Strange Days Jim Morrison's Acid Visions

Jim Morrison has been dead just over forty years, The Doors haven’t existed as a band since 1973, yet The Doors are still a relevant and a vibrant presence today. Their songs still get extensive airplay on classic rock stations and since 2007, The Doors have been thinking of their legacy and their place in the future and have been taking steps to insure that legacy and legend, although some would argue Jim Morrison has insured The Doors appeal into the future. The Doors have released their entire Morrison era albums on remastered CD’s, they have worked with filmmakers to produce documentaries on the band, they’ve been collaborating with the next generation of musicians such as Skrillex and Tech N9ne, they’ve anointed 2012 as “The Year of The Doors” and have released a 40th anniversary edition of their seminal album, “L.A. Woman”, which includes a separate disc of alternate versions of songs, as well as, at least two releases of live shows from the early years of The Doors at the London Fog and the Matrix tapes. But The Doors legacy has and always will be those six classic studio albums that will influence new generations just as Bach, John Coltrane, Willie Dixon, and John Lee Hooker influenced them, The Doors are the classical music of the future.

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