Change the #!@*$ Name!

Nearly thirty years to the day after their final concert (without Morrison-underline that), a "reunited" Doors returned to action with their "new Lizard King", singer Ian Astbury of the Cult, just as they threatened to do. The new Doors lineup also includes founding guitarist Robbie Krieger and drummer Stewart Copeland of the Police. Playing bass is Angelo Barbera. Within days of a House of Blues show, a taping of four vintage songs for a radio program, the Doors would perform a full set at the Harley-Davidson Open Road festival at a racetrack in nearby Fontana. The surviving members are also planning to record an album of new material for release in 2003 and to tour next spring. Krieger and Manzarek have completed several new songs, and other material is being co-written by poet-rocker Jim Carroll. (Remember that Basketball Diaries movie? The song at the end? That's Jim Carroll.) You can read all about this ridiculous dead-horse-beating at RollingStone.Com. Oh, and btw: Once your charismatic frontman dies, you rename your band, 'k?