Jim Morrison's voice was a solid stone of honesty, like the rock of Gibraltar, in a time of overzealous peace and love. He was pure sexuality and unashamed of his unabashed masculinity. For over forty years the band have been studied and written about. Their mark in history is written in steel and stone. It is difficult to find the same telepathic nuance in a collective consciousness that they held as a band.
Morrison's poetry discovered a home with founding member Ray Manzarek's psychedelic keyboard sound. Ray's brother and another founding member quit soon after they began to rehearse, so Morrison and Ray recruited drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger to complete the line up. It was difficult for the doors to get recognized for their brilliance during an era of Beach Boys fans in LA. Little did they know just a year later the first Doors vinyl album would be available. The Doors' vinyl record "The Doors" included the hits "Light My Fire" and "Break On Through (To The Other Side)", in addition to their most notorious story "The End".
"The End" was always a crowd favorite due to the images that would spew forth from Jim's lips in a drug induced daze. You never knew what was to come at the actual end of his rant. This time, would he sing of gory sacrifices orwould it be a sex laden version? Or would he just string long inconsequential words into a chaos of nothing?
Even though Jim was the primary writer, few people know that it was Krieger that wrote the beginning of their biggest hit "Light My Fire". He had originally written an uplifting love ballad until Jim came in with "funeral pyre" leading once again to death. Jim has said that all life ends in death, and thus should poems. Not much of a disclosure when you ponder the William Blake quote that the group was named after: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is—infinite."
In 1971 the Lizard King sadly died of a drug and alcohol overdose in France. By 1973, the rest of the group eventually called it quits due to lack of sales. The world lost a great philosopher, and who knows what music would be like today if Jim would have continued.
The original Doors vinyl records are still in high demand and sell at high cost on the web. The Doors have sold more than 100 million vinyl records worldwide, and sales are still great. Bearing in mind they only made six albums with Jim, this is really impressive. Each year more Doors albums will be collected due to a new generation done with commercial empty music discovering the deep poetry of Morrison's lyrics and vocals.
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