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07 januari 2024

Illusions perdues....

"je pense à ceux qui doivent en eux trouver quelque chose après le désenchantement"

08 december 2023

The recording of LA Woman in December 1970 at The Doors Office on Santa Monica Blvd. The boys seem to attend a funeral rather than being in the process of creating some of their best songs. Photo: Wendel Hamick

After reading the biographies of the three surviving Doors in a short time, I have to wonder if they forgot to have fun while the train rushed away ? One can discern a certain playfulness and pleasure around 1965 when Manzarek and Morrison lived together on Frazer Av. (Venice). After that, there is most hard work (and trouble) during the incomparable creative process that they went through the next few years. But joy .... is just not there (or so they forgot to write about it ?). Densmore`s book is like a letter of reconciliation; "and a little sad that I did not really understand what was going on ... then". What you get from all three books (and they actually complement each other), is a very good picture of who Morrison was; an enormously talented and tormented young man, whose legacy is still as relevant today ....

Jim....he would have been 80 today.

04 februari 2022

Set the night on fire....

If you ever wondered about the true essence of Jim Morrison....this is about the closest you will ever get. Memories are retold with simplicity and honesty about James Douglas; the rebel without the bullshit. So many Doors we never got to see....