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Was Morrison a fraud or was he a pioneer?

I think he was really onto "something",but their are many who say not so. What do y'all tink?
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I don't really care, from the moment I heard LA Woman 6 months before stone's film I've been a fan. Yes Morrison did some stupid things but nothing can deny the power of the music, I believe it still stands up very well today.
One question, as anyone know if the Doors remastered vinyl boxset is worth picking up, do the r/m's reek of too much tinkering or are they fine?
I've heard from some that the remixes done are either a good thing or a bad thing. Being a vinyl & analogue fan I'm dubious about remixes my friend tells me the remastering of the Stooges back cat as taken a way the raw quality of the original material and it's best picking up an original vinyl version.
Does the same equate to the newly remastered Doors box set?
Before I shell out on this would appreciate some one giving me the heads up on this.
i thought this was gonna be about van morrison
I was trying to find something one of my buddies said about Morrison actually dying in a bar and taken back to his apartment where he was later discovered.
I of course called BS but no - this says he is alive and well and a erm... cowboy.
Not sure his Native American Spirit would be easy with that but hey, ho.
I like the video at the bottom where there is this mustachioed cowboy and then they fade in the "Jesus Christ pose" over his face.
I have seen the new (21st Century) Doors twice and I am a genuine fan since hearing People are Strange by Echo & the Bunnymen over the end credits of the Lost Boys. With Eddie at the RRHOF in 92 and the film shortly after (I think) the music became a soundtrack to my life in the early to mid 90s. You could get away with sticking the Doors on at a party a lot easier than PJ!
A pioneer for me. The whole band though, the unmistakeable sound of the bass keyboard and Morrisons deep emotive voice. Yeah, pioneer.
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I think he was amazing. A poet.
My uncle was at the show in New Haven when he was arrested onstage. He said it was surreal. Imagine trying to bust someone these days onstage? lol
Pioneer.
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
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Bit of both really. I love the doors. I think Jim was a great front man, the band were great musicians, and they've written some timeless music. But he was a total chancer at the same time, and there is some dross in their catalogue too. Wouldn't be a big fan of his 'poetry', but it fits great with what the band were.
And for soulsinging who only has a 'best of' (although the 'very best'!
lol! well said!
i have always had a soft spot for Jim... we share a birthdate (he would be 33 years older than me!).
I was actually in Paris just a couple of weeks ago and went to pay my respects... popped on my MP3 player and listened to Riders On The Storm...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/civ_eng_girl/Paris%202007/DSC02344.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/civ_eng_girl/Paris%202007/DSC02346.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/civ_eng_girl/Paris%202007/DSC02297.jpg
although i don't think enough credit is given to the other guys in the band for their part in the Doors' unique sound... When i think of the Doors, i think of the organ... The Doors wouldn't have been the same without Ray Manzarek.
...oh.
When we were last in Paris back in the mid 1980's we did Napoleon and Jim's grave in the same day...It was weird to see the contrast...Jim in some shithole and Napoleon in this huge marble building. Both can be considered hero's of their time. Jim's grave had a cool white marble bust of him on top of the engraved tombstone, which doesn't appear in your pictures...I wonder what became to that. Anyways we signed our names on the wall surrounding the site and listened to The End...
That being said I'm in the middle on Jim's talents. A good freind says he was nothing but well contrived shite but I am leaning more towards thinking there was a brilliant mind in there somewhere, if not for the abstract poetry, alone.
Having said that I grew up loving The Doors and now it's on the top of my list of bands that I just can't listen to anymore....It would kill me to listen to Soft Parade again...I know it would make me cringe..
And as a notice to everyone on this board:
I believe that Jim Morrison was the greatest frontman to ever walk the face of the Earth and I'm willing to die for that. And you guys are gonna have to deal with that.
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Oh my, they dropped the leash.
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is this how you remember his grave?
http://www.jim-morrison.com/jmbust.jpg
http://home.att.net/~chuckayoub/Jim_Morrison_Grave.jpg
i think it would have been interesting to see it like that... but it has been totally cleaned up since.... in fact, there are barriers around it, preventing people from walking right up to it, and there was a security guard present.
i guess you've got to remember that those are other people's tombs surrounding his, which were being 'vandalized'...
and i don't consider Pere Lachaise cemetary as being a shit hole! one of the most beautiful and peaceful places i've been to!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/civ_eng_girl/Paris%202007/DSC02359.jpg
this isnt even a question by the way.
I mean, seriously. what the hell? that's like "do humans need air to breathe or can we breath iron??"
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I can deal with this....I have believed this as well for the last 27 years since I was 12. They were an innovative band and Jim.............that moment on Sullivan when he looked in the camera and sung "higher"-he was punk rock before punk rock.
I agree with you. I think he was very bright actually (from what I've read and seen), he just made very foolish choices regarding his heavy use of drugs and alcohol (or maybe I should say they led to many of his choices) but he was fighting his demons.
To answer the original posters question and Jim was no fraud - ashowman at times but not a fraud.
They were totally remixed from scratch. Some remixes are great, some are awful. You're probably better off looking for mint copies of the original LP's, which shouldn't be too hard to find. For CD, I have the DCC gold discs which were transferred straight from the original masters with no tinkering. They sound awesome! The "previous" batch of remastered Doors CD's were modeled after the DCC's as well, so they should suit anyone just fine. I'm avoiding the new CD's/vinyl like the plague. There's no reason to tinker with history like that!
no doubt about it.
i'm digging out my doors dvd for tonight now!
When I saw his grave it was cleaner than the photo with the writing all over the bust...there was no writing on the actual bust but almost everywhere else and yes you could go right up to it and place your hand on it if you wanted to. The security gaurd did his rounds but was not stationed at the grave, per say. It a shame they didn't clean up the bust and leave it in place.
Did you see Napoleon's grave? No offense to that cemetary but the building Napoleon is in is certainly KING worthy, unlike Jim's grave site...
hmm... i guess the city of Paris didn't consider the Lizard King to be actual royalty...
Saw a documentary about that last night on TG4 . It was in the papers over the weekend how he od'd on 90% herion in the Rock and roll circus and how they was a big cover up and he was put back in his apartment.
~I really like the doors but I want to know what happened the other members of the band when Jim died?
Really like the band by the way
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors
check out the section called "The 90's and Beyond"
it gives a good idea of what's going on now...
I saw "Riders On The Storm" play a few years back with Ian Astbury. (As I mentioned before, I think Ray was amazing, and I was pretty excited about seeing him play live, even without Jim).... Ian did a great job... and from a distance, with the dark hair and leather pants, he even looked a bit like Jim!
oh! i read an article once (in RS i think), saying that he did die in his apartment, and that his girlfriend Pamala was afraid to call the cops because of all the drugs involved.... so, being totally strung out herself, and not wanting to accept that fact that he was dead, she kept his body in the apartment for days (!), until a friend came over and discovered what had happened and convinced her to call the cops.... :eek:
pretty greusome...
unfortunately he was more of a drunk than anything else
His voice is one of the most recognizable and impressive in rock history, and the Doors music was SO different than what was going on back then, that you'd have to be a fool to say they did'nt leave their mark.
Untill their will grows tired
I wouldn't travel back to that city if someone paid the hotel & airfare
But that's another story...lol
I not so sure Napoleon really deserved to be where he was buried...I think the city of Paris got those 2 gravesites mixed up