how are the doors important to rock history?
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Absolutely!  (Live)  The Doors were a lot more than just 'Light My Fire' they wrote many good songs and carved out a unique sound.\n\nJim Morrison gets all the attention but Phil Manzarek was a musical genius, playing the organ parts with one hand and the bass parts with the other (on two separate instruments no less) How many successful bands are out there without a bass player?  \n\nJim wrote lots of good songs but it was very far from being his band as a lot of people think.  Phil wrote Love Her Madly by the way and they all contributed.  Robbie Krieger was an excellent guitarist (Check out Spanish Caravan) and Densmore was good on Drums. \n\nHowever the Doors, like any great rock band, were greater than the sum of their parts.  \n\nPeople look strange when you're a stranger, faces look ugly when you're alone.  \n\nThis is the end my friend, the blue bus is calling us...
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The Beatles' achievements and contributions to popular music, and indeed international youth culture, were profound and wide-ranging. Their early original material fused elements of early American rock 'n roll, pop, and R&B into a new form of popular rock 'n roll, almost single-handedly kick-starting the British Invasion, laying the groundwork for the rock culture of the 1960s, and establishing the prototype for the self-contained rock group.\n\nThroughout their career, The Beatles balanced their huge popularity with increasingly experimental and boundary-pushing music that took cues from eclectic sources like folk, R&B, soul, music hall, classical, electronic, and Indian music while exploiting increasingly sophisticated technology and innovative recording techniques.\n\nIn this way, they helped pioneer more advanced, multi-layered arrangements in both rock and pop and were instrumental in the development of some of 1960s rock's dominant styles, such as folk-rock and psychedelia. As songwriters, they were among the most influential and harmonically sophisticated of the era, helping to push rock beyond its early blues and R&B forms and into more expansive territory. Critical evaluation of The Beatles legacy demonstrates that they "introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century".\n\nLennon is conventionally portrayed as having played the major role in steering The Beatles towards psychedelia (Rain and Tomorrow Never Knows from 1966, and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Strawberry Fields Forever and I Am the Walrus from 1967). Again following the lead set by Bob Dylan, Lennon renewed his interest in rootsy forms towards the close of The Beatles' career (e.g. Yer Blues from 1968 and Don't Let Me Down from 1969).\n\nPaul McCartney is usually cast as the group's romantic balladeer, and he displays a singular ear for melody and an arguably unrivalled facility for writing classic pop songs in a wide range of genres, ranking alongside Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and the Gershwin brothers as one of the greatest popular song writers of the 20th century. However, in recent years since the deaths of Lennon and Harrison, he has insisted in a number of media interviews that he was far more involved in the London avant garde scene than was Lennon, and that he was in some respects the more "experimental" of the two.\n\nBeginning with his evocative but understated use of a string quartet on Yesterday (1965), McCartney pioneered a modern form of art song, exemplified by the double-quartet string arrangement on Eleanor Rigby (1966), Here, There and Everywhere (1966) and She's Leaving Home (1967). He also created many of the tape loops used on Tomorrow Never Knows and experimented with musique concrete techniques and electronic instruments, as well as creating many experimental audiovisual works. His interest in the music of Bach led him to use a piccolo trumpet in his arrangement of Penny Lane and, although the Mellotron at the start of Strawberry Fields Forever belonged to Lennon, it was McCartney who played it.\n\nMcCartney retained his affection for the driving R&B of Little Richard in a series of songs Lennon dubbed "potboilers", from I Saw Her Standing There (1963) to Lady Madonna (1968). Helter Skelter (1968), arguably an early heavy metal song, is also a McCartney composition. McCartney's lyrical style evolved a more detached, literary stance than in the increasingly personal and confessional work of Lennon, and Lennon was reported to have become more critical of McCartney's writing in the mid-Sixties.\n\nIn 1965 Harrison broke new ground in pop by playing an Indian sitar on Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown). His long collaboration with Sri Ravi Shankar, a famous Hindustani Musician, influenced several of his compositions, some of which were based on Hindustani forms — most notably Love You To (1966), Within You Without You
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One of my favorites Doors song was "Peace Frog" off the band's 5th albums.That was their  bluesiest album it\nwas called  Morrison Hotel. Jim Morrison and the Doors\nwere way ahead of ther time. I also was into Crystal Ship,Break on Through,Light My fire,People are Strange.But my all time favorite was  this most brilliant one\n   " Riders of the Storm ".he was just reaching greatest\nthan he was gone. What a bummer,just thing what he could have been ,he was a pure genius.
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I think their both albums are great especially 2nd one! And i'm actually more into hip hop & rnb kinda stuff, and still 3 doors down albums I can listen without even skipping a song! that's rear for the rock album in my book! only linking park comes close to that :)
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I think they are both very influential in their own way. But I would say Elvis. Elvis shaped in a big part and brought back Rock and Roll. His lyrics, actions, and image were very revolutionary for the moment, he drove women mad. The Beatles, while most likely the most known band in history were not so revolutionary. They were very new and hip to US when they came over because the states didn't have the mod vs biker type scene that Britain had in that period. But all of their big accomplishments in the industry were a direct result of influences. They were influenced by the London scene, its very similar to what the Yardbirds sang, they just had more of a following. They then evolved into a more psychedelic sound, then into more introspective lyrics courtesy of Bob Dylan who was without a doubt the most revolutionary icon of the era. I think since they didn't necessarily come up with the concepts, but followed them they cannot be as influential. Elvis's concepts were all his own. Its just a matter of most people knowing the facts.
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AWESOME! Rock is a powerful force in the past causing parents, politcians and naysayers to go nuts! Especailly in the 1980's. The '70s, not so much controversy, but still one of the better eras full of Black Sabbath, Zepplin, Judas Priest, Dio. The '80s had tons of awesome acts like GNR and Def Leppard. I still love some of the strange lyrics and songs of the '90s much of which is Stone Temple Pilots and Alice in Chains with a bit of Red Hot Chili Peppers. It's sad to me that rock music isn't pissing enough people off and some of it is just terrible. Sure bands like Velvet Revolver, Audioslave and Red Hot Chili Peppers are great, but we need some new blood in rock! Hopefully more bands like Avenged Sevenfold will come out soon.
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Beatles\nDoors\nZeppelin\nRamones
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That's a bit of an exaggeration.  Early rock-and-roll drew from the blues, but also from R&B and country music.  When hard rock developed in the mid-'60s, it was based almost exclusively on the blues.  Artists like the Rolling Stones ("Little Red Rooster" is an especially good example), Cream/Eric Clapton ("Sunshine of Your Love"), and Jimi Hendrix, ("Hey Joe"), built the foundation for hard rock, and the heavy metal that developed out of it, on an exaggerated electric blues.  Though the more sophisticated hard-rock and metal bands of the seventies incorporated other influences (British folk for Led Zeppelin, jazz for Led Zeppelin), most, like Black Sabbath and Aerosmith, continued to build on the blues base.  While subsequent rock artists have drawn on influences as diverse as free-jazz and avant-garde strains of 20th century classical, especially in more underground and experimental veins, mainstream rock music has never stopped drawing on the blues, passed along from one generation to the next.
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How can you compare someone who was one of the first to push the line of sex appeal in rock and roll with the forefathers of the modern rock and roll band?  They arent famous for the same reasons.
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Rolling Stones. A few years ago this would have been a good question. No other band has stayed together so long, or had their own sound so completely. These guys took their inspiration from R&B and whatever else made them dance. The Stones is intelligent these days, understanding that they have a place in history and trying to give some respect to the genre that has provided the stage for them to play on for so long. It is no accident that the Stones played at the most recent Super Bowl as well as Super Bowl I (ok, right after the game). Mick has withstood the test of time. I've seen them live, next to the stage, and finally understand the thrill of the eternal energy. Keith Richard is kept alive by this phenomenon. Led Zepplin, Crosby Stills Nash, Beatles, etc. were great in their contribution, but the Stones continue to deliver. Buy 40 Licks and you won't be disappointed. Go to a Stones concert now if you can ... age will catch up soon ... while you can.
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Yup great fan. I've almost all records, just missing some of the new things. Seen them lately with Paul Rodgers 4 times. But if you want to listen more than greatest hits, start listening the first albums.
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I've been a big Rush fan since about 1979 or so when I first heard Rush on a college radio station.  One of the best bands ever not to be main stream rock.  I'm looking forward to there next album.  2112 is classic hard rock at its best.  A must to any rockers collection.
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I certainly wouldn't claim to speak for everyone. Yet, I agree that The Clash reflected much of the social pulse of the last 30 years. They were also successful in limiting their audience through musical improvisation. They weren't content with admitting everyone into their select fan base. They challenged the average fan into being aware of the many social discords. This means that the sought after Clash fan had to have more than ears to become one with the Clash movement. Joel Strummer had the unique ability to appeal to the social welfare of the music-listening audience. Fans were drawn to this and created their own counter-culture proudly on his heels. This created the magical chemistry that uniquely identifies The Clash from their contemporaries. Should we stay or should we go?
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Easy, The poem that Jim Morrison is reading at the opening of the film is actually two selections from his book of poetry "An American Prayer": "Awake Ghost Song" and "Awake". It is the same book that Jim gives to his bandmates at the end of the film. The musical version of An American Prayer was not, however, recorded by the surviving members of the Doors until several years after Morrison's death.\n\nI'm a good fun of the Doors. I've got the movie too!
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yes. we have rocked since our existance. See history books.
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One of the truly GREAT bands to rise up from the San Francisco, LSD-influenced psychedelic rock movement. Had it not been for Janis Joplin, Grace Slick would have easily been crowned "Queen of Rock" during the late 60s-early 70s. Their performance at Woodstock is widely considered one of rock's most memorable moments.
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yes, go to Wolfgangs Vault for vintage rock stuff, pretty good site, but not cheap.