Filmmaker Claims Jim Morrison Is Alive In Oregon

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[Rodney King]

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) – Here’s news that will light the fire of Jim Morrison fans: A filmmaker claims The Doors’ frontman is alive and raising horses on a ranch in southern Oregon.

Rodeo photographer Gerald Pitts insists Morrison didn’t die in July of 1971 and he has current photographs and film footage of the rocker to prove it.

Pitts, who met Morrison in 1998, says the rocker staged his death because of a French conspiracy to kill him, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix with narcotics because they were all Vietnam war protestors.

These days, Morrison isn’t the drug user he once was, although Pitts says when he goes over to Jim’s house he’ll “maybe have an occasional beer.”

Now Pitts claims that Morrison is announcing he’s alive, in part, to promote his recent agreement to star in a rodeo shoot-out movie based on events that actually happened to Pitts.

Pitts’ whole story airs on A Current Affair tomorrow (May 20).

[BigSkyFreeper]

Find A Grave: Jim Morrison

[Rockingham]

My brother is also a Hendrix fan and recalls a TV interview with Eric Burden of the Animals said that "talking to Hendrix was like talking to Richard Nixon." Contrary to Hendrix's reputation as brooding and gloomy, Burden described Hendrix as cheerful and upbeat. A black friend of mine who spent a few hours with Hendrix told me the same thing and that "you'd have liked him, he was a right-winger."

The following link and excerpt from the Snopes bulletin board dispute the claim that the CIA killed Hendrix and cites a bio of Hendrix:

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=43;t=000909;p=1

"It's sincerely doubtful that the federal government would want Hendrix dead. To begin, he served in the 101st Airborne Division (stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky) as a trainee paratrooper. After breaking his ankle on his 26th parachute jump, he received a medical discharge. What the youth group of the late-60s didn't know (and probably didn’t want to know) is that Hendrix supported the war in Vietnam until his death. He would often defend the war with statements to the effect that communist China needed to be curbed, etc...

Furthermore, near the end of his life, the Black Panthers attempted to convince Hendrix to play at their rallies, to write more "Black Power" oriented music. Hendrix adamantly refused. Truth be told, much of the black community, at the time, felt Hendrix was somewhat of an Uncle Tom.

Truly a strange biography for a man generally identified as the leader of the counter-culture movement of the late-60s."

--See Jimi Hendrix : The Man, the Magic, the Truth by Sharon Lawrence.

[Rodney King]

hmm. same curve at the top of the nose bridge.

[Rodney King]

Awesome. Thanks.

[streetpreacher]

They don't look anything alike until you put them side by side like that.

[BigSkyFreeper]

FL Judge George Greer was a former housemate of legendary rock star and Doors frontman Jim Morrison. [Reference]

[JCEccles]

[patton]

Lieber Gott

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Keinen Mercedes Benz

[streetpreacher]

Jim's death fixation must have had an influence on him.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

There is some resemblence...Morrison's eyes look closer together, and his lips seem fuller, but the noses look awfully lot alike. I am far from an expert on what aging would do to Morrison's face...

It's interesting.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Could be.

[Rodney King]

FL Judge George Greer was a former housemate of legendary rock star and Doors frontman Jim Morrison

"I am the Lizard King, I can do anything". Like kill helpless women.

[shibumi]

ping-pong

[Rastus]

It's been about 15 years since I was in my "Hendrix only" phase. I didn't even know what the internet was back then, so I was at the mercy of things like the Rolling Stone Rock Encyclopedia and Irwin Stambler's Encyclopedia for biographical information. They, of course, made no mention of any of this. I only knew that he seemed pro-life to me, with Belly Button Window. In an interview, he claimed this was an anti-life song, so who knows. At any rate, this is making me want to break out my albums after a long period of not having heard them. I always particularly liked Cry of Love, even though it was finished after his death and may not have fully represented what he would have wanted for the songs. Still, Angel and Drifting are just incredible. I need to get First Rays of the New Rising Sun.

This post made me think of some mildly contradictory lines in If 6 Was 9:

White collar conservative flashin' down the street
Pointin' their plastic finger at me
They're hopin' soon my kind will drop and die
But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high, high!

LOL. Okay, I know it's not a "he's a liberal, get him!" moment, but it's kind of funny. That is a cool song from a great album.

[Fedora]

LOL!

[rolling_stone]

hmm I wonder if old Jim broke on through to the other side...

[rolling_stone]

Maybe he can find Iron Butterfly bass guitarist Philip Taylor Kramer who disappeared while working on faster than light communications and they can start a retro 60's band...

http://www.skeptictank.org/kramer.htm

is that twilight zone music I hear playing in the background?

[kms61]

You may be thinking of Jimi Hendrix or John Fogarty, both of whom served in the Army.

Jim Morrison was never in the military, although his father was a high ranking Navy Officer. Simpsons trivia: in an episode in which Otto the pothead schoolbus driver refers to his estranged father, "the admiral," it's a nod to Jim Morrison.

[weegee]

Nah it's Elvis who's still alive fighting Egyptian Mummies in East Texas at a retirement home with JFK (who's been dyed black by the conspiracy)...

http://www.bubbahotep.com/