Michael C Ford, Lisa Thayer and Stephen Kalinich ©Jill Jarrett

Stephen John Kalinich introduces his friend the poet Michael C Ford

Is a great living poet we have done many shows together like “Waiting For Jack” with John Densmore. Michael and John were two of the producers and kindly asked me to play poet Jack Micheline and John played Gary Synder.

Michael went to Film school with these guys and knew them much better that I did.

He has many books an albums out and has recorded with John Densmore and Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger. He is a great guy and his voice is incredible and he coud read the phone book and bring you to tears or indignation.

I love this guy, Michael and I are doing an abum together with Bil Duke and Lisa Thayer called Quartets.

Here is Michael on Jim Morrison.

Michael C. Ford Reflections On Jim Morrison

Michael C Ford

I remember being in an Elektra recording booth with Jim, during one of The Soft Parade sessions. I was eyeballing this enlarged studio space with streamlined state-of-the -art-sound equipment which looked (in retrospect) like something out of Star Wars.

Mentioning this aggrandized version of what I’d only remembered from The Doors genesis recordings, Morrison replied : “Yeah. 12 acid trips built this room.”

Well sure, it’s easy to imagine that LSD ingestion might have fueled his lyric writing, but it is also very important to realize it might have also amplified a literary sensibility he’d been courting in previous years of self education; while most clueless rockers who dropped equivalent amounts of acid weren’t capable of writing anyting but contrived gibberish.

Ray Manzarek’s The Poet in Exile: A Journey Into the Mystic book, in a way poses the question to JDM’s psyche (not necessary the playing out of prophesy, but, maybe more making physio-biochemical “observations”).

People rememember many different Morrison’s . Just before I left for Idaho and Jim was about to escape to France I told him about this projected chap book anthology I was editing. It was designed to honor one of my teacher: Kenneth Patchen for whom Morrison had always expressed a great fondness and whose life was lost only six months after Jim took his fall.

Anyway, the edition was, also designed to continue sending $$$ into the then extant Patchen Surgery Fund.

Now feeling the neccessity to push the rather slender volume into print, Morrison asked “How much do you need to market the anthology?” That’s the Jim I remember and that aspect of his nature, somehow, conspicuously, hasn’t always been considered by his “biographers” as being worthy of recognition.

Indeed, it also seemed like a form of censorship of that information, possibly because it didn’t really address JD Morrison’s more scandalous nature which would rake-in agreed-head load of book publishing profiteering.

© Michael C Ford

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