Posted on 02/03/2007 5:19:30 AM PST by mcg2000
His poem "Woman In The Window" is set to music and will be released as a single in April.
Rock legend Jim Morrison is helping the fight against global warming from beyond the grave, with the release of a song he wrote.
Environmental campaigners have taken a poem, "Woman In The Window," written by Morrison shortly before he died in 1971, and set it to music, with the help of New Order and former Jane's Addiction star Perry Farrell.
The track was given to Farrell by the Jim Morrison estate. It will be released as a single in April.
Dan Morrell, founder of the Global Cool campaign, says he chose the song because it contains predictions correctly made about the state of the world - including the line, "Man you are evil, get out of my garden."
Morrell says, "It's very strange to hear this thing recorded more than 30 years ago that seems so relevant to the environmental challenge we face today."
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Jim Morrison is quite cool...well, what's left of him...
I was curious about his poetry. Found a web page that had some of it. I can't help but wonder what illegal frugs he lived on where -
POWER
I can make the earth stop in
its tracks. I made the
blue cars go away.
I can make myself invisible or small.
I can become gigantic & reach the
farthest things. I can change
the course of nature.
I can place myself anywhere in
space or time.
I can summon the dead.
I can perceive events on other worlds,
in my deepest inner mind,
& in the minds of others.
I can
I am
http://www.huddersfield1.co.uk/poetry/morrisonpoetry.htm
Reading through THIS poem, I believe he thought he was god!
LOL!!!
Yeah, I'm sure I'll take HIM seriously ... .
There is a Walt Whitman influence here.
JIm Morrison wasd hot in my time ... I enjoyed some of his music ... who can forget, Light My Fire?
Anyway,
"Morrison's drinking, exhibitionistic performances, and drug-taking badly affected his singing and input at recordings. "Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality," he confessed in 1969 in Los Angeles. "I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity." In Miami in 1969 the audience thought it saw Jim's "snake" - he was charged with exposing himself on stage, in full view of 10.000 people. The police did not arrest him on the spot, for fear that it would cause a riot. Next year Morrison was sentenced 8 months' hard labor and a $500 fine for "profanity" and "indecent exposure", but he remained free while the sentence was appealed against. The Soft Parade (1969), which experimented with brass sections, was received with mixed emotions but it had a hit single, 'Touch me'. "
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/morrison.htm
Entertainment good ir bad is one thing but an icon for "global warming"? Ahead of his time on "global warming"? Come on. GET REAL!
He wasn't a stupid guy but he blew it on drugs.
He could have been so much more ... .
I'm not sure I necessarily buy into all the derogatory comments based upon someone viewing things in a poetic/symbolistic perspective.
I was a fan back then ... they're true.
THe guy didn't start out as ana idiot. He was rather bright but drugs got the better of him. He was one who was "searching for truth" types that never found it.
The DNC theme must be "We all live on Love Street". lol.
He self destructed before he reached 30 years of age.
"The track was given to Farrell by the Jim Morrison estate." The "estate" is owned by the father of Jim's wife. He is an ex-principal. Don't know what his politics are but he's sat on releasing much from Morrison's back catalog (including the movie Jim made well after forming the Doors).
The Communist Party likes to revise the historical record from time to time.
Morrison is now a patron saint of the Red-Greens' global cooling, er warming movement.
Thought you'd like to weigh in on this.
Ted Kennedy's song is "Whiskey Song" while the DNC coalition is "People Are Strange".
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