He’s hit more bases than anybody I can think of who’s running. I sued my bandmates – am I CRAZY? He might not agree that that’s what he wants to do, but I’d just like to hear him in the crankcase just because I would like to see what kind of sound he would make. But that’s the natural thing. I think there should be a national carnival, much the same as Mardi Gras in Rio. Weren’t the Stones supposed to do it as a film?Yeh, a long time ago. No disrespect to Jim and his 27 years, but I’ve been in it for the long run.” He will also get married this year “for the hundredth time” (it is his fourth time), to his partner of 13 years, the painter and photographer Ildiko Von Somogyi. I had been going to school, constantly, for 15 years. If it’s in tune, if it’s’ working, you can do anything.
I don’t care what critics write about it, or anything like that, but one thing that disturbed me … I went to a movie one night in Westwood and I was in a bookstore or some shop where they sell pottery and calendars and gadgets, Y’know … and a very attractive, intelligent — intelligent in the sense of aware and open — girl thought she recognized me and she came to say hello. It’s just that I’ve read his things since I was in high school. Jim Morrison died on July 3, 1971 at age 27. There seemed to be a need for an underground explosion, like an eruption. Getting back to your film, then, there’s some of the most incredible footage I’ve ever seen of an audience rushing a performer. Maybe I’ll be a corporation executive …, Have you ever thought of yourself in that role —seriously?I kinda like the image. On each successive album, Robbie contributed more songs.
Any desire now to play an instrument?Not really. I was free for the first time. In a club there’s a different atmosphere. “Sure, I was jealous. Yeh. You see cops today, walking around with their guns and uniforms and the cop is setting himself up like the toughest man on the block, and everyone’s curious about exactly what would happen if you challenged him. I’m very interested in that now. We share equally. Something like that. I like to read things that are written about it. It had some nice articles in it. If you believed them all, Morrison was always drunk and/or stoned; both an angelic choirboy in an unfortunate setting and a satyr seeking a continuing debauch; boorish and inarticulate as well as polite, considered and shy; all the above and none of these.
Rock star? Are you a Catholic? The press has been easy for me in a way, because I am biased toward writing and I understand writing and the mind of writers; we are dealing with the same medium, the printed word.
He describes going to visit him, finding him heavily sedated, and wondering how sleeping for 17 hours a day could possibly help his schizophrenia – a point that will be familiar even now to anyone who has had to endure acute mental illness. Subsequent albums have been harder? This was at Elektra of course. The tapes see Morrison conducting another poetry reading and performance alongside some Parisien street musicians. The first person anyone meets when they come to Columbia is the head of talent research and development. You said the first LP went easily … Fast.
Also, blues. Their whole function is to kill. People certainly thought he was.
They venture out on the desert to meet a half-breed border guard to make a score. Blues trips.
In the Village Voice, for instance, one chronicler said Morrison was the “first major male sex symbol since James Dean died and Marlon Brando got a paunch” and another called him at (different times) a “leather tiger,” a “shaman-serpent king” and “America’s Oedipal nightingale.” In Eye, he was described as a “demonic vision out of a medieval Hellmouth” and the author of a book about the Doors called him “the Sex-death, Acid-Evangelist of Rock, a sort of Hell’s Angel of the groin.” While the Miami Herald tagged him “The King of Orgasmic Rock,” Joyce Haber dubbed him “the swinging Door” and prose-poet Liza Williams said he was a “baby bullfighter” and “the ultimate Barbie doll.”. I think your politics, your religion, your philosophy are not so much what you smoke, what you drink, what you wear … your hair, your face, what you’ve done. The official cause of death on his death certificate was “heart failure.” No autopsy was performed. “On the outside, Jim seemed normal,” he wrote.
Leave feedback. It’s interesting … a lot of good stuff is conceived specifically for newspapers and magazines, just as a lot of good music is conceived for records — all of which are disposable items, things which are available to just about anyone for very little money and later thrown away or traded in or gotten rid of pretty quickly. A week of total freedom. It was one of those ballad type poems. Think of the free concerts in the parks. You’ve twice said you think you successfully manipulated the press. “We want the world and we want it now.”. Then, to see a series of events that I thought I had some control over … to see it as it actually was … I suddenly realized in a way I was just a puppet of a lot of forces I only vaguely understood. So he signed us up. That’s the whole thing. It just gets into a groove and I can just keep making up things. It pervades everything. I think it would have looked like we’d run out of original things to say. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. It goes: “I’m interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos…” “… especially activity that appears to have no meaning.”. You can read a lot and talk to a lot of people, but I think that unless you actually get in and see something in operation, you can’t really comprehend what it’s all about. Improvisational trips … Yeh. “It took me years to forgive Jim,” Densmore says. No incentive, no charge. I don’t see any of them. I had just finished a fantastic interview with an ex-French Senate official at the time and I was reading “No one here gets out alive,” Jerry’s best-seller biography on Jim Morrison. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. It’s hard to say. His brother killed himself in 1978. But usually a sense of rhythm, though … Right, right. Is there some other area you’d like to get into? I think I got to about the third grade book. What did you mean? How did you start this … decide you were going to be a performer?I think I had a suppressed desire to do something like this ever since I heard … y’see, the birth of rock and roll coincided with my adolescence, my coming into awareness. Actually, the first person is his secretary. They’re not going to do anything. “I was really young,” he says. Yeh, I must admit that I have. I worked with them in the refining of the editing and I made some good suggestions on the form it should take and after a few more … after paring down the material, I think we got an interesting film out of it.
You mentioned that there were certain songs you liked performing over others, those which allow you some room for improvisation. There should be a week of national hilarity … a cessation of all work, all business, all discrimination, all authority.
Having that contract was kind of an incentive for us to stay together. We were in the studio and so we started throwing out all these old songs. In a way that’s why I would support the man for this position. So this will be the first album when we’ll be giving writer credits and I think we’ll just keep doing that. To anyone who has read Densmore’s 1990 memoir – a book he says was “written in blood” – this may come as a surprise; later the book would form the basis for Oliver Stone’s (dreadful) Doors biopic. It came after almost a year of almost total performance, every night.
He couldn’t understand Morrison’s obsession with Nietzsche (“Why would anyone want to read a whole book of such double talk?” he wrote); when Manzarek suggested he watch the François Truffaut film The 400 Blows, he ran out and got it, thinking it was The 400 Blowjobs. It’s just one thing I know almost nothing about in a practical sense. They were always around the house and so I started reading them. I remember thinking: ‘Why is Jim’s face so big?’ on the cover of our first album, The Doors. On your early biographies, it says your parents are dead — yet your family is really very much alive. There is a political network and somehow the logical extension of being a alive in a democratic community is to be a leader. I was just answering his question. College put him on to jazz, and he worshipped at the altar of Coltrane and Davis. What happened there?
I don’t think it was time to do that, until we’d shown we had a large fund of original material. I’m not a very prolific songwriter. The people said that everyone in town was trying to sign us up, but it wasn’t really true. I think that’s beautiful. I guess I said my parents were dead as some kind of joke. It was a deeply documented, impartial, on the up-and-up biography. He was also called Jim; he also died at the age of 27. And it might help the rest of the year.
He was a gifted drummer from an early age, starting out in the high school marching band (an activity that in those days “ranked next to having leprosy” he once wrote). There is no longer a belief. So what if we have one less album? Of course, the power structure wouldn’t really alter. Anyway … that’s just a metaphor for what I was trying to say: it’s just a matter of timing. In 1971 Jim Morrison went to Saint-Leu-d’Esserent with two friends, in what would become his last photographed experience on earth.
Right. How do the Green Beret types in Vietnam relate to the Doors in concerts? I’d like to get a theater going of my own. He’s a husband, a father, a lover, a conservative, a politician, a hero, a writer, an intellect. Concerts are great but it gets into a crowd phenomenon that really hasn’t that much to do with music. I just had a period when I wrote a lot of songs. “You want to have a bunch of lives,” he says. You can pick whatever you want. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. You said that you think Norman Mailer has come to an increasingly more complex and moral stand. What do you mean you’ll sometimes extend yourself … work the people up a bit?Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality.
Love was their first rock group and actually represented their first singles potential. It’s pretty playful, really. Our brother killed himself and back then it wasn’t talked about. You were quoted recently as saying you thought rock was dead. He just dug killing with such relish, the other guys would say, “Hey, we all dig killing, but that’s going too far.” I think that character has been examined in books and movies several times. More than that, though.
Which you think Mailer represents? I saw a few things on TV, but I’d never been a part of it all. People like Van Dyke Parks and … I haven’t heard his stuff so I can’t say. But we do other things, too, so there’s not the time to let things happen as they should. No long rap. There was a whole stadium out there.
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