THE DOORS SUMMER'S GONE Harvey Kubernik  OTHERWORLD COTTAGE INDUSTRIES  |
It’s perfectly valid to ask if the really world needs yet another book about The Doors and thankfully this is far from just another book about The Doors. Interestingly, esteemed chronicler of West Coast rock and pop history Harvey Kubernik’s Doors tome doesn’t readily fit into the traditional categories of rock biography or band histories. Rather what Kubernik has come up with here is an equally entertaining and illuminating anthology of assorted interviews, reviews, recollections and eye witness accounts some of them previously published in a variety of publications while others are only now making it into print for the first time. To his eternal credit Kubernik’s thoughtfully assembled episodic text doesn’t focus excessively on already well explored aspects of The Doors’ mythology but rather attempts to build a fuller, more rounded picture of the band and their turbo-charged rise to the top by incorporating material and viewpoints from a wide diversity of sources which lends a tangible sense of time and place to the material. |
