Caption under Picture 1, Page 1 – “We went off the stage, and, 10 minutes later, they started breaking chairs and going crazy. So we got in a whole bunch of trouble – and got a terrible review. “ A little history never hurts. Just a short time ago, the Doors came to Minneapolis for …
Published in Poppin Magazine By EDD JEFFORDS Something has happened to the Doors. Ray Manzarek knows it, several thousand people who attended the Seattle Pop Festival know, and probably so does Jim Morrison. Once one of the vital influences in rock, the Doors apparently have been captured entirely by the ego-tripping of Morrison. Instead of …
THE SOFT PARADE- The Doors- Elektra EKS 75005 This, the Doors long-awaited fourth LP is a furiously exciting and intense program of rock poetry. At the top of his form is vocalist-writer Jim Morrison whose work here is his finest to date, and the work of the group as a whole is sheer brilliance. With …
Published in ROLLING STONE By JERRY HOPKINS NEW YORK—Jim Morrison, looking like Che Guevara with heavy beard and long cigar, was in town with the Doors last week taping a Critique show for the National Educational Television network. The Gig (an Elektra Records brainchild) consisted of a ten-minute interview with rock writer Richard Goldstein and …
Editor’s Note: CIRCUS knows that long interviews broken up into many parts can be a drag, but we cant think of any other way to present Tony Glover’s two-hour rap with Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John Densmore, and their road manager, Bill Siddons. Space just wont permit us to run it all at …
***Not a full article BALTIMORE—Among the more disgusting sights on the contemporary social scene is a Decency Rally run wild. That is exactly what happened in Baltimore late in April after a Sunday afternoon crowd of 40,000 jammed into Memorial Stadium on behalf of decency and righteousness. It was the worst violence in Baltimore since …
Observations, comments, and pithy remarks excepted from Jim’s book The Lords, printed this spring- about 200 copies for his friends, he says, There will also be a simultaneous private printing of Morrison poems; the fourth Doors album; a screenplay he’s writing in collaboration with poet Michael McClure; a movie he wants to make based on …
Jim Morrison of the Doors is quiet and unassuming almost to the point of shyness, treating all questioners with equal sincerity and thinking carefully about each question before answering it to what is obviously the best of his ability. Even after months of clamouring journalists – all asking basically the same questions – he is …
Published in the LA Times Jim Morrison, 25, lead singer of the rock group “The Doors” was free on $5,000 bond Friday after surrendering to the FBI here on a Miami lewd and lascivious conduct charge. The FBI said Morrison gave up to a U.S. commissioner Thursday and was released on bond. The charge stems …
Published in the Miami News By IAN GLASS Rock singer Jim Morrison surrendered to the FBI in Los Angles last night on a charge arising out of a controversial appearance he made at Miami’s Dinner Key Auditorium a month ago. A fugitive warrant had been issued on the 25-year-old Morrison, charging him with flight to …