The Doors

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.- Jim Morrison

   Today's entry is about The Doors, why they have always been one of my favorite bands, why their work is important, and what I've gotten out of it - enjoy.

   I always liked the fact that in 1967 at the height of the hippie, flower power, peace and love scene, The Doors emerged as something quite different. The had top ten singles yet they wrote about death and Oedipus Rex. They had a teen sex idol for a lead singer, a drunk with a habit for getting arrested and starting near riots at concerts, yet he was a college graduate, intelligent, well-read and an author of several books of poetry. It was pop music, rock and roll, blues, performance art, and theater all rolled into one unique combination. 

  I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.- Jim Morrison

   What made The Doors musically unique were the varied backgrounds and musical styles and influences of its members. Its not very often these days that a classical keyboardist, a jazz drummer, and a blues guitarist combine to form a band. 
 
   The reason rock bands suck these days is that modern rock musicians don't have the wide array of influences that rock musicians in the 1960's had. The original Rock and Rollers didn't grow up with rock music. Before rock, it was classical, jazz, blues and country. These different influences produced highly original rock music. 

BUT HOW UNIQUE AND CREATIVE CAN YOU REALLY BE IN 2012 WHEN YOU'RE INFLUENCES THAT YOU GREW UP WITH CONSIST OF NICKELBACK AND CREED?!

  So here's what you young douchebags need to do

1. Don't be afraid to play with musicians of all styles of music. 

2. FYI: Dave Grohl was in another band before Foo Fighters, look into it. 

3. Listen to Blues. And by blues I don't mean Blues Traveller or your sisters John Mayer CD. I'm talking 1930's Delta Blues. Robert Johnson, Son House. 

4. Read Jim Morrison's biography, "No One Here Gets Out Alive." Actually, read it once a year. 

5. Just because Jim Morrison put on leather pants drank a gallon of booze and became a world famous rock star, doesn't mean you will too if you do the same thing. 

Jim Morrison Predicts the Future of Rock Music

"When You're Strange," A Documentary on the Doors.

 

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Kurt Cobain

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.- Kurt Cobain

 

   Recently, I finally got around to reading, Heavier then Heaven, what is considered by many the definitive biography on Kurt Cobain. Today I want to talk about all those suspicions and murder theories surrounding Kurt Cobain's death, back in 1994. 

  First of all, do you wanna know what I think about the idea of Kurt Cobain actually being MURDERED?

  Numerous theories about Cobain being killed by someone hired by Courtney Love or others, have been circulating around ever since his death. People cite the fact that he supposedly was attempting to have his will changed to remove Courtney Love, or they point to his decision to pull out of that Summer's Lolapalooza Tour - which would've cost many people many millions of dollars, as motivating factors. 

   There are a ton of books, and websites that go into all the detail, feel free to check them out. 

  I will admit though that the one thing that ever raised an eyebrow for me was the fact that granted the amount of heroin that he had in his system when he died - most people claim as proof that there was no way he could've held and fired a gun after injecting himself. But over the years for every doctor who says there was no way he could inject that much heroin and still fire that gun, there are just as many doctors who say that is conceivable that someone with a large enough tolerance level COULD still hold and fire the gun. 

 I want to just shed some common sense on this whole issue and put it to rest once and for all. Kurt Cobain, was a junkie with a death wish.

1. Heavier than Heaven chronicles numerous times that Kurt Cobain OD'd. Many times his heart stopping only to be revived back to life. Courtney Love has said he overdosed five times, and that she had to carry a can of narcan (used to revive heroin overdose victims.) around in her purse.

2. He used heroin to medicate a serious stomach ailment that plagued him for years. He consulted numerous doctors but it was never officially diagnosed. He had tried every medication and ultimately found that heroin was the only thing that would alleviate the constant pain. 

This is the only thing that's saving me from blowing my head off right now - Kurt Cobain.

3. Kurt Cobain overdosed in Rome in March 1994, one month before he died. In an alleged suicide attempt, he was in a coma for 20 hours after taking alcohol and prescription tranquilizers

4. 2 of Cobain's uncle's committed suicide. 
 

5. Cobain's cousin Beverly, a nurse, pointed out that there was a family history of suicide. Beverly claimed that bipolar disorder and his struggles with drug addiction led him to commit suicide

  

being bipolar myself I have struggled with suicidal thoughts since I was a teenager. I tried to kill myself 3 times after the end of my first marriage, and I spent some time in a mental hospital this past May during a horrible bout of depression where I nearly succeeded in carrying out another attempt.   

6. He wrote a song called, "I Hate Myself and Wanna Die" 

 Seriously, what makes more sense? 

And as far as the whole 'Courtney Love hired someone to kill Kurt Cobain' story...This is the guy that who claimed that she offered him money to kill him...TAKE A GOOD LOOK

  This is Eldon 'El Duce' Hoke.  Now when you think 'HIRED HITMAN' is this the first image that comes to your mind?

  I wouldn't pay this guy to exterminate the ant hill in my backyard much less someone I wanted dead. 

  By the way this guy was such a genius, he died after getting drunk and being hit by a god damn train. 

Ok no more stupid conspiracy theories. Case Closed 

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