Posted on 12/03/2010 11:47:04 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
You left LA Woman off your list. I saw them twice and the second was pretty wild. It was after Miami. Morrison went into extended raps, intros and audience putdowns.
Why would LA Woman be on the list?
Morrison wrote it, not Krieger.
An original handwritten copy of the lyrics sold last year in the UK at auction.
http://governmentauctionsuk.com/index.php?action=snews&pg=1&sr=&l=&lmt=4&mode=view&nid=37522&op=
The Doors’ Jim Morrison’s handwritten lyrics for LA Woman sells for £13k
A yellowing scrap of paper with Jim Morrison’s handwritten lyrics for LA Woman scrawled on it has sold for £13,000 at an auction.
The Doors singer penned the words - signed J-M/Doors - on the A4 sized sheet before recording the 1971 LA Woman album, which was released three months before he died in Paris, aged 27.
The lyric sheet, which was last exhibited at New York’s Hard Rock Cafe, went under the hammer at a pop music memorabilia auction near Reading, Berks, yesterday.
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/08/04/the-doors-jim-morrison-s-handwritten-lyrics-for-la-woman-sells-for-13k-115875-22463241/#ixzz17HEX5cDz
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Morrison wrote it, not Krieger>>>>>>>
I like tunes by both of them plus some songs are credited to both of them and some are credited to all four Doors
More money than sense...LOL
I love Jim but wouldn’t pay more than $25 for a piece of paper he wrote on.
Close to 30 grand?
No way.
I paid a measly $10 for an Alice-autographed 1st run copy of “The Last Temptation”, Book III.
I love my favorite rock icons but I’m infamously tight-fisted as far as “written stuff” goes.
But a rare concert T, I’ll bid to the death for...I can *wear* that...;-D
Bizarrely, LAW is credited to all 4 of them but he alone, wrote it.
I have no idea why it should be so, unless he was so tanked when they did the album, he didn’t care any more.
Alice Cooper [a close friend of Jim] jokingly [?] takes credit for the first line of Roadhouse Blues, “I woke up this morning and got myself a beer”.
Considering his booze problem back then when his every day *did* start with a beer, who knows?...LOL
Other Voices was the album they put out in the 1970s, long before “American Prayer” or the 21st Century Doors.
The BS Johnny Depp “People IS Strangely Strange” ignored it all. Jim was a “cool pause” wild man, too wild for the times. Nixon. Vietnam. His miltary dad. Jim was beyond. A poet. Blah blah blah.
Alabama Song wouldn’t have happened at all without the other dudes suggesting it.
Spanish Caravan certainly shows Krieger’s influence.
Dismiss the rest of the band at your own peril.
PS Jim didn’t write Gloria, Backdoor Man, Little Red Rooster, et al.
Fine with me.
I'm sick of Manzarek slamming a “dead man” who can't defend himself via VH1 "Doors Specials" which I'm sure are making him some nice pocket change, picking apart the only reason he's "famous" in the first place.
The rest of the guys are reasonably respectful, to their credit.
[he's probably still bitter over the copyright suit that forbade them from calling themselves "The Doors" ever again]
“Jim didn’t write Gloria, Backdoor Man, Little Red Rooster, et al.”
No sh*t, Sherlock.
He didn't write "The Alabama" Song, either so them "suggesting it" is a moot point.
[originally published in Bertolt Brecht's _German opera_, Hauspostille (1927).]
And “Crawlin’ King Snake” was a John Lee Hooker cover.
Did you seriously expect a 2 hour show o -completely- cover every aspect and bit of minutiae encompassing 27 years of a very complex man's life?
Spanish Caravan certainly shows Krieger’s influence..
Well, duh.
It also shows Densmore's/Manzarek's influence, as well.
Jim gave the guys the lyrics, the general "sound" he wanted for those lyrics and they, as -musicians- fleshed it out.
That's how bands work, you know.
Having other things to do today, I'll just let you get back to celebrating his mediocrity, now.
Kick his corpse cheerfully, if it makes you feel better.
~40 years after his death, I’ve had enough MYTH and would like an honest documentary. It’s not my first time to the rodeo.
There was some interesting footage but as a documentary, it didn’t document. It distorted.
Well, when we die we can just ask -him-, can’t we?
Until then, you’re going to have to content yourself with survivors who have no real, contemporary relevance any more and myriad self-serving agendas.
I suggest reading all of his published poem anthologies.
If you pay close enough attention [and have studied the writers/philosophers who influenced him] you can get a good “feel” for who/what he was.
[Or is]
They are waiting to take us into the severed garden
Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful
Comes death on strange hour
Unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you’ve brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven’s claws
Have a good day.
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