“Motel, Money, Murder, Madness!”
The clock strikes nine and
the dust settles, everything stands still except the last few remaining people
at the bar dashing to the floor. Something special is about to happen… Wowwwww!
The Shaman Jim Morrison (Willie) has cascaded onto the stage and the audience
screams as the music enraptures the room with perfect ease. The scene is so
brilliant and the band so good that everything flies by until part way through
the second song, When The Music’s Over,
and the psychedelic intro culminates in a cacophonous but spectacular bawl. The
organ (Cristian), guitar (Baz) and drums (Buzz) truly sync up stunningly with
the rich vocal baritone as Love Me Two Times
demonstrates absolutely.
All the classics are being
played with incredible accuracy complimented by the swagger and ‘geddup’ of
Jim/Willie. Epic renditions of Roadhouse
Blues, Five To One and Soul Kitchen hypnotize every man, woman
and child within a mile radius. Then come the subdued tones of L.A. Woman and Riders On The Storm. The latter a personal favourite of mine,
taking me right back to when I first heard The
Doors on the way to school with my Dad at the age of about 11, cheers Dad!
An encore happens, of course,
soon after a brief pause and chant. This is not just a finale though, this is
how they used to do it in the old days! Light
My Fire literally fires everybody up one last time but then Jim/Willie
slinks back and whispers “This is our last song and this really is the end”. So
then The End plays out for over ten
minutes and everybody is once again reminded why the world is beautiful. In the
words of William Blake and Mr Mojo Risin “If the doors of perception were
cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite.”
