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Old 19th April 2008   #21
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Originally Posted by joelpatterson View Post
Well, for the people who liked it, Jim Morrison's voice had a scary, woozy darkness-- always in the service of solid, workmanlike blues. If you were following the story, there was always an outlandish, wry, gutteral cry that wrapped everything up-- he was heroic, in a limited way, straining against the limits of the day.

It's amazing how little you had to do to be heroic and defy convention, then. His moaning and theatrics happened in an atmosphere where it was all taken very seriously, it's hard to really appreciate if you weren't there.
jim saw were our society was heading ,

kinda what made rock and roll the down and out of bullshit conformity
the blues



if any one ever made it to the other side it was jim
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