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Robby Krieger Says Jim Morrison Wanted to Experience Insanity
UltimateClassicRock ^ | December 3, 2021 | Martin Kielty

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.”


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: doors; insanity; morrison; robbykrieger
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To: nickcarraway
The Doors movie was my most anticipated and long waited for movies in my life. Too bad it completely sucked. What a disappointment.

I despise Oliver Stone. He could screw up a soup sandwich.

61 posted on 12/03/2021 9:04:22 PM PST by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: odawg
“The sixties could best be understood as the prolonged tantrum of privlidged, white, pampered narcissists crazed with drugs.”

Total nonsense. No, I will say that is total, absolute nonsense.

Alright, then: Give us a better way to understand the sixties.

Regards,

62 posted on 12/03/2021 9:33:32 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: allendale
The sixties could best be understood as the prolonged tantrum of privlidged, white, pampered narcissists crazed with drugs.

Yup.

63 posted on 12/03/2021 11:44:40 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

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


64 posted on 12/04/2021 2:27:26 AM PST by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Neumann U47 with a German “Telefunken” vacuum tube.


65 posted on 12/04/2021 2:33:27 AM PST by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: Bonemaker; dfwgator

[“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!!!


66 posted on 12/04/2021 2:50:57 AM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: nickcarraway

Rd later.


67 posted on 12/04/2021 2:55:12 AM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: Robert DeLong

Died of a drug overdose while sitting on a toilet in a grungy French bistro.


68 posted on 12/04/2021 3:58:31 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: SaveFerris

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


69 posted on 12/04/2021 5:52:57 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jimmy Valentine
He died in his bathtub in Paris, and because no autopsy was performed we do not know what exactly killed him. They claimed it was heart failure. But without an autopsy, the real cause will never really be known.

Inside The Mystery Of Jim Morrison’s Death And The Disturbing Theories That Surround It

70 posted on 12/04/2021 7:19:48 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: alexander_busek

“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.


71 posted on 12/04/2021 11:01:52 AM PST by odawg
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To: alexander_busek

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


72 posted on 12/04/2021 12:54:13 PM PST by HandyDandy
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