The other day we played our first concert in the Netherlands. Given that it was a sunday evening, we were the more stunned that hundreds of fans of all generations have come to celebrate with us. We'd like to thank especially the excellent sound engineers and the very friendly crew at De Pul.

The documentary "Jim Morrison lebt!" featuring performances of us plus interviews with fans and band will be broadcast for a second time on trans-European art TV channel arte on Monday, January 5th, at 10:55. See also our tour dates page for the transmissions.

THE DOORS EXPERIENCE wish you a Merry Christmas!

"This is the land where the lizard king died", was what we were thinking during our first concert in France, which took place in Meisenthal last weekend. The hall was packed with fans from France, Germany, Austria and even Croatia. We had a lot of fun and all the audience enjoyed themselves. France will surely see us again.

Croatian fans can mark March 14th, 2009 in their calendars. Our annual concert at the Zagreb Boogaloo will take place then. We are always looking forward to playing there because, it’s a really hot place.

Another date is something like a dream come true for many fans. We will not only play in a location close to your home, but right inside your living room. On December 27th trans-European TV channel arte will broadcast the TV documentary “Jim Morrison lebt!” (Jim Morrison is alive) at 22:15. It contains original Doors footage from the 1960s and 1970s plus live footage of our November shows. A German film crew with director Gerd Zimmermann came along to our concerts in Austria and Slovenia. Besides filming our show they made interviews with enthusiastic fans and with us musicians. More about the programme can be found on www.arte.tv. The documentary will also be broadcast on 3sat and ORF1 in 2009.

Thanks to Loic Duliscouët for sending us the photos.

Our debut at students club Štuk in Maribor (SLO) on Saturday reminded us of our Zagreb concerts. Right from the very start the crowd sang, danced and partied along with us. The placed was tightly packed with Doors fans, perfect for us playing the entire piece "Soft Parade" as the new addition to our repertoire. A Slovenian fan put already 4 songs of the concert on youtube.

We are glad that we were able to present these two excellent shows to the German film crew who accompanied us for this tour. The footage will be transmitted on European TV channel "arte" on December 27th, and on other channels in the weeks after. Details coming up.

New press reviews are on-line.

On our video site www.youtube.com/baronlejois you can witness our musical past, since there are two videos by jazzrock outfit "Big Apple" (1992-1995), with whom Jason, Klaus & Christoph played songs of their own. Plus you will find rare footage of the group "The Valve" featuring Jason playing an impressive 3 minute funk bass solo in 1997. A must see for fans of funk & fusion!

For those who wonder what baronlejois means, it is an anagram of "Jason Boiler".

Our forum comes in a new design. Thanks, Gernot.

For our concert on November 7th at the “AufMUKEn” festival an interesting support act shares the bill with us. The Subcandies will play right before our show. Their special guest is Ron Urini, Austrian underground enfant terrible of the 1980s and one time collaborator with Ray Manzarek. Klaus was a member of Urini’s band in the early 1990s and recorded two albums an a few singles with him.

A friend of ours, Anna Maria Ruf, has her first book published and presented it at the well-known Buchmesse Frankfurt. The Book is called “End of The Night” and was edited by Palmyra, who also published “The Doors in their own words”. The book was in many ways inspired by Ruf’s meetings with THE DOORS EXPERIENCE and especially Jason “Jim” Boiler. Up to now it is only available in German. Just meet the author on her myspace-site.

You can find our entire collection of video clips on youtube here.

We'd like to stress here, that the festival team was extremely caring, friendly and enthusiastic, which resulted in everybody having a really good time.

Two new concert dates for February 2009 have been added: Garching / Bavaria and Schwanenstadt / Upper Austria.

New press reviews have also been put on-line.

Two more mp3s have been added: End of The Night and Peace Frog. We'd like to thank Andreas Neubauer, sound engineer at the Reigen club.

While last year's Ambria concert took place on Klaus's birthday, we had Jürgen celebrating his birthday this year on the large stage at this Northern Italian festival.

All those who came despite the thunderstorm had a pleasing evening. Once more our thanks go out to the festival team, who made us enjoy ourselves again.

We hope to be able to present you more pics of the event as soon as we receive them.

Foto: Tihana Novosel

For October 11th there is a new concert date. Cultur club MUKE gets us to headline the AUFMUKEN event on the Csaterberg in Kohfidisch, Southern Burgenland.

This Saturday, June 21st, we play the Woodrock-Festival, an open-air concert in Winden on the Neusiedler See. We will enter the stage at 09:30 pm.

For those who are about to come to our Innsbruck Treibhaus concert on June 27th, there is double good news: once more this is a free concert, and for soccer fans: there is no match of the European Championship on that day.

There were pictures taken and films made during both concerts. We are looking forward to being able to present you some of it soon.

At the Stuttgart concert we met some well-known fans of the German Doors scene: Iris Wilke (alias Flugschatten), Jürgen Bamberg (alias jimlizardking.de, who came all the way from Hamburg) and Anna-Maria Ruf, whose novel "End of The Night" is to be published very soon. In her novel there will be some impressions of THE DOORS EXPERIENCE.

Jürgen Bamberg has also put a gallery of the concert on-line here. Your password to access the gallery is “Stuttgart”.

There is also an illustrated concert review in Croatian language over at our Press Reviews section.

Our concert date at the Vienna Andino will be cancelled, the reason for this being their concert promoter Claudia K., who works for another concert venue from now on. She ist now in one of Austria's top music clubs, the Szene Wien. Therefore we will be announcing a concert date at this legendary club soon.

Our sixth Zagreb Concert on May 3rd was a special treat again. There is no such audience as the crowd in Croatia’s capital. Again more than 1000 have come to celebrate with us. The majority of the audience were screaming young girls, therefore the scenery reminded us of Beatles concerts or early Rolling Stones performances. Jason had a hard time reaching the back stage area unharmed, because fans pulled him right off the stage on occasion of hunting for personal souvenirs at the end of the show. The concert was captured by many cellular phones and cameras, so there should be a load of pics up here – as soon as we get them mailed – or someplace else on the web.

On Sunday, May 4, an in-depth interview with Jason was broadcast nationwide on Croatia’s HR 2 channel in the morning show Suskalica.

For our first concert in Stuttgart’s Wagenhallen pre-sale tickets are available.

Good news is up for our fans in Vienna and lower Austria. We play Vienna’s Reigen club on August 2 once more.

Our first exclusive concert in the Netherlands will be almost a Christmas show. It will take place in Uden’s club “De Pul” on December 21.

We are also looking forward to playing next weeks concerts in Leoben / Styria (May 2nd) and Zagreb / Croatia (May 3rd). Tickets are up for sale for both concerts.

It was also a pleasure to have Jürgen Bamberg, another exquisite German DOORS connoisseur there, who took the long journey way down from Hamburg to Halle.

On the very next day we played our first concert in Belgium, that is at the "Spirit of 66" in Verviers (which was awarded "Best Live Music Club in Europe"), a location that is frequented by top notch rock musicians on a weekly basis: members of Toto, Deep Purple, Yes, Genisis,  Supertramp, ELP appear there regularly, as well as Focus, Dr. Feelgood, Canned Heat, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Starship, Marillion, Nazareth, Paul Rodgers, Ten Years After, Van der Graaf Generator and many more.

The club was packed with fans from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. The atmosphere was gorgeous and the promoter was pleased. That is why he booked us for yet another concert on December 20.

New bassman Jürgen Schaupp's was augmented with his biography and some new photos. We'd like to thank Waltraud Marsoner for her pictures.

in the meantime www.myspace.com/thedoorsexperience has had more than one million hits up to now. The mp3-Songs even range up to 1,85 million plays.

Rehearsals with Jürgen are prospering. We've also added another Doors song to our repertoire, which we enjoy playing very much, but we won't tell which song it is yet. It will be unveilled at our April concerts - 4 gigs in 4 different states. So the first opportunity to hear the song is on April 3 in Vienna's Planet Music. Make sure to be there!

April 3 will also be the very first occasion for you to watch an listen to Christoph's brand new "Original Mod Orange" Ludwig drum set. We as his fellow musicians could already catch a glance of it during our latest rehearsal. Like many Doors fans might know John Densmore switched from Gretsch to Ludwig drums reportedly in 1968, because he enjoyed the drum sound of Ringo Starr so much.

Like last year we will be headlining the Ambria Music Festival in Zogno/Italy on July 12th, 2008. Plus we will play our traditional New Year's Eve concert in Zurich's Alte Kaserne again this year.

Our new bass player Jürgen Schaupp has his own biography page now, which will be updated with information soon.

For summer 2008 there are already many requests by concert promoters. On the first day of summer, June 21st, we will be headlining the Woodrock Festival in Winden on the Neusiedler See, which is located well for all our fans from Vienna, Lower Austria, the Burgenland and Hungary.

Speaking of the summer...

Not only in summer our fan T-shirt is a fashionable piece of clothe. All sizes from S to XXL are in stock again, plus we have a limited edition of junior sized shirts (in five sizes from XS to XL) now. If you are interested write an e-mail to presse@thedoors.at

Right before the concert break “When The Music’s Over” was Martin’s last song with us, before our new bass player Jürgen Schaupp entered the stage and took over bass duties, while Martin took the opportunity to dance with the crowd.

Jürgen will be presented on his own bio page soon. We can tell you that he’s part of a big and well-known family of musicians from Mautern near Krems, Lower Austria. He has been playing live in various outfits for many years.

Jürgen managed to deliver a stunning debut, the audience appreciated his performance. We will present you some pics of the evening and maybe some sound files shortly. On this occasion we’d also like to thank the excellent sound engineer Andreas Neubauer(funkytown-productions, mail@andreasneubauer.info).

Plus pics of our latest show at the Innsbruck Treibhaus are on-line. Thanks to Andreas Eppensteiner for taking the pictures and to our biggest Tyrolean fan "Fuzzy" Marianne for sending us the CD containing the photos.

On May 2nd we will play the Kulturkeller in Leoben / Styria for the second time.

We met many of you during the last few days, because we had full house and a lovely time at the Innsbruck Treibhaus and in the Alte Kaserne Zurich.

Loredana Grasso already put a gallery of the Zurich concert on-line. A set of pics from the Innsbruck show is on its way, as is our traditional review of the past year.

Concerning the Tour 2008 we have good news for you: On April 12th we will play Belgium for the first time, that is at the reknowned live music club "The Spirit of 66" in Verviers near Liége.