tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16146205000663347392024-02-07T11:27:39.174+00:00Perceptions of The Doorsthe pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614620500066334739.post-43715827192594575202014-11-20T17:22:00.003+00:002014-11-20T20:59:18.911+00:00<h2>
MORRISON and his SOFT ASYLUM/SWEET ALYSSUM</h2>
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Looking for a different angle on Morrison/Doors material is always quite difficult, but when playing around with certain phrases from Morrison's lyrics, especially his phrase "Soft Asylum" from the title track of the album The Soft Parade, one sometimes finds a gem.</div>
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The phrase does not sound unlike the flower commonly known as "Sweet Alyssum" (could it possibly be a play on words?), which according to Pam Pierce's 'Widely Successful plants for Northern California' - thrives in that particular area: <a href="http://harvestsgardeningsecrets.blogspot.ie/2006/06/sweet-alyssum.html">http://harvestsgardeningsecrets.blogspot.ie/2006/06/sweet-alyssum.html</a> </div>
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Looking at the website Witchipedia.com (<a href="http://www.witchipedia.com/herb:alyssum">http://www.witchipedia.com/herb:alyssum</a>), Alyssum has magical attributes such as a scent which promotes spiritual and emotional wellbeing, and can calm down an angry or "mad" person (Alyssum (also pronounced Alison) means "without madness" ). </div>
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and reminding one of Ophelia's donning of a crown of flowers in Hamlet when madness grips her) as there are other coloured flowers among the arrangement, it seems quite coincidental that there are quite a few depictions of statue busts wearing a cluster or "crown" of Alyssum across the internet.<br />
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Of course in the context of the word Asylum, we should be looking at meanings such as refuge, a place which is "without right of seizure". where we can think of Morrison seeking political asylum in the aftermath of the Miami incident. After Miami, we could also think of Morrison's travelling to Paris in 1970-1971, as a sort of protection under French (extradition) law, after leaving his home country as a political/cultural refugee of sorts.</div>
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If indeed "Soft Asylum" is a play on "Sweet Alyssum", it would not be the only flower reference in The Doors canon. For instance the original demo for Hyacinth House, as memory serves, is from 1968 (recorded in Krieger's home of the time, which happened to have Hyacinths growing there). It has been suggested by Jerry Hopkins/Danny Sugarman et al that the title is a reference to the cult of Hyacinthus, a Spartan Hero, lover to the God Apollo (cue a gay subtext!) who having been hit by a discus thrown by Apollo, and perhaps thrown off course by the jealous west wind Zephyrus, has a flower grown from his spilled blood by Apollo called the Hyacinth.</div>
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In terms of other Greek mythology, a somewhat oblique reference to the Greek hero Ajax, in the phrase "Stronger than dirt" a slogan used by the company Ajax is used/sung at the end of the track "Touch Me" - another track from The Soft Parade. Interestingly, like the myth of Hyacinthus, Sophocles' depicts Ajax's death in his play <i>Ajax </i>as involving the growth of a flower from his spilled blood.</div>
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An Anonymous Amazon review of Mailer's book which is interesting if only for Doors/Morrison admirers...</div>
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I first picked up this book after reading a Jim Morrison biography in which he declared An American Dream & Norman Mailer a major influence. It shows throughout this book. From the first chapter you actually feel yourself & your mind going 110 m.p.h. The book does a wonderful balancing act (if it can be called that) between the linear story & the insane (or not so) things going on in our main character's head. I personally felt a close bond with this book because of recurring dreams i have of being 'sweated down' by the cops at a station somewhere. I honestly couldn't put it down. There's also great underlying telepathy/deja vu themes throughout, & you'll find yourself flipping to earlier chapters to check it out. Possibly my most favorite thriller novel. (Also, for Doors fans, notice the title of the last chapter?...'cobra on my left leopard on my right'...)</div>
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The biography, which "Anonymous" is probably referring to is more than likely <b>The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison</b> by Jerry Hopkins, a collected series of interviews with Morrison. The interview where Morrison is interviewed backstage at the Isle of Wight in 1970 quotes Morrison's interest specifically in American Dream by Mailer. Morrison also mentions Hendrix as he passes by to take the stage for his Isle of Wight set. What the reviewer also doesn't note or reference is that perhaps Mailer's title for this particular novel could have been an inspiration for not only the track lyrics of <i>Not to touch the Earth</i>, but also could have served as inspiration for the <i>An American Prayer... </i>Noted elsewhere has been the participation of Morrison/Krieger at a benefit gig for Mailer's attempt at becoming Mayor in May 30 (31),1969 at the Cinematheque 16, Sunset Boulevard... reading <i>An American Prayer</i> and singing various tunes. Apparently, both <i>Feast of Friends </i>and <i>I, a Man</i>, - the latter a movie that Morrison had said he would take part in originally but backed out of performing in - were screened during the benefit.<br />
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the pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614620500066334739.post-72673001374623212612010-10-26T12:09:00.000+01:002014-11-10T17:13:26.912+00:00Joan Didion - "Waiting For Morrison" in The Age Of Rock (Sounds Of The American Cultural Revolution) & her collection of writings The White Album <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As well as the oft-cited musical resemblance of <i>Hello, I Love You</i> to <b>The Kinks</b> <i>All Day And All Of The Night </i>(and the never cited - up until now! - resemblance of <i>My Eyes Have Seen You</i> to <b>The Kinks</b> <i>You Really Got Me, </i>both of these tracks making the top ten in the US in 1964 - remember... Morrison's original Elektra bio had <b>The Kinks</b> as one of his favourite rock/pop groups), the resemblance also between the lyrics of <i>HILY</i> and French poet Charles Baudelaire's <i>Á une passante</i> from his collection of poems <b>Tableaux Parisiens</b> is quite striking...<br />
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Compare for instance the lines (badly translated here by Joanna Richardson in 1975) to the lyrics of <i>HILY</i>:<br />
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Of further note... as memory serves me (well or badly), <i>HILY </i>was used on the soundtrack of <b>Oliver Stone</b>'s movie <i>Platoon</i>, <b>The Cure</b> have also covered <i>HILY,</i> as well as <b>Nigel Kennedy</b> on his <i>Doors Concerto </i>and there has also been a hit parody of the song by <b>R.E.M.</b> (although perhaps not evident as a parody at the time) with their track <i>Pop Song '89</i> from their album <b>Green</b>. Here's the uncensored version of the latter:<br />
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As Iggy (Jim Osterberg) Pop has freely admitted on several occasions, certain phrases from Morrison's poetry (The Lords) were lifted for the lyrics of the track <i>The Passenger</i> from Pop's album <i>Lust For Life </i>from 1977 (featuring David Bowie - Doors/Morrison connection #4 - on keyboards and vocals, and the rest of what was to make up the bowie-led band <b>Tin Machine</b>):<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Modern life is a journey by car. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Passengers <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">[my emphasis]</span></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">change terribly in their reeking seats, or roam</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">from car to car, subject to unceasing transformation.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Inevitable progress is made toward the beginning</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">(there is no difference in terminals), as we</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">slice </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">through cities, whose ripped backsides</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> [my emphasis] present</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">a moving picture of windows, signs, streets,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">buildings. Sometimes other vessels, closed</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">worlds, vacuums, travel along beside to move</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">ahead or fall utterly behind.</span></span><br />
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Interestingly, other than having Danny Sugerman as his manager* during one period of his life, Pop also sang vocals on a version of <i>L.A. Woman</i> on July 3rd 1974 in the <i>Whisky</i>, backed by Ray Manzarek on keyboards and other musicians<i>... </i>Also, Iggy was to be involved in fronting Manzarek's band <b>Nite City</b> in the late 1970s but had a falling out with Manzarek.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">*Read Sugerman's </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wonderland Avenue</span></i>the pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614620500066334739.post-63673951408335200242010-09-29T17:53:00.000+01:002014-11-04T14:32:01.895+00:00The Hitcher<h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UIStory_Message">I always think of the 1980s movie <b><i>The Hitcher</i></b> as a homage to <i>HWY/Riders On The Storm</i> (hence the younger main character is "Jim", and the older main character - the hitchhiker (actually the original name for <i>HWY</i>) - Rutger Hauer - is called John "Ryder"). Essentially, a hitchhiker is picked up in a "storm" and informs the driver that he has killed an entire fami<span class="text_exposed_hide"></span><span class="text_exposed_show">ly (calling to mind <i>if you give this man a ride/sweet family will die</i> and Morrison's phone call about killing someone in the desert in <i>HWY</i>) that had previously picked him up.</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The chap who wrote the "original" story claimed it was from his own experience as a taxi driver (after he picked up someone on the road)...</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show"></span></span> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Also of note: soundtrack for movie by Mark Isham... Isham also worked with (both in the 1980s also) David Sylvian and in a Doors/Morrison related coincidence... Marianne Faithfull... Faithfull has never revealed her side of the story of Morrison's death, her silence speaking volumes...</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;">These comments about the movie were originally posted a while back on Alice Cooper's music/radio show website, when he had <i>L.A. Woman</i> as album of the month (or something to that effect)...</span></h3>
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Worthy of note, is not only did <b>The Doors</b> include a <b>Bertolt Brecht</b>/<b>Kurt Weill</b> composition in the form of <i>Alabama Song</i> (<i>Whisk</i>[e]<i>y Bar</i>) as part of their repertoire, but also occasionally included as part of a live concert medley, the track: <i>Ballad Of Mac The Knife</i>.<br />
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In the <i>Live At The Matrix</i> shows from March 1967, unlike the studio version of <i>Alabama Song</i>, where Morrison sings 'Oh show me, the way, to the next little girl', the word 'boy' is substituted for 'girl'. In the <i>Bad Time For Poetry</i> translation, the adjective used to describe the girl is 'pretty' rather than 'little'. 'little boy/girl' hints more at the darker paedophile/child abusing attributes of the song's protagonist/character (not the singer, it is but merely a persona/mask for the few minutes the song lasts), and since Brecht's work describes and exposes the dark underbelly of city life, where everything is for sale, including sex with young children, whether boy or girl, this adjective is more appropriate and accurate. 'Pretty' is a softer adjective possibly implying the girl/s in question are not what we may think they are, or are being used for, but "the next..." pretty/little girl, indicates that there have been many more beforehand, used and discarded like the city of Mahagonny's trash. A simple drinking song, this isn't.<br />
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Hence also, lines such as these from <i>Ballad Of Mac The Knife</i>:<br />
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<i>And the ghastly fire in Soho - </i><br />
<i>Seven children at a go - </i><br />
<i>In the crowd stands Mac the Knife, but he</i><br />
<i>Isn't asked and doesn't know. </i> <br />
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<i>And the child-bride in her nightie</i><br />
<i>Whose assailant's still at large</i><br />
<i>Violated in her slumbers - </i><br />
<i>Mackie, how much did you charge?</i><br />
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Curiously and coincidentally, the phrase 'blue sunday' (the name of a <b>Doors</b> song of course) appears in an earlier verse:<br />
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<i>On a beautiful blue Sunday</i><br />
<i>See a corpse stretched in the Strand.</i><br />
<i>See a man dodge round the corner...</i><br />
<i>Mackie's friends will understand.</i><br />
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I'm sure The Doors/Morrison did not realise the full implication of the "Little Girl" phrase and its context, but it cannot be anything other than a extremely dark commentary on early modern living (from the male perspective of course - mos<span class="text_exposed_show">t of the first album is "cock rock" at its best after all) no matter who sings it... And then there's <i>You're lost, LITTLE girl</i>, from <i>Strange Days</i>, which of course, has a completely different context... and then there's <i>The men don't know</i>,<i> but the little girls understand</i> from <i>Back Door Man </i>from the same first album. And for such a supposedly apolitical group (the throwaway "erotic politicians" phrase springs to mind here), why did they pick a song that was penned by such an ardent socialst and politically-minded man as Brecht??? possibly they perceived how the song could be take completely out of its original context and used as a paean to total debauchery rather than as an indictment of all that is wrong with modern society??? </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">wine, women, (and song) and money... motel money murder madness... the idea that money had nothing to do with the Alabama Song for instance, just because it didn't suit Morrison's/The Doors' perception of their own society is an insult to the original... by excising that verse, Morrison contradicts his later poetic statement, that "Money Beats Soul... everytime." You're entitled to change your mind, but make up your mind eventually.<br />
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Bowie connection #3: David Bowie did a cover of <i>Alabama Song</i> in the late 1970s/early 1980s, which included all three verses. In 1982, Bowie also starred in a BBC production of and sang songs from Brecht's play <i>Baal</i>.the pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614620500066334739.post-36026838671652859282010-09-07T10:15:00.003+01:002010-09-08T00:43:35.265+01:00Annabel Lamb - Riders On The Storm - 1983Typical-sounding (for the period) 1983 version of <i>Riders On The Storm</i> by <b>Annabel Lamb</b>, from the A&M album "Once Bitten". Produced by Wally Brill and David Anderle. Sleeve photography (some of which I vaguely remember being from the music video of the same name) by Fin Costello. I do also remember the track being used for a car advertisement at one stage. The uncensored version of the video showed "the knife".<br />
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I agree with both the usual opinions: a) that with its exclusion/excision, it allows for tension and a sort-of orgasmic build-up to climax and release - like a lot of Doors songs - much in the vein of classical music generally... the release is short lived however, as the song builds to another climax quite quickly, that culminates in the songs end, and b) with its inclusion, and extension, played out as a free-floating release from the tension of a building climax, it gives the listener time to recuperate, to build up yet again... </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">It would be interesting to also mention whether any radio stations had censored the word "higher" from <i>Light My Fire</i>, when it was originally released... and also of note is whether or not one of the original lyrics in <i>The Crystal Ship</i> (the title in itself a reference to methamphetamine?) was "a thousand girls, a thousand pills" rather than "a thousand girls, a thousand thrills". <br />
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I think that perhaps producer Paul Rothchild had noted the overuse of drug imagery in the lyrics and music of the first album (as suggested in NHGOA*) and maybe suggested the downplay of such, since it was pretty obvious in the first place, and what was the point of ramming it down the listener's throat... No poetic subtlety in that!</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*<i>No One Here Gets Out Alive</i></span></span>the pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614620500066334739.post-55905119612422030742010-08-23T14:05:00.002+01:002010-08-23T14:11:50.647+01:00Ray Manzarek at Róisín Dubh, Galway, Ireland, 1999Autograph from Ray Manzarek on back of <i>Wierd Scenes Inside The Gold Mine</i> cassette inlay cover/card, obtained at a gig in 1999 in the Roisin Dubh in Galway, Ireland. Dorothy, his good lady wife, was seated beside him at the bar.<br />
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<span id="profile_status"><span id="status_text">Up to Sunset </span></span><br />
<span id="profile_status"><span id="status_text">We creep up the drive to the Chateau</span></span><br />
<span id="profile_status"><span id="status_text">The suite Belushi died in ...</span></span><br />
<span id="profile_status"><span id="status_text">Or the one <b>Morrison</b> hung out of the window</span></span><br />
<span id="profile_status"><span id="status_text">Oh, I’ll go for Jim’s</span></span><br />
<span id="profile_status"><span id="status_text">I would fancy a little window-hanging myself, tonight, man</span></span><br />
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<span id="profile_status"><span id="status_text"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GVNrn6JPTQ&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GVNrn6JPTQ&feature=related</a> </span></span>the pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614620500066334739.post-78530388962766643292010-08-23T12:43:00.001+01:002010-08-23T13:02:21.307+01:00Films and filming, June, 1970, Costa-Gavras InterviewedAs noted in an earlier post about the film 'Z', this may or may not be (some like Courson herself stated it was <i>Pursued</i> with Robert Mitchum) the last film Jim Morrison (and possibly Courson) saw before his death in July, 1971. It would seem that it may have been a film Morrison would be interested in, since a subject matter concerning political assassination sat well with Morrison's take on contemporary society, when it came to writing his poetry/song lyrics (especially when comments on the topic of assassination by Morrison have oft been quoted, and also where Morrison in either/or or both of The Lords/The New Creatures poetry collections deals specifically but minimally with the subject of political assassinations...). Remember that Morrison during his late teens/early twenties lived through a period of intense political, social, religious and economic upheaval in the USA. Assassination, arrest, and an apocalyptic mood was the main order of the day.<br />
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According to this Bowie biography from 1988, Bowie had compared the lighting and Brechtian atmosphere of the <i>Station to Station</i> tour set of 1976 to the staging of a Doors concert:<br />
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The set was very simply lit with pure white light designed by our tour manager Eric Barrett. 'It's more theatrical than 'Diamond Dogs' ever was. It's by suggestion rather than over-propping. It relies on 20th century theatre concepts of lighting and I think it comes over as being very theatrical. Whether the audiences are aware of it I don't know.'<br />
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'I wanted to use a new kind of staging and I think this staging will become one of the most important ever. It will affect every kind of rock and roll act from now on because it's the most stabilised move that I've seen in rock and roll. <i>I've reverted to pure Brechtian theatre and I've never seen Brechtian theatre used like this since Morrison and The Doors and even then Morrison never used white light like I do</i>. [my emphasis]'the pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614620500066334739.post-79507639726147728052010-08-12T13:07:00.002+01:002010-08-12T13:13:43.358+01:00WHAT AN UGLY, BEAUTIFUL WORLD Edited by Harold Myra<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqUKD26oAFm8cJvindTjLCDXwDtTmZtcILxEkA6RpWrXRGb8HGEMwavpHQagn6Te8gcw3lj_BrLzlccbIOPngrnIt8Ny4t-ugtSpjScTC0VS2xLfPo8qiu5pFllkLTANoXAYfOAtpxtrjm/s1600/uglybeautifulworld.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqUKD26oAFm8cJvindTjLCDXwDtTmZtcILxEkA6RpWrXRGb8HGEMwavpHQagn6Te8gcw3lj_BrLzlccbIOPngrnIt8Ny4t-ugtSpjScTC0VS2xLfPo8qiu5pFllkLTANoXAYfOAtpxtrjm/s320/uglybeautifulworld.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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Young American Christians from 1972 espouse their (religiously inclined) positions on everything from "The Black Crisis" to drugs and war. I was specifically interested on the opinions concerning music of the period. Here are some priceless comments on Jim Morrison/The Doors:<br />
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<i>Dean</i>: Do you feel that the singer's personal philosophy shows up in the songs he writes?<br />
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<i>Everyone</i>: Oh yes, definitely.<br />
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<i>John C</i>.: Jim Morrison of The Doors epitomized this. "The only thing worth doing is having physical sex." But even that didn't solve anything. It just passed the time.<br />
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<i>Harold</i>: In a <i>Life</i> magazine article several years ago, a reporter followed Jim Morrison for a while, and his story constantly used words like "satanic" and "evil" to describe him. The writer said some audiences responded to this thing and some didn't. The Doors represented a total abandonment to "evil". Perhaps we can't accurately judge what is satanic and what isn't, but I'm sure that many adults would say that all rock music is demon-controlled. What is your reaction?the pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614620500066334739.post-33913683363818819062010-08-10T10:19:00.001+01:002010-08-15T08:12:27.294+01:00Vassilis Vassilikos - Z<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXtMn8MwHCBxuQWfriAy4ZgiNtJkFlKgLaAolF7VecY4q-D6k3mBOpthxJE7sF59KozdxUAO5BvlGD1dawdoK0NZ6uBcBcgakroqDgUi8Mqa4RPJ9bNvxf3Sq_zVcJY0WyELHK_P0AZ-hK/s1600/Z_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXtMn8MwHCBxuQWfriAy4ZgiNtJkFlKgLaAolF7VecY4q-D6k3mBOpthxJE7sF59KozdxUAO5BvlGD1dawdoK0NZ6uBcBcgakroqDgUi8Mqa4RPJ9bNvxf3Sq_zVcJY0WyELHK_P0AZ-hK/s320/Z_1.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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Morrison apparently saw the film version of the novel 'Z' (1969) - essentially about a political assassination - during his last few days in Paris... As memory serves me, Courson stated that herself and Morrison had seen <i>Pursued</i> starring Robert Mitchum the day before he died... 'Z' is a interesting reference as its screenwriter, Jorge Semprun, had previously written the screenplay for the Alain Resnais (a close friend of Morrison's in Paris, and one of the last people to see him alive) film <i>The War is Over </i>(1966). One can only assume that Resnais had recommended 'Z' to Morrison (as another friend in Paris - Alan Ronay - had apparently recommended <i>Pursued</i>). Officially released in 1968, a song with the same title <i>The War Is Over</i>, originally sung by Phil Ochs at an anti-Vietnam war rally in L.A. in 1967 inspired by a declaration by Allen Ginsberg in 1966 that the Vietnam war was over, brings to mind the mantra (of sorts) of The Doors track <i>The Unknown Soldier</i> (Morrison having at least met Ginsberg (Probably through Beat poet Michael McClure)): And, it's all over... The war is over...<br />
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[... when asked, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison" title="Jim Morrison">Jim Morrison</a> said the lyrics were not political.]<br />
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This would seem quite likely, at least for part of the song ("Your ballroom days are over baby/Night is drawing near/Shadows of the evening/crawl across the years"), which is patently lifted from the c19th hymn/al and bedtime rhyme <i>Now the Day is Over</i> ("Now the day is over,/Night is drawing nigh,/Shadows of the evening/Steal across the sky") for whatever reason of Morrison's. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_to_one#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup><br />
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Similarly, Morrison quoted the <i>Christian Child's Prayer</i> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_to_one#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup> in a live version of <i>Soul Kitchen</i> sung in 1969 <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_to_one#cite_note-2">[3]</a></sup> and also altered the children's rhyme "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over The candlestick" <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_to_one#cite_note-3">[4]</a></sup> to suit part of his poem <i>An American Prayer</i> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_to_one#cite_note-4">[5]</a></sup> ("Words dissemble/Words be quick/Words resemble walking sticks"). <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_to_one#cite_note-5">[6]</a></sup> Lastly, Morrison was quite possibly referring to a Dylan Thomas story entitled <i>The Fight</i> in Thomas' <i>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog</i> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_to_one#cite_note-6">[7]</a></sup>, where the central character reads from a poem called <i>Warp</i> ( " [...] Five into one, the one made of five into one, early/Suns distorted too late."). In this instance, the "five" are described by Thomas as "tears", "suns", and "inscrutable spears in the head".<br />
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Also of note, is the inclusion of the Gospel-influenced song <i>People Get Ready</i> (originally sung by The Temptations in 1965 and written by Curtis - Lee - Mayfield) in The Doors live sets at the Aquarius Theatre in 1969:<br />
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People get ready<br />
There's a train a-coming <br />
You don't need no baggage <br />
You just get on board <br />
All you need is faith <br />
To hear diesels humming <br />
You don't need no ticket <br />
You just thank the Lord <br />
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Although the film <i>They Shoot Horses, Don't They? </i>(1969) was not released until at least a year after <i>Five To One</i>, the line "Your ballroom days are over, baby" could also refer to the depression-era novel of the same name by Horace McCoy from the 1930s, which is essentially about the assisted suicide of a female dance marathon contestant named Gloria, by her male dance partner, both of whom are taking part in a competition in La Monica Ballroom (a real ballroom) right next to the Pacific Ocean on the Santa Monica Pier, near L.A. (The Doors office was of course situated on Santa Monica Boulevard) The novel was a favourite amongst French existentialists in post WWII France. The soundtrack of the movie featured <i>Brother, Can you spare a dime?</i> a typical song of the actual period, recalling another line from <i>Five To One</i>: "Trade in your hours for a handful of dimes".<br />
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"Jim Morrison. At first Jim Morrison seemed no more than a marvellous boy in black leathers, made up by two queers on the phone. Later on, however, he emerged as something altogether more solemn. Not just a truck-stop rocker, nor even a golden stud, but a poet and a thinker, stuff full of profundities. Forthwith he embarked, like a Rock 'n' Roll Bix Beiderbecke, full speed ahead on the American route to romantic martyrdom." - <b>Nik Cohn</b><br />
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Bowie Connection #1: Guy Peellaert, who did the artwork for <i>Rock Dreams</i>, also did the <i>Diamond Dogs</i> album artwork for Bowie... In fact, Peelleart uses a motif similar to the above painting for the back cover.</div>
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</a>the pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614620500066334739.post-43190153481413877232010-08-05T11:55:00.000+01:002010-08-05T11:55:30.616+01:00Richard Farina - Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQ0UnwJ1UOhbvLRn14smgihVspKi2uATW9XNL15tIVeethJwwgMoJ6il2DNqvpbQMLqYw5JiSj0rYCbMsR8kS4Bw1B7tVJJ0E4STfj2DAMQCJxnfyGdHc_ewDhJAcwQ2GfiGJbw1pLER5/s1600/beendown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQ0UnwJ1UOhbvLRn14smgihVspKi2uATW9XNL15tIVeethJwwgMoJ6il2DNqvpbQMLqYw5JiSj0rYCbMsR8kS4Bw1B7tVJJ0E4STfj2DAMQCJxnfyGdHc_ewDhJAcwQ2GfiGJbw1pLER5/s320/beendown.jpg" /></a></div>Novel that became the inspiration for the title and some lyrics of the track "<i>Been Down So Long</i>" from <i>the album L.A. Woman</i>.the pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614620500066334739.post-11209400659271735972010-08-05T11:33:00.001+01:002010-08-10T10:30:03.663+01:00J.G. Frazer - The Golden Bough<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLN0Y6mbLPrwkqKPXTuLhNlkmDmD0eGzqZR9AdSowfHoGiXKfBbUOY_BEzpPC2xvqc044QLm5T9nn1Pvl3ZMXeeOzfGynzwUw7mL9mJZ_71nNQIeNvwt-45czssGpBIUXQNUyfXDJN_dl/s1600/golden_bough.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLN0Y6mbLPrwkqKPXTuLhNlkmDmD0eGzqZR9AdSowfHoGiXKfBbUOY_BEzpPC2xvqc044QLm5T9nn1Pvl3ZMXeeOzfGynzwUw7mL9mJZ_71nNQIeNvwt-45czssGpBIUXQNUyfXDJN_dl/s320/golden_bough.jpg" /></a></div>From the contents of which Morrison lifted the lines "Not to touch the earth, not to see the sun" for <i>The Celebration of The Lizard</i>... essentially an early c20th armchair interpretation of actual anthropological studies of 'primitive' cultures... much of which is to be taken with a pinch of salt. Published originally in many large volumes, this is a copy of the single abridged edition.the pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614620500066334739.post-22617396114238377302010-08-05T11:08:00.003+01:002010-08-10T10:27:16.664+01:00Irving Stone - Sailor On Horseback<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOeWQkmFuq7r8dNv54grPw73W_VxNtF7QP5OegkibnU-iiSQbN4iZ52sVVXSC4jeOS093xF-wH1OVCWvHuHm7_z9tzcaIG9WezsnQoz6qb0BraniTUdu9v4l24mHjvSTSW0CtYCK2wFs_E/s1600/sailor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOeWQkmFuq7r8dNv54grPw73W_VxNtF7QP5OegkibnU-iiSQbN4iZ52sVVXSC4jeOS093xF-wH1OVCWvHuHm7_z9tzcaIG9WezsnQoz6qb0BraniTUdu9v4l24mHjvSTSW0CtYCK2wFs_E/s320/sailor.jpg" /></a></div>A copy of which Morrison is apparently holding in a photo from the book <i>Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison</i>, suggesting that Morrison had an interest in Jack London's writings...<br />
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"Behold, I teach you the overman. The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman <i>shall be</i> the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, <i>remain faithful to the earth</i>, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go.<br />
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from <i>Thus Spake Zarathustra: First Part</i><br />
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What have they done to our fair sister?<br />
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her<br />
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn<br />
And tied her with fences and dragged her down.</span></span><br />
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, the murderers of all murderers, comfort ourselves? What was holiest and most powerful of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? <i>What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?</i> [my emphasis] Is not the greatness of this deed too much for us?<br />
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For, believe me, the secret of the great fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to<i> live dangerously</i>!<br />
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from <i>The Gay Science</i>the pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614620500066334739.post-68363504267831400422010-08-05T10:08:00.001+01:002010-08-09T16:28:26.395+01:00Nietzsche - Shedding one's skin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw6-R8fgtZcXQxCjQynKbqy2OQBPibbDhTAS5SnIt67FQfAfqVAZl3XjE-cPzAQTAUIrUh1PMk6LisH_gsHAE2Ae8V_g516v-R-9jUlrlML3zhp5O7NVvBrHiDQbgLL3QikPuWDy-AL0f6/s1600/Nietzsche.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw6-R8fgtZcXQxCjQynKbqy2OQBPibbDhTAS5SnIt67FQfAfqVAZl3XjE-cPzAQTAUIrUh1PMk6LisH_gsHAE2Ae8V_g516v-R-9jUlrlML3zhp5O7NVvBrHiDQbgLL3QikPuWDy-AL0f6/s320/Nietzsche.jpg" /></a></div><i><br />
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<i>Shedding one's skin</i>. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit.<br />
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from <i>The Dawn</i>the pearl fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957793374361268771noreply@blogger.com0