Annual Review 2011

We’re looking back on a year filled with anniversaries. Jim Morrison had died 40 years ago, The Doors had been recording their legendary debut album 45 years ago, and we from The Doors Experience celebrated our tenth anniversary at the Reigen club in Vienna, with almost all of our former band members attending.

For Jim’s 40^th anniversary of his death we played two huge concerts, which were crowded by 3000 plus fans each, on at the Sparkassenpkatz in Innsbruck /Tyrol, the other at the big Lent Festival in Maribor / Slovenia. A few weeks before that we had a crowd of more than 1000 in the heart of Vienna. More excellent concerts in many a new location were played in Zagreb, Spielfeld, Saalfelden, Timelkam, on an old castle called Stixenstein. We played the Bergamo area in Italy again and had harp players John Lee Harper and Cesar join us for Roadhouse Blues and a few other tunes on stage.

The tour 2011 came to a closure once again in Innsbruck and Zurich with our legendary New Year’s Eve show at the re-launched Alte Kaserne, attended by fans from all over Europe and more.

For professional reasons our bass player Jürgen Schaupp could not play most of this year’s concerts. That is why we switched our line-up to that of the Doors’ live shows in the 1960, with Klaus playing all the bass parts on the bass keyboard. So from now on we are a four piece concentrating on the very sound of the Doors’ live albums. Anyway thanks to Jürgen and all other former bass players we had.

Due to many requests we had our fan t-shirts also produced in 6 small sizes for children, whereas 7 sizes for grown-ups from S to 4XL are available as well. Plus we had a second button designed, showing our lead singer Jason. T-Shirts and buttons are available at our concerts or just write an e-mail to presse@thedoors.at

A lot is happening on our youtube-site www.youtube.com/baronlejois, where our songs have been downloaded about 700.000 times up to now. Our video of Break On Through recorded in Zagreb has been downloaded about 220.000 times now.

Download figures of songs on www.myspace.com/thedoorsexperience have risen enormously once more. At the end of the year we counted 2.7 million downloads.

Plus there is a whole lot going on at www.facebook.com/doors.experience where most of the new concert pics can be found. Plus contests and rare video clips, which are not even on youtube.

We are looking forward to seeing you again during our tour 2012!.

„Take it as it comes!“

On Friday, March 2nd we were booked by the Röda club in Steyr / Upper Austria for the second time. We played our fist concert there in 2009.

Croatian fans don’t have to wait until May. Instead of May 19th we will play our very frst concert at the new club Hard Place in Zagreb on Friday, March 30th, 2012. The very next day, March 31st, we will be at the Club Stereo in Rijeka, a place in which we had played an entirely sold out concert to a great crowd three years ago.

And for those who want to attend our upcoming concert in Innsbruck on December 30th, there is good news: it will be a free concert. So make sure you are there in time!

On our Facebook page we have uploaded galleries of all our latest concerts. Thanks, Tihana Resch for taking these excellent shots.

Tihana is also responsible for filming us at the Almenno Rock Festival. The footage was now edited by Jason Boiler into a nice new video, which is on youtube.

As 2011 comes to a close we will play a free concert at the Innsbruck Treibhaus on Dec. 30th and yet another “The Doors Celebration” New Year’s Eve show in Zurich -  tickets for which can be obtained here.

For 2012 concert tour negotiations go ahead quite well. Dates for a Valentine’s Day show at the Szene Vienna, a concert in Zagreb plus the headlining of a big festival near the Austrian-Hungarian border are already confirmed.

On this very day in history 45 years ago, August 18th 1966, a young band from L.A. signed their first contract with Jac Holzman’s then new label Elektra Records. A week later they recorded what was to be their debut album “The Doors” with producer Paul A. Rothchild and sound engineer Bruce Botnick at Sunset Sound Studios. The album was issued in January 1967 and is arguably the most important debut album in music history. It is so strong, that we have all its 11 songs in our live repertoire.

The opening track on “The Doors” is “Break On Through”. Our 2007 live version from Zagreb has been watched about 200.000 times on youtube.

July 31st, 2011

The concerts in Stixenstein castle and at the Ambria Music Festival attracted a few thousand fans. You can find galleries on Facebook.

Jason Boiler hand selected and compiled footage from our headlining spot at the Ambria Music festival and put in on youtube.

We played for at least 5000 fans last weekend at big open air festivals in Innsbruck and Maribor. You can find pictures, clip and further information on all this at our Facebook site.

Up next is our very first concert at the lovely castle Stixenstein in Lower Austria on July 16th. You can obtain cheap pre-sale tickets here.

There is also a recent press review from Slovenia.

Two videos are new on youtube: Indian Summer, filmed in Apetlon, and Break On Through, live from Zagreb in April 2011. For both shows Klaus played keyboard bass, just like The Doors did in the 1960s.

3 new concert dates have been added: on June 5th we will play a free festival at the Vienna Donaukanal, on July 22nd we will be headlining the Ambria Music Festival (near Bergamo, Italy) for the third time.

Pics of our 10 years anniversary concert at the Vienna Reigen club plus another gallery comprised of photos from our concert at the Kunsthalle Nexus in Saalfelden, have been put on-line on facebook. Thanks, Tihana Novosel for taking the pictures.

Facebook galleries from Zagreb, Spielberg and Apetlon have been put on-line. Thanks, Tihana Novosel!

We played these two concerts also exactly in the original Doors’ live line-up, that is, Klaus also played keyboard bass.

On the 40th anniversary of Jim’s death we will play on a big festival in Maribor, called the LENT Festival, alongside the likes of Jimmy Cliff, Monster Magnet, Trilok Gurtu and the late Joe Zawinul’s band Syndicate.

Our own 10th anniversary will be celebrated at the Vienna Reigen on May 3rd with some special surprises for you all.

New galleries of our latest concerts have been put on-line on Facebook. Thanks, Tihana Novosel.

New concert dates have been added: On July 2^nd we will play a huge open-air-concert in Innsbruck, where the film “When You’re Strange” will be shown on a large screen right before our show.

New press reviews have been put on-line.

In 2008 and 2009 we were topping the bill of the Almenno Rock Festival near Bergamo. About 3000 fans were there every year. In 2011, a big year for The Doors, we are looking forward to returning to Almenno San Salvatore on Saturday, Sept. 3rd.

On April 8th, we won’t play in Klagenfurt / Carinthia as originally scheduled, but in Zagreb again. This year’s concert there will be in a new location, the MOČVARA Club.

Loads of new concert dates have been added for 2011. Just have a look at our Tour Dates page. There is also information on where to purchase tickets – for many of these dates.

Two new video clips have been put on-line on youtube, both from Slovenia and featuring our new drummer Gerhard: a Medley from our Celje performance and “Who Do You Love” filmed in Murska Sobota and featuring a dance routine by Klaus.

Annual review 2010

As usual we started our 10th year of touring as THE DOORS EXPERIENCE in Zurich at the New Years Eve Doors Celebration with hundreds of enthusiastic fans, who came from all Swiss counties, France, Germany, Western Austria, Italy, France, Croatia and other countries. But this time we didn’t play in the Alte Kaserne, but in the very famous Volkshaus Zurich (where Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger had played themselves 3 years ago with Riders On The Storm).

Same procedure as every year: The Zagreb Boogaloo was packed with the most frenetic crowd. The same went for MMC Salvija, a former cinema in Osijek. The only sad fact is, that our big flag with our band logo on it has disappeared without a trace after the Osijek show. We are pretty sure that it now decorates an enthusiastic fan's bedroom.

In summer we played as headliners on the “Feast of Friends”, Europe’s biggest Doors festival again. The day before we had a totally sold out concert in Halle.

On two concerts in Vienna we had John Lee Harper joining us on blues harp for Roadhouse Blues and Gloria.

Our new drummer Gerhard Tscherwizek, a long-term friend of the band and especially Klaus and René, who he played with frequently over the past 20 years. replacedd our dear Christoph Zauchinger, who withdrew from playing live after almost 10 years in this group and almost 20 years of playing alongside Jason and Klaus.

Foto: Tihana Resch

Due to many requests we had our fan t-shirts also produced in 6 small sizes for children, whereas 7 sizes for grown-ups from S to 4XL are available as well. Plus we had a second button designed, showing our lead singer Jason. T-Shirts and buttons are available at our concerts or just write an e-mail to presse@thedoors.at

A lot is happening on our youtube-site www.youtube.com/baronlejois, where our songs have been downloaded more than half a million times up to now. Download figures of songs on www.myspace.com/thedoorsexperience have risen enormously once more. At the end of the year we counted 2.7 million downloads. Plus there is still Tihana’s Official Doors Experience Fan Site on myspace and our Facebook-Fanseite, where most of the new concert pics can be found. Plus contests and rare video clips, which are not even on youtube.

We are looking forward to seeing you again during our tour 2011, which is going to be a remarkable year. 40 years ago Jim died under mysterious circumstances, 45 years ago The Doors recorded their legendary self-titled debut album, an finally 10 years ago The Doors Experience started playing live.

„The time to hesitate is through!“