D21C IN RIO

this is what i posted today at RM:
"when Jim Morrison died i was a little girl. in my teen years (the awful 80’s), Jim, Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendrix formed, for me, the Unholy Trinity, those who burned like fireworks, not candles, mythical entities that had this never land appeal, so seducing to a young eager heart. but, the fact is, i never became a fan (not he way i’m a Pearl Jam fan), it was a feeling of awe for a lost paradise when people still believed that a flower had power, that there could be peace and love on the earth, before war, oil crisis, glitter and leggings took over, followed by more war, market economy, globalization, computers and mobiles. imagine my surprise when i got the news: the doors of the 21st century are playing in Rio! i had to be there, it’s at least, a historical event. but nothing had prepared for what i was about to experience. Claro Hall is a medium sized venue (about 8.500 people), and it was crowded. we arrived late, about ten minutes before the show began. suddenly, “fortuna imperatrix mundi” began to play, and there they were, Ray Manzareck, Robby Krieger, Ian Atsbury, Angelo Barbera (bass) and Ty Dennis (drums; an animal!). they played almost all the classics (i missed People Are Strange, i heard they played it in São Paulo the night before): L.A. Woman, Love Me Two Times, When the Music's Over, Touch Me, Whiskey Bar, Riders on the Storm (only after the encore break!). before playing Five to One, Manzarek said that they loved us, they loved Brazil, that we should make love to them and they would like to make love to us, that we should find love in our hearts for all humankind … but for George W. Bush! that was funny. another highlight was Krieger’s flamenco guitar solo in Spanish Caravan. but the greatest surprise was in Break on Through, when a group of drum players from a samba school from Rio (Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel, something like Independent Youth of Father Michael – it’s a city district) got on the stage and played olodum drum riffs with the band. man, they really got us then, the crowd went crazy! and the big teaser was, goes without saying, Light My Fire, the last but one, fifteen-minute song with a Eleanor Rigby riff tag, and duels between the band and one of the Brazilians, the guy with the tambourine (here, it’s really small and played with a thin stick). insane! boys and girls who could easily be my kids were there, enjoying every minute, singing all the lyrics, the guys were in ecstasy. in the end, the crowd was screaming the end! the end! but Manzareck said that it was sacred for Jim Morrison… the last thing he did was recite for us the two most famous and controversial sentences in the history of rock: father, i wanna kill you; mother, i wanna fuck you! a last word about the show: it’s been said in the media that Ian Atsbury is playing Morrison when he sings with D21C. man, i don’t know, but it was really weird. he didn’t look like Jim on saturday night (not as much as he does, i think, in some pictures i've seen), he had a red head bandana (what could be more 80’s, for hack’s sake?) and sometimes he danced like Axl Rose (or the other way around… whatever). but if you closed your eyes, it was scary, you’d swear Jimmy was singing. there was a moment when, i’m truly convinced of that, Jimmy was there, cause Ian started the Indian dance! all in all, a memorable event. i’m glad i could feel a breeze of the sixties and totally trip at a Doors show. better late than never…"