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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Feb 10, 2005 18:56:04 GMT
Jim Morrison's last postcard. Postmarked June 3, 1971 from Paris - sent to his lawyer, Max Fink. It reads:
Dear Max - it's a beautiful spring in the 'City of Love'. Just returned from Spain, Morocco & Corsica - Napoleon's birthplace. Take a vacation! The women are great & the food is gorgeous. Say hi to all. Jim
Jim and Pam went to Morocco in April/May.
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Post by jym on Feb 10, 2005 18:59:28 GMT
You know if he just had more room or better handwriting he could have added 'got to go, going to the Rock & Roll circus tonight' it would have cleared up a lot of questions for us now.
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Post by mywildlove4371 on Jul 25, 2005 14:51:00 GMT
definatly...that is cool that the post card still exsists for us to get to see it!! thanks for posting it
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Post by ensenada on Jul 25, 2005 21:47:47 GMT
cool...not seen this thread before. it would have been posted on the 3rd or a few days before. he mustnt have felt that bad to take the time away from bars etc etc to find a postcard and post it. that certainly isnt the modus operandi of a depressed person on the brink of suicide for sure!
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Post by itisstillnovember on Jul 20, 2006 12:19:14 GMT
Wow, never seen that postcard before.
Thanks for posting it.
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Post by eressie on Jul 20, 2006 14:45:54 GMT
that certainly isnt the modus operandi of a depressed person on the brink of suicide for sure! I agree, not that I have supported the suicide theory in the first place, but things like this definitely put an end to that. Spooky though that the postmark is July 3:rd.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 9, 2011 14:19:04 GMT
The famous Bob Greene letter Jim Morrison sent requesting funds and stating that he and Pam intended to stay in Europe indefinitely. The clearest evidence that exists that he had left The Doors for good. Corroberated by the bands manager Bill Siddons who stated that Jim called a meeting to anounce he was quitting The Doors and an Elektra employee who on the Densmore forum stated that it was common knowledge that he had left within the Elektra offices. Add to that what friends like Babe Hill and Frank Lisciandro added to the debate that he had left the band as well as his new Paris friends who got the impression from his conversation that he was done with The Doors.
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Post by gizmo on Jan 13, 2011 13:56:58 GMT
i think he was short on money and the only way to make money was by the doors? poetry books don't make enough money to live from(in paris) and certainly not when there's drugs involved. i still think that after a few years the doors would have made an album to keep the finances coming in again. making films would be an option but i don't see jim making a huge film that would get the money coming in. and even for that he should ask for a loan somewhere to start working on the film. but you'll never know, it's all what if
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 14, 2011 8:04:09 GMT
i think he was short on money and the only way to make money was by the doors? He was entitled to a 25% Doors royalty so had no need to make any more Doors albums. He had a handshake deal with Jac to make a poetry album and he could have done that in England easy enough. It's surprising how well poetry books by rock stars would sell although they would not rake in millions. I seriously doubt he would ever have gone back to The Doors. If he was writing songs he could have easily done a solo blues album which was what he said to David Anderle, the Elektra producer, back in LA. One thing Morrison did NOT need was The Doors as they needed him a lot more. Most people associate Jim as The Doors nowadays and that opinion was prevelent back in 1971. I don't agree with it but that does not stop it being the case. Morrison was the moneymaker out of the 4 of them. He could have easily made a good living in Europe writing or recording and if he had cleaned himself up could have gotten into film. The other three were handicapped without him as Other Voices and Full Circle showed.
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Post by gizmo on Jan 14, 2011 9:51:59 GMT
i think he was short on money and the only way to make money was by the doors? He was entitled to a 25% Doors royalty so had no need to make any more Doors albums. He had a handshake deal with Jac to make a poetry album and he could have done that in England easy enough. It's surprising how well poetry books by rock stars would sell although they would not rake in millions. 25% of the royalties ain´t that much i think(almost sure), coz when all the expenses are done from an album the band will get 10-15% of the price of an album(there's a shitload of parasites who are making money from your album) and 25% of that is maybe 1.5 dollars? so 1.5 usd for each sold album(after jim would have stopped the band) isn't that much at all, and becouse the doors have stopped making new albums and don't do any shows at the time(wich is making more money than albums) the publicity round the doors would have stopped, so no publicity is no new fans, no new fans is selling less albums etc. so it's a downward spiral. the only way of making enough money for a band is live shows. almost the full amount of money is going to the band(they only had to pay for roadies and tour manager and some small expenses, but that's it. when you want to bring an official album out you have to pay the record company, union for musicians, copyrights, promotion for the album etc. but these are the great parasites who eat the largest part of the cake. so the doors had to make sure they had some publicity to keep selling the albums, instead of bringing out greatest hits albums with a new track on it or remastered(like they do now but when they do it the income of albums has decreased so they have to create some new publicity so the old albums are bought by new fans who heard about the doors on the radio or tv and buy the new album and with a bit of luck the old albums as well. when the record sales go up they're all happy but already thinking about a new cd coz the sales will go down someday. thats the reason why the doors inc. announced the legacy album way before it came out in stores, and that with a new track on it!!!!! all they did was starting a rumor about the new album wich all the fans are curious about and try to buy it before it comes out in stores(becouse it's just a greatest hits album and all the fans already have 3 geatest hits albums) but it's a way of making money. and we pay for it for as far as i know jim didn'r really realize how much money he was giving out each month, he had to find a way of making money as soon as possible(i don't know the price of cocaine and shit those days but i think it was still pretty expensive). as you can see in the letter he was asking for 3000 usd wich i think was for the rent for the appartement and his living, i think that 3000 usd wouldn't go for a month, so next month is 3000 usd as well
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 14, 2011 17:13:02 GMT
25% of the royalties ain´t that much i think(almost sure), coz when all the expenses are done from an album the band will get 10-15% of the price of an album(there's a shitload of parasites who are making money from your album) and 25% of that is maybe 1.5 dollars? The songwriting royalty would have been worth a pretty penny even back then. So don't forget he was not just getting 25% of the album sales royalty. The Doors back catalogue has sold steadily since 1967 even if the band were not a worldwide sensation. Even here Doors albums sold a decent amount of units back in the 60s and early 70s. I doubt whether Jim would have starved as plenty of lesser lights than him survived to reap their rewards. If he had gotten desperate he could have sold his songs for adverts. Pirelli bought ROTS for their tyre advert here in the UK. The letter seems to me to be a severing of ties with The Doors as don't forget he only rang ONE Door from France and that was John.....NOT his big mate Ray or Robby. He rang John at HOME not via The Doors office so it did not seem to me as if he was taking a sabbatical for a year. He seems to me to be tying up loose ends asking for the contract which set out their royalty agreement as well as the infamous clause which was designed to prevent Jim stealing the name and forming a new 'Doors' in England. I doubt he would have sunk that low as he did consider those 3 his mates but he could have made a fortune calling himself The Doors and taking on three or four backing musicians. Of course he was never as big an asshole as Manzarek so I don't think he would have done anything like that.
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Post by gizmo on Jan 14, 2011 18:38:21 GMT
i guess you're right about the rest of the doors, that he really started to hate then at the end of his life, but i think it's becouse they where to close all the time. the same ugly stinking ppl around you all the time and that along with the fans demanding different shows in one, so that was a good reason to go to paris. to take a breath and see something different, that works very relaxing, i think that's the reason why jim used to walk a lot(seems to work for depressions and to forget the daily buissnes for a while. but i thought that the doors splitted the money wich came from their albums in 4 equal parts? the soft parade is (for as far as i know) the only album where the writer of the song is mentioned. i thought they splitted the money in 4 equal parts, if not you're going to make me a bit smarter
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 14, 2011 19:16:32 GMT
Thats what I meant mate. 25% of not just album sales but also songwriting so their cut would have been a pretty decent one.
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