I experimented with cocaine during the 70s and 80s. Ugh … drug. I hate that word. I was shocked when heroin became popular. Even Jim knew heroin was a serious drug. Heroin tried to make you forget everything. It scared me. So I stayed away. Compared with his bandmates, Densmore was a square. At times, he was envious of the attention Morrison got — particularly from women.
His brother had several stints in a psychiatric hospital. He describes going to visit him, finding him heavily sedated, and wondering how sleeping for 17 hours a day could possibly help his schizophrenia — a point that will be familiar even now to anyone who has had to endure acute mental illness. His brother killed himself in He was also called Jim; he also died at the age of And I apologised.
Drummer John Densmore published his memoir in and other books since , keyboardist Ray Manzarek followed in It was the bad feelings those last two books stirred between the three surviving Doors that convinced Krieger to put his book on the back burner at the time, he says. Coauthor Jeff Alulis excavated the past for Krieger, digging up names and dates and places to trigger deeper memories. So we knew we had no chance to get in there.
But buzz about the band soon grew, and more and more people dropped by the London Fog to check out this band with the mesmerizing frontman and a unique psychedelic-meets-blues-rock sound. We made it. It sounds weird. I think that's the one thing they got right in the Oliver Stone movie when he died in the tub and had this big smile on his face.
I could just picture him doing that. The spreading of the Doors myths was even further propagated and embellished by Manzaerk himself. Krieger is still active as a solo artist and has recently recorded his latest album Rock Vs. Meanwhile, the Doors' music and brand continue to live on through Rhino's 50th-anniversary reissues of the band's classic albums with Morrison, including the special re-release of L.
Woman , out on December 3. Nobody's gonna care about the Doors anymore. Then I started seeing these Doors tribute bands popping up. So I realized it's really the songs. A lot of bands back then might have one or two good songs on an album and then the rest would be kind of filler. But we never did that. We always had to be proud of every song that was on our albums, and I think that really comes through in the long run.
To me, that will be the reason why people years from now will still dig the Doors. This is a BETA experience. You may opt-out by clicking here. More From Forbes. Nov 13, , pm EST. Nov 13, , am EST. Nov 12, , pm EST. But there were only four people at the funeral. After explaining that Morrison faked his death so he could evade the outstanding federal arrest warrants over the Miami incident, and so he could avoid the hangers-on who would frequently ply him with drugs and alcohol as if there weren't any people like that in Paris , Pitts told James that he believes Morrison's fellow "27 Club" members Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix were murdered in such a way that their deaths looked like accidental overdoses.
James wisely shot those theories down and redirected the conversation to Pitts' insistence that Morrison was, at that time, still alive. In his interview with Classic Bands , Gerald Pitts told the site that Jim Morrison was married to a woman named Marsha and that before buying his Oregon ranch, he was employed as a construction worker; as he explained, he took such a degree turn from rock stardom simply because he wanted to disappear.
He did not, however, mention the name Morrison had purportedly started using as part of his new identity — William James "Bill" Loyer. According to Willamette Week , a YouTube user uploaded a poorly-edited video in that showed Morrison's face superimposed over that of Loyer.
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