I've lived by that credo ever since I saw this skit in my early teens. Exceptions to the rule is when the "Greatest Hits"compilations come with DVDs of the band's music videos.
@Alexander Tijerina (student) - Actually, on "Waiting For The Sun" they had a session players for every song apart from My Wild Love which has NO bass at all. "Douglas Lubahn - bass guitar on tracks 1-5, 7, 9, 10, 11, Kerry Magness - bass guitar on track 6, Leroy Vinnegar - acoustic bass on track 7" (Wikipedia)
@@warmswarm Yup... the first two albums used keyboard bass, and then the last four (well, six) all employed a bass player or two... however, those bass players weren't considered members of The Doors. There's only ever been four.... maybe what The Doors' fan character said in this sketch is true... Edit: Woah! I never knew... 'The first two albums used keyboard bass... but also a bass player called Mr. Doug Lubahn' would have been more correct. Well... he only plays bass on two tracks on the debut, but still...
Actually he doors did have bass. They had multiple bass players. All the members of the doors played bass on every song, in every album. It all got distorted and changed in the studio when recording. If you’ve ever seen them live you know it’s just a whole bunch of dudes strumming bass, and Jim Morrison making bass sounds with his mouth.
Kids today don't understand. It used to be that if you wanted to get new music, especially anything that was maybe a little bit out of the mainstream, you had to go to a record store and deal with a pretentious clerk who would sneer at your selection because he (almost always a he) knew sooooooo much more about music than you because he worked at a RECORD STORE. I still like buying physical music and supporting record stores, but that part always sucked.
+plushsnail I'm 32 and record stores were still just slightly before my time. I bought my first CDs through a mail order company in the early 90's, they were huge at the time but I can't remember the name anymore. And today of course, I don't even bother with physical medium like CD's, all of my music is in digital format on my hard drive. I'm not sure if I have ever bought music at a record store to be honest. Maybe just slightly too young
Not just a rumor either: after Jim's death, IGGY actually did front the band for a few shows, and they recorded some stuff together, around 1974, and there was talks about him joining up, but the band decided to just continue as a trio sans Jim, after Iggy Pop declined their offer. Ray Manzarek offered Iggy the job, because he had heard that Iggy Pop could cause a riot too, very controversial singer. I have heard two versions of the story's end: one has Iggy saying he didn't want to channel a dead rock star, and another saying he agrred to replace Jim but got freaked out on a heroin binge and took off. Google the story.
Does it ring true about the "missing bass" as well? From what I've read a pretty proficient studio session bass player lady played the bass for The Doors (at least for the debut album?) but she wasn't credited in the liner notes.
@@ZombieDragQueen I knew that Carol Kaye (presumably, that's who you were talking about) was on the first Zappa album and Pet Sounds, but I didn't know she was on the first Doors album. I thought Ray Manzanerak or however you spell his name did it on piano.
@@hickorymccay2994 Yes, Carol! On some tracks Manzarek played it on the keyboard. It's disputed though since another session bassist, Larry Knechtel is also mentioned for being the bass player on The Doors' debut album. I guess it's possible both were hired to do session work and the engineer/producer used the best takes without the band's knowledge who did which take? Or maybe she played on later albums? And giving the quantities of drugs circulating and consumed in those days I wouldn't be surprised if the band said "Wait, we have bass tracks on this album? Do we even have a bassist? How high have we been? What year is it? .... Phew, ok, I just read the LP jacket. No one is credited for playing bass. So we don't have a bass player we might have forgotten in a Turkish prison."
Watching this show changed my sense of humor so much. I never realized that. Their quirkiness and their oddness and some other bits even are part of my personal humor pallet
About thirty years ago, I watched this sketch and Bruce taught me that I was a Doors fan. To this day, I can't listen to Love Her Madly... I also pronounce Depeche Mode with a mock quebecois affectation. Thanks a bunch, Kev.
“Nobody’s into Depeche Mode, even Depeche Mode isn’t into Depeche Mode.” Also the line about love her madly being the only song you won’t like is like what my dad told me about blind melon and no rain.
and I happen to like both songs. What does that make me? lol And just for the record (pun intended) I own four Doors LPs, and a couple of documentary videos as well.
@DH - AND THAT IS? What does the statement - "You may need to get out more" mean, with regards to my comment? What the hell does that have to do with this sketch, this tv show, or my opinion that "Jim fuckin' Morrison told me" was the greatest line uttered in the shows 5 season long run?
@@Drew-bc7zj You know what? I stand corrected. I completely forgot that he hated the entire Soft Parade album. Everything else he loved...except Love Her Madly. He really, truly hated that song.
Ha! Hell yeah! My bil gave me a stack of LP's for my 13th birthday back in the early 70's. Waiting For The Sun was one of them and the one I listened to the most.
Dazlidorne Jenkins, High Fidelity was adapted from a book. But I doubt theres any connection between the book and KITH....this is just what record stores were like
I once stopped in a record store in southern Missouri and the employee reminded me of this guy . I found an Alan Parsons Tales of Mystery and Imagination album . The clerk was greatly impressed with my taste in music . LOL
I love this because I identify with the intensity of the love for the Doors and great bands that were so powerful culturally. Bands like The Doors, Led Zeppelin and the Jimi Hendrix Experience literally set me free and gave me the courage to be myself. I feel no shame whatsoever in saying that these people are my heros and of course some of them paid the ultimate price in pursuit of their art
I love this This is probably my favorite sketch of all time because I am a doors fan.. I was just born that way.. yeah Kevin looks absolutely handsome here
One day in the winter of '80, in my hometown of Milwaukee WI, I sat in my friend's basement. This was in the dead of the worst cold wave I remember (and being from Wisconsin, that's saying a lot). My friend and I decided it would be a good idea to alleviate our boredom by taking some acid. We also had some weed. Then my friend put on side 3 of The Doors Absolutely Live. For those of you unfamiliar with that album, side 3 contains The Celebration of the Lizard; one of the Doors' best and most intense works. When the music ended, we decided it would be a good idea to walk from his house to the shore of Lake Michigan, a five mile trek. Mind you, the wind chill factor was -40. We arrived at the lake, and the Doors music was still reverberating through my head, the musical memory augmented by the acid we'd taken. We walked down a spiraling path to the shore, and trudged through waist deep snow. We attempted to climb the cliffs, but got stuck and almost fell to certain injury or death. We decided that it was a bit cold for us, and began to make our way home. But my friend was not aware of the depth of the snow and ice. He fell through the ice, and found himself up to his shoulders in ice water. I risked my life to pull him out. We made our way home. I went home, had something to eat, and then read the Book of Revelations in the Bible. And I could still hear Jim Morrison singing about "Lions in the street and roaming dogs in heat; a beast cage din the heart of the city." This is a true story.
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This is silliest thing to bring up, but still....It's been over fifty years, but there are TWO studio cats credited as bassist on different songs on "Waiting For The Sun." They weren't BAND members. Manzarek supplied the bass lines from the keyboard in concert.
Does anyone else remember a sketch where Kevin plays Jim Morrison dying in a bathtub? I've only seen it once on tv, and it's been so long I'm starting to think I imagined it.
I have never seen it or heard of it and I watch a SHITTON of KITH. However it still could be out there, I still occasionally find stuff I have never seen!
I know exactly what sketch you're thinking of. Kevin only looks like Jim Morrison, but he's not actually supposed to be him. He keeps getting more and more stoned in the bathtub while Bruce comes in and starts making out with his girl, Lucy, played by Mark on the toilet. They have a narrator that says something about it being about the new philosophers in a post-apocalyptic world or something.
the irony is that the doors actually used session bass players on their studio albums, although ray did play the basslines at live shows. that album has bass on every track except the last one. "spanish caravan" has two..... but don't let that scare you, my friend...
I was in highschool when I got into The Doors, jammed on it, then met Doors fans who could tell me every members bloodtype and where they ate lunch before recording. Shaming me hard. Still like The Doors.
This is one of my favorite skits of all time. "Jim-fucking-Morrison, thats' who!!" 2:44 "Take this, it's an 8-track tape - one of the last in existence. I want you to steal a car - I have a car - STEAL a car!! Get in it and drive west..." good advice ;)
dude, they referenced iggy pop and the pixies. apparently canadian tv kicks the ass of american tv, cuz guess what we yanks were broadcasting back in 1990-91? the cosby show and full house. yep. the cosby show. these guys were talking about iggy.
One of the greatest skits of all time. This skit is based completely on Reality. Very funny, and frightening at the same time. P.S. Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd have similar backgrounds.
@@nobodynoone2500 That's not what I meant, similar as in the borderline ridiculous way that some fans Idolize them, ya' know? like in the skit, we just like, Uh.... watched?🤔..... Get it?....... Pinky.
Sadly I think the doors are getting forgotten. If this skit was made today the guy would be asking for a newer cd and the music clerk would be recommending Depeche Mode
Saying there was 'no bass' in the context of the sentence means there's no bass player. Bruce - Who's playing bass? Kevin - Uhh, no one?! Bruce - No bass. Kevin - No bass?! Bruce - That's right. Holy crap people...
