<![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Wed, 07 May 2008 02:19:10 EDT Wed, 07 May 2008 02:19:10 EDT http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5564378 @mackro: Oh God, you just set up my Conundrum O' The Evening: who do I resent more, Morrison for foisting this shit immortally on an undeserving world, or Kiedis for doing it NOW?

Homage

]]> 33:387658:c5564378 Wed, 07 May 2008 02:19:10 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5564330 I honestly don't know who you feel you have to apologise to here. Anyone over the emotional age of seventeen can surely appreciate that Jim Morrison is like if Rimbaud got fat and did comeback specials all his life.

Homage

]]> 33:387658:c5564330 Wed, 07 May 2008 02:11:41 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5555120 what would really make the video is morrison doing some funky-chicken type dance to the bouncy rhythm instead of standing there like mr too cool

mossdale

]]> 33:387658:c5555120 Tue, 06 May 2008 17:10:50 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5554202 @StuntKockSteeev: This is a capital idea.

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:387658:c5554202 Tue, 06 May 2008 16:36:31 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5553769 When's the "reasons we should punch Don Henley in the fucking mouth" post? At the very least, we'd probably have a better ratio of agreement than on the anti-Doors/Floyd threads.

StuntKockSteeev

]]> 33:387658:c5553769 Tue, 06 May 2008 16:22:00 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5551680 @mackro: I can't imagine ever feeling the need to listen to Mickey Avalon.

Dan Gibson

]]> 33:387658:c5551680 Tue, 06 May 2008 15:19:35 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5551560 The worst way to experience the Doors is to grow up in L.A. There are a gazillion things in L.A. that brag about how Jim Morrison once took a piss here and there or something, but nothing in L.A. mention the other gazillion crossed paths of music greats, more canonical or less canonical.

I predict 20 years from now, all those "Jim Morrison pissed here" monuments will be replaced by "Anthony Kiedis bought heroin here" monuments.

It makes a guy want to listen to Mickey Avalon.

mackro

]]> 33:387658:c5551560 Tue, 06 May 2008 15:16:03 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5551262 haha well Sinatra was pretty innovative for his time too, actually.

Michaelangelo Matos

]]> 33:387658:c5551262 Tue, 06 May 2008 15:06:13 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5550758 To take this a bit bigger than just the doors: Just because artist X was being innovative at the time doesn't mean they are still worth listening to now unless you're a music history student hard up for a thesis.

There's plenty of music that wasn't particularly innovative (Frank Sinatra, for example) but it is something more important: timeless. I'd rather be known to history as a Frank Sinatra than a Captain Beefheart (better still: Frank Zappa who was both innovative AND timeless, but if I had to pick one it would be timeless).

revmatty

]]> 33:387658:c5550758 Tue, 06 May 2008 14:49:14 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5550484 Good for you, Dan.

It's weird, I wouldn't want you to end up liking or even tolerating the Doors after this - I too have outgrown them and find a good chunk of their output embarrassing. It's more that, as you're saying, there's stuff that works in a '60s context and a singles context that makes one withstand a lot of Morrison's bullshit.

I file the Doors next to Genesis in that category of "stuff I loved 20 years ago that I can neither defend now nor completely disavow." Put it this way -- if the Doors were Rev. Wright (before last week), I'd be Barack Obama doing the Philadelphia thoughts-on-race/"he's a part of me" speech. (Now, if Jim Morrison comes back from the dead and does an interview with the Press Club saying nice things about Farrakhan and calling me a phony, I would have to disavow the Doors completely.)

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:387658:c5550484 Tue, 06 May 2008 14:40:27 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5550093 THe Eagles stole the Gram Parsons bag and made it cleaner and more mercenary. Arch songwriters and harmonists, though. And some pretty cool coke-demon session-ace type solos, too.

Dan, I admire your commitment. I once tried this trick with Styx, and had to have my stomach pumped.

TheContrarian

]]> 33:387658:c5550093 Tue, 06 May 2008 14:28:24 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5549877 @GhostOfDuane: I get the innovation bit, and I think you could make a similar argument for the Eagles and their country/rock fusion. I'm less concerned about that at the moment, since that's more of a textbook issue than an actual recorded music thing, you know?

Dan Gibson

]]> 33:387658:c5549877 Tue, 06 May 2008 14:21:27 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5549018 I think you're still kind of missing the bigger picture, which is that Morrison and the Doors were doing things that were totally innovative at the time but seem much less so today. Granted, there's plenty of bands that were innovative AND terrible. But the organ solo in Light My Fire alone elevates The Doors into that category of bands which should never, under any circumstances, be compared to the Eagles.

GhostOfDuane

]]> 33:387658:c5549018 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:53:07 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5548996 Do this for the Eagles and you will find that they just wrote catchier, better songs than the Doors. Period.

Big Gray.

]]> 33:387658:c5548996 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:52:33 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5548480 Nope, they still suck.

Jerkwheat

]]> 33:387658:c5548480 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:36:57 EDT <![CDATA[My Day Of Hanging With The Lizard King, Part One]]> http://idolator.com/387658/my-day-of-hanging-with-the-lizard-king-part-one#c5548318 I'm fully with you on Doors loathing, Dan. When terribly drunk I can almost handle 'Peace Frog'. Apart from that, they're about as fun as a late-term abortion.

NeverEnough

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