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Jim Morrison's dad breaks silence about estranged son
Reuters News Service via Houston Chronicle ^ | Nov. 9, 2006, 9:08AM | no byline

Posted on 11/09/2006 10:38:15 AM PST by weegee

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1 posted on 11/09/2006 10:38:17 AM PST by weegee
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2 posted on 11/09/2006 10:38:57 AM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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Oh man, I would hope that if I died, my dad would say something better than "that's unfortunate"!!


3 posted on 11/09/2006 10:42:26 AM PST by ZGuy
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The Lizard King worshipped his Mojo Rising.


4 posted on 11/09/2006 10:45:10 AM PST by subterfuge (Tolerance has become the greatest virtue, and hypocrisy the worst character defect.)
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Under the circumstances described above, I think he was being very kind.


5 posted on 11/09/2006 10:48:35 AM PST by sarasota
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To: weegee

Anyone seen Almost Famous? Wasn't Fong-Torres a 'character' in that?


6 posted on 11/09/2006 10:48:45 AM PST by AUJenn
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Yeah..... sure, I'm not going to acknowledge my family.... cause he was ashamed of them is why. He was an icon of the populist hippies...and to have a flag officer as a dad...gee, he's lose his "street credibility". He was just a spoiled upper middle class blow-hard drunk that likes to say things on stage, make a little cash, and get laid.

.....just like every other guy in a rock band...hahahahahaha

7 posted on 11/09/2006 10:56:30 AM PST by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
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Andy Morrison recalls that his mother, Clara, who died last year, took him to a Doors concert in Washington, D.C., and asked to see Jim, but he refused to meet with her, and she drove home in tears.
The Morrisons surmise that Jim's hostility was really designed to shield them from too much attention.

I guess that's one way of looking at it...

8 posted on 11/09/2006 11:02:36 AM PST by truthkeeper (It's the borders, stupid.)
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Morrison was a sick and depraved drug addict. His father is being kind.


9 posted on 11/09/2006 11:04:23 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Yep.


10 posted on 11/09/2006 11:06:37 AM PST by Brian Mosely (A government is a body of people -- usually notably ungoverned)
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The Morrisons surmise that Jim's hostility was really designed to shield them from too much attention.

Either that, or Jim was just an arse.

11 posted on 11/09/2006 11:07:42 AM PST by SIDENET (Is it too early for flapjacks?)
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I say the latter.


12 posted on 11/09/2006 11:26:23 AM PST by truthkeeper (It's the borders, stupid.)
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Maybe he was trying to protect us.

Is there something in the water that keeps people from telling the truth these days???

13 posted on 11/09/2006 11:26:27 AM PST by madprof98
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The family can believe whatever they want. Truth is, Jim Morrison was an addict of drugs, alcohol, and anything else he could use to get high. Real shame too, 'cause he was so gifted.


14 posted on 11/09/2006 11:27:16 AM PST by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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George Morrison said it was "quite an honor ... for the family" to have his son buried near cultural giants like Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf and Frederic Chopin.

I've been to that cemetery and it's disgraceful what the "tourists" have done to the grave there. It's not hard at all to find Morrison's grave.......just follow the graffiti. I heard a year or so ago that the descendants of people buried there were trying to get Morrison's grave moved out because they were so disgusted with the defacing of their loved ones' grave stones.

15 posted on 11/09/2006 12:05:47 PM PST by EggsAckley
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Hi Eggs! Haven't seen you in a while.


16 posted on 11/09/2006 12:06:30 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Dancing through life like a street mime with tourettes syndrome.)
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Hey Slim! Been doing the low profile routine lately. Not much to say I guess.

How's NM these days?


17 posted on 11/09/2006 12:10:34 PM PST by EggsAckley
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To: EggsAckley

Well the plots there are not sold, they are rented. His lease was up. Some figured it would present the first opportunity for a Stateside funeral.

His parents didn't get to attend the first one. Morrison was buried before word got out.


18 posted on 11/09/2006 12:16:53 PM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: EggsAckley

Nice here.


19 posted on 11/09/2006 12:26:17 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Dancing through life like a street mime with tourettes syndrome.)
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Nice here too. Very clear and warm for November.
Getting ready for winter to hit.


20 posted on 11/09/2006 12:34:32 PM PST by EggsAckley
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