THE DOORS THROUGH STRANGE DAYS

  The Doors had just overcome, with no small effort, the most difficult year for the band's balance and very existence. From the fall of 1968, that is, from the return to California after the European tour, until the summer of 1969, in fact, artistic and personal disagreements between Jim Morrison and the rest of the lineup had threatened the continuation of the extraordinary musical adventure that had begun only three years earlier. The more relaxed atmosphere surrounding the quartet in October-November 1969 favored a return to the recording studio as an auspicious seal on the adversity recently experienced. Some problems, however, persisted and demanded an urgent solution. Chief among them was the lack of sufficient available material for the completion of the group's fifth album. Hand in hand with the progress of the recording studio work, which took place mostly in November '69, it soon became clear that the available songs required substantial supplementation...