Jim was a trip! I think some don’t like The Doors only because of his hippy dippy druggie persona - not because they don’t like the music.
He was incredibly well read and drew upon sources such as Huxley and Blake for his lyrics.
If you’re not someone who has a working knowledge of his mythological sources, most of it makes no sense and it all may sound “hippy dippy druggie” when in reality, he’s just on a different plane of reference.
IMO, it’s often so obscure and cerebral that people don’t “get it”.
I think he was a man out of time and saw himself as that killer on the road.
Riders On The Storm had to be the inspiration for the terrifyingly excellent Rutger Hauer movie “The Hitcher”.
He was, is and always will be, iconic.
/all the children are insane, waiting for the summer rain...
The Doors were not a hippy band.