jbellies says:

Great singing, great music, but I must state that while Al sings well, the voice is clearly the voice of Al Yankovic, even after the electronic processing. I’m not trying to be critical, but it is what it is. A Doors tribute band? Maybe, but would the “little girls” swoon to *that* voice?

OTOH, Val Kilmer in the movie The Doors did have the same timbre as JM (at least to my ordinary ears. Somebody with finer sensibilities could tell the difference. Reportedly (by the presenters when the movie is shown on APTN), Ray Manzarek himself said that he could not tell the difference).

Segue-ing to an old book I happen to have read recently, Manzarek’s “Light My Fire: My Life With The Doors” (1998)… it is a good read, IMHO. Manzarek is an artist. He comes across respectful and even loving of almost all of the characters in the true story. But he does have some words for a post-facto character in The Doors story. He keeps his criticism down to mostly short passages, but he gives it to Oliver Stone (maker of The Doors movie) with all barrels blazing (in almost the words of Hoyt Axton’s mom, he’d diss him with his Bible, and his razor *and* his gun). So if you watch that movie, remember that it, in many respects, does not correspond to reality as seen through the eyes of The Doors’s keyboardist.