Posted on 12/03/2021 5:13:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
Doors guitarist Robby Krieger says late bandmate Jim Morrison welcomed syphilis, arguing that he didn't fear going crazy.
The potentially fatal sexually transmitted disease’s symptoms can include the loss of mental faculties, and has long been connected to the lives of 18th and 19th century artists. But the development of modern antibiotics means that it's no longer usually lethal.
“I think Jim believed that life could be boring and that a lot of people were just going through the motions, so he would try to freak them out,” Krieger tells the Guardian. “He would do anything to add to the craziness. Most people would be scared if they contracted a potentially lethal STD, but Jim was excited to feel close to all those disease-ridden 19th century poets and painters he idealized.
“He wanted to let it go untreated,” Krieger added, “so he could experience what it was really like to go insane.”
Morrison’s other extreme antics included grabbing the steering wheel of a car and swerving into traffic, claiming he was God and threatening to expel Krieger from the universe, the guitarist said in his recent memoir, Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors. He says Morrison also suffered from an apparent Oedipus complex.
“I think Jim had some real mental issues – manic depression, or whatever,” Krieger said. “Whenever the press would ask about his family, he would say that they were dead. His mom was weird, she was very bossy but he was fixated on her.”
Krieger went on to say that many of the stories told about the Doors frontman were fabrications, suggesting that some were promoted by their late keyboardist Ray Manzarek, but that Morrison’s personality was remarkable enough.
“When people saw us play, they knew that this wasn’t just a show,” Krieger said. “To me, what happened to the Doors was pretty damn cool just the way it was. This wasn’t a story that needed to be hyped.”
I’d say he got what he wanted.
Be careful what you wish for.
I’d like to experience being Jim Morrison for a couple of nights
He should have waited it out. This Covid vaccine mania is the new mold for cultural insanity.
The sixties could best be understood as the prolonged tantrum of privlidged, white, pampered narcissists crazed with drugs. Never represented a majority but they were the children of the elite in business, academia, the media, entertainment and cultural institutions. The boys were all terrified of being sent to Vietnam.
Well, after all, people are strange...
Yup... he wanted to break on through to the other side.
Morrison was insane. He was also intelligent, well read, and serious out-of-control alcoholic (his drug of choice) drug abuser...
Rehab or death was his future back then. A forced intervention might have been the only way to avoid entanglement with the criminal justice system.
Sad really, high profile, but sad.
“ He should have waited it out. This Covid vaccine mania is the new mold for cultural insanity.”
Oh and he could have experienced the National and world wide acceptance of a senile corrupticrat and the entire democrat, GOP parties plus the judiciary steal the presidential election along with the catostrophic consequences.
"Let me tell you something. We need a two and a half hour movie about the Doors? Folks, no we don't. I can sum it up for you in five seconds, ok. I'm drunk. I'm nobody. I'm drunk. I'm famous. I'm drunk. I'm ____ing dead. There's the whole movie, ok!? 'Big Fat Dead Guy In a Bath Tub', there's your title for you."
The night of July 02, 1971?
Am I the only one who thinks that The Doors’ music hasn’t aged well...at all?
Riders on the Storm is timeless.
I am surprised that no one has yet called him a casualty of the Deep State./
Bio of his father below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephen_Morrison
I believe they were selling more records in 1980 then while they were around.
“Doors of Perception” by Aldous Huxley, was the inspiration for the name. Mescalin, LSD. Laurel Canyon and the Hollywood scene was filled with kids with military intelligence dads.
So he wanted to experience being a Democrat!
“The sixties could best be understood as the prolonged tantrum of privlidged, white, pampered narcissists crazed with drugs.”
Total nonsense. No, I will say that is total, absolute nonsense.
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