tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post111739262601917324..comments2024-03-24T08:17:55.097-04:00Comments on BLOG TO COMM: Christopher Stiglianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-1117803584395068782005-06-03T08:59:00.000-04:002005-06-03T08:59:00.000-04:00Wait, that's John Densmore, right? And Robbie Krie...Wait, that's <EM>John</EM> Densmore, right? And Robbie Krieger was the guitarist???Christopher Stiglianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-1117755603609036422005-06-02T19:40:00.000-04:002005-06-02T19:40:00.000-04:00No crap at all even though I disagree with you abo...No crap at all even though I disagree with you about the Robbie Densmore vs. Maureen Tucker battle of the drums and maybe a few other minor points. As for Love, I liked most of what I've heard even though when I first heard them they didn't do a thing for me at all (too much of the patented Electra sound to soothe my garage-punk appetite?) and of course I know just how much the Doors had to do with a lotta underground rock both east and west coast as well as in the UK as well. I do tend to play it all down though, perhaps because of the inner bias you mentioned. Maybe not...all depends on the weather I guess! I will have to agree with the anti-Doors people on more counts though...I guess it could all be summed up by Russell Desmond in his putdown of the Stranglers when he said that punk based on the Doors did not satiate him as much as punk based on the Stooges. As for Densmore and Tucker, sure he could "play rings" around her, but her style was especially suited for the Velvets sound and attack a lot more than if they had a standard rock drummer. But as for those final two Doors platters...maybe I should have notified you first...Christopher Stiglianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-1117670202252040912005-06-01T19:56:00.000-04:002005-06-01T19:56:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Christopher Stiglianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-1117665963193367262005-06-01T18:46:00.000-04:002005-06-01T18:46:00.000-04:00Those post-Morrison Doors albums were always regar...Those post-Morrison Doors albums were always regarded pretty lowly. I could have warned you about them. <BR/><BR/>You might not want to admit it because it doesn't go with your east coast-centric weltaanschung which has also caused you to play down UK acts of the time (not to mention your dismissal of Love) but the Doors WITH Morrison were just as responsible for the whole underground rock phenomenon of the 70s as the VU were. This is by no means a denigration of the Velvets, one of my fave bands of all time - but I don't think there would have been a Stooges, a Patti Smith, a Suicide, etc. without the REAL Doors -i.e. with Morrison, as the other guys just didn't have the spirit on their own. (I will say, as much as you might hate to hear it, that John Densmore was a better drummer than Mo Tucker - Mo is my least fave aspect of the VU, and their only flaw imo) <BR/><BR/>Funny though - the Doors were one of those bands whose best periods were their early stuff AND their late stuff (I'm not counting the albums you reviewed, by later stuff I mean Morrison Hotel and LA Woman), while their middle period (The Soft Parade, even Waiting For The Sun) is their worst. <BR/><BR/>anyways - these are my thoughts, I don't mean to give you any crap or anything but I thought I'd let them be known. - MichaelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com