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The Doors Collection features the Universal Home Video long-form
videos Dance on Fire, The Doors: Live at The Hollywood , and
The Soft Parade. All three videos were personally directed by Ray
Manzarek, who first met Jim Morrison while they were both
attending the UCLA film school.
This special edition features Ray, John Densmore and Robby
Krieger on the analog tracks, along with Doors engineer and
producer ("L.A. Woman") Bruce Botnick, for over three hours of
candid, , revealing conversation.
Bonus Content:
Disc 1 - The Doors: Dance on Fire:
* Audio Commentary with Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby
Krieger
* Doors Memorabilia
* Evergreen
* Henry Diltz Photographs
* John Densmore: Riders on the Storm
* Induction
* Robby Kreiger: The End
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If you are a new or original fan of the Doors, this spectacular
DVD should give you enough incentive to jump on the DVD bandwagon
without reservation. It's quite simply the finest single
audio-visual source of Doors music and history, presented with
the full participation of the band's surviving members (Ray
Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, John Densmore) and featuring a variety
of bonus features that will send any Doors-phile into a state of
rock & roll euphoria. We're not kidding, folks--this is a
must-have disc for anyone who's ever been mesmerized by Jim
Morrison and the late-1960s, early-'70s rock phenomenon known as
the Doors.
The primary content consists of three accled films, all
running about an hour long and directed by Manzarek, that give
the viewer a deeper appreciation of what the Doors were all
about. Not only was the band filmed in a variety of live concert
settings (especially at the legendary Hollywood show,
included here), but they were also precociously aware of the
value of film, creating music "videos" long before MTV and taking
their cue from Manzarek's mid-'60s stint as a UCLA film student.
Also included are clips from several TV appearances (including a
PBS interview in which Morrison predicts the future of
technology with astounding accuracy), revealing backstage
footage, and, of course, some of the most hypnotic concert
performances ever filmed.
Two of Manzarek's student films (Evergreen and Induction)
indicate that the keyboardist could easily have become a
successful director, but e blessed him (and us) with a future
in one of America's all-time greatest rock bands. What The Doors
Collection conveys more than anything is that these four young
men formed a unique cohesion of talent, that they all loved and
admired Jim Morrison (and still do), and that they continue to
share that love--along with some conflicting recollections and
amiably contrasting opinions--on a commentary track that's wise,
fun-loving, and refreshingly free of drippy nostalgia. Indeed,
when Manzarek uses the word "atrocious" to describe Oliver
Stone's 1991 film about Morrison and the band, he's merely
defending the fact that Morrison was himself a sweet, lovable
young man who had a dark side--no one's denying that--but who
also fronted a band that continues to unite listeners and viewers
in the positive spirit of creativity and freedom of expression.
--Jeff Shannon