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Post by andreajacobs80 on Nov 2, 2019 17:09:12 GMT -5
WL: What do you remember most vividly about when your band Nazz opened for The Doors in 1967?
Todd Rundgren: I remember Jim Morrison falling down on the stage and playing dead for half a song. (laughs) That was the thing that was most memorable. We had a pretty short set. In those days, an opening act would play for like 20 minutes or something like that. So we were on and off in the blink of an eye. But I do remember watching The Doors and being fascinated with the level of theatrics, I guess.
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Post by sadtogladness on May 21, 2020 23:02:40 GMT -5
Iggy Pop:
When James Newell Osterberg, Jr., a.k.a. Iggy Pop, saw the Doors in October 1967 at a homecoming dance at the University of Michigan, he found the inspiration for his own utterly “blasphemous” live performances. The young Iggy was blown away by Morrison’s charisma and dark energy and started a band which would go on to become an archetype of punk rock.
“Here’s this guy, out of his head on acid, dressed in leather with his hair all oiled and curled,” says Iggy, remembering Morrison in 2011. “It got confrontational. Part of me was like, ‘Wow, this is great. He’s really pissing people off and he’s lurching around making these guys angry.’ ”
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Post by andreajacobs80 on May 22, 2020 13:19:52 GMT -5
Iggy Pop: When James Newell Osterberg, Jr., a.k.a. Iggy Pop, saw the Doors in October 1967 at a homecoming dance at the University of Michigan, he found the inspiration for his own utterly “blasphemous” live performances. The young Iggy was blown away by Morrison’s charisma and dark energy and started a band which would go on to become an archetype of punk rock. “Here’s this guy, out of his head on acid, dressed in leather with his hair all oiled and curled,” says Iggy, remembering Morrison in 2011. “It got confrontational. Part of me was like, ‘Wow, this is great. He’s really pissing people off and he’s lurching around making these guys angry.’ ” I'd love to hear this concert. I guess Jim was taking the piss out of the audience, even asking "What, do you guys wanna hear 'Louie, Louie'? (even though he sang that with Ray before they were ever in a band) |
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Post by sadtogladness on May 23, 2020 12:54:44 GMT -5
Iggy Pop: When James Newell Osterberg, Jr., a.k.a. Iggy Pop, saw the Doors in October 1967 at a homecoming dance at the University of Michigan, he found the inspiration for his own utterly “blasphemous” live performances. The young Iggy was blown away by Morrison’s charisma and dark energy and started a band which would go on to become an archetype of punk rock. “Here’s this guy, out of his head on acid, dressed in leather with his hair all oiled and curled,” says Iggy, remembering Morrison in 2011. “It got confrontational. Part of me was like, ‘Wow, this is great. He’s really pissing people off and he’s lurching around making these guys angry.’ ” I'd love to hear this concert. I guess Jim was taking the piss out of the audience, even asking "What, do you guys wanna hear 'Louie, Louie'? (even though he sang that with Ray before they were ever in a band) And, can you imagine The Doors playing your homecoming? Sigh, I agree, I'd love to hear it. And, if it was filmed..Watching kids trying to slow dance to "The End" would be..incredible  
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Post by sadtogladness on May 27, 2020 22:43:45 GMT -5
John Fogerty on Jim:
In Fogerty’s memoir, Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music, the Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman recalled Morrison turning up at a party Fogerty was holding in his suite at the Fontainebleau Hotel. “I remember being in the kitchen there, saying stuff like, ‘Yeah, man, I really think the machine are gonna take over,’ stuff I halfheartedly believe. And Jim’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t feel that way at all. The human spirit will always find a way to continue!’ I’m going, ‘Is this the Jim Morrison I’ve heard about? The guy who sang about killing his dad?’ He was all cheerful. I was the one talking gloom and doom!”
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Post by andreajacobs80 on May 29, 2020 18:17:22 GMT -5
John Fogerty on Jim: In Fogerty’s memoir, Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music, the Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman recalled Morrison turning up at a party Fogerty was holding in his suite at the Fontainebleau Hotel. “I remember being in the kitchen there, saying stuff like, ‘Yeah, man, I really think the machine are gonna take over,’ stuff I halfheartedly believe. And Jim’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t feel that way at all. The human spirit will always find a way to continue!’ I’m going, ‘Is this the Jim Morrison I’ve heard about? The guy who sang about killing his dad?’ He was all cheerful. I was the one talking gloom and doom!” I wonder if Jim would have said something different a week later. Maybe he believed in both at different times, but its obvious the machines took over, and Jim says this without being judgemental in his interview with Tony Thomas on CBC. |
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Post by sadtogladness on Jun 4, 2020 18:51:07 GMT -5
John Fogerty on Jim: In Fogerty’s memoir, Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music, the Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman recalled Morrison turning up at a party Fogerty was holding in his suite at the Fontainebleau Hotel. “I remember being in the kitchen there, saying stuff like, ‘Yeah, man, I really think the machine are gonna take over,’ stuff I halfheartedly believe. And Jim’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t feel that way at all. The human spirit will always find a way to continue!’ I’m going, ‘Is this the Jim Morrison I’ve heard about? The guy who sang about killing his dad?’ He was all cheerful. I was the one talking gloom and doom!” I wonder if Jim would have said something different a week later. Maybe he believed in both at different times, but its obvious the machines took over, and Jim says this without being judgemental in his interview with Tony Thomas on CBC. I think Jim was fascinated by what the future held, and sounded right on the money, with his assessment of how computers would be incorporated in the future, in music. He always came across an optimist to me, in all his interviews. And always well spoken. |
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Post by sadtogladness on Jun 4, 2020 18:55:28 GMT -5
Not a famous contemporary of Jim's, but Marc Benno, a Doors session player, had some interesting things to say regarding Jim and the recording of LA Woman:
Guest musicians were common on Doors albums, but it wasn’t until “L.A. Woman” that the group included a second guitarist: Texas native Marc Benno.
In the studio for "L.A. Woman" (left to right): Jim Morrison and Marc Benno — courtesy of Marc Benno.
With his first solo album under his belt, Benno was back home in the Lone Star State when he got a call from Bruce Botnick, the longtime engineer for The Doors who was going to co-produce the “L.A. Woman” album with the band.
David Anderle, who produced Benno’s debut album and was a Botnick friend, had recommended the guitarist for the project.
Benno remembers the two-story building in Los Angeles where the album was recorded as a “deep-thinking environment,” with Morrison referring to the words he had written in a big book.
“I think someone from England had given it to him,” he says. “It was gigantic, like an L.A. phonebook, but it was leather-bound and full of poems, lyrics and drawings. I remember him showing me ‘L.A. Woman,’ and I thought, ‘That right there will be a great blues tune of sorts.’”
Benno played guitar on that song as well as a few others. During the sessions, Morrison “got into it as if he was performing to a live audience. He had a handheld mike, and that’s when I realized, ‘This guy is getting so into it.’ My jaw dropped when he started doing the vocals.”
One day, Morrison took Benno to lunch at the Blue Boar, which the guitarist recalls serving “a lot of game and unusual foods – the most normal thing on the menu was turtle soup.”
Morrison brought more than a guest to the restaurant.
“He had a bottle of Jack Daniels with him,” Benno says. “I said, ‘Are you going to walk in [with that]?’ And he said, ‘They know me; it’s OK.’ And when he walked in, it was, ‘Mr. Morrison!’”
Back at the studio, Morrison took notice whenever Benno played Freddie King guitar licks and Leon Russell-style piano between takes.
“He would just stand there and watch and smile at me,” Benno says.
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