I really like the album “An American Prayer”. It uses Morrison’s spoken word poems from tape with the Doors adding music to it.
I wonder how Morrison would have liked it? Could be viewed as the Doors trying to make one last dollar, or a great tribute to Morrison and his poetry.
I’ve read where Morrison considered himself a poet first, and could frankly have done without the music - but it was the only way for folks to listen to his poetry.
If you can find them, grab his books of poetry.
I even got that Jim Morrison “scrapbook” thing they put out years ago.
All kinds of cool “handwritten” poems and the like.
An American Prayer is sublime.
/he’s not dead
;)
*and I think he would have loved it.
“the Doors trying to make one last dollar”
That would be the horrifying Ian Astbury infested “Doors of the 21st Century” thing.
Ugh.
IMO, the ONLY person on earth who *might* have been able to pull off continuing without Jim, was Billy Idol, who was actually slated to play Jim in the movie, but was badly injured in a motorcycle crash.
Some bands can go on after their “front” is gone but it’s rare.
There is no Stone Temple Pilots without Scott Weiland and no Alice In Chains without Layne Staley.
Queen fiddled around with the weird choice of Paul Rodgers and then the fruity Adam Lambert.
Some other bands know when to just stop, like Type O Negative.
When Pete died, TON was done and they wisely let it go.
/didn’t like “Van Hagar”, either
:D