Make Jim’s childhood Florida home a shrine, Kreiger said – so what happened?
Jim was just an incredibly talented, Baudelaire-ian, alcoholic, gorgeous naughty boy – says The Society
Jim Morrison’s childhood home in Melbourne Florida went up for sale for $2.4 million.
And his ancient bandmate Robby Krieger said at the time, it should become a shrine to Jim.
“Why not make it like a little Doors museum-type thing?” he said. “You’ve got to keep The Doors name going, you know.”
So, did the old house finally sell? We can’t find anthing confirming it.
Anyway, here at The Society we will keep the names of Jim and the rest of the Doors up there with the greatest like Dylan, Elvis, Sinatra, Hendrix and Cohen.
This appreciation is a homage to one of the world’s greatest talents … three vids inside, including a rare version of Hyacinth House
Jim Morrison joined the 27 Club amid mystery, controversy and trauma in a baroque apartment at 17 Rue Beautreillis, Paris, on July 3rd 1971.
It was his birthday today. He would have been almost 80 years old.
Sadly, when he died he was a fat bearded shadow of his former self, given to crippling bouts of hiccoughs and vomiting.
People of influence, including a drug-dealer Count Jean de Breutil fled Paris.
The heat in Paris when he died was intense and possibly the man who embodied the insane shaman-like beauty of rock’n’roll lay in his and Pamela’s bed packed in ice.
Then a death certificate was issued and it is said that nobody from the rest of the Doors, Pamela or his management ever saw it.
Today, Jim still occupies a small, almost hidden corner of a Pere-Lachaise cemetery.
He is a dark fable in the City of Light.
And long may he reign.
Now what is left of The Doors have released a 50th-anniversary deluxe reissue of their sixth and final album with Jim, L.A. Woman.
The three-CD, one-LP set includes the original L.A. Woman remastered by the Doors’ former engineer Bruce Botnick, two bonus discs containing more than two hours of unreleased session outtakes and a stereo mix of the album vinyl.
I saw him once at the Isle of Wight. He had the stillness and intensity of a god. He was real McCoy even in his twenties. As he died the dream of the 1960s fell beside him too.
But let’s all remember Jim Morrison for what he was, an incredibly talented, Baudelaire-ian, alcoholic, gorgeous naughty boy who lives in our hearts, iPods, radios and minds still today.
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5 Replies to “Make Jim’s childhood Florida home a shrine, Kreiger said – so what happened?”
I remember visiting the Pere Lachaise cemetery many years ago and noting the amazingly atmospheric headstones of people like Victor Hugo. I was being taken to visit the grave of Jim and seemed to wander for ages around the great monoliths. Then I heard laughter coming out of the oppressive gloom. A dozen young fans were around a fairly average grave (compared with the grandeur of the cemetery). They looked as if they were there to stay, showing their respect, no, even their love. This was some years after his death. It has become one of my lasting memories. I was an unlikely, middle aged woman who was not even a fan of popular music, being moved by the effect Jim Morrison had had on so many people.
JP Brady
Leigh G Banks what a beautiful tribute to a beautiful guy, it’s so sad to have died the way he did,I like to remember him happy and loving what he was doing,my big brother was a a fan of the doors but especially Jim, just like I listened to Bob from the age of 6 because my brother always played their records, thanks to you Leigh and to my big brother love jean 😃 xx
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SC Bryson
Thank you for writing/sharing this marvellous tribute to an incredible human being.
I learned recently that he loved being labeled a POET…
Eric Lastick
When Mister Morrison sung Rider’s on the storm, he touched an accord with something on a metaphysical level, unlike any other period, in his career or any other performance that I can recall. It was as if a devine powerful presence—-drew out—– in his tone and structure of that song! Sinatra came close with New York, New York, In it’s hayday..yet too self serving. Some say that Beach boys founder, Brian Wilson’s “God only knows!” Lept up to leveled highs on the falsetto, sung by his brother Carl.. as the actual notes reached higher and higher chord structures; as if a trip to heaven, itself! -And Climbing the stairways. Still, something so special and powerful about Rider’s. I have never been more moved by its depths of smooth atmospheric gateways— here and forward. A mammoth acheavement in singing. Expressing..in any genre. No one had come close. I believe no one ever will!
Eric Lastick Passionate words mate … RotS is a cinematic reflection of The US road, based in history and literature, real events and even modern folklore … it came out just about a year after Easy Rider and the Manson Murders … America was on a dark road, so Jim recreated it in poetry … he did the same with LA Woman, drugs, sex, lights and loss… a complete genius destroyed by his own beauty…