Atlanta-Based group returns to the small venue for third time
The Dirty Doors made another appearance in Knoxville and played for another packed house at K-Town’s The Open Chord on Saturday, Jan. 27.
It was the group’s third Knoxville show in a little more than a year and their second in six months.
As one who saw, and was mesmerized by the group’s show last summer (which happened to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love when the Doors made it big after a controversial performance at LA’s Whisky-A-Go-Go), I couldn’t wait to see what the band with frontman Reed Barrickman, had in store on a cool January night.
And again, Barrickman, guitarist Matt Boehnlein, keyboardist Geoff Lewis and drummer Jason Monseur didn’t disappoint.
They performed classics such as “Riders on the Storm,” “L.A. Woman,” “Light My Fire,” “Peace Frog,” “Alabama Song” and “Roadhouse Blues.”
Barrickman is The Lizard King as he has Morrison’s mannerisms down to a “T.”
The crowd was mesmerized when the band took the stage. The band saved its best performance for the finale when it played “The End,” the epic song that profiles a character with an Oedipan Complex.
That tune was absent from the set list back in July as the band opted to play “When the Music’s Over.”
Barrickman noted after the show that the group alternates those two epic tunes. Both close the show respectively.
The treat of the Doors tribute shows are the deep cuts, the tunes rarely heard on the radio. On this night, The Dirty Doors performed “Wake Up” before heading into “Light My Fire,” The Doors only No. 1 hit in their brief four-year stint as key players on the world stage.
The Dirty Doors also performed “Moonlight Drive,” a tune that late Doors co-founder Ray Manzurek said led to the creation of The Doors.
“Not to Touch the Earth,” “Who Do You Love?” and “Gloria” were also on the set list this time around.
“Barrickman also seemed to have a better rapport with his audience in January. Not that his stage presence was bad last time.
Both shows that I attended by Atlanta’s Doors Tribute Band were outstanding and the group remains a must-see for any true Doors fan.
