Posted on 11/18/2018 9:27:33 AM PST by Mariner
Another member of the 27 club.
Jim Morrison was a provocateur.
He provoked all those around him.
Never satisfied.
Today, we would just call him an A**hole.
Today he would be shout down on College Campuses.
We interviewed Robby Krieger in our film “Rockin’ the Wall” (2010).
“Today, we would just call him an A**hole.”
It was well known, by all who encountered him that he was mentally ill. Either severe bipolar or schizophrenic.
Maybe both.
Truly a mad genius.
He didn’t know anything about music. Nothing. And would vocalize the parts he wanted the band to play. He would also ask Robby and Ray for cords with certain “sound”. He also wrote the majority of memorable lyrics.
I bought the LP when it first came out. Had that tune cranked in the basement, one day when my dad came home. Between the back door and coming downstairs to tell me to turn it down, he was won over. He was an English teacher.
But liked to credit them to The Doors, to split the money evenly.
“I used to love the Doors but IMO their work hasn’t aged well”
I hold the opposite opinion.
I think Morrison Hotel and LA Woman are masterpieces in the genre. Holding up like the Beatles, Hendrix and the Stones.
The Who and the Byrds were mere also-rans even in their glory years.
That’s awesome.
Actually listening and comprehending words is becoming a lost art.
Sometimes I feel cursed because I actually listen to the words and I can’t help it.
On a side note. I started this new job a few years ago and my manager, great Christian guy, was sharing details of his side job as a DJ. During our training session he played one of his favorite songs.
Rupert Holmes, Escape, or “Do you like Pina Colads?”
I’m thinking, “Babooshka” by Kate Bush.
So,
I said, “Do you know what that song is about?”
He’s like “What do you mean?”
I said, “It’s about cheating on your spouse”.
He’s like, “Really?, No, No way”. Then after another listen?
I ruined it for him.
And, I’m the A**hole.
“I ruined it for him.”
You must hate The Doors. Their lyrics are outrageous by any standard.
LA Woman is an ode to a Lewinsky. I am thinking Morrison called his “unit” Mr Mojo. That holds up as Mike Myers of the Austin Powers movie borrowed it for the description of his “unit”. I am older than dirt and even when this album came out, I recognized it as such. In the middle of the song it is well “articulated” in words and sounds.
Never liked the Doors and disliked Morrison even more.
It was well known, by all who encountered him that he was mentally ill. Either severe bipolar or schizophrenic.
I’m not so sure about that.
Mad Genius?
That may be one way to put it.
I’d rather say he was a frustrated genius that was prone to outbursts because very few people around him actually took the time to understand what he had to say.
I don’t believe he thought he knew all the answers but he certainly believed he was one of the few asking the right questions. Thrust into fame and looked up to, he didn’t understand how people could admire and follow him without even understanding his questions.
Riders on the Storm
The drugs and drinking combined as an effort to experience what these people where thinking, and feed it back to them in lyrics, but ultimately an escape from his own frustrated reality of the superficial nature of our society.
Native Angeleno here. I can vouch for the fact that SoCal really was like that for an all too brief moment in time.
I must say, I do miss it. We'll never see its like again.
Be interesting to know where Jimi Hendrix’s Corvettes wound up.
“I ruined it for him.”
You must hate The Doors. Their lyrics are outrageous by any standard.
WTF?
I ruined it for “Him”
Therefore,
“I” must hate it (the doors).
Not “Him”,
“I”
Your Logic and comprehension must have “just got into town about an hour ago”
And this is your post?
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Outrageous is NOT the right word here. Outrageous implies a moral baseline or judgement from a moral authority. I suggested their lyrics are provocative, that is thought provoking. When I sent my 20 yo daughter the link for "An American Prayer", I told her to be mindful, it's vulgar but required listening to understand the Left in our society.
“Bloody red sun of fantastic L.A.”
James Douglas Morrison
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