The Doors are like N'Sync...

When did Ian Curtis get into this. Jim was way cooler than him!

 

Blasphemy!! Off with ye's head!

 

Yeah, well i shake my fist at you

 

Jim died fat and bald. Oh yes, I'm really jealous of that.

 

No he didnt, he regained his figure. Pam said one time just before he died that she fell in love with him when he was standing next to a pool. He looked so good she didnt recognize him.

 

Yeah! He got to fuck Grace Slick

 

Just wait a fucking minute, now. The Doors were doin' their own thing. Half of you here would say you loved the Beatles. But, they started out as a "boy band" like N'Stink. The Doors never did. FYI: I love the Beatles, too!

Morrison was a sex symbol to the ladies...so? So was Robert Plant. Many people thought Syd Barrett was sexy. That doesn't mean beans, man.

Morrison was a poet and Manzarek had some good background to his poetry. Have you ever listened to "The Ghost Song"...rhythmic poetry, man.

If you don't dig the Doors, don't listen to them.

 

Not really. They were pretty much just copying Love, and Love were Jim's favorite band.

Syd and Robert were also geniouses....

Well duh.

And Nico too.

 

Doin' your own thing doesn't mean total originality, my friend.

And Jim wasn't, I suppose. So, what criteria are using to determine this?

Precisely.

 

Well, The Doors' first 2 singles "Light My Fire" and "Break on Thru" sound like ripoffs of "Stephanie Says" and "She Comes in Colours".

Their songwriting and singing ablities. Syd Barrett was obviously a genious (though not all that great at vocals), but I don't think many people realize that Robert wrote most of Led Zep's songs. Jim was arguably a poet (in my opinion he was nothing but a drunk baffoon who tried to be a poet), not a songwriter... he couldn't sing either.

 

Your opinion, man.

I like 'em all. Plant, Barrett and Morrison.

 

"When you say that, I guess it's a shortcut to thinking. "

Jim Morrison's poetry is as good as William Blake's or Arthur Rimbaud's. It's ok if you don't like it, maybe you didn't understand it.

 

You've read that book, too, Syd!

 

Sure he died pudgy (he had the infamous pudgy face in Paris), but bald? WTF? His hair looked like an old matted wig by that stage but I'm pretty sure it wasn't one. Maybe you mean his pubes or something coz what is visible looks ok to me.

Anyhoo... Chuck, thanks for starting this thread. It has managed to revive my interest in The Doors

 

im of the 'let it die' school...