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Annual Review 2006
As almost usual by
now we started our 6th year of touring as
THE DOORS
EXPERIENCE
in Zurich at the New Years Eve Doors Celebration with about 700
enthusiastic fans, who came from all Swiss counties, Germay and Western
Austria.
In early
January we played the Objekt 5 in Halle/Saale (Germany), which had been
sold out weeks before. Also to a more than excited audience, which led to
our being booked for the top location once more for July 2006.
 Concerts in the best of Austrian
clubs (Planet Music Vienna, Treibhaus Innsbruck, Kammgarn Hard etc.) plus various gigs abroad (Zagreb/Croatia, Luzern & Frauenfeld/Switzerland and
our long awaited first Bavarian concert in the tightly packed club
Metropolitain Traunstein) paved our way through the year, the penultimate
appearance being once more our headlining at the huge German Doors
festival “Feast of Friends” in Heyrothsberge near Magdeburg. Thanks to
those who came from near and far to see us there.
During another concert in the
German Saarland we had a guest appearance by non other than
Darryl Read
who jammed and rapped with us for quite a while during our
rendition of Gloria. Darryl, who has already released three albums in
collaboration with Ray Manzarek, inofficially dubbed us “Most Excellent
Doors Tribute Band” that night.
We put some new mp3s on-line,
which were downloaded in enormous quantities. One example: The Doors hits
“L.A. Woman”, "Riders On The Storm", "Light My Fire" and "The End" had
almost a million downloads between August 3rd 2006 and January 3rd 2007! (http://www.myspace.com/thedoorsexperience)
An American fan from L.A. has programmed this page for us. (Thanks,
Gemma!)
In April we had a video to “Break
On Through” filmed by two young, promising Austrian
filmmakers. The video is also on-line and proves Jason’s charisma as
Morrison performer once more on this media, too.
Like every year we stacked up
our repertoire again. In 2006 we added "We Could Be So Good Together",
"Universal Mind" and "You’re Lost Little Girl" - goodies we enjoy playing
as much as the audience enjoys us perform them.
Towards the end of the year
we’ve got done, what our fans have been waiting for quite while. We
proudly present the
Doors Experience T-Shirt. If you
are interested write to
presse@thedoors.at or talk to us after
our concerts.
We enter our 7th year of touring
highly motivated and promise you more and energy-driven Doors shows for
2007.
Fotos: W. Marsoner (c)
www.thedoors.at |
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Dec. 29th,
2006 |
Just as promised a
gallery of our last concert at the
Metropolitain
(Traunstein/Bavaria) is on-line now. |
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Dec. 23rd,
2006 |
Our Bavarian fans
had their first opportunity to hear us live inside the fully crowded
club Metropolitain in Traunstein. Pics are coming up.
News from the US has it, that The
Doors will be presented a lifetime Grammy award alongsinde Joan Baez and
The Greatful Dead in 2007. Congratulations!
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Dec. 6th,
2006 |
A crowded room and loads
of spontaneous ovations were the features of our concert in Hard /
Vorarlberg on November 25th. Waltraud Marsoner captured the spirit on a
few
pictures. |
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Nov. 12th,
2006 |
"Kultur am Land"
is a non-profit culture club in the lowlands of the Tyrol (Buch near
Jenbach). They booked us for April 14th, 2007. |
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Oct. 25th,
2006 |
Jason has been reviewing
the audio and video tracks of our concert recording during the private
performance in Purkersdorf to check out further plans with the tapes.
Waltraud dropped by to take a few
pictures, so that you can also see
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Oct. 24th,
2006 |
True to the line "The
West is the best" we will be playing the culture club Kammgarn in Hard
on the Bodensee for the second time on November 25th.
Our German fans in and aroud
Heidelberg will have the chance to see us again at the
Schwimmbad-Music-Club on May 25th next year. Plus the day after we will
play at one of the hippest locations in Upper Austria these days, the
Spinnerei in traun, where Nazareth, The Flying, Pickets, The Dubliners
and The Exploited also give their concerts.
On June 23rd we will play
Salzburg again - our seconcd concert at the Mark.
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Oct. 10th,
2006 |
 One of
our rare private gigs we gave last Saturday in an extraordinary
location, the "Seminardom
Wienerwald", which has sensationell acoustics and a gorgeous design.
Some excellent light and sound
men plus camera operators were there to capture us playing live.
We've put together
a few pics of the event plus our setlist
here.
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Oct. 5th,
2006 |
New
dates have been added for 2007. We will
play reknowned culture club KIK in Ried (Upper Austria) for the second
time. Also another concert in the Yum Yum club in Amstetten (Lower
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Sept. 6th,
2006 |
In April 2006 we bumped
into musician and beat poet
Darryl Read for the second
time. After we had met him at the "Feast of Friends" in 2005, we met
again on the "Doors of Perception" festival in April 2006. When we
performed "Gloria" there, Darryl entered the stage and jammed with us.
We all enjoyed ourselves, so did the audience. Darryl Read has released
two albums as a duet with Doors founding member Ray Manzarek, who he is
again in the studio with these days to work on new stuff.
 
Fotos: W.
Marsoner (c)
www.thedoors.at
Darryl has pictures of his
collaboration with us on his
website, right next to recent pics that
show him with his friend Ray. (Just scroll down).
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July 26th,
2006 |
New
concert dates have been added: our
first concert in Bavaria will take place on December 16th in Traunstein
/ Chiemgau. Reknowned club Metropolitain holds its annual "Tribute to
Jim Morrison Night" to commemorate Jim's birthday. This time it's for us
to headline the show. An ideal location for fans from Salzburg to come
to, too. In January
2007 it will be 40 years that "The Doors" has been released, without
much doubt the most outstanding album debut by a band ever. To
commemorate this event we will play the Planet Music Vienna once more on
January 26th.
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July
21st,
2006 |
The eagerly
awaited
gallery of the Feast of Friends open-air
festival in Magdeburg is on-line.
....A feast of friends, alive she
cried, waitin' for me....outside!!
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July 19th,
2006 |
We were glad to
see so many Doors Experience fans at our concerts in Halle and Magdeburg
last weekend, some of which have driven hundreds of miles to get there.
They came from as far as Hungary, the Netherlands, Belgium, Great
Britain, Switzerland, the Tyrol, Vienna and from every corner in Germany
just to see us play.
We'd like to thank you for the many
enthusiastic guestbook entries on our page and on www.feastoffriends.de.
By the way we are always interested in your pictures of our performance.
Some
pics of the Halle concert are already
on-line.
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July 13th,
2006 |
Just as promised a
gallery of our concert at the Treibhaus
(Innsbruck, July 7th) is on-line now. |
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July 12th,
2006 |
We are pleased
with your appreciation in our guestbook and forum. Right after the
concert the promoter of the Treibhaus booked us for another date, which
will be Dec 30th, 2006. "Treibhaus Innsbruck - the time you ran was too
insane, we'll meet again, we'll meet again!"
Pics of the concert soon to
come.
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July 10th,
2006 |
Innsbruck's top
location, The Treibhaus (which means greenhouse), was just that last
friday. A great audience and a hot atmosphere, in which it was an
enrmous pleasure to play.
The upcoming weekend has us play
German cities Halle and Magdeburg (Feast of Friends 2).
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July 5th,
2006 |
"Rock at the Creek" in
Mitterpullendorf was initially planned just for July 29th, but has now
been extended to a two days festival. Click on the flyer to see the
entire line-up.
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June 29th,
2006 |
myspace is a much-used
internet platform in the Anglo-American area and far beyond. Fans from
the US established
a Doors Experience fan site there,
which is visitted frequently and has a lot of interesting and heart-felt
statements by its visitor. Plus our mp3s from myspace have been listened
to more than 315.000 times now. Unbelievable but true! An omen?
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June 28th,
2006 |
We've just received the
entire
line-up for the Rock at the
Creek Festival in Mitterpullendorf (Burgenland) on July 29th.
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May 25th,
2006 |
"Pictures speak
clearer than words!" At our 4th concert in Zagreb, Croatia, about 1.000
enthusiastic fans put the whole club and us into fantastic spirits. It
was a great experience to see that also after 3 years so many croatian
people share our special DOORS EXPERIENCE!
A little choice of
emotional pictures is online now.
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May 23rd,
2006 |
 We are proudly to
present a brand new video clip of us. Film makers Mario Schleichel and
Reinhard Allé did an excellent job with their creative cinematic work
for our soundfile of
"Break
on through". It's worth dipping into their personal "Doors
Experience" world, so don't miss to watch this clip. We look forward to
your feedbacks. |
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May 17th,
2006 |
As a late arrival
we have a set of pics of our Salzburg concert from April 2006. Andreas
Eppensteiner pleases us with his
flash creations, we say thanks for them!
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May 15th,
2006 |
We've just come back
from the successful "Doors Celebration Spring Tour" through Switzerland.
Rock Highway already has put pics of our concerts in
Luzern and
Frauenfeld on-line.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm |
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April
4th,
2006 |
The
"Legends of Rock" Festival in Wiesen
had to be moved from July 8th to July 7th, so that we cannot play,
because we are already booked for the Treibhaus in Innsbruck on the 7th.
But our concert in Wiesen is not cancelled. The promoter and we are
trying to find a new date, which we will inform you of ASAP.
For September 14th we were booked
for the OST club in Vienna, one of the hippest locations at the moment.
In Apetlon we found a great
audience. The whole scene was captured on video by filmmakers Mario
Scheichel and Reinhard Allé. We hope to be able to show you some stills
of it soon.
Due to the 40 years jubilee of
Salzburg's youth and culture club MARK we will play a free concert there
this Friday night.
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March
31st,
2006 |
On
the last minute we were booked as headliners for the new "Doors of
Perception" Festival in Illingen-Saar (near Saarbrücken / Germany). We
are glad to hear that many of our German fans look forward to our
playing there and support us by promoting it.
The festival will take place on
Easter Sundy, April 16th in the "Klulturforum Illipse". Details on
line-up, ticketing and other goodies can be found on
www.doors-of-perception.de.
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March 26th,
2006 |
We are glad to announce
you that we were invited to play on the "Legends of Rock" Festival in
Wiesen on July 8th. We are honoured to play with legends like Nazareth
on such a well-known open-air concert.
We regret that Deep Purple had to
cancel their appearance there.
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March 10th,
2006 |
Pics of our concert at Vienna's
Planet Music (March 2nd) are on-line. Thanks to Waltraud Marsoner for
the snapshots.
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Feb.
14th,
2006 |
A few days after
Jim's dying day, on July 7th, we will play Innsbruck's most outstanding
location, the Treibhaus, for the very first time.
We will tell you in time whether we
play open-air or indoors.
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Feb.
2nd
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A second date has
been added to our Doors Celebrations Spring Tour 2006 through
Switzerland. We play the "Eisenwerk" club in Frauenfeld for the very
first time on May 13th.
Ticket sale for our concert in
Vienna's legendary Planet Music is on. We recommend you to order your
ticket direclty from
Planet Music or at
Teleticket.
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Jan.
26th,
2006 |
Another mp3 file is
waiting for your download. It's an absolutely live bootleg version of "When
The Music's Over".
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Jan.
24th,
2006 |
Riders On The Storm is
your most favourite mp3-download from our site. That is why we decided
to put a
longer version of it on-line. In the
four additional minutes you're in for a special treat - Klaus' full solo
on the Fender Rhodes piano.
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Jan.
20th,
2006 |
Due to financial
problems the promoter of our Slovenian concert, which was scheduled in
Skofja Loka on April 8th 2006, had to cancel the date.
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Jan.
16th,
2006 |
We appreciate the
positive feedback concerning our Halle concert by our friends Jürgen
Bamber aka
jimlizardking and
Uwe Huhn. Jürgen wrote a great report
including an entire
gallery. Down here he have four
more snapshots by Uwe. Thank you both, Jürgen and Uwe.
New
tour dates for Switzerland have been
added. One of which is the start date of this year's Doors Celebration
Spring Tour, which leads us again to Luzern's very own "Schüür" concert
hall. The second one is yet another New Years Eve concert at the "Alte
Kaserne" in Zurich.
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Jan.
11th,
2006 |
A galery spanning 67
pics of our
New Year's Eve concert in Zurich is
on-line at www.rock-highway.ch
Thanks to Pino Quaresima and his team!
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Jan.
10th,
2006 |
Objekt 5, Halle an
der Saale, Georg Friedrich Haendels birthtown in Germany - a place to remember for us.
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entire team of the Objekt 5 club made us feel comfortable, perfect sound,
professional technical maintenace, a sold out event in front of an
ecstatic audience comprising of fans that came from all over Germany (they
travelled as far as from Bavaria, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Dresen, Berlin) -
everything was in its place on the evening of January 7th. Thanks to
everyone who has been there.
As soon as we get ahold of some pics,
we will show you.
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Jan. 5th,
2006 |
 The
Doors Experience wish you all a very Happy and successful New Year! We’ve
just come back from a hard but satisfying weeking in Lustenau and Zurich.
More than 900 heavily partying fans have seen us on these occasions and
welcomed the New Year together with us. What a start for our sixth year as
The Doors Experience!
On January 7th we will play in Germany again, in Haendel’s birthtown
Halle, where we play the Objekt 5 club. We are looking forward to meeting
our true German fans again and wish for them to become even more.
What had happened during the
passed year is listed and commented in the following annual review.
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Annual review 2005 |
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2005 was a very
moving year for us. We started with a great sell-out concert in
 Salzburg’s
Rock House.
We played out third Zagreb
concert, again in front of more
than 1000 ecstatic fans, but this time in a new location, the Boogaloo. In
May we played or first headlining set in Vienna’s most favourable rock
venue, Planet Music,
during one of the beloved “Rock Classic Night”. 2005 saw another Doors Celebration Spring Tour
through Switzerland and some open-air concerts in summer. The penultimate
experience of the summer was our appearance at the “Feast of Friends” festival
in Heyrothsberge near Magdeburg, a big festival with about 1000 Doors
experts as our audience and two other Doors tribute bands. We played the finale,
mainly consisting of songs from “Morrison Hotel”
and “L. A. Woman”.
Many warm reactions by Doors connoisseurs received us after the festival,
which you can read amongst our
press reviews – watch out for the
abbreviation “FoF” there.
In December we played an evening in
collaboration with author Peter
Henisch, who wrote the best
selling novel “Morrison’s
Hideaway”. The last two days of
the year were also concert days for us. An emotionally packed appearance
at the “Culture Factor Y”
club in Lustenau and the Doors
Celebration Night on New Year’s
Eve in Zurich
again. There we had the “Riders
On The Storm” bring us and more
than 800 excited fans into the New Year 2006.
We could extend our
repertoire list again in 2006 and
improved our original Doors sound again. In summer René started to take
along his Spanish guitar to all our concerts, gracing the song “Spanish
Caravan” with his masterful playing on it ever since.
In September Jason took a trip
to Paris and brought a long a
very personal report (in German) of his trip,
sharing his deep thoughts with us.
Loads of feedback, press reviews,
pics and stuff were added to our homepage in 2005, plus we were able to
set up a new forum after quite a break.
On this occasion we’d like to
thank all of you who came to our concerts in 2005 and made us all feel the
good vibes. We are looking forward to meeting you again in 2006!
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