THEY STARTED THE SUMMER OF LOVE A POP PHENOMENON AND ENDED IT IN WHIRLWIND OF BOOZE, LSD AND OUT-OF-CONTROL HEDONISM. YET IN BETWEEN, THE DOORS STILL MANAGED TO MAKE THEIR UNSUNG MASTERPIECE
When James Douglas Morrison had a “break on through to the other side” and became Jim Morrison the frontman of The Doors it didn’t take long to became one of the most glorified and mystified singers of all time.
Rock 'n' roll icons never seem to be allowed to simply pass away quietly into the night.
There’s often some sort of conspiracy surrounding the death, especially if it was under strange circumstances. When Doors singer Jim Morrison died in July 1971, in Paris at the age of 27, all the requisite boxes were ticked for an old-fashioned mystery.
LOS ANGELES — As the Doors song goes, this is the end.
Fans of the band who have marked up a scenic cave on the California coast with psychedelic graffiti will have to find another place to spray out their love for frontman Jim Morrison. The cave has closed indefinitely for cleanup.
That bass drop on "Light My Fire" tho.
This explains so much: Why he frequently performed with a mouse helmet over his head. All those tweets linking to surprise Soundcloud mixtapes. Why his music so often relied on four-to-the-floor beats, tape stops, collaborations with Fetty Wap/Sia, and those sick, patient bass drops. Jim Morrison, frontman of The Doors, invented EDM music. Rolling Stone dug up this old interview with Morrison from 1969, where he talks about the future of music:
