My Seventies Music

The Doors – Tracks From “Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine” (“Break On Through”, “Riders On The Storm”, “The End”) And “Light My Fire”

In early 1972 (summer in New Zealand), aged 14, I mowed my parents’ rather large lawn to get the NZ$14 required to buy the double album “Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine” by a band called The Doors.

I had never heard of The Doors before, and at the time I don’t believe I realised that their iconic singer Jim Morrison had died just months before the previous year (3rd July 1971 in Paris).

Nor did I realise that “Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine” was a compilation, I didn’t know any of the songs.

When school started I took the album with me to my boarding school. One of the guys in the dorm had a record player linked up to some lights that pulsated according to the music.

We turned off the dorm lights and I remember all these 14 years olds jumping up and down and dancing to “Break On Through” with the flashing lights.

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Tags: Apocalypse Now, Break On Through, Francis Ford Coppola, Jim Morrison, Light My Fire, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Music of the Seventies, Riders On The Storm, Seventies Rock Bands, The Doors, The End, Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine

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