Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 8, 2012 16:00:46 GMT
"STUMBLING INTO NEON" -
by Bob Nibor & Clive Patrick
"Pretty much a home made effort from something called The Parkway Press, Nibor & Patrick's book is the first to seriously explore the Artist Jim Morrison as opposed to the drug crazed piss head Jim Morrison.
Describing him as Edgar Allan Poe blown back as a hippy it focuses on his dark side of course but examines the link between his song/poetry and artists such as Artaud, Cendrars, Joyce and Rimbaud and his fascination with theatre/drama and cinema.
Giving an interesting run down of the Doors career including Miami and New Haven, and quoting such sources as Mike McClure and Richard Goldstein, it looks at all the albums and the perception of The Doors as Superstars in the US and here in the UK.
It studies the excitement of a Doors concert and tries to analyse the "games" Morrison loved to play with his audiences heads comparing Jim to Sergie Eisenstein for his use of dramatic tension in the rock song.
It is the first book to try to make head or tail of Jim's death and gets a feel for the time through Herve Muller's account of Jim's last couple of weeks.
Including the strange tale of how Muller phoned Jim's flat on the morning of July 3rd only to be told by Alan Ronay that Jim & Pam had gone away for the weekend.
Concluding with a footnote that Howard Werth, the excellent singer from the equally excellent British Charisma records band Audience, would become the new lead singer of The Doors. (Jac Holzman and Charisma records boss Tony Stratton- Smith were friends) then an added note that The Doors had now split and JD & RK had formed the Butts Band with Jess Roden another who had been in the frame for Jim's job gives you a feel of the time it was written.
Overall one of the more interesting Doors books it contains a few mistakes and expresses one or two opinions I found myself at odds with but seemed to have been produced with an affection for the Artist Jim that is rarely found in today's sensationalised accounts which seem to battle with each other for the title “biggest load of bullshit written about Jim Morrison this side of the 4th millennium."
It would be really cool to see this make a comeback but sadly I doubt something like this with a little over 100 pages would excite the money hungry Doors industry.
Alex Patton
Scorpywag rating 8/10 hard to find but great if you do!.
by Bob Nibor & Clive Patrick
"Pretty much a home made effort from something called The Parkway Press, Nibor & Patrick's book is the first to seriously explore the Artist Jim Morrison as opposed to the drug crazed piss head Jim Morrison.
Describing him as Edgar Allan Poe blown back as a hippy it focuses on his dark side of course but examines the link between his song/poetry and artists such as Artaud, Cendrars, Joyce and Rimbaud and his fascination with theatre/drama and cinema.
Giving an interesting run down of the Doors career including Miami and New Haven, and quoting such sources as Mike McClure and Richard Goldstein, it looks at all the albums and the perception of The Doors as Superstars in the US and here in the UK.
It studies the excitement of a Doors concert and tries to analyse the "games" Morrison loved to play with his audiences heads comparing Jim to Sergie Eisenstein for his use of dramatic tension in the rock song.
It is the first book to try to make head or tail of Jim's death and gets a feel for the time through Herve Muller's account of Jim's last couple of weeks.
Including the strange tale of how Muller phoned Jim's flat on the morning of July 3rd only to be told by Alan Ronay that Jim & Pam had gone away for the weekend.
Concluding with a footnote that Howard Werth, the excellent singer from the equally excellent British Charisma records band Audience, would become the new lead singer of The Doors. (Jac Holzman and Charisma records boss Tony Stratton- Smith were friends) then an added note that The Doors had now split and JD & RK had formed the Butts Band with Jess Roden another who had been in the frame for Jim's job gives you a feel of the time it was written.
Overall one of the more interesting Doors books it contains a few mistakes and expresses one or two opinions I found myself at odds with but seemed to have been produced with an affection for the Artist Jim that is rarely found in today's sensationalised accounts which seem to battle with each other for the title “biggest load of bullshit written about Jim Morrison this side of the 4th millennium."
It would be really cool to see this make a comeback but sadly I doubt something like this with a little over 100 pages would excite the money hungry Doors industry.
Alex Patton
Scorpywag rating 8/10 hard to find but great if you do!.