Chords for The Doors: The Disastrous Tour With The Cult's Ian Astbury (Doors Of the 21st Century Tour)

What's going on my fellow rock [Gbm] n' rollers.
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I've talked a lot about the cult on my
[D] channel and i've done some videos on the [E] doors, but one fan suggested i talk about the time
Ian [D] Asbury of the cult fronted the doors.
[E] It was in the early [A] 2000's and the whole project
was fraught with legal problems from the start.
[E] Stay tuned to find out what happened.
[A] _ [E] _ [D] _ The cult would take a hiatus in 2002 following a less than stellar comeback that saw them
[E] the record Beyond Good and Evil.
It was the band's first record in 7 years following their hiatus in
1994.
I've released a video on the Beyond Good and Evil time in the band.
You can click the
link in the description box to view it.
It's actually one of my more popular videos and it's
a great story so check it out.
Ian Asbury would discover the doors at age 10 and the Danny Sugarman
book about the band titled No One Gets Out Here Alive which would be a sort of bible to him.
He would reveal in a 2003 interview I probably first heard them when i was 9 or 10
on my parents transistor radio.
[A] At the time i loved David Bowie and T-Rex,
but i was drawn to the doors.
They were so different, so much [G] darker he'd say.
And Asbury was such a fan of the doors he almost got cast in Oliver Stone's biopic about the band
in [A] 1989, but the role went to Val Kilmer.
That close call though got Asbury on the radar of the
surviving members of the band.
By the mid to late 90's Asbury's world would fall apart.
The cult
had taken a hiatus as tensions with guitarist Billy Duffy reached new heights following the
commercially disappointing self-titled album in 1994.
On top of that his [Gb] marriage at the time
crumbled and he started abusing alcohol and was still reeling from a $61 million lawsuit brought
by the family of a young American Indian boy who had claimed his image had been used on the album
cover of the cult's 1991 record Ceremony Without Permission.
Side note I also did a video on that
lawsuit and album and the links are down below.
Asbury would find sanctuary in a spiritual trip
to Tibet and a trip to the [G] island of Cuba.
When he returned home he would leave his wife and went
to therapy.
He would reveal I made big breakthroughs in therapy in 1998.
That was my big
clear out year he'd remember.
The following year Asbury's involvement with the surviving members
of the doors got started as he joined the doors guitarist Robbie Krieger during one of his solo
gigs.
The doors surviving members would reunite in 2000 to perform on the VH1 Storytellers tv show.
For the live performance the band was joined by Angelo Barbera and numerous guest vocalists
including Ian Asbury, Scott Weiland, Scott Staff, Perry Farrell, Pat Monahan and Travis Meeks.
And by 2002 the doors were ready to hit the road with Asbury fronting the band.
The reunited lineup plus Asbury would call themselves the doors of the 21st century.
Surviving drummer John Densmore wasn't able to be part of the reunion as his bandmates claimed he
was suffering from a hearing condition known as tinnitus and would be replaced by the [D] police's
drummer Stuart Copeland.
But Densmore contended by the time the tour started he had recovered fully
and that he was fired by the band after reading an article in billboard magazine saying
I thought, [Cm] oh ok, I'm fired in the paper.
I called Robbie and said, Robbie, you've got to change the
name, [Bb] please.
Densmore was frustrated by the band's arrangement saying I'm troubled by one
guy singing the whole night.
There are doors cover bands [Bm] in every city and we shouldn't join [Em] that,
should we?
No disrespect to Ian Asbury or Stuart [A] Copeland, they're wonderful musicians,
but my point is they are not the [C] doors.
Densmore also complained about the phrase
of the 21st century as it was little more than fine print in advertisements and that the new
band displayed Morrison's image dozens of times during concerts.
Copeland would be forced to
[D] withdraw from touring after he broke his arm following a biking accident [C] and he would [G] be
replaced by Ty Dennis who played in Krieger's [Ab] solo band.
Interestingly Asbury wasn't the
first choice to [C] replace Jim Morrison on stage.
Following his passing the surviving [D] members had
talks with Joe Cocker and Howard Wirth, but [C] neither came to fruition.
[F] The Doors would play
together again in 1993 as their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Pearl Jam
singer Eddie Vedder fronting the band.
As the doors of the 21st century hit the road there
were slap with lawsuit after lawsuit.
In April of 2003 it was reported that Jim Morrison's
parents had filed a lawsuit against the surviving members of the Doors [Bm] and even
Ian Asbury for misappropriating the band's name claiming it isn't the Doors without their son.
Also [D] involved in the lawsuit were the parents of Morrison's girlfriend Pamela Corson
who claimed she owned half of Morrison's share on the Doors.
To make matters worse in 2003 the
band was hit with another lawsuit by original drummer John Densmore.
Densmore's suit which
seeked unspecified damages claimed that written and oral agreements mandate that the Doors name
can only be used by original band members and that Doors of the 21st century and the Doors
logo for Asbury's collaboration was a violation of the band's agreement.
The lawsuits didn't end
there as Stewart Copeland filed his own lawsuit as well as claiming he was dismissed without reason
and not paid money owed to him [Gm] which amounted to about a million dollars.
Copeland's lawsuit would be settled out of court in 2003.
The Densmore lawsuit stemmed from a 1970
agreement signed by the four original band members including Morrison that any business deal would
require a unanimous vote of the Doors.
[Dm] The agreement was reached after Morrison and the
other three members got into a violent disagreement over using [Gm] Light My Fire in a Buick television
commercial.
While the three partners had initially agreed to the commercial, Morrison vehemently
disagreed and the commercial was not done.
Since Morrison's death in Paris in 1971 the remaining
band members and the parents split [Dm] Morrison's share of the Doors music and memorabilia and each
partner has [Gm] video power over business deals.
It was during the 90's that General Motors offered
the partnership $15 million to use Light My Fire to sell Cadillacs and everyone but Densmore wanted
to take the deal, but he refused.
Densmore also refused an endorsement deal offered by iPod maker
Apple.
In 2007 Asbury would quit the Doors and reform the cult again.
The following year the
surviving members of the Doors [Dm] would announce a new project titled Riders on the Storm.
The band
featured two [Cm] original members of [Gm] the Doors and recruited a new singer Brett Scallions, formerly
of the band Fuel who would front the [Dm] band.
The tour with Asbury would gross more than $8 million
and [Bb] net $3.2 million which went to the new [Gm] band's company called Doors Touring Incorporated,
[Dm] none of which went to Densmore or the parents of Jim Morrison or his girlfriend.
And in [G] 2008 the legal battle finally came to an end [C] as the California [Gm] Supreme Court refused to
take up the case.
What did this mean?
Keyboardist Ray Manzurek and Robby Krieger were on the hook
for more than $5 million after lower courts found them to have improperly invoked the Doors name
and images during a 2003 concert tour.
The $5 million settlement would end up being split by
drummer John Densmore, the parents of Jim Morrison and the [Dm] parents of his deceased wife Pamela Corson
who died in 1974.
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