March 27th, 2010
By Crombie

Everybody knows about the CIA plot to assassinate “the three pied pipers of rock”: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison, but only one film dares investigate that dark page in rock’s history, and that film is: Beyond The Doors.
And because this movie is so fantastically well produced, conceived, acted, scored, lit, costumed, cast, directed, written, edited, shot and, who knows, probably catered, I found it almost impossible to select the best scene to showcase here. Eventually I realized, however, that Beyond The Doors is, scene-for-scene, categorical solid-gold, so I’m posting a random bit featuring an uncannily accurate portrayal of Jim Morrison (Bryan Wolf, you chameleon of chameleons, where are you now?).
Skip to 0:18, and then, when your goosebumps subside, move on to the masterful live performance at 4:40. Want more? Fortunately for you, dear reader, the movie in it’s epic entirety can be viewed in 9 minute chunks on Youtube… at least until the government catches on to this subversive cinematic masterpiece, and has it destroyed in an incinerator two miles below the Pentagon.
Warning: You may want to staple a shower cap to your head to catch your brains when they explode.

How you feeling? Like you just had your mind totally blown? Like you just went back in time to the Summer of LOVE?
Far out.


 

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