jim morrison

Dare you question the great Shaman's authority, anti-establishment, great spiritual poetry, wondrous music that sends you on trips, and most compelling black-leather demon of the 60's?
For shame.

 

I respect him tremendously for "The End" alone.

Agreed. What an incredibly powerful song. A masterpiece. And there's probably no better song "about" that era. Frank Zappa's spoof of it was hilarious:

"Walk out of the kitchen
Through the living room
Back up the stairs
Past your sisters room
Past your brothers room
You take a mask from the ancient hallway
Make it down to your fathers room
And you walk in
And your father, your tiny sick father
Is beating his meat to a Playboy magazine
Hes got it rolled into a tube
And hes got his tiny sick pud
stuffed in the middle of it
Right flat up against the centerfold
There he is your father with a tiny sick erection
And you walk in and you say:
Father I want to kill you
And he says: Not now son, not now..."

 

i say he was a genius. his poetry was amazing. and i love hearing him talk, he had such good ideas and a good way of thinking.
and let's not forget-he made some awesome music!

 

SunLion:
If Frank Zappa ever did anything in the way of performance or entertainment worth remembering, I'm not aware of it, and your quote reinforces my opinion. Obviously he made a lot of money, so a lot of people must disagree with me.

In 1971 Don McLean sang the incredible ballad, "American Pie", which described his feelings:

I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldn't play.

And in the streets the children screamed,
Lovers cried, and poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken.
The church bells all were broken.
And the three men I admire most,
The father, son and holy ghost,
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died.
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Zappa helped kill the music.

 

Britney who?

 

"NO ONE GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE." -- Morrison
"Love me two times -- I'm going away." -- Morrison