Boy, he sure is full of himself, just like most of his Boomer cohorts.
I never 'got' the Doors. Hated Manzerak's keyboards, in particular. Plus there's something vaguely pathetic about a surviving group member making excuses for the one that died young and other excesses of their youth.
"Boy, he sure is full of himself, just like most of his Boomer cohorts."
He is TOO OLD to be in the boomer cohort. He is 67 years old. Boomers are no older than 61. Based on year of birth beginning 1945.
So based on that, he falls into an older cohort, including 50s and early 60s beatniks and communists and free-speech Berkely types.
As for his views, he is still as naive as he/they were in the 60s. He probably truly thinks Osama would jam with him, if he shared the hookah and chanted kumbaya.
My take: Politics = predictably horrid, naive, dangerous. Music = As he says, among a group of creative and influential ones.
Other people impress me far more. For instance Eric Clapton got clean and sober long ago, makes great music today. And walks the walk, by donating money and time to a recovery facility in Antigua (Crossroads). He grew up.
With the ability to create often goes the propensity to overindulge (like accidental suicide). Modigliani, Billy Holiday, Elvis, Hendrix, Joplin, many other artistic types. Maybe it is genetic like left-handedness following artistic talent.
>>"Leading them to freedom..."<<
Your father's generation led your generation to freedom, Ray, soaked not in LSD, but blood.
Hey genius, he aint a Boomer. He was born before the Boomer generation. And so was Morrison.