<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913</id><updated>2012-01-21T17:44:30.822+07:00</updated><category term='Echo and the bunnymen'/><category term='Real life'/><category term='Marillion'/><category term='Peter Murphy'/><category term='John Mayall'/><category term='Elvis Costello'/><category term='Embryo'/><category term='Aphrodite&apos;s child'/><category term='C.S.N. and Young'/><category term='Paradise lost'/><category term='The mission'/><category term='The electric prunes'/><category term='Jimmy Barnes'/><category term='Sea level'/><category term='U Roy'/><category term='Yes'/><category term='Story of a smoking jacket'/><category term='Gary Moore'/><category term='Bon Jovi'/><category term='Lene Lovich'/><category term='Burning Spear'/><category term='Alice Cooper'/><category term='Pat Benatar'/><category term='Brainticket'/><category term='Weather report'/><category term='Eddy Grant'/><category term='Rolling Stones'/><category term='Bauhaus'/><category term='Max Romeo'/><category term='David Byrne'/><category term='Paul Personne'/><category term='This mortal coil'/><category term='Serge Gainsbourg'/><category term='Ray Manzarek'/><category term='Deep forest'/><category term='Group Inerane'/><category term='The clash'/><category term='Steve Vai'/><category term='Eloy'/><category term='Toots and the Maytals'/><category term='Lou Reed'/><category term='The Doors'/><category term='Roy Buchanan'/><category term='Dennis Brown'/><category term='Nine inch nails'/><category term='Cold chisel'/><category term='Reo Speedwagon'/><category term='Divinyls'/><category term='Guru guru'/><category term='Sweet smoke'/><category term='Novalis'/><category term='Sister of mercy'/><category term='Tom Petty'/><category term='Yugi Toriyama'/><category term='Jane'/><category term='Jethro tull'/><category term='Mahavishnu'/><category term='King crimson'/><category term='Bob Marley'/><category term='Oingo Boingo'/><category term='Socrates'/><category term='Peter Frampton'/><category term='David Gilmour'/><category term='Tom tom club'/><category term='The psychedelic furs'/><category term='Manfred Mann&apos;s earth band'/><category term='DD Smash'/><category term='Roddus samplers'/><category term='James Reyne'/><category term='Morcheeba'/><category term='J.Mascis'/><category term='Van Der Graaf generator'/><category term='Led zeppelin'/><category term='Charlelie Couture'/><category term='Robin Trower'/><category term='Inspiral carpets'/><category term='The pretty things'/><category term='Ten years after'/><category term='The Isley Brothers'/><category term='Nektar'/><category term='Pell Mell'/><category term='Pink floyd'/><category term='Eric Clapton'/><category term='Peter Green'/><category term='Willy-rock'/><category term='Australian crawl'/><category term='Patti Smith'/><category term='Moody blues'/><category term='Midnight oil'/><category term='Gila'/><category term='Jean-Michel Jarre'/><category term='The plums'/><category term='Johnny Guitar Watson'/><category term='Stone temple pilot'/><category term='The stone roses'/><category term='Jean-Luc Ponty'/><category term='Hoodoo guru'/><category term='Hawkwind'/><category term='Peter Tosh'/><category term='Omega'/><category term='L. Shankar'/><category term='Genesis'/><category term='Apoptygma berzerk'/><category term='Donovan'/><category term='Rod Stewart'/><category term='Puppenhaus'/><category term='Jerry Garcia'/><category term='Toto'/><category term='David Bowie'/><category term='The Abyssinians'/><category term='Santana'/><category term='Creedence clearwater revival'/><category term='The Angels'/><category term='Gong'/><category term='Models'/><category term='Eva O.'/><category term='Morphine'/><category term='Vita beats'/><category term='Miranda sex garden'/><category term='Neil Young'/><category term='Frumpy'/><category term='Joni Mitchell'/><category term='The Who'/><category term='Al Di Meola'/><category term='Iggy Pop'/><category term='Heart'/><category term='Gene loves Jezebel'/><category term='Big audio dynamite'/><category term='Bob Dylan'/><title type='text'>Willy's rock</title><subtitle type='html'>Music,rock,70s,80s,90s,krautrock,rock and roll.Led Zeppelin,Max Romeo,Hawkwind,Jerry Garcia,James Reyne,Midnight oil.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>448</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-2459591399221793882</id><published>2012-01-20T16:45:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T16:51:25.380+07:00</updated><title type='text'>DEAD OR ALIVE / The best gold hits</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fhOwJlv_MoQ/TxkzZ-MaNtI/AAAAAAAABWg/3WG_SEgijag/s1600/DOA-dead-or-alive-band-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fhOwJlv_MoQ/TxkzZ-MaNtI/AAAAAAAABWg/3WG_SEgijag/s400/DOA-dead-or-alive-band-1.jpg" width="376" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The best gold hits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Bit rate:320 kps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;LINK: &lt;a href="http://tourthailand.weebly.com/music1.html"&gt;thebestgoldhits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1. What i want&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;2. Misty circles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;3. Far too hard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;4.You spin me round&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;5. Brain new lover&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;6. In to deep&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;7. Hooked on love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;8. Something in my house&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;9, My heart goes bang&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;10.I'll save you all my kisses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;11.Lover come back to me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;12.Baby don't say goodbye&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;13.Come home with me baby&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;14.Turn around and count to ten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;15.Your sweetness is your weakness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;16.I promised my self&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;17.Hit and run lover&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;18.Nukleopatra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;19.Rebel rebel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;20.I'm a star&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;21.Sex drive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-2459591399221793882?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/2459591399221793882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=2459591399221793882&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/2459591399221793882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/2459591399221793882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2012/01/dead-or-alive-best-gold-hits.html' title='DEAD OR ALIVE / The best gold hits'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fhOwJlv_MoQ/TxkzZ-MaNtI/AAAAAAAABWg/3WG_SEgijag/s72-c/DOA-dead-or-alive-band-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-2544793850351783521</id><published>2011-12-31T12:37:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T12:37:47.579+07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: magenta;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;I wish you an happy, healthy and full of music new year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: magenta;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; color: magenta;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Willy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-2544793850351783521?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/2544793850351783521/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=2544793850351783521&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/2544793850351783521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/2544793850351783521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-wish-you-happy-healthy-and-full-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-134966398975392215</id><published>2011-12-31T12:34:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T12:35:05.613+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tom tom club'/><title type='text'>TOM TOM CLUB / boom boom chi boom boom</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rr0XSqavWdY/Tv6cQmDibLI/AAAAAAAABWM/n2DrA1eKVBA/s1600/tom+tom+club.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rr0XSqavWdY/Tv6cQmDibLI/AAAAAAAABWM/n2DrA1eKVBA/s400/tom+tom+club.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M7cd1WjLLQo/Tv6cVykr_rI/AAAAAAAABWU/drc_vTxfZtY/s1600/tom+tom+club+back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="305" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M7cd1WjLLQo/Tv6cVykr_rI/AAAAAAAABWU/drc_vTxfZtY/s400/tom+tom+club+back.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Boom boom chi boom boom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;bit rate: 320kps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;LINK:&lt;a href="http://xmas-present.weebly.com/"&gt; boomboomchiboomboom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;01. Suboceana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;02. Shock the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;03. Don't say no&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;04. Challenge of the lost warriors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;05. Femme fatal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;06. Born for love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;07. Broken promises&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;08. She belongs to me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;09. Little Eva&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;10. Mighty teardrops&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Tom Tom Club&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;              &lt;table class="metadata plainlinks ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="mbox-image"&gt; &lt;div style="width: 52px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="mbox-text"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="5" class="infobox vcard" style="width: 22em;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="fn org" colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Tom Tom Club&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;td class="" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tina_weymouth_tom_tom_club.png" title="Tina Weymouth with Tom Tom Club, 1986"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="331" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Tina_weymouth_tom_tom_club.png/220px-Tina_weymouth_tom_tom_club.png" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Tina Weymouth with Tom Tom Club, 1986&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="" colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Background information&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre"&gt;Genres&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_music" title="New Wave music"&gt;New Wave&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthpop" title="Synthpop"&gt;synthpop&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance-rock" title="Dance-rock"&gt;dance-rock&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock" title="Alternative rock"&gt;alternative rock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Years active&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1981–present&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label"&gt;Labels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sire_Records" title="Sire Records"&gt;Sire&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprise_Records" title="Reprise Records"&gt;Reprise&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records" title="Warner Bros. Records"&gt;Warner Bros. Records&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rykodisc" title="Rykodisc"&gt;Rykodisc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Records" title="Island Records"&gt;Island Records&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontana_Records" title="Fontana Records"&gt;Fontana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;/&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolyGram_Records" title="PolyGram Records"&gt;PolyGram Records&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacional_Records" title="Nacional Records"&gt;Nacional Records&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Associated acts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads" title="Talking Heads"&gt;Talking Heads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Website&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a class="external text" href="http://www.tomtomclub.net/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Official Web Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="" colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;td class="" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Frantz" title="Chris Frantz"&gt;Chris Frantz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Weymouth" title="Tina Weymouth"&gt;Tina Weymouth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="" colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Past members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;td class="" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Belew" title="Adrian Belew"&gt;Adrian Belew&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monte_Browne&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Monte Browne (page does not exist)"&gt;Monte Browne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Downie" title="Tyrone Downie"&gt;Tyrone Downie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Roule&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Mark Roule (page does not exist)"&gt;Mark Roule&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victoria_Clamp&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Victoria Clamp (page does not exist)"&gt;Victoria Clamp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Scales&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Steve Scales (page does not exist)"&gt;Steve Scales&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Stanley" title="Steven Stanley"&gt;Steven Stanley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Weir" title="Alex Weir"&gt;Alex Weir&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce_Martin_%28musician%29&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Bruce Martin (musician) (page does not exist)"&gt;Bruce Martin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mystic_Bowie&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Mystic Bowie (page does not exist)"&gt;Mystic Bowie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laura_Weymouth&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Laura Weymouth (page does not exist)"&gt;Laura Weymouth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Pettigrew" title="Charles Pettigrew"&gt;Charles Pettigrew&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Badarou" title="Wally Badarou"&gt;Wally Badarou&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Tom Tom Club is an &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States"&gt;American&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_music" title="New Wave music"&gt;new wave&lt;/a&gt; band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Weymouth" title="Tina Weymouth"&gt;Tina Weymouth&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Frantz" title="Chris Frantz"&gt;Chris Frantz&lt;/a&gt;, both also known for being bandmembers of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads" title="Talking Heads"&gt;Talking Heads&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-timeline_0-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club#cite_note-timeline-0"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;table class="toc" id="toc"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Biography"&gt;Biography&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Originally established as a side project from Talking Heads, Tom Tom  Club comprised a loose aggregation of musicians, sound engineers and  artists of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_Point_All_Stars" title="Compass Point All Stars"&gt;Compass Point All Stars&lt;/a&gt; family, including Tina Weymouth's sisters and guitarist &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Belew" title="Adrian Belew"&gt;Adrian Belew&lt;/a&gt;, the latter of whom toured with Weymouth and Frantz in the expanded version of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads" title="Talking Heads"&gt;Talking Heads&lt;/a&gt; in 1980 and 1981.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Named after the dancehall in the Bahamas where they rehearsed for the  first time while on hiatus from Talking Heads in 1980, Tom Tom Club  enjoyed early success in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightclub" title="Nightclub"&gt;dance club&lt;/a&gt; culture of the early 1980s with the hits "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_of_Love" title="Genius of Love"&gt;Genius of Love&lt;/a&gt;" and "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordy_Rappinghood" title="Wordy Rappinghood"&gt;Wordy Rappinghood&lt;/a&gt;", both of which were taken from their &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club_%28album%29" title="Tom Tom Club (album)"&gt;self-titled first album&lt;/a&gt; released on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sire_Records" title="Sire Records"&gt;Sire&lt;/a&gt; in the US and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Records" title="Island Records"&gt;Island Records&lt;/a&gt; elsewhere in 1981.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Genius of Love" has been sampled or reinterpreted by many artists, including L'Trimm, MC &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redman_%28rapper%29" title="Redman (rapper)"&gt;Redman&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkdoobiest" title="Funkdoobiest"&gt;Funkdoobiest&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariah_Carey" title="Mariah Carey"&gt;Mariah Carey&lt;/a&gt; in her hit single "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_%28Mariah_Carey_song%29" title="Fantasy (Mariah Carey song)"&gt;Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;". "It's Nasty" (1982) by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_Flash_and_the_Furious_Five" title="Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five"&gt;Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five&lt;/a&gt; was one of the early &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop" title="Hip-hop"&gt;hip-hop&lt;/a&gt;  versions of the song; however, the sample was re-recorded by a live  band rather than just taken from the original recording, as was common  practice at the time. Another version, "Genius Rap" (1981), by &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Jeckyll_%26_Mr._Hyde_%28rap_group%29" title="Dr. Jeckyll &amp;amp; Mr. Hyde (rap group)"&gt;Dr. Jeckyll &amp;amp; Mr. Hyde&lt;/a&gt;, was the first cover version. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_B" title="Max B"&gt;Max B&lt;/a&gt; also sampled "Genius of Love" in his single "Get Outta Jail".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Early British pressings of the first Tom Tom Club album featured  shorter versions of "Genius of Love" and "Wordy Rappinghood", but to  capitalize on the club success of these songs, Island Records reissued  the album with the full 12-inch versions in 1982. A new single, a cover  version of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drifters" title="The Drifters"&gt;The Drifters&lt;/a&gt;' "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Boardwalk" title="Under the Boardwalk"&gt;Under the Boardwalk&lt;/a&gt;", which was the group's second and final UK Top 40 hit, replaced another song "&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booming_and_Zooming" title="Booming and Zooming"&gt;Booming and Zooming&lt;/a&gt;". The US version did not contain these modifications until the album was released on &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc" title="Compact disc"&gt;compact disc&lt;/a&gt; in the 1990s.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The following year, the group released a follow-up, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_to_the_Bone_%28Tom_Tom_Club_album%29" title="Close to the Bone (Tom Tom Club album)"&gt;Close to the Bone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, which was similar in style to their first album but didn't fare as well, though "&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_With_The_Four_Way_Hips" title="The Man With The Four Way Hips"&gt;The Man With The Four Way Hips&lt;/a&gt;"  was a minor hit on urban radio in the US. The album was released on  cassette and vinyl and was not released on CD until May 2009, as part of  a Deluxe Edition package of Tom Tom Club's first album. The original  British vinyl album was released in six different colors.One of the  album's singles, "Pleasure Of Love", was sampled in "Turning You On", by  The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treacherous_Three" title="Treacherous Three"&gt;Treacherous Three&lt;/a&gt;,  as it happened with "It's Nasty", the sample was re-recorded by a live  band rather than just taken from the original recording.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Tom Tom Club appeared in the Talking Heads concert film &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Making_Sense" title="Stop Making Sense"&gt;Stop Making Sense&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; in 1984, performing "Genius of Love".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;There was then a four year gap until the band's next album, the first version of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_Boom_Chi_Boom_Boom" title="Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom"&gt;Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, released in 1988. By this stage, the band's non-US deal with Island had expired and the album was released outside the US on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontana_Records" title="Fontana Records"&gt;Fontana&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolyGram_Records" title="PolyGram Records"&gt;PolyGram Records&lt;/a&gt;.  On the album, the group adapted a more conventional rock style with a  harder edged sound and a hint of menace in the lyrics of some songs. The  group's line-up was also solidified along more conventional commercial  lines. Whereas the previous two albums had been recorded by a loose  collective of a dozen musicians, the band was now reduced to the trio of  Weymouth, Frantz, and Weymouth's sister &lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laura_Weymouth&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Laura Weymouth (page does not exist)"&gt;Laura Weymouth&lt;/a&gt;. There were, however, a number of prominent guest musicians on the record, including &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Reed" title="Lou Reed"&gt;Lou Reed&lt;/a&gt; and Talking Heads' front man &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Byrne_%28musician%29" title="David Byrne (musician)"&gt;David Byrne&lt;/a&gt; on a cover of Reed's "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme_Fatale_%28song%29" title="Femme Fatale (song)"&gt;Femme Fatale&lt;/a&gt;". The fourth member of Talking Heads, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Harrison" title="Jerry Harrison"&gt;Jerry Harrison&lt;/a&gt;, also featured on some tracks. As with &lt;i&gt;Close to the Bone&lt;/i&gt;, the album was not a commercial success although "&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suboceana" title="Suboceana"&gt;Suboceana&lt;/a&gt;"  received some radio play, mainly in the UK, and the single "Don't Say  No" made the UK Top 100 (Tom Tom Club's fifth, and to date final, single  to do so). The album was the first Tom Tom Club album to be issued on  CD and the Japanese CD version featured an added bonus track, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" title="A-side and B-side"&gt;B-side&lt;/a&gt; "Devil, Does Your Dog Bite?" which was also featured on the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_to_the_Mob_%28soundtrack%29" title="Married to the Mob (soundtrack)"&gt;soundtrack&lt;/a&gt; to the film &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_to_the_Mob" title="Married to the Mob"&gt;Married to the Mob&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. "Suboceana" was also remixed for dance clubs by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_music" title="House music"&gt;house-music&lt;/a&gt; pioneer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Jefferson" title="Marshall Jefferson"&gt;Marshall Jefferson&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The following year, in a bid to recapture the attention of the US  market, the group and Sire Records decided to issue a radically altered  version of the album in the US. The US version of &lt;i&gt;Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom&lt;/i&gt; replaced four songs with four others, one of which, "&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I_Confess_%28Tom_Tom_Club_song%29&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="I Confess (Tom Tom Club song) (page does not exist)"&gt;I Confess&lt;/a&gt;," was a total overhaul of the original album's "&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Teardrop" title="Mighty Teardrop"&gt;Mighty Teardrop&lt;/a&gt;".  The running order of the rest of the album was shuffled while the  artwork was revamped. However, the changes had little effect on the  album's US commercial success.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In 1991, Frantz and Tina Weymouth built the Clubhouse, a painting and  music studio, over their garage near Gamecock Island, Connecticut. In  1992 they released the fourth Tom Tom Club album, &lt;i&gt;Dark Sneak Love Action&lt;/i&gt;, which included a cover of Hot Chocolate's "You Sexy Thing". The album focused on the burgeoning &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno_music" title="Techno music"&gt;techno-music&lt;/a&gt; scene. A single, "Sunshine &amp;amp; Ecstasy," featured remixes by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Sanchez" title="Roger Sanchez"&gt;Roger Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The group's next album, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad,_and_the_Funky" title="The Good, the Bad, and the Funky"&gt;The Good, the Bad, and the Funky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, was released in 2000 and featured &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_version" title="Cover version"&gt;cover versions&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Summer" title="Donna Summer"&gt;Donna Summer&lt;/a&gt;'s "Love to Love You, Baby" and &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Perry" title="Lee Perry"&gt;Lee Perry&lt;/a&gt;'s "Soul Fire". One of the album's tracks, "Who Feelin' It", was also featured in remixed form in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psycho:_Music_from_the_Controversial_Motion_Picture" title="American Psycho: Music from the Controversial Motion Picture"&gt;the soundtrack album&lt;/a&gt; of the 1999 film &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psycho_%28film%29" title="American Psycho (film)"&gt;American Psycho&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Among the musicians on &lt;i&gt;The Good the Bad and the Funky&lt;/i&gt; are Jamaican singer &lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mystic_Bowie&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Mystic Bowie (page does not exist)"&gt;Mystic Bowie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Pettigrew" title="Charles Pettigrew"&gt;Pettigrew&lt;/a&gt; and Toots of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toots_%26_the_Maytals" title="Toots &amp;amp; the Maytals"&gt;Toots &amp;amp; the Maytals&lt;/a&gt;. The album's release was followed by one European, and several American, tours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In 2002, Frantz and Tina Weymouth, along with their former Talking Heads bandmates, were inducted at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"&gt;Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;A complete live concert was released in 2003 on the double CD &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Live_@_the_Clubhouse&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Live @ the Clubhouse (page does not exist)"&gt;Live @ the Clubhouse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,  recorded at Tom Tom Club's regular hide-out studio, the Clubhouse in  Connecticut in front of an audience of fifty guests. Tom Tom Club has  been doing incidental live shows since.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In 2007, the band released a special Christmas single called "&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mistletunes&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Mistletunes (page does not exist)"&gt;Mistletunes&lt;/a&gt;", containing two specially recorded Christmas songs: "&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Il_est_Ne&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Il est Ne (page does not exist)"&gt;Il est Ne&lt;/a&gt;" and "&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christmas_in_the_Club&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Christmas in the Club (page does not exist)"&gt;Christmas in the Club&lt;/a&gt;", which featured Mystic Bowie and scratcher/&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turntablism" title="Turntablism"&gt;turntableist&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kid_Ginseng&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Kid Ginseng (page does not exist)"&gt;Kid Ginseng&lt;/a&gt; (Weymouth and Franz's son). The single was released by Dutch indie label &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_La_Land_Records" title="La La Land Records"&gt;La La Land Records&lt;/a&gt;, which was founded by the former Tom Tom Club merchandise crew.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;On September 28, 2010, the band released &lt;i&gt;Genius of Live&lt;/i&gt; on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacional_Records" title="Nacional Records"&gt;Nacional Records&lt;/a&gt;. The album featured tracks from the album &lt;i&gt;Live At The Club House&lt;/i&gt; as well as remix tributes of "Genius Of Love" by such artists as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozomatli" title="Ozomatli"&gt;Ozomatli&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortec_Collective" title="Nortec Collective"&gt;Nortec Collective&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinky" title="Kinky"&gt;Kinky&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Institute_of_Sound" title="Mexican Institute of Sound"&gt;Mexican Institute of Sound&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Mark" title="Money Mark"&gt;Money Mark&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pinker_Tones" title="The Pinker Tones"&gt;The Pinker Tones&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Discography"&gt;Discography&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Studio_albums"&gt;Studio albums&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;table class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th rowspan="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Year&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th rowspan="2" width="250"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Album&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th colspan="4"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Chart positions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th width="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200"&gt;US&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic_albums_1-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club#cite_note-allmusic_albums-1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;2&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Albums" title="Top R&amp;amp;B/Hip-Hop Albums"&gt;US R&amp;amp;B&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic_albums_1-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club#cite_note-allmusic_albums-1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;2&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_New_Zealand" title="Recording Industry Association of New Zealand"&gt;NZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nzcharts_2-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club#cite_note-nzcharts-2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;3&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart"&gt;UK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-chartstats_3-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club#cite_note-chartstats-3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;4&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club_%28album%29" title="Tom Tom Club (album)"&gt;Tom Tom Club&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Released: June 23, 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Labels: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Records" title="Island Records"&gt;Island Records&lt;/a&gt; (UK), &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sire_Records" title="Sire Records"&gt;Sire Records&lt;/a&gt; (US)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;78&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_to_the_Bone_%28Tom_Tom_Club_album%29" title="Close to the Bone (Tom Tom Club album)"&gt;Close to the Bone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Released: August, 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Labels: Island (UK), Sire (US)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;73&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;49&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;31&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1988&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_Boom_Chi_Boom_Boom" title="Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom"&gt;Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Released: 1988, 1989 (US version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Labels: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontana_Records" title="Fontana Records"&gt;Fontana Records&lt;/a&gt; (UK), Sire (US)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;114&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1992&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dark_Sneak_Love_Action&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Dark Sneak Love Action (page does not exist)"&gt;Dark Sneak Love Action&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Released: May 26, 1992&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Labels: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEA" title="WEA"&gt;WEA&lt;/a&gt; (UK), Sire (US)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;2000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_The_Bad,_and_the_Funky" title="The Good, The Bad, and the Funky"&gt;The Good, The Bad, and the Funky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Released: September 12, 2000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Labels: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rykodisc" title="Rykodisc"&gt;Rykodisc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Live_and_compilation_albums"&gt;Live and compilation albums&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Live_@_the_Clubhouse&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Live @ the Clubhouse (page does not exist)"&gt;Live @ the Clubhouse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2003)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club_%28album%29" title="Tom Tom Club (album)"&gt;Tom Tom Club&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_to_the_Bone_%28Tom_Tom_Club_album%29" title="Close to the Bone (Tom Tom Club album)"&gt;Close to the Bone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (Remastered &amp;amp; Expanded Edition) (2009)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genius_of_Live&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Genius of Live (page does not exist)"&gt;Genius of Live&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2010)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Singles"&gt;Singles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;table class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th rowspan="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Year&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th rowspan="2" width="250"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Title&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th colspan="7"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Chart positions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th rowspan="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Album&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th width="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"&gt;U.S. Hot 100&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic_albums_1-2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club#cite_note-allmusic_albums-1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;2&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Dance_Club_Songs" title="Hot Dance Club Songs"&gt;U.S. Dance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic_albums_1-3"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club#cite_note-allmusic_albums-1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;2&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Rock_Tracks" title="Modern Rock Tracks"&gt;U.S. MR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Rock_Tracks" title="Mainstream Rock Tracks"&gt;U.S. MSR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs" title="Hot R&amp;amp;B/Hip-Hop Songs"&gt;U.S. R&amp;amp;B&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic_albums_1-4"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club#cite_note-allmusic_albums-1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;2&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_New_Zealand" title="Recording Industry Association of New Zealand"&gt;NZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nzcharts_2-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club#cite_note-nzcharts-2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;3&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" title="UK Singles Chart"&gt;UK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-chartstats_3-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club#cite_note-chartstats-3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;4&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-British_Hit_Singles_.26_Albums_4-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club#cite_note-British_Hit_Singles_.26_Albums-4"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;5&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td rowspan="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordy_Rappinghood" title="Wordy Rappinghood"&gt;Wordy Rappinghood&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td rowspan="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;NA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;35&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left" rowspan="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tom Tom Club&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_of_Love" title="Genius of Love"&gt;Genius of Love&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;31&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;NA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1982&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Boardwalk" title="Under the Boardwalk"&gt;Under the Boardwalk&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;31&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;NA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td rowspan="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_With_The_Four_Way_Hips" title="The Man With The Four Way Hips"&gt;The Man With The Four Way Hips&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;NA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;82&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left" rowspan="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Close To The Bone&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Pleasure of Love"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;NA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1988&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Don't Say No"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;NA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;79&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left" rowspan="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1989&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Suboceana"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1992&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Sunshine and Ecstasy"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dark Sneak Love Action&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-134966398975392215?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/134966398975392215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=134966398975392215&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/134966398975392215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/134966398975392215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/tom-tom-club-boom-boom-chi-boom-boom.html' title='TOM TOM CLUB / boom boom chi boom boom'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rr0XSqavWdY/Tv6cQmDibLI/AAAAAAAABWM/n2DrA1eKVBA/s72-c/tom+tom+club.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-651154241661363416</id><published>2011-12-25T16:33:00.002+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-25T16:33:54.272+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Watch T.V. shows live on ur PC</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yield2me.com/-62340/3765.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.yield2me.com/banners/tv-11.jpeg" hspace="8" vspace="6" border="0" align="left" title="Watch TV - Online Internet TV" alt="Watch television - Online IP TV"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Connect to &lt;strong&gt;4000 Online television channels&lt;/strong&gt; 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Can it be done&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;02. D flat waltz&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;03. The peasant&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;04. Predator&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;05. Blue sound note&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;06. Swamp cabage&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;07. Domino theory&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;With the slow death of WR in the early to mid 80's I stopped buying  their lps.  I was listening to jazz radio one night and turned it on  half way through Db Waltz.  I have loved this tune ever since. Hakim  gets a groove going on this tune that's awesome!  This tune was a return  to what made WR great.  A good groove and great soloing from Shorter.  A  nice change from the previous few techno synth albums which "shorted"  shorter.  The rest of album has its good moments as well. If you are a  Omar Hakim fan get this one and Procession and invite some friends over  to dance.  (sure they willl find you strange but what the hell)&amp;nbsp;       &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-7644064546888405671?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/7644064546888405671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=7644064546888405671&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/7644064546888405671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/7644064546888405671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/weather-report-domino-theory.html' title='WEATHER REPORT / domino theory'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5MZ6T-4IV04/TvQmBx93dTI/AAAAAAAABVs/vmr5c7aOY58/s72-c/Weather+Rdominotheory_thumb%255B1%255D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-5760788209847331176</id><published>2011-12-23T13:38:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T13:39:05.992+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weather report'/><title type='text'>WEATHER REPORT / live in Tokyo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mtl-uFIm-Ak/TvQf6UiP4qI/AAAAAAAABVg/z5qtcbHGN1E/s1600/Weather+report+Tokw_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mtl-uFIm-Ak/TvQf6UiP4qI/AAAAAAAABVg/z5qtcbHGN1E/s1600/Weather+report+Tokw_thumb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Live in Tokyo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Bit rate: 320kps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;LINK: &lt;a href="http://xmas-present.weebly.com/music.com"&gt;liveintokyo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;01._Medley Vertical Invader Seventh ArrowT.H.Doctor Honoris Causa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;02._Medley Surucucu Lost Early Minor Directions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;03._Orange Lady&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;04._Medley EurydiceThe Moors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;05._Medley Tears Umbrellas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In principle, this live concert from 1972 follows the same approach as  Weather Report's self-titled debut: ensemble improvisation where pretty  much anything goes.  But whereas the debut is a dreamy, laid-back  affair, Live in Tokyo is a fierce, aggressive document of a band that  was more "free" than "fusion".  (Compare this to Miles Davis's 1970  Fillmore concerts, which have a similar point of departure.)  Zawinul's  playing on the Fender Rhodes is dissonant and processed with primitive  electronics, and on the acoustic piano he's all over the place -- from  Bill Evans-like meditations to messing around with the piano's innards.   Wayne Shorter, little more than sonic wallpaper on some later albums,  blows like a madman on the tenor and soprano saxophones.  And the rhythm  section (Miroslav Vitous, Eric Gravatt, Dom Um Romeo) is the most  spontaneous in WR's catalogue, and arguably the most exciting.  The  music is organized into 5 lengthy medleys, containing some material from  Weather Report's debut as well as otherwise unreleased stuff.  There's  also a compact, blistering version of Zawinul's "Directions".  This  music is not for the faint of heart (fans of Black Market and Heavy  Weather won't find much to like here) but showcases a band at the peak  of its abilities.  This essential live recording isn't available  domestically so snap it up while you can!&amp;nbsp;       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-5760788209847331176?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/5760788209847331176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=5760788209847331176&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/5760788209847331176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/5760788209847331176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/weather-report-live-in-tokyo.html' title='WEATHER REPORT / live in Tokyo'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mtl-uFIm-Ak/TvQf6UiP4qI/AAAAAAAABVg/z5qtcbHGN1E/s72-c/Weather+report+Tokw_thumb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-8195282585741739538</id><published>2011-12-23T12:44:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T12:48:17.701+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Doors'/><title type='text'>THE DOORS / an American prayer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B0Fv0DwJyVY/TvQUc33i3VI/AAAAAAAABVM/iXOqcwAKBQ8/s1600/An+american+prayer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B0Fv0DwJyVY/TvQUc33i3VI/AAAAAAAABVM/iXOqcwAKBQ8/s400/An+american+prayer.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cGNh-ix6WvY/TvQUgClne5I/AAAAAAAABVU/bCgWuDSV6Ao/s1600/An+american+prayer+back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="345" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cGNh-ix6WvY/TvQUgClne5I/AAAAAAAABVU/bCgWuDSV6Ao/s400/An+american+prayer+back.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;An American prayer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bit rate:320 kps&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LINK:&lt;a href="http://xmas-present.weebly.com/music.html"&gt; anamericanprayer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowEven"&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1. Awake &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowOdd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  2. Ghost Song &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowEven"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  3. Dawn's Highway &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowOdd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  4. Newborn Awakening &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowEven"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  5. To Come Of Age &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowOdd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  6. Black Polished Chrome &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowEven"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  7. Latino Chrome &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowOdd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  8. Angels And Sailors &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowEven"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  9. Stoned Immaculate &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowOdd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  10. The Movie &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowEven"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  11. Curses, Invocations &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowOdd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  12. American Night &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowEven"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  13. Roadhouse Blues &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowOdd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  14. The World On Fire &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowEven"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  15. Lament &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowOdd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  16. The Hitchhiker &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowEven"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  17. An American Prayer &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowOdd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  18. Hour For Magic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowEven"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  19. Freedom Exists &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowOdd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  20. A Feast Of Friends &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowEven"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  21. Babylon Fading &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowOdd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  22. Bird Of Prey &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="listRowEven"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  23. The Ghost Song &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I'll admit, I don't really listen to my other Doors CD's that much  anymore...but "An American Prayer" is an exception. Jim Morrison will be  recognized as one of the most important (and certainly the most  imitated) frontmen in the history of rock/pop music, and deservedly  so...but as most knowledgeable music afficianados (Rob O'Connor need not  apply) will tell you, Morrison was a great deal more. As compelling  (and disturbing) as his lyrics were, it was with the medium of poetry  that Morrison truly felt his place to be; his desire was to use popular  music as a means of presenting his writing to a greater audience. Having  three of the most talented and versatile musicians of the 1960's in his  band certainly didn't hurt, and this as much as Morrison's own talents  as a lyricist and indominitable charisma as a frontman helped to achieve  this end. The reading that he gives on this CD (recorded on Morrison's  birthday in 1970, I believe) is first rate. And though it must be  allowed that Morrison probably never intended for musical accompanyment  to be added to his words (this was done by the surviving Doors members  years after his death), it was likely Schiller probably felt the same  way at the time he wrote his "Ode to Joy"...and Beethoven's use of  Schiller's piece in his 9th Symphony finale certainly can't be seen as a  dilution of that work by any stretch of the imagination. Nor is the  subsequent Doors instrumentation (as well as the addition of previously  released music) to be seen as a lessening of the experience of "An  American Prayer". This is an extremely well-conceived production; the  music compliments Morrison's reading perfectly. Morrison himself reads  in a soothing, engaging, and intimate manner (similar to Charles  Bukowski's "Run With The Hunted" expanded CD session), and, if indeed he  was "Stoned Immaculate" at the time of the recording, the clarity of  his voice lays more to inspiration rather than inebriation. This CD  finds all participants in finest form, and the result is an extremely  natural progression of sound. This recording may be considered "spoken  word" due to its vocal delivery (and as such is unsurpassed by Bukowski,  Henry Rollins, William Burroughs, or anyone else to whom I've compared  it), but as with the work released by the Doors as a band, the music  here is not to be underestimated. This recording was well ahead of its  time, and in my opinion represents the Doors as Morrison had intended  them to become through an evolution he was unfortunately unable to see  through; I believe he would have approved of this work, and I can't  recommend it enough, either to fans of poetry, music, and of life  itself.       &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-8195282585741739538?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/8195282585741739538/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=8195282585741739538&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/8195282585741739538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/8195282585741739538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/doors-american-prayer.html' title='THE DOORS / an American prayer'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B0Fv0DwJyVY/TvQUc33i3VI/AAAAAAAABVM/iXOqcwAKBQ8/s72-c/An+american+prayer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-6059650710332569760</id><published>2011-12-20T14:10:00.003+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T14:26:40.250+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Socrates'/><title type='text'>SOCRATES / phos</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4n-764BhPVE/TvAzIvaw87I/AAAAAAAABUk/xib2GLSPvOU/s1600/front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4n-764BhPVE/TvAzIvaw87I/AAAAAAAABUk/xib2GLSPvOU/s320/front.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EpMFe_-hsb8/TvAzMkQp62I/AAAAAAAABUs/RwZ9YgLOOB4/s1600/back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EpMFe_-hsb8/TvAzMkQp62I/AAAAAAAABUs/RwZ9YgLOOB4/s320/back.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Phos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bit rate:256 kps&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LINK: &lt;a href="http://xmas-present.weebly.com/music.html"&gt;phos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. Starvation&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. Queen of the universe&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;3. Every dream comes to an end&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. The bride&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. Killer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;6. A day in heaven&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;7. Time of pain&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;8. Mountains&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;After shortening their name to "Socrates" from the original "Socrates  Drank The Conium", Greece's favorite and most famous rock trio  collaborated with former Aphrodite's Child keyboard wizard Vangelis  Papathanassiou (yes, THAT Vangelis) for this album, which is arguably  their magnum opus and the closest they've ever come to the progressive  rock genre. Lush, atmospheric keyboards enhance the intricate  arrangements, which are on par with the best the international rock,  hard rock and progressive rock could offer at the time. The only gripe  is the wiry, weak and nasal tone of Yiannis Spathas' guitar. "Killer" is  actually a reworking of the frenetic, driving "Death Is Gonna Die" from  their previous effort, "On The Wings"; don't confuse it with Adamski's  dance hit. "Mountains" is perhaps the finest example of how an electric  guitar can be used to play a traditional improvised Greek clarinet solo.  "Queen Of The Universe" is just what a love song should be, sensitive  and heartfelt, without being mushy and corny - and it also has a  gorgeous melody. "Starvation" is the album's most famous song. Although  it's incredibly well-composed and written, this is where we see why I  don't like the guitar tone. All of the songs, in general, are of a very  high standard. I highly recommend this album to every rock connoisseur.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Socrates was Yannis Spathas and Antonis Tourkoyorgis on guitar and bass  respectively. During the period that they were playing in the Kitarro  Club they went through several drummers including George Trantalidis,  all of them terrific. In Athens during the early seventies, when the  1967 military dictatorship was still in control, there were a number of  rock clubs in the area around Victoria Square and in the Plaka. Poll and  Morka played at the Elaterion. Socrates and Exidaktilo played at the  Kitarro. As Dorian Kokas, the founder and leader of Morka told us one  night "We used to race through our set and play everything fast so we  could get out early and go to the Kittaro and catch the last set of  Socrates." Musicians loved Socrates.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Socrates sounded like several bands that were popular at the time,  Jimi Hendrix Experience, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, and Black Sabbath come  to mind now when I hear their music from that early period, though the  majority of their material was original. There were songs that were  crowd favorites such as "Close the Door and Lay Down", "Starvation"  and  "Underground", but often the highlight of the evening was when they did  their Hendrix songs like "Voodoo Chile", "Message of Love" and "Red  House" or jammed on songs like "Kansas City" with singer Jimi Quidd  (later of the NY Dots) and Greek-American blues guitarist John Kronis. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spathas played a Fender Strat, long straight hair hanging down  almost to the guitar, he was motionless except for his hands which  effortlessly ripped out the most fluid, solos and riffs. He always  hooked the chord to his amp over the bottom cutaway so he would not step  on it and pull it out during a solo, I suppose. It was sort of his  trademark in a way and we would watch him tune up and wait for him to do  it which meant to us that the music was about to begin. He would play  some mind-boggling riff to make sure the volume was right or the guitar  was in tune and they would be off. Antonis Tourkoyorgis played bass and  sang and if Spathas gave the appearance of being introverted he was the  complete opposite. He was also a great bass player. The powerful sound  this little three-piece band with their stacks of Marshalls  put out in  the Kittaro kept us coming back night after night. In all honesty I have  to say that to this day I have not heard any band, three-piece or more,  fill as much musical space. Seeing the Who in 1976 I found myself  comparing them to Socrates. OK, the Who is the Who. But apart from the  personalities, the songs I knew and the flamboyance, were Townshend,  Entwhistle and Moon as good a band as Socrates? No way. Led Zepplin?  Nope. You'd have to ask someone who had seen Hendrix or Cream to make  the judgement about those bands but I can't imagine anyone being better  than Socrates on a good night and as far as those nights in the Kittaro  went I don't think they ever had a bad night. They were too good to have  a bad night. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What made them so remarkable was the guitar playing of Spathas. Even  today listening to the solos he played in 1972 I still can't believe  the music he was making. Brent Lambert of Kitchen Mastering, quite a  guitar player himself, after hearing several Spathas solos from thirty  years ago said "If this guy had come to America he would be a guitar  hero and everyone would know his name." If you liked the way Hendrix,  Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen play you will love  Spathas and if you play guitar yourself you will wonder "If this was  thirty years ago and he is still playing how good must he be now?" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Socrates made two albums as a three-piece, both pretty awful because  of poor mixing and mastering though the songs and performances were  good. In those days producers had no idea what to do with a group like  Socrates. It would be like recording Rage Against The Machine after  spending 20 years doing Herman's Hermits. Later the group added a lead  singer and different variations of guitarists, keyboards.  At one time  both Spathas and Tourkoyorgis played guitars. Vangelis Papathanasiou,  otherwise known as Vangelis joined them for an album and made them more  of a progressive-rock band with lots of keyboard, synth and guitar  interweavings. But the three-piece version of the band's first two  albums and the original rock-blues style was probably their best shot at  world fame. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Socrates still plays. They are again a three-piece with Spathas and  Tourkogiorgis joined by Makis Gioulis, a fine drummer in the traditon of  the band. Asteris Papastamatakis plays keyboards on some material and a  female vocalist named Markela Panagiotou, harmonizes and does duets  with Tourkogiorgis and sings a couple songs on her own. Still the best  part of the night for me is when the band strips down to the core of  guitar-bass-drums and they play the old songs from the Kittaro or jam on  some Hendrix tunes. Maybe I am just nostalgic but I can't help  listening to them and thinking of what might have been. Had it not been  for the fact that they were at their prime during the dictatorship then  maybe Greece might have been known as the country that gave us Socrates  instead of Yanni. Then again oppression can breed great art as an  instrument of rebellion. Socrates with their long hair, beards and  high-energy blues and rock and roll were a window on the world outside  and the reason people crammed into the Kittaro every weekend. For that  reason they belong alongside the great bands of Rock and Roll History. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Essential discography: &lt;br /&gt;-Socrates drank the conium (1972, Polydor) &lt;br /&gt;-Taste of conium (1972, Vertigo) &lt;br /&gt;-On the wings (1973, Polydor) &lt;br /&gt;-Phos (1976, Vertigo) &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-6059650710332569760?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/6059650710332569760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=6059650710332569760&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/6059650710332569760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/6059650710332569760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/socrates-phos.html' title='SOCRATES / phos'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4n-764BhPVE/TvAzIvaw87I/AAAAAAAABUk/xib2GLSPvOU/s72-c/front.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-4281372205973053204</id><published>2011-12-19T09:48:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T09:56:21.607+07:00</updated><title type='text'>LED ZEPPELIN / greatest hits 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;I re-upload "greatest hits 2008"&lt;br /&gt;Go to "labels" 'led zeppelin &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-4281372205973053204?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/4281372205973053204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=4281372205973053204&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/4281372205973053204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/4281372205973053204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/led-zeppelin-greatest-hits-2008.html' title='LED ZEPPELIN / greatest hits 2008'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-438862253169400639</id><published>2011-12-16T17:15:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T10:07:21.038+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paradise lost'/><title type='text'>PARADISE LOST / one second</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qaFCKHmySKk/TusZEZr_VgI/AAAAAAAABUY/n3U0IaIUshw/s1600/Paradise+Lost+-+One+Second.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qaFCKHmySKk/TusZEZr_VgI/AAAAAAAABUY/n3U0IaIUshw/s400/Paradise+Lost+-+One+Second.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;One second&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bit rate: 320 kps&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LINK: &lt;a href="http://xmas-present.weebly.com/music.html"&gt;onesecond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. one second&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. say just words&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;3. Lydia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. mercy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. soul courageous&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;6. another day&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;7. the sufferer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;8. this cold life&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;9. blood of another&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;10.disappear&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;11.sane&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;12.take me down&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The album that has some Paradise Lost fans up in arms. Is it a great,  well-orchestrated, defining pinnacle in a fairly decent catalogue? Or is  it a whiny collection of sad, depressing drivel from a band that lost  its  greatness? I opt for the former. It's different. It's refreshing.  Nick  Holmes is at his eerie best on faves "This Cold Life" and  "Blood  Of Another". A perfect blend of goth and metal, Paradise  Lost should  have a larger fan base than they do. Yes, they've changed, sure  they've  toned down a bit, but they did it with style. Gosh, what a cool  band.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This disc is bottled intensity -- epic, dramatic, and intoxicating.   Dark and sinister without resorting to screams and howls ... this band  writes music that haunts you.  From the piano line of "One Second" that  opens the album, to the pained, slow pace of "Take Me Down", Paradise  Lost weaves a musical tapestry that ensnares anyone who dares to listen.   One for the ages.  Among my favorite albums of all time.       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-438862253169400639?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/438862253169400639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=438862253169400639&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/438862253169400639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/438862253169400639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/paradise-lost-one-second.html' title='PARADISE LOST / one second'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qaFCKHmySKk/TusZEZr_VgI/AAAAAAAABUY/n3U0IaIUshw/s72-c/Paradise+Lost+-+One+Second.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-6638731032216088943</id><published>2011-12-11T14:28:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:36:23.890+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeast infection</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="box"&gt;&lt;div class="boxTitle"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Are You Suffering From &lt;span class="underline"&gt;Any&lt;/span&gt; of the Following Emotional or Physical Symptoms? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul class="listStyle3"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Itching or Burning Sensation In Your Intimate Parts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Vaginal Odor Or Vaginal Discharge &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Leaky Gut Syndrome &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Arthritis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Painful Urination or Other Urinary Disorders &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Painful Sex &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Sexual Dysfunction or Impotence &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Depression or Mood Swings &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Chronic Rashes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Constant Tiredness or Fatigue &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Irritability&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Joint Pain or Swelling &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;PMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Digestive Pain &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Muscle Aches &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Short Attention Span &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Hand Pain &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Hip and Knee Pain &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Headaches or Constant Migraines &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Constipation &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Unexplainable Lack of Energy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Acne or Rosacea &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Respiratory Infections &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Bloating or IBS &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Hypoglycemia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Menstrual Pain &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Skin Lesions &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Shortness of Breath &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Food Allergies &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Learning and Memory Problems &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Increased Craving For Carbohydrates &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Eczema&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Jumpy Legs &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Blurred Vision Or Brain Fog &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Oral Yeast Infection (Oral Thrush) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Male Yeast Infection &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Yeast Infections in Your Toe or Fingernails &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Unexplainable Feeling of "Not being yourself"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="box"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://tiny.cc/wjswa"&gt;Read This.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="box"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-6638731032216088943?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/6638731032216088943/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=6638731032216088943&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/6638731032216088943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/6638731032216088943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/yeast-infection.html' title='Yeast infection'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-1317596396005561568</id><published>2011-12-11T14:15:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T16:54:41.966+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paradise lost'/><title type='text'>PARADISE LOST / icon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RC-9L9Yw2HQ/TuRWgTcfL9I/AAAAAAAABT4/1HfoZwFp91k/s1600/folder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RC-9L9Yw2HQ/TuRWgTcfL9I/AAAAAAAABT4/1HfoZwFp91k/s400/folder.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T35yHkbMYIQ/TuRWkKCwYMI/AAAAAAAABUA/6ZOGiQ2GNyw/s1600/Paradise+Lost+-+Icon+-+Back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="312" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T35yHkbMYIQ/TuRWkKCwYMI/AAAAAAAABUA/6ZOGiQ2GNyw/s400/Paradise+Lost+-+Icon+-+Back.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4rpXZ15UJVQ/TuRWnAfY5JI/AAAAAAAABUI/3xywKFKgebg/s1600/Paradise+Lost+-+Icon+-+CD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4rpXZ15UJVQ/TuRWnAfY5JI/AAAAAAAABUI/3xywKFKgebg/s400/Paradise+Lost+-+Icon+-+CD.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Icon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Bit rate: 192kps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;LINK: &lt;a href="http://xmas-present.weebly.com/music.html"&gt;icon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1. Embers fire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;2. Remembrance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;3. Forging sympathy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;4. Joys of the emptiness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;5. Dying freedom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;6. Widow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;7. Colossal rains&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;8. Weeping words&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;9. poison&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;10.True belief&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;11.Shallow seasons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;12.Christendom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;13.Deus miserestur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;If you were to look up "doom metal" in the Headbangers' Illustrated  Dictionary, you might just see a picture of Icon. Slower and heavier  than the masterpiece that followed it (Draconian Times), Icon is a  powerful album that takes several listens before you really begin to  appreciate it. But once you've digested its subtleties, you'll find  yourself returning to it again and again for years to come.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Listening  to Paradise Lost is all about letting the euphoric melancholia that only  they can create take over your senses. And nowhere is this melancholia  more in effect than on Icon. Just seconds into the gorgeous orchestral  synth introduction to the first track, "Embers Fire", you'll sense that  feeling creeping over you - you're pleasantly depressed. Don't worry,  you'll snap out of it in, oh, about 50 minutes. Your only job is to  enjoy it while it lasts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The songs flow seamlessly one into the  next with the highlights being "Embers Fire", "Dying Freedom", "Widow",  "Poison", and "True Belief". "Christendom" incorporates female vocals to  fine effect. As in most middle-era Paradise Lost, there are some great  melodic guitar solos on Icon. By album's end, you're drained but ready  to resume normal life again. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;If you are into Paradise Lost at  all, you need to have this album. If you are new to Paradise Lost and  curious to try them out, I recommend you start out with the more  accessible classics, Draconian Times and One Second, then work your way  back to Icon. Icon is an album for true Paradise Lost aficionados.       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-1317596396005561568?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/1317596396005561568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=1317596396005561568&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/1317596396005561568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/1317596396005561568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/paradise-lost-icon.html' title='PARADISE LOST / icon'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RC-9L9Yw2HQ/TuRWgTcfL9I/AAAAAAAABT4/1HfoZwFp91k/s72-c/folder.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-514605866082213073</id><published>2011-12-10T16:46:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-10T17:14:05.602+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paradise lost'/><title type='text'>PARADISE LOST / draconian times</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s13gt_o4300/TuMoNmSIsGI/AAAAAAAABTw/9tPxcR9XUoA/s1600/front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s13gt_o4300/TuMoNmSIsGI/AAAAAAAABTw/9tPxcR9XUoA/s320/front.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I really love this dark wave LP (gothic metal). One of my favorite. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Draconian times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Bit rate: 320kps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;LINK: &lt;a href="http://xmas-present.weebly.com/music.html"&gt;draconiantimes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1. Enchantment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;2. Hallowed land&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;3. The last time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;4. Forever failuer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;5. Once solemn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;6. Shadowkings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;7. Elusive cure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;8. Yearn for change&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;9. Shades of god&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;10.Hands of reason&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;11.See your face&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;12.Jaded&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;13.Another desire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;14.Fear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Paradise Lost&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="5" class="infobox vcard" style="width: 22em;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="fn org" colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Paradise Lost&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;td class="" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metalmania_2007_-_Paradise_Lost_01.jpg" title="Paradise Lost live in 2007 with former drummer Jeff Singer."&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="166" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Metalmania_2007_-_Paradise_Lost_01.jpg/250px-Metalmania_2007_-_Paradise_Lost_01.jpg" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Paradise Lost live in 2007 with former drummer Jeff Singer.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="" colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Background information&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Origin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax,_West_Yorkshire" title="Halifax, West Yorkshire"&gt;Halifax, West Yorkshire&lt;/a&gt;, England&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre"&gt;Genres&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_metal" title="Doom metal"&gt;Doom metal&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allusic_0-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-allusic-0"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death/doom" title="Death/doom"&gt;death/doom&lt;/a&gt; (early),&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lost_Paradise_review_1-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-Lost_Paradise_review-1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthpop" title="Synthpop"&gt;synthpop&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthrock" title="Synthrock"&gt;synthrock&lt;/a&gt; (middle era), &lt;span class="nowrap"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_metal" title="Gothic metal"&gt;gothic metal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-musicmight_2-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-musicmight-2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Years active&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1988–present&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label"&gt;Labels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Media_Records" title="Century Media Records"&gt;Century Media&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_Nations" title="Music for Nations"&gt;Music for Nations&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Records" title="Koch Records"&gt;Koch&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUN_Records" title="GUN Records"&gt;GUN&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceville_Records" title="Peaceville Records"&gt;Peaceville&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI_Electrola" title="EMI Electrola"&gt;EMI Electrola&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Website&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="url"&gt;&lt;a class="external text" href="http://www.paradiselost.co.uk/" rel="nofollow"&gt;www.paradiselost.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="" colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;td class="" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Nick Holmes&lt;br /&gt;Gregor Mackintosh&lt;br /&gt;Aaron Aedy&lt;br /&gt;Steve Edmondson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Erlandsson" title="Adrian Erlandsson"&gt;Adrian Erlandsson&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="" colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Past members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;td class="" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Morris_%28musician%29" title="Lee Morris (musician)"&gt;Lee Morris&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matthew Archer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Singer" title="Jeff Singer"&gt;Jeff Singer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;table class="metadata plainlinks ambox ambox-style ambox-lead_too_short"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="mbox-image"&gt; &lt;div style="width: 52px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="mbox-text"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Paradise Lost are a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music"&gt;heavy metal&lt;/a&gt; band that formed in 1988 in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax,_West_Yorkshire" title="Halifax, West Yorkshire"&gt;Halifax&lt;/a&gt;, England.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;table class="toc" id="toc"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;   &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="History"&gt;History&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Their first three full-length albums are examples of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death/doom" title="Death/doom"&gt;death/doom&lt;/a&gt; style, although the latter two incorporated some melodic and gothic elements. However, with the release of the seminal albums &lt;i&gt;Icon&lt;/i&gt; (1993) and &lt;i&gt;Draconian Times&lt;/i&gt; (1995), Paradise Lost also became known as pioneers of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_metal" title="Gothic metal"&gt;gothic metal&lt;/a&gt; subgenre.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-about_3-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-about-3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; In accordance with the change in musical approach, vocalist Nick Holmes changed his singing style. He used a &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_grunt" title="Death grunt"&gt;death grunt&lt;/a&gt; on the band's first three albums, but on &lt;i&gt;Icon&lt;/i&gt;  refined his voice to have a cleaner tone. Later (circa 1997), the band  began experimenting with electronic styles but after four albums  reverted again to gothic metal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Their line-up has remained stable for such a long-standing heavy  metal band, consisting of singer Nick Holmes, guitarists Greg Mackintosh  and Aaron Aedy, and bassist Steve Edmondson. Holmes and Mackintosh are  the principal &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composers" title="Composers"&gt;composers&lt;/a&gt;,  with almost all of the band's songs credited to them. During the years,  the band has only changed drummers, with original member &lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matthew_Archer&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Matthew Archer (page does not exist)"&gt;Matthew Archer&lt;/a&gt; replaced in 1994 by ex-&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marshall_Law_%28band%29&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Marshall Law (band) (page does not exist)"&gt;Marshall Law&lt;/a&gt; drummer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Morris_%28musician%29" title="Lee Morris (musician)"&gt;Lee Morris&lt;/a&gt; In March 2004, Morris left the band. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Singer" title="Jeff Singer"&gt;Jeff Singer&lt;/a&gt;  took Morris' place and has played on all subsequent releases, though he  was not listed as a permanent band member until the release of the  single "&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_%28Single%29" title="The Enemy (Single)"&gt;The Enemy&lt;/a&gt;"  in 2007. In a recent video interview, Mackintosh and Holmes revealed  that Singer had already auditioned for the band when Archer left, but  they chose Morris instead because "[Singer] had a pink drumkit".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-4"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Early on, Paradise Lost were inspired by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreator" title="Kreator"&gt;Kreator&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Frost" title="Celtic Frost"&gt;Celtic Frost&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlemass" title="Candlemass"&gt;Candlemass&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_%28metal_band%29" title="Death (metal band)"&gt;Death&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbid_Angel" title="Morbid Angel"&gt;Morbid Angel&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repulsion_%28band%29" title="Repulsion (band)"&gt;Repulsion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-reflection23_5-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-reflection23-5"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Up to 1989, the band recorded demo cassettes, then signed with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceville_Records" title="Peaceville Records"&gt;Peaceville Records&lt;/a&gt; for their first album (recorded at The Academy), &lt;i&gt;Lost Paradise&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-detector_6-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-detector-6"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Their debut was well received by press and fans alike.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-reflection23_5-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-reflection23-5"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; In November 1990, Paradise Lost went back to The Academy to work on the second album. 1991's &lt;i&gt;Gothic&lt;/i&gt; (also on Peaceville) was the band's stylistic breakthrough,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic_7-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-allmusic-7"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; eventually becoming an influential album within the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_metal" title="Extreme metal"&gt;extreme metal&lt;/a&gt; circles. The album was labeled a "classic" and was rated highly by both fans and critics.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pioneer_8-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-pioneer-8"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The album expanded beyond the original &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death/doom" title="Death/doom"&gt;death/doom&lt;/a&gt; format by being more melodic and featuring symphonic orchestra and female vocals by Sarah Marrion.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-detector_6-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-detector-6"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  With this album the band pushed "gothic" into the metal scene and  started a new genre - gothic metal. Paradise Lost was signed to the  Music for Nations label, and in July 1992 released &lt;i&gt;Shades Of God&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic_7-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-allmusic-7"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  The album contained the song "As I Die," later released as a single/EP.  In summer 1993, the band commenced work on their fourth full-length  record, &lt;i&gt;Icon&lt;/i&gt; which was released on September in the same year. The album hit the German charts at number 31,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-detector_6-2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-detector-6"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; It solidified the band's position in the mainstream metal scene.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pioneer_8-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-pioneer-8"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;i&gt;Draconian Times&lt;/i&gt;,  one of the band's most successful albums came in June 1995; a limited  edition digipack offered a second disc, dubbed "Live Tracks, Demos &amp;amp;  B-Sides," with five live recordings as well as demos and outtakes. To  promote the album, Paradise Lost went on a tour through Europe, South  America, Australia, and Japan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;On the album &lt;i&gt;One Second&lt;/i&gt; (1997), the band began to experiment with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depeche_Mode" title="Depeche Mode"&gt;Depeche Mode&lt;/a&gt;-esque &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synth_pop" title="Synth pop"&gt;synth pop&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronica" title="Electronica"&gt;electronica&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-base_9-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-base-9"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  The album turned out to be one of the band's most important releases,  cracking the German and Swedish top ten charts and giving the band a  boost in popularity everywhere, it seemed — except the UK.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-detector_6-3"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-detector-6"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The band later contracted EMI Electrola in Germany for its next album, &lt;i&gt;Host&lt;/i&gt;, released in 1999, on which they continued to experiment with new sounds, appearing to shed their metal roots.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-10"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; On the next album, &lt;i&gt;Believe in Nothing&lt;/i&gt;  (2001), Paradise Lost continued the synth direction, but adding rock  elements to the music. In May 2002, the band signed to GUN records, and  on the album that followed, &lt;i&gt;Symbol of Life&lt;/i&gt;, the metallic roots of the band began to resurface.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-base_9-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-base-9"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Paradise Lost released their 10th, eponymous album in 2005 on GUN records. The eleventh album, &lt;i&gt;In Requiem&lt;/i&gt;, was released in Spring 2007 on &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Media" title="Century Media"&gt;Century Media&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-11"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  it was generally well-accepted and highly rated by both critics and  fans, pleased to see the band returning to their heavier, gothic metal  sound similar to that of earlier albums like &lt;i&gt;Draconian Times&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-about_3-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-about-3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-12"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The full-length was preceded by a single, "The Enemy."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In November 2007, Century Media released the DVD &lt;i&gt;Over The Madness&lt;/i&gt;, which documents the impact Paradise Lost has had on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_metal" title="Gothic metal"&gt;gothic metal&lt;/a&gt;  and provides insight into the mindset and workings of Paradise Lost.  Disc 2 includes further interviews, rehearsal footage, plus backstage  and memorabilia sections.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-13"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;On 13 August 2008, drummer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Singer" title="Jeff Singer"&gt;Jeff Singer&lt;/a&gt;  announced his departure from the band on the Paradise Lost official  website. He wanted to be with his family, had an upcoming job, and the  then-upcoming South American tour would interfere with that. As a  result, Paradise Lost had to cancel the South American tour dates that  they had planned.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-14"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Soon after, on 28 August 2008, the Paradise Lost official website  announced that the cancelled South American tour has been reconfirmed&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-15"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and that &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Heron" title="Mark Heron"&gt;Mark Heron&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceansize" title="Oceansize"&gt;Oceansize&lt;/a&gt; would take over on drums.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;At the beginning of 2009, Paradise Lost recorded their new album with  producer Jens Bogren in Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden.  At the time there was no full-time replacement for Jeff Singer and drums  were played by Swedish drummer Peter Damin.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-16"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; On 16 March 2009, when the album was already finished with being recorded, the band recruited &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Erlandsson" title="Adrian Erlandsson"&gt;Adrian Erlandsson&lt;/a&gt; (ex-&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Gates" title="At the Gates"&gt;At the Gates&lt;/a&gt;, ex-&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_Filth" title="Cradle of Filth"&gt;Cradle of Filth&lt;/a&gt;) as a full-time drummer for the band.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-17"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;On 18 June 2009, Paradise Lost officially announced &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Divides_Us_-_Death_Unites_Us" title="Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us"&gt;Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  as the title of their upcoming new album, to be released on Century  Media Records on 25 September 2009 in Germany, on 28 September 2009 in  the rest of Europe and on 6 October 2009 in the US.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-18"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Paradise Lost headlined the Jägermeister Stage at Ozzfest 2010 on 18 September 2010.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-19"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In late 2011, Paradise Lost began recording it's 13th studio album  "Tragic Idol" in The Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire. The release date is  April 23rd 2012.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28band%29#cite_note-20"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Members"&gt;Members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Current_members"&gt;Current members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 152px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metalmania_2007_-_Paradise_Lost_-_Nick_Holmes_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="226" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Metalmania_2007_-_Paradise_Lost_-_Nick_Holmes_02.jpg/150px-Metalmania_2007_-_Paradise_Lost_-_Nick_Holmes_02.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metalmania_2007_-_Paradise_Lost_-_Nick_Holmes_02.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Nick Holmes at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalmania" title="Metalmania"&gt;Metalmania 2007&lt;/a&gt; festival in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katowice" title="Katowice"&gt;Katowice&lt;/a&gt;, Poland.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Nick Holmes - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing" title="Singing"&gt;vocals&lt;/a&gt; (1988–present)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Greg Mackintosh - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_guitar" title="Lead guitar"&gt;lead guitar&lt;/a&gt; (1988–present)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Aaron Aedy - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_guitar" title="Rhythm guitar"&gt;rhythm guitar&lt;/a&gt; (1988–present)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Steve Edmondson - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar" title="Bass guitar"&gt;bass guitar&lt;/a&gt; (1988–present)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Erlandsson" title="Adrian Erlandsson"&gt;Adrian Erlandsson&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drums" title="Drums"&gt;drums&lt;/a&gt; (2009–present)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Former_members"&gt;Former members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Matthew Archer – &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_kit" title="Drum kit"&gt;drums&lt;/a&gt; (1988–1994)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Morris_%28musician%29" title="Lee Morris (musician)"&gt;Lee Morris&lt;/a&gt; - drums (1994–2004)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Singer" title="Jeff Singer"&gt;Jeff Singer&lt;/a&gt; - drums (2004–2008)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Session_members"&gt;Session members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Heron" title="Mark Heron"&gt;Mark Heron&lt;/a&gt; - touring drums (2008)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Peter Damin – studio drums (2009)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Milly Evans - touring guitar (2009–2010), touring keyboards and backing vocals (2011)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Discography"&gt;Discography&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Main article: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_discography" title="Paradise Lost discography"&gt;Paradise Lost discography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Studio_albums"&gt;Studio albums&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Paradise_%28album%29" title="Lost Paradise (album)"&gt;Lost Paradise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1990)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_%28album%29" title="Gothic (album)"&gt;Gothic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1991)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_God" title="Shades of God"&gt;Shades of God&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1992)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_%28Paradise_Lost_album%29" title="Icon (Paradise Lost album)"&gt;Icon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1993)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draconian_Times" title="Draconian Times"&gt;Draconian Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1995)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_%28Paradise_Lost_album%29" title="One Second (Paradise Lost album)"&gt;One Second&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1997)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_%28Paradise_Lost_album%29" title="Host (Paradise Lost album)"&gt;Host&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1999)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_in_Nothing" title="Believe in Nothing"&gt;Believe in Nothing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2001)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_of_Life" title="Symbol of Life"&gt;Symbol of Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2002)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_%28Paradise_Lost_album%29" title="Paradise Lost (Paradise Lost album)"&gt;Paradise Lost&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2005)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Requiem" title="In Requiem"&gt;In Requiem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2007)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Divides_Us_%E2%80%93_Death_Unites_Us" title="Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us"&gt;Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2009)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tragic_Idol&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Tragic Idol (page does not exist)"&gt;Tragic Idol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2012)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Live_recordings"&gt;Live recordings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the BBC&lt;/i&gt; (2003)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Melancholy_%28album%29" title="The Anatomy of Melancholy (album)"&gt;The Anatomy of Melancholy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2008) (Live double-DVD set, and Live double-CD set)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draconian_Times_MMXI&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Draconian Times MMXI (page does not exist)"&gt;Draconian Times MMXI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2011)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-514605866082213073?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/514605866082213073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=514605866082213073&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/514605866082213073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/514605866082213073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/paradise-lost-draconian-times.html' title='PARADISE LOST / draconian times'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s13gt_o4300/TuMoNmSIsGI/AAAAAAAABTw/9tPxcR9XUoA/s72-c/front.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-6963422494234113015</id><published>2011-12-09T17:01:00.002+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T10:48:20.384+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Doors'/><title type='text'>THE DOORS / Morrison hotel</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="215" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ayH18PHRf48/TuHQyGYBGuI/AAAAAAAABTo/QTR3IuDlWlA/s320/Morisson2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Morrison hotel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Bit rate: 128 kps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;LINK: &lt;a href="http://xmas-present.weebly.com/music.html"&gt;morrisonhotel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1. Roadhouse blues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;2. Waiting for the sun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;3. You make me real&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;4. Peace frog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;5. Blue sunday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;6. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Ship of fools&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;7. Land ho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;8. The spy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;9. Queen of the highway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;10.Indian summer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;11.Maggie M Gill&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;12.Talking blues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;13.Roadhouse blues (take 1-3)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;14.Roadhouse blues (take 6)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;15.Caroll&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;16.Roadhouse blues (take 1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;17.Money beats soul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;18.Roadhouse blues (take 13-15)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;19.Peace frog (false starts and dialogue)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;20.The spy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;21.Queen of the highway (jazz version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;            &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;              &lt;table cellspacing="5" class="infobox vcard" style="width: 22em;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="fn org" colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;td class="" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doors_electra_publicity_photo.JPG" title="Promotional photo of the Doors in late 1966  (l-r: Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek and Morrison)"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="186" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Doors_electra_publicity_photo.JPG/250px-Doors_electra_publicity_photo.JPG" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Promotional photo of the Doors in late 1966&lt;br /&gt;(l-r: Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek and Morrison)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="" colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Background information&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Origin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles"&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California"&gt;California&lt;/a&gt;, United States&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre"&gt;Genres&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_rock" title="Psychedelic rock"&gt;Psychedelic rock&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_rock" title="Blues rock"&gt;blues rock&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rock" title="Acid rock"&gt;acid rock&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll"&gt;rock and roll&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock"&gt;hard rock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic.com_0-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-allmusic.com-0"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980284_1-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980284-1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;2&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Years active&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1965–1973&lt;br /&gt;(Reunions: 1978, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2011)&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label"&gt;Labels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektra_Records" title="Elektra Records"&gt;Elektra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_Entertainment" title="Rhino Entertainment"&gt;Rhino&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Associated acts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_%26_the_Ravens" title="Rick &amp;amp; the Ravens"&gt;Rick &amp;amp; the Ravens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butts_Band" title="The Butts Band"&gt;The Butts Band&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nite_City" title="Nite City"&gt;Nite City&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzarek-Krieger" title="Manzarek-Krieger"&gt;Manzarek-Krieger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Website&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="external text" href="http://thedoors.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;thedoors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="" colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Past members&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;td class="" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison" title="Jim Morrison"&gt;Jim Morrison&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek" title="Ray Manzarek"&gt;Ray Manzarek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Densmore" title="John Densmore"&gt;John Densmore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Krieger" title="Robby Krieger"&gt;Robby Krieger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors were an American &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music"&gt;rock&lt;/a&gt; band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing" title="Singing"&gt;vocalist&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison" title="Jim Morrison"&gt;Jim Morrison&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_instrument" title="Keyboard instrument"&gt;keyboardist&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek" title="Ray Manzarek"&gt;Ray Manzarek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummer" title="Drummer"&gt;drummer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Densmore" title="John Densmore"&gt;John Densmore&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitarist" title="Guitarist"&gt;guitarist&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Krieger" title="Robby Krieger"&gt;Robby Krieger&lt;/a&gt;. The band took its name from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley"&gt;Aldous Huxley&lt;/a&gt;'s book &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception" title="The Doors of Perception"&gt;The Doors of Perception&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimmonds200845_2-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimmonds200845-2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; the title of which was a reference to a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake"&gt;William Blake&lt;/a&gt; quotation: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  They were among the most controversial rock acts of the 1960s, due  mostly to Morrison's wild, poetic lyrics and charismatic but  unpredictable stage &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona" title="Persona"&gt;persona&lt;/a&gt;. After Morrison's death in 1971, the remaining members continued as a trio until finally disbanding in 1973.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic.com_0-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-allmusic.com-0"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Although The Doors' active career ended in 1973, their popularity has persisted. According to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America" title="Recording Industry Association of America"&gt;RIAA&lt;/a&gt;, they have sold over 35 million albums in the US alone.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-4"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The band has sold nearly 100 million albums worldwide.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-5"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger continue to tour as &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzarek-Krieger" title="Manzarek-Krieger"&gt;Manzarek-Krieger&lt;/a&gt;, performing Doors songs exclusively. They were the first American band to accumulate eight consecutive gold LPs.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-6"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Three of the band's studio albums, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_%28album%29" title="The Doors (album)"&gt;The Doors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1967), &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_%28album%29" title="Strange Days (album)"&gt;Strange Days&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1967), and &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Woman" title="L.A. Woman"&gt;L.A. Woman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1971), were featured in the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone"&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; list of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_500_Greatest_Albums_of_All_Time" title="The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"&gt;The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time&lt;/a&gt;, at positions 42, 407 and 362 respectively. In 1993, The Doors were inducted into the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"&gt;Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;table class="toc" id="toc"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="History"&gt;History&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="1965.E2.80.9368"&gt;1965–68&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Origins_and_formation"&gt;Origins and formation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Doors_in_Copenhagen_1968.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="153" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/The_Doors_in_Copenhagen_1968.jpg/220px-The_Doors_in_Copenhagen_1968.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Doors_in_Copenhagen_1968.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; The Doors performing for Danish television in 1968&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The origins of The Doors lie in a chance meeting between acquaintances and fellow &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles"&gt;UCLA&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_school" title="Film school"&gt;film school&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alumnus" title="Alumnus"&gt;alumni&lt;/a&gt; Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek on &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Beach" title="Venice Beach"&gt;Venice Beach&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles"&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California"&gt;California&lt;/a&gt;  in July 1965. Morrison told Manzarek he had been writing songs  (Morrison said "I was taking notes at a fantastic rock-n-roll concert  going on in my head") and, with Manzarek's encouragement, sang "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_Drive" title="Moonlight Drive"&gt;Moonlight Drive&lt;/a&gt;". Impressed by Morrison's lyrics, Manzarek suggested they form a band.&lt;sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;[&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"&gt;&lt;span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from March 2010"&gt;citation needed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Keyboardist Manzarek was in a band called &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_%26_the_Ravens" title="Rick &amp;amp; the Ravens"&gt;Rick &amp;amp; the Ravens&lt;/a&gt;  with his brothers Rick and Jim Manzarek, while drummer John Densmore  was playing with The Psychedelic Rangers, and knew Manzarek from  meditation classes.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pc43_7-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-pc43-7"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  In August, Densmore joined the group and, along with members of The  Ravens and bass player Pat Sullivan (later credited using her married  name Patricia Hansen in the 1997 box CD release), recorded a six-song  demo in September 1965. This has since then circulated widely as a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg_recording" title="Bootleg recording"&gt;bootleg recording&lt;/a&gt;.  That month the group recruited guitarist Robby Krieger, and the final  lineup — Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore — was complete. The  band took their name from a line in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake"&gt;William Blake&lt;/a&gt;'s poem &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Heaven_and_Hell" title="The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"&gt;The Marriage of Heaven and Hell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;; "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-8"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tleft"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 202px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Whisky_a_Go-Go.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="133" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Whisky_a_Go-Go.jpg/200px-Whisky_a_Go-Go.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Whisky_a_Go-Go.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_a_Go_Go" title="Whisky a Go Go"&gt;Whisky a Go Go&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;By 1966, the group was playing the LA club &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Fog_%28nightclub%29" title="London Fog (nightclub)"&gt;London Fog&lt;/a&gt; and soon graduated to the prestigious &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_a_Go_Go" title="Whisky a Go Go"&gt;Whisky a Go Go&lt;/a&gt;, where they were the house band, supporting acts including &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Morrison" title="Van Morrison"&gt;Van Morrison&lt;/a&gt;'s group &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them_%28band%29" title="Them (band)"&gt;Them&lt;/a&gt;. On their last night together the two bands joined up for "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Midnight_Hour" title="In the Midnight Hour"&gt;In the Midnight Hour&lt;/a&gt;" and a twenty-minute jam session of Them's "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_%28Them_song%29" title="Gloria (Them song)"&gt;Gloria&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-9"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;10&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Prior to graduating to Whisky a Go Go, Morrison went to many record  labels trying to land a deal. He did score one but it did not pan out.  On August 10, they were spotted by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektra_Records" title="Elektra Records"&gt;Elektra Records&lt;/a&gt; president &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jac_Holzman" title="Jac Holzman"&gt;Jac Holzman&lt;/a&gt; who was present at the recommendation of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_%28band%29" title="Love (band)"&gt;Love&lt;/a&gt; singer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lee_%28musician%29" title="Arthur Lee (musician)"&gt;Arthur Lee&lt;/a&gt;, whose group was on Elektra. After Holzman and producer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Rothchild" title="Paul A. Rothchild"&gt;Paul A. Rothchild&lt;/a&gt; saw two sets of the band playing at the Whisky a Go Go, they signed them to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektra_Records" title="Elektra Records"&gt;Elektra Records&lt;/a&gt; label on August 18—the start of a long and successful partnership with Rothchild and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_engineering" title="Audio engineering"&gt;engineer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Botnick" title="Bruce Botnick"&gt;Bruce Botnick&lt;/a&gt;. Later that month, the club fired the band after a profanity-filled performance of "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_%28The_Doors_song%29" title="The End (The Doors song)"&gt;The End&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Debut_album"&gt;Debut album&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The band recorded their first album from August 24 to 31, 1966 at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Sound_Recorders" title="Sunset Sound Recorders"&gt;Sunset Sound Recording Studios&lt;/a&gt;. 'The Doors' &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_%28album%29" title="The Doors (album)"&gt;self-titled&lt;/a&gt; debut &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album" title="Album"&gt;LP&lt;/a&gt;  was released in the first week of January 1967. It featured most of the  major songs from their set, including the nearly 12-minute musical  drama "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_%28The_Doors_song%29" title="The End (The Doors song)"&gt;The End&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In November 1966, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Abramson" title="Mark Abramson"&gt;Mark Abramson&lt;/a&gt; directed a promotional film for the lead single "&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_On_Through_%28To_the_Other_Side%29" title="Break On Through (To the Other Side)"&gt;Break On Through (To the Other Side)&lt;/a&gt;". To promote the single, the Doors made their television debut on a Los Angeles TV show called &lt;i&gt;Boss City,&lt;/i&gt; circa 1966, possibly early 1967 and then on a Los Angeles TV show called &lt;i&gt;Shebang,&lt;/i&gt; miming to "Break On Through," on New Year's Day 1967. This clip has never been officially released by the Doors.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Since "Break on Through" was not very successful on the radio, the band turned to "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_My_Fire" title="Light My Fire"&gt;Light My Fire&lt;/a&gt;".  The problem with this song was that it was seven minutes long, so  producer Paul Rothschild cut it down to a three minute song. "Light My  Fire" became the first single from Elektra Records to reach number one  on the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"&gt;Billboard Hot 100&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; singles chart, selling over a million copies.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Brodsky_10-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-Brodsky-10"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; "Light My Fire" was the first song ever written by Robbie Krieger and was the beginning of the band's success.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 92px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doors_matrix.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="79" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b6/Doors_matrix.jpg/90px-Doors_matrix.jpg" width="90" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doors_matrix.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_the_Matrix_1967" title="Live at the Matrix 1967"&gt;Live at the Matrix 1967&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Early_live_recordings_at_The_Matrix"&gt;Early live recordings at The Matrix&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;From March 7 to March 11, 1967, The Doors performed at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_%28club%29" title="The Matrix (club)"&gt;Matrix Club&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco"&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt;,  California. The March 7 and 10 shows were recorded by a co-owner of The  Matrix, Peter Abram. These recordings are notable as they are among the  earliest live recordings of the band to circulate. On November 18,  2008, The Doors published a compilation of these recordings, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_the_Matrix_1967" title="Live at the Matrix 1967"&gt;Live at the Matrix 1967&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, on the band's boutique Bright Midnight Archives label.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Early_television_performances"&gt;Early television performances&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors appeared on American television on August 25, 1967, guest-starring on the variety TV series, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malibu_U" title="Malibu U"&gt;Malibu U&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,  performing "Light My Fire". They did not appear live. The band is seen  on a beach and are performing the song in play back. The music video did  not gain any commercial success and the performance was more or less  forgotten.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-11"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; It was not until they appeared on &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show" title="The Ed Sullivan Show"&gt;The Ed Sullivan Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; that they gained attention on television.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ed_Sullivan_12-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-Ed_Sullivan-12"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tleft"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 252px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_doors_perform_at_the_scene_in_New_York_during_June_1967_%284388259600%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="166" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/The_doors_perform_at_the_scene_in_New_York_during_June_1967_%284388259600%29.jpg/250px-The_doors_perform_at_the_scene_in_New_York_during_June_1967_%284388259600%29.jpg" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_doors_perform_at_the_scene_in_New_York_during_June_1967_%284388259600%29.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Performing at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_%28performance_venue%29" title="The Scene (performance venue)"&gt;The Scene&lt;/a&gt; in June 1967&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors made their international television debut in May 1967, recording a version of "The End" for the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Canadian Broadcasting Corporation"&gt;Canadian Broadcasting Corporation&lt;/a&gt; (CBC) at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Centre_for_the_Performing_Arts" title="Sony Centre for the Performing Arts"&gt;O'Keefe Centre&lt;/a&gt; in Toronto.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Soundstage_13-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-Soundstage-13"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; But after its initial broadcasts, it remained unreleased except in bootleg form until the release of &lt;i&gt;The Doors Soundstage Performances&lt;/i&gt; DVD in 2002.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Soundstage_13-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-Soundstage-13"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  As "Light My Fire" climbed the charts in June and early July, The Doors  were on the East Coast as an opening act for Simon and Garfunkel in  Forest Hills, Queens and as headliners in a Greenwich, Connecticut,  high-school auditorium. It was at this time in Connecticut that the  Doors first met Ross M. Brown.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On September 17, 1967, The Doors gave a memorable performance of "Light My Fire" on &lt;i&gt;The Ed Sullivan Show&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ed_Sullivan_12-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-Ed_Sullivan-12"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  According to Ray Manzarek, network executives asked that the word  "higher" be removed in favor of "better." The group initially agreed to  this, but nonetheless performed the song in its original form, either  because they had never intended to comply with the request, or Jim  Morrison was nervous and forgot to make the change (Manzarek has given  conflicting accounts). Either way, "higher" was sung out on national TV,  and a furious &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Sullivan" title="Ed Sullivan"&gt;Ed Sullivan&lt;/a&gt; canceled another six shows that had been planned, to which Jim Morrison reportedly said to a show producer: "Hey man. We just &lt;i&gt;did&lt;/i&gt; the Sullivan Show."&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ed_Sullivan_12-2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-Ed_Sullivan-12"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On December 24, The Doors performed "Light My Fire" and "Moonlight Drive" live for &lt;i&gt;The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Winters" title="Jonathan Winters"&gt;Jonathan Winters&lt;/a&gt; Show&lt;/i&gt;, their performance was taped for later broadcast. From December 26 to December 28, the group played at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterland_Ballroom" title="Winterland Ballroom"&gt;Winterland Ballroom&lt;/a&gt; in San Francisco. An excerpt taken from Stephen Davis' book on Jim Morrison (p.&amp;nbsp;219–220):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The next night at Winterland, a TV set was wheeled onstage during The Doors set so the band could see themselves on &lt;i&gt;The Jonathan Winters Show&lt;/i&gt;.  They stopped playing "Back Door Man" when their song came on. The  audience watched the Doors watching themselves on TV. They finished the  song when their bit was done, and Ray walked over and turned the TV off.  The next night was their last ever in Winterland.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;They played two more dates in Denver on December 30 and December 31, 1967, capping off a year of almost constant touring.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Strange_Days"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Strange Days&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors spent several weeks in Los' Angeles' Sunset Studios recording their second album, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_%28album%29" title="Strange Days (album)"&gt;Strange Days&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, experimenting with the new technology they now had available. The commercial success of &lt;i&gt;Strange Days&lt;/i&gt; was middling, peaking at number three on the &lt;i&gt;Billboard&lt;/i&gt; album chart but quickly dropping, along with a series of underperforming singles.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Brodsky_10-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-Brodsky-10"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The chorus from the album's single "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Are_Strange" title="People Are Strange"&gt;People Are Strange&lt;/a&gt;" inspired the name of the 2010 documentary of The Doors, &lt;i&gt;When You're Strange&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Strange Days&lt;/i&gt; was the first Doors album recorded with a studio musician on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar" title="Bass guitar"&gt;bass&lt;/a&gt;, and this continued on all subsequent studio albums.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998258_14-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998258-14"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Manzarek explained that his keyboard bass was well-suited for live  situations but that it lacked the "articulation" needed for studio  recording.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998258_14-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998258-14"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglass_Lubahn" title="Douglass Lubahn"&gt;Douglass Lubahn&lt;/a&gt; played on &lt;i&gt;Strange Days&lt;/i&gt;  and the next two albums; but the band utilized several other musicians  for this role, often using more than one bassist on the same album.  Kerry Magness, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Vinnegar" title="Leroy Vinnegar"&gt;Leroy Vinnegar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Brooks" title="Harvey Brooks"&gt;Harvey Brooks&lt;/a&gt;, Ray Neopolitan, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Mack" title="Lonnie Mack"&gt;Lonnie Mack&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Scheff" title="Jerry Scheff"&gt;Jerry Scheff&lt;/a&gt; are credited as bassists who worked with the band.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-15"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;16&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-16"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;17&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-17"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;18&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-18"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;19&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-19"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;20&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="New_Haven_incident"&gt;New Haven incident&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 162px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MorrisonJim.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="107" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b6/MorrisonJim.jpg/160px-MorrisonJim.jpg" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MorrisonJim.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Morrison's mugshot in New Haven&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On December 9, 1967, The Doors performed a now infamous concert at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven_Arena" title="New Haven Arena"&gt;New Haven Arena&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut"&gt;New Haven, Connecticut&lt;/a&gt;, which ended abruptly when Morrison was arrested by local police.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-20"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Morrison became the first rock artist ever to be arrested onstage during a concert performance.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky199120_21-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky199120-21"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDavis2005216_22-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavis2005216-22"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Morrison had been "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_out" title="Making out"&gt;making out&lt;/a&gt;"  with a fan backstage in a bathroom shower stall prior to the start of  the concert when a police officer happened upon them. Unaware that he  was the lead singer of the band about to perform, the officer told  Morrison and the girl to leave, to which Morrison said, "Eat it." The  policeman took out a can of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_%28spray%29" title="Mace (spray)"&gt;mace&lt;/a&gt; and warned Morrison, "Last chance.", to which Morrison replied, "Last chance to eat it."&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980160_23-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980160-23"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991202_24-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991202-24"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; There is some discrepancy as to what happened next: according to &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Here_Gets_Out_Alive" title="No One Here Gets Out Alive"&gt;No One Here Gets Out Alive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,  the girl ran and Morrison was maced; but Manzarek recounts in his book  that both Jim and the fan were sprayed and that the concert was delayed  for an hour while Jim recovered.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980160_23-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980160-23"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998272_25-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998272-25"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-26"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Halfway through the first set, Morrison proceeded to go on an  obscenity-laced tirade to the audience, explaining what had happened  backstage and belittling New Haven police. Then Morrison was arrested  and dragged offstage, resulting in a riot which spilled from the gates  of the New Haven Arena into the streets. Morrison was taken to a local  police station, photographed and booked on charges of inciting a riot,  indecency and public obscenity. Charges against Morrison, as well as  those against three journalists also arrested in the incident (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Zwerin" title="Mike Zwerin"&gt;Mike Zwerin&lt;/a&gt;, Yvonne Chabrier and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Page_%28photographer%29" title="Tim Page (photographer)"&gt;Tim Page&lt;/a&gt;), were dropped several weeks later due to lack of evidence.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDavis2005216_22-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavis2005216-22"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998272_25-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998272-25"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Waiting_for_the_Sun"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Waiting for the Sun&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Recording of the group's third album in April 1968 was marred by tension as a result of Morrison's increasing dependence on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage" title="Alcoholic beverage"&gt;alcohol&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_abuse" title="Substance abuse"&gt;drugs&lt;/a&gt;, and the rejection of his new epic, "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration_of_the_Lizard" title="Celebration of the Lizard"&gt;Celebration of the Lizard&lt;/a&gt;",  by band producer Paul Rothchild, who deemed the work not commercial  enough. Approaching the height of their popularity, The Doors played a  series of outdoor shows that led to frenzied scenes between fans and  police, particularly at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Coliseum" title="Chicago Coliseum"&gt;Chicago Coliseum&lt;/a&gt; on May 10.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tleft"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 202px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Morrison_in_1968.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="220" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Jim_Morrison_in_1968.jpg/200px-Jim_Morrison_in_1968.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Morrison_in_1968.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Jim Morrison&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The band began to branch out from their initial form for this third  LP. Because they had exhausted their original repertoire, they began  writing new material. &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_the_Sun" title="Waiting for the Sun"&gt;Waiting for the Sun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; became their first #1 LP, and the single "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_I_Love_You" title="Hello, I Love You"&gt;Hello, I Love You&lt;/a&gt;"  was their second and last US #1 single. With the 1968 release of  "Hello, I Love You", the rock press pointed out the song's resemblance  to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kinks" title="The Kinks"&gt;The Kinks&lt;/a&gt;' 1964 hit, "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Day_and_All_of_the_Night" title="All Day and All of the Night"&gt;All Day and All of the Night&lt;/a&gt;". Kinks guitarist &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Davies" title="Dave Davies"&gt;Dave Davies&lt;/a&gt; was particularly irritated by the similarity.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-27"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  In concert, Morrison was occasionally dismissive of the song, leaving  the vocal chores to Manzarek, as can be seen in the documentary &lt;i&gt;The Doors are Open&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hellomanzarek_28-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-hellomanzarek-28"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A month after riotous scenes took place at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Bowl" title="Singer Bowl"&gt;Singer Bowl&lt;/a&gt; in New York, the group flew to Britain for their first venue outside of North America. They held a press conference at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Contemporary_Arts" title="Institute of Contemporary Arts"&gt;ICA Gallery&lt;/a&gt; in London and played shows at &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roundhouse" title="The Roundhouse"&gt;The Roundhouse&lt;/a&gt; Theatre. The results of the trip were broadcast on Granada TV's &lt;i&gt;The Doors Are Open,&lt;/i&gt; later released on video. They played dates in Europe, along with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Airplane" title="Jefferson Airplane"&gt;Jefferson Airplane&lt;/a&gt;, including a show in Amsterdam where Morrison collapsed on stage after a drug binge.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The group flew back to the US and played nine more US dates before  returning to work in November on their fourth LP. They ended the year  with a successful new single, "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_Me_%28The_Doors_song%29" title="Touch Me (The Doors song)"&gt;Touch Me&lt;/a&gt;", (released in December 1968), which hit US #3. They started 1969 with a sold-out show on January 24 at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden"&gt;Madison Square Garden&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="1969.E2.80.9371"&gt;1969–71&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="The_Soft_Parade"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Soft Parade&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors' fourth album, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soft_Parade" title="The Soft Parade"&gt;The Soft Parade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, released in July 1969, contained pop-oriented arrangements and horn sections. The lead single "Touch Me" featured saxophonist &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Amy" title="Curtis Amy"&gt;Curtis Amy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;While the band was trying to maintain their previous momentum,  efforts to expand their sound gave the album an experimental feel,  causing critics to attack their musical integrity. According to John  Densmore in his biography &lt;i&gt;Riders On The Storm&lt;/i&gt; individual writing  credits were noted for the first time because of Morrison's reluctance  to sing the lyrics of Robbie Krieger's song "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_All_the_People" title="Tell All the People"&gt;Tell All the People&lt;/a&gt;".  Morrison's drinking made him difficult and unreliable, and the  recording sessions dragged on for months. Studio costs piled up, and The  Doors came close to disintegrating. Despite all this, the album was  immensely successful, becoming the band's fourth hit album.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Miami_incident"&gt;Miami incident&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On March 1, 1969, at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_Key" title="Dinner Key"&gt;Dinner Key Auditorium&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_Grove" title="Coconut Grove"&gt;Coconut Grove&lt;/a&gt; neighborhood of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami" title="Miami"&gt;Miami&lt;/a&gt;, The Doors gave the most controversial performance of their career, one that nearly "derailed the band".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic.com_0-2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-allmusic.com-0"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Morrison had recently attended a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_%28theatre%29" title="Play (theatre)"&gt;play&lt;/a&gt; by an experimental theater group, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Theatre" title="The Living Theatre"&gt;The Living Theatre&lt;/a&gt;, and was inspired by their "antagonistic" style of performance art.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998310_29-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998310-29"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  The auditorium was a converted seaplane hangar that had no air  conditioning on that hot night, and the seats had been removed by the  promoter in order to boost ticket sales.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980227_30-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980227-30"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991293_31-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991293-31"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Morrison had been drinking all day and had missed connecting flights to  Miami, and by the time he eventually arrived the concert was over an  hour late in starting, and he was, according to Manzarek, "overly  fortified with alcohol".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980227_30-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980227-30"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998312_32-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998312-32"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  The restless crowd of 12,000, packed into a facility designed to hold  7,000, was subjected to Morrison's lack of interest in singing shortly  into "Break On Through".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991292.E2.80.93293.2C_295_33-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991292.E2.80.93293.2C_295-33"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Morrison taunted the crowd with messages of both love and hate, saying,  "Love me. I can't take it no more without no good love. I want some  lovin'. Ain't nobody gonna love my ass?" and alternately, "You're all a  bunch of fuckin' idiots!" and screaming "What are you gonna do about  it?" over and over again.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991295_34-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991295-34"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980230_35-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980230-35"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998312_32-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998312-32"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  At one point, Morrison removed and threw the hat of a police officer  who was onstage into the crowd and the officer removed Jim's hat and  threw it.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991296_36-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991296-36"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Manager Bill Siddons recalled, "The gig was a bizarre, circus-like  thing, there was this guy carrying a sheep and the wildest people that  I'd ever seen".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991297_37-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991297-37"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Equipment chief Vince Treanor said, "Somebody jumped up and poured  champagne on Jim so he took his shirt off, he was soaking wet. 'Let's  see a little skin, let's get naked,' he said, and the audience started  taking their clothes off."&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991297_37-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991297-37"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Having removed his shirt, Morrison held it in front of his groin area and started to make hand movements behind it.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mojo_38-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-mojo-38"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Manzarek later described the incident as a mass "religious hallucination".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mojo_38-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-mojo-38"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On March 5, the Dade County Sheriff's office issued a warrant for Morrison's arrest claiming Morrison deliberately exposed his &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis" title="Penis"&gt;penis&lt;/a&gt; while on stage, shouted obscenities to the crowd, simulated &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_sex" title="Oral sex"&gt;oral sex&lt;/a&gt;  on guitarist Robby Krieger and was drunk at the time of his  performance. Morrison turned down a plea bargain that required The Doors  to perform a free Miami concert. He was later convicted, sentenced to  six months in jail, with hard labor, and ordered to pay a $500 fine.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-39"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-40"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Morrison remained free pending an appeal of his conviction, and would die before the matter was legally resolved. In 2007 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Florida" title="List of Governors of Florida"&gt;Florida Governor&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Crist" title="Charlie Crist"&gt;Charlie Crist&lt;/a&gt; suggested the possibility of a posthumous &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon" title="Pardon"&gt;pardon&lt;/a&gt; for Morrison, which was announced as successful on December 9, 2010.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-41"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Densmore, Krieger and Manzarek have denied the allegation that Morrison exposed himself on stage that night.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-42"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-42"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998314_43-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManzarek1998314-43"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991299_44-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991299-44"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="More_legal_problems"&gt;More legal problems&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;During the recording of their next album, in November 1969, Morrison  once again found himself in trouble with the law after harassing airline  staff during a flight to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona"&gt;Phoenix, Arizona&lt;/a&gt; to see &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones"&gt;The Rolling Stones&lt;/a&gt; in concert. Both Morrison and his friend and traveling companion &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Baker_%28American_actor%29" title="Tom Baker (American actor)"&gt;Tom Baker&lt;/a&gt; were charged with "interfering with the flight of an intercontinental aircraft and public drunkenness".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991347_45-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTERiordanProchnicky1991347-45"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  If convicted of the most serious charge, Morrison could have faced a  possible ten-year federal prison sentence for the incident.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980284_1-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980284-1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  The charges were dropped in April 1970 after an airline stewardess  reversed her testimony to say she mistakenly identified Morrison as  Baker.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980290_46-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980290-46"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Aquarius_Theatre_performances"&gt;Aquarius Theatre performances&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors gave two concerts at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Carroll_Theatre" title="Earl Carroll Theatre"&gt;Aquarius Theatre&lt;/a&gt; on Sunset Blvd, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood" title="Hollywood"&gt;Hollywood&lt;/a&gt;.  The two shows were performed on July 21, 1969. A "backstage"  performance, a so-called "private rehearsal" without an audience  occurred on July 22, 1969. This was only a few months after the "Miami  incident" in March of that year. Of the songs performed with an  audience, "Universal Mind" and the "Celebration of the Lizard" suite  were released on The Doors' 1970 &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutely_Live_%28The_Doors_album%29" title="Absolutely Live (The Doors album)"&gt;Absolutely Live&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; album, whereas "You Make Me Real" was released on &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive,_She_Cried" title="Alive, She Cried"&gt;Alive, She Cried&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; in 1983. Further, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Morrison" title="Van Morrison"&gt;Van Morrison&lt;/a&gt; track, "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_%28Them_song%29" title="Gloria (Them song)"&gt;Gloria&lt;/a&gt;", which was performed and recorded during the audience-less rehearsal, was also released on &lt;i&gt;Alive, She Cried&lt;/i&gt;.  Both the first and second shows along with the rehearsal the following  day were released in 2001. It was at these shows that Morrison issued  his poem, "Ode to L.A." while thinking of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jones" title="Brian Jones"&gt;Brian Jones&lt;/a&gt;, the recently deceased former &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones"&gt;Rolling Stones&lt;/a&gt; guitarist.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Morrison_Hotel_and_Absolutely_Live"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Morrison Hotel&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Absolutely Live&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tleft"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 202px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Densmore_in_1968.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="188" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/John_Densmore_in_1968.jpg/200px-John_Densmore_in_1968.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Densmore_in_1968.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; John Densmore&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors staged a return to form with their 1970 LP &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Hotel" title="Morrison Hotel"&gt;Morrison Hotel&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/i&gt; their fifth album. Featuring a consistent, hard rock sound, the album's opener was "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadhouse_Blues" title="Roadhouse Blues"&gt;Roadhouse Blues&lt;/a&gt;". The record reached US #4 and revived their status among their core fanbase and the rock press. Dave Marsh, the editor of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creem" title="Creem"&gt;Creem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  magazine, said of the album: "the most horrifying rock and roll I have  ever heard. When they're good, they're simply unbeatable. I know this is  the best record I've listened to ... so far".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980284_1-2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980284-1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;i&gt;Rock Magazine&lt;/i&gt; called it "without any doubt their ballsiest (and best) album to date".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980284_1-3"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980284-1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_%28magazine%29" title="Circus (magazine)"&gt;Circus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  magazine praised it as "possibly the best album yet from the Doors" and  "Good hard, evil rock, and one of the best albums released this  decade".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980284_1-4"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHopkinsSugerman1980284-1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  The album also saw Jim Morrison returning as main songwriter, writing  or co-writing all of the album's tracks. The 40th Anniversary CD reissue  of &lt;i&gt;Morrison Hotel&lt;/i&gt; contains outtakes and alternate takes, including different versions of "The Spy" and "Roadhouse Blues" (with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Mack" title="Lonnie Mack"&gt;Lonnie Mack&lt;/a&gt; on bass guitar and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovin%27_Spoonful" title="The Lovin' Spoonful"&gt;The Lovin' Spoonful&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sebastian" title="John Sebastian"&gt;John Sebastian&lt;/a&gt; on harmonica).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;July 1970 saw the release of The Doors' first live album, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutely_Live_%28The_Doors_album%29" title="Absolutely Live (The Doors album)"&gt;Absolutely Live&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The band continued to perform at arenas throughout the summer.  Morrison faced trial in Miami in August, but the group made it to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight_Festival_1970" title="Isle of Wight Festival 1970"&gt;Isle of Wight Festival&lt;/a&gt; on August 29. They performed alongside artists such as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix" title="Jimi Hendrix"&gt;Jimi Hendrix&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who"&gt;The Who&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell" title="Joni Mitchell"&gt;Joni Mitchell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen" title="Leonard Cohen"&gt;Leonard Cohen&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis"&gt;Miles Davis&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_and_the_Family_Stone" title="Sly and the Family Stone"&gt;Sly and the Family Stone&lt;/a&gt;. Two songs from the show were featured in the 1995 documentary &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_to_Love" title="Message to Love"&gt;Message to Love&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 152px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Morrison_mug_shot.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="102" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Jim_Morrison_mug_shot.jpg/150px-Jim_Morrison_mug_shot.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Morrison_mug_shot.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Jim Morrison on the day of his conviction in Miami for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation" title="Defamation"&gt;profanity&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecent_exposure" title="Indecent exposure"&gt;indecent exposure&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Last_public_performance"&gt;Last public performance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On December 8, 1970, his 27th birthday, Morrison recorded another poetry session. Part of this would end up on &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Prayer" title="An American Prayer"&gt;An American Prayer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; in 1978 with music, and is currently in the possession of the Courson family. The Doors' tour to promote their upcoming album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Woman" title="L.A. Woman"&gt;L.A. Woman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  would comprise only two dates. The first was held in Dallas, Texas on  December 11. During the Doors' last public performance with Morrison, at  The Warehouse in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans"&gt;New Orleans&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana"&gt;Louisiana&lt;/a&gt;,  on December 12, 1970, Morrison apparently had a breakdown on stage.  Midway through the set he slammed the microphone numerous times into the  stage floor until the platform beneath was destroyed, then sat down and  refused to perform for the remainder of the show. Drummer John Densmore  recalls the incident in his biography &lt;i&gt;Riders On the Storm&lt;/i&gt;, where  after the show he met with Ray and Robbie; they decided to end their  live act, citing their mutual agreement that Morrison was ready to  retire from performing.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline" id="L.A._Woman"&gt;&lt;i&gt;L.A. Woman&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors set to reclaim their status as a premier act with &lt;i&gt;L.A. Woman&lt;/i&gt; in 1971. The session included guitar work by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Benno" title="Marc Benno"&gt;Marc Benno&lt;/a&gt;, and bass by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Scheff" title="Jerry Scheff"&gt;Jerry Scheff&lt;/a&gt;.  The album contained two Top 20 hits and went on to be their second  best-selling studio album, surpassed in sales only by their debut. The  album explored their R&amp;amp;B roots, although during rehearsals they had a  falling-out with Rothchild. Denouncing "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_on_the_Storm" title="Riders on the Storm"&gt;Riders on the Storm&lt;/a&gt;" as 'cocktail jazz', he quit and handed the production to Botnick. The singles "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Woman_%28song%29" title="L.A. Woman (song)"&gt;L.A. Woman&lt;/a&gt;", "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Her_Madly" title="Love Her Madly"&gt;Love Her Madly&lt;/a&gt;",  and "Riders On The Storm" remain mainstays of rock radio programming,  and the latter, as of November 25, 2009, was inducted into the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Hall_of_Fame_Award" title="Grammy Hall of Fame Award"&gt;Grammy Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt;  for its special significance to recorded music. In the song "L.A.  Woman" Jim Morrison scrambles the letters of his own name to chant "Mr.  Mojo Risin". During the sessions, a short clip of the band performing  "Crawling King Snake" was filmed. So far as known, this is the last clip  of the Doors performing with Morrison. On March 13, 1971, following the  recording of &lt;i&gt;L.A. Woman,&lt;/i&gt; Morrison took a leave of absence from the Doors and moved to Paris with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Courson" title="Pamela Courson"&gt;Pamela Courson&lt;/a&gt;. He had visited the city the previous summer and was interested in moving there to become a writer in exile.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;While in Paris, he was again drinking heavily and using other drugs.  On June 16, the last known recording of Morrison was made when he  befriended two street musicians at a bar and invited them to a studio.  This recording was finally released in 1994 on a bootleg CD entitled &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Paris_Tapes" title="The Lost Paris Tapes"&gt;The Lost Paris Tapes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Morrison.27s_death"&gt;Morrison's death&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 172px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grave_of_Jim_Morrison.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="128" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Grave_of_Jim_Morrison.JPG/170px-Grave_of_Jim_Morrison.JPG" width="170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grave_of_Jim_Morrison.JPG" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Jim Morrison's grave at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise_Cemetery" title="Père Lachaise Cemetery"&gt;Père Lachaise Cemetery&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris"&gt;Paris&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Morrison died on July 3, 1971. In the official account of his death,  he was found in a Paris apartment bathtub by Courson. Pursuant to French  law, no &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopsy" title="Autopsy"&gt;autopsy&lt;/a&gt; was performed because the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_examiner" title="Medical examiner"&gt;medical examiner&lt;/a&gt; claimed to have found no evidence of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime" title="Crime"&gt;foul play&lt;/a&gt;.  The absence of an official autopsy and the death certificate not having  a reason of death besides heart failure has left many questions  regarding Morrison's cause of death. Morrison was buried in the "Poets  Corner" of &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise" title="Père Lachaise"&gt;Père Lachaise&lt;/a&gt;  Cemetery on July 7. The epitaph on his headstone bears the Greek  inscription "ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΔΑΙΜΟΝΑ ΕΑΥΤΟΥ", literally meaning "According to  his own daimōn" and usually interpreted as "True to his own spirit".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDavis2005472_47-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavis2005472-47"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOlsen2007105_48-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOlsen2007105-48"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Morrison died at age 27, the same age as several other famous rock stars in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club" title="27 Club"&gt;27 Club&lt;/a&gt;. Morrison's girlfriend, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Courson" title="Pamela Courson"&gt;Pamela Courson&lt;/a&gt;, also died at the age of 27.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="1971.E2.80.9373"&gt;1971–73&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Other_Voices"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Other Voices&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The surviving Doors continued for some time, initially considering  replacing Morrison with a new singer. Instead, Krieger and Manzarek took  over on vocals and The Doors released two more albums before  disbanding. The recording of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Voices_%28The_Doors_album%29" title="Other Voices (The Doors album)"&gt;Other Voices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  took place from July to August 1971, and the album was released in  October 1971. The LP featured the single "Tightrope Ride", which  received some airplay.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Full_Circle"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Full Circle&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The recordings for &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Circle_%28The_Doors_album%29" title="Full Circle (The Doors album)"&gt;Full Circle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  took place during the spring of 1972, and the album was released in  August 1972. The Doors went on tour after the releases in support of the  albums. The last album expanded into &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz"&gt;jazz&lt;/a&gt;  territory. For the tours during this period, The Doors enlisted Jack  Conrad on bass and Bobby Ray Henson on rhythm guitar. While neither  album has been reissued on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc" title="Compact Disc"&gt;CD&lt;/a&gt; in the United States, they have been released on 2-on-1 CDs in Germany and Russia.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Break-up"&gt;Break-up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The group disbanded in 1973 and Krieger and Densmore would go on to form &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butts_Band" title="The Butts Band"&gt;The Butts Band&lt;/a&gt; from 1973-1975. Krieger, Manzarek and Densmore reunited in 1978 for &lt;i&gt;An American Prayer&lt;/i&gt;,  1993 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 1997 in the studio to complete  the Morrison penned "Orange County Suite" and 2000 for VH1's  Storytellers: A Celebration and on the tribute album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_Immaculate:_The_Music_of_the_Doors" title="Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors"&gt;Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, which featured band members playing along side guest performers as well as recording new music.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Reunions"&gt;Reunions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="1978.C2.A0.E2.80.93_An_American_Prayer"&gt;1978&amp;nbsp;– &lt;i&gt;An American Prayer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The third post-Morrison album, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Prayer" title="An American Prayer"&gt;An American Prayer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,  was released in 1978. It consisted of the band adding musical tracks to  spoken-word recordings of Morrison reciting his poetry. The record was a  commercial success, acquiring a platinum certificate.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-49"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-49"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;i&gt;An American Prayer&lt;/i&gt; was re-mastered and re-released with bonus tracks in 1995.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic6_50-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-allmusic6-50"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="1993.C2.A0.E2.80.93_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame"&gt;1993&amp;nbsp;– Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1993, The Doors were inducted into the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"&gt;Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt;.  For the ceremony Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore reunited once again to  perform "Roadhouse Blues", "Break On Through" and "Light My Fire". &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Vedder" title="Eddie Vedder"&gt;Eddie Vedder&lt;/a&gt; filled in on lead vocals, while &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Was" title="Don Was"&gt;Don Was&lt;/a&gt; played bass.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="1997.C2.A0.E2.80.93_.22Orange_County_Suite.22"&gt;1997&amp;nbsp;– "Orange County Suite"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;For the 1997 boxed set, the surviving members of The Doors once again  reunited to complete "Orange County Suite". The track was one that  Morrison had written and recorded, providing vocals and piano.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="2000.C2.A0.E2.80.93_VH1.27s_Storytellers_and_Stoned_Immaculate"&gt;2000&amp;nbsp;– &lt;i&gt;VH1's Storytellers&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Stoned Immaculate&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors reunited in 2000 to perform on &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1%27s_Storytellers" title="VH1's Storytellers"&gt;VH1's Storytellers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. For this last live performance, the band was joined by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Barbera" title="Angelo Barbera"&gt;Angelo Barbera&lt;/a&gt; on bass and numerous guest vocalists. Guest vocalists included &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Astbury" title="Ian Astbury"&gt;Ian Astbury&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Weiland" title="Scott Weiland"&gt;Scott Weiland&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Stapp" title="Scott Stapp"&gt;Scott Stapp&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Farrell" title="Perry Farrell"&gt;Perry Farrell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Monahan" title="Pat Monahan"&gt;Pat Monahan&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Meeks" title="Travis Meeks"&gt;Travis Meeks&lt;/a&gt;. Following the recording the &lt;i&gt;Storytellers: A Celebration&lt;/i&gt;, the band members joined solo and together to record on the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_Immaculate:_The_Music_of_The_Doors" title="Stoned Immaculate: The Music of The Doors"&gt;Stoned Immaculate: The Music of The Doors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. These sessions also yielded new songs credited to The Doors; "Under Waterfall" and "The Cosmic Movie."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Doors&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=28" title="Edit section: 2011 – Re:Generation"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline" id="2011.C2.A0.E2.80.93_Re:Generation"&gt;2011&amp;nbsp;– &lt;i&gt;Re:Generation&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;According to a &lt;i&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/i&gt; article dated October 6, 2011; "I like to say this is the first new Doors track of the 21st century," Ray Manzarek tells &lt;i&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/i&gt; of a new song he's recorded with Robby Krieger and John Densmore, as well as popular DJ/producer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skrillex" title="Skrillex"&gt;Skrillex&lt;/a&gt; (Sonny Moore). The recording session and song are part of a new documentary film, &lt;i&gt;RE:GENERATION&lt;/i&gt;,  that recruited five popular DJs/producers to work with artists from  five separate genres and had them record new music. A glimpse of the  results are featured in the world premiere of the trailer. Manzarek and  Skrillex had an immediate musical connection. "[Sonny] plays his beat,  all he had to do was play the one thing. I listened to it and I said,  ‘Holy shit, that’s strong,’" Manzarek says. "Basically, it’s a variation  on ‘"&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milestones_%28composition%29" title="Milestones (composition)"&gt;Milestones&lt;/a&gt;",’ by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis"&gt;Miles Davis&lt;/a&gt;, and if I do say so myself, sounds fucking great, hot as hell."&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-51"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-51"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="After_The_Doors"&gt;After The Doors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="The_Butts_Band_.281973.E2.80.931975.29"&gt;The Butts Band (1973–1975)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Main article: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butts_Band" title="The Butts Band"&gt;The Butts Band&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Krieger and Densmore formed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butts_Band" title="The Butts Band"&gt;The Butts Band&lt;/a&gt;  in 1973, but disbanded in 1975 after two albums. Phil Chen who played  bass on the band's second album, would later join Robby once again with  Manzarek-Krieger.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Solo_work_.281974.E2.80.93present.29"&gt;Solo work (1974–present)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Manzarek made three solo albums from 1974–83 and formed a band called &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nite_City" title="Nite City"&gt;Nite City&lt;/a&gt;  in 1975, which released two albums from 1977-78. Krieger released six  solo albums from 1977-2010. All of the ex-Doors solo albums have met  with mixed reviews. In recent years Densmore formed a jazz band called  Tribaljazz and they released a self titled album in 2006.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Manzarek.E2.80.93Krieger_.282002.E2.80.93present.29"&gt;Manzarek–Krieger (2002–present)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Main article: &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzarek-Krieger" title="Manzarek-Krieger"&gt;Manzarek-Krieger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 2002 Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger formed a new version of The Doors which they called &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors of the 21st Century.  After legal battles over use of The Doors name with drummer John  Densmore, they changed their name several times and now tour under the  name &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Manzarek-Krieger or &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of The Doors.  The group is dedicated to performing the music of The Doors and Jim  Morrison. John Densmore refuses to participate because of Morrison's  absence, although Manzarek and Krieger have always invited him.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="New_releases"&gt;New releases&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1997, the first archive material was included on the release of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors:_Box_Set" title="The Doors: Box Set"&gt;The Doors: Box Set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,  a four-CD set, one of which was a "greatest hits" type CD. Some of the  material had been previously available on bootlegs. A notable inclusion  on the compilation was a CD of highlights from the 1970 Felt Forum  concert and a cleaned-up recording of the (edited) 1969 "Rock Is Dead"  session. The surviving members again re-united to add new musical  backing to the solo Morrison song "Orange County Suite".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The 1999 &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Studio_Recordings_%28The_Doors_album%29" title="The Complete Studio Recordings (The Doors album)"&gt;Complete Studio Recordings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; box set only included the first six studio albums (omitting &lt;i&gt;An American Prayer&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Other Voices&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Full Circle&lt;/i&gt;), and the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_%28The_Doors_album%29" title="Perception (The Doors album)"&gt;Perception&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  box set, released on November 21, 2006, continued the same trend  omitting the three post-Morrison studio albums. The 2006 box set  contained about two hours of mostly unheard studio outtakes from the  first six albums. Each album was represented by two discs: a CD of the  album and the bonus tracks, and a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio" title="DVD-Audio"&gt;DVD-Audio&lt;/a&gt; with both stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes (produced and mixed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Botnick" title="Bruce Botnick"&gt;Bruce Botnick&lt;/a&gt;) in 96&amp;nbsp;kHz/24-bit &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_pulse_code_modulation" title="Linear pulse code modulation"&gt;LPCM&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital" title="Dolby Digital"&gt;Dolby Digital&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS_%28sound_system%29" title="DTS (sound system)"&gt;DTS&lt;/a&gt;,  as well as mostly previously released video footage. The discs were  accompanied by new liner notes by Botnick and articles from several  music critics and historians for each album.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Following the recording of &lt;i&gt;Storytellers: A Celebration&lt;/i&gt;, the band members joined solo and together to record for &lt;i&gt;Stoned Immaculate: The Music of The Doors&lt;/i&gt;. These sessions also yielded new songs credited to The Doors; "Under Waterfall" and "The Cosmic Movie."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In November 2000, The Doors announced the creation of Bright Midnight  Records, a label through which 36 albums and 90 hours of previously  unreleased Morrison-era Doors material would be made available on CD.  This was launched with a sampler of forthcoming material, mostly from  live concerts. The first full release was a two-CD set of the May 1970  show at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit"&gt;Detroit&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobo_Center" title="Cobo Center"&gt;Cobo Center&lt;/a&gt;, notable for being, according to Doors manager &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Sugerman" title="Danny Sugerman"&gt;Danny Sugerman&lt;/a&gt;  in its liner notes, "easily... the longest Doors set ever performed."  It was followed by two CDs of interviews, mostly with Morrison, and the  two 1969 Aquarius shows and one of the rehearsals. A four-CD set &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Yer_Butt:_The_Doors_Bootlegs" title="Boot Yer Butt: The Doors Bootlegs"&gt;Boot Yer Butt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; included bootleg quality material but sold out nevertheless.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-52"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-52"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; It was notable for the inclusion of the only known performances of songs from &lt;i&gt;L.A. Woman&lt;/i&gt; including the title track and "The Changeling" from The Doors' final recorded show in December 1970, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas"&gt;Dallas&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" title="Texas"&gt;Texas&lt;/a&gt;. In 2005, a two-CD concert from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia"&gt;Philadelphia&lt;/a&gt; in 1970 was released.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Many bootleg recordings are available of the group. Among them are a wealth of shows from March 1967 at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_%28club%29" title="The Matrix (club)"&gt;Matrix Club&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco"&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt;. Many shows are available from 1968 when the band reached the height of its popularity, notably two shows in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm"&gt;Stockholm&lt;/a&gt;, Sweden. The infamous Miami show has become widely available while many 1970 shows, notably a radio broadcast of the June 5 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle"&gt;Seattle&lt;/a&gt; and June 6 Vancouver show, make the rounds. The complete 1969 &lt;i&gt;Rock Is Dead&lt;/i&gt; studio jam was discovered in the mid 1990s. In &lt;i&gt;Rock is Dead&lt;/i&gt;  and in interviews Morrison makes it clear that the music is a continued  exploration of the Dionysian mythic content that had informed his  earlier poetry. The apocalyptic elements in the music and the poetry  were ahead of the music of the day; later groups like Nirvana are  influenced by The Doors. We also have to consider the possible influence  of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Courson" title="Pamela Courson"&gt;Pamela Courson&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In July 2007, Rhino announced the release of The Doors – &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_Boston_%28Doors_album%29" title="Live in Boston (Doors album)"&gt;Live In Boston&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-53"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-53"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; a three-disc &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_album" title="Live album"&gt;live album&lt;/a&gt;  by The Doors. It was recorded on April 10, 1970, as part of the  Absolutely Live tour. This is part of previously unreleased material of  the Bright Midnight Archives collection of live albums by The Doors.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In March 2008, Rhino announced the release of The Doors – &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Civic_Arena_%28The_Doors_album%29" title="Pittsburgh Civic Arena (The Doors album)"&gt;Pittsburgh Civic Arena&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-54"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-54"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_album" title="Live album"&gt;live album&lt;/a&gt; by The Doors released in 2008. The concert was recorded in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh"&gt;Pittsburgh&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Civic_Arena" title="Pittsburgh Civic Arena"&gt;Pittsburgh Civic Arena&lt;/a&gt;  on May 2, 1970. This is part of previously unreleased material of the  Bright Midnight Archives collection of live albums by The Doors.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In November 2008, Rhino announced the release of The Doors – &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_the_Matrix_1967" title="Live at the Matrix 1967"&gt;Live at the Matrix 1967&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, a double &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_album" title="Live album"&gt;live album&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-55"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-55"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; compiled and resequenced from recordings made on March 7 and 10, 1967 at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_%28club%29" title="The Matrix (club)"&gt;The Matrix&lt;/a&gt; in San Francisco by club co-owner Peter Abram.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sfgate1_56-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-sfgate1-56"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  The recording is notable because it is one of the earliest live  recordings of the band known to exist: The Doors had recorded only &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_%28album%29" title="The Doors (album)"&gt;one album&lt;/a&gt; by March 1967, "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_My_Fire" title="Light My Fire"&gt;Light My Fire&lt;/a&gt;" had yet to be released as a single,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rhinoPR_57-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-rhinoPR-57"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and they were still relatively unknown outside Southern California.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In November 2009, Rhino announced the release of The Doors – &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_New_York_%28The_Doors_album%29" title="Live in New York (The Doors album)"&gt;Live in New York&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-58"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-58"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; a six-disc &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_set" title="Box set"&gt;box set&lt;/a&gt; of the final four concerts performed by The Doors on January 17 and 18, 1970 at the &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felt_Forum" title="Felt Forum"&gt;Felt Forum&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City"&gt;New York City&lt;/a&gt;. About a third of the material on the set was previously unreleased.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In April 2010, Rhino announced the release of The Doors – &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You%27re_Strange:_Music_From_The_Motion_Picture" title="When You're Strange: Music From The Motion Picture"&gt;When You're Strange: Music From The Motion Picture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-59"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-59"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; a single disc of the soundtrack to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You%27re_Strange" title="When You're Strange"&gt;the 2010 documentary film&lt;/a&gt;, narrated by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Depp" title="Johnny Depp"&gt;Johnny Depp&lt;/a&gt;,  about The Doors and their music. The soundtrack features 14 songs from  The Doors’ six studio albums, with studio versions mixed with live  versions, including performances from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show" title="The Ed Sullivan Show"&gt;The Ed Sullivan Show&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR_Byen" title="DR Byen"&gt;Television-Byen&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladsaxe" title="Gladsaxe"&gt;Gladsaxe&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felt_Forum#Other_venues" title="Felt Forum"&gt;Felt Forum&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City"&gt;New York&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight_Festival_1970" title="Isle of Wight Festival 1970"&gt;The Isle of Wight Festival&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In November 2010, Rhino announced the release of The Doors – &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_Vancouver_1970" title="Live in Vancouver 1970"&gt;Live in Vancouver 1970&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-60"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-60"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; a two-disc live album. It was recorded on June 6, 1970 in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver" title="Vancouver"&gt;Vancouver&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" title="Canada"&gt;Canada&lt;/a&gt;. Vince Treanor, The Doors’ tour manager, recorded the show for the band on a Sony &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel-to-reel" title="Reel-to-reel"&gt;reel-to-reel&lt;/a&gt;  using two microphones placed on the stage. While not a multitrack high  fidelity recording, it is clean, quiet and clear, allowing the unbridled  energy of the performances to shine through. This is part of previously  unreleased material of the Bright Midnight Archives collection of live  albums by The Doors.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You%27re_Strange" title="When You're Strange"&gt;When You're Strange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  was released in April 2010. It is, as Ray Manzarek says, the true story  of The Doors, told through use of new interviews and previously  unreleased video footage. The film is narrated by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Depp" title="Johnny Depp"&gt;Johnny Depp&lt;/a&gt;, and directed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DiCillo" title="Tom DiCillo"&gt;Tom DiCillo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-popcandy_61-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-popcandy-61"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_Entertainment" title="Rhino Entertainment"&gt;Rhino Entertainment&lt;/a&gt; released a soundtrack to the movie in March 2010, containing both live and studio recordings.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-popcandy_61-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-popcandy-61"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In July 2011, Rhino UK announced the release of The Doors – &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Collection_%28The_Doors_album%29" title="A Collection (The Doors album)"&gt;A Collection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-62"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-62"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  a six-CD retrospective box set of the first six albums from The Doors  recorded 1966-1971. It features remastered tracks by Bruce Botnik and  original artwork in replicated paper sleeves.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Awards.2C_accolades.2C_and_critical_appraisal"&gt;Awards, accolades, and critical appraisal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1993, The Doors were inducted into the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"&gt;Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1998, "Light My Fire" was inducted into the &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Hall_of_Fame" title="Grammy Hall of Fame"&gt;Grammy Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt; under the category Rock (track).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 2000, The Doors were ranked number 32 on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1" title="VH1"&gt;VH1&lt;/a&gt;'s 100 Greatest Hard Rock Artists, and "Light My Fire" was ranked number seven on VH1's Greatest Rock Songs.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 2002, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_%28album%29" title="The Doors (album)"&gt;The Doors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame under the category Rock (Album).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 2004, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone"&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; magazine ranked The Doors number 41 on their list of the &lt;a class="external text" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939214/the_immortals_the_first_fifty/" rel="nofollow"&gt;100 Greatest Artists of All Time&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-63"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors#cite_note-63"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 2007, The Doors received a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award" title="Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award"&gt;lifetime achievement award&lt;/a&gt; at the 2007 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award" title="Grammy Award"&gt;Grammy Awards&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 2007, The Doors received a star on the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame" title="Hollywood Walk of Fame"&gt;Hollywood Walk of Fame&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 2009, "Riders On The Storm" was inducted into the &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Hall_of_Fame" title="Grammy Hall of Fame"&gt;Grammy Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt; under the category Rock (track).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_500_Greatest_Albums_of_All_Time" title="The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"&gt;The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;i&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/i&gt; magazine includes three studio albums by The Doors; &lt;i&gt;The Doors&lt;/i&gt; at number 42, &lt;i&gt;L.A. Woman&lt;/i&gt; at number 362 and &lt;i&gt;Strange Days&lt;/i&gt; at number 407.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_500_Greatest_Songs_of_All_Time" title="The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time"&gt;The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;i&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/i&gt; magazine includes two songs by The Doors: "Light My Fire" at number 35 and "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_%28The_Doors_song%29" title="The End (The Doors song)"&gt;The End&lt;/a&gt;" at number 328.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors were ranked number 20 on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Rock and Roll.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;They would become the first American band to accumulate eight consecutive gold and platinum LPs.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Recording Academy announced the 2010 Grammy Hall Of Fame Inductees, including The Doors' &lt;i&gt;Riders On The Storm&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 2011, The Doors received a Grammy Award in Best Long Form Music Video for the film, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You%27re_Strange" title="When You're Strange"&gt;When You're Strange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, directed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DiCillo" title="Tom DiCillo"&gt;Tom DiCillo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Band_members"&gt;Band members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Original members are in &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;bold.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="toccolours" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); margin: 0pt 0pt 1em 1em;"&gt;&lt;caption&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors and related lineups&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/caption&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(231, 235, 238);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rick &amp;amp; the Ravens&lt;br /&gt;(July 1965&amp;nbsp;– September 1965)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison" title="Jim Morrison"&gt;Jim Morrison&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– lead vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rick Manzarek&amp;nbsp;– guitar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek" title="Ray Manzarek"&gt;Ray Manzarek&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– keyboards, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pat Sullivan&amp;nbsp;– bass guitar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Densmore" title="John Densmore"&gt;John Densmore&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– drums&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jim Manzarek&amp;nbsp;– harmonica&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(231, 235, 238);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors&lt;br /&gt;(October 1965&amp;nbsp;– July 1971)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison" title="Jim Morrison"&gt;Jim Morrison&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– lead vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Krieger" title="Robby Krieger"&gt;Robby Krieger&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– guitar, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek" title="Ray Manzarek"&gt;Ray Manzarek&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– keyboards, keyboard bass, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Densmore" title="John Densmore"&gt;John Densmore&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– drums, percussion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(231, 235, 238);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors&lt;br /&gt;(1971–1973)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Krieger" title="Robby Krieger"&gt;Robby Krieger&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– guitar, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek" title="Ray Manzarek"&gt;Ray Manzarek&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– keyboards, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Densmore" title="John Densmore"&gt;John Densmore&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– drums, percussion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;with touring musicians&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jack Conrad&amp;nbsp;– bass guitar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bobby Ray Henson&amp;nbsp;– rhythm guitar, vocals, percussion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(231, 235, 238);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(1973–2002)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Group disbanded; Krieger, Manzarek and Densmore reunited in 1978, 1993, 1997 and 2000.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(231, 235, 238);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Doors of the 21st Century&lt;br /&gt;(2002–2003)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Astbury" title="Ian Astbury"&gt;Ian Astbury&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– lead vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Krieger" title="Robby Krieger"&gt;Robby Krieger&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– guitar, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek" title="Ray Manzarek"&gt;Ray Manzarek&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– keyboards, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Barbera" title="Angelo Barbera"&gt;Angelo Barbera&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– bass guitar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Copeland" title="Stewart Copeland"&gt;Stewart Copeland&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– drums, percussion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(231, 235, 238);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;D21C / Riders on the Storm&lt;br /&gt;(2003–2004)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Astbury" title="Ian Astbury"&gt;Ian Astbury&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– lead vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Krieger" title="Robby Krieger"&gt;Robby Krieger&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– guitar, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek" title="Ray Manzarek"&gt;Ray Manzarek&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– keyboards, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Barbera" title="Angelo Barbera"&gt;Angelo Barbera&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– bass guitar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Dennis" title="Ty Dennis"&gt;Ty Dennis&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– drums, percussion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(231, 235, 238);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Riders on the Storm&lt;br /&gt;(2004–2007)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Astbury" title="Ian Astbury"&gt;Ian Astbury&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– lead vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Krieger" title="Robby Krieger"&gt;Robby Krieger&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– guitar, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek" title="Ray Manzarek"&gt;Ray Manzarek&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– keyboards, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Chen" title="Phil Chen"&gt;Phil Chen&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– bass guitar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Dennis" title="Ty Dennis"&gt;Ty Dennis&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– drums, percussion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(231, 235, 238);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Riders on the Storm&lt;br /&gt;(2007–2008)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Scallions" title="Brett Scallions"&gt;Brett Scallions&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– lead vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Krieger" title="Robby Krieger"&gt;Robby Krieger&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– guitar, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek" title="Ray Manzarek"&gt;Ray Manzarek&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– keyboards vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Chen" title="Phil Chen"&gt;Phil Chen&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– bass guitar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Dennis" title="Ty Dennis"&gt;Ty Dennis&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– drums, percussion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(231, 235, 238);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Manzarek–Krieger&lt;br /&gt;(2008–2010)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Scallions" title="Brett Scallions"&gt;Brett Scallions&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– lead vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Krieger" title="Robby Krieger"&gt;Robby Krieger&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– guitar, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek" title="Ray Manzarek"&gt;Ray Manzarek&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– keyboards, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Chen" title="Phil Chen"&gt;Phil Chen&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– bass guitar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Dennis" title="Ty Dennis"&gt;Ty Dennis&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– drums, percussion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(231, 235, 238);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Manzarek–Krieger&lt;br /&gt;(2010)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miljenko_Matijevic" title="Miljenko Matijevic"&gt;Miljenko Matijevic&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– lead vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Krieger" title="Robby Krieger"&gt;Robby Krieger&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– guitar, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek" title="Ray Manzarek"&gt;Ray Manzarek&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– keyboards, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Chen" title="Phil Chen"&gt;Phil Chen&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– bass guitar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Dennis" title="Ty Dennis"&gt;Ty Dennis&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– drums, percussion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(231, 235, 238);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Manzarek–Krieger&lt;br /&gt;(2010–Present)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dave Brock&amp;nbsp;– lead vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Krieger" title="Robby Krieger"&gt;Robby Krieger&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– guitar, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek" title="Ray Manzarek"&gt;Ray Manzarek&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– keyboards, vocals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Chen" title="Phil Chen"&gt;Phil Chen&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– bass guitar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Dennis" title="Ty Dennis"&gt;Ty Dennis&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;– drums, percussion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Discography"&gt;Discography&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Main article: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_discography" title="The Doors discography"&gt;The Doors discography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_%28album%29" title="The Doors (album)"&gt;The Doors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1967)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_%28album%29" title="Strange Days (album)"&gt;Strange Days&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1967)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_the_Sun" title="Waiting for the Sun"&gt;Waiting for the Sun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1968)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soft_Parade" title="The Soft Parade"&gt;The Soft Parade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1969)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Hotel" title="Morrison Hotel"&gt;Morrison Hotel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1970)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Woman" title="L.A. Woman"&gt;L.A. Woman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1971)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Voices_%28The_Doors_album%29" title="Other Voices (The Doors album)"&gt;Other Voices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1971)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Circle_%28The_Doors_album%29" title="Full Circle (The Doors album)"&gt;Full Circle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1972)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Prayer" title="An American Prayer"&gt;An American Prayer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1978)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Videography"&gt;Videography&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Here_Gets_Out_Alive" title="No One Here Gets Out Alive"&gt;No One Here Gets Out Alive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1983)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dance on Fire&lt;/i&gt; (1985)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_the_Hollywood_Bowl_%28The_Doors_album%29" title="Live at the Hollywood Bowl (The Doors album)"&gt;Live at the Hollywood Bowl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1987)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Live in Europe 1968&lt;/i&gt; (1989)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Doors are Open&lt;/i&gt; (1991)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Best of Doors&lt;/i&gt; (1997)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1_Storytellers" title="VH1 Storytellers"&gt;VH1 Storytellers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2001)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_%E2%80%93_30_Years_Commemorative_Edition" title="The Doors – 30 Years Commemorative Edition"&gt;The Doors – 30 Years Commemorative Edition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2001)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Soundstage Performances&lt;/i&gt; (2002)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Classic Albums: The Doors&lt;/i&gt; (2008)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You%27re_Strange" title="When You're Strange"&gt;When You're Strange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2010)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-6963422494234113015?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/6963422494234113015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=6963422494234113015&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/6963422494234113015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/6963422494234113015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/doors-morrison-hotel.html' title='THE DOORS / Morrison hotel'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dEiIYeRVCtE/TuHQqMByjvI/AAAAAAAABTY/jhxByCZq7K0/s72-c/Morrison+hotel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-5763342185639844290</id><published>2011-12-09T15:39:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T11:05:37.799+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Doors'/><title type='text'>THE DOORS / waiting for the sun</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oEuJNESdFmc/TuHFsq0TDbI/AAAAAAAABTI/kPM57Kqj5O4/s1600/The_Doors_-_Waiting_for_the_Sun_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oEuJNESdFmc/TuHFsq0TDbI/AAAAAAAABTI/kPM57Kqj5O4/s1600/The_Doors_-_Waiting_for_the_Sun_thumb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uRFO8BWTb6g/TuHFwqQveUI/AAAAAAAABTQ/Ml6VAuDA288/s1600/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uRFO8BWTb6g/TuHFwqQveUI/AAAAAAAABTQ/Ml6VAuDA288/s1600/cover.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Waiting for the sun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Bit rate: 320kps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;LINK: &lt;a href="http://xmas-present.weebly.com/music.html"&gt;waitingforthesun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1. Hello, I love you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;2. Love street&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;3. Not to touch the earth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;4. Summer's almost gone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;5. Wintertime love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;6. The unknown soldier&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;7. Spanish caravan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;8. My wild love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;9. We could be so good together&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;10.Yes, the river knows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;11.Five to one&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;12.Albinoni's adagio in G Minor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;13.Not to touch the earth (dialogue)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;14.Not to touch the earth (take1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;15.Not to touch the earth (take2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;16.Celebration of the lizard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This is a very underrated Doors' album. So many great songs are on this  album. Jim's voice is great here. Ray Manzerek's Organs is amazing a  always but what really shines is Robby Kriegers guitar its at its best  on Waiting for The Sun. Jim Morrisons lyrics are best here. just Listen  to "Five To One" the best Doors' song ever great lyrics, Kreigers best  solo (solo remade by Ace Freely on She and Pearl Jam on Alive!) this is  really the best song by the band, dont believe me pick up the record and  listen! "Love Street" is classic Jim's best vocal performance ever!  "Hello I Love You" big Doors hit but I dont like it that much. "Not To  Touch The Earth" and "The Unknown Solider" are classic Morrsion lyrics,  some of his best. "My Wild Love" is just Jim and only Jim doing what he  does best.... "the other big highlight is "Yes The River Knows" which is  like no other the Doors have ever made and its really a great ballad.  all the other songs are great as well but these songs stand out the  most. These is one of the better Doors albums along with the debut and  "L.A. Woman."&amp;nbsp;       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-5763342185639844290?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/5763342185639844290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=5763342185639844290&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/5763342185639844290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/5763342185639844290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/doors-waiting-for-sun.html' title='THE DOORS / waiting for the sun'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oEuJNESdFmc/TuHFsq0TDbI/AAAAAAAABTI/kPM57Kqj5O4/s72-c/The_Doors_-_Waiting_for_the_Sun_thumb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-8475994400460967353</id><published>2011-12-09T15:04:00.002+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-09T15:17:50.098+07:00</updated><title type='text'>GET YOUR VISIONS BACK 20/20, NO MORE SPECTACLES.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span class="header"&gt; “The Hidden Danger Of Glasses... And How An Ex-Optometrist Discovered the Secret To&lt;br /&gt;Restore &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;'Near Perfect' 20/20 Vision&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Naturally&lt;/u&gt;”  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td class="blacktext" valign="top" width="82%"&gt;&lt;b&gt;    Dear Friend,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After more than 25 years in the ophthalmology business I ironically had to lose an eye to be able to see the obvious...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was NOT really helping people, but rather just covering up the deeper problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day I discovered the work of Dr. W.H. Bates and it profoundly  changed my life and my practice as an optical doctor. It shooked me to  the core when I realized:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;      &lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="18%"&gt;&lt;img alt="Dr. William H. Bates" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/bates-photo.jpg" vspace="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dr. William H. Bates&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td class="blacktext" colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;           &lt;td height="30" valign="baseline" width="42"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="20" hspace="14" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/tick.jpg" vspace="0" width="20" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;           &lt;td class="blacktext" height="25" valign="top" width="100%"&gt;&lt;b&gt;How glasses and contacts are practically &lt;u&gt;guaranteed&lt;/u&gt; to ruin your vision over time... (and a little known way to prove it for yourself!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;           &lt;td height="30" valign="baseline" width="42"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="20" hspace="14" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/tick.jpg" vspace="0" width="20" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;           &lt;td class="blacktext" valign="top" width="100%"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The obvious  and overlooked reason why optometrists and doctors are so misinformed  and skeptical to Dr. Bates natural vision improvement... (No, it's NOT a  big conspiracy of self-interest and profit like many people seem to  think!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;           &lt;td height="30" valign="baseline" width="42"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="20" hspace="14" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/tick.jpg" width="20" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;           &lt;td class="blacktext" valign="top" width="100%"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dr. W.H.  Bates hidden-in-plain-view secret that speeds up recovery with more than  400% and massivly improves Myopia (near-sightedness), Hyperopia  (far-sightedness), Presbyopia (Old-Age Sight), macular degeneration,  eyestrain, Glaucoma and more within mere weeks of starting the  program...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt; Let me assure you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to reverse Myopia, Hyperopia and other serious conditions, and at the same time restore your vision naturally &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;without expensive and harmful surgery, then you don't want to miss the insights I'm going to reveal here...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But before we delve deeper into my discoveries let's...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="subheader"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“ Listen To What Other People Have To Say..."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People write me all the time telling me how grateful they are to finally being able to &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;escape their life-long dependency on glasses and contacts...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="301" id="Table_01" style="width: 482px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="11" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="453" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="17" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td colspan="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="17" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/yellow_01.gif" width="481" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="17" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td background="images/yellow_02.gif"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td align="center" background="images/yellow_03.gif" valign="top"&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" style="width: 402px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                                 &lt;td class="fontsmall" valign="top" width="100%"&gt;&lt;div class="fontsmall"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Carol Walker &lt;br /&gt;Nevada, USA         &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;"My optician really couldn't believe it!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;                    &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                                       &lt;td class="fontsmall" valign="top"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Hello...  Thanks for your fast reply and advice... I have started the program  around a month ago and went to do an eye test just this morning. My  optician really couldn't believe it! He was so surprised with my  improvement that he said that he never saw anything like it. (Not  without surgery at least!) I gave him your website address and he said  that he is going to check it out and try it himself. Thank you for  making this available to us!"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                       &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img alt="Carol Walker" border="0" height="148" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/testimonials/Carol-Walker.jpg" width="120" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                     &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/testimonials/carol-walker-proof.gif" rel="lightbox" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;" title="Carol Walker Testimonial"&gt;[View Testimonial Proof]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;                                     &lt;/center&gt;                                     &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img height="7" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/yellowdots.gif" width="410" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;                                     &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;                                                                          &lt;b&gt;Kelvin Rodriges &lt;br /&gt;Mexico &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;"This proves that your system works..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;           &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Hi, this is a great testimonial from Kelvin, would it be fine if we  published this breakthrough on our website? We have still got so many  skeptics and options telling me that its not possible to improve one’s  vision, but hey, who cares, because my parents, wife and I have been  following your program successfully and this proves that your system  actually works! We will get there, as more and more people are improving  their vision and talking about it. Thank you."                                   &lt;/b&gt;                                                                                                            &lt;center&gt;   &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/testimonials/kevin-rodriges-proof.gif" rel="lightbox" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;" title="Kelvin Rodriges Testimonial"&gt;[View Testimonial Proof]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;   &lt;/center&gt;       &lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="7" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/yellowdots.gif" width="410" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="fontsmall"&gt;Donald Clark&lt;br /&gt;Washington DC &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;"I highly recommend your program!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;                   &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="fontsmall"&gt;"Hi Doctor! I want to give a personal  testimonial and highly recommend your program for anyone that wants to  improve their vision. I have been suffering from short-sightness since a  very young age. I was considering laser surgery but it’s expensive and  dangerous. Fortunately, after giving a try to this modest program, my  vision improved to a degree that I hardly need to wear contacts anymore"   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;                &lt;center&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/testimonials/donald-clark-proof.gif" rel="lightbox" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;" title="Donald Clark Testimonial"&gt;[View Testimonial Proof]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;    &lt;/center&gt;      &lt;/td&gt;                                 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td background="images/yellow_04.gif"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="258" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td colspan="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="25" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/yellow_05.gif" width="481" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="25" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="subheader"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“No, It's NOT A Big Conspiracy...”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people wonder why their doctor or optometrist never informed them  about natural alternatives to expensive and harmful contacts, glasses,  and laser eye surgery...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With more than 25 years in the field I can assure you... it's not a big  fat greedy conspiracy between doctors, optometrist, and the optometry  industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most doctors and optometrist out there are good people who want nothing  but the best for their patients. I should know because I was like that  for years... kept in the dark by ignorance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;b&gt;What I'm saying is this: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Education is a wonderful thing, but the downside of filling your head  with "knowledge" is that it makes less room for being open to  alternatives.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mostly every eye doctor and optometrist truly believe that THEY KNOW  BEST... and quite frankly, they have to... The grim alternative is to  face a life crises (like I did), and the complete breakdown of their  current life and practice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The optometry industry is one thing... but it's no use blaming your  doctor or optometrist for being ignorant. Rather be happy you've been  lucky enough to stumble upon this &lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;quick and reliable way to regain your natural vision abilities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because, it's a sad fact that... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="subheader"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Research Has Proven That Wearing Glasses And Contacts Will Destroy Your Vision Over Time...”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, Dr. Bates realized this over 90 years ago... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="Table_01" style="width: 650px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="11" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="453" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="17" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td colspan="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="17" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/yellowlong_01.gif" width="651" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="17" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td background="images/yellow_02.gif"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td background="images/yellow_03.gif" valign="top"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;“If glasses are worn  continuously over time the poor vision will generally become worse.  Essentially what glasses do is lock the eyes into their refractive state  and in order to see through your lenses you have to maintain the poor  vision that the lenses are designed to correct.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="right" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Wm H Bates: Perfect Sight Without Glasses 1920&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td background="images/yellow_04.gif"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="50" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td colspan="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="25" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/yellowlong_05.gif" width="651" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="25" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some quotes from more recent research...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="Table_01" style="width: 650px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="11" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="453" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="17" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td colspan="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="17" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/yellowlong_01.gif" width="651" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="17" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td background="images/yellow_02.gif"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td background="images/yellow_03.gif" valign="top"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;“        Minus lenses (glasses) are the most common approach, yet the  least likely to prevent further myopic progression (nearsightedness).  Unfortunately, they increase the near point stress that is associated  with progression.                ”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="right" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; May, 1984. Optometric Extension Program Foundation&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td background="images/yellow_04.gif"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="50" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td colspan="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="25" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/yellowlong_05.gif" width="651" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="25" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;            &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="Table_01" style="width: 650px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="11" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="453" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="17" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td colspan="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="17" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/yellowlong_01.gif" width="651" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="17" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td background="images/yellow_02.gif"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td background="images/yellow_03.gif" valign="top"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;“The use of  compensatory lenses (glasses and contacts) to treat or neutralize the  symptoms does not correct the problem. The current education and  training of eye care practitioners discourages preventive and remedial  treatment.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="right" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Gottlieb, 1982. Journal of Optometry and Visual Development&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td background="images/yellow_04.gif"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="50" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                             &lt;td colspan="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="25" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/yellowlong_05.gif" width="651" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="25" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here's a simple way you can prove this for yourself:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;      &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put on your glasses or contacts and do some close work for two hours  and then check your unaided vision... You'll see only half of what you  did two hours ago.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's really a tragedy that children and other people showing mere  signs of myopia are prescribed steel framed "remedies" that will harm  them for life when &lt;b&gt;a perfectly natural alternative is available&lt;/b&gt;...     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="subheader"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"But Wait... What About Laser Eye Surgery?"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps you're thinking; "I'll just look into corrective eye surgery so I  don't have to worry about my vision being affected by glasses or  contacts".   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, surgery is both expensive and has proven itself to be a risky and troublesome alternative... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A full eye surgery procedure will cost upwards of $5000, and there is  absolutely NO GUARANTEE that you will not need your glasses again within  a few months of a perfectly successful operation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, there has been numerous reports of temporary improvement that  relapse into even worse conditions a few months after surgery. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then there is the serious concern about &lt;b&gt;side effects&lt;/b&gt; like... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td valign="baseline" width="42"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="20" hspace="14" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/cross.jpg" width="20" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td class="blacktext" valign="top" width="100%"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Seeing Halos Around Lights at Nighttime..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td valign="baseline" width="42"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="20" hspace="14" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/cross.jpg" width="20" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td class="blacktext" valign="top" width="100%"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Worsened Vision..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td valign="baseline" width="42"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="20" hspace="14" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/cross.jpg" width="20" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td class="blacktext" valign="top" width="100%"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Constant Eye Infections..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td valign="baseline" width="42"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="20" hspace="14" src="http://www.visionwithoutglasses.com/images/cross.jpg" width="20" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td class="blacktext" valign="top" width="100%"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Permanent Blindness..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Perhaps you already knew this but... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2008, the FDA actually officially stated that they would do a full  re-evaluation of the safety of laser eye surgery, specifically due to  the high amount of complaints it receives on the subject every month. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you also might not know is that on top of the huge surgery expenses you'll pay, you'll also be bothered with &lt;b&gt;inconvenient doctor visits for months after the treatment&lt;/b&gt;... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="subheader"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“If Glasses and Contacts Harms Vision and Surgery Is Too Risky, Then How Can I&lt;br /&gt;Improve My Eyesight?”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, pay careful attention: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;You already have the ability to get perfect vision – naturally...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;b&gt;  You just need to know the latest and most effective way to fine-tune and  naturally heal the amazing instrument that is the human eye. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More about that in a little while... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, let's take a brief look at &lt;b&gt;what causes your vision problems&lt;/b&gt; in the first place...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you were born, doctors didn't check your eyesight as they pulled  you from your mother's womb. And, guess what? Eventually, you learned to  crawl and walk, without the use of glasses. Didn't you? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's another example to consider...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you've been to remote locations such as the Amazon or have seen T.V.  shows that film the way natives live in the wild. You may have seen them  how they hunt for food, build tools and make crafts. But, you'll never  see these naturalists squint their eyes, or struggle to focus on their  prey. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if you didn't need glasses as a small child and neither do those  living in the wild; then why are many people today so dependent on  wearing glasses or contacts?&lt;a href="http://tiny.cc/65jxx"&gt;More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td class="blacktext" valign="top" width="82%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="18%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td class="blacktext" colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="blacktext" colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="blacktext" colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="blacktext" colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="blacktext" colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="blacktext" colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="blacktext" colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; 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color: black; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NAj2-bpiXTE/Tt2ne8X_BlI/AAAAAAAABTA/mrPQIzb7euE/s1600/alice_cooper_love_it_to_death_09_front_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="341" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NAj2-bpiXTE/Tt2ne8X_BlI/AAAAAAAABTA/mrPQIzb7euE/s400/alice_cooper_love_it_to_death_09_front_1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Love it to death&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bit rate: Free Lossless Audio Codec&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LINK:&lt;a href="http://xmas-present.weebly.com/music.html"&gt; loveittodeath&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alice Cooper - Love It To Death (1971)(24K Gold Remaster 2009)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the 24K success of "School's Out" and "Killer", Audio Fidelity completes our 2009 Alice Cooper Trilogy with the band's 1971 major label debut, "Love It To Death". After 38 years die-hard fans still argue over which is the best.&lt;br /&gt;Captivating from the start and not a bit of filler, this album introduced the truly unique band to the mainstream with songs that forever sound new and original including, "Ballad of Dwight Fry", "Is It My Body" and a Cooper's trademark, “I'm Eighteen” (one of the all-time great coming of age songs). They incorporate blues, jazz, even songs styled after Broadway showtunes...and it's all ground-breaking Rock &amp;amp; Roll, in that the group firmly established their voice and personna. Punk? Glam? Shock-Rock? Horror-Rock? Heavy Metal? Anything created since, it all starts here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alice Cooper's third album, Love It to Death, can be pinpointed as the release when everything began to come together for the band. Their first couple of albums (Pretties for You and Easy Action) were both largely psychedelic/acid rock affairs and bore little comparison to the band's eventual rip-roaring, teenage-anthem direction. The main reason for the quintet's change was that the eventually legendary producer Bob Ezrin was on board for the first time and helped the Coopers focus their songwriting and sound, while they also perfected their trashy, violent, and theatrical stage show and image. One of the band's most instantly identifiable anthems, "I'm Eighteen", was what made the album a hit, as well as another classic, "Is It My Body". But like Alice Cooper's other albums from the early '70s, it was an incredibly consistent listen from beginning to end. The garage rocker "Caught in a Dream" as well as the ass-kicking "Long Way to Go" and a pair of epics — the Doors-esque "Black Juju" and the eerie "Ballad of Dwight Fry" — showed that Alice was easily in league with other high-energy Detroit bands of the era (MC5, Stooges). Love It to Death was the first of a string of classic releases from the original Alice Cooper group...G. Plato&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The album was ranked number 460 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Codec: flac&lt;br /&gt;Size: 214&amp;nbsp; MB &lt;br /&gt;Genre :&amp;nbsp; Rock&lt;br /&gt;Cover: Front&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Line-up&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alice Cooper - vocals&lt;br /&gt;Glen Buxton - lead guitar&lt;br /&gt;Michael Bruce - rhythm guitar, keyboards&lt;br /&gt;Dennis Dunaway - bass guitar&lt;br /&gt;Neal Smith - drums&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tracklist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;01 Caught in a Dream 3:04 &lt;br /&gt;02 I'm Eighteen 3:00 &lt;br /&gt;03 Long Way to Go 3:01 &lt;br /&gt;04 Black Juju 9:09 &lt;br /&gt;05 Is It My Body 2:39 &lt;br /&gt;06 Hallowed Be My Name 2:25 &lt;br /&gt;07 Second Coming 3:02 &lt;br /&gt;08 Ballad of Dwight Fry 6:32 &lt;br /&gt;09 Sun Arise 3:53 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Ulltimate Sound Quality From AUDIO FIDELITY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You've never heard your favorite music sound this good! The clarity is truly exceptional. Treat yourself to a musical experience you've never had before. Our new 24 K+ compact discs reproduce the ultimate sound of a classic recorded performance without the irregular plated surfaces of standard aluminum discs. Our 24K+ series brings you classic music in deluxe packaging with see-through slip cases. We only use the master mix played back on a specially constructed playback deck. Here's where the PLUS (+) comes in: The analog masters are put through our new proprietary analog to digital converter which reinforces the resolution of the original masters adding true "breath of life" to the music. Without any further sonic manipulation the master is shipped directly to the manufacturing plant for etching in "real time" onto the glass surface by laser. The end result of this unique mastering process is a compact disc with the warm sound of the original analog master tape combined with a genuine 24 karat gold surface free of any type of physical defect making our 24K+ Gold CD series truly one of a kind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The original dynamic range of this recording was not maximized, brickwalled, limited or compressed in any way during remastering.&lt;br /&gt;Our 24K package includes the controversial album cover - The Audio Fidelity censors, the same people who brought you the infamous AF Virgin Vinyl poster, have let another one slip through.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362075088209323913-8266067204383878567?l=willy-rock.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/feeds/8266067204383878567/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362075088209323913&amp;postID=8266067204383878567&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/8266067204383878567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362075088209323913/posts/default/8266067204383878567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://willy-rock.blogspot.com/2011/12/alice-cooper-love-it-to-death.html' title='ALICE COOPER / love it to death'/><author><name>Willy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00953843750071123425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/R--uxpKlkXI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8e6tnf2Cuh0/S220/tlr_willy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NAj2-bpiXTE/Tt2ne8X_BlI/AAAAAAAABTA/mrPQIzb7euE/s72-c/alice_cooper_love_it_to_death_09_front_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362075088209323913.post-6465927245466437247</id><published>2011-12-06T10:29:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T10:30:34.300+07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alice Cooper'/><title type='text'>ALICE COOPER / billion dollars babies</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-isnzS-4BCqs/Tt2JvD8a2vI/AAAAAAAABSw/ueY1FTh4sIk/s1600/alice_coope_+billion_dollar_babies_2cd_deluxe_2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-isnzS-4BCqs/Tt2JvD8a2vI/AAAAAAAABSw/ueY1FTh4sIk/s1600/alice_coope_+billion_dollar_babies_2cd_deluxe_2001.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;billion dollars babies&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bit rate: 320 kps&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LINK:&lt;a href="http://xmas-present.weebly.com/music.html"&gt; billiondollarsbabies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (1973) (2CD Deluxe Edit 2001)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rock star opulence came to an explosive head in 1973 when the Alice Cooper Group hit #1 on the U.S. and worldwide charts with Billion Dollar Babies, their sixth and most successful album. Produced by Bob Ezrin, it is also one of the best rock ’n’ roll records of all time, and the subsequent tour became the biggest rock production to date. Capitalizing on the album’s themes of good-old decadence and horror, the show climaxed with a guillotine execution of Alice. The album and the tour made the band into the world’s preeminent pied pipers of teenage trash culture.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, a few decades later, we have given Billion Dollar Babies the deluxe Rhino treatment—the complete remastered album in its entirety remixed by Ezrin himself, plus an entire second disc of 14 rare and previously tracks. The latter includes 11 live cuts from the infamous Billion Dollar Babies tour, two outtakes from the album sessions, and “Slick Black Limousine,” a rare U.K. single. Housed in a digi-pak that duplicates all original album art, it also features an expanded booklet of lyrics, new liner notes, and tons of rare photos!...Rhino Records&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For me Alice Cooper's career divided neatly into two parts: Alice Cooper the band and Alice Cooper the solo artist. I never was captivated by his solo career, but the Alice Cooper band was one of the best rock bands of the early Seventies. From 1971's Love It To Death through 1973's Billion Dollar Babies, the band produced a series of rock solid albums--and I even saw them in concert twice, including their Billion Dollar Babies Tour.&lt;br /&gt;That's what makes this reissue such a treat. The second disc provides killer live versions of eight of the ten album tracks--only "Generation Landslide" and "Mary Ann" are not included. One track each is also included from their three earlier albums: Love It To Death ("I'm Eighteen"), Killer ("Dead Babies") and School's Out ("My Stars"). In addition you get the Elvis-inspired outtake "Coal Black Model T," which eventually evolved into "Slick Black Limousine" (also included here). The other outtake is "Son of Billion Dollar Babies," which is essentially an alternate take of "Generation Landslide" minus the lyrics from the second half of verse two.&lt;br /&gt;The expanded 24-page booklet is also a treat. [Check out the photo on page 11 of Donovan recording the title track with Alice!]&lt;br /&gt;Sure, Alice Cooper is probably most remembered for the mascara, boa constrictors and guillotines. However, if you listen to the music, you'll discover one of the tightest rock bands of the era...S.Vrana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Codec: mp3&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Size: 226 MB &lt;br /&gt;Genre : Shock Rock&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Track List:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CD 1 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;01 Hello Hooray 4:14 &lt;br /&gt;02 Raped and Freezin' 3:15 &lt;br /&gt;03 Elected 4:05 &lt;br /&gt;04 Billion Dollar Babies 3:39 &lt;br /&gt;05 Unfinished Sweet 6:17 &lt;br /&gt;06 No More Mr. Nice Guy 3:05 &lt;br /&gt;07 Generation Landslide 4:31 &lt;br /&gt;08 Sick Things 4:18 &lt;br /&gt;09 Mary Ann 2:19 &lt;br /&gt;10 I Love the Dead 5:08 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CD 2 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;01 Hello Hooray (Live Version) 3:04 &lt;br /&gt;02 Billion Dollar Babies (Live Version) 3:47 &lt;br /&gt;03 Elected (Live Version) 2:28&lt;br /&gt;04 Eighteen (Live in 1973 Version) 4:50 &lt;br /&gt;05 Raped And Freezin' (Live Version) 3:14 &lt;br /&gt;06 No More Mr. Nice Guy (Live Version) 3:07 &lt;br /&gt;07 My Stars (Live Version) 7:32 &lt;br /&gt;08 Unfinished Sweet (Live Version) 6:01 &lt;br /&gt;09 Sick Things (Live Version) 3:16 &lt;br /&gt;10 Dead Babies (Live Version) 2:59 &lt;br /&gt;11 I Love The Dead (Live Version) 4:48 &lt;br /&gt;12 Coal Black Model T (Outtake) 4:28 &lt;br /&gt;13 Son Of Billion Dollar Babies (Generation Landslide) (Outtake) 3:45 &lt;br /&gt;14 Slick Black Limousine (Remastered UK Release) 4:26&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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           &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;                                                                               &lt;table cellspacing="5" class="infobox vcard" style="width: 22em;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="fn" colspan="2" style="background-color: khaki; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alice Cooper&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;td class="" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cooper,_Alice_%282007%29.jpg" title="Cooper at the Scream Awards, 2007"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="330" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Cooper%2C_Alice_%282007%29.jpg/220px-Cooper%2C_Alice_%282007%29.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Cooper at the Scream Awards, 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="" colspan="2" style="background-color: khaki; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Background information&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Birth name&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class="nickname"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vincent Damon Furnier&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Born&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;February 4, 1948  &lt;span class="noprint"&gt;(age&amp;nbsp;63)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit,_Michigan" title="Detroit, Michigan"&gt;Detroit, Michigan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;, U.S.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre"&gt;Genres&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock"&gt;Hard rock&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music"&gt;heavy metal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_rock" title="Shock rock"&gt;shock rock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Occupations&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class="role"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer-songwriter" title="Singer-songwriter"&gt;Singer-songwriter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor" title="Actor"&gt;actor&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_jockey" title="Disc jockey"&gt;DJ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Instruments&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class="note"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer" title="Singer"&gt;Vocals&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonica" title="Harmonica"&gt;harmonica&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar" title="Guitar"&gt;guitar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Years active&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1964–present&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label"&gt;Labels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Records" title="Straight Records"&gt;Straight&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records" title="Warner Bros. Records"&gt;Warner Bros.&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records" title="Atlantic Records"&gt;Atlantic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records"&gt;MCA&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Records" title="Epic Records"&gt;Epic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitfire_Records" title="Spitfire Records"&gt;Spitfire&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Records" title="Eagle Records"&gt;Eagle&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_West_Records" title="New West Records"&gt;New West&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class=""&gt; &lt;th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Website&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="url"&gt;&lt;a class="external text" href="http://www.alicecooper.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;www.alicecooper.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alice Cooper (born &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948)&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NMEBio_0-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-NMEBio-0"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; is an American &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music"&gt;rock&lt;/a&gt; singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine" title="Guillotine"&gt;guillotines&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair" title="Electric chair"&gt;electric chairs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_blood" title="Fake blood"&gt;fake blood&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boa_constrictor" title="Boa constrictor"&gt;boa constrictors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doll" title="Doll"&gt;baby dolls&lt;/a&gt;, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_rock" title="Garage rock"&gt;garage rock&lt;/a&gt; to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock"&gt;hard rock&lt;/a&gt; designed to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_rock" title="Shock rock"&gt;shock&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Allmusic_bio_1-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-Allmusic_bio-1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Buxton" title="Glen Buxton"&gt;Glen Buxton&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Owen_Bruce" title="Michael Owen Bruce"&gt;Michael Bruce&lt;/a&gt; on rhythm guitar, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Dunaway" title="Dennis Dunaway"&gt;Dennis Dunaway&lt;/a&gt; on bass guitar and drummer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Smith_%28drummer%29" title="Neal Smith (drummer)"&gt;Neal Smith&lt;/a&gt;. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Eighteen" title="I'm Eighteen"&gt;I'm Eighteen&lt;/a&gt;" from the album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_it_to_Death" title="Love it to Death"&gt;Love it to Death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, which was followed by the even bigger single &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%27s_Out_%28song%29" title="School's Out (song)"&gt;"School's Out"&lt;/a&gt; in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album" title="Album"&gt;album&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_Dollar_Babies" title="Billion Dollar Babies"&gt;Billion Dollar Babies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, adopting the band's name as his own name, began with the 1975 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_album" title="Concept album"&gt;concept album&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_My_Nightmare" title="Welcome to My Nightmare"&gt;Welcome to My Nightmare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;; in 2011 he released &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_2_My_Nightmare" title="Welcome 2 My Nightmare"&gt;Welcome 2 My Nightmare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,  his 19th album as a solo artist, and his 26th album in total. Expanding  from his original Detroit rock roots, over the years Cooper has  experimented with many various musical styles, including &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_album" title="Concept album"&gt;conceptual rock&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_rock" title="Art rock"&gt;art rock&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music"&gt;heavy metal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballads#Pop_and_rock_ballads" title="Ballads"&gt;pop &amp;amp; power ballads&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_wave_music" title="New wave music"&gt;new wave&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_rock" title="Industrial rock"&gt;industrial rock&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alice Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone_Album_Guide" title="Rolling Stone Album Guide"&gt;The Rolling Stone Album Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; has called him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;3&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Cooper is credited with helping to shape the sound and look of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music"&gt;heavy metal&lt;/a&gt;,  and he is regarded as being the artist who "first introduced horror  imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have  permanently transformed the genre".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SMH_3-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-SMH-3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur and, since 2004, a popular &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_programming" title="Radio programming"&gt;radio&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_jockey" title="Disc jockey"&gt;DJ&lt;/a&gt; with his classic rock show &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nights_with_Alice_Cooper" title="Nights with Alice Cooper"&gt;Nights with Alice Cooper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 2011 the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"&gt;The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HallofFame_4-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-HallofFame-4"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;table class="toc" id="toc"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;div id="toctitle"&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="toctoggle"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life"&gt;Early life&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cooper was born as Vincent Damon Furnier in &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit,_Michigan" title="Detroit, Michigan"&gt;Detroit, Michigan&lt;/a&gt;, the son of Ella Mae (Née McCart) and Ether Moroni Furnier. His father was a &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_preacher" title="Lay preacher"&gt;lay preacher&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Jesus_Christ_%28Bickertonite%29" title="Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)"&gt;Church of Jesus Christ&lt;/a&gt; (also known as the Bickertonite Church) which, historically, is a branch of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latter_Day_Saint_movement" title="Latter Day Saint movement"&gt;Latter Day Saint movement&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-5"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; He has French &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenot" title="Huguenot"&gt;Huguenot&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux" title="Sioux"&gt;Sioux&lt;/a&gt; Native American, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people" title="English people"&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;, Scottish and Irish ancestry,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-6"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and was named after one of his uncles (Vincent Collier Furnier) and the writer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Runyon" title="Damon Runyon"&gt;Damon Runyon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-7"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  His paternal grandfather, Thurman Sylvester Furnier, was an apostle in  the Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite). Vincent Furnier was active in  his church at the ages of 11 and 12.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-8"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-9"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;While growing up in Detroit, Furnier attended Washington Elementary School, then Nankin Mills Jr. High, now &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran_High_School_Westland" title="Lutheran High School Westland"&gt;Lutheran High School Westland&lt;/a&gt;. Following a series of childhood illnesses, Furnier moved with his family to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona"&gt;Phoenix, Arizona&lt;/a&gt;, where he attended Cortez High School in north Phoenix, and was a member of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeMolay_International" title="DeMolay International"&gt;Order of DeMolay&lt;/a&gt;.  Vincent was a self-proclaimed "mid-B-low-A" student, but was cherished  by his classmates for his good-humored attitude towards life. Vincent  had gained admission into the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Arizona" title="University of Arizona"&gt;University of Arizona&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado" title="University of Colorado"&gt;University of Colorado&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California-Davis" title="University of California-Davis"&gt;University of California-Davis&lt;/a&gt; - he denied all these offers.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Recording_career"&gt;Recording career&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="1960s"&gt;1960s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1964 sixteen year-old Furnier was eager to take part in the local annual &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterman_%28sports%29" title="Letterman (sports)"&gt;letterman&lt;/a&gt;'s talent show, so he gathered fellow &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-country_running" title="Cross-country running"&gt;cross-country&lt;/a&gt; teammates to form a group for the show.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-10"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; They named themselves &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Earwigs. Because they did not know how to play any &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument" title="Musical instrument"&gt;instruments&lt;/a&gt; at the time, they dressed up like &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles"&gt;The Beatles&lt;/a&gt;  and mimed their performance to Beatles songs. As a result of winning  the talent show and loving the experience of being onstage, the group  immediately proceeded to learn how to play instruments they acquired  from a local &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_shop" title="Pawn shop"&gt;pawn shop&lt;/a&gt;. They soon renamed themselves &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Spiders, featuring Furnier on vocals, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Buxton" title="Glen Buxton"&gt;Glen Buxton&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_guitar" title="Lead guitar"&gt;lead guitar&lt;/a&gt;, John Tatum on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_guitar" title="Rhythm guitar"&gt;rhythm guitar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Dunaway" title="Dennis Dunaway"&gt;Dennis Dunaway&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar" title="Bass guitar"&gt;bass guitar&lt;/a&gt; and John Speer on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_kit" title="Drum kit"&gt;drums&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-11"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;12&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Musically, the group was inspired by artists such as The Beatles, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones"&gt;The Rolling Stones&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who"&gt;The Who&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kinks" title="The Kinks"&gt;The Kinks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors" title="The Doors"&gt;The Doors&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds"&gt;The Yardbirds&lt;/a&gt;.  For the next year the band performed regularly around the Phoenix area  with a huge black spider's web as their backdrop, the group's first  stage prop. In 1965 they recorded their first &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_%28music%29" title="Single (music)"&gt;single&lt;/a&gt;, "Why Don't You Love Me" (originally performed by The Blackwells), with Furnier learning the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonica" title="Harmonica"&gt;harmonica&lt;/a&gt; for that song.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1966 The Spiders graduated from high school, and after &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_High_School_%28Phoenix,_Arizona%29" title="North High School (Phoenix, Arizona)"&gt;North High School&lt;/a&gt; footballer &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Owen_Bruce" title="Michael Owen Bruce"&gt;Michael Bruce&lt;/a&gt;  replaced John Tatum on rhythm guitar, the band scored a local #1 radio  hit with "Don't Blow Your Mind," an original composition from their  second single release. By 1967 the band had begun to make regular road  trips to &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California" title="Los Angeles, California"&gt;Los Angeles, California&lt;/a&gt; to play shows. They soon renamed themselves &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Nazz  and released the single "Wonder Who's Lovin' Her Now," backed with  future Alice Cooper track "Lay Down And Die, Goodbye." At around this  time drummer John Speer was replaced by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Smith_%28drummer%29" title="Neal Smith (drummer)"&gt;Neal Smith&lt;/a&gt;. By the end of the year the band had relocated to Los Angeles permanently.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1968 upon learning that &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren" title="Todd Rundgren"&gt;Todd Rundgren&lt;/a&gt; also had a band called &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazz" title="Nazz"&gt;Nazz&lt;/a&gt;, the band was again in need of another stage name. Believing that the group needed a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimmick" title="Gimmick"&gt;gimmick&lt;/a&gt; to succeed, and that other bands were not exploiting the showmanship potential of the stage, Furnier chose &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Alice Cooper" as the band's name and adopted this &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_name" title="Stage name"&gt;stage name&lt;/a&gt; as his own.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-12"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Cooper later stated that the name change was one of his most important and successful career moves.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-13"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nonetheless, at the time Cooper and the band realized that the  concept of a male playing the role of a villain, a woman killer, in  tattered women's clothing and wearing make-up, would have the potential  to cause considerable social &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy" title="Controversy"&gt;controversy&lt;/a&gt; and grab headlines. In 2007 in his book &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Cooper,_Golf_Monster&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Alice Cooper, Golf Monster (page does not exist)"&gt;Alice Cooper, Golf Monster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Cooper stated that his look was inspired in part by film. One of the band's all time favorite movies was &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Ever_Happened_to_Baby_Jane" title="What Ever Happened to Baby Jane"&gt;What Ever Happened to Baby Jane&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; starring &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Davis" title="Bette Davis"&gt;Bette Davis&lt;/a&gt;.  "In the movie, Bette wears disgusting caked makeup smeared on her face  and underneath her eyes, with deep, dark, black eyeliner." Another movie  the band watched over and over was &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarella_%28film%29" title="Barbarella (film)"&gt;Barbarella&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. "When I saw &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Pallenberg" title="Anita Pallenberg"&gt;Anita Pallenberg&lt;/a&gt;  playing the Great Tyrant in that movie in 1968, wearing long black  leather gloves with switchblades coming out of them, I thought, 'That's  what Alice should look like'. That, and a little bit of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Peel" title="Emma Peel"&gt;Emma Peel&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_%28TV_series%29" title="The Avengers (TV series)"&gt;The Avengers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-14"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The conception for the character that Cooper plays on stage came when  he took careful observation of the rock world around him. He noticed  that rock stars were always made out to be heroes, and that rock  villains were scarce. In a 2010 interview he stated, "Why do we always  have rock heroes? Why not a rock villain? I was more than happy to be  rock's &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader"&gt;Darth Vader&lt;/a&gt;. I was more than happy to be &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Hook" title="Captain Hook"&gt;Captain Hook&lt;/a&gt;."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The classic Alice Cooper group &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_%28music%29" title="Band (music)"&gt;line-up&lt;/a&gt;  consisted of singer Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier), lead guitarist Glen  Buxton, rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and  drummer Neal Smith. With the exception of Smith, who graduated from  Camelback High School (which is referred to in the song "Alma Mater" on  the album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%27s_Out_%28album%29" title="School's Out (album)"&gt;School's Out&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;),  all of the band members were on the Cortez High School cross-country  team, and many of Cooper's stage effects were inspired by their  cross-country coach, Emmett Smith&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-15"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; (one of Smith's class projects was to build a working &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine" title="Guillotine"&gt;guillotine&lt;/a&gt; for slicing watermelons). Cooper, Buxton and Dunaway were also &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art" title="Art"&gt;art&lt;/a&gt; students, and their admiration for the works of &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist" title="Surrealist"&gt;surrealist&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artists" title="Artists"&gt;artists&lt;/a&gt; such as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD" title="Salvador Dalí"&gt;Salvador Dalí&lt;/a&gt; would further inspire their future stage antics.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;One night after an unsuccessful gig at the Cheetah club in &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_California" title="Venice, California"&gt;Venice, California&lt;/a&gt;, where the band emptied the entire room of patrons after playing just ten minutes, they were approached and enlisted by &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_manager" title="Music manager"&gt;music manager&lt;/a&gt;  Shep Gordon, who ironically saw the band's negative impact that night  as a force that could be turned in a more productive direction. Shep  then arranged an audition for the band with composer and renowned record  producer, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa"&gt;Frank Zappa&lt;/a&gt;, who was looking to sign bizarre music acts to his new record label, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Records" title="Straight Records"&gt;Straight Records&lt;/a&gt;.  For the audition Zappa told them to come to his house "at 7 o'clock."  The band mistakenly assumed he meant 7 o'clock in the morning. Being  woken up by a band willing to play that particular brand of psychedelic  rock at seven in the morning impressed Zappa enough to sign them to a  three-album deal. Another Zappa-signed act, the all-female &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_GTOs" title="The GTOs"&gt;GTOs&lt;/a&gt;, who liked to "dress the Cooper boys up like full size &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_doll" title="Barbie doll"&gt;barbie dolls&lt;/a&gt;," played a major role in developing the band's early onstage look.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-16"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-17"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cooper's first album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretties_for_You" title="Pretties for You"&gt;Pretties for You&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  (released in 1969) had a slight psychedelic feel. Although it touched  the US charts for one week at #193, it was ultimately a critical and  commercial failure.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alice Cooper's "shock rock" reputation apparently developed almost by  accident at first. An unrehearsed stage routine involving Cooper, a  feather pillow and a live chicken garnered attention from the press; the  band decided to capitalize on the tabloid sensationalism, creating in  the process a new subgenre, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_rock" title="Shock rock"&gt;shock rock&lt;/a&gt;. Cooper claims that the infamous "Chicken Incident" at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Rock_and_Roll_Revival" title="Toronto Rock and Roll Revival"&gt;Toronto Rock and Roll Revival&lt;/a&gt;  concert in September 1969 was an accident. A chicken somehow made its  way onto the stage into the feathers of a feather pillow they would open  during Cooper's performance, and not having any experience around farm  animals, Cooper presumed that, because the chicken had wings, it would  be able to fly.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-18"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  He picked it up and threw it out over the crowd, expecting it to fly  away. The chicken instead plummeted into the first few rows occupied by  disabled people in wheelchairs, who reportedly proceeded to tear the  bird to pieces.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-19"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The next day the incident made the front page of national newspapers,  and Zappa phoned Cooper and asked if the story, which reported that he  had bitten off the chicken's head and drunk its blood on stage, was  true. Cooper denied the rumor, whereupon Zappa told him, "Well, whatever  you do, don't tell anyone you didn't do it",&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-20"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; obviously recognizing that such publicity would be priceless for the band.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-21"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The band have later claimed that this period was highly influenced by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd" title="Pink Floyd"&gt;Pink Floyd&lt;/a&gt;, and especially the album &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn" title="The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"&gt;Piper at the Gates of Dawn&lt;/a&gt;. Glen Buxton could listen to Syd Barrett's guitar for hours at a time. &lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-22"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="1970s"&gt;1970s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Despite the publicity from the Chicken Incident, the band's stronger second album, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Action" title="Easy Action"&gt;Easy Action&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,  released in June 1970, met with the same fate as its predecessor. At  around this time the band, fed up with Californians' indifference to  their act, relocated to Cooper's birthplace, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit"&gt;Detroit&lt;/a&gt;, where their bizarre stage act was much better received by the crowds of the &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest" title="Midwest"&gt;Midwest&lt;/a&gt; states who were accustomed to the similar hard rock styles of local bands such as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stooges" title="The Stooges"&gt;The Stooges&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_MC5" title="The MC5"&gt;The MC5&lt;/a&gt;. Despite this, Cooper still managed to receive a cream pie in the face when performing at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer_Rock" title="Midsummer Rock"&gt;Cincinnati Pop Festival&lt;/a&gt;.  Detroit would remain their steady home base until 1972. "LA just didn’t  get it," Cooper stated. "They were all on the wrong drug for us. They  were on acid and we were basically drinking beer. We fit much more in  Detroit than we did anywhere else."&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-metrotimes_23-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-metrotimes-23"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alice Cooper appeared at the Woodstock-esque, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Fields_Festival" title="Strawberry Fields Festival"&gt;Strawberry Fields Festival&lt;/a&gt;  near Toronto, Ontario in August 1970. The band's mix of glam and  increasingly violent stage theatrics stood out in stark contrast to the  bearded, denim-clad hippie bands of the time.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-24"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  As Cooper himself stated: "We were into fun, sex, death and money when  everybody was into peace and love. We wanted to see what was next. It  turned out we were next, and we drove a stake through the heart of the  Love Generation".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-25"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In autumn 1970 the Alice Cooper group teamed with producer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ezrin" title="Bob Ezrin"&gt;Bob Ezrin&lt;/a&gt; for the recording of their third album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_it_to_Death" title="Love it to Death"&gt;Love it to Death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.  This was the final album in their Straight Records contract and the  band's last chance to create a hit. That first success came with the  single "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Eighteen" title="I'm Eighteen"&gt;I'm Eighteen&lt;/a&gt;", released in November 1970, which reached number 21 on the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"&gt;Billboard Hot 100&lt;/a&gt; in early 1971. Not long after the album's release in January 1971 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records" title="Warner Bros. Records"&gt;Warner Bros. Records&lt;/a&gt; purchased Alice Cooper's contract from Straight and re-issued the album, giving the group a higher level of promotion.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Love it to Death&lt;/i&gt; proved to be their breakthrough album, reaching number 35 on the U.S. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200"&gt;Billboard 200&lt;/a&gt; album charts. It would be the first of eleven&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-26"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Alice Cooper group and solo albums produced by Ezrin, who is widely  seen as being instrumental in helping to create and develop the band's  definitive sound.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-27"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The group's 1971 tour featured a stage show involving mock fights and  gothic torture modes being imposed on Cooper climaxing with a staged  execution by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair" title="Electric chair"&gt;electric chair&lt;/a&gt;, with the band sporting tight, sequined, and color-contrasting &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glam_rock" title="Glam rock"&gt;glam rock&lt;/a&gt;-style  costumes made by prominent rock fashion designer Cindy Dunaway (sister  of band member Neal Smith, and wife of band member Dennis Dunaway).  Cooper's androgynous stage role had developed to present a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villain" title="Villain"&gt;villainous&lt;/a&gt;  side, portraying a potential threat to modern society. The success of  the band's single and album, and their tour of 1971, which included  their first tour of Europe (audience members reportedly included &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John" title="Elton John"&gt;Elton John&lt;/a&gt; and a pre-&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Ziggy_Stardust_and_the_Spiders_from_Mars" title="The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"&gt;Ziggy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie" title="David Bowie"&gt;David Bowie&lt;/a&gt;), provided enough encouragement for Warner Bros. to offer the band a new multi-album contract.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Their follow-up album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_%28Alice_Cooper_album%29" title="Killer (Alice Cooper album)"&gt;Killer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, released in late 1971, continued the commercial success of &lt;i&gt;Love It To Death&lt;/i&gt; and included further single success with "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_My_Wheels" title="Under My Wheels"&gt;Under My Wheels&lt;/a&gt;", "Be My Lover" in early 1972, and "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_of_Flies_%28song%29" title="Halo of Flies (song)"&gt;Halo Of Flies&lt;/a&gt;" which became a Top 10 hit in the Netherlands in 1972. Thematically, &lt;i&gt;Killer&lt;/i&gt;  expanded on the villainous side of Cooper's androgynous stage role,  with its music becoming the soundtrack to the group's morality-based  stage show, which by then featured a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boa_constrictor" title="Boa constrictor"&gt;boa constrictor&lt;/a&gt; hugging Cooper onstage, the murderous axe chopping of bloodied baby dolls, and execution by hanging at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows" title="Gallows"&gt;gallows&lt;/a&gt;.  Back then, the real criticism was aimed at questioning the artists'  sexual ambiguity, rather than the stage gore. In January 1972, Cooper  was again asked about his peculiar name, and told talk show hostess  Dinah Shore that he took the name from a "Mayberry RFD" character.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The summer of 1972 saw the release of the single "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%27s_Out_%28song%29" title="School's Out (song)"&gt;School's Out&lt;/a&gt;". It went Top 10 in the US, was a #1 single in the UK, and remains a staple on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_rock" title="Classic rock"&gt;classic rock&lt;/a&gt; radio to this day. &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%27s_Out_%28album%29" title="School's Out (album)"&gt;School's Out&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; the album reached #2 on the US charts and sold over a million copies. The band now relocated to their new mansion in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich,_Connecticut" title="Greenwich, Connecticut"&gt;Greenwich, Connecticut&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-28"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; With Cooper's on-stage androgynous persona completely replaced with &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiled_brat" title="Spoiled brat"&gt;brattiness&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machismo" title="Machismo"&gt;machismo&lt;/a&gt;,  the band solidified their success with subsequent tours in the US and  Europe, and won over devoted fans in droves while at the same time  horrifying parents and outraging the social establishment. Controversy  seemed to have little negative effect on the band's popularity, as they  were selected to be the first band to appear on then-new US television  series &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_In_Concert" title="ABC In Concert"&gt;ABC In Concert&lt;/a&gt; in September 1972. In England, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse" title="Mary Whitehouse"&gt;Mary Whitehouse&lt;/a&gt;, a well known campaigner for values of morality and decency, succeeded in having the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC"&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt; ban the video for "School's Out"&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-29"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and Member of Parliament &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Abse" title="Leo Abse"&gt;Leo Abse&lt;/a&gt; petitioned Home Secretary &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Maudling" title="Reginald Maudling"&gt;Reginald Maudling&lt;/a&gt; to have the group banned altogether from performing in the country.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-30"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In February 1973 &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_Dollar_Babies" title="Billion Dollar Babies"&gt;Billion Dollar Babies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; was released worldwide and became the band's most commercially successful album, reaching #1 in both the US and UK. "&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elected_%28Alice_Cooper_song%29" title="Elected (Alice Cooper song)"&gt;Elected&lt;/a&gt;",  a late-1972 Top 10 UK hit from the album, which inspired one of the  first MTV-style story-line promo videos ever made for a song (three  years before Queen's promotional video for "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody" title="Bohemian Rhapsody"&gt;Bohemian Rhapsody&lt;/a&gt;"), was followed by two more UK Top 10 singles, "Hello Hooray" and "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Mr._Nice_Guy_%28song%29" title="No More Mr. Nice Guy (song)"&gt;No More Mr. Nice Guy&lt;/a&gt;",  the latter of which was the last UK single from the album; it reached  #25 in the US. The title track, featuring guest vocals by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan" title="Donovan"&gt;Donovan&lt;/a&gt;, was also a US hit single. Due to Glen Buxton's waning health&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-31"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; around this time &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mashbir" title="Mick Mashbir"&gt;Mick Mashbir&lt;/a&gt; was secretly added to the band (who also played, without credit, on &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_of_Love" title="Muscle of Love"&gt;Muscle of Love&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) to supplement Glen's playing.&lt;sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"&gt;&lt;span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from October 2011"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_Cooper_group_1973.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="181" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Alice_Cooper_group_1973.JPG/220px-Alice_Cooper_group_1973.JPG" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_Cooper_group_1973.JPG" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; The group in 1973.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;With a string of successful &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_album" title="Concept album"&gt;concept albums&lt;/a&gt;  and several hit singles, the band continued their gruelling schedule  and toured the US once again. Continued attempts by politicians and  pressure groups to ban their shocking act only served to fuel the myth  of Alice Cooper further and generate even greater public interest. Their  1973 US tour broke box office records previously set by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones"&gt;The Rolling Stones&lt;/a&gt;  and raised rock theatrics to new heights; the multi-level stage show by  then featured numerous special effects, including Billion Dollar Bills,  decapitated baby dolls and mannequins, a dental psychosis scene  complete with dancing teeth, and the ultimate execution prop and  highlight of the show: the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine" title="Guillotine"&gt;guillotine&lt;/a&gt;. The guillotine and other stage effects were designed for the band by magician &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi" title="James Randi"&gt;James Randi&lt;/a&gt;, who appeared on stage during some of the shows as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executioner" title="Executioner"&gt;executioner&lt;/a&gt;.  The Alice Cooper group had now reached its peak and it was among the  most visible and successful acts in the industry. (Cooper's stage antics  would influence a host of later bands, including, among others, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercyful_Fate" title="Mercyful Fate"&gt;Mercyful Fate&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Diamond" title="King Diamond"&gt;King Diamond&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_%28band%29" title="Kiss (band)"&gt;Kiss&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult" title="Blue Öyster Cult"&gt;Blue Öyster Cult&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWAR" title="GWAR"&gt;GWAR&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.A.S.P._%28band%29" title="W.A.S.P. (band)"&gt;W.A.S.P.&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzy_Borden_%28band%29" title="Lizzy Borden (band)"&gt;Lizzy Borden&lt;/a&gt; and, later, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Manson" title="Marilyn Manson"&gt;Marilyn Manson&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipknot_%28band%29" title="Slipknot (band)"&gt;Slipknot&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Zombie" title="Rob Zombie"&gt;Rob Zombie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_black_metal" title="Norwegian black metal"&gt;Norwegian black metal&lt;/a&gt;  bands.) Beneath the surface, however, the repetitive schedule of  recording and touring had begun to take its toll on the band, and  Cooper, who was under the constant pressure of getting into character  for that night's show, was consistently sighted nursing a can of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer" title="Beer"&gt;beer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_of_Love" title="Muscle of Love"&gt;Muscle of Love&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,  released at the end of 1973, was to be the last studio album from the  classic line-up, and marked Alice Cooper's last UK Top 20 single of the  1970s with "Teenage Lament '74". An unsolicited theme song was recorded  for the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond" title="James Bond"&gt;James Bond&lt;/a&gt; movie &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_%28film%29" title="The Man with the Golden Gun (film)"&gt;The Man with the Golden Gun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, but a different song of the same name by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu_%28singer%29" title="Lulu (singer)"&gt;Lulu&lt;/a&gt; was chosen instead. By 1974, the &lt;i&gt;Muscle of Love&lt;/i&gt;  album had not matched the top-charting success of its predecessor, and  the band began to have constant disagreements. Cooper wanted to retain  the theatrics in the show that had brought them so much attention, while  the rest of the group thought they should be toned down so that they  could concentrate more on the music which had given them credibility.  Largely as a result of this difference of opinion, the band decided to  take a much-needed hiatus.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;During this time Cooper relocated back to Los Angeles and started appearing regularly on TV shows such as &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares" title="Hollywood Squares"&gt;Hollywood Squares&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, and Warner Bros. released the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper%27s_Greatest_Hits" title="Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits"&gt;Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; compilation album. It featured classic style artwork and reached the US Top 10, performing better than &lt;i&gt;Muscle of Love&lt;/i&gt;. However, the band's 1974 feature film &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_To_See_You_Again,_Alice_Cooper" title="Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper"&gt;Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  (consisting mainly of 1973 concert footage with 'comedic' sketches  woven throughout to a faint storyline), released on a minor theatrical  run mostly to drive-in theaters, saw little box office success.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;As some of the Alice Cooper band members had begun recording their own &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_album" title="Solo album"&gt;solo albums&lt;/a&gt;, Cooper decided to do the same himself. In 1975 he released his first solo album, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_To_My_Nightmare" title="Welcome To My Nightmare"&gt;Welcome To My Nightmare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.  To avoid legal complications over ownership of the group name, Alice  Cooper had by then become the singer's new legal name. The success of  the solo album marked the final break with the original members of the  band with Cooper collaborating with their producer Bob Ezrin, who  recruited &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Reed" title="Lou Reed"&gt;Lou Reed&lt;/a&gt;'s backing band, including guitarists &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Wagner" title="Dick Wagner"&gt;Dick Wagner&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hunter" title="Steve Hunter"&gt;Steve Hunter&lt;/a&gt;, to play on the album. Spearheaded by the US Top 20 hit ballad, "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Women_Bleed" title="Only Women Bleed"&gt;Only Women Bleed&lt;/a&gt;", the album was released by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records" title="Atlantic Records"&gt;Atlantic Records&lt;/a&gt;  in March of that year and became a Top 10 hit for Cooper. It was a  concept album that was based on the nightmare of a child named Steven,  featuring narration by classic horror movie film star &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Price" title="Vincent Price"&gt;Vincent Price&lt;/a&gt; (several years after &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_To_My_Nightmare" title="Welcome To My Nightmare"&gt;Welcome To My Nightmare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, he guested on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson"&gt;Michael Jackson&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_%28song%29" title="Thriller (song)"&gt;"Thriller"&lt;/a&gt;),  and serving as the soundtrack to Cooper's new stage show, which now  included more theatrics than ever (including an 8-foot-tall (2.4&amp;nbsp;m)  furry &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops" title="Cyclops"&gt;Cyclops&lt;/a&gt; which Cooper decapitates and kills).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;By this time, however, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage" title="Alcoholic beverage"&gt;alcohol&lt;/a&gt; was clearly affecting Cooper's performances. During the &lt;i&gt;Welcome to My Nightmare&lt;/i&gt;  tour in Vancouver, and only a few songs into the routine, Cooper  tripped over a foot-light, staggered a few paces, lost his bearings, and  plunged head-first off the stage and onto the concrete floor of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coliseum" title="Pacific Coliseum"&gt;Pacific Coliseum&lt;/a&gt;.  Some fans, thinking it was all part of the act, reached through the  barriers to pull at his blood-matted hair before bouncers could pull him  away for help. He was taken to a local hospital, where medical staff  stitched his head wound and provided him with a skullcap. Cooper  returned to the venue a couple of hours later and tried to perform a  couple of more songs, but within minutes he had to call it a night. The  opening act, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzi_Quatro" title="Suzi Quatro"&gt;Suzi Quatro&lt;/a&gt;, had already left the building and the remainder of the concert was canceled.&lt;sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"&gt;&lt;span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from November 2009"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Accompanying the album and stage show was the TV special &lt;i&gt;The Nightmare&lt;/i&gt;, starring Cooper and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Price" title="Vincent Price"&gt;Vincent Price&lt;/a&gt;, which aired on US prime-time TV in April 1975. &lt;i&gt;The Nightmare&lt;/i&gt;, the first rock music video album ever made&lt;sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"&gt;&lt;span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from November 2009"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; (it was later released on home video in 1983 and gained a Grammy Awards nomination for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Long_Form_Music_Video" title="Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video"&gt;Best Long Form Music Video&lt;/a&gt;), was regarded as another groundbreaking moment in rock history. Adding to all that, a concert film, also called &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_My_Nightmare_%28film%29" title="Welcome to My Nightmare (film)"&gt;Welcome to My Nightmare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; produced, directed and choreographed by the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story" title="West Side Story"&gt;West Side Story&lt;/a&gt; cast member &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Winters_%28choreographer%29" title="David Winters (choreographer)"&gt;David Winters&lt;/a&gt; and filmed live at London's &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wembley_Arena" title="Wembley Arena"&gt;Wembley Arena&lt;/a&gt; in September 1975, was released to theaters in 1976.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-32"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-33"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Though it failed at the box office, it later became a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_movie" title="Midnight movie"&gt;midnight movie&lt;/a&gt; favorite and a cult classic.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Such was the immense success of Cooper's solo project that he decided  to continue alone as a solo artist, and the original band became  officially defunct. It was also during this time that Cooper co-founded  the legendary drinking club &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollywood_Vampires" title="The Hollywood Vampires"&gt;The Hollywood Vampires&lt;/a&gt;, which gave him yet another reason to indulge his continued ample appetite for alcohol.&lt;sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"&gt;&lt;span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from November 2009"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 182px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_Cooper_1977.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="263" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Alice_Cooper_1977.JPG/180px-Alice_Cooper_1977.JPG" width="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_Cooper_1977.JPG" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Cooper in 1978.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Following the 1976 US #12 hit "I Never Cry",&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-34"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; another ballad, two albums, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper_Goes_to_Hell" title="Alice Cooper Goes to Hell"&gt;Alice Cooper Goes to Hell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_and_Whiskey" title="Lace and Whiskey"&gt;Lace and Whiskey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, and another ballad hit, the US #9 "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_and_Me_%28Alice_Cooper_song%29" title="You and Me (Alice Cooper song)"&gt;You and Me&lt;/a&gt;",  it became clear from many performances during his 1977 US tour that  Cooper was in dire need of help with his alcoholism (at his alcoholic  peak it was rumored that Cooper was consuming up to two cases of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_%28Anheuser-Busch%29" title="Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch)"&gt;Budweiser&lt;/a&gt;  and a bottle of whiskey a day). Following the tour, Cooper had himself  hospitalized in a New York sanitarium for treatment, during which time  the live album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alice_Cooper_Show" title="The Alice Cooper Show"&gt;The Alice Cooper Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; was released.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1978 a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobriety" title="Sobriety"&gt;sobered&lt;/a&gt; Cooper used his experience in the sanitarium as the inspiration for the semi-autobiographical album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Inside_%28Alice_Cooper_album%29" title="From the Inside (Alice Cooper album)"&gt;From The Inside&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, which he co-wrote with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Taupin" title="Bernie Taupin"&gt;Bernie Taupin&lt;/a&gt;.  The release spawned another US Top 20 hit "How You Gonna See Me Now",  yet another ballad, based on his fear of how his wife would react to him  after his spell in hospital.&lt;sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"&gt;&lt;span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from November 2009"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The subsequent tour's stage show was based inside an asylum, and was filmed for Cooper's first home video release, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strange_Case_of_Alice_Cooper" title="The Strange Case of Alice Cooper"&gt;The Strange Case of Alice Cooper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, in 1979. &lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-35"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Around this time, Cooper performed "Welcome To My Nightmare", "You and Me" and "School's Out" on &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Show" title="The Muppet Show"&gt;The Muppet Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (episode # 307) on March 28, 1978 (he played one of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil" title="Devil"&gt;devil&lt;/a&gt;'s henchmen trying to dupe &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_the_Frog" title="Kermit the Frog"&gt;Kermit the Frog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_%28Muppet%29" title="Gonzo (Muppet)"&gt;Gonzo&lt;/a&gt; into selling their souls). He also appeared in an against-typecasting role as a piano-playing disco bellboy in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West" title="Mae West"&gt;Mae West&lt;/a&gt;'s final film, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextette" title="Sextette"&gt;Sextette&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, and as a villain in the film &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band_%28film%29" title="Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)"&gt;Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Cooper also led celebrities in raising money to remodel the famous &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Sign" title="Hollywood Sign"&gt;Hollywood Sign&lt;/a&gt;  in California. Cooper himself contributed over $27,000 to the project,  buying an O in the sign in memory of friend and comedian &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx" title="Groucho Marx"&gt;Groucho Marx&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="1980s"&gt;1980s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cooper's albums from the beginning of the 80s, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush_the_Fashion" title="Flush the Fashion"&gt;Flush the Fashion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Forces_%28Alice_Cooper_album%29" title="Special Forces (Alice Cooper album)"&gt;Special Forces&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper_Catches_Skin" title="Zipper Catches Skin"&gt;Zipper Catches Skin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaDa" title="DaDa"&gt;DaDa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, were not as commercially successful as his past releases. &lt;i&gt;Flush the Fashion&lt;/i&gt;, produced by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_%28band%29" title="Queen (band)"&gt;Queen&lt;/a&gt; producer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Thomas_Baker" title="Roy Thomas Baker"&gt;Roy Thomas Baker&lt;/a&gt;, had a thick, edgy &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_music" title="New Wave music"&gt;New Wave&lt;/a&gt; musical sound that baffled even long-time fans, though it still yielded the US Top 40 hit "&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28We%27re_All%29_Clones" title="(We're All) Clones"&gt;(We're All) Clones&lt;/a&gt;". The album &lt;i&gt;Special Forces&lt;/i&gt;  featured a more aggressive but consistent form of New Wave style, and  included a new version of "Generation Landslide". The following album, &lt;i&gt;Zipper Catches Skin&lt;/i&gt; was a more &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_pop" title="Power pop"&gt;power pop&lt;/a&gt;-oriented  recording, with lots of quirky high-energy guitar-driven songs. While  those three albums engaged the experimental New Wave sound with  energetic results, 1983 marked the return collaboration of producer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ezrin" title="Bob Ezrin"&gt;Bob Ezrin&lt;/a&gt; and guitarist &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Wagner" title="Dick Wagner"&gt;Dick Wagner&lt;/a&gt; with the haunting epic &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaDa" title="DaDa"&gt;DaDa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, the final album in his Warner Bros. contract.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1983 after the recording of &lt;i&gt;DaDa&lt;/i&gt;, Cooper was re-hospitalized for alcoholism. In a deathly state of health he moved back to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona"&gt;Phoenix&lt;/a&gt;  to save his marriage from collapse, and so that he could receive the  support of family and friends. Cooper was finally clean and sober by the  time &lt;i&gt;DaDa&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Nightmare&lt;/i&gt; home video (of his 1975 TV  Special) were released in the fall of that year; however, both releases  performed below expectations. Even with &lt;i&gt;The Nightmare&lt;/i&gt; scoring a nomination for 1984's &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Long_Form_Music_Video" title="Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video"&gt;Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video&lt;/a&gt; (he lost to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duran_Duran" title="Duran Duran"&gt;Duran Duran&lt;/a&gt;),  it was not enough for Warner Bros. to keep Cooper on their books, so in  1984 Cooper became a "free agent" for the first time in his career.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;After over a year on hiatus, during which time he spent being a  full-time father, perfecting his golf swing every day on the golf  course, and finding time to star in the Spanish &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-grade" title="B-grade"&gt;B-grade&lt;/a&gt; horror movie production &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Dog" title="Monster Dog"&gt;Monster Dog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, Cooper sought to pick up the pieces of his musical career. In 1985 he met and began writing songs with guitarist &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_Roberts" title="Kane Roberts"&gt;Kane Roberts&lt;/a&gt;. Cooper was subsequently signed to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records"&gt;MCA Records&lt;/a&gt;, and appeared as guest vocalist on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_Sister" title="Twisted Sister"&gt;Twisted Sister&lt;/a&gt;'s  song "Be Chrool To Your Scuel". A video was made for the song,  featuring Cooper donning his black snake-eyes make-up for the first time  since 1979. But any publicity it may have generated toward Cooper's  return to the music scene was cut short as the video was promptly &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_%28law%29" title="Ban (law)"&gt;banned&lt;/a&gt; because of its graphically gory make-up (by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Savini" title="Tom Savini"&gt;Tom Savini&lt;/a&gt;), and because of the innumerable zombies in the video and their insatiable appetite for gorging on human flesh.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1986 Alice Cooper officially returned to the music industry with the album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrictor_%28album%29" title="Constrictor (album)"&gt;Constrictor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. The album spawned the hits "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%27s_Back_%28The_Man_Behind_the_Mask%29" title="He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)"&gt;He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)&lt;/a&gt;" (the theme song for the movie &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_Part_VI:_Jason_Lives" title="Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives"&gt;Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;;  in the video of the song Cooper was given a cameo role as a deranged  psychiatrist) and the fan favorite "Teenage Frankenstein". The  Constrictor album was a catalyst for Cooper to make (for the first time  since the 1982 &lt;i&gt;Special Forces&lt;/i&gt; tour) a triumphant return to the road, on a tour appropriately entitled &lt;i&gt;The Nightmare Returns&lt;/i&gt;. The Detroit leg of this tour, which took place at the end of October 1986 during Halloween,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-36"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; was captured on film as &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare_Returns" title="The Nightmare Returns"&gt;The Nightmare Returns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, and is viewed by some as being the definitive Alice Cooper concert film.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-37"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The concert, which received rave reviews in the rock music press,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-38"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; was also described as bringing "Cooper’s violent, twisted onstage fantasies to a new generation".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-39"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The &lt;i&gt;Constrictor&lt;/i&gt; album was followed by &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raise_Your_Fist_and_Yell" title="Raise Your Fist and Yell"&gt;Raise Your Fist and Yell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; in 1987, which had an even rougher sound than its predecessor, as well as the Cooper classic "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_%28Alice_Cooper_song%29" title="Freedom (Alice Cooper song)"&gt;Freedom&lt;/a&gt;". The subsequent tour of &lt;i&gt;Raise Your Fist and Yell&lt;/i&gt;, which was heavily inspired by the slasher horror movies of the time such as the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_%28franchise%29" title="Friday the 13th (franchise)"&gt;Friday the 13th&lt;/a&gt; series and &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_on_Elm_Street" title="Nightmare on Elm Street"&gt;Nightmare on Elm Street&lt;/a&gt;,  served up a shocking spectacle similar to its predecessor, and courted  the kind of controversy, especially in Europe, that recalled the public  outrage caused by Cooper's public performances in America in the early  1970s.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In Britain Labour M.P. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blunkett" title="David Blunkett"&gt;David Blunkett&lt;/a&gt;  called for the show to be banned, saying "I'm horrified by his  behaviour — it goes beyond the bounds of entertainment" (even though  Blunkett has been blind from birth).&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-40"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  The controversy spilled over into the German segment of the tour, with  the German government actually succeeding in having some of the gorier  segments of the performance removed.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-41"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  It was also during the London leg of the tour that Cooper met with a  near fatal accident during the hanging execution sequence at the end of  the show.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-42"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-42"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Needless to say the attendant publicity served only to increase public  interest and ensure that the tour was completely sold out.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Constrictor&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Raise Your Fist and Yell&lt;/i&gt; were recorded with lead guitarist &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_Roberts" title="Kane Roberts"&gt;Kane Roberts&lt;/a&gt; and bassist &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Winger" title="Kip Winger"&gt;Kip Winger&lt;/a&gt;, both of whom would leave the band by the end of 1988 (although Kane Roberts played guitar on "Bed Of Nails" on 1989's album &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash_%28Alice_Cooper_album%29" title="Trash (Alice Cooper album)"&gt;Trash&lt;/a&gt;). Roberts would continue as a solo artist while Kip Winger would go on to form &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winger_%28band%29" title="Winger (band)"&gt;Winger&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1987 Cooper made a brief appearance as a vagrant in the horror movie &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Darkness_%281987_movie%29" title="Prince of Darkness (1987 movie)"&gt;Prince of Darkness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, directed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carpenter" title="John Carpenter"&gt;John Carpenter&lt;/a&gt;.  His role had no lines and consisted of generally menacing the  protagonists before eventually impaling one of them with a bicycle  frame. Cooper also appeared at &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WrestleMania_III" title="WrestleMania III"&gt;WrestleMania III&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, escorting wrestler &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Roberts" title="Jake Roberts"&gt;Jake 'The Snake' Roberts&lt;/a&gt; to the ring. After the match was over, Cooper got involved and threw Jake's snake Damien at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honky_Tonk_Man" title="The Honky Tonk Man"&gt;The Honky Tonk Man&lt;/a&gt;'s manager &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hart" title="Jimmy Hart"&gt;Jimmy Hart&lt;/a&gt;. Jake considered the involvement of Cooper to be an honor, as he had idolized Cooper in his youth and was still a huge fan.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1988 Cooper's contract with MCA Records expired and he signed with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Records" title="Epic Records"&gt;Epic Records&lt;/a&gt;. Then in 1989 his career finally experienced a real revival with the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Child" title="Desmond Child"&gt;Desmond Child&lt;/a&gt; produced album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash_%28Alice_Cooper_album%29" title="Trash (Alice Cooper album)"&gt;Trash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, which spawned a hit single "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_%28Alice_Cooper_song%29" title="Poison (Alice Cooper song)"&gt;Poison&lt;/a&gt;", which reached #2 in the UK and #7 in the US, and a worldwide &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert" title="Concert"&gt;arena tour&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="1990s"&gt;1990s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1991 saw the release of Cooper's 19th studio album, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Stoopid" title="Hey Stoopid"&gt;Hey Stoopid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,  again featuring several of rock music’s glitterati guesting on the  record. Released as glam metal's popularity was on the wane, and just  before the explosion of grunge, it failed to have the same commercial  impact as its predecessor. The same year also saw the release of the  video &lt;i&gt;Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts&lt;/i&gt; which chronicled his entire career  using in depth interviews with Cooper himself, Bob Ezrin, and Shep  Gordon. One critic has noted that &lt;i&gt;Prime Cuts&lt;/i&gt; demonstrates how  Cooper had used (in contrast to similar artists who succeeded him)  themes of satire and moralisation to such good effect throughout his  career.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-43"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; It was in the &lt;i&gt;Prime Cuts&lt;/i&gt;  video that Bob Ezrin delivered his own summation of the Alice Cooper  persona: "He is the psycho killer in all of us. He's the axe murderer,  he's the spoiled child, he's the abuser, he's the abused; he's the  perpetrator, he's the victim, he's the gun slinger, and he's the guy  lying dead in the middle of the street".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-44"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;By the early 1990s Cooper had become a genuine cultural icon,  guesting on records by the most successful bands of the time, such as  the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_N%27_Roses" title="Guns N' Roses"&gt;Guns N' Roses&lt;/a&gt; album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_Your_Illusion_I" title="Use Your Illusion I"&gt;Use Your Illusion I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, (on which he shared vocal duties with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axl_Rose" title="Axl Rose"&gt;Axl Rose&lt;/a&gt; on the track "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_%28song%29" title="The Garden (song)"&gt;The Garden&lt;/a&gt;"); making a brief appearance as the abusive stepfather of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Krueger" title="Freddy Krueger"&gt;Freddy Krueger&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_On_Elm_Street" title="Nightmare On Elm Street"&gt;Nightmare On Elm Street&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; film &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy%27s_Dead:_The_Final_Nightmare" title="Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare"&gt;Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1991); and making a famous cameo appearance in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_in_film" title="1992 in film"&gt;1992&lt;/a&gt; comedy film &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%27s_World_%28film%29" title="Wayne's World (film)"&gt;Wayne's World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, in which he and his band intellectually discuss (after a performance of the song "Feed My Frankenstein" from &lt;i&gt;Hey Stoopid&lt;/i&gt;) the history of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee"&gt;Milwaukee&lt;/a&gt;  in surprising depth. In a now famous scene, the movie's main characters  Wayne and Garth, upon seeing Cooper, kneel and bow reverently before  him while chanting "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!" He later made  an appearance on an episode of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_70s_Show" title="That 70s Show"&gt;That 70s Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, at the end of which he and two other (minor) guest characters parody &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons &amp;amp; Dragons"&gt;Dungeons &amp;amp; Dragons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1994 Cooper released &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_%28Alice_Cooper_album%29" title="The Last Temptation (Alice Cooper album)"&gt;The Last Temptation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, his first concept album since &lt;i&gt;DaDa&lt;/i&gt;.  The album deals with issues of faith, temptation, alienation and the  frustrations of modern life, and has been described as "a young man's  struggle to see the truth through the distractions of the 'Sideshow' of  the modern world".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-45"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Concurrent with the release of &lt;i&gt;The Last Temptation&lt;/i&gt; was a three-part &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book" title="Comic book"&gt;comic book&lt;/a&gt; series written by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman"&gt;Neil Gaiman&lt;/a&gt;,  fleshing out the album's story. This was to be Cooper’s last album with  Epic Records, and his last studio release for six years, though during  this period the live album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Alice" title="A Fistful of Alice"&gt;A Fistful of Alice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-46"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-46"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; was released, and in 1997 he lent his voice to the first track of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane_Clown_Posse" title="Insane Clown Posse"&gt;Insane Clown Posse&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Milenko" title="The Great Milenko"&gt;The Great Milenko&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. In 1999, the four-disc box set &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Crimes_of_Alice_Cooper" title="The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper"&gt;The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; appeared, which contained an authorized biography of Cooper, &lt;i&gt;Alcohol and Razor Blades, Poison and Needles: The Glorious Wretched Excess of Alice Cooper, All-American&lt;/i&gt;, written by &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creem" title="Creem"&gt;Creem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; magazine editor &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Morgan" title="Jeffrey Morgan"&gt;Jeffrey Morgan&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-47"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-47"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;During his absence from the recording studio, Cooper toured  extensively every year throughout the latter part of the 1990s,  including, in 1996, South America, which he had not visited since 1974.  Also in 1996, Cooper sang the role of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Antipas" title="Herod Antipas"&gt;Herod&lt;/a&gt; on the London cast recording of the musical &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar" title="Jesus Christ Superstar"&gt;Jesus Christ Superstar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-48"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-48"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="2000s"&gt;2000s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cooper,_Alice_%28Flickr%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="248" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Cooper%2C_Alice_%28Flickr%29.jpg/220px-Cooper%2C_Alice_%28Flickr%29.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cooper,_Alice_%28Flickr%29.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Cooper in 2004 on a film set in L.A.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The first decade of the 21st century saw a sustained period of  activity from Alice Cooper. In the decade that he turned sixty, he  toured extensively and released (after a significant break) a steady  stream of studio albums to favorable critical acclaim. During this  period Cooper was also recognized and awarded in various ways: he  received a Rock Immortal award at the 2007 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Awards" title="Scream Awards"&gt;Scream Awards&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-49"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-49"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; was given a star on the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame" title="Hollywood Walk of Fame"&gt;Hollywood Walk of Fame&lt;/a&gt; in 2003;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-50"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-50"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; he received (in May 2004) an honorary doctoral degree from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_University" title="Grand Canyon University"&gt;Grand Canyon University&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-51"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-51"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; was given (in May 2006) the &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_to_the_city" title="Key to the city"&gt;key to the city&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice,_North_Dakota" title="Alice, North Dakota"&gt;Alice&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota" title="North Dakota"&gt;North Dakota&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-52"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-52"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; he scooped the living legend award at the 2006 Classic Rock Roll of Honour event;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-53"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-53"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; he won the 2007 Mojo music magazine Hero Award;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-54"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-54"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and fans twice tried to induct him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-55"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-55"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The lengthy break between studio albums ended in 2000 with &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutal_Planet" title="Brutal Planet"&gt;Brutal Planet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,  which was a return to horror-lined heavy metal, with industrial rock,  and with subject matter thematically inspired by the brutality of the  modern world, set in a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia" title="Dystopia"&gt;dystopian&lt;/a&gt; post-apocalyptic future, and also inspired by a number of news stories that had recently appeared on the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN"&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt; news channel.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-56"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-56"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The album was produced by Bob Marlett, with longtime Cooper production collaborator &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ezrin" title="Bob Ezrin"&gt;Bob Ezrin&lt;/a&gt;  returning as Executive Producer. The accompanying world tour, which  included Cooper's first concert in Russia, was a resounding success,  introducing Alice Cooper to a new audience and producing the live home  video, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutally_Live" title="Brutally Live"&gt;Brutally Live&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, in 2001. During one memorable episode in &lt;i&gt;Brutally Live&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_Spears" title="Britney Spears"&gt;Britney Spears&lt;/a&gt;  (being played by Alice Cooper's real life daughter, Calico), and  representing "everything that my audience hates — the softening of rock  and roll...the sweetness of it"&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-57"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-57"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; is executed by Cooper.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Brutal Planet was succeeded by the sonically similar and widely acclaimed sequel &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragontown" title="Dragontown"&gt;Dragontown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, which saw &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ezrin" title="Bob Ezrin"&gt;Bob Ezrin&lt;/a&gt;  back at the helm as producer. The album has been described as leading  the listener down "a nightmarish path into the mind of rock's original  conceptual storyteller"&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-58"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-58"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and by Cooper himself as being "the worst town on Brutal Planet".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-59"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-59"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Like &lt;i&gt;The Last Temptation&lt;/i&gt;, both &lt;i&gt;Brutal Planet&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Dragontown&lt;/i&gt;  are albums which explore Cooper's personal faith perspective (born  again Christianity). It is often cited in the music media that &lt;i&gt;Dragontown&lt;/i&gt; forms the third chapter in a trilogy begun with &lt;i&gt;The Last Temptation&lt;/i&gt;;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-60"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-60"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; however, Cooper has himself indicated that this in fact is not the case.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-61"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-61"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cooper again adopted a leaner, cleaner sound for his critically acclaimed&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-62"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-62"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; 2003 release &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eyes_Of_Alice_Cooper" title="The Eyes Of Alice Cooper"&gt;The Eyes Of Alice Cooper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.  Recognizing that many contemporary bands were having great success with  his former sounds and styles, Cooper worked with a somewhat younger  group of road and studio musicians who were very familiar with his  oeuvre of old. However, instead of rehashing the old sounds, they  updated them, often with surprisingly effective results. The resulting &lt;i&gt;Bare Bones&lt;/i&gt;  tour adopted a less-orchestrated performance style that had fewer  theatrical flourishes and a greater emphasis on musicality. The success  of this tour helped support the growing recognition that the classic  Cooper songs were exceptionally clever, tuneful and unique.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cooper's radio show, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nights_with_Alice_Cooper" title="Nights with Alice Cooper"&gt;Nights with Alice Cooper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,  began airing on January 26, 2004 in several US cities. The program  showcases classic rock, Cooper's personal stories about his life as a  rock icon and interviews with prominent rock artists. The show is  broadcast on nearly 100 stations in the US and Canada,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-63"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-63"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  and has also been broadcast all over the world. In 2005, Alice Cooper  was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of  Fame. Two of the hit recordings of the original Alice Cooper band have  been voted Legendary Michigan Songs: "Eighteen" in 2008, and "School's  Out" in 2009.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A continuation of the songwriting approach adopted on &lt;i&gt;The Eyes of Alice Cooper&lt;/i&gt; was again adopted by Cooper for his 24th studio album, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Diamonds" title="Dirty Diamonds"&gt;Dirty Diamonds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, released in 2005. &lt;i&gt;Dirty Diamonds&lt;/i&gt; became Cooper's highest charting album since 1994's &lt;i&gt;The Last Temptation&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-64"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-64"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The Dirty Diamonds tour launched in America in August 2005 after several European concerts, including a performance at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Jazz_Festival" title="Montreux Jazz Festival"&gt;Montreux Jazz Festival&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland"&gt;Switzerland&lt;/a&gt; on July 12. Cooper and his band, including Kiss drummer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Singer" title="Eric Singer"&gt;Eric Singer&lt;/a&gt;, were filmed for a DVD released as &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_Montreux_%28Alice_Cooper_album%29" title="Live at Montreux (Alice Cooper album)"&gt;Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.  One critic, in a review of the Montreux release, commented that Cooper  was to be applauded for "still mining pretty much the same territory of  teenage angst and rebellion" as he had done more than thirty years  previously.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-65"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-65"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In December 2006 the original Alice Cooper band reunited to perform  six classic Alice Cooper songs at Cooper's annual charity event in  Phoenix, entitled "Christmas Pudding".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-66"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-66"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On July 1, 2007, Cooper performed a duet with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Manson" title="Marilyn Manson"&gt;Marilyn Manson&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BestFest" title="BestFest"&gt;B'Estival&lt;/a&gt; event in &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest,_Romania" title="Bucharest, Romania"&gt;Bucharest, Romania&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-67"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-67"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  The performance represented a reconciliation between the two artists;  Cooper had previously taken issue with Manson over his overtly  anti-Christian onstage antics, which included tearing up Bibles, and he  had sarcastically made reference to the originality of Manson's choosing  a female name and dressing in women's clothing.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-68"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-68"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Cooper and Manson have been the subject of an academic paper on the significance of adolescent antiheroes.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-69"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-69"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Also in 2007 on Oct 23 Cooper got honored By SpikeTV with an Rock  Immortal Award at Scream. He did a live performance with both Slash and  Rob Zombie as their UnHoly Trinity performing his hit song Schools Out!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In January 2008 he was one of the guest singers on the new &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avantasia" title="Avantasia"&gt;Avantasia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarecrow_%28album%29" title="The Scarecrow (album)"&gt;The Scarecrow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, singing the 7th track, &lt;i&gt;The Toy Master&lt;/i&gt;. In July 2008, after lengthy delays, Cooper released &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Along_Came_a_Spider_%28album%29" title="Along Came a Spider (album)"&gt;Along Came a Spider&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, his 25th studio album. It was Cooper's highest charting album since 1991's &lt;i&gt;Hey Stoopid&lt;/i&gt;, reaching #53 in the US and #31 in the UK. The album, visiting similar territory explored in 1987's &lt;i&gt;Raise Your Fist and Yell&lt;/i&gt;, deals with the nefarious antics of a deranged &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer" title="Serial killer"&gt;serial killer&lt;/a&gt;  named "Spider" who is on a quest to use the limbs of his victims to  create a human spider. The album generally received positive reviews  from music critics, though Rolling Stone magazine opined that the music  on the record sorely missed Bob Ezrin's production values.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-70"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-70"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The resulting &lt;i&gt;Theatre of Death&lt;/i&gt;  tour of the album (during which Cooper is executed on four separate  occasions) was described in a long November 2009 article about Cooper in  &lt;i&gt;The Times&lt;/i&gt; as "epic" and featuring "enough fake blood to remake &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan" title="Saving Private Ryan"&gt;Saving Private Ryan&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-71"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-71"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="2010s"&gt;2010s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On January 22, 2010, it was announced that Alice would be touring with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Zombie" title="Rob Zombie"&gt;Rob Zombie&lt;/a&gt; on the "Gruesome Twosome" tour.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-72"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-72"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On March 29, 2010, Cooper revealed during his weekly radio show on &lt;i&gt;Planet Rock&lt;/i&gt; that his next record was to be titled &lt;i&gt;The Night Shift&lt;/i&gt;. Cooper stated he has 10 demos ready.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On May 26, 2010, Cooper made an appearance during the beginning of the season finale of the reality-show, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idol" title="American Idol"&gt;American Idol&lt;/a&gt;, in which he sang "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%27s_Out_%28song%29" title="School's Out (song)"&gt;School's Out&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-73"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-73"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On June 20, 2010, Cooper joined &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_%28musician%29" title="Slash (musician)"&gt;Slash&lt;/a&gt; on stage in Paris to perform the song "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%27s_Out_%28song%29" title="School's Out (song)"&gt;School's Out&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-74"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-74"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tleft"&gt; &lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 212px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_Cooper-Live-Wacken_2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="158" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/Alice_Cooper-Live-Wacken_2010.jpg/210px-Alice_Cooper-Live-Wacken_2010.jpg" width="210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_Cooper-Live-Wacken_2010.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Alice Cooper performing live at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacken_Open_Air" title="Wacken Open Air"&gt;Wacken Open Air&lt;/a&gt; in 2010&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On June 15, 2010 to coincide with the release of the &lt;a class="external text" href="http://hub.guitarhero.com/school-s-out-guitar-hero-parties-with-alice-cooper/2010-06-15?CalendarStart=2010-06-1" rel="nofollow"&gt;"Alice Cooper Track Pack" for Guitar Hero&lt;/a&gt;, a free download of the newly-recorded "Elected" was made available on Alice Cooper's &lt;a class="external text" href="http://www.alicecooper.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;official website&lt;/a&gt;. He scored alongside his daughter and band member &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Wagner" title="Dick Wagner"&gt;Dick Wagner&lt;/a&gt; the score for the Indie horror flick Silas Gore.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-75"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-75"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;During 2010 Cooper began working on a new album, dubbed &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_2_My_Nightmare" title="Welcome 2 My Nightmare"&gt;Welcome 2 My Nightmare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, a sequel to the original &lt;i&gt;Welcome to My Nightmare&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rm_76-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-rm-76"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  In a Radio Metal interview, he said that "[w]e'll put some of the  original people on it and add some new people[...]I'm very happy with  working with Bob (Ezrin) again."&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rm_76-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-rm-76"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;During a press conference in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt; Cooper said about &lt;i&gt;Welcome to My Nightmare II&lt;/i&gt;: "this album is more bloody and more accomplished than the first. It sounds like the early years."&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-77"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-77"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  By October 2010, Alice and Bob Ezrin had come up with 13 songs,  including the ballads "I Am Made of You" and "Something to Remember Me  By."&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bm_78-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-bm-78"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;In addition, Cooper cut three new songs with original band members &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Dunaway" title="Dennis Dunaway"&gt;Dennis Dunaway&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Smith_%28drummer%29" title="Neal Smith (drummer)"&gt;Neal Smith&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bruce_%28musician%29" title="Michael Bruce (musician)"&gt;Michael Bruce&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bm_78-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-bm-78"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On December 15, 2010, it was announced Cooper and his former band would be inducted into the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"&gt;Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt;.  The official Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place  March 14, 2011, where Cooper was inducted by fellow horror-rocker Rob  Zombie. He showed up for the event wearing a (presumably fake)  blood-splattered shirt and had a live giant albino boa snake wrapped  around his neck.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HallofFame_4-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-HallofFame-4"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-79"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-79"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Cooper told &lt;i&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/i&gt;  magazine that he was "elated" by the news and that the nomination had  been made for the original band, as "We all did go to the same high  school together, and we were all on the track team, and it was pretty  cool that guys that knew each other before the band ended up going that  far".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Rolling_Stone_80-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-Rolling_Stone-80"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On March 10, 2011 Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Alice  Cooper, Jennifer Warnes and others performed at a benefit concert in  Tucson, Arizona benefiting The Fund For Civility, Respect and  Understanding, a foundation that raise awareness about and provides  medical prevention and treatment services to people with mental  disorders. The concert also benefited the injured and the families of  victims of the January 8, 2011 shootings in Tucson, AZ. On March 19,  2011, Alice appeared on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-81"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-81"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and on June 26, 2011, he took his place in the Reasonably Priced Car at the BBC auto show &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_%282002_TV_series%29" title="Top Gear (2002 TV series)"&gt;Top Gear&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-82"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-82"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; He also announced on the BBC One chat show, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Mack%27s_All_Star_Cast" title="Lee Mack's All Star Cast"&gt;Lee Mack's All Star Cast&lt;/a&gt;, that he would be shooting a small cameo in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton" title="Tim Burton"&gt;Tim Burton&lt;/a&gt;'s upcoming &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Shadows_%28film%29" title="Dark Shadows (film)"&gt;film version of Dark Shadows&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-83"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-83"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On July 2 he joined the Foo Fighters on the first of their two nights  at the Milton Keynes Bowl to perform "Schools Out" and "I'm 18". He  also played stadium dates in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki" title="Helsinki"&gt;Helsinki&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo"&gt;Oslo&lt;/a&gt; as a supporting act for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden" title="Iron Maiden"&gt;Iron Maiden&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cooper was involved in the design of a haunted maze titled "Alice  Cooper's Welcome to my Nightmare" featured at Universal Studios  Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights event in 2011.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Influences_and_fans"&gt;Influences and fans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;During an interview for the program &lt;i&gt;Entertainment USA&lt;/i&gt; in 1986 Cooper stunned interviewer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_King" title="Jonathan King"&gt;Jonathan King&lt;/a&gt; by stating that &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds"&gt;The Yardbirds&lt;/a&gt; were his favorite band of all time.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-84"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-84"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Perhaps King should not have been so taken aback, as Cooper had as far  back as 1969 gone on record as saying that it was music from the  mid-sixties, and particularly from British bands &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles"&gt;The Beatles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who"&gt;The Who&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones"&gt;The Rolling Stones&lt;/a&gt;, as well as The Yardbirds, that had the greatest influence on him.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-poppin_int_85-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-poppin_int-85"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Cooper would later pay homage to The Who by singing "I'm A Boy" for &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Celebration:_The_Music_of_Pete_Townshend_and_The_Who" title="A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who"&gt;A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; in 1994 at Carnegie Hall in New York, and performing a cover of &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Generation_%28The_Who_song%29" title="My Generation (The Who song)"&gt;"My Generation"&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;i&gt;Brutal Planet&lt;/i&gt; tour of 2000.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;During an interview with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzy_Osbourne" title="Ozzy Osbourne"&gt;Ozzy Osbourne&lt;/a&gt; from radio program &lt;i&gt;Nights with Alice Cooper&lt;/i&gt;  on May 22, 2007, Cooper again affirmed his debt of gratitude to these  bands, and to The Beatles in particular. During their discussion, Cooper  and Osbourne bemoaned the often inferior quality of songwriting coming  from contemporary rock artists. Cooper stated that in his opinion the  cause of the problem was that certain modern bands "had forgotten to  listen to The Beatles".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On the 25th Anniversary DVD of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret" title="Cabaret"&gt;Cabaret&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liza_Minnelli" title="Liza Minnelli"&gt;Liza Minnelli&lt;/a&gt; stated that her good friend, Alice Cooper, had told her that his whole career was based on the movie &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret" title="Cabaret"&gt;Cabaret&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Evidence of Cooper's eclectic tastes in both classic and contemporary  rock music, from the 1960s to the present, can be seen in the track  listings of his radio show; in addition, when he appeared on the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_2" title="BBC Radio 2"&gt;BBC Radio 2&lt;/a&gt; program &lt;i&gt;Tracks of My Years&lt;/i&gt; in September 2007, he listed his favorite tracks of all time as being: "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Nervous_Breakdown" title="19th Nervous Breakdown"&gt;19th Nervous Breakdown&lt;/a&gt;" (1966) by The Rolling Stones; "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Japanese" title="Turning Japanese"&gt;Turning Japanese&lt;/a&gt;" (1980) by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vapors" title="The Vapors"&gt;The Vapors&lt;/a&gt;; "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sharona" title="My Sharona"&gt;My Sharona&lt;/a&gt;" (1979) by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knack" title="The Knack"&gt;The Knack&lt;/a&gt;; "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beds_Are_Burning" title="Beds Are Burning"&gt;Beds Are Burning&lt;/a&gt;" (1987) by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Oil" title="Midnight Oil"&gt;Midnight Oil&lt;/a&gt;; "My Generation" (1965) by The Who; "&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_To_The_Jungle" title="Welcome To The Jungle"&gt;Welcome To The Jungle&lt;/a&gt;" (1987) by Guns N' Roses; "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Rebel" title="Rebel Rebel"&gt;Rebel Rebel&lt;/a&gt;" (1974) by David Bowie; "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_Under_Sideways_Down" title="Over Under Sideways Down"&gt;Over Under Sideways Down&lt;/a&gt;" (1966) by The Yardbirds; "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Gonna_Be_My_Girl" title="Are You Gonna Be My Girl"&gt;Are You Gonna Be My Girl&lt;/a&gt;" (2003) by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_%28band%29" title="Jet (band)"&gt;Jet&lt;/a&gt;; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29" title="A Hard Day's Night (song)"&gt;"A Hard Day's Night"&lt;/a&gt; (1964) by The Beatles,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-86"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-86"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and when he appeared on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Island_Discs" title="Desert Island Discs"&gt;Desert Island Discs&lt;/a&gt; in 2010 he chose the songs "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happenings_Ten_Years_Time_Ago" title="Happenings Ten Years Time Ago"&gt;Happenings Ten Years Time Ago&lt;/a&gt;" by The Yardbirds; "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Get_Around" title="I Get Around"&gt;I Get Around&lt;/a&gt;" by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys" title="The Beach Boys"&gt;The Beach Boys&lt;/a&gt;; "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_a_Boy" title="I'm a Boy"&gt;I'm a Boy&lt;/a&gt;" by The Who; Timer by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Nyro" title="Laura Nyro"&gt;Laura Nyro&lt;/a&gt;; "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Century_Schizoid_Man" title="21st Century Schizoid Man"&gt;21st Century Schizoid Man&lt;/a&gt;" by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Crimson" title="King Crimson"&gt;King Crimson&lt;/a&gt;; "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Been_Caught_Stealing" title="Been Caught Stealing"&gt;Been Caught Stealing&lt;/a&gt;" by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%27s_Addiction" title="Jane's Addiction"&gt;Jane's Addiction&lt;/a&gt;; "Work Song" by &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paul_Butterfield_Blues_Band" title="The Paul Butterfield Blues Band"&gt;The Paul Butterfield Blues Band&lt;/a&gt; and "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad_of_a_Thin_Man" title="Ballad of a Thin Man"&gt;Ballad of a Thin Man&lt;/a&gt;" by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan"&gt;Bob Dylan&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbc_desert_island_discs_87-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-bbc_desert_island_discs-87"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Zombie" title="Rob Zombie"&gt;Rob Zombie&lt;/a&gt;, former front man of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Zombie" title="White Zombie"&gt;White Zombie&lt;/a&gt;, claims his first "metal moment" was seeing Alice Cooper on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Kirshner%27s_Rock_Concert" title="Don Kirshner's Rock Concert"&gt;Don Kirshner's Rock Concert&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-88"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-88"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In a 1978 interview with &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone"&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan"&gt;Bob Dylan&lt;/a&gt; stated, "I think Alice Cooper is an overlooked songwriter".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-89"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-89"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="quotebox" style="background-color: ivory; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.8em 1.4em; padding: 6px; width: 25%;"&gt; &lt;div style="position: relative; text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0px 2em;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; I know the words to every Alice Cooper song. The fact is, if you  can call what I have a musical career, it all started with me miming to  I'm Eighteen on a jukebox&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: grey; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; left: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="bottom: 0px; color: grey; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lydon" title="John Lydon"&gt;John Lydon&lt;/a&gt; speaking in 2002&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In the foreword to Alice Cooper's CD retrospective box set &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Crimes_of_Alice_Cooper" title="The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper"&gt;The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lydon" title="John Lydon"&gt;John Lydon&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sex_Pistols" title="The Sex Pistols"&gt;The Sex Pistols&lt;/a&gt; pronounced &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_%28Alice_Cooper_album%29" title="Killer (Alice Cooper album)"&gt;Killer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  as the greatest rock album of all time, and in 2002 Lydon presented his  own tribute program to Cooper on BBC radio. Lydon told the BBC that "I  know the words to every Alice Cooper song. The fact is, if you can call  what I have a musical career, it all started with me miming to I'm  Eighteen on a jukebox".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbc_Lydon_90-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-bbc_Lydon-90"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-91"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-91"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flaming_Lips" title="The Flaming Lips"&gt;The Flaming Lips&lt;/a&gt; are longtime Alice Cooper fans and used the bass line from "Levity Ball" (an early song from the 1969 release &lt;i&gt;Pretties for You&lt;/i&gt;)  for their song "The Ceiling Is Bending". They also covered "Sun Arise"  for an Alice Cooper tribute album. (Cooper's version, which closes the  album &lt;i&gt;Love It To Death&lt;/i&gt;, was itself a cover of a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Harris" title="Rolf Harris"&gt;Rolf Harris&lt;/a&gt; song.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1999 Cleopatra Records released &lt;i&gt;Humanary Stew: A Tribute to Alice Cooper&lt;/i&gt; featuring a number of contributions from rock and metal all-star collaborations, including &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Mustaine" title="Dave Mustaine"&gt;Dave Mustaine&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Daltrey" title="Roger Daltrey"&gt;Roger Daltrey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_James_Dio" title="Ronnie James Dio"&gt;Ronnie James Dio&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_%28musician%29" title="Slash (musician)"&gt;Slash&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Dickinson" title="Bruce Dickinson"&gt;Bruce Dickinson&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jones_%28musician%29" title="Steve Jones (musician)"&gt;Steve Jones&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-92"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-92"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  The album was notable for the fact that it was possible to assemble a  different supergroup for each cover version on the record, which gave an  indication of the depth of esteem in which Cooper is held by other  eminent musicians within the music industry.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A song by alternative rock group &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Might_Be_Giants" title="They Might Be Giants"&gt;They Might Be Giants&lt;/a&gt; from their 1994 album &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_%28album%29" title="John Henry (album)"&gt;John Henry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  entitled "Why Must I Be Sad?" mentions 13 Cooper songs, and has been  described as being "from the perspective of a kid who hears all of his  unspoken sadness given voice in the music of Alice Cooper; Alice says  everything the kid has been wishing he could say about his alienated,  frustrated, teenage world".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tmbg_93-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-tmbg-93"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Such unlikely non-musician fans of Cooper included &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx" title="Groucho Marx"&gt;Groucho Marx&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West" title="Mae West"&gt;Mae West&lt;/a&gt;, who both reportedly saw the early shows as a form of vaudeville revue,&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-94"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-94"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and artist &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD" title="Salvador Dalí"&gt;Salvador Dalí&lt;/a&gt;, who on attending a show in 1973 described it as being surreal, and made a &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hologram" title="Hologram"&gt;hologram&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;i&gt;First Cylindric Chromo-Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper's Brain&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-95"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-95"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-96"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-96"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life"&gt;Personal life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cooper, a huge fan of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons"&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, was asked to contribute a storyline for the September 2004 edition of Bongo Comics's &lt;i&gt;Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror&lt;/i&gt;, a special &lt;i&gt;Monsters of Rock&lt;/i&gt; issue that also included stories plotted by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Simmons" title="Gene Simmons"&gt;Gene Simmons&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Zombie" title="Rob Zombie"&gt;Rob Zombie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Boone" title="Pat Boone"&gt;Pat Boone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-97"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-97"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Cooper's story featured Homer Simpson being a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Voorhees" title="Jason Voorhees"&gt;Jason Voorhees&lt;/a&gt;, Friday the 13th style killer and Alice and the citizens of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_%28The_Simpsons%29" title="Springfield (The Simpsons)"&gt;Springfield&lt;/a&gt; are being stalked by Homer.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;On June 20, 2005, ahead of his June–July 2005 tour, Cooper had a wide-ranging interview with interviewer of celebrities &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Denton" title="Andrew Denton"&gt;Andrew Denton&lt;/a&gt; for the Australian ABC Television's &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enough_Rope" title="Enough Rope"&gt;Enough Rope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.  Cooper discussed various issues during a revealing and frank talk,  including the horrors of acute alcoholism and his subsequent cure, being  a Christian, and his social and work relationship with his family.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-98"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-98"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; During the interview, Cooper remarked "I look at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger" title="Mick Jagger"&gt;Mick Jagger&lt;/a&gt;  and he's on an 18-month tour and he's six [sic] years older than me, so  I figure, when he retires, I have six more years. I will not let him  beat me when it comes to longevity."&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-99"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-99"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The actual ownership of the Alice Cooper name is often cited&lt;sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"&gt;&lt;span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from August 2009"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  by intellectual property lawyers and law professors as an example of  the value of a single copyright or trademark. Since "Alice Cooper" was  originally the name of the band, and not the lead singer (e.g. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Heep_%28band%29" title="Uriah Heep (band)"&gt;Uriah Heep&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_%28band%29" title="Jethro Tull (band)"&gt;Jethro Tull&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Meredith" title="Amy Meredith"&gt;Amy Meredith&lt;/a&gt;,  etc.), and it was actually owned by the band as whole, Cooper paid, and  continues to pay, a yearly royalty to his original bandmates for the  right to use the name commercially. Although the exact amount is not  known, insiders agree that it is large enough for the surviving band  members to live comfortably.&lt;sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"&gt;&lt;span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from November 2009"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Relationships_and_family"&gt;Relationships and family&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In the period when the Alice Cooper group was signed to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa"&gt;Frank Zappa&lt;/a&gt;'s Straight label, &lt;a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miss_Christine&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Miss Christine (page does not exist)"&gt;Miss Christine&lt;/a&gt;  of the GTOs became Cooper's girlfriend. Miss Christine (real name:  Christine Frka), who had actually recommended Zappa to the group, died  on November 5, 1972 of an overdose.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-100"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-100"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Another long-time girlfriend of Cooper's was Cindy Lang, with whom he  lived for several years. They separated in 1975. Lang sued Cooper for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimony" title="Palimony"&gt;palimony&lt;/a&gt;, and they eventually settled out of court in the early 1980s.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-101"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-101"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-102"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-102"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;After his separation from Lang, Cooper was briefly linked with actress &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raquel_Welch" title="Raquel Welch"&gt;Raquel Welch&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-103"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-103"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;104&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Cooper then reportedly left Welch, however, to marry, on March 20,  1976, ballerina instructor/choreographer Sheryl Goddard, who performed  in the Alice Cooper show from 1975 to 1982. In November 1983, at the  height of Cooper's &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism" title="Alcoholism"&gt;alcoholism&lt;/a&gt;, Sheryl filed for divorce, but by mid-1984, she and Cooper had reconciled.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-104"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-104"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  The couple has remained together since. In a 2002 television interview,  Cooper claimed that he had "never cheated" on his wife in all the time  they had been together. In the same interview, he also claimed that the  secret to a lasting and successful relationship is to continue going out  on dates with your partner.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-105"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-105"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  The couple have three children: elder daughter Calico Cooper (born  1981), an actress and singer who has been performing in the Alice Cooper  show since 2000; son Dash (b. 1985), a student at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_State_University" title="Arizona State University"&gt;Arizona State University&lt;/a&gt;, and also plays in a band called Runaway Phoenix; and younger daughter Sonora Rose (b. 1993).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Drug_recovery"&gt;Drug recovery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1986, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadeth" title="Megadeth"&gt;Megadeth&lt;/a&gt; was asked to open for Cooper for dates on his US tour. After noticing the hardcore &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_abuse" title="Drug abuse"&gt;abuse of alcohol and other drugs&lt;/a&gt;  in the band, Cooper personally approached the band members to try to  help them control their abuse, and he has stayed close to front man &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Mustaine" title="Dave Mustaine"&gt;Dave Mustaine&lt;/a&gt; ever since; Mustaine in fact considers him his godfather.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-106"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-106"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  Since conquering his own addiction to alcohol in the mid 1980s, Cooper  has continued to help and counsel other rock musicians battling  addiction problems who turn to him for help. "I've made myself very  available to friends of mine - they're people who would call me late at  night and say, 'Between you and me, I've got a problem.'"&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-107"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-107"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; In recognition of the work he has done in helping other addicts in the recovery process, Cooper received in 2008 the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Ray_Vaughan" title="Stevie Ray Vaughan"&gt;Stevie Ray Vaughan&lt;/a&gt; Award at the fourth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert in Los Angeles.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-108"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-108"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Religion_and_politics"&gt;Religion and politics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Although he originally tended to shy away from speaking publicly  about his religious beliefs, Cooper has in recent years been quite vocal  about his faith as a &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born-again_Christian" title="Born-again Christian"&gt;born-again Christian&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-jesus_journal_109-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-jesus_journal-109"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-worldnetdaily_110-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-worldnetdaily-110"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  He has avoided so called "celebrity Christianity" because, as Cooper  states himself: "It's really easy to focus on Alice Cooper and not on  Christ. I'm a rock singer. I'm nothing more than that. I'm not a  philosopher. I consider myself low on the totem pole of knowledgeable &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian" title="Christian"&gt;Christians&lt;/a&gt;. So, don't look for answers from me".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-worldnetdaily_110-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-worldnetdaily-110"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;When asked by the British &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times" title="Sunday Times"&gt;Sunday Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  newspaper in 2001 how a shock-rocker could be a Christian, Cooper  responded "Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But  being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion!"&lt;sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"&gt;&lt;span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from December 2010"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Throughout his career, Cooper's philosophy regarding politics is that  politics should not be mixed with rock music. He has usually kept his  political views to himself, and in 2010 said "I am extremely  non-political. I go out of my way to be non-political. I'm probably the  biggest moderate you know. When &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon"&gt;John Lennon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nilsson" title="Harry Nilsson"&gt;Harry Nilsson&lt;/a&gt;  used to argue politics, I was sitting right in the middle of them, and I  was the guy who was going 'I don't care.' When my parents would start  talking politics, I would go in my room and put on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones"&gt;The Rolling Stones&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who"&gt;The Who&lt;/a&gt; on as long as I could to avoid politics. And I still feel that way".&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Rolling_Stone_80-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper#cite_note-Rolling_Stone-80"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; On occasion he has spoken out against musicians who promote or opine on politics, for 
