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And those who consider Morrison a poet and provocateur who slipped the Incense and Peppermints generation a strychnine cocktail will be similarly bolstered in their beliefs, particularly by No One Here Gets Out Alive, a fawning Doors documentary originally broadcast in 1979 and now finally released as a four-CD set.

For a group that managed only six studio albums while Morrison was alive, the Doors never seem to run out of product.

Nor does the publics fascination with Morrison show any signs of abating nearly thirty years after the singers death.

The stunt got the Doors blacklisted in some cities and turned the quartet into a circus act for a new mob of rock roll voyeurs, as Ray Manzarek calls them in the Alive documentary, who came not to commune with Morrison but to watch him implode.

Track nine, Bellowing, is exactly what its title says: Morrison as blustering blooze parody.

Caught up in one of his sub-Rimbaud moments, the singer blathers on in Been Down So Long about how love hides in molecular structures and pleads with a sweet young thing to dump your load on me.

If the other Doors Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, drummer John Densmore reinterpreted rock as the moodiest of blues, Morrison saw it as a theater of chaos, an opportunity to be pursued with reckless, sometimes self-destructive zeal.

He enjoyed making audiences squirm in confusion with his Hello to the Cities rant, and he thought nothing of interrupting his band to make speeches, browbeat fans or improvise nonsense (Dead Cats, Dead Rats).

On a seventeen-minute When the Musics Over from Live in Detroit, the quartet journeys from spine-chilling climax to jaw-dropping absurdity and back again: Kriegers swooping guitar kicks the trapdoor from under Morrisons feet as he howls like a wounded animal; the singer moans about how he wants to hear the scream of the butterfly, and Manzarek responds with a flutter of organ notes; Densmore makes his trap kit quiver, rattle and rumble in anticipation of the concluding scream.

Its a marathon ride with a band at its peak, three superbly conditioned musicians counterpunching with a singer who fears nothing least of all the possibility of making a complete fool of himself.

Morrison still veers from bombastic to brilliant, but he sounds like hes having fun with his monstrous image rather than succumbing to it, especially when he drawls, Your ballroom days are over, baby on Five to One.

The problem with No One Here Gets Out Alive is that it sticks so faithfully to the Morrison-as-rock-deity script, without a single dissenting voice to bring some sanity, or at least a modicum of humor, to the rampant hero worship.

Noted literary critic Krieger proclaims his old pal one of the most important poets of the last fifty years, and the Doors suggest that they wouldnt be surprised if Morrison were still alive.

Somehow Krieger, Densmore and Manzarek couldnt resist participating in their own tribute album how creepy is that Creed turn Riders on the Storm from a ghostly crawl into an overblown rave-up, and somebody persuaded John Lee Hooker to duet with a recording of Morrisons voice on Roadhouse Blues a stunt that does neither legend any favors.

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