Psychedelic rock figures. Some groups, such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream, broke up. Hendrix died in London in September 1970, shortly after recording "Band of Gypsys" (1970), Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in October 1970 and they were closely followed by Jim Morrison of the Doors, who died in Paris in July 1971. By this point, many surviving acts had moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics "roots rock", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-based heavy rock. Following the lead of Hendrix in rock, psychedelia began to influence African American
Absolutely Live (The Doors album) John Densmore's drumming keep pace throughout as Robbie Krieger's guitar playing show him to be as much of a force in the Doors as Jim Morrison." In a 1970 review, Gloria Vanjak in "Rolling Stone" magazine is scathing about the album and in particular Morrison's performance, calling Celebration of the Lizard 'rancid'. In 1991, "Absolutely Live" and 1983's "Alive, She Cried" were repackaged and released as a two-disc set entitled "In Concert", with the addition of one track from 1978's "An American Prayer" and two from the band's July 1968 Hollywood Bowl concert, "The Unknown Soldier," which appeared on 1987's