Shelby68

I never really appreciated how gorgeous and special this gatefold cover is - Encuentro's avatar turned my attention to it:

http://tralfaz-archi...s_goldmine.html

Anybody here know anything about the artist, Bill Hoffman? The only other (possible, maybe) credits I found for him are on jazz albums by Howard McGhee and Julius Hemphill. You can see the similar "Weird Scenes" style on McGhee's Maggie: The Savoy Sessions album:  
http://www.allmusic....ns-mw0000176022

I can't find the thread on these forums now, but recently several folks were talking here about the late screenwriter/director Sam Fuller's autobiography, wherein he discussed his brief friendship with Jim. It was news to me (I never heard of the guy, but Martin Scorcese wrote the forward to the book and expressed his great admiration, so clearly I've been living under a rock).

Anyway! I checked the book out of the library and enjoyed Mr. Fuller's compassionate account of Jim.  The surprising part was that Sam Fuller says Jim gave him a manuscript of a novel he had written called Look Where We Worship.  Fuller doesn't describe the plot, just says it was "stormy, inspired writing." Fuller doesn't say if he returned the manuscript or kept it.  

Does any other source corroborate the existence of Jim's novel? Mr. Fuller is a bit hazy on the dates. He says Jim was 23 years old, but the events he describes put the time more around 1969 or '70.  "Look where we worship" is a line from The Lords and the New Creatures, an autographed volume of which Jim had presented to Fuller as a gift. Sam Fuller describes the manuscript of Jim's novel as a separate, different piece of writing.

This is from an older (2008) article in Details magazine, but I've just discovered it now. There is additional Doors-related content in that Mr. Reeves and the journalist visit a famous book store in L.A., Book Soup, where it turns out Fawn Hall Sugermen is working as a cashier. She and Keanu are friendly.

http://www.details.c...y?currentPage=5

Fawn part:
http://www.details.c...y?currentPage=3

Who knew that Judy Collins was an FOJ (Friend of Jim)?! I've read a lot of music/Sixties memoirs but never came across that info before. In Ms. Collins' 2007 autobiography (she's written several) Singing Lessons, "she recounts her early glory days in Greenwich Village, when the likes of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Jim Morrison were among her drinking buddies."

Too cool. I plan to check it out, though it doesn't sound like light reading, she covers a lot of emotionally heavy topics like her alcoholism and the suicide of her only child.

Jim Cherry's January 1st blog entry about Lewis B. Marvin III, S&H Greenstamps heir and vegetarian/peace activist, mentioned that The Doors played at Marvin's residence in Topanga Canyon known as Moonfire Ranch:   http://www.examiner....rs-on-january-1

Stephen Davis' book also says that the Doors played several gigs at Moonfire throughout the spring of 1967. Fugs lead singer Ed Sanders' book on the Manson family elaborates on the distinctive home in a chapter called "A Visit to Moonfire Ranch," saying it was originally constructed for (and featured in) the 1966 Paul Newman film Harper. Sanders describes the remote house high on a hill overlooking the Pacific as "looking like a long, low circular science fiction pod." Sanders visited in 1970.

Do any of our Southern California forum members know if this house still exists?

I'm also kind of intrigued to know if maybe Lewis Marvin (who was a friend of Andy Warhol) was the one who introduced Jim and Pam to the Warhol group.