The Doors Name on Trial

Most of us know The Doors as history, but there’s a living history, not only in the members of the band, but also a history fans participate in, there’s a generation of Doors fans who saw the band in the 60’s, there’s also the generation of fans that lived through The Doors history, and virtually participated in it when Doors drummer John Densmore filed suit on February 4, 2003 against The Doors of the 21st Century.

The Doors are famous among fans that the band operated as a democracy that any one member of the band could veto any of the business decisions of The Doors, such as Jim Morrison’s objection to The Doors allowing “Light My Fire” be used for a Buick commercial. In March of 1971 The Doors documented this arrangement in anticipation of Jim Morrison going to Paris, whether this was an attorney’s idea to safeguard all members of the band or if the other members of The Doors feared Morrison would try to form a new band called The Doors once he was in Paris.

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