Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: October 21, 1997
• Run Time: 73 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0783222521
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,171 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Let this be it, July 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Doors - The Best of the Doors [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you are planning to get really interested in the Greatest and one of the most popular bands in the 60's The Doors well this video will make you a even bigger fan of The Doors after you watch it has classic television performances, a very large amount of Doors live at the Hollywood Bowl. It even shows the boys playing poker and them in the studio practicing before they record " Wild Child". This video has interviews with Jim Morrison and The Doors. Also shows a photo take for a new album they was making "Morrison Hotel" in 1970. Songs include Strange Days,Break on Through,Spanish Caravan,Unknown Soldier,Moonlight Drive with Horse Latitudes,The Changeling,Wild Child,Gloria,Touch Me,Backdoor Man Melody,L.A. Woman,Wisful Sinful, Light My Fire, The Ghost Song, and Hello I love You. The video is 1 hour and 13min. long. Great video

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible, April 23, 1999

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[e-mail] (Boxford, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Doors - The Best of the Doors [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I love listening to the albums of the greatest rock band of all time. But I had no idea what I was missing before I saw them perform their songs. The Best of the Doors really brings to life all of the songs. The video features performances of such songs as "Moonlight Drive", "Light My Fire", and a medley of "Alabama Song", "Back Door Man", and "Five to One". It also features promotional music videos made by the band including "Break on Through", "The Unknown Soldier", and "Hello, I Love You". Along with all of these, the Best of the Doors features films made by surviving Doors members to songs such as "The Changeling", "L.A. Woman", and "Wishful Sinful". Along with the music, the video features interviews with Jim Morrison and with the entire band, a scene of Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and Jim Morrison playing cards, and a presentation of various photos of the band. Any Doors fan must own this incredible video.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sincere but sad performance--morrison on the decline, November 26, 2001

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J from NY (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Doors - The Soft Parade, a Retrospective [VHS] (VHS Tape)

this is one of the doors calmer and more laid back performances, and yet it is stronger than the hollywood bowl and is much more potent because morrison's heart, although it is obviously filled with sadness and devastation, is completely in it. his emotional connection to the music is so intense that "wishful sinful", which is basically your average pop song, sounds like a shakespearean ballad when he is singing it. unfortunately you also sense that he is suffering intensely on the inside, and it is pretty obvious that on some level of his awareness he had realized that a good deal of his immense potential had gone down the drain as a result of alcoholism and fame-provoked decadence. the 60's dream of liberation and freedom had failed miserably and resulted in a despairing sense of failure, and i would venture to say that morrison felt this more acutely than hendrix or joplin. morrison was basically an idealistic, philosophical poet who wanted to change the fundamentals of society and make people more aware, and tragically he had been commodified just like everyone is in popular culture, and im sure he knew it. a must