The Soft Parade
Occupation
- Jim Morrison: vocals
- Ray Manzarek: Keyboards
- Robbie Krieger: guitar
- John Densmore: Drums
The Soft Parade is the fourth album by The Doors. It was released in July 1969.
History
The album contained brass and string arrangements and he earned the criticism. Due to the increasing alcohol consumption by Jim Morrison guitarist Robbie Krieger had a stronger presence on the album. The growing disinterest Morrison and his alcohol problems were also reflected in the almost a year challenging production time. In the eight -minute title track, the band rock mixed with poems, whereas Wild Child is dominated by hard rock. Contrary to the practice in the previous albums is here for the first time not the band called as a whole as a composer, but each individual band members.
Criticism
Robert Christgau wrote: " No one even thinks about the Doors any more - such is fame - but this is an acceptable record, with predictable pretensions and two or three first-rate songs ( " Touch Me, " " Wild Child " ). . Nothing to get excited about, either way " The page Allmusic gave the album 3 out of 5 stars and wrote: " The weakest studio album recorded with Jim Morrison in the group, Partially Because Their experiments with brass and strings on about half the tracks were not 't Entirely successful. " Similar assessments can be found in various places, but it is striking that the very orchestrated with strings and brass-band touch Me peaked at # 3 on the Billboard charts.
Title list
Page one
Page Two
Other musicians
- Harvey Brooks, Doug Lubahn: Bass
- Curtis Amy: Saxophone
- George Bohanan: Trombone
- Champ Webb; English horn
- Jesse McReynolds: mandolin
- Jimmy Buchanan: Fiddle
- Reinold Andino: Congas