![]() ![]() The legendary nightclub located on West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip has been an integral part of rock-and-roll history since the early 1960s. The Doors and Van Morrison's band Them at the Whisky A Go-GoĬopyright 2002 by Eye Magazine/Waiting-forthe-Sun.One way films and TV series set in the music world try to hit the right note is by including a cameo of Los Angeles’s Whisky a Go Go. These two instrumentals often serve to open sets when Jim is late arriving at the club. Their version of Summertime is a waltz instrumental loosely styled after John Coltrane's version of My Favorite Things. It later evolves into Away in India, featured in a medley often referred to as the People Get Ready Jam which they often performed in 1970. The instrumental serves as a filler, which they continue to play through the Ondine's gigs in New York. Latin Bullshit #2 is an instrumental jazz piece roughly based on a Gil Evans composition. ![]() In addition to their regular sets, they try out newer songs on the slower nights of Monday - Wednesday. The End is gradually transformed from a rather transient love song of bittersweet departure into the ominous saga which evokes a descent into the dark night of the soul. Night after night they develop and refine their songs in front of a live audience. The Doors' sets are comprised mainly of songs which will appear on their first two albums. However, it is Phil who dismisses them in August on the night that Jim inserts the Oedipal section into The End. This story is not true, and is essentially an embellishment of the tension which existed between them. Popular mythology has it that the Doors are repeatedly fired by proprietor Phil Tanzini. They were terrible, the kids hated them, and we were caught in the cross fire.) Fortunately, this was far from the rule during the Doors' installment at the Whisky. (The Locos were a real low point in our careers, recalls Manzarek. One of these was the night they shared billing with the number one band in Mexico, the Locos. ![]() If the high points were nights with Love, Them, the Turtles, the Seeds, Captain Beefheart and others, there were nights which weren't so special. The Doors played second billing to just about everybody at the Whisky. But, inexplicably, the music kept getting better. Allegedly, the experiments often took the form of drug trips, and weekly tales of The Doors' freaked-out adventures flew: Morrison was so stoned last night he fell off the stage again Ray sniffed an amyl nitrate cap and played so long he had to be dragged away from the organ They all arrived stoned and started improvising at randomI don't know what it was, but it was great! According to one friend of the group, Morrison was so consistently high on acid during this period that he could eat sugar cubes like candy without visible effect. During their tenure at the Whisky, the Doors open for such acts as Them, featuring Van Morrison, Buffalo Springfield, Love, The Chambers Brothers and Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band.Įxposed to a wide-ranging audience hardened groupies to Iowa tourists The Doors began to experiment daringly. On May 23, 1966, the Doors began their legendary engagement as house band at the Whisky A Go-Go. The Doors at The Whisky A Go-Go The Doors at The Whisky A Go-Go
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