My father and the first two albums by The Doors

My father bought the first two albums by The Doors in 1967, the year they were released: "The Doors" in January and "Strange Days" in September. I still have those two LPs, and the vinyl is incredibly thick, something I noticed even in the late 1970s when I started collecting LPs of my own, with the new releases being much thinner. Decades later, my father, who stopped listening to rock music in the course of the 1970s, said that The Doors had been his favorite band of the great performers of the 1960s, and he explicitly singled out the role of John Densmore's drumming in what he liked about their sound. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 6 January 2025)