Morrison is often associated with the youth counterculture. As someone who was born in the 21st century, I want to know what type of person he was, to people who were able to witness his era.
It could be anything about him - his influence, his music, his personal life, his relationship, activism, childhood, or the type of person he was, if his musics were popular and was his life tragic, or filled with happiness? I don’t want to hear the Wikipedia summary, I’m interested in what you think as someone who enjoys music.
You must log in or register to comment.
Typically arrogant american with a god complex. He was soo in the drugs that he lost his way like most.
Morrison was many things, but typical was not one of them.
Curious if you were able to meet him at a meet and greet or just saw him on stage?
I’m his father, actually
You should probably lock your door when sleeping down the hall from him.
What did you enjoy most about being a US Navy Admiral?
So only I above every other answer need to have had in depth association with him? Get outta here…
Anyone interested in him should read the groupie memoir I’m With The Band by Pamela Des Barres. Great book.
https://archives.waiting-forthe-sun.net/Pages/Players/Women/des_barres.html
I grew up in the late 70s early 80s as a big alternative music fan
Literally nobody I knew liked The Doors. Very much a product of their time, as in, there wasn’t much else to listen to, so being slightly different was cool.
Utterly eclipsed by, for example, Pink Floyd and, to an extent, Led Zeppelin at the time
My old man liked the Doors, L.A. Woman is a great album for me each track on it rocks, though riders on the storm was overplayed on the classic rock station growing up in the 90’s 2000’s. He was very much a rebel in his days so the music lines up lol
My mom’s creepy boyfriends liked The Doors. I associate that with Morrison. Creepy old men.
Piece of shit human being, but I like his cover of house of the rising sun
The music performed by the band ranged from outstanding to utter pretentious twaddle. Imho the most interesting thing about The Doors was the 1991 film about the band. Val Kilmer play Morrison. The likeness was uncanny.
The impression you get is the guy went to excess and succeeded at being a dick. Shame really cos I genuinely like most of their tracks.
The Oliver Stone movie doesn’t do a great job of presenting an honest depiction of Morrison
Too young to have seen them live or anything, but I’ve heard plenty of stories. The one that sticks out most was about a show they did, I think in Orlando, FL (not the infamous one in Miami). Basically, Morrison was too out of it to perform, so Densmore wound up singing and killed it. This has affected my opinion of him greatly. I’ve always seen him as someone who could’ve been great, but was too selfish and too much of a narcissist to get to that level.
His music is enjoyable. A lot of his poetry can be listened to on the album “an american prayer.” Music is pretty influential to many of the artists of the era and even up to the 90’s. I’d say he is no better or worse then any other over hyped “musical genius” icon that you’d see on the walls of college dorm rooms all across America.
I went to his grave, it’s in an amazing graveyard that’s worth exploring regardless. He made sweet music but he’s a pretty flawed human being… I’m happy to celebrate the culture he’s been associated with though.
It seems that being a flawed person comes with the territory of being a genius, especially in the arts
Nope - it doesn’t, but there is a fair amount of overlap.
I’d say it’s more accurate (but still not precisely correct) to say that desiring fame is a reflection of an insecurity - most people who rabidly chase publicity have deep personal flaws (but not all - fame is a price not a reward if you accept fame to enact social change that’s a reasonable exchange… fame for fame’s sake is dumb).
Lots of geniuses aren’t famous and those guys are usually pretty alright. There might be some correlation with some social disorders but we don’t have any good studies on that.
I enjoy some of his music. And respect following he created.
You should take a look at his drawings, search a little for those. Example: https://www.gottahaverockandroll.com/jim_morrison_original_pencil_drawing_circa_1957-lot7524.aspx
http://quotingjimbo.blogspot.com/2011/12/jim-morrisons-drawing-from-high-school.html?m=1
By that and other information, sounds to me like he had hard childhood and unhappy life.
Information about him is not as easy to just find, but biography might be interesting read.
Jim Morrison and the Doors are amazing, great music. Maybe the best music to come out of the 60s
Jimi Hendrix slander
Jimi is good as well
This guy doesn’t even king crimson
I don’t think he’s associated with the youth anymore lol
You’re wrong, he is!
I live real close to the house he lived in when he was a kid. There’s even a “Riders on the Storm Inn” here in town… 😌 I don’t know a lot about the man that he was and I’m too young to have seen The Doors play, though I really enjoy “People Are Strange,” and a few other songs of theirs. I’m glad he found a way out of this place, though, even if it was only for a short time.
Love the Muppets.
