Author: The Doors

Format: Color

Release Date: 01-02-2008

Details: Amazon.ca Inspired by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugarman's acclaimed biography of the Doors' enigmatic, ill-fated singer Jim Morrison, this hourlong 1981 tribute is must-see viewing for anyone wishing to explore and understand the Morrison legend. It's certainly definitive in terms of the personnel involved: surviving Doors members Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, and Robby Krieger are joined by Hopkins, Sugarman, and the late producer Paul Rothchild, offering privileged perspective and insight into Morrison's personality and creative impulse. "Not a showman, but a shaman," says Manzarek of Morrison's controversial image as a brightly burning poet provocateur, while Krieger and Densmore acknowledge the darker side of supporting Morrison's iconoclastic charisma even as his drug-fueled intensity led to death at age 27. With revealing interview and performance clips, including two complete appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, this is a fascinating look at a truly unique artist whose legacy remains timeless, vital, and worthy of this open-eyed retrospective. --Jeff Shannon From the Back Cover No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Doors' Tribute to Jim Morrison is a full exploration of the controversial and quixotic singer, delving into his fascination with cinema and psychology, mysticism and sexuality, poetry and power. In addition to performance clips of the band in action, it features interviews with all of the surviving members of the Doors and many others who were instrumental in creating and maintaining the legend, from record producer Paul Rothchild to biographers Danny Sugerman and Jerry Hopkins (who wrote the bestseller No One Here Gets Out Alive, from which this program was inspired). Features cuts from Five to One, Back Door Man, Celebration of the Lizard, The End, Moonlight Drive, Crawlin' Kingsnake, Unknown Soldier, People Are Strange, Light My Fire, When the Music's Over. Also features full-length performances of Touch Me, The Changeling, LA Woman. 60 minutes.

UPC: 801213001293

EAN: 0801213001293

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood