Jim Morrison

When we opened for the Birds, I was very excited.

I arranged to meet Jim Morrison.

But the two times we opened for Led Zeppelin, one time, I don't know whether you want to believe this or not, but we were in the basement.

Jim

Morrison, though, he was there, but he's not in the Birds.

No,

Jim Morrison.

You said Jim Morrison in the Birds.

Dionysus could be seen as a sort of type of the devil or type of Lucifer.

And you get Jim Morrison.

Hans and I discussed some of this stuff a lot in the Doors episode that we talked about.

But it's like Johnny is like a prototype of that here in the pre...

But his basic idea, I think, is that the entire scene, all that 1960s hippie culture stuff all of that was basically a product of military intelligence.

And that he never said this, but I got the impression that he thinks that a lot of these people, like, you know, famous musicians like David Crosby and Graham Parsons and Jim Morrison and all of these people who we're all very familiar with are products more or less are associated with somehow MKUltra.

Is that how you understand it?

Oh, yeah.

He, he, he seems to think was an agent.

Um, he, he did a lot of things that would make you think he was, uh, secret agent before he became a pop star the same as steven stills like steven stills would tell people that he was in the jungles of vietnam and this was before the u.s was uh officially putting troops on the ground there but there were lots of advisors which means lots of uh spooks there in vietnam before we actually went to war there and uh you know if you believe steven stills he was He was there, so maybe he was a spook, and he was another guy that wasn't really too impressed with hippies, although he was kind of thought of as a leader of the counterculture.

And then you got Jim Morrison in the doors, and you've got Jim Morrison's father being the admiral who orchestrated the Gulf of Tonkin hoax, a false flag hoax to— justify to the American people their escalation in Vietnam.

So it's fascinating that who would have ever guessed the doors were somehow connected to the military-industrial complex to that extent.

I like that.

And now I know what Jim Morrison was looking at.

He liked those Indians, and so do I.

Native Americans, they call them now, which is funny.

and

they're like you know it's gross what starts to happen to them but then I'm gonna and we can there are more scenes to discuss because well there's the whole big party they have and then Fabio and then like I actually thought that the lady making out with with Jim Morrison was Rebecca De Mornay, actually.

Oh,

I didn't notice if it was.

And now you've told me.

I've always been obsessed with The Doors, always been obsessed with Jim Morrison and The Doors.

And there was a bit in The Doors in the movie with Val Kilroy, and I remember him saying like, once your brain has been expanded, it was from this Aldous Huxley book, The Doors of Perception.

Once your brain has been expanded, it can never go back to its original dimensions.

And people don't understand that one of the coolest things about being in a band is just that bond and feeling like, hey, it's us against the world.

In the Doors movie, Jim Morris is just like, let's rob a bank or start a you know it's like it's it's not us against the world but in a lot of ways it's like when you get to the gig it's like hey here we are again you know we've spent all this time like practicing these songs and working on these songs and it's like yeah you know that it's you can't beat it man it feels great so to be surrounded by a company a community rather of artists and songwriters it's just it's awesome and it reiterates to me that I'm moving in the direction that I need to move in as far as writing these new songs and collaborating with other artists and whatever comes of whatever I'm recording.

I've got a lot of songs I've got to finish.

Yeah, I've only ever been in one band, and that was Briefly.

It's simply a guitar.

1970, Jim Morrison of The Doors was fined and sentenced to six months in jail after being found guilty of exposing himself during a gig in Miami.

Speaking on the telly in 1970.

Jim,

were all crazy athletic.

Like, Kerry Von Erich is crazy jacked in the 80s here and kind of looks like Jim Morrison.

I thought he was like...

I think he looks like if Uriah Faber was a cartoon character.