Why did James Douglas Morrison become.............

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Why did James Douglas Morrison become.............Jim Morrison.
What do you guys think were the main reasons why mild mannered shy student James Douglas Morrison (by day) turned into rock legend Jim Morrison.(by night)

It's true that Jim's UCLA clique which did not include Ray Manczarek BTW.......certainly influenced the fledgling rock crazy man in his path towards immortality..... Dennis Jakob who was one of Jim's best ever friends was a major influence on UCLA Jim....Jim said of him that he was the only person in the world he had ever met who had read more books than he had.
Jim and Dennis at one stage toyed with forming a group called The Doors: Open & Closed in 1964.
They planned to feature just two numbers....'I'm Hungry' and 'Want'.
Dennis later had a pivotal role as a creative consultant to Apocalypse Now and was believed to be responsible for the suggestion of taking the final explosive scenes of the movie and sticking them at the front and adding 'The End'....he also worked as a technical and creative advisor on Stones 'Doors' movie.
Another close pal was John De Bella (also a good friend of Ray) who used to boast that he had 'stolen more books than Dennis had read' and influenced Jim with his 'Theory of The True Rumour' which stated that perception was everything and to hell with the truth....it was what people believed that was important.
The others in that Morrison clique were Phil O'Leno whom Jim was at one stage arrested for the 'murder' of after a 1966 trip to Mexico and Felix Venable who influenced Jim by drinking so much it killed him.

Some of you are rather into JDM's literary and poetic influences so howz about explaining to us what exactly all the fuss was about with these books he was reading.

How did a mixture of LSD and literature turn a normal quiet lonely studious type of guy into one of rocks most legendary icons?

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[jym]

Well, the answer to the first seems easy, Rock N' Roll being a popular art that was apart from & supposed to be an antidote to the pretensions of previous generations makes it easy to see why he went by Jim Morrison instead of JDM.

How did LSD and literature combine? Harder question, I think a lot of it was Jim's personality certainly you could have had an intellectual write lyrics but would he have Jim's abhorrence of & will to stand up to authority the way Jim did? I think The Doors was Jim's experiment with the psychology of crowds, an experiment that may be still going on.

[ensenada]

I think he didnt like his middle name..after all people justcall me rick smith as opposed to richard austin smith......plus i am a bit of a rock star i guess.

seriously though...he may have been shyish atschool, but there are always reasons for that. he must have just needed the right stimulus to bring him out of his shell and give him confidence. I started out very shy at school....now i am a complete fuckin lunatic..so people do change and i spose the prospect of being a rock god would be a more powerful stimulus than a bag of fertiliser in a ferrari!