No matter your age, background or where you come from, The Doors music has something to say. Turn up the volume& The Doors will do the rest.

What is it about this band? It doesnt seem to matter whether it came into your life 30 years ago or 30 seconds ago. Their music can transform, take to outer space ANYONE who's ready to receive it.
Just turn up the volume and The Doors will do the rest.
'Celelbration of the lizard' begins with a question:

Is everybody in?
The ceremony is about to begin.

Maybe that's it. Somewhere in this music we are connected to the ceremony. It's no coincidence that the Doors met in a meditation class, and no coincidence that they attended film school together either. Why do you feel more like a witness than a listener when you hear:
The killer awoke before dawn.
He puts his boots on.
Why when you listen to 'My eyes have seen you' you feel like someone's watching you? Why do you think this music is so cinematic? There's a reason Francis Ford Coppola choose to open Apocalypse Now with 'The End'.

Jim Morrison knew the human condition and our propensity to screw things up. Songs like:

Not to touch the earth, not to see the sun nothing left to do but run run run, let's run.

Tell all the people that you see, you tell them they don't have to run, come on and take me by my hand, gonna bury all the troubles in the sun, can't you see the wonder at your feet, your life's complete.

Strange days have found us, the whole stress is greening i guess from sinning, we talk of sin and you know this is it.

These songs will never go out of fashion. How could they?? These songs are not entertaining songs. They're songs about life. This is why these songs have such an effect on us, no matter our age, our background or where we come from. None of that matters once the ceremony begins. When you close your eyes this music will perform its magic; all you have to do is listen.
Its the difference between great art and pure entertainment. Its all well and good to be diverted by a piece of slick entertainment, but The Doors can do that and transform you at the same time. It has nothing to do with business. Everything has to do with art.

'oh tell me where your freedom lies
the streets are fields that never die.
Deliver me from reasons
why you'd rather cry
i'd rather fly'

Freedom. Not merely the lack of responsibility, but real freedom. The kind that only comes in brief flashes of insight.
The Doors have given us something only true artists ever really accomplish.They delivered on their promise to move us, to free us and to make us think.


Forgive the poor old people
who gave us entry, taught us God in the Child's prayer in the night.
The knowledge of cancer - monster of the skin
color connects to create the boat which rocks the race, could any hell be more horrible and real?

'Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws'


''We live, we die and death not ends it, we got our final vision by clap, journey we more into nightmare''

'Oh great creator of being grant us one more our to perform our arts and perfect our lives'

''I'll tell you this: no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn''

It is the ability of The Doors to take us there that separates them from any other band that you know.
'so when the music's over turn out the lights'

So to all of you 'riders' you know what to do: turn up the volume, then turn out the lights. Just let your mind go where the music takes you. Let the magic come inside and don't be afraid to let go everything you have been told.

''Once I had, a little game
I liked to crawl back into my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called 'go insane
you should try this little game just close your eyes
forget your name,forget the world forget the people
and we'll erect a different steepleTt his little game is fun to do just close your eyes no way to lose
and I'm right here I'm going through release control we're breaking through!''

Is everybody in?

Original article - Jim Ladd