The Doors - Backstage and Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal
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Music CD Cover Artist: The Doors Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Unknown) CD Release Date: 2004-05-11 Music Label: BRIGHT MIDNIGHT Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Notes for Backstage and Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal Album
Free Music Review: Morrison having fun and not much else
Hit: 3 Stars
This doesn't do much for Jim Morrison's reputation as a poet that's for sure! This is like one step back for Jim. I'm not sure if this should have been released. These are blues and jazzy renditions of some released and un-released songs and some of these songs sound like the Doors had nothing to do one afternoon and decided to jam and let Jim ramble into a mike because that's exactly what he does. On top of that he is pretty well lit during most of these recordings. He sounds like he just stumbled into the studio from a long day at the bar, especially on "Build me a Woman". He is boisterous and he makes up lyrics as he goes along during the bluesy stuff, the words sometimes are absolutely laughable and they're hardly up to Jim Morrison standard. This definitely isn't poetry.
He revels in four-letter words and he delights in entertaining himself in "Mental Floss" as he goes through a less-than inspired scatter-brained monologue: "I'm tired of being a freaky musician, I want to be Napolean!" and "do you know women wear underpants? They do! How does a musician make the sound of a woman's underpants?" Meanwhile the band is playing free-form and are totally lost (Robby is playing slide licks which are going nowhere, and Ray is trying to come up with some solid chords to no avail) as they wait for Jim to get on with things. Continues "I wasn't doing a damn thing when I was standing there in front of a delicatessen and a bunch of rabbis and Indians came running up". This song is like the complete antithesis of the stanzas in "When the Music is Over" and "The End". It's an absolute embarrassment. During "Build me a Woman": "I don't know what I'm talking about and either do you. I'm a stupid m-f- and so are you! So take that little riddle and and stuff it up your a-!" and "this song makes me sick to my stomach and if it ever gets played you're all a bunch of dumb c-sckrs!" This almost sounds like a Jim Morrison impersonator, that's how off-the-wall it sounds. On Blue Sunday, Jim is so slow he sounds like he's falling asleep. I don't know how John Densmore sat through these sessions. Ray sings on "I'm your Doctor" and is quite vulgar: "you need a polish sausage". He also sings on "Close to You". "Car Hiss by my Window" ("Whiskey is like a woman-she's good when she's cheap") is not the same song which was recorded on LA Woman. "Gloria" is well done.
The quality of these recordings are fantastic and the songs are pretty tight (the instrumental parts). But most of the songs here are like the Doors getting caught doing mediocre to bad music. I'm sure some of their gigs were just like this if not worse. There's not much musically going on here but this will round out your Doors collection if you're a fan and Jim Morrison will give you an excellent laugh.