“The Soft Parade is excellent. Yeah, Joe Russo – terrific. The Soft Parade’s great .I think they do an excellent job of recreating ‘the Doors experience’. It’s great, man…the Soft Parade is real cool.” – Ray Manzarek (keyboardist of The Doors) WNEW-NY 3/16/2000
“…The Soft Parade’s show is eerily convincing, causing the audience to temporarily suspend it’s disbelief…” – The New York Times (Sunday May 15, 1994)
“Close your eyes and you can hear the Doors. Open your eyes and you can see them. The Soft Parade does the Doors justice. Joe Russo’s voice and stage antics and movements are a ghost of Morrison’s former glory.” – Good Times magazine
“For years, people have sized The Soft Parade up against the legend and come away impressed.” – Guitar World magazine
“The Soft Parade is the most faithful, most dynamic, spiritual, true tribute band since The Doors’ demise.” -Vince Treanor-Doors road manager/sound technician (1967-1972)
“They’re an exact replica…it’s scary” -Frank Lisciandro-Jim Morrison’s friend/biographer