One of our truest fans from the Tyrol, Tina Holzner sent us a picture of her new-born baby boy “Vinnie” (Vincent), who got dressed appropriately for his first photo shooting. We already consider having our fan T-shirt produced in XXS.

Speaking of the Tyrol: on December 30th, we will play the Tyrol’s first adresse concerning live music again, the Treibhaus in Innsbruck. It’s a free concert!

The very next evening we play our fourth New Years Eve show in Zurich’s Alte Kaserne. We are sure that we will be able to welcome Doors fans from all over Europe again for this occasion.

A new concert date has been added on Tuesday, Jan. 22nd, 2008 in Vienna’s Reigen club. This is going to be a special occasion for us, since it will be the farewell concert for our bass player Martin Plangl, who leaves the band for good because due to his wish.

Martin will be followed by another experienced musician, who will make his stage debut with us on the very same occasion. We won’t tell you more yet about our new member. Just come there, see and hear yourself!

The weeks after that will be full of rehearsals and Klaus will become a father then for the very first time. Afterwards, approximately in March, we will head out for the big Tour 2008.

A new date has been added for June 2008. The Culture Club in Timelkam / Upper Austria is run by no-one less than legendary concert promoter Jeff Maxian, who contacted us personally.

The audience really enjoyed our last two concerts in Planet Music Vienna and Pettenbach's Bauhof. We will present you some pictures as soon as possible.

And finally we've put a second gallery of our Italian summer festival gig in Ambria on-line. Promoters have sent us the material this week.

Two thousand enthusiastic have come there. Some of you will notice quickly, that we had our former bass player Hermann Draxler helping out on the gig. Thanks again for being the substitute, Hermann!

Photo: Andreas Mitterer

Next occasion for rocking it the Doors way is our concert in Apetlon's "Back To The Roots", an extraordinary location, where we play on September29th for the third time.

For our upcoming concert at the Andino, one of Vienna's most famous live music clubs, tickets can be ordered by phone (+43 / 699 / 10 22 41 36) or here.

Klaus celebrated his 36th birthday right there on stage, and he coulnd't think of any better place to do that.

On bass we had our Hermann Draxler, who was member of THE DOORS EXPERIENCE from 2003 to 2004. He's still an energetic and skillful player. Thanks, Hermann, for standing in so quickly for Martin who couldn't play the gig because of a small illness

Zurich professional photographer Dodo Wochner has also put some pics of our concert on the web. Thanks a lot!

(Fotos by W. Marsoner)

On rockhighway.ch you can see some pics from Zurich, our own galleries will be put on-line soon.

Two new dates have been added for autumn: on October 27th we will play the Musik-Kulturclub Lembach / Upper Austria, and on November 10th we will ba part of a big festival going on in St. Johann / Tyrol. Details tba soon.

He also wrote a report about the concert (in German) into our forum, which have also transferred to our press reviews  - thanks a lot, Gernot.

From our point of view TYA are still a top notch group, an opinion most of the audience will share. On May 11th they played all their hits in absolute perfection in their entire original line-up (with the exception of guitarist Alvin Lee). Their soft-hearted and open-minded bass player Leo Lyons even posed for a photo with Jason.

The other morning we all had a nice chat with TYA again during breakfast back at the hotel we shared. It was a pleasure and honour to meet these giants of rock.

The second night of the festival found us in our usual slot, as headliners in the tightly packed “Alte Kaserne”, with a dancing crowd who pushed us and themselves to the peak, when we did more free improvisation than ever on some Doors songs.

After all, it was an exhausting, exciting and succeful weekend for us in Zurich. We were glad to have so many fans not only from all over Switzerland there, but from Germany and Austria, too, coming there especially to watch our show. We’re gonna meet our Swiss fans again on July 7th when we will headline the “Zürifäscht”, an open-air festival in the inner city of Zurich.

 Fotos by W. Marsoner

This Sunday, April 29, we are playing the final event of the Ride'n'Roll festival on the castle of Kaprun/Salzburg.

The end of June sees us play in an exclusive club called "Die Bühne" in Purkersdorf near Vienna.

Our concert at the Innsbruck Treibhaus has been postponed by the promoter. We are therefore gigging there one week later, on July 6th, the very day when school's out for summer.

November 23rd is our rescheduled date for the Rockdomizil in Amberg/Germany, and the day after we play the "Kulturzentrum Bauhof" in Pettenbach / southern Upper Austria.

"The crystal ship is being filled

A thousand girls, a thousand thrills

A million ways to spend your time

When we get back, I'll drop a line....."

Further tour dates are to be found here.

That is why we have a new live version on-line now. Enjoy!

"Let it roll, all night long!"

The year has bearly begun, as new concert dates keep rolling in. We will play the Zagreb Boogaloo on March 31^st this year.

The Innsbruck Treibhaus will get played again on December 30th 2007 plus on another date tba. Pretty much the same goes for the Alte Kaserne in Zurich, where will play another New Years Eve concert 2007/2008. Further Doors Celebration dates for Switzerland to come soon.

Our New Year's tour to Innsbruck and Zurich was another great success this time. In the Innsbruck Treibhaus and the Alte Kaserne Zurich Doors Experience fans of all generations proved once more that our live Doors sound is suitable for "The End" of the year.

In Innsbruck we also presented our brand new T-shirts for the very first time. You can see one of them in the picture, which you can click to enlarge. The shirts are available in S, M, L & XL. They were produced in a socio-economic project by recovered and help-seeking drug addicts. This sign of solidarity with those low down must be seen in connection to Jim's personal fate. If you are interested in one or more of our T-shirts just contact our press department (mailto: presse@thedoors.at)

We enjoy having more and more young fans at our concerts. Jason "Jim" Boiler states: "The euphoric audience reactions of our young fans plus what fans tell us in personal discussion after the shows proves that age means no restriction in your being attracted by Doors music paired with Jim's poetry. The deep impact of that on the audience and our special rendition of the material which leads to these emotional effects really makes us proud of what we do."

2007 has some important anniversaries coming up. 1967 saw the release of two important albums. "The Doors", without much doubt the most groundbreaking debut album in rock's history, and "Strange Days", another very strong effort by the group.

To commemorate the release of the first album we are going to play the entire album in its original sequence on certain occasions. The first time you get the cance to be in for this very special treat is our concert at Planet Music Vienna on January 26th.

Annual Review 2006

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.