Jim Morrison the ahole
analog_tape
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I was watching tv last night and The Doors movie came on. I have seen the movie a half dozen times, but last night i though what an a hole Morrison was. It seems like he ruined alot of their shows. I know I would have been heated back then if I paid to see them and all he did was act like an a hole.
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Has the Strut censored the word "asshole" too?
Just saw Dan Graham's "rock my religion" film at Lacma, It shows how rock has influenced the culture through the last couple centuries through these rock and roll deities (Patti Smith, Minor Threat, Morrison, etc.)
It does a good job of looking at what Morrison was trying to say on an intellectual level, rising above a typical performer into some kind of publicly worshiped holy being and his act of exposing himself as some sort of beatific suicide, only for the public to pass him off as a clown. The way he saw it, I think, was that the rest of the guys (heck the rest of the world) would never be able to understand this or attain his level of existence and he just got really angry about it.
The large amounts of heavy drugs, fame, enormous ego, and Huxley may have had something to do with it as well.
Was a fairly huge revelation for someone who purchased his poetry book in high school.
At the very first Doors rehearsal he put down the rule that all songs would carry all 4 members names on the songwriting credits.
He refused to license the songs for commercials.
this didnt last
The 2 I have right here are Doors, and Waiting For The Sun. All Selections Written By The Doors.
We know Jim did the lyrics almost exclusively. As for music, that keyboard ahole says he did it all.
Turns out we're both (sorta) right.
I think they temporarily dropped the "group credit" thing on Soft Parade because Robby Krieger, on "Tell All The People," wrote a lyric involving guns that Jim Morrison didn't agree with. Only four songs (out of nine) had the entire band credited.
Now THAT'S impossible... I hear.
I thought he didn't like the whole "follow me" aspect of it.
But anyway, what a terd of a song. I just listened to that LP and it is definitely the weak link in what otherwise is a pretty impressive discography.
There's a copy of Soft Parade autographed by Val Kilmer hanging up in my Brooklyn store.
He was cool about signing it.
Damn I better start looking for some 1860's rock and roll heat and a bit of 1780's Rhythem and Blues!
I think the key thing with all these rock gods is that they are dead so people can create myths and storys about them that they wont come back to dispute, or they can over exagerate their talents and hide their flaws knowing the artist isnt around to F*ck that up.
Imagine if Morrsion was still alive he'd be giving Ozzy Ozbourne a run for his money in the 'embarasing caricature of former self' category.
He did come to a party at our house at the end of filming and handed out E's to some of the guests. (fairly non doucebag thing to do) I do remember him standing in the living room of our house rushing off his tree. Should have go some photos of him.
I always kinda liked Soft Parade.
This has been my thesis for years.
People love saying "Hendrix was about to do his best work, he was collaborating with (please pick one) Roland Kirk/Miles Davis/Gil Evans/Frank Zappa/Jim Morrison, just before he died".
Morrison, Hendrix, Cobain were all speared getting old, fat, lazy and making a disco album.
There is no doubt in my mind that if Hendrix/Morrison had lived they would have put on a white suit and recorded a 12" or Foxy Lady'79/Light My Fire'79.
I doubt it. About half of the playlist on FM rock stations in '77-79 were Hendrix/Morrison contemporaries left over from the sixties, like Steve Miller, Fleetwood Mac, Ted Nugent, Pink Floyd and Jefferson Starship. And those acts weren't affected by disco at all, they just became arena rock superstars.
Well, I could MAYBE see someone as decadent as Morrison going disco for a day. But not Hendrix.
u dont think w/ his Band Of Gypsies thang, that the next step after Funk would have been Disco w/ Guitar solos on top?
I don't see him making We Built This City on Rock n Roll tho.
You can't see Hendrix of Morrison doing disco, because they had the benefit of dying.
You will always remember them as rocking trailblazers on the cutting edge.
Nope. As I sit here I can think of a lot of rock acts that went "fonky," like Little Feat. But not many that went out-and-out disco (again, Queen comes to mind).
As far as where Hendrix had gone had he lived...I could have seen him doing the Isleys/Sly funk-rock thing easily. In the seventies. But by the time the eighties and nineties roll around, he might conveniently remember his blues roots like Clapton or Bonnie Raitt and remarket himself for the big blues boom of those decades.
yep.
Leave Stephen Hawking outta this discussion.