shake dreams from your hair

mr mojo risin

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. —Jim Morrison

The time you ran was too insane We’ll meet again, we’ll meet again

Jim Morrison performing with The Doors, 1968, Hollywood Bowl, L.A.

1967.

Jim Morrison

Light my Fire

jim morrison, bakersfield 1968.

“The Doors achieved something more than just music. Morrison’s furious.The song “Break on Through (To the Other Side)” blew my mind. It was fast, and the singer yelled. There was a lyric that grabbed me: “I found an island in your arms/Country in your eyes/Arms that chain/Eyes that lie/Break on through to the other side.” That’s heavy, and the way he’s screaming, for a little kid it’s kind of terrifying. Then when I got older, as a young late teenager, early 20-something guy, you hear The Doors in a totally different way. You hear the poetry, you hear the power of the lyric and then you find out he read Arthur Rimbaud, so you got to go get Arthur Rimbaud’s writing, and that’s monumental. That he was into Antonin Artaud, you read that stuff which is really far out and you become even more inspired. The story of the band is steeped in myth-tinged legend, but the facts of their brief history are as compelling as they are at times tragic. Jim Morrison was a true wild man of rock & roll.” — Henry Rollins

NEW HAVEN, DEC. 9, 1967.

jim morrison in amsterdam c. 1968 by nico van der stam