Posted on 11/09/2006 10:38:15 AM PST by weegee
LOS ANGELES -- The father of late Doors singer Jim Morrison has broken his silence to share memories of his estranged son, who once sang about killing him and joked that his family was dead.
George Morrison, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, is one of the contributors to The Doors by the Doors, an authorized memoir released this week. The book's author, rock journalist Ben Fong-Torres, also interviewed the band's three surviving members and Jim's younger brother and sister, among others.
"We look back on him with great delight ... The fact that he's dead is unfortunate but looking back on his life it's a very pleasant thought," George Morrison says in the book.
Jim Morrison, a difficult teen who rebelled against his father's military lifestyle, went on to become one of the most magnetic performers in rock 'n' roll. But he disowned his family, and once made a throwaway comment that they were dead. He also referenced his parents in the Oedipal rant The End, singing that he wanted to kill his father and sleep with his mother.
Andy Morrison recalls that his mother, Clara, who died last year, took him to a Doors concert in Washington, D.C., and asked to see Jim, but he refused to meet with her, and she drove home in tears.
The Morrisons surmise that Jim's hostility was really designed to shield them from too much attention.
"I had the feeling that he felt we'd just as soon not be associated with his career," George Morrison says. "He knew I didn't think rock music was the best goal for him. Maybe he was trying to protect us."
Adds his sister, Anne, "He liked mystique, too. He didn't want to be from somewhere."
Jim Morrison died of a heart attack in Paris in 1971, and his grave at the Pere Lachaise cemetery is one of the city's top tourist attractions. His family pays the authorities to take care of the site.
George Morrison said it was "quite an honor ... for the family" to have his son buried near cultural giants like Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf and Frederic Chopin.
It has been fun, Kev.
Thank God for technology, or it'd not have been possible.
"Let me know if you need an editor."
HA!
OK-OK, I'll keep you in mind. ;^)
"Unfortunately, I don't get out Wisconsin way much but I do appreciate the offer for a visit."
Too bad.
You miss good tunes, fine cigars, Jim Beam on the rocks (of course) & my flock of wild turkeys & sandhill cranes.
Oh well the offer stands so if ever you're in my neck of the woods, just give me a holler.
"By the way, you may have me beat in terms of your collection (I've got about 25,000 songs), but I've got you beat in terms of car tunes."
Oh?
"I installed a computer in the trunk and a touch screen in my dash so I can take my entire collection with me."
Whattttttt? :o)
You're a "youngster", huh.
Thanks for nothing, Kev.
After this week ("The" slaughter) I'm feeling old and now you tell me this.
Your setup (effectively) renders my stuff *obsolete*. {g}
"I could drive for for almost two months without hearing the same song twice."
I'll just bet you can, and stuff tailored to *your* tastes to boot.
...how neat is that. :^)
No, a couple of years shy of 50. Music and computers are both just hobbies of mine and it turns out they work quite well together.
I'm 53, Kev.
You're a youngster. {g}
"Music and computers are both just hobbies of mine and it turns out they work quite well together."
Yes they most certainly do, and in this convoluted day & age of guttural garbage [being] rammed down our throats in the name of >?< .
...thank God.
The CD I have wasn't a purchased copy, my friend sent them to me. And the guy in Finland says he doesn't have it so I'll have to check w/ some of my other friends.
As far as comparing vinyl to Corvettes, that's kind of a stretch!!!
Let me know what you think!
I see.
Must've missed something.
"As far as comparing vinyl to Corvettes, that's kind of a stretch!!!"
Not really.
Both are unused, yet kept anyway.
"Let me know what you think!"
But I already did, t_s.
...I did. ;^)
both . . . If your ever in florida, stop on by.
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