Jim Morrison

I love them all, but the ones i listen to the most are crystal ship,the end, and strange days. There all wonderful!

 

Hey all


I am new here, but I adore the Doors...

especially

1) The End
2) Roadhouse Blues
and....
3) Backdoor Man

 

im surprised noone has mentioned spanish caravan...... it has to be my favorite........ people are strange is also a topper

 

gloria, soul kitchen, spanish caravan, the end, peace frog ...gosh there's so many! jim just had such a voice and such a presence when you see the old live tapes and stuff he just breathed sex from every pore and really made some amazing songs.

 

wow, jim morrison was such a great artist, if i had to pick only one song i would have to say "the end" is my favorite. All the different instruments make the song even more psychedelic!

 

I love every song of The Doors, oh god, cause this is the real music that breaks the reality & creates a new one... in you mind, the reality between delirium & precipice...
L.America - genius, mad song!

 

L.A. woman D), Love street, Soul kitchen, Touch me,... I love them all

Well, maybe one song by doors i love less then others, it's "Hello, I love you". But I love this one too

Jim's poetry is soooo beautiful!

 

I agree with jelena. there are lots of great songs, but if you really want to get into jim morrison and see what is inside his head you need to get into his poetry. go to your local library and check some of his poetry books out. It will blow yo u away

 

What do you think of Crystal Kitchen?

 

I REALLY agree with you on that. ANY other combination would have been bad.

 

My dad took me to see the Doors at Convention Hall in Asbury Park, NJ in 1968 (or was it '67?). David Grisman and Peter Rowan's acid rock band, Earth Opera, opened for them. Awesome show! I saw them (The Doors) again in 1970 at Madison Square Garden. They had a 16 piece horn section with them and opened up with "Touch Me". Another awesome show! I still have the ticket stubs from both of those shows as well as some other memorable shows. Guess I'm kind of a pack rat even with stuff that isn't shiny.

 

Hey JD how's it goin',
I saw Jim Morrison several times in the Haight, middle 60's. He would trip down Haight St. with his people surrounding him. He would sometimes wear a black top hat and purple satin robe opened in the front. He was extreamly focked up on every occation that I saw him. He was at the park the first time I noticed who he was. Jim wasn't a reg' at the park but he did trip through now and then.

Now Janis on the other hand was a reg' in the Haight and on Hippie Hill. She would hang out and get stoned with everyone, passin' bottles in brown bags around and token' smoke. On the hill everyone gatherd and played music, sang, danced and tripped their brains out. That's where a lot of the bands got their start, in the park on hippie hill. Ones that was so inclinded would 'jam' together and created some awsome music, some went on to be Imortalized in time bringing meaning into so many lives.
Every body that was into the hip sceen passed through the Haight. That's where all the good drugs were, there and in NY, in the Village. Plus I think it was a place where the 'vibe' drew likemindedness. A place where one could get comfortable in their own skin around people and not feel conspicuous.

I think it was the music that brought motavation to the young people of that era.
The beat generation were the thinkers and the political minded. Their ideology seemed to be on more a protest level behind closed doors and in dark coffee houses. Some took to the streets with their music and message and traveled throughout the country gaining knowledge and inspiration from what they incountered along the way.
And from the generation under the beats came a new energy of hope, that was inspired by the hardship our nation and it's people faced in the 20s through the 40s and bringing a blance as a brighterside of humanity started surfacing, The Love Generation, The Hippies.
We had taken it one step further. In a different direction. With The Dawning of The Age Of Aquarius we were becoming more spiritual. New worlds were opening up for us. Through raido and television we connected through the music. We began to send and recive these messages and brought it into manifestation with the hippie movement.
The rest is history.

 

Runnin' Blue

"Well, I've got the runnin' blues
Runnin' away, back to L.A.
Got to find the dock of the bay
Maybe find it back in L.A."

 

I really love the Alabama song altough it's not of Jim Morrison, but it's an excellent interpretation of the song. Other songs I listen very often are Wintertime love and light my fire...

 

I'm impressed Shameless Heifer that you saw The Lizard King on many occasions!!.
Apparently when he was playing 'The Roundhouse' in London in 1968.He went down the 'Portobello Road' in Notting Hill Gate to look at the 'Portobello Market'.I walk past that road nearly every day!!!.
I like so many 'Doors' tracks It's hard to pick a favourite.Perhaps:'Light My Fire' because it has a such a distinct sound & seems very Latin-American for some reason?.