the doors | "when the music's over" | strange days | 1967
this is a favorite that i played constantly way back in the 90s – a full decade ago. it used to be that 10 years ago meant a long time, like, back when i was a little kid or back in high school. now what seems like a distant past era still occurred during my adult life. next thing you know, i'll be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the cure's release of disintegration, just like my parents saw this album released 40 years ago.
i seem to be revisiting the good memories i have of my undergraduate years a lot recently. it feels as though i have lost a lot of what i loved about life back when i was the strapping, idealistic young man in this photo instead of the tired-eyed, defeated middle-aged malcontent i have become. here's to reclaiming ourselves!
anyway, enjoy the raucous abandon of this song. some things haven't changed over the years: the droning, fuzzy bass, the longer-than-three-minutes-ness, the guitar feedback that moans and intertwines itself like a vine – it all still takes me away to somewhere else that i can't seem to describe at all.
[image: silver lake flats, american fork canyon, utah in april 1998]
