Trivia / The Doors

• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: "Father? Yes, son? / I want to kill you / Mother, I want to fuck you". That isn't the original line, and is only known and accepted by most as the official line because of the popular live version where Jim sings that line. In the studio version, Jim sings, "Mother, I want to..." then suddenly screams a bunch of unintelligible nonsense.
• Bury Your Art: For years, their albums Other Voices and Full Circle, both recorded without the late Jim Morrison, were unavailable past their original print runs (save for a handful of songs appearing on compilation albums and bootleg copies) and scrubbed from the band's discography. In 2011, the band relented and allowed both albums to be reissued on both digital services and CD.
• Contractual Obligation Project: Their albums without Morrison existed primarily to fulfill their Elektra Records contract, with the band disbanding as soon as their contract ended.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: It is a rather common misconception when reporting about the band that they immediately disbanded after Morrison's death, ignoring that in reality they remained together for two more years as a trio, even releasing two albums in the meantime, before actually breaking up for good. The fact that this period is usually held as Fanon Discontinuity doesn't help.
• Died During Production: Other Voices was already being worked on by Manzarek, Densmore, and Krieger when Jim Morrison died, and Morrison was set to join the rest of the band to record vocals prior to his death. In the end, Manzarek and Krieger shared vocal duties.
• Follow the Leader: If you've heard a rock band with "dark" music from the last forty years or so, there's around a 75% chance that they were influenced by the Doors.
• He Also Did: Morrison was an accomplished poet, and some collections of his poetry published postmortem became bestsellers.
• The Pete Best: Only weeks after the remaining members of Rick & The Ravens changed their name to The Doors, bassist Patricia Sullivan was dropped in favor of Ray Manzarek's piano bass.
• Role Reprise: Besides the live shows and such, Ray often showed up on other bands' studio Doors covers, such as Echo & the Bunnymen's "People Are Strange" and Santana and Chester Bennington's "Riders on the Storm". He even provided keyboards for "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Craigslist", which is a style parody of the Doors.
• Short-Lived, Big Impact:
  • The band's peak was between 1967, when their eponymous debut album was released,^note Though the band had been formed in 1965. and 1971, when Jim Morrison died,^note The rest of the band actually continued until 1973. a space of four years. This was enough to make them one of the main examples of Psychedelic Rock and among the early influences for Goth Rock, Heavy Metal, and Punk Rock.
  • Jim Morrison, in addition to being the lead singer of The Doors, is widely regarded as having codified the modern "rock star" image. He was dead at age 27.
• What Could Have Been:
  • After Morrison's death, Iggy Pop was asked to take over as the lead singer, but he declined.
  • The band was asked to play Woodstock, but they thought it would be a cheap imitation of the Monterey Pop festival. Also, Morrison disliked playing outdoor shows. John Densmore actually did go, though.
  • Before his final trip to Paris, Morrison had talked about adding Jerry Scheff, the session bassist who had played on L.A. Woman, to the band's lineup to go on tour, and play the album's songs live.
  • And in another sense, Morrison and Janis Joplin were turned on by each other at a party, and they almost hit it off... almost.

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