always had an interest in the doors as one of the more interesting bands to come out of the amazing time for music that was the late 60s.....some great music from the doors in that time...especially their debut album which i love....i just watched the new documentry about the doors and after watching it....i still cant work out what jim morrison was all about ?....was he a tortured genius?...was he just a (talented)drunk who got lucky?....was he punk ten years early?....his stage shows were sometimes absolute chaos and the band seemed to have no idea what he was going to do a lot of the time....still he was a fasinating rock star.....and to die at 27 .... he really did do the live fast die young rock star life.....

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blackbob said:

always had an interest in the doors as one of the more interesting bands to come out of the amazing time for music that was the late 60s.....some great music from the doors in that time...especially their debut album which i love....i just watched the new documentry about the doors and after watching it....i still cant work out what jim morrison was all about ?....was he a tortured genius?...was he just a (talented)drunk who got lucky?....was he punk ten years early?....his stage shows were sometimes absolute chaos and the band seemed to have no idea what he was going to do a lot of the time....still he was a fasinating rock star.....and to die at 27 .... he really did do the live fast die young rock star life.....

perhaps a bit of all of the above.

the Doors!!

Jim was a great front man. The Doors had some great music.

He may have just been the correctly gifted guy doing the right thing, in the right place, at the right time...with & for the right people.

From a '91 Interview with Ray Manzerek.....

A - I saw the same greatness that the world now sees. I just saw it then. It's exactly the same thing. Jim was obviously gifted and obviously gonna be a star, and obviously had brains. The main thing was he had brains. He was very smart and the words were very good, the songs were very good. That was the main thing.

Q - How about the showmanship? He wasn't as developed as a showman when you first met him.

A - Who cares about the showmanship? Only today do they care about the showmanship. See, that's today again. Showman? Jim Morrison wasn't a showman. He was a Shaman. He wasn't a showman. He was a poet. He jumped around onstage because he was feeling the music. He wasn't putting on a show. He was getting into the music. Morrison was never a showman. You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors. Get "The Soft Parade". Watch the videos. Watch "The Doors Live at the Hollywood Bowl". That's not a show at the Hollywood Bowl. That's enjoying the music. He was never a showman. Showman goes with the circus, Barnum and Bailey, Ringling Bros...The Big Top, the Big Show. Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

The Doors were an amazing band. I remember playing them at a party when I was a senior in highschool and people thought I was crazy. Jim was definately a tortured genius. I remember reading somewhere that he had a IQ of 149.

It has always fascinated me how seemingly....the more "natural" artistic geniuses are SO often prone to HUGE pendulum swings between greatness & self destruction.

Jim strikes me as a fine example.

Too often we lose them to self-inflicted tragedy...it's like the "burdon of the gift" drives em nuts.

JamFanHot said:

It has always fascinated me how seemingly....the more "natural" artistic geniuses are SO often prone to HUGE pendulum swings between greatness & self destruction.

Jim strikes me as a fine example.

Too often we lose them to self-inflicted tragedy...it's like the "burdon of the gift" drives em nuts.

Love them! L.A. Woman is my favorite album of theirs, but I like all their albums from 67-71.

One of my favourite bands ever. Their debut album is a classic. I think Jim was just made to self destruct. To see what the absolute limit of everything was.

rlittler81 said:

One of my favourite bands ever. Their debut album is a classic. I think Jim was just made to self destruct. To see what the absolute limit of everything was.

His childhood set him up for a tragedy. I'm thinking he knew he was gonna live a short life for some reason.

But that was a great four-year period though.