Morrison by 1980 = Tony Clifton ?
Posted on 12/03/2010 11:47:04 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
He did.
“An American Prayer” has a bunch of Morrison’s tapes (poetry, songs) with newer music (Kreiger, Manzarek,...) overlain and some live music mixed in. Very nicely done.
You should listen to Alice Cooper’s account of his friendship with him.
Jim occasionally joined the rest of the “Hollywood Vampires” on their infamous drinking binges.
[Jagger, Moon, Iggy, etc] and when Alice was too drunk to find his way home, he spent many nights sleeping under Morrison’s sofa.
He wasn’t happy that Morrison couldn’t separate stage persona from reality but admired and loved the guy as a person.
His song “Desperado” is dedicated to Jim.
He said his biggest problem was that he -never- wanted to be a rock star.
He was very uncomfortable with it.
He went to school as a cinematography major.
Manzarek talked him into the rock band path.
Bought it the day it came out.
[ha...vinyl..the old days]
Also have every one of his poetry collections.
Most people just don’t know the “real” Morrison.
I’m assuming you have the CD.
The vinyl was a great gate-fold with tons of photos, art and all the lyrics.
Right on the first post.
Crosby said there was an empty Jack bottle laying in the floor and Morrison was mouthing off and she picked it up and laid him out with it. At least that’s the way I remember him telling it.
Guess that’s what I get for believing what I read on the internet. :-)
(Tiptoes out of the room)
There’s tons of stuff written in his own hand that provides a glimpse into what *he* thought of himself, his “fame”, etc.
Others who knew him personally [such as Alice] are always quick to debunk the unflattering “legends”.
Others such as Manzarek, still smarting after the flopped “Doors revival group” who are quick to portray him as a jerk with Ray as the true driving creative force behind their success.
[which is *obviously* why the remaining Doors continued to do so well after Jim “split”] /s
Rock is built on myths.
It’s become almost something equivalent to the ancient oral legends passed down through the generations of nomads, huddled around fires.
The rockers have become neo-shamans.
When the audience ripped apart the chicken poor city-born Alice tried to send “soaring majestically over the crowd”, Zappa told him NOT to deny the ‘account’ that he had ripped it apart himself, on stage.
It made for a good legend and brought millions to his concerts.
The SPCA still watches Alice closely, 40 years later...even though most know the reality of the incident.
It’s on film for anyone to see yet the “legend” persists.
Perversely, it’s those very lies, damn lies and statistics that make merely good rock ~great~....:)
[wow...I think I’ve spent too much of my life totally immersed in “The Music”]....LOL
Their Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) is one of the all-time great drinking songs.
Mr Mojo Risin = Jim Morrison anagram
HammerFrog never ripped up any chickens on stage.
They always got ripped up sidestage and grilled.
There WERE some bones tossed at your friendly neighborhood 'Frogs though.
But that's normal, what AIN'T been tossed?
The new Doors documentary has bonus interviews with Jim’s dad and his sister.
The new People Are Strange documentary isn’t a very good documentary. It’s mythmaking and totally Jim Morrison focused. Ignores that the other dudes wrote the songs and even continued on after Jim died. They acknowledged they didn’t have the chops to sing them but they put out OTHER VOICES back in the 1970s.
The only thing the documentary has going for it is high grade footage from the only feature film staring Jim Morrison (HWY) but they turn it into a BS myth about Jim listening to a car radio broadcast about his own death.
And Johnny Depp’s narration sucks.
Gee.
No kiddin’?
I did not know that.
“Ignores that the other dudes wrote the songs”
Krieger wrote a whole -four- songs.
Jim was the writer for the rest.
“and even continued on after Jim died.”
Are you referring to Densmore’s bizarre and humiliating costumed “Peace Frog” stage play or the epic fail “Doors of the 21st Century” where they hired a new singer and just covered all the old Doors songs?
Face it.
Jim *was* The Doors.
Without him, they’re just another interesting backup band.
This is just pitiful.
His absence is painfully palpable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtBCKH7m4Iw
“but they turn it into a BS myth about Jim listening to a car radio broadcast about his own death.”
Have you seen his death certificate or his dead body?
Has anyone, save conveniently dead Pam Courson and the “French coroner” no one in France was ever able to identify?
No, you haven’t....and neither has anyone else.
I think “People Are Strange” was perfectly befitting the man and his myth.
Somewhere, William Blake is laughing.
I thought you guy were more into “fish flinging”?
;]
Had Mo Jo Risin lived, he would have morphed into a casino lounge lizard. Exhibit A: The Soft Parade.
Morrison by 1980 = Tony Clifton ?
Here is Doors and Morrison doing some Vegas style (Elvis?) material really well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtf_UOucdnA
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