{"id":4950,"date":"2012-02-17T21:15:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2012-02-17T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:15:18","slug":"the-doors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/the-doors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DOORS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4951\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/THE-DOORS-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/THE-DOORS-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/THE-DOORS-M-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>T<\/strong><strong>HE DOORS\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>L.A. Woman: 40th Anniversary Edition\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Elektra\/Rhino]<\/p>\n<p>Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek idly runs through the chords of his band\u2019s evocative new number, \u201cRiders on the Storm,\u201d a brooding meditation on the inherent madness of humanity, as drummer John Densmore quietly gets a feel for the groove. As Jim Morrison steps up to the mic to prepare for a take, Manzarek\u2019s pattern triggers an unexpected synapse in the young singer and poet\u2019s mind. \u201cRiding down the trail to Albuquerque, saddlebags all filled with beans and jerky,\u201d Morrison jauntily croons. \u201cHeaded for K-circle-B, the TV ranch for you and me! K-circle-B in Albuquerque!\u201d Clearly local New Mexico TV personality Dick Bills\u2019 KOB theme song was drilled into Morrison\u2019s head as a boy, and the joyful way it comes springing out of him indicates the easy rapport the Doors shared by the time of the sessions for their sixth studio album.<\/p>\n<p>This exchange is just one of the freewheeling insights into the group\u2019s recording process featured on the second disc of this 40th-anniversary reissue of <em>L.A. Woman<\/em>. The first disc is the album as we know it, familiar from the already numerous repackagings of the Doors\u2019 slim catalog through the decades. But the previously unreleased alternate takes that make up the bonus material here shows us the Doors at play, free of the self-serious fa\u00e7ade they willingly showed the world. The only unfamiliar songs here are an agreeably hazy stroll through the blues standard \u201cRock Me\u201d and the unheard original \u201cShe Smells So Nice,\u201d a charming if unremarkable number marred by subpar sound. \u2013Chris Neal<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE DOORS\u00a0 L.A. Woman: 40th Anniversary Edition\u00a0 [Elektra\/Rhino] Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek idly runs through the chords of his band\u2019s evocative new number, \u201cRiders on the Storm,\u201d a brooding meditation on the inherent madness of humanity, as drummer John Densmore quietly gets a feel for the groove. As Jim Morrison steps up to the mic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,3032,3104,3105,1622],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/4952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}