Posted on 12/03/2021 5:13:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
Doors guitarist Robby Krieger says late bandmate Jim Morrison welcomed syphilis, arguing that he didn't fear going crazy.
The potentially fatal sexually transmitted disease’s symptoms can include the loss of mental faculties, and has long been connected to the lives of 18th and 19th century artists. But the development of modern antibiotics means that it's no longer usually lethal.
“I think Jim believed that life could be boring and that a lot of people were just going through the motions, so he would try to freak them out,” Krieger tells the Guardian. “He would do anything to add to the craziness. Most people would be scared if they contracted a potentially lethal STD, but Jim was excited to feel close to all those disease-ridden 19th century poets and painters he idealized.
“He wanted to let it go untreated,” Krieger added, “so he could experience what it was really like to go insane.”
Morrison’s other extreme antics included grabbing the steering wheel of a car and swerving into traffic, claiming he was God and threatening to expel Krieger from the universe, the guitarist said in his recent memoir, Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors. He says Morrison also suffered from an apparent Oedipus complex.
“I think Jim had some real mental issues – manic depression, or whatever,” Krieger said. “Whenever the press would ask about his family, he would say that they were dead. His mom was weird, she was very bossy but he was fixated on her.”
Krieger went on to say that many of the stories told about the Doors frontman were fabrications, suggesting that some were promoted by their late keyboardist Ray Manzarek, but that Morrison’s personality was remarkable enough.
“When people saw us play, they knew that this wasn’t just a show,” Krieger said. “To me, what happened to the Doors was pretty damn cool just the way it was. This wasn’t a story that needed to be hyped.”
I despise Oliver Stone. He could screw up a soup sandwich.
Total nonsense. No, I will say that is total, absolute nonsense.
Alright, then: Give us a better way to understand the sixties.
Regards,
Yup.
Ray Manzarek of the Doors speaks about recording “Riders on The Storm” including its genesis was the song “Ghost Riders in the Sky” and Jerry Scheff’s bass line on the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dBy0f_FVrA
Neumann U47 with a German “Telefunken” vacuum tube.
[“Robby Krieger Says Jim Morrison Wanted to Experience Insanity”
Was he married?]
Iraqi: I see you are no stranger to pain.
Colonel: I’ve been married.
Iraqi: Oy!
Colonel: Twice!
Iragi: OY!!!
Rd later.
Died of a drug overdose while sitting on a toilet in a grungy French bistro.
I’d get down to the gates of Hell and Satan would JUMP OUT....RRROOAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!!
Ah #@$#...you were married huh? Well, I guess there’s nothing much new for you here. Well, I’ll give you the nickel tour anyway....see that? That’s where we torment the soul.......OOOOOOOH!
Say, you didn’t happen to see any single guys coming down the tunnel did you? I can scare the $#@# out of them.
Oh &*(! ....you were married twice? Want a job? That qualifies you for the job placement program here in Hell!”
-Sam Kinison
Inside The Mystery Of Jim Morrison’s Death And The Disturbing Theories That Surround It
“Alright, then: Give us a better way to understand the sixties.”
Get on the internet and look up Paul Harvey’s classic 1965 broadcast: “If I were the devil.”
That is a very good start for understanding why the American culture has unraveled.
Here is a better way to understand the 60’s:
https://www.sott.net/article/155794-Inside-The-LC-The-Strange-but-Mostly-True-Story-of-Laurel-Canyon-and-the-Birth-of-the-Hippie-Generation-Part-1
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