"Largely thanks to their Narcissistic singer The Doors remain much mocked be serious rock fans."This is the constant knife in the side of The Doors and sadly it is self inflicted. It hurts me that my fave band get this scorn but it is nothing to do with Jim.
His behavior was no worse than many of his peers and a lot of them were seriously more pompous and self absorbed.
This is the tripe DiCillo was peddling in that garbage When You're Strange and it just does not stand up to scrutiny.
Morrison was hardly narcissistic as he had a very well grounded opinion of his ability and worth. He was in no way Egocentric and his own actions back up such a claim.
Why would someone who thought he was the be all and end all go to such trouble to destroy his own Myth?
We know he was modest with regard his poetry skills. Babe Hill was a witness to that.
He was thoughtful and articulate and thought about what he wanted to say before he said it.
Yes he was raucous and showed off a bit on stage but so did Alice Cooper BUT he does not get the shit Jim does.
We know he was uncertain of his singing ability and had an inherent shyness. The showing off was probably his way of hiding that.
Plenty of rockers had more outrageous stage acts than Jim.
No for me this stems from the last 40 years of the Ex Doors looking to make a buck out of Morrison. They with one hand prattle on about the Poet and their great friend then with the other trash his character. It's been going on so long that Morrison can never be looked at with an even eye.
there is always this Jimbo nonsense that the rest trawl out whenever they want to get a bit of attention.
I find this incredibly sad that of all the great rock stars in the Pantheon of Rock Jim Morrison never gets a fair shake.
Who do I blame? Well three of them are on the cover of LA Woman and I don't mean the dead guy.
Also it's clear that She Sucks Shit was a mistake. This should never have been put out as the centrepiece of this release as it simply feeds what I have been saying.
It's a daft drunken Jam and should have been released with the rest of the material and left off LAW.
It detracts from the brilliance of the album.
Most of the extra tracks certainly do not degenerate into sloppy stoner jams at all so I dunno what album this guy has been listening to. In fact out of the 7 actual out takes from the actual album ALL are completed takes and not ONE degenerates in any way.
Also a rock writer who does not know that Rock Me is a blues classic and not a 'generic blues rock pastiche' should not be writing for a music magazine.
