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“When all else fails we can whip the horses’ eyes, And make them sleep And cry.” —“The Soft Parade,” The Doors Okay so we’re not exactly sure what Jim Morrison’s “Soft Parade” lyrics have to do with the central message of today’s virtual column—except that the dead poet’s gloomy words came immediately to mind while reading...
This week, amid some hullabaloo over whether they’re actually “ good ,” Creed released an album. More significant to us was the return of singer Scott Stapp and his remarkable chest. In baring his Christian nipples, Stapp carries on a long tradition in music, one not defined by the strategic placement of gym socks, but the manifold expressions of strength, vulnerability, and the...
This is why I love vampires: they are sensual yet evil; expressive, charismatic forbidden fruit. It seems the ultimate sin to give in to their seduction. They are still rock n' roll, and have been since the '80s. I'm loving the very recent vampire revival - Buffy did it for the 90s, True Blood and Twilight are doing it for the late 00s. Vampires are like the bad-boy Scorpions from Grease but more nonchalant....
L.A. Woman is the sixth and last studio album that the American rock band The Doors recorded with lead singer Jim Morrison, who died in July 1971. The album's style is arguably the most blues rock -oriented of the band's catalog. Following the departure of their record producer Paul A. Rothchild (who dismissed the group's differing style as "cocktail music") around November 1970, the Doors...
One’s likely enjoyment of a music documentary is proportional to one’s liking of the music in question, however good the documentary is. Therefore I love Fearless Freaks (the Flaming Lips documentary), but hate No Direction Home (even with Martin Scorsese directing, for me Bob Dylan is a jerk with a hideous singing voice). A film about the Doors was always going to appeal to me, even just...
Some of those who died in the early 1970s but still reverberate: Jimi Hendrix (11/27/1942-9/19/1970). We haven't see nor heard anything quite like him since, have we? Playing guitar or otherwise. Janis Joplin (1/19/1943-10/4/1970). Ditto Hendrix for her. Of women, the only singer I can think of who seems as intense, since Joplin's death, is Amy Winehouse . Charles "Sonny" Liston (ca.5/8/1932-12/30/1970)....
By: David SchultzI am stymied by which of these story puzzles me the most.Surely, you've come across the story associated with the picture on the left. In 1997, rock historian Brett Meisner posed for a snapshot at Pere Lachaise cemetery and the spirit, or ghost if you will, of its most famous resident, Doors lead singer Jim Morrison, decided to make an appearance. Those who believe in the hooey
The photograph that appeared to have captured the ghost of Doors legendary frontman Jim Morrison is not fake, researchers have claimed. According to a new book, Ghosts Caught on Film 2: Photographs of the Unexplained, experts are yet to explain the photograph taken at the singer’s grave at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Experts have apparently [...]
Imagine spending your whole life on Trick's rooftop.That could have happened to Jim Morrison. He could have spent his whole life up there. But he didn't. He formed The Doors, and the rest is history.He didn't work in a bank either. He went from Trick's rooftop to pop stardom. He spent some time in the desert, of course.What is a shaman'Tell us, Jim!Jim: 'He's the medicine man of the Indians. He
London: Rock legend Jim Morrison’s ghost has reportedly left a music historian spooked after making an appearance in a photo taken at The Doors’ singer’s grave. The 1997 picture of Brett Meisner was taken by the rocker’s grave at the Pere La
I was digging around in a cardboard box of dusty tapes the other day when Wings’ Back to the Egg caught my eye. Stuck it in the old cassette deck and was momentarily transported back to 1979. So far so good. The tranquil mood turned sour, however, somewhere around the midpoint of ‘Again and Again’, when Denny Laine sluggishly implores his lead guitarist to “Take it…Away”...
Tragic rock legend JIM MORRISON's ghost has left a music historian spooked after making an appearance in a photo taken at THE DOORS singer's grave.The 1997 picture of...
This story is straight-up stupid, even by British tabloid standards. Here's a photo of rock historian Brett Meisner standing beside Jim Morrison's grave in the Pere Lachaise cemetary in Paris in 1997. According to legend, Meisner didn't look at the photo until five years later when he got the shock of his life – in the washed-out murk of the photo, the ghostly image of the Doors singer seems...
Jim Morrison Ghost Video | Photos Of Jim Morrison Ghost Once word of the Morrison ghost photograph spread across the Internet, both skeptics and avid Doors fans came knocking on Meisner’s door. A British film crew from the show “Dead Famous” even flew to Los Angeles, bringing along paranormal expert Chris Fleming who called the photo “one of the best I’ve ever seen.” Read More From Orginal Site
Carmen Electra Goes Fully Topless in Vegas Burlesque Show (Photos) Carmen, who will be starring in the show for six nights, enticed the audience by donning high heels, stockings and suspenders while cavorting on a sofa shaped like a giant pair of lips. And she was in great shape. Even casually dressed in sweats, with sneakers bearing a likeness of Jim Morrison and a logo for the Doors, Electra is stunning