DID YOU KNOW ?
Love and The Doors, between glory and broken destiny
Los Angeles, at the end of the 60's, LOVE, a group already well known from the Psychedelic Rock movement then shared the poster for the "Whisky À Go Go", a famous club on the Sunset Strip with THE DOORS, a local group which between 1966 and 1967 was used to first parts of the place.
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In 1966, Love, led by Arthur Lee, Métis singer, guitarist and main composer of the group, signed with Elektra, the label of a certain Jac Holzman who then placed a lot of hope in them.
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It is this same Arthur Lee, boyfriend of a certain Pamela Courson, (note: Who did not yet know Jim Morrison at the time) young man with an eccentric look who, it seems, inspired Jimi Hendrix a few years later and whose the biggest stars of the moment including Eric Clapton, cover with glowing comments, who will advise Jac Holzman to go see the DOORS in concert.
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Initially relatively unconvinced, Holzman finally signed the DOORS with Elektra at the end of August 1966. The posters announcing LOVE in concert were quickly replaced by new ones bearing the effigy of the DOORS.
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Everyone knows the rest, the DOORS flew to success while LOVE and its members never had the expected success, despite "Forever Changes" (1967), a third album of notorious importance on the scene. Rock Psyche' from the 1960s.
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Arthur Lee, whose real name Arthur Taylor Porter died of leukemia on August 3, 2006, he was then 61 years old.
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You will find via this link, an interview in French with Arthur Lee given to the magazine "Les Inrockuptibles" in February 1992 in which he talks about DOORS
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