"The '70s, man. Martin Luther King Jr. is dead. Malcolm X is dead. The Kennedys are dead. Kids at Kent State are getting capped. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix have both gone haint. Nixon's in the Oval Office, and the Manson murders stain the Hills. Morrison and Dennis Wilson once picked up Charles Manson on Sunset and dropped him off at producer Terry 'Turn Turn Turn' Melcher's house on Cielo Drive. A few years later, Manson's acolytes would murder Sharon Tate and four others at that house, including celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, who styled Morrison's original king-of-the-jungle coif." --
LA Weekly's Jeff Weiss presents an exhaustive account of
The Door's album L.A. Woman, which is now
40 years old
posted by bardic
on Jan 19, 2012 -
84 comments
In 1964, a clean-cut college student named
Jim Morrison appeared in a
promotional film for
Florida State University.
[previously] The following year, Jim moved to California and transferred to UCLA's film school. After earning his degree, Morrison got together with another talented young
filmmaker named
Ray Manzarek, and they started a little band called
The Doors. Jim didn't return to Florida until 1969, by which time he'd become one of the
biggest rock stars in the world. Then, in what
VH1 would later call the
31st most shocking moment in rock & roll
history, he exposed his private parts and simulated masturbation and copulation during a concert in Miami —
in front of innocent children. A felony.
[This was not the first or last run-in Jim (aka "Mr Mojo Risin", aka "The Lizard King") had with the police. But that's not to say he was all bad.] Despite the absence of any photographic evidence
(audio only), when the case
went to trial Morrison was found guilty of indecent exposure and public profanity, both misdemeanors. He was sentenced to 6 months in prison, but allowed to remain free on bail pending appeal.
[His estranged father put in a good word for him with the Department of Probation.] At the time of
Jim Morrison's death in a Parisian bath tub in 1971,
his appeal had not yet been heard.
[This is THE END.]
posted by Poolio
on Sep 3, 2007 -
84 comments
" Jim's ghost was in my ear, and I felt terrible". Like all top classic-rock franchises, The Doors can exploit a lucrative afterlife in television commercials. Offers keep coming in, such as the $15 million dangled by Cadillac last year to lease the song "Break On Through (to the Other Side)" to hawk its luxury SUVs. To the surprise of the corporation and the chagrin of his former bandmates, drummer John Densmore vetoed the idea. He said he did the same when Apple Computer called with a $4-million offer, and every time "some deodorant company wants to use 'Light My Fire.' "
posted by PenguinBukkake
on Oct 5, 2005 -
119 comments
The Jim Morrison Simulatron
Sometimes,
Modernhumorist can still make me laugh.*
"THIRTY YEARS AGO last week, Doors frontman Jim Morrison mixed drugs, alcohol and asthma to ascend to the big Whisky A Go-Go in the sky. Here in the virtual world, though, Modern Humorist has reanimated him in the form of lines and lines of programming code."
*Warning: Stupid Flash game
posted by GriffX
on Jul 10, 2001 -
9 comments
The Lizard King & The Klan: This is just wonderful - I'm quite certain that the remaining members of the Doors wouldn't want their music used to promote messages of hatred and intolerance.
posted by aladfar
on Nov 26, 2000 -
0 comments
