The Doors Mr Mojo Risin, A Review

For the second time in two years The Doors have released a documentary on film about the band. In spring of 2010 it was “When You’re Strange” with footage taken mostly from Jim Morrison’s film “HWY.” This year to kick off the self described “The Year of The Doors” is the film “The Doors Mr. Mojo Risin’: The Making of L.A. Woman.”

“The Doors Mr. Mojo Risin’: The Making of L.A. Woman” tells the story of the making of The Doors seminal album, “L.A. Woman”. Relying on mostly footage taken from The Doors documentary, “Feast of Friends”, (that was shot in the 60’s and has been used for most other video projects since then) and new interviews with the surviving members of The Doors, including Bruce Botnick, and Paul Rothchild explaining why he decided not to produce L.A. Woman (every previous Doors album was produced by Rothchild) and exactly which song he considered “cocktail music”. Other interviews include Morrison’s film school friend, Frank Lisciandro, early Doors advocate DJ, Jim Ladd and music journalists, Ben Fong-Torres and David Fricke.

Read full review at The Doors Examiner! (lots of extra info!)