{"id":9775,"date":"2016-08-24T06:45:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T14:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=9775"},"modified":"2016-08-26T13:23:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T21:23:27","slug":"9775","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=9775","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9784\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9784\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/apocalypse-now-large1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"apocalypse-now-large\" width=\"330\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/apocalypse-now-large1.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/apocalypse-now-large1-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/apocalypse-now-large1-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE DOORS FIRST ALBUM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On this day 50 years ago, and for the next eight days after that, The Doors recorded their first album at Sunset Sound in Hollywood. That&#8217;s where the rock group laid down their distinctive sound on 4-track tape with producer Paul Rothchild and engineer Bruce Botnick. Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John Densmore, and Larry Knechtel all played on the record. Jim Morrison had is own track.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The Doors<\/em> is a pioneer of psychedelic rock and one of the most acclaimed recordings in all of popular music. Look for a first U.S. gold Elektra label stereo LP pressing (with no &#8220;RE&#8221; in the dead wax) for the best audio presentation. Play it late at night, and it will light your fire.   <\/p>\n<p>The song &#8220;The End&#8221; was featured in the 1979 film by Francis Ford Coppola, <em>Apocalypse Now<\/em> with Martin Sheen as the lead actor and Dennis Hopper as the photographer. It, like <em>The Doors<\/em>, has been deemed &#8220;culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.&#8221; Uh, yeah &#8211; they&#8217;re like one of the very best films and records ever made.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Still from film)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE DOORS FIRST ALBUM On this day 50 years ago, and for the next eight days after that, The Doors recorded their first album at Sunset Sound in Hollywood. That&#8217;s where the rock group laid down their distinctive sound on 4-track tape with producer Paul Rothchild and engineer Bruce Botnick. Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=9775\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9793,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions\/9793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}