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The very best critic of popular culture in America considers the interest of the Doors, which includes endured despite the band's short life, sampling the prolonged songs and renowned shows that made Jim Morrison and his music group rock 'n' spin legends. A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the brand new FM rock 'n' roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus observed the band often at the renowned Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after vocalist Jim Morrison was found inactive in Paris and the group disbanded, you can drive from here to there, changing in one FM pop station to another, and be all but assured to hear two, three, four of the Doors' songs within an hour - every hour. No matter the needs in the music, they continued to be unsatisfied, in the largest sense unfinished, and absolutely alive. There have been many literature on the Doors. This is the first to bypass their myth, their mystique, and the loss of life cult of both Jim Morrison - and the age he was designed to personify - and target exclusively on the music. All these years later, it is a new story. Griel Marcus is the author of Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, When That Rough God Goes Using, THE FORM of What to Come, Mystery Train, Dead Elvis, Within the Fascist Bathroom, Increase Trouble, Just like a Rolling Stone, and The Old, Weird America. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America. Since 2000 he has educated at Princeton and Berkeley, in Minnesota, and at the New College in New York. His column TRUE TO LIFE Rock Top 10 shows up regularly in the Believer. He has lectured at University or college of California, Berkeley, the Whitney Museum of Fine art, and Princeton University or college. He lives in Berkeley.
