The Guilds of Grot
Enlightened Member
Pretty sure somewhere along the line the Doors revised their writing credits to individuals. Morrison was never happy that Kreiger wrote their biggest hit "Light My Fire".
The band also established a unanimous voting power policy. If one person in the band disagreed with a proposal, it didn't pass. It was all or none.
walrus, not sure if you've ever seen it but The Beatles, LOVE show is one of my all time faves here in Vegas. I've seen it twice. Great Beatles music and Cirq de Soleil shenanigans make you smile really BIG!!This is a good move but not very common, of course. The Beatles did this for every song - the song would not be recorded unless they all agreed. Obviously, "Lennon/McCartney" has the advantage with royalties, but even today for something like let's say the Beatles' "Love" Las Vegas show, all four (or their living spouses) had to approve.
walrus
walrus, not sure if you've ever seen it but The Beatles, LOVE show is one of my all time faves here in Vegas. I've seen it twice. Great Beatles music and Cirq de Soleil shenanigans make you smile really BIG!!
I've never read that Morrison had any bad feelings about "LMF" -- the song established the band -- and in any case he would have shared in the royalties, which were (and are) considerable.
Dinner's on me, my brother!! I have just the place across the street from the Mirage! It's at the Venetian. Do you like super upscale Mexican food??I have only heard the music, I have not seen the show.
If I ever get out there, I'll buy you a dinner and then we'll go to the show!
walrus
Dinner's on me, my brother!! I have just the place across the street from the Mirage! It's at the Venetian. Do you like super upscale Mexican food??
That was a joke, son. Clapton is a master.
Song Fact #9
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-doors/light-my-fire
I also believe I had read this is numerous Doors biographies.
You may be right. I've read all the Doors bios, and don't recall that factoid, but I can definitely understand that he and the band must have become REALLY sick of playing the song. (No wonder Morrison drank -- he was practically obliged to sing "Light My Fire" at every show!)
The Doors at the Singer Bowl in NYC (August 2, 1968) was the first concert I ever attended. I was 14. The Who opened, and destroyed all their equipment. (I was almost beheaded by the pickguard assembly, with the pickups still attached, from Townsend's guitar which he scaled into the audience like a Frisbee, grazing my neck.)
The band played for about two hours and precipitated a full scale riot at the end, with wooden chairs being flung at the 20 or 30 rent-a-cops who took to the stage, trying to protect the band's equipment, after someoe jumped onstage and stole Morrison's mic after their last song.
Some of the chairs fell short of the stage and hit people in the audience -- I remember seeing one woman who'd had her head cut pretty badly.
My high school buddy Bruce and I were frozen watching all this, but finally we made it outside, where my dad was waiting for us in the family station wagon. (I was too young to drive). He was in the center of dozens of police cars, all with their flashers and sirens going.
My dad had waited for us for a good four hours and was fit to be tied!
"That's it," he shouted at us, red in the face, "no more concerts! You kids don't know how to go a show and just have a good time; it's all gotta be about riot and revolution!"
My dad! I miss him!
The Doors at the Singer Bowl in NYC (August 2, 1968) was the first concert I ever attended. I was 14. The Who opened, and destroyed all their equipment. (I was almost beheaded by the pickguard assembly, with the pickups still attached, from Townsend's guitar which he scaled into the audience like a Frisbee, grazing my neck.)
"That's it," he shouted at us, red in the face, "no more concerts! You kids don't know how to go a show and just have a good time; it's all gotta be about riot and revolution!"
My dad! I miss him!