Kakki wrote: > Growing up here in Morrison land, he was defintely considered a brilliant > poet. I have friends of middle age (cough) who still have framed posters of > him up on their walls. But I've noticed in recent years that a lot of > people in the larger world seem to have a somewhat snobbish disdain for him, > to the point of brushing him and the Doors off as being trite and > "manufactured." It baffles me, but then maybe thinking he was an original > and somewhat groundbreaking poet was just "provincial" taste. I think the > music was also groundbreaking but that is disputed in some circles, too. > Funny how we never hear of a Joni connection with Jim. He lived right there > in Laurel Canyon by the General Store for awhile. Maybe he was too intense > for the more mellow acoustic crowd. Yet Crosby did write that beautiful ode > to him on the first CPR album.
I'm finally catching up on my mail...... I remember that house, from my visit to Kakki in 2001, when we did the "tour"! I think The Doors were anything but "manufactured" - I was listening to all their albums almost exclusively in the late 80's, and there are definitely some moments of pure brilliance. And there was certainly a lot of talent in the group, other than Morrison's song-writing. Ray Manzarek (sp?) was a superb keyboardist, and Robbie Kreiger was no slouch on guitar, either. It also surprises me that Jim and Joni's paths never crossed. Crosby certainly had a few encounters with him - and witnessed the infamous scene when Janis whacked Morrison with a bourbon bottle for saying something derogatory about her! Hell ___________________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman Hell's Home Page - NEW & IMPROVED! http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/index.html
