The Seth Man
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"Celebration of the Lizard"
Sep 21, 2003, 04:53
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I've been waiting to hear this track for the past 24 years or so, so to finally hear it is a major revelation
Leave it to the powers-that-be to release yet ANOTHER damn Doors compilation ("Legacy-The Absolute Best")....but truly worth a listen is disc 2, last track: It's a 17 minute long studio version of "Celebration of The Lizard"... Hoo Yeah!
It's from 1969-70 so it's not an outtake from 'Waiting For The Sun" ...but it's still truly out there, sounds great and you hear Krieger's guitar cord crackle during the quiet parts
Kick ass
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Severin
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Re: "Celebration of the Lizard"
Sep 21, 2003, 05:03
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My Doors memory is a bit hazy,but wasn't there a version of CotL on Absolutely Live?
..glad you're enjoying this one though
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The Seth Man
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"Celebration of the Lizard"
Sep 21, 2003, 05:23
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Hey, Severin--
Yes, indeed!
Besides that one, all I've had to go on all these years was "Not To Touch The Earth" and that AMAZING excerpt from "The Doors Are Open" (Jim: I let my cheek slip down...the kewl, smewth tile...")
This one is really hooking into me, though: Jim's voice is SO great on it
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Lawrence
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Re: "Celebration of the Lizard"
Sep 21, 2003, 06:28
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Nice to know someone likes the Doors. It seems like most people hate them. I remember when I saw Echo and the Bunnymen and overheard someone later saying he hated that they did a Doors song and then walked out.
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Dog 3000
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Re: "Celebration of the Lizard"
Sep 22, 2003, 21:00
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I used to hate on The Doors too . . .
Then I saw that film docu on the Isle of Wight festival -- their whole look and sound was so completely different than what everyone else was doing I couldn't help but give them respect from then on.
They were dark, moody & intellectual when everyone else was a stoned longhair trying to play Chuck Berry licks faster than the next stoned longhair. Probably even more important than the Velvets in terms of creating "goth rock".
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Dog 3000
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Re: "Celebration of the Lizard"
Sep 22, 2003, 21:02
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PS: smells like a good topic for a record review . . . :-)
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laresident
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Re: "Celebration of the Lizard"
Sep 22, 2003, 23:17
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I've been curious about Morrison's fling with Nico and their wasted trips to the desert. They would have also made quite fascinating singing partners.
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Squid Tempest
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Re: "Celebration of the Lizard"
Sep 23, 2003, 00:01
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>17 minute long studio version of "Celebration of The Lizard"... <
ooooh...might have to get hold of that one - I love the version on Absolutely Live. Woo!
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Lawrence
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Re: "Celebration of the Lizard"
Sep 23, 2003, 02:28
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And without Morrison to inspire Nico, we wouldn't have great albums like The Marble Index and The End.
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Five
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Re: "Celebration of the Lizard"
Sep 24, 2003, 16:00
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Yeah - Jim's in good voice, the organ sounds great, guitar crawls in an out of the room, drummer is fantastically spastic - but go figure:
All the Mainliner and Comets On Fire and Acid Mothers and Sunn 0))) and so on that I subject my bandmates to, and this version of Lizard is what drives them out of the room screaming!
-5-
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