oh my god!!! woooooo hooo!!! phone your loved ones people its todays nonsenze contraversy time!!! WITHOUT JIM MORRISON THERE WOULD BE NO BILLY IDOL!!!! (gasp!) okay i know i should xplane meself so here goes... i heard white wedding on the radio and thought of jim morrison when billy idol did some little jim-like scream. okay maybe im bullshittin ya but what if im genius! HAHAHA thats a joke. oh well never mind. just a nonsense thought.
Duh...everybody knows that Billy Idol totally worships Jim Morrison....he was very close to actually playing him in The Doors movie, but had that awful motorycycle accident and had to settle for a cameo. Poor Billy. I still love you! I wonder how many children Jim has that he never knew about....we should get in touch with Dateline or Montel or Oprah or something to do a special...
really?? if so... i feel i bit proud. i came up with a theory that wasnt total bullshit! WOO HOOO! thanks happyhahagirl... you made my day.... hahaha yeah we could do a patertinty test on Maury and bring in Jim's lost children. perhaps jack daniels will be one... no i kid... i totally worship jim morrison. hes hip.
Yeah...Billy Idol and Jim Morrison are my favorite guys, and when I was in the obsessive worshipping stage in high school, I found out about all that... (I had to fill the void left after I moved on from the Backstreet Boys....). I don't know that Billy would have made the best Jim in the movie, though, bless his heart. But Jim was his hero.
I think Jim Morrison was the deepest thinker to come from the 60's. Everybody back then who did acid had crazy visions and ideas, but Morrison was on the top of the world, so he brought these ideas into the limelight, changing music, poetry, and the world as we know it forever. THE LIZARD KIND IS DEAD!!!! LONG LIVE THE LIZARD KING!!!!
i second that man! ahhhh i just love his records.... you can feel such a vibe just from his voice cause ther is a sense that he really believes the stuff hes telling you and nowadays you really dont get that exspecailly when artists dont write their own stuff.... i cant help it. i love dead guys.
come on now, Jim was a drunk who posed as a poet. its pretty sad that you guys think he was this supposed "deep thinker".
okay i agree halfway with you.... i mean he was a poet but you cant take it all 100% seriously because he was a perverse drunken soul. still a poet. still a great singer. still had great ideas. still artist & made good music. whether it was him or his ole buddy Jack Daniels dont matter to me because its good stuff. and i still think hes a poet. i cant not believe in Jim. it would be too sad.... anyway... ahhhhh i make no sense.
ive been acused of that but im a virgin. however dont knock it till you try it !!!! WOO HOO! hey i like dead guys.... everybody has some issues, right! ahhhh it feels good to laugh at meself.
As great as I think he is, I never really thought of him as a great thinker....not a philosopher or anything really....more like a fucked up drunk guy with a big mouth that knew what he was talking about 85% of the time...with nice hair....hehe
ya damn fine hair.... looks a little bit like ole Charlie Manson with a beard though..... sexy still the same. whahahahahwhawhawawwawwawawawawawjhklejhfl;smfwkpoeqopriawopek ya thats all i can say at this hour.....
Jim Morrison's overhyped legacy is built mostly around his image and his good looks. If Morrison looked the way he did at the time of his death when the Doors came into the spotlight in 1966/67, there is little chance that Morrison would be little more than some long-forgotten, 60's poet-wannabe frontman, with an overbloated ego and a penchant for drugs and alcohol. Jim Morrison's ego was as bloated as his cirrhosis-riddled liver in 1971. The guy was - and still is - king of the poseurs in every way (second would be Robert Plant). I have to laugh when people say that Morrison was the "greatest thinker to come from the 60's." These are the same people who think that Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, and Janis Joplin were the only worthwhile artists to emerge from the 60's, since those were the only records they could find in their parent's pathetically diverse "hippy" record collection. I can name a slew of people from the 60's who were much deeper thinkers than Morrison - be them writers, or scientists, or screenwriters, or whatever. Jim Morrison had a lot of flash, but too little substance to match that flash. Now, he is little more than the poster boy for teens who shop at Spencers on mom & dad's money, and have a fascination with the more obvious and ordinary side of 60's music and culture (which might I add is quite lame and played out).
is the lead singer the only thing anyone ever focuses on? although people like jim morrison and janis joplin get all the attention, they had little or nothing to do with the actual music. c'mon, give kreiger and manzarek some credit. hell, morrison didn't even write light my fire (kreiger did), which was the band's biggest hit. i like mr mojo risin, dont get me wrong. im an admirer of his work (i dont care if some people think hes a drunken lunatic). it just aggrivates me that no one seems to even acknowledge the existence of the rest of the band, the same thing is true for janis joplin. it'll probably piss some of you off, but Big Brother and the Holding Company was just as good with janis as they were without her. lots of people have nice bluesy voices. anyway, have a nice day.
Of course you could always enjoy the music of Krieger, Manzerek, & Densmore. Name another keyboard player that could play bass lines on a Fender Rhodes Piano Bass with his left hand, and still concentrate on a countermelody on the Vox Organ with his right hand. NO ONE! That's who. Manzerek was a rarity. I think that the best way to describe The Doors' music (I mean everything besides Morrison's poetry), could be psychedelic jazz. It's very jazz-oriented in nature, but at the same time as freaky and musically colorful as psychedelia.
I'll agree that the rest of the band is underrated compared to Jim. They were the ones who played kick ass music and Jim wouldnt have gone nowhere without the Doors to clean his ass up and stand behind him and make him look good. Ya, but I love Jim anyway and although he gets more credit than he deserves sometimes, he was hip in my opionion.