I’m back–tooth is better Fri. evening met friends for drinks and dinner.  Sat was a trip to New Smyrna Beach  http://nsbfla.com/ which I consider the classiest beach town in the whole of Florida.  The shot directly above is the Old Sugar Mill  http://www.volusia.org/services/community-services/parks-recreation-and-culture/parks-and-trails/park-facilities-and-locations/historical-parks/sugar-mill-ruins.stml  just west of town on route 44.  The main picture is taken from the 2nd floor at The Hub  http://thehuboncanal.org/,   on Canal Street.
Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I’ll wander baby
Stumblin’ in the neon groves

Casting rumors are buzzing that Kevin Ryan (of BBC America’s Copper) has been cast as our dear Roger Mac. He recently posted on twitter of an announcement that he’d soon be making and Outlander is following him there. Having watched him in Copper, the man can sing and has a great range of emotion in his acting. Fingers crossed this is our Roger!http://ontd-sassenach.livejournal.com/26921.html

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I do not remember when I first heard the Doors and though I loved the Beatles (and several other groups of the years).  I do know that the lyrics and often haunting melody struck deep cords within myself and many others during this time of coming of age of our very dynamic generation.  While my parents could kind  of live with the Beatles and many of the other less upfront groups, they like lots of people saw no redeeming social value in Jim–that poet who spoke his songs rather than sang them—with his wild ways, drug use and obviously sexual references in his lyrics. 

He had started out in film-making in college and there seemed to be a deep trauma of his seeing an Indians family killed in a highway accident when he was a kid. This cropped up in some of his work on a recurring basis.    He went on to meet other members of the group and went from film to music–but in reality Jim made few changes, he did not sing or play an instrument—-He wrote many of the songs but their breakthrough hit “***Light My Fire” (1967).  was actually written by guitarist Robby Krieger, as were some other songs including “Love Her Madly,” “You’re Lost Little Girl” and “Touch Me” (as well as some other songs on the Soft Parade album).

***The second verse of the song, however, was written by Morrison:
 The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre

I saw the Doors in concert in 68/69 school year in Chicago.  They had no lead on group, but did the entire concert by themselves.  They also did the long version of Light My Fire—but instead of playing the musical part they actually played Lady Madonna, but then I was probably one of the few who weren ‘t so stoned that they noticed the difference.  This was after the infamous Miami exposure and everybody waited with baited breath to see what the mad Morrison would do, but while he gave a great performance he didn’t get out of hand.  The police at Door concerts must have been torn as to whom to keep their eyes on the audience or the lead singer. 

Krieger steadfastly maintained Morrison’s innocence, once saying: “They were complaining about Jim whipping it out onstage, which he didn’t do: 500 photos were entered as evidence at the trial and not one showed anything of the sort. … I think it was all very politically motivated. People were running for office, so we were a good target.”    | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/44-years-ago-jim-morrison-of-the-doors-allegedly-exposes-himself-on-stage/?trackback=tsmclip

To those of us who were fans, we couldn’t care less—we were the generation that pushed disobedience in the faces of the establishment and caused civil unrest to the point of sometimes stupid means—and since then whipping it out on stage would seem less and less serious.  In fact I would have loved to be at that concert so I could say yea or nay about the whipping and if he did that I was there when it happened.

For if we don’t find
The next little girl
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you
I tell you we must die

We lost him in Paris where he reportedly OD’d in a bath with no one but his girlfriend present.  Since then his grave has become a tourist attraction and  The Florida Board of Executive Clemency voted unanimously to posthumously pardon Jim Morrison, the charismatic lead singer for The Doors, four decades after Morrison was convicted of indecent exposure and open profanity.  Outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist — an admitted Doors fan — proposed the official let-off for the late singer for a disputed incident during a Miami, Florida, concert.  http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/09/ent.jim.morrison.pardon/

Did he die?  Maybe, maybe not.  This was a man with hit records and big concert takes who still lived in the same apt. as when he was playing small clubs in LA.  He never even bought a car.  So maybe he did just wander off tired of the BS in Florida and his lack of privacy–if he did I am sure with his drug history he’s gone now.  So many of my generation never moved on—some from drugs and many from war.  Maybe he saw no reason to grow old and unknown..or on the other hand he was just too tired of the notoriety.  Like many of my generation he lived to the hilt like there was no tomorrow and that proved to be the truth for him and many others of the Flower Children.
 And we’re on our way
No we can’t turn back
Yeah, we’re on our way
And we can’t turn back

‘Cause it’s too late
Too late, too late
Too late, too late

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