[PenultimateManStanding]

I got a week long job covering Mariachi music classes. One of the 5 classes is advanced and these kids can play. Quite well. But I can't teach them anything. So I was looking around for something to read and found a biography of Jim Morrison. I'd read a biography of Janis Joplin before so I thought I'd read Morrison's biography. Found out that he was quite a scholar and very brilliant with a genius I.Q. He wrote an undergraduate paper at UCLA that was considered to be worthy of a PhD dissertation. He was also cruel, charismatic, mercurial and just generally crazy. Eventually he was hanging out in Venice Beach as a hippie and got the idea to form a rock & roll band. He wasn't a musician, had never sung, and didn't know the first thing about it. But he had ideas and lyrics and showed them to musician friends. Their response was, "these are the best fucking rock lyrics ever! Let's form a band and make a million bucks." So they did. They practiced and practiced and got some bottom feeder gigs. They were performing at a sleazy dive next door to the Whiskey A Go Go in L.A. Somebody noticed them and they got a slot at the Whiskey. Morrison's Presleyesque good looks got them attention, he was as they said, 'ripe.' But they were taking a lot of LSD and getting into a very weird space. So one night they rolled out their famous song, The End. Everything stopped in the club. No drinks were poured. The waitresses froze. The Go Go Dancers stopped dancing. Conversation ceased. That must have been, as golem would put it, an archetypical moment. A strange blend of Eastern Mysticism and Western Nihilism. Ending with the Oedipal climax: Kill The Father, Fuck The Mother, a theme which he got from Friedrich Niestzche. Much more powerful, creepy and in tune with the zeitgeist than Dylan could have dreamt of. "And all the children, are insane," and so on. Of course he spent the next few years being famous and drinking himself to death.

[kabu]

Been my favorite band since I had a favorite band... I really grew up on that shit. Jim's voice is something different to me.

One of my favorite pass times back in Canada comprised of rolling out my kawi after everyone went to bed, smoking a few bowls of M. Jane- nice organic BC bud (lol)- setting up a few hrs of Doors on my mp3 player, then flying into the canyons of BC, under the moonlight (with more pot in my jacket).

No munchies... fuck the munchies.

[ANewHuman]

Doors are awesome mostly due to Morrisons voice. There are a few singers time to time that just have great voices. Morrison and Kobain being relatively similar in my mind. Just the right mix of gravel, soul and harmony in their voices, combined with lyrics which are well designed whilst still being good to listen to.

Both died at 27 which is a weird coincidence I guess, wish I could snag a great singer like one of them for my retreat.

[vision-master]

My brain has been imprinted by Jim Morrison and The Doors from Youth. Those simple lyrics can have such a profound meaning. The guy was a poet and shaman. But, he did way to many drugs, especially booze. He died at 27.

Got to see them in concert around 1970.

Joplin
Hendrix
Morrison

[BigTex]

PMS, was that "No One Here Gets Out Alive"?

I read that one in high school and enjoyed it a lot.

Painted a quite heroic picture of Morrison.

[dinopello]

The Jim Morrison exhibit is about he only one I vaguely remember from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland (15 years ago?). His dad was a Navy Captain or Admiral or something, right? They had a letter from his father to somebody at Morrisons school which I remember was really interesting but can't remember what it said.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'T')he Jim Morrison exhibit is about he only one I vaguely remember from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland (15 years ago?). His dad was a Navy Captain or Admiral or something, right? They had a letter from his father to somebody at Morrisons school which I remember was really interesting but can't remember what it said.

[basil_hayden]

"We could plan a murder, or start a religion." JM

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', 'P')MS, was that "No One Here Gets Out Alive"?

[spear]

They've got the guns but we've got the numbers.