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L.A. Woman (Doors)
YouTube ^ | April 19th, 1971 | Jim Morrison

Posted on 11/18/2018 9:27:33 AM PST by Mariner

Jim Morrison's homage to Los Angels.

It used to be a great place.

I figured appropriate in light of the devastating fires.

Barely 3 months after release Jim Morrison was dead. And that was "The End" of one of the truly great bands of the 60's.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Music/Entertainment; Poetry
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To: Mariner

I’ve read that he had really just wanted to be a poet, and didn’t really like the music part. But that was the only way he could get people to hear his poetry.

I like the album “An American Prayer” that the group did after Jim had died. Uses some of his poetry that he had spoken onto tape.

That “Mr. Mojo Risin”, one of the members recalls going into the room, and Jim is there with a pencil and paper.

“Whoa - man. I just seen this - it’ll blow your mind! Ya know ‘Mr. Mojo Risin’? If you rearrange the letters it spells Jim Morrison” - far out!!”

Later on the other member says “Of course we later found out that is what he had planned on all along!”


41 posted on 11/18/2018 1:45:09 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
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To: Zeneta

In “The End” he speaks of screwing his mother before he kills her, and after he killed his father.


42 posted on 11/18/2018 1:54:12 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner; Zeneta

I believe he was speaking for the killer, who woke before dawn and put his boots on. Ya know, the one who took a face from the ancient gallery?


43 posted on 11/18/2018 2:05:59 PM PST by HandyDandy (This space intentionally left blank.)
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To: Mariner; HandyDandy

And he also proclaimed himself the “Lizard King”

Jim Morrison lived in, expressed himself, in and of the World of possibilities that where being entertained by those around him.

Complete insanity for the most part.


44 posted on 11/18/2018 2:14:30 PM PST by Zeneta
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To: Mariner
Although I grew up as a HUGE Beatles fan, the Doors were always the MUCH better Rock and/or Roll band.

A few fun facts...
Morrison was a HUGE fan of Frank Sinatra and his voicing.

When the Doors walked into Sunset Recorders for their first album, Morrison's eyes immediately spotted a Neumann U-67 microphone, a legendary classic that was world renown for its' amazing midrange detail, ultra-low distortion and smooth sound quality...and it used a Telefunken vacuum tube to achieve that magical sound.

Morrison knew the U-47 (and later the U-67) was THE microphone Sinatra demanded be used in his recording sessions...and he got excited excited knowing he would record his vocals into the same mic used by Sinatra.

The Neumann U-67 was also famously used on the piano for the Beatles' "A Day In The Life".

Sinatra in Capitol Studios w/Neumann U-67

Beatles & Neumann U-47


45 posted on 11/18/2018 2:57:44 PM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Same for me except The Doors aren’t stale for me. They were in the late eighties and early nineties, but now I appreciate Morrison’s lyrics and have always had a soft spot for a rock and roll Hammond B3. I watched a documentary about ‘60’s Cali rock icons and how the big stars all grew up in one canyon above Malibu, and most of their fathers were hard core military big wigs, interesting stuff.


46 posted on 11/18/2018 3:06:23 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Texan5
It is sad when places are ruined for everyone by the bottom feeders of society, and their masters who provide that Roman mob with bread and circuses.

Even sadder is the fact that their 'masters' didn't even build that which they are so cavalierly giving away to the barbarian horde.

They are buying them off with the wealth stolen from the true builders, who have in large part, been run out of the state.

47 posted on 11/18/2018 3:54:40 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

So true-all that “free” sh** just happens to be paid for with OUR tax money...

I wish there were some lure/incentive that would send liberal company owners and the people who work there back to Southern Cali/the Bay area-I’m sure the conservatives living in Northern Cali would bring their businesses and employees here to replace them-Austin has been a liberal enclave all my life-I wonder-would Austin still be weird if the liberals left?


48 posted on 11/18/2018 4:35:57 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: VTenigma; All

You are referring to Laurel Canyon. It was well documented in a book by David McGowan, “Weird Scenes Inside Laurel Canyon”. I read it and have had the rug pulled out from under me. He makes a real good case that the “‘60’s” weren’t just a “happening”. They were by design. A psyops. I am curious to hear what anyone else who read the book thinks about it.


49 posted on 11/18/2018 5:59:08 PM PST by HandyDandy (This space intentionally left blank.)
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To: HandyDandy

Yes Laurel Canyon, sorry that slipped my mind just then, long day. Anyway that’s the fellow. I watched a long interview with him where he laid it all out. Interesting stuff. Interesting times.


50 posted on 11/18/2018 6:33:14 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: VTenigma

After I read the book, I searched for more and did run into that interview with David McGowan on youtube. The interview barely scratches the surface. To anyone who consider themselves in any way a “product of the Sixties” I highly recommend the book. The sixties were not what we thought they were. Just as a teaser, most of us know that Jim Morrison’s father was an Admiral in the Navy, but how many realize that he was the Admiral of the fleet at the Gulf of Tonkin Incident which got us into the Vietnam War?
The times we live in are a “product of the sixties”.


51 posted on 11/18/2018 7:05:15 PM PST by HandyDandy (This space intentionally left blank.)
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To: HandyDandy
Here is a photo of Jim Morrison with his dad in 1964 on his ship USS Bon Homme Richard. BTW, neither Morrison or his ship was involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident that occurred on Aug 2 of that year.

Who knew that in three years, this kid would be a rock superstar and a counterculture hero.


52 posted on 11/18/2018 7:13:35 PM PST by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: HandyDandy

I have the book title written down to order.


53 posted on 11/18/2018 7:17:27 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: SamAdams76

From wiki:
“George Stephen Morrison (January 7, 1919 – November 17, 2008) was a United States Navy rear admiral (upper half) and naval aviator. Morrison was commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the false flag[1] Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964, which sparked an escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War. He was the father of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the rock band The Doors.“


54 posted on 11/18/2018 7:19:19 PM PST by HandyDandy (This space intentionally left blank.)
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To: HandyDandy

Very interesting. I’ll have to follow up on that.


55 posted on 11/18/2018 7:20:24 PM PST by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: VTenigma

I’ll be dying to know what you make of it. Either we had the wool pulled over our eyes then, .....or we are now.


56 posted on 11/18/2018 7:21:30 PM PST by HandyDandy (This space intentionally left blank.)
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To: taildragger

Joplin’s Porsche sold for $1.76 million.


57 posted on 11/19/2018 2:39:08 AM PST by Does so (If Trump Colluded with Russians, Why Did Hillary Win The Popular Vote?)
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To: newfreep

My HS music teacher hated Sinatra’s “slurring” to reach notes. I don’t disagree.


58 posted on 11/19/2018 2:47:46 AM PST by Does so (If Trump Colluded with Russians, Why Did Hillary Win The Popular Vote?)
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To: Bullish
Never liked the Doors and disliked Morrison even more.

I like some of the music but...

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm.

There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirming like a toad...

You had to be smashed to swoon to that dreck.

59 posted on 11/19/2018 2:58:51 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Does so

It’s called “phrasing”.

Sounds like your HS teacher was a typical leftist & educated idiot.

Haters (and leftists) gonna hate


60 posted on 11/19/2018 3:58:34 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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