Jim Morrison is THE Icon!
Anyone who is a fan of the Doors HAS to include this DVD in their collection. It is very well organized and has a "special feature" narration by the remaining members of the Doors. This collection also features some songs I had not heard before and, of course, all of their hit songs. The DVD is presented in three sections--chronological order--with an excellent bonus collection section.

The Doors Collection
The Doors Collection is The Doors, all Doors and nothing but.
A must for any true fan and lifelong devotee.

GREAT
I got this for my boyfriend for Christmas. He is a Doors fan. If you are, I think you'll love this DVD.

Love Me "Three" Times
This DVD contains three previously released VHS items for $19. It's worth the money if you are a hardcore Doors fan, just a Doors fan or even a new Doors fan looking for more than just the music.
The first release, "Dance on Fire" is mostly a collection of music videos, if you will. Interesting is the fact that The Doors were making music videos in the late sixties, well before the launch of MTV in 1980. The best "video" on here is the one for Roadhouse Blues. It's mostly a video mix of the band playing different live shows, Jim getting arrested on stage, Jim getting attacked by women, and police trying to block fans as they try and rush the stage during various live performances. The highlight on this collection is The Doors television performance of Light My Fire on The Ed Sullivan Show. Unfortunately, Jim doesn't rush the camera and scream "higher" as was depicted in Oliver Stone's film The Doors. There's another TV performance, of the song Touch Me, which shows John, Ray and Robby faking their instruments as Jim does a pretty good job of singing live over the album's music track playing in the background. The WORST item on here is the video for L.A. Woman. It's just a camera following a Ford Mustang driving through the streets of L.A. mixed with back and forth clips of a woman and a man who eventually meet at the end of the video. DUMB! I assume the "Director's cut" of this L.A. Woman video relates to a scene where water is being poured down the front of a topless woman. Song List: Break On Through, People Are Strange, Light My Fire, Wild Child, L.A. Woman, Unknown Soldier, Roadhouse Blues, Love Me Two Times, Touch Me, Horse Latitudes/Moonlight Drive, Crystal Ship, Adagio. Riders On The Storm plays during credits.
The second release is The Doors "Live at the Hollywood Bowl". Overall, Jim, Ray and John do a great job live. Robby Kreiger absolutely sucks here. He fumbles and rushes through his guitar solos. Especially on Light My Fire. How embarrassing. The song set they chose to play for this concert is a bit drawn out as the set includes the epics The End and When The Music's Over. I was a little let down because this isn't one of the live performances where Jim went too crazy. Ok, so at one point during When The Music's Over, Jim has John and Robby stop playing, and makes Ray play the same two notes over and over on the keyboard for close to 30 seconds before the crowd gets annoyed and starts screaming "C'mon Jim!". Jim finally walks up to the microphone and............BURPS. Jim takes a good fall when he gets "executed" during The Unknown Soldier, although he makes John play out his drum roll a little longer than expected because Jim suddenly remembers that he wants to take one final drag of his cigarette before his "death" and needs to run across the stage to do so. And we get to see, I guess, Jim's infamous shaman trance dance on stage during The End. He fumbles around in a circle, arms over his head, a few times appearing so off balance that he might actually fall over. Awkward. Oh, and during Light My Fire, Jim screams "F*ck, F*ck, F*ck, F*ck", over and over. Other than that though, the rest of the show is just Jim standing around at the microphone near the front of the stage, staring into the crowd as he waits for the band to get through instrumental sections of songs so he can sing again. When he does get to sing though, he is just about dead on vocally as compared to the albums. Song set: When The Music's Over, Alabama Song, Back Door Man/Five To One, Moonlight Drive/Horse Latitudes/Celebration Of The Lizard Excerpts, Spanish Caravan, Light My Fire, The End, Unknown Soldier. When The Music's Over plays during credits.
The third release is "The Soft Parade", which is again mostly just a collection of music videos. The highlight here is the beginning of the video for Wild Child. You get to see the band in the studio actually creating the song Wild Child. You see Jim discussing how he thinks his vocal should sound, Robby trying to figure out a guitar solo, etc. Pretty cool stuff. I think in between vidoes on this set, you see a clip of Jim in a crowd of fans looking at a concert book for the band The Who. He asks a kid how much it is, the kid says $1. Jim asks if he can look through it first before he buys it. Seconds later, a few girls notice he's in the crowd and come up behind him pulling and tugging on his hair. Jim turns around and looks at them with a grin on his face. Kinda cool behind the scenes footage. Song list: The Changeling, Wishful Sinful, Wild Child, Doors Interview # 1, Build Me A Woman, Doors Interview # 2, Unknown Soldier, The Soft Parade. Hello I Love you plays during credits.
The extras on here are so-so. The audio commentary from the band sucks. Why? Ray, John and Robby introduce themselves, followed by Ray basically saying "Hope you enjoy it!", referring to your DVD purchase. What a rip-off! A helicopter flies overhead at the end of their "commentary", causing them all to look up. Robby tries to be funny and points to the sky. (That ends the audio commentary section). I wasn't interested in watching Ray Manzarek's videos "Evergreen" or "Induction", nor Robby Krieger's new version of The End. Having read John Densmore's book Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors(a definite must read!), it was sort of interesting to watch him act the book out live on stage. Sort of. Other extras: some dude talks about Doors memorabilia as it flashes on the screen and then there are photographs of the band taken by a Mr. Henry Diltz.
Oh, The two interview clips on The Soft Parade are ok. The first one is kinda cool cause each band member gets a turn to answer a question. Jim Morrison is just totally out there though. He has long hair, a full beard and mustache, and shades on. He pauses after every two or three words and fills it in with "umm". I guess he was doped up or tired. In the second interview Jim's "prediction of the future of recording technology" is summed up to this: He's asked where he sees music going in the future. He says in five or so years he sees one man making music with machines and tapes. Hmm. Sounds a bit like Trent Reznor of NIN.
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So, I guess Jim needed the other three members of The Doors musically, just as much as they needed Jim lyrically. I'm glad that Jim never took up record producer's offers to have a solo career, and, as John Densmore mentions in his book, that John, Ray and Robby never got around to kicking Jim out of the band.

Best rock DVD out there
I have all the "must-have" rock DVDs: Led Zep, The Who (kids), AC/DC, The Wall, Nirvana, etc., etc., and this is the only one that I haven't tired of. I've read where other reviewers said that Jim was not "on" at the Hollywood Bowl performance. I don't know what they're looking at, or for. Jim was amazing, and the band was as tight as ever! Awesome DVD for large plasma or LCD!