No One Here Gets Out Alive was the first biography about the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band the Doors , Jim Morrison , published in 1980. Its title is taken from a line in the Doors' song " Five to One ", and the book is divided into three sections: The Bow is Drawn, The Arrow Flies and The Arrow Falls , for the early years of Morrison's life, his rise to fame with the Doors, and then his final years and death. The book was written by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman .
22-564: A companion video was made featuring interviews with the surviving members of the Doors, Hopkins, Sugerman and Paul A. Rothchild among others. It includes some rare footage and was the first video released by the band. It helped rekindle interest in the Doors by allowing fans that were too young or unable to remember, to see the Doors in action. Upon release, No One Here Gets Out Alive reached No. 1 on all best-seller lists, and it had sold over five million copies by 1995. No One Here Gets Out Alive
44-757: A musical family; his mother was an opera singer, and Rothchild studied classical music conducting . Rothchild began his career on the Boston folk scene, recording and releasing recordings (sometimes on his own label, Mount Auburn Records), by local folk artists, including the Charles River Valley Boys . He became a house producer for Jac Holzman 's Elektra Records label in 1964; he worked extensively with noted recording engineers Bruce Botnick , John Haeny , Fritz Richmond , and William Gazecki . In late 1964, Rothchild discovered Paul Butterfield and his band. A first attempt at recording them
66-461: A series of sections, each with a different mood, mode and color, always underscored by the drummer, who contributed not only the rhythmic feel but much in the way of tonal shading, using mallets as well as sticks on the various drums and the different regions of the cymbals. In addition to playing beautiful solos, Paul [Butterfield] played important, unifying things [on harmonica] in the background–– chords, melodies, counterpoints , counter-rhythms. This
88-541: A songwriter's credit for this track. On October 29, 2001, a reissue of this album remastered by Bob Irwin at Sundazed Studios and coupled with the debut appeared on Rhino WEA UK for the European market. In 1996, original Butterfield Blues Band member Mark Naftalin (keyboards), who recorded on the album and is pictured on the cover of East-West , released a CD on his own 'Winner' label entitled East-West Live , comprising three extended live performance versions of
110-681: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Paul A. Rothchild Paul Allen Rothchild (April 18, 1935 – March 30, 1995) was a prominent American record producer of the 1960s and 1970s, widely known for his historic work with the Doors , producing Janis Joplin 's final album Pearl and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band 's first two albums. Born in Brooklyn, Rothchild grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and graduated from Teaneck High School in 1954. He had
132-608: The Billboard pop albums chart , and is regarded as highly influential by rock and blues music historians. The album was recorded at the famed Chess Studios on 2120 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago . Like the band's eponymous debut album , this album features traditional blues covers and the guitar work of Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop . Unlike the debut album, Bishop also contributed guitar solos; drummer Sam Lay had left
154-514: The 1978 release of Morrison's posthumous spoken word album (with music by the Doors) An American Prayer , the prominent use of Doors music on the 1979 soundtrack for the film Apocalypse Now , and the 1980 release of the band's Greatest Hits album, all combined to bring the Doors and Morrison back into the popular culture. Notes Citations This article about a biographical or autobiographical book on musicians
176-800: The Fillmore in San Francisco during March alongside Jefferson Airplane . Both reflected his love of jazz , as the blue note-laden " Work Song " featuring harmonica by Butterfield had become a hard bop standard, and the title track "East-West" used elements of modal jazz as introduced by Miles Davis on his ground-breaking Kind of Blue album. Bloomfield had become enamored of work by John Coltrane in that area, especially his incorporation of ideas from Indian raga music . The album also included Michael Nesmith 's song " Mary, Mary ," which Nesmith would soon record with his band The Monkees - although original pressings of East-West did not include
198-425: The band due to illness and was replaced by the more jazz-oriented Billy Davenport . The social complexion of the band changed as well; ruled by Butterfield in the beginning, it evolved into more of a democracy both in terms of financial reward and input into repertoire. One result was the inclusion of two all-instrumental extended jams at the instigation of Bloomfield following the group's successful appearance at
220-467: The band's musical direction. He also produced albums and singles for John Sebastian , Joni Mitchell , Neil Young , Tom Paxton , Fred Neil , Tom Rush , the Lovin' Spoonful , Tim Buckley , Love , Clear Light , Rhinoceros and Janis Joplin , including her final LP Pearl and her only no. 1 single (written by her then-lover Kris Kristofferson ) " Me and Bobby McGee ". In the 1970s, he produced
242-412: The concept "LEDO" (Leadered / Equalized / Dolby / Original). This format insured the final tape would represent Rothchild's sonic vision for future generations. Rothchild is perhaps most well known by being the producer of the first five albums by the Doors. He did not produce their last LP with Jim Morrison , L.A. Woman , as Rothchild withdrew from the production after disagreeing with the group over
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#1732776162168264-556: The first two albums for the Tampa band Outlaws , for Arista Records , as well as producing Bonnie Raitt , Elliott Murphy and the soundtrack album for the Bette Midler film The Rose , which was loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin . He also produced the soundtrack to Oliver Stone 's film The Doors , and appeared in a small role in the film in which he was played by Canadian actor Michael Wincott . In 1990, Rothchild
286-428: The late guitarist "said he'd had a revelation into the workings of Indian music." Marsh's expansive liner notes observe that the song "East-West" "was an exploration of music that moved modally, rather than through chord changes. As Naftalin explains, "The song was based, like Indian music , on a drone . In Western musical terms, it 'stayed on the one'. The song was tethered to a four-beat bass pattern and structured as
308-577: The mid-1960s, Rothchild was established in the Los Angeles music scene, and his house on Lookout Mountain in Laurel Canyon was inhabited by many of the future musical superstars of the 1960s and 1970s. He produced the original song demo of Crosby, Stills, & Nash that landed the group a recording contract (it was actually Crosby, Stills and John Sebastian on the recording, with Sebastian later replaced by Graham Nash ). Rothchild originated
330-433: The mid-Sixties, a rock band finally achieved a version of the musical freedom that free jazz had found a few years earlier." The album is also credited with having helped spawn the harder acid rock sound. The track "East-West", with its early use of the extended rock solo , has been described as laying "the roots of psychedelic acid rock" and featuring "much of acid-rock's eventual DNA". The band members appearing on
352-461: The second version of the manuscript, with additional sensationalistic content, added by Danny Sugerman , made executives of Warner Books, part of the entertainment conglomerate then known as Warner Communications, decide to publish and to sell the book in 1980. Sugerman had begun working as an assistant in the Doors office at the age of 13 in 1967 and became the manager for the remaining members after Morrison died. The book's publication, following
374-423: The tune "East-West". Noted music critic and prolific author Dave Marsh contributed a substantial essay in the liner notes regarding the historic importance of the song, both the original 1966 recording and the live versions. Marsh, interviewing Naftalin, notes that the tune was inspired by an all-night LSD trip that "East-West " 's primary songwriter Mike Bloomfield experienced in the fall of 1965, during which
396-586: Was a group improvisation. In its fullest form it lasted over an hour." In his summation, Marsh points out that " 'East-West' can be heard as part of what sparked the West Coast's rock revolution, in which such song structures with extended improvisatory passages became commonplace." Going on to call the Butterfield Blues Band "one of the greatest bands of the rock era", Marsh concludes that "With 'East-West', above any other extended piece of
418-517: Was diagnosed with lung cancer. Although he was planning a large 60th birthday party, he succumbed to the disease on March 30, 1995, at the age of 59, just 19 days before his birthday. East-West (The Butterfield Blues Band album) East-West is the second album by the American blues rock band the Butterfield Blues Band , released in 1966 on the Elektra label. It peaked at No. 65 on
440-484: Was heavily criticized by several people for its historical inaccuracies, and for ambiguously suggesting that Morrison may have faked his own death. Among those people were Rothchild who claimed that Sugerman had changed some of his statements while he was interviewed by Hopkins. Doors' guitarist Robby Krieger said in response to the book that Sugerman "had his own ideas about what happened and various situations. He kind of put his own words into it, and what really annoyed me
462-475: Was shelved (though later released in the 1990s) but a later effort resulted in the band's self-titled debut release, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band . Rothchild also produced the band's second album, East-West , one of the most influential albums of the 1960s and the first example of what became acid rock . The early Butterfield Blues Band members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. By
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#1732776162168484-462: Was that he tried to make Jim sound like he was talking through Danny, and it wasn't the way Jim really was." Published nearly a decade after Morrison's death by journalist Jerry Hopkins , the first draft was written solely by Hopkins, based on extensive interviews with Morrison. But attempts to find a publisher during the years when the Doors were no longer popular, met with rejections from all major publishing houses. Eight years after Morrison’s death,
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