The End

[Byron In Exile]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b26BD5KjH0

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need of some stranger's hand
In a desperate land
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain

 

[Tryharder62]

Not sure the meaning of this post in regards to your life but if you need to talk I've heard I'm a good listener.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Very little of what that wacko Morrison wrote ever made any sense at all...



It was all image and shock value.



The anti-Elvis.

 

[tactful]

Lots of good tunes back when.

 

[trysail]

It has been noted elsewhere that our old pal Jim was a tad on the self-destructive side.


I've paid my respects at Père Lachaise.

 

[ChinaBandit]

Yes. If ever someone fully understood that they were a flaming arrow it was JM. He got his kicks before the whole shithouse went up in flames.

His voice and Ray's melodic compositions will remain iconic. It doesn't matter if Krieger and Densmore were simply competent muscians with no special talent.

I consider the keyboard work with Riders on the Storm the most haunting and memorable in Rock history.

Love them or hate them, the Doors offered a truly unique sound to the scene. There is no band that reminds me of the Doors sound.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

A great song Byron. A classic.

And the song, so hypnotic, reflecting the dichotomy of the time.

 

[neci]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uTzmIe6XeU

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uTzmIe6XeU

nice!

 

[run_silent]

Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acids stain you
And drugs cause cramp
Guns aren't lawful
Nooses give
Gas smells awful
You might as well live

Dorothy Parker

 

[gluttonne]

Has nobody else heard about Ray Manzarek dying this past week?

Thanks, Byron.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yes and there were at least three other threads devoted to it that day after he died.


Listen, Byron-in-Exile has become unstuck in time..

 

[Byron In Exile]

In Memoriam

It feels a shame to be Alive —
When Men so brave — are dead —
One envies the Distinguished Dust —
Permitted — such a Head —

The Stone — that tells defending Whom
This Spartan put away
What little of Him we — possessed
In Pawn for Liberty —

The price is great — Sublimely paid —
Do we deserve — a Thing —
That lives — like Dollars — must be piled
Before we may obtain?

Are we that wait — sufficient worth —
That such Enormous Pearl
As life — dissolved be — for Us —
In Battle's — horrid Bowl?

It may be — a Renown to live —
I think the Men who die —
Those unsustained — Saviors —
Present Divinity —

~ Emily Dickinson, c. 1862

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

Yes. If ever someone fully understood that they were a flaming arrow it was JM. He got his kicks before the whole shithouse went up in flames.

His voice and Ray's melodic compositions will remain iconic. It doesn't matter if Krieger and Densmore were simply competent muscians with no special talent.

I consider the keyboard work with Riders on the Storm the most haunting and memorable in Rock history.

Love them or hate them, the Doors offered a truly unique sound to the scene. There is no band that reminds me of the Doors sound.

check your facts, dude. kreiger was more than a competent musician. he wrote hit songs.....like light my fire.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Very little of what that wacko Morrison wrote ever made any sense at all...
It was all image and shock value.
The anti-Elvis.

^ philistine

"I tell you: one must still have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star." — Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

 

[Byron In Exile]

Not sure the meaning of this post in regards to your life but if you need to talk I've heard I'm a good listener.

ty

 

[Byron In Exile]

Lots of good tunes back when.

There were. And it's interesting how much of that music brings up so many associations.

China Beach: McMurphy dances with Vietnam vet

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Not sure the meaning of this post in regards to your life but if you need to talk I've heard I'm a good listener.

This made my heart hurt. Rare occurrence in here, thanks.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Yes. If ever someone fully understood that they were a flaming arrow it was JM.

The Red God took three in a row:

Jimi Hendrix in September 1970,
Janis Joplin in October 1970, &
Jim Morrison in July 1971

All three died at age 27.

Love them or hate them, the Doors offered a truly unique sound to the scene. There is no band that reminds me of the Doors sound.

Manzarek's Farfisa organ was one thing, and not having a bass player was another, on top of the music and lyrics. Unique, indeed.

But this was true of a lot of bands from the mid-60's to mid-70's, before MBAs in expensive suits took over and decided that there would be genres that bands would have to fit into in order to sell toothpaste to a particular demographic on a particular radio station.

 

[Squibbs]

Peace Frog is my favourite Doors tune only because of the happy bluesy solo.

 

[CHNOPS]

HATED the Doors. Awful, pretentious muck. Manzarek was a great talent, though, and sorry to see him go.

The suits always ran the airplay end of the equation, the difference going into the 80s was that record labels began to turn profits for their parent companies for the first time, so the chaff--longer-form or experimental formats that had no shot at airplay--were cut from around the edges of the majors. Groups with any grease still toured though. (Labels didn't put on tours, promoters did...up until about a half-decade ago, when the labels needed to find extra income streams.) To be sure, airplay helps concert attendance.

The biggest effect of the labels' new-found profit-turning was more in the artist-development process: they used to sign on potential and develop an act over time; they shifted to waiting for acts to establish their own followings and then signing them.

Also, the plain truth is that the audience for the longer-form stuff simply waned over time. Disco and dance forms began to dominate, and by 1992, hip-hop had its own SoundScan category and gangsta was the prevailing genre in pop consumption. The people around the fringes who still liked the long-form stuff of the early 70s just weren't a big enough factor to keep the groups afloat. If 500,000 fans committed to buy a The Nice release tomorrow, a major would release one without blinking. But they won't.

We remember it as, "music was great then, and then the stupid labels killed it." There's a slice of that which is true, in that labels could sign artists based on potential, without the pressure to convert to $ right away. But for the most part, hard as it is to swallow, most music still lived out its natural lifespan and time moved on with or without it.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

HATED the Doors. Awful, pretentious muck. Manzarek was a great talent, though, and sorry to see him go.

The suits always ran the airplay end of the equation, the difference going into the 80s was that record labels began to turn profits for their parent companies for the first time, so the chaff--longer-form or experimental formats that had no shot at airplay--were cut from around the edges of the majors. Groups with any grease still toured though. (Labels didn't put on tours, promoters did...up until about a half-decade ago, when the labels needed to find extra income streams.) To be sure, airplay helps concert attendance.

The biggest effect of the labels' new-found profit-turning was more in the artist-development process: they used to sign on potential and develop an act over time; they shifted to waiting for acts to establish their own followings and then signing them.

Also, the plain truth is that the audience for the longer-form stuff simply waned over time. Disco and dance forms began to dominate, and by 1992, hip-hop had its own SoundScan category and gangsta was the prevailing genre in pop consumption. The people around the fringes who still liked the long-form stuff of the early 70s just weren't a big enough factor to keep the groups afloat. If 500,000 fans committed to buy a The Nice release tomorrow, a major would release one without blinking. But they won't.

We remember it as, "music was great then, and then the stupid labels killed it." There's a slice of that which is true, in that labels could sign artists based on potential, without the pressure to convert to $ right away. But for the most part, hard as it is to swallow, most music still lived out its natural lifespan and time moved on with or without it.

HATED THE DOORS?

LA Woman
Roadhouse Blues
Light My Fire
Riders on the Storm

 

[CHNOPS]

HATED THE DOORS?

LA Woman
Roadhouse Blues
Light My Fire
Riders on the Storm

For those reasons and so many more.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

It's only rock & roll but I like it, like it........

oh that's right, that the other group.

 

[Byron In Exile]

For those reasons and so many more.

This may have to do with time.