Whats To Like About Jim Morrison ? I Don't Get It !!

It's a bottle of philosophy that I'm drinking!

That's why Jim remains important to me.

I don't think we can look at one aspect of his life and judge the man. Imperfection becomes a touchy topic when the subject in question is a celebrity.

Let it roll--all night long


"I don't know what's gonna happen, man.
But I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames."

 

I like Jim Morrison as an artist. I think he wrote some great songs and poetry...also, I think he had a very, very good voice. I don't think he was necessarily the greatest person, but honestly, it's not like he's the only famous person---or even "average" person---to be well thought of but with problems.

 

My personal reaction to Jim Morrison basically goes like this:

On the one hand the movie "The Doors" (as has been often pointed out by press critics) is a movie that has a really cool and fantastic style of direction. It's visually and emotionally trippy and captures perfectly the type of far out stoned atmosphere that many sixties movies tried and failed miserably trying to achieve. But at the same time, the movie is also shallow and overly sensationalistic, isn't very insightful at all and goes for all the "shock value" stuff because director Oliver Stone is so (as he once admitted himself) bonkers about his "rebel hero" and Morrison's "rebel image" that he simply goes overboard with it and his idol worship of it. (Stone has always tended to be a wildly oversensationalistic director.)

On the other hand, I'm not personally that bonkers about Jim Morrison. In my personal opinion, The Doors veer back and forth between really cool songs to a lot of really sloppy and uninteresting ones. I've always read some of the books about Jim himself, including "Riders Of The Storm" by the band's drummer, and while yes, he could apparently come across as very charming, funny, and charismatic, he could also be a real jerk and also at times came across as a border psychotic (in the drummer's own words).

I personally wouldn't want to meet/know the dude, let's put it that way. No way, no how.

 

Jim Morrison and The Doors explored the dark and ugly side of humanity. They were an important band because they were spiritual aware and truly artistic like their contemporaries, yet they were going in an entirely different direction than most of the rest of the 60's counterculture.

Instead of focusing on the positive and neglecting the negative that arises from human freedom, the Doors emphasized on that negative.

Very important band I think and Jim Morrison deserves his place in rock history. He was truly honest with himself I think, he did not suppress himself. Or he tried his hardest not to anyway.

He had his flaws of course, but we all do. I think he was a loving and caring person who was confused like a lot of us, but ultimately I think his art was closer to the truth than most "rock stars".

 

Well for one, Jim's gorgeous. Two, He's amazing beyond belief. So yea...

 

as many as do now
would you defend Paris Hilton with that same argument?

he was a terrible terrible terrible poet
what's to like about him - a few songs
what's to love about him - absolutely fucking nothing