Lizard King, Jim Morrison, Continues to Spread His Music Throughout the Old and Young Generations
- by Rebecca Aquila
James Douglas Morrison, a cocky and very expressive human being that continues to make every generation swoon with his deep lyrics and euphonious sound. His death was sadly cut short at the prime of his music in 1971, but his legacy continues to live on inspiring man artists to express themselves in any way they feel is right.
Born in Melbourne, Flordia, Jim was born into a traditional American family. His mother, a homemaker, and his father a naval aviator who was ranked up to rear admiral. Jim’s father, George, was skilled in piano and always had a crowd around their piano once he started to tune away. This must of been the start of Jim's interest in writing and music at the start of his adolescent years.
If you’re a fan then you probably heard one of his famous quotes in The Doors 1970 release, "Peace Frog," in which Jim sings: “Indians scattered on dawns’ highway bleeding/Ghosts crowds the young child’s fragile eggshell mind”. This actually did in fact happened when Jim was a young boy. Traveling by car through the New Mexico desert, the Morrisons had witnessed a gruesome pick-up truck crash that flung dismembered Native American bodies across the highway. Although he dramatizes the event very much throughout his career, he still remembers that disturbing incident.
