Jim Morrison And Film

[Matt12191982]

In interviews, Jim always talks how he's not that interested in music, and has always been most interested with film, and of course got his degree from UCLA film school. I have and read all of the books on Jim, and was curious what his favorites were. The latest one (Friends Gathered Together) revealed a few things, but I'll list only what I know is exact

Ana-ta-han - one of his friends said this was the movie that left the most profound effect on him. (It's on YouTube, great). It was also directed by his professor, Josef von Sternberg.

 

[Sean]

He was drunk and he was nobody.
He was drunk and he was somebody.
He was drunk and he was dead,

The Doors were meh.

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

He was drunk and he was nobody.
He was drunk and he was somebody.
He was drunk and he was dead,

The Doors were meh.

Do you think emerson is pretending to be Jim Morrison?

 

[SpeareChucker]

Bullshit.
Sean just hates all things 'Murikkka...


I still remember the first time I heard them on KUDL (AM, it was all AM back then).
It was something so different and so compelling that it changed the way I/we listened to the radio and began to move away from the processed pop music of the airwaves. It really blew the Beatles away and opened the door for so much more; it created a new demand.

You can argue, "But xyz was already out there breaking ground and blazing trails," but they were not cracking the AM play lists. AM was pretty much the only game in town. 45s still dominated, albums were not in vogue, and most 45s sold because of AM exposure.

(45s even came on the back of cereal boxes instead of a prize inside.
I wonder what one of those boxes, pristine, would be worth now...)

 

[oneblueye]

hey...

"C---K---L---W!!! with 50,000 watts of power coming to you from the MOTOR CITY!"

the Lizard King,
the POET,
the Backdoor Man
the bloody red son of Fantastic L.A.

No one in the music world was ever like him and no one will ever be like him again...

 

[SpeareChucker]

 

[Wrong Element]

I have a fondness for The Doors, who really didn't sound like anything else. But Morrison was pretentious as hell and a misanthrope besides. The era he lived in was literally the one time in world history he could have been taken seriously as a poet.

 

[SpeareChucker]

That era has certainly not ended...

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

I have a fondness for The Doors, who really didn't sound like anything else. But Morrison was pretentious as hell and a misanthrope besides. The era he lived in was literally the one time in world history he could have been taken seriously as a poet.

Anyone that takes a poet seriously deserves a limerick for an epitaph.

In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:
Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go.

 

[SpeareChucker]

It can be fairly said that he was no Dylan, but he was at least a Snoop Dog...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I always loved her most madly when she was walkin' out the Door.

 

[SpeareChucker]

... with half your stuff just didn't wax poetically no matter how true.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The ones who walked out took what they could carry.


The ones I put out took what I allowed.


I'm working on a new set of lyrics called I Think Alone.


Allah is helping . . . .

 

[SpeareChucker]

Well every time I move
Every step I make
You know I just can't seem to take
The right direction

I'm always wrong
I'm never right
Right or wrong
There always seems to be a correction

And I give everything I got
And they take take take
Everything I'm giving

My back is tired
My legs both ache
In this life
There is no cake
This life I'm livin'

I stand alone today
Don't ask me why I feel
I just know I feel this way
I stand alone today


Rock Me Roll Me Jackyl Me Off!

 

[jomar]

Didn’t hit next but never sought them out, either. Only interesting thing I remember was a post midnight drive and the radio station played some music backed rambling Morrison monologue...was kind of mesmerizing at that hour.

 

[DMBFFF]

2754th post

... Plunderphonics - O'Hell (The Doors)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBznPAirdzA
3:56
...

more the video than the audio.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mq73Yrdc8RM/hqdefault.jpg

La Mecánica Popular - Móntame en la Tormenta
4:09

From my thread in MusicBanter:

https://www.musicbanter.com/general...ithout-changing-gender-specific-pronouns.html

modified quote:

...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_A_Woman

(for bigger pics of these, click these)
first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth

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The next two are essentially karaoke. In the first one, she looks like she's drinking a mug of tea. She's done a number of covers but the one below is the best—at least the most amusing.

The Doors - L.A. Woman (Cover)
7:21

The Doors - Light My Fire (Cover)
2:44

Haley Reinhart - Light My Fire ft Robby Krieger from The Doors (Live at The Troubadour)
7:36

Light My Fire (Bossa Cover) - Tahta
3:07...