40 years ago today, Jim Morrison died. RIP The Lizard King

• Mr Miyagi

  

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQbt4m-MMgA
• Mr Miyagi

  

  Mr Mojo Risin lives !!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!
• Ty Webb

  

  They were pretty ok......
  
  But not nearly as good as some people would say they are
• dwccrew

  

  I've always enjoyed The Doors and Jim Morrison. I like many other groups more, but they are definitely one of the greats.
• tcarrier32

  

  Ty Webb;821256 wrote:They were pretty ok......
  
  But not nearly as good as some people would say they are

  
  literally one million times better than anything that child molesting son of a bitch named Quincy Jones, I mean Michael Jackson, ever put out.
• cbus4life

  I used to like the Doors, and then i went to college and noticed that every fucking dude in my dorm had a Jim Morrison poster on his wall, which made me start hating them, for some reason. I still get angry every time i see that damn Morrison poster. Same with the Belushi "college" poster.
  
  I have issues, clearly.
• said_aouita

  

  Eh, they are better then the Eagles. Doors have a few good songs.
  
  Nirvana is better.
  
  
  
  Yea, I said it.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  said_aouita;821295 wrote:Eh, they are better then the Eagles. Doors have a few good songs.
  
  Nirvana is better.
  
  
  
  Yea, I said it.

  
  nirvana sucks balls
• Mohican00

  

  Timber;820892 wrote:I did not realize he was a musician? I thought he was a lead singer.

  
  He played the tambourine. So yeah, he wasn't a musician.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Understood that a lot of people find him inspirational, but a great lyricist and poet?
  
  Read the lyrics of "Riders on the Storm" - a monkey could have written those lyrics.
• Heretic

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;821352 wrote:Understood that a lot of people find him inspirational, but a great lyricist and poet?
  
  Read the lyrics of "Riders on the Storm" - a monkey could have written those lyrics.

  
  Well, he did have books of poetry published. I think after his death, but still published.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Did it contain the piece:
  
  "There's a killer on the road
  His brain is squirming like a toad"?
  
  In his time so many young people were on acid they wouldn't know a poem from a hippopotamus. It is all legend...and pathetic baby boomer nostalgia.
• Mohican00

  

  Heretic;821355 wrote:Well, he did have books of poetry published. I think after his death, but still published.

  
  It was panned pretty hard by critics. I don't think he'll ever be remembered as a good poet
• Ty Webb

  

  said_aouita;821295 wrote:Eh, they are better then the Eagles. Doors have a few good songs.
  
  Nirvana is better.
  
  
  
  Yea, I said it.

  
  You don't honestly believe that do you?
  
  If you do....you have lost all right to ever talk about music ever again
  
  I can think of atleast 5-6 American Bands that are better
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Ty Webb;821394 wrote:You don't honestly believe that do you?
  
  If you do....you have lost all right to ever talk about music ever again
  
  I can think of atleast 5-6 American Bands that are better

  
  oh gibby, haven't you learned by now that your musical taste is completely skewed and full of bullshit?
• Ty Webb

  

  DeyDurkie5;821404 wrote:oh gibby, haven't you learned by now that your musical taste is completely skewed and full of bullshit?

  
  Eagles
  Bon Jovi
  Grateful Dead
  Original Lynyrd Skynyrd
  Bruce Springsteen and E street Band
  Metallica
  
  And that is not even including the single artists who are better
• GoChiefs

  

  Bon Jovi? Lol
• Ty Webb

  

  GoChiefs;821406 wrote:Bon Jovi? Lol

  
  I would bet everything I own that if you go around and ask 100 casual music fans...you would get twice as many people who know Bon Jovi over The Doors/Morrison
• LJ

  

  Ty Webb;821408 wrote:I would bet everything I own that if you go around and ask 100 casual music fans...you would get twice as many people who know Bon Jovi over The Doors/Morrison

  
  I just asked 8 random people here and all said "The Doors". This is ranging from older black men, to younger males and females.
• Ty Webb

  

  LJ;821409 wrote:I just asked 8 random people here and all said "The Doors". This is ranging from older black men, to younger males and females.

  
  Bullshit
• Ty Webb

  

  The Doors are the American version of Led Zepplin
  
  Ok....but vastly and insanely overrated
• GoChiefs

  

  Ty Webb;821408 wrote:I would bet everything I own that if you go around and ask 100 casual music fans...you would get twice as many people who know Bon Jovi over The Doors/Morrison

  
  Well no shit considering the last Doors album was put out what....33 years ago? Of course more of today's 'casual' music fan will know who Bon Jovi is over The Doors considering Bon Jovi is still making music today.
• Heretic

  

  Ty Webb;821413 wrote:The Doors are the American version of Led Zepplin
  
  Ok....but vastly and insanely overrated

  
  El. Oh. El.
• LJ

  

  Ty Webb;821412 wrote:Bullshit

  
  lol why would I make something like that up?
• BigAppleBuckeye

  

  Websurfinbird and I got the chance to visit his grave at Pere Lachaise in Paris in 2009, very cool spot. Gotta love the Doors! Got me through many the stoned college evenings ...