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[[File:the-doors.jpg|frame|Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, John Densmore]]
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While Manzarek played keyboard bass during live performances, the band commonly enlisted session musicians to play actual bass on their albums; they didn't do this with most of the tracks on their first album, and Manzarek wasn't satisfied with the sound that resulted.
* ''The Doors'' (1967)
* ''Strange Days'' (1967)
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* ''[[Fanon Discontinuity|Full Circle]]'' (1972)
* ''An American Prayer'' (1978)
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* [[Acquitted Too Late]]: Non-death penalty version: In December 2010, the state of Florida pardoned him for that infamous "lewd and lascivious conduct" charge he earned during a 1970 concert, the details of which are sketchy and [[The Rashomon|vary wildly depending on which of the witnesses you ask.]]
* [[Anti-Love Song]]: Subverted. Many of the songs written by Jim were true love songs to a girlfriend, his future wife Pamela Courson, with whom he had an extremely volatile relationship.
* [[The Band Minus the Face]]: After Jim's death, the other three released two albums (''Other Voices'' and ''Full Circle'') with Ray Manzarek on lead vocals. Both albums have been out of print since before the CD era.
** Manzarek also sings lead on ''Close To You'', an R&B number on the ''Absolutely Live'' album.
** Riders on the Storm (formerly The 21st Century Doors before the Morrison estate sued), a covers band fronted by Manzarek and Krieger, which has toured with numerous singers, most notably Ian Astbury of the Cult, since the early 2000s.
* [[Badass Beard]]: Jim Morrison had one toward the end of his life.
* [[Bawdy Song]]: Oh, lord, yes!
* [[Biopic]]: ''The Doors'' directed by [[Oliver Stone]].
* [[Bowdlerise]]: The lyric "She gets high!" in ''Break on Through'' was clipped on the original vinyl release, and all subsequent releases until the CD remaster in 2003.
** In addition, a notorious incident occurred when the band appeared on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' in 1967. Ed's camera crew insisted that the line "Girl we couldn't get much higher" be changed to "Girl we couldn't get much better" (even though the latter didn't rhyme). Krieger, who had written those words, agreed to the change - but then during the actual performance (at least as depicted in Oliver Stone's film), Morrison lurches right at the camera and defiantly shouts "Girl we couldn't get much HIGHER!"....before [[A Date
*** That was only in the film. In reality, the Ed Sullivan people told the Doors to change the lyrics to "Girl, you really light my fire" days before the show. Neither Morrison nor Krieger wanted to change it, partially because they didn't want to be censored and partially because [[Rule of Funny|they thought it'd be funny to annoy the Ed Sullivan people]]. During the show, Jim didn't add emphasis to the word "higher" nor did he make any lewd gesture outside of wearing tight leather pants. After the show, Jim said he simply forgot to change the lyrics because he was nervous.
* [[Canon
** Which was a shame, since "In the Eye of the Sun" from ''Other Voices'' is reminiscent of classic Doors, even if Jim isn't around to sing it.
** The Post-Morrison Doors are also notable for being the inspiration for the [[Fake Band]], Pusswhip Gangbang from The Tim and Eric Show.
* [[Careful
** Never more effective than in ''Celebration of the Lizard'': immediately after the "Little Game" sequence, Jim lets out a scream so shrill that he sounds like a woman!
* [[Circus of Fear]]: The vaguely destitute circus performers seen on the cover of ''Strange Days''.
** Also that's how some folks describe the sounds that come from Manzarek's organ
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* [[Epic Rocking]]: "The End", "When The Music's Over", "Celebration of the Lizard", to a lesser extent "Light My Fire", "The Soft Parade", "LA Woman", "Riders On The Storm", "Love Me Two Times".
* [[Follow the Leader]]: If You've heard a hard rock band or band with Dark music from the last forty years, There's around an seventy-four percent chance They were influenced by The Doors.
* [[A Good Name for
** It's also a reference to [[Aldous Huxley]]'s essay extolling the virtues of psychedelics, ''The Doors of Perception'', whose title is of course itself a reference to the Blake poem.
* [[Gratuitous Panning]]
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* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Its paractically impossible to imagine Jim without his leather pants.
* [[Improv]]: ''A lot'' of their live show was improvised.
* [[Intercourse
* [[Large Ham]]: Morrison - not so much in the beginning, but increasingly so from ''Waiting For The Sun'' onwards.
* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: In "L'America":
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''You know the rain man's comin' ta town''
''Change the weather, change your luck''
''And then he'll teach ya how to... '''find''' yourself''
''L'America'' }}
* [[Looks Like Jesus]]: Morrison when he had a beard.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]
* [[The Man Behind the Curtain]]: The principal lineup of the Doors did not include a bass player. The group used various session musicians on their studio albums, while in live shows they compensated for the lack of a bassist by having Ray Manzarek play piano bass with his left hand while playing the keyboard parts with his right.
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]: While generally hovering between 4 and 6, for their time, they would be a 10.
* [[Murder Ballad]]: "The killer awoke before dawn" section of "The End", as well as "Riders On The Storm". ''An American Prayer'' includes a piece called "The Hitchhiker", which retells ''Riders'' from the perspective of the murderer.
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** On a related note, <big>"WAKE UP!"</big>
* [[Serial Killer]]: "Riders On The Storm"
* [[Short
* [[Shout-Out]]: "Runnin' Blues" is clearly a tribute to Otis Redding.
* [[Significant Anagram]]: "Jim Morrison" == "Mr. Mojo Risin'" (''L.A. Woman'')
* [[Something Blues]]: "Roadhouse Blues", "Shaman's Blues"
* [[Something Completely Different]]:
** 1969's ''The Soft Parade'', which sounded totally different from anything the band had done before - or, for that matter, anything ''any'' band was doing at the time. "Tell All the People" is surprisingly optimistic and religious in outlook, while "Touch Me" features an intense saxophone solo by session musician Curtis Amy (John Densmore's latent jazz influences coming to the forefront at last). "Runnin' Blues" incorporates a Scotch-Irish country fiddle; the title track has a calypso percussionist.
** Also "You Make Me Real" from ''Morrison Hotel'', which is a surprisingly poppy, upbeat song with a "rink-a-lee-tink-a-bink" piano. [[Jerry Lee Lewis]] probably loved it.
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