Hepcat
retired
By the time of Morrison Hotel (1970) & LA Woman (1971) the Doors were fighting a lot of negative publicity.
Their concerts were being cancelled all over the U.S., & while, in retrospect, those albums have lots of great music, the fact is, in the majority of the record buying public's eye, the Doors were a sinking ship when Morrison died in July '71.
The Doors barely played live again after Morrison's arrest in Miami in '69. I don't think they ever toured in the '70s.
I disagree that the Doors were a sinking ship when Jim Morrison died. I think their second last album, "Morrison Hotel", was their best since their first album and "L.A. Woman" was pretty good too.
But what do you think? Was Jim Morrison creatively as well as physically burned out at the time of his death - or could he and the rest of the Doors have released another four or five very good albums over the course of the seventies?
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