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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 5, 2023 12:13:05 GMT
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 5, 2023 14:13:11 GMT
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Post by kiwi on Feb 5, 2023 16:00:35 GMT
Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light Or just another lost angel in the city of night? Does anything sum up Los Angeles better?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 5, 2023 16:06:02 GMT
Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light Or just another lost angel in the city of night? Does anything sum up Los Angeles better? Let me tell you about Texas radio and the Big Beat...
One of my fav Doors tunes
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 5, 2023 16:10:05 GMT
Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light Or just another lost angel in the city of night? Does anything sum up Los Angeles better? Or this one
There she stood in the doorway I heard the mission bell And I was thinking to myself "This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
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Post by kiwi on Feb 5, 2023 16:11:43 GMT
Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light Or just another lost angel in the city of night? Does anything sum up Los Angeles better? Let me tell you about Texas radio and the Big Beat...
Now we're talking! I've been to Morrison's grave a couple times. Love The Doors more than most of the bands of my own generation.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 5, 2023 16:14:44 GMT
Let me tell you about Texas radio and the Big Beat...
Now we're talking! I've been to Morrison's grave a couple times. Love The Doors more than most of the bands of my own generation. Had a GF who bought me a copy of No One Here Gets Out Alive. Was mesmerized by Morrison and the Doors ever since
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Post by kiwi on Feb 5, 2023 16:18:37 GMT
Now we're talking! I've been to Morrison's grave a couple times. Love The Doors more than most of the bands of my own generation. Had a GF who bought me a copy of No One Here Gets Out Alive. Was mesmerized by Morrison and the Doors ever since
I've read it and Densmore's Riders on the Storm and Kennealy's My Strange Days with and without Jim Morrison, and anything else that came my way. Went back and dug up articles written in the 60s and early 70s. Joan Didion's iconic observations.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 5, 2023 16:45:42 GMT
Had a GF who bought me a copy of No One Here Gets Out Alive. Was mesmerized by Morrison and the Doors ever since
I've read it and Densmore's Riders on the Storm and Kennealy's My Strange Days with and without Jim Morrison, and anything else that came my way. Went back and dug up articles written in the 60s and early 70s. Joan Didion's iconic observations. Read Densmore's book and Stephen Davis' bio of Morrison (better than No One Here). I subscribed to Rolling Stone through most of my teens and remember many articles about the Doors. There was a huge boom in interest in the band when NOHGOA came out. That was my first rock bio.
The chick that gave me the book was convinced that Morrison faked his death. Every so often, she could claim to see Mr. Mojo Risin' in the crowd at a baseball game or other such place. I think he died in Paris. Those last photos of him, he did not look well. pale and bloated, classic signs of an alcoholics destroyed liver
EDIT: Always loved thi interview
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Post by kiwi on Feb 5, 2023 16:53:00 GMT
I've read it and Densmore's Riders on the Storm and Kennealy's My Strange Days with and without Jim Morrison, and anything else that came my way. Went back and dug up articles written in the 60s and early 70s. Joan Didion's iconic observations. Read Densmore's book and Stephen Davis' bio of Morrison (better than No One Here). I subscribed to Rolling Stone through most of my teens and remember many articles about the Doors. There was a huge boom in interest in the band when NOHGOA came out. That was my first rock bio.
The chick that gave me the book was convinced that Morrison faked his death. Every so often, she could claim to see Mr. Mojo Risin' in the crowd at a baseball game or other such place. I think he died in Paris. Those last photos of him, he did not look well. pale and bloated, classic signs of an alcoholics destroyed liver
EDIT: Always loved thi interview
Yup, people were spotting a dead Jim Morrison before they were spotting a dead Elvis. Remember the film, "Eddie and the Cruisers"? Early 80s, I think. Eddie a stand-in for Jim. With the trial coming and the fear of jail in Dade County, circumstances were ripe for conspiracies. I haven't read this interview in a while; thanks for posting it. I'm recalling the cover of a Rolling Stone issue when "The Doors" came out, something like, "If dying didn't hurt Jim Morrison's career, could an Oliver Stone movie really hurt?"
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 5, 2023 17:07:43 GMT
Read Densmore's book and Stephen Davis' bio of Morrison (better than No One Here). I subscribed to Rolling Stone through most of my teens and remember many articles about the Doors. There was a huge boom in interest in the band when NOHGOA came out. That was my first rock bio.
The chick that gave me the book was convinced that Morrison faked his death. Every so often, she could claim to see Mr. Mojo Risin' in the crowd at a baseball game or other such place. I think he died in Paris. Those last photos of him, he did not look well. pale and bloated, classic signs of an alcoholics destroyed liver
EDIT: Always loved thi interview
Yup, people were spotting a dead Jim Morrison before they were spotting a dead Elvis. Remember the film, "Eddie and the Cruisers"? Early 80s, I think. Eddie a stand-in for Jim. With the trial coming and the fear of jail in Dade County, circumstances were ripe for conspiracies. I haven't read this interview in a while; thanks for posting it. I'm recalling the cover of a Rolling Stone issue when "The Doors" came out, something like, "If dying didn't hurt Jim Morrison's career, could an Oliver Stone movie really hurt?" Morrison seems to be a rock icon that death seems to have made more powerful. Not Dead Elvis, not Dead Lennon, not even the other members of the "27 Club". Hendrix and Joplin never stayed in the mainstream conscious as much as James Douglas Morrison. Freddie Mercury to an extent, but not because of his death.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2023 17:19:48 GMT
A different Morrison...
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 5, 2023 17:26:23 GMT
That whole album is fantastic. A lot more than the title track
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Post by kiwi on Feb 5, 2023 17:49:48 GMT
Yup, people were spotting a dead Jim Morrison before they were spotting a dead Elvis. Remember the film, "Eddie and the Cruisers"? Early 80s, I think. Eddie a stand-in for Jim. With the trial coming and the fear of jail in Dade County, circumstances were ripe for conspiracies. I haven't read this interview in a while; thanks for posting it. I'm recalling the cover of a Rolling Stone issue when "The Doors" came out, something like, "If dying didn't hurt Jim Morrison's career, could an Oliver Stone movie really hurt?" Morrison seems to be a rock icon that death seems to have made more powerful. Not Dead Elvis, not Dead Lennon, not even the other members of the "27 Club". Hendrix and Joplin never stayed in the mainstream conscious as much as James Douglas Morrison. Freddie Mercury to an extent, but not because of his death.
Yes, the third death at 27 in 1971 (I was all of 3) seems to have been the one that somehow has resonated the most. During the last year of his life, he told people at parties, "You're drinking with number 3." He seemed prescient about his death which, of course, later fueled the he's-still-alive theories. If he's out there, I guess he's 79.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 5, 2023 20:14:27 GMT
Morrison seems to be a rock icon that death seems to have made more powerful. Not Dead Elvis, not Dead Lennon, not even the other members of the "27 Club". Hendrix and Joplin never stayed in the mainstream conscious as much as James Douglas Morrison. Freddie Mercury to an extent, but not because of his death.
Yes, the third death at 27 in 1971 (I was all of 3) seems to have been the one that somehow has resonated the most. During the last year of his life, he told people at parties, "You're drinking with number 3." He seemed prescient about his death which, of course, later fueled the he's-still-alive theories. If he's out there, I guess he's 79. He also had the whole "Rimbaud" thing. Morrison's favorite poet was Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud quit writing poetry at an early age and all but disappeared. He traveled the world all but incognito and died at age 37. This was big in Eddie and the Cruisers (Rimbaud's last work was "A Season in Hell", the Cruiser's legendary last unreleased album). And "Mr. Mojo Risin". He said, according to No One Here, that he might disappear and the code he would use if he got in contact with Pam Courson or the Doors was Mr. Mojo Risin. But I think he would have turned up long before now. I could have just been BS to sell Doors reords
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Feb 5, 2023 20:20:38 GMT
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Post by kiwi on Feb 5, 2023 21:02:21 GMT
Yes, the third death at 27 in 1971 (I was all of 3) seems to have been the one that somehow has resonated the most. During the last year of his life, he told people at parties, "You're drinking with number 3." He seemed prescient about his death which, of course, later fueled the he's-still-alive theories. If he's out there, I guess he's 79. He also had the whole "Rimbaud" thing. Morrison's favorite poet was Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud quit writing poetry at an early age and all but disappeared. He traveled the world all but incognito and died at age 37. This was big in Eddie and the Cruisers (Rimbaud's last work was "A Season in Hell", the Cruiser's legendary last unreleased album). And "Mr. Mojo Risin". He said, according to No One Here, that he might disappear and the code he would use if he got in contact with Pam Courson or the Doors was Mr. Mojo Risin. But I think he would have turned up long before now. I could have just been BS to sell Doors reords
Yes, Season in Hell. Pam was sure Jim was getting in touch with their dog, Sage, after his death, that he was communicating to her through the dog. The hype about his faking his death no doubt upped the sales. Patricia Kennealy (whom I think was rather naive about Morrison and took liberties with his memory to promote herself as more than she actually was in his life) claims she wrote "Mr. Mojo Risin" in a notebook and didn't know if Jim get the idea from her anagram. She was basically taking credit for it.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 5, 2023 23:32:42 GMT
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Post by NJtoTX on Feb 5, 2023 23:40:17 GMT
We watched this as kids. So solly!
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 6, 2023 12:13:57 GMT
Probably won't be as popular as my last album but this is what I'm listening to as I wake up and shoot some stick, waiting for TheGoodWoman to wake
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