"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings
most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit.
Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil
and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel?
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re
wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength
in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what
matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own
reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting
society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel
your pain."
—
Jim
Morrison
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Biography:Jim
Morrison,
Rock
Musician
Born: 8 December 1943
Birthplace: Melbourne, Florida
Died: 3 July 1971
(heart failure)
Best Known As: Lead singer of the band The Doors
Jim Morrison was the lead singer and lyricist for the rock band The
Doors, who emerged from the Los Angeles clubs to be one of the top
national acts at the close of the 1960s. Morrison was an early prototype
of the self-destructive rock icon: handsome, troubled, distant and yet
charismatic. The Doors were created in 1965 by Morrison and keyboardist
Ray Manzarek; they were joined by John Densmore and Robby Krieger. Their
1967 album The Doors was a huge hit, thanks to the single "Light
My Fire." More albums followed, including Strange Days (1967), Waiting
for the Sun (1968, with the single "Hello, I Love You") and LA
Woman (1971, with the gloomy, dreamy single "Riders on the Storm").
Morrison's dark and psychedelic lyrics were both popular and
controversial, as were his onstage antics: in 1969 he was arrested for
exposing himself to concertgoers in Miami, Florida. His abuse of alcohol
and drugs continued to grow along with this fame, and he died in his
bathtub in Paris, France at the age of 27, of an apparent heart attack.
Morrison was buried at the historic Pere LaChaise cemetery in Paris,
where his grave has become a popular destination for rock-n-roll
pilgrims... Morrison nicknamed himself "Mr. Mojo Risin'" (an anagram of
Jim Morrison) and was also called the Lizard King, a name taken from his
poem "The Celebration of the Lizard King," which was included in the
1968 album Waiting For the Sun.
Artist:Jim
Morrison
Born: December 08, 1943, Melbourne, FL
Died: July 03, 1971, Paris, France
Active: '60s, '70s
Genres: Rock
Instrument: Vocals
Representative Albums: "The Ultimate Collected Spoken Words:
1967-1970", "An American Prayer", "Stoned But Articulate"
As the lead singer and lyricist for the
Doors, Jim Morrison is one of the most legendary and influential
figures in rock & roll history. The disturbing, image-rich poeticism
of Morrison's lyrics, perfectly supported by the
Doors' swirling, eclectic psychedelic rock, have assured him
continuing icon status, while his fondness for theatrical shock tactics
and nihilistic angst have influenced countless imitators. Unlike other
psychedelic artists, who tended to favor whimsy or mysticism, Morrison
saw expansion of consciousness as a way of gaining access to the
subconscious mind's dark, unacknowledged desires; his rampaging id
dominated his songs with a lust for violence, sex, alcohol, drugs,
self-destruction, anything forbidden for any reason by the authority of
conservative middle America, and he tried to live out that lifestyle as
best he could. Some of Morrison's work has been criticized -- both
during his lifetime and afterward -- as too melodramatic and
calculatedly outrageous, but even at his most frustrating, Morrison's
ideas have achieved a lasting resonance with newer generations as well
as his initial fans, and his best material remains some of the most
original and visionary rock music ever recorded.
James Douglas Morrison was born on December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, FL.
His father was a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, and the family thus
moved around a great deal. A strict authoritarian, Morrison's father was
probably a major source of the outlandish rebellion that his son later
acted out on-stage; when Morrison began his climb to stardom, he would
falsely claim that both of his parents were dead. After attending St.
Petersburg Junior College and Florida State University for a year
apiece, Morrison moved to the West Coast to study film and theater at
UCLA in 1964. He became infatuated with the poetry of William Blake and
the writings of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and he gradually
drifted away from school to work on his poetry and experiment with
drugs, particularly LSD. In 1965, Morrison so greatly impressed
film-school classmate Ray
Manzarek (a classically trained keyboardist and member of a local
blues band) with his early attempts at lyric writing that the two
decided to form a band. Robbie
Krieger and John
Densmore were soon recruited from the Psychedelic Rangers, and the
Doors were born; the name was Morrison's idea, taken from The
Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley's book on mescaline, and its
introductory William Blake quote.
Morrison was a tentative frontman at first, avoiding eye contact with
the audience and sometimes even singing with his back to them, but he
soon came out of his shell, flinging his mike stand around and using it
as a phallic symbol. As the
Doors rose to stardom with their 1967 debut and struggled to
maintain that status, Morrison's ever-increasing withdrawal and
simultaneous indulgence in hedonistic excess threatened the band's
stability. He destroyed some of the band's studio equipment in a drunken
outburst of temper, and he designed his ever more erratic concert
behavior -- miming sex, barrages of profanity, and similar antics -- to
provoke intense, frenzied audience reactions. This did not go unnoticed
by law enforcement officials in the locales where Morrison performed; he
was maced by police in New Haven, CT, who caught him backstage with a
female fan, and after taking the stage and baiting the officers, he was
arrested on obscenity charges, of which he was later acquitted. Venues
in Phoenix and Long Island subsequently banned the
Doors after Morrison allegedly incited audience riots; the whole
mess finally boiled over in March 1969, when Morrison exposed himself to
an audience in Miami and was arrested for displaying "lewd and
lascivious behavior." After a two-month trial, he was found guilty,
depleting the band financially and mentally and nearly causing their
breakup. The
Doors retreated to the studio, where they sounded musically
rejuvenated on the hard-rocking Morrison
Hotel (1970) and L.A. Woman (1971). Supporting tours were marked by
continued police harassment, and afterward, a depressed Morrison left
the country with his wife Pamela, eventually settling in Paris to unwind
and write poetry (he had had his first collection of poems, The Lord
and the Creatures, published in 1970). But without the support of
his bandmates, Morrison spiraled irrevocably out of control, and he was
found dead in his bathtub on July 3, 1971, the victim of an apparent
heart attack. He was only 27 years old. Morrison was buried in the
Poets' Corner of Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, an area shared by
Balzac, Moliere, and Oscar Wilde. Live recordings, greatest-hits
collections, and recordings and books of Morrison's poetry have appeared
frequently in the years since, and his legend has only grown with the
passing of time. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide
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The
Doors
- The
Doors
(1967)
he Doors - The Doors (1967) [DCC GZS-1023, 1992] Proper
The Doors is the debut album by the American rock band The Doors,
recorded in August 1966 and released in January 1967. It features the
breakthrough single "Light My Fire", extended with a substantial
instrumental section mostly omitted on the single release, and the
lengthy song "The End" with its Oedipal spoken-word section.
Tracklist:
1. "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" – 2:30
2. "Soul Kitchen" – 3:35
3. "The Crystal Ship" – 2:34
4. "Twentieth Century Fox" – 2:33
5. "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:20
6. "Light My Fire" – 7:08
7. "Back Door Man" (Willie Dixon) – 3:34
8. "I Looked at You" – 2:22
9. "End of the Night" – 2:52
10. "Take It as It Comes" – 2:18
11. "The End" – 11:44
Personnel
# Jim Morrison – vocals
# Robby Krieger – guitar, backing vocals
# Ray Manzarek – Vox Continental organ, piano, keyboards, keyboard bass,
backing vocals
# John Densmore – drums
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