Kurfürstendamm....

Bikini Berlin....

 

Rathaus....

1869, by Hermann Friedrich Waesemann

Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum....

..50 years later, another time....different lies

Berliner Kindl....

..und Berlin ohne Bratwurst ?

Border crossing....

The border between East and West Berlin here at Friedrichstrasse. Checkpoint Charlie is just a few meters south. On the upper side of the photo are the two entrances to the U-Bahn (Stadtmitte), and the crossing with Leipziger Strasse. Due to the cars in the photo....probably early 1960s (?). 

Niederkirchnerstrasse retro....

Berlin Alexanderplatz......

DDR moderne....

Mohrenstrasse, 1950s

Garbage in the bin..!!

Berlin moderne....

Spreeathen....

Berlin, 1791, by Carl Gotthard Langhans

Hermannstrasse....

Die Strasse....

Reichsbahnbunker....

 

Berlin sidewalk....

Gedächtniskirche....

Berlin, 1959, by Egon Eiermann

Der Himmel über Berlin....

1936, by Ernst Sagebiel

Heden....

City Night....

Gemeente-Energiebedrijf (GEB) Amsterdam

1920`s (?)

Gare de Monaco....

Johnny Thunders and the Hartbreakers....

..London, March 25th 1984

The Soundtrack of our Lives at Pustervik....

Pustervik, March 19, 2024

The Soundtrack disbanded in 2012 but reunited for a few concerts....and last night they went through an outburst of musicality and energy at Pusterviks stage. The band have a collection of great songs under the belt....and live - it's hard to find a better number 👌

Best is show: "You are the beginning"...and all the rest.

Buon San Valentino....

..a tutti !

The Atlantic....

Olive tree....

Empty....

Get Back....

Boy....

Fender Bass VI....

Greed....

Fog....

Babelsberg....

..illusions

Illusions perdues....

"je pense à ceux qui doivent en eux trouver quelque chose après le désenchantement"

The joy of a record store....

..Bengans, Göteborg 

The artist pair....

..the Swedish zeitgeist of the 50s in a beautiful photo by Olle Waller

The Swan....

 1958, by Arne Jacobsen for the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen.

A better 2024....

1975, Fender Starcaster....

Haga....

Merry Christmas....

photo by Dorothea Lange, september 1935

"Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road. 1935, fruit tramp in California."

In Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Carousel....

Maspalomas....

Court Central do Jamor....

..and many more courts 😊

Babylon Berlin....

Gereon (Volker Bruch) und Charlotte (Liv Lisa Fries)

Berlin, Berlin....harte zeiten, eine dunkle schönheit, einer verlorenen zeit. A very well-made (expensive !) TV series capturing the city's late 20s atmosphere 👏

"riders on the storm"....

The recording of LA Woman in December 1970 at The Doors Office on Santa Monica Blvd. The boys seem to attend a funeral rather than being in the process of creating some of their best songs. Photo: Wendel Hamick

After reading the biographies of the three surviving Doors in a short time, I have to wonder if they forgot to have fun while the train rushed away ? One can discern a certain playfulness and pleasure around 1965 when Manzarek and Morrison lived together on Frazer Av. (Venice). After that, there is most hard work (and trouble) during the incomparable creative process that they went through the next few years. But joy .... is just not there (or so they forgot to write about it ?). Densmore`s book is like a letter of reconciliation; "and a little sad that I did not really understand what was going on ... then". What you get from all three books (and they actually complement each other), is a very good picture of who Morrison was; an enormously talented and tormented young man, whose legacy is still as relevant today ....

Jim....he would have been 80 today.