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From Booklist , January 1, 1998
Sixties rock kingpin Jim Morrison personified the period's allegiance to sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll. Butler reexamines his life, emphasizing his "cosmic mate" and common-law wife, Pamela Courson. More or less ignored by previous Morrison biographers, Pam and Jim's relationship was relatively private and long term for a rock couple then and maybe for any couple anymore. A few years after Morrison's 1971 death, Courson died of an apparent heroin overdose. In the finest rock tradition, the circumstances of her death were questionable and were not much investigated: "At that time, in that place, if it looked to us like someone had died of a drug overdose, frankly we thought they deserved it and didn't waste our time on it," said one police officer who asked to remain anonymous. Perhaps this well-referenced, moving book will spark yet another renewal of interest in Morrison. After all, as a 1980s Rolling Stone headline put it, "He's hot, he's sexy, he's dead." More of his strange story only makes him more so. Mike Tribby
Copyright© 1998, American Library Association. All rights reserved
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People, Victoria Balfour
...a wryly intelligent memoir...
From Booklist , May 15, 1998
Manzarek, musical leader of and keyboard player for the Doors, takes us back to the strange days of 1960s L.A. in a striking personal memoir and ode to Jim Morrison. After singer-lyricist Morrison's untimely demise, the band drifted apart, but its music and Morrison's leering public persona get dredged up periodically by new generations of fans. Manzarek and fellow UCLA film graduate, budding poet, and aspiring lizard king Morrison were the band's nucleus, to which Manzarek added guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, whom Manzarek found in a transcendental meditation group. As the Doors, the four captured the orgiastic mood of the Age of Aquarius, L.A. style, by mixing mystical lyrics and extended musical jamming with the signature sound of Manzarek's carnival-like electric keyboard stylings. They enjoyed a commercial success rooted in the singles charts, which provoked dismissive criticism from the album-oriented rock-critic cognoscenti of the time. Manzarek posits that if Morrison had not fallen in with the wrong crowd (a problem then as now), he would have enjoyed an enduring career either as poet or rocker (like, perhaps, Henry Rollins?). Literate, perceptive, and thoughtful, this is the best book yet about the Doors and their legendary singer, not to mention Manzarek, and may be the best rock bio of the year, on a par with Dave Davies' Kink last year. Copyright© 1998, American Library Association. All rights reserved
The Lords, and the New Creatures - by James Douglas Morrison
The American Night - by James Douglas Morrison
Wilderness - by James Douglas Morrison
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Absolutely a must have. Get yourself lost inside the ever unfolding perception's of reality with this CD. As Morrison recites his poetry to music performed by the Doors. With a soundtrack produced after his untimely reported death. Morrison's wisdom speaks to you from the grave, and gives us a view of untold realities with his almost god like command of verse and language, intermingled with the musical mastery of the Doors. By far this is one of the greatest tributes to Morrison yet!!!!!
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the CD Today! 5 out of
5 stars
By far one of the most complete box sets ever produced to date. Contains previously un-released recording's. Including the much bally-hooed "Orange Country Suite".
A customer review from Amazon.com
A music
fan from Texas , October 16, 1998 : 5 out
of 5 stars
This box-set just took me to the nights of the concerts, I
imagined myself being there watching and listening to Jim's
drunken voice. This music made me wish I could of been born in
that era so I could of been able to see and hear the free-est
music ever made.
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Thanks in large part to its meticulous re-creation of the late 1960s and early '70s rock scene and the uncannily authentic performance by Val Kilmer as legendary Doors front man Jim Morrison, Oliver Stone's hypnotic film biography is standing the test of time. Capturing the carefree mood of the Age of Aquarius, the film charts the meteoric rise of the Doors on the California club circuit (including a memorable scene showing the creation of the hit "Light My Fire"), and chronicles the band's exploits with hallucinogenics and Morrison's battles against charges of public indecency on stage. Kilmer's performance is hauntingly perfect, and performances by Meg Ryan, Kathleen Quinlan, and Kyle MacLachlan are similarly impressive. The movie doesn't fully probe the depths of Morrison's character, but as a portrait of excess it is vividly true to the spirit of the self-destructive poet known to his fans as "The Lizard King." --Jeff Shannon
Live In Europe /with CD (1968)
The Soft Parade - A Retrospective
The Doors are Open - 1968
Published by Eric Scholl.
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