Posted on 10/10/2006 2:11:39 PM PDT by skyman
I think it was Keith Moon found dead in a swimming pool and Morrison in a bathtub.
Ed
Nope, that was the blond headed guitarist from the Stones.
IMO, LA Woman was their best recording.
More like you were Ether, the god of "hot air" cause you are full of it..
This is the End...
"I originally read "Ray Manzarek just doesn’t remember the ’60s" which is probably closer to the truth."
Pinin' for the fjords.
The public remains infatuated with the messianic mystics, but not so much as they are with themselves.
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.
"I never 'got' the Doors. Hated Manzerak's keyboards"
Yup! Yup! I was a hippy musician, and I thought they were stupid, amatuerish, and pompous. 'Course I was into Zappa.
"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.
Trivia time, two points for the correct answer: Who was Jethro Tull and what is he to Ian Anderson? Sorry, sounded more interesting than rattling on about the politics of the last man to get rich playing the old Vox organ.
Nah, it was Joe Flynn. Look it up.....
I thought it was a swimming pool?
Either way, "you can't dust for vomit."
/shamelessly off-topic Spinal Tap quote
Fixed.
"... found Morrison in a bathtub."
Which is why he is now known as Bathtub Jim.
"Say a prayer for the unknown liberal,
lying in a pool of spittle"
In other words, not only does "rock 'n' roll-based marriage" facilitate divorce, relational dead-ends, and the like, but the "rock 'n' roll culture" is not exactly the epitome of personal/physical health, relational health, spiritual health, psychological health, & emotional health.
If it ain't healthy, don't export it.
I'm not cheating! I think Jethro Tull had something to do with an agricultural revolt, or Ministry, or something like that. His relationship to Ian Anderson is unknown to me, except I've read somewhere that Ian is a "gentleman farmer".
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