“Then the next night Jim was so drunk it was terrible. “We thought, ‘Wow, we’re going to be a cool rock jazz group,’” says Densmore. During a stop in Dallas the night before New Orleans, they’d debuted then-new song “Riders on the Storm” and it had sounded great. 12, 1970, tour stop in New Orleans - Morrison’s final concert - the rest of the band bailed on Morrison midset due to his narcissistic between-song tirades at one point he told a misogynistic joke about a blind man passing a fish market and rambled on to a bored, restless crowd. “Jim loved singing the blues, especially when he was inebriated,” says Botnick on the phone from his studio in Ojai.Īt the Doors’ disastrous Dec. Morrison had been increasingly tanked onstage across the band’s two dozen shows in 1970, where the Doors were playing their hits alongside blues classics including Junior Parker’s “Mystery Train,” Willie Dixon’s “Back Door Man” and John Lee Hooker’s “Crawling King Snake,” which they’d end up recording for “L.A. Woman: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition,” the physical set features a remaster of the album by original co-producer Bruce Botnick, two discs’ worth of fascinating studio outtakes, extensive liner notes and a vinyl copy of the original stereo mix. Woman” is the subject of a new reissue from Rhino Records.

He’d have his drinking buddies, and we were always trying to keep them from being together.” Krieger’s new memoir, “ Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors,” doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to Morrison’s dark side, nor does it minimize his creative light. “It got harder and harder to be close with him. Woman” sessions, on the phone from his home in Benedict Canyon. “When he got too drunk, he would become kind of an a-,” recalls Doors guitarist Robby Krieger of Morrison during the “L.A.

Woman,” at their West Hollywood rehearsal space, the singer was drowning in a booze-fueled bender: drunk nearly every night but sober by morning and ambling across Santa Monica Boulevard for the day’s session. During the period in late 1970 and early ’71 when Jim Morrison and his bandmates in the Doors were recording their sixth and final studio album, “L.A.

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