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Martin Scorsese - Like many alcoholics, he could be reckless, selfish and mercurial. He had lobbied to get Morrison off the road before his death, and even quit the band at one point.
So what if we have one less album? It was another era. Kamikaze drunk. Of course he would be sober. He was smart. Densmore, 75, is a defiant survivor of the music scene he helped build. Next month, a documentary about another of his bandmates, the keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who died in , will be released.
People certainly thought he was. It is not usual to spend years in court trying to stop yourself from earning millions of dollars to prove a point about the value of artistic integrity over the pursuit of money.
He wrote a book about the case, published in , and donated the profits to the Occupy movement. I guess he was taking painkillers and brown powder, too.
I mean, it sounds horrible, but at least you rode the train all the way to the end — you never checked out early. Densmore grew up in the west LA suburbs. College put him on to jazz, and he worshipped at the altar of Coltrane and Davis. He was 21 when he met Morrison, who was tall, bookish and handsome. We were street scientists exploring the mind.
I experimented with cocaine during the 70s and 80s. Ugh … drug. Jim Morrison : This is the strangest life I've ever known. Jim Morrison : [to John] What's a rock and roll band for man, if you can't party all night and do bad things? Let's plan a murder or start a religion. Jim Morrison : [to the audience] You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves!
How long you think it's gonna last? How long are you gonna let them push you around? I'll tell you this - I'm gonna get my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames!
Jim Morrison : Hatred is a very underestimated emotion. Patricia Kennealy : I doesn't matter anymore, does it? You hear them out there? It's you they want now. Not the Doors, not your mother or your father's child Jim Morrison : They don't want me, they want my death - ripped to pieces. Jim Morrison : I believe in a long prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown Although I live in the subconscious, our pale reason hides the infinite from us.
Jim Morrison : [quoted in his film class project] Nietzsche said "All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. Pamela Courson : [after Jim sang his poem] I love it when you sing to me. Jim Morrison : [smiles] That's 'cause I'm the poet and you're my muse.
Jim Morrison : Come on, let's get some tacos. Interviewer : What are your songs about, Mr. Jim Morrison : Uh, love, death, travel, revolt. We all write the songs. I'm only interested in chaos, disorder, especially activities which seem to have no meaning Like This.
I think when you make peace with authority, you become authority. Interviewer : Can you define that a little more? Jim Morrison : Yeah, you can call us erotic politicians, I guess. Interviewer : Name, occupation? Pamela Courson : Pamela Morrison, ornament. Robby Krieger : Robby Krieger, guitar player. John Densmore : John Densmore, percussionist, 23 years old. Far out, man!
Jim Morrison : [smiles] Uh, Jim. Pamela Courson : You killed my duck! Jim Morrison : I killed your duck? Jim Morrison : And I'm still killing your fucking duck.
Death fucking dead! There, the duck is dead! Ray Manzarek : [shouts] Jim, will stop this shit? Will you get sane? Jim Morrison : And don't you ever tell me what to do, ever! Jim Morrison : Close your eyes. We'll see the snake; see the serpent appear. His head is ten feet long and five feet wide. He has one red eye and one green eye. He's seven miles long. I see all the history of the world on his scales, all people, all actions. We're all just little pictures on his scales.
God, he's big, he's moving, devouring consciousness, digesting power. Monster of energy. It's a monster. We're going to kiss the snake on the tongue.
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