James Douglas Morrison
In just under an hour, it will be Jim's birthday again. He would have been 62. He would have hated his age, and would have still been quite lucid, and quite brilliant.
In just under an hour, it will be Bret's birthday, too. He will be 37. Still beautiful. Still brilliant. Still The One, and still a dream I will likely never realize. I guess that's the way it will always be. Both of my December 8th dreamers, forever out of reach.
JIM MORRISON 1943 - 1971
You could say it's an accident that I was ideally suited for the work I am doing. It's the feeling of a bowstring being pulled back for 22 years and suddenly being let go. I am primarily an American, second, a Californian, third, a Los Angeles resident. I've always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos - especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom - external revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom. Rather than starting inside, I start outside - reach the mental through the physical. I am a Sagittarian - if astrology has anything to do with it - the Centaur - the Archer - the Hunt - But the main thing is that we are The Doors.
We are from the West. The whole thing is like an invitation to the West.
The sunset - This is the end
The night - The sea
The world we suggest is of a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun, you know? Toward the end. At least for our first album. We're all centered around the end of the zodiac. The Pacific - violence and peace - the way between young and the old.
Taken from the original Elektra Records biography, 1967
In just under an hour, it will be Bret's birthday, too. He will be 37. Still beautiful. Still brilliant. Still The One, and still a dream I will likely never realize. I guess that's the way it will always be. Both of my December 8th dreamers, forever out of reach.
JIM MORRISON 1943 - 1971
You could say it's an accident that I was ideally suited for the work I am doing. It's the feeling of a bowstring being pulled back for 22 years and suddenly being let go. I am primarily an American, second, a Californian, third, a Los Angeles resident. I've always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos - especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom - external revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom. Rather than starting inside, I start outside - reach the mental through the physical. I am a Sagittarian - if astrology has anything to do with it - the Centaur - the Archer - the Hunt - But the main thing is that we are The Doors.
We are from the West. The whole thing is like an invitation to the West.
The sunset - This is the end
The night - The sea
The world we suggest is of a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun, you know? Toward the end. At least for our first album. We're all centered around the end of the zodiac. The Pacific - violence and peace - the way between young and the old.
Taken from the original Elektra Records biography, 1967
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Dec 7 is also Pearl Harbor Day.
Dec 8 is the day John Lennon was shot.
Happiness abounds!
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