Post by darkstar2 on Jul 24, 2008 19:15:16 GMT
EAR CANDY
OCTOBER 2005 ISSUE
October 2 2005
JAMES DEAN, JIM MORRISON, JANIS JOPLIN...AND CHARLES MANSON!
Too bad you didn't read "Laid Bare" ["Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip"] - that details all my relationships with Janis Joplin and with Jim Morrison. I did a great deal of acid, I did about 3 months of acid and I never came down. I was up for the whole time. This was the original Owsley acid.
Jim got in touch with me because he wanted…number one he wanted to get some of the acid, too and I had a lot of it. But he wanted Jimmy Dean's bloody clothes that Dean had been wearing in the accident. I said, "there's no clothes, nobody has those clothes, they probably got thrown away." He [Jim Morrison} basically didn't believe that they had been thrown away, he thought I was hiding them or something. We did get together and spent some time together. I have never, I have never been with someone who would drink as much as he did. Like the whole bottle, it was incredible.
Finally, our last conversation, Jim put a towel over his eyes, so as we were talking he wouldn't be looking into my eyes. It was really bizarre. Jim was very strange in that sense, and he was totally obsessed with James Dean and owning the clothes that he died in.
E.C.: And he thought that the clothes were still around and someone had them?
John Gilmore: He thought that I had them. And I told him, "I was in New York when Jimmy was killed anyway." I'd gone to New York in late July and Jimmy was killed in September. I didn't come back or anything. He didn't believe me though. I said, "He really oughta cut down on the drinking. He's like blowing fuses in his head."
E.C.: So, Morrison was doing both the acid and the heavy drinking?
John Gilmore: Oh, he was doing it right then. He was drinking at that time and got worse and worse. And Janis or course was always drinking. We had a little 'situation' between us in San Francisco. I met Janis when she was in the coffee shops in San Francisco in 1963, that's when I first met her. We were friends and I'd go and see her and she was really obsessed with Hank Williams. Anything to do with Hank Williams! The last time that I saw Janis in the San Francisco area - I had this picture of Hank and she really wanted it. So, I gave it to her. She stuck it down the front of her pants! Then in '69 I saw her and we had a brief little thing, a kind of brief little 'fling'.
www.earcandymag.com/johngilmore-2005.htm
John Gilmore Spotlights Jim Morrison
EXCERPTS FROM:
LAID BARE: A MEMOIR OF WRECKED LIVES AND THE HOLLYWOOD DEATH TRIP
A red-headed girl who knew Ronnie Haran came to me and said Jim Morrison wanted to talk to me. I asked what about, and she said, "The clothes James Dean was wearing when he got killed in the Porsche." Again it was James Dean, as if I toted around some talisman that could be stroked by the true devotee. Morrison was now approaching me as if to share some of the secrets all bundled up in his jumbled metaphors and poses. I couldn't get to know him — the brief jump — start occasions were too quick, too explosively engaged, though I didn't think that made much difference, as each moment of Morrison showed the whole of him.
To continue reading this story, click the link below:
www.johngilmore.com/Celebrities/jim...ison-final.html
OCTOBER 2005 ISSUE
October 2 2005
JAMES DEAN, JIM MORRISON, JANIS JOPLIN...AND CHARLES MANSON!
Too bad you didn't read "Laid Bare" ["Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip"] - that details all my relationships with Janis Joplin and with Jim Morrison. I did a great deal of acid, I did about 3 months of acid and I never came down. I was up for the whole time. This was the original Owsley acid.
Jim got in touch with me because he wanted…number one he wanted to get some of the acid, too and I had a lot of it. But he wanted Jimmy Dean's bloody clothes that Dean had been wearing in the accident. I said, "there's no clothes, nobody has those clothes, they probably got thrown away." He [Jim Morrison} basically didn't believe that they had been thrown away, he thought I was hiding them or something. We did get together and spent some time together. I have never, I have never been with someone who would drink as much as he did. Like the whole bottle, it was incredible.
Finally, our last conversation, Jim put a towel over his eyes, so as we were talking he wouldn't be looking into my eyes. It was really bizarre. Jim was very strange in that sense, and he was totally obsessed with James Dean and owning the clothes that he died in.
E.C.: And he thought that the clothes were still around and someone had them?
John Gilmore: He thought that I had them. And I told him, "I was in New York when Jimmy was killed anyway." I'd gone to New York in late July and Jimmy was killed in September. I didn't come back or anything. He didn't believe me though. I said, "He really oughta cut down on the drinking. He's like blowing fuses in his head."
E.C.: So, Morrison was doing both the acid and the heavy drinking?
John Gilmore: Oh, he was doing it right then. He was drinking at that time and got worse and worse. And Janis or course was always drinking. We had a little 'situation' between us in San Francisco. I met Janis when she was in the coffee shops in San Francisco in 1963, that's when I first met her. We were friends and I'd go and see her and she was really obsessed with Hank Williams. Anything to do with Hank Williams! The last time that I saw Janis in the San Francisco area - I had this picture of Hank and she really wanted it. So, I gave it to her. She stuck it down the front of her pants! Then in '69 I saw her and we had a brief little thing, a kind of brief little 'fling'.
www.earcandymag.com/johngilmore-2005.htm
John Gilmore Spotlights Jim Morrison
EXCERPTS FROM:
LAID BARE: A MEMOIR OF WRECKED LIVES AND THE HOLLYWOOD DEATH TRIP
A red-headed girl who knew Ronnie Haran came to me and said Jim Morrison wanted to talk to me. I asked what about, and she said, "The clothes James Dean was wearing when he got killed in the Porsche." Again it was James Dean, as if I toted around some talisman that could be stroked by the true devotee. Morrison was now approaching me as if to share some of the secrets all bundled up in his jumbled metaphors and poses. I couldn't get to know him — the brief jump — start occasions were too quick, too explosively engaged, though I didn't think that made much difference, as each moment of Morrison showed the whole of him.
To continue reading this story, click the link below:
www.johngilmore.com/Celebrities/jim...ison-final.html