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You can stand in the cover of "Strange Days" in New York City----Go to the southwest corner of 36th St and 3rd Avenue, and walk west up 36th toward Lexington Ave. Before you go 50 steps, look left and you'll see a gated little alley called Sniffen Court, that's it. A famous 1800s sculptor lived there and you can match all its features to the album cover. It was also the home of crazy Prof. Irwin Corey!
The hotel building is now fenced off waiting for its fate with the wave of gentrification sweeping LA right now. Jim would be horrified if he saw Skid Row now. Entire city blocks with the sidewalks covered in tents, tarps and homeless people shooting up drugs, crapping and peeing all over the place. 58,000 homeless in LA right now.
I found this poem about Jim Morrison in a book I ordered on amazon titled: "Midnight Writings by a Distant Mind Lost in Time" "Through The Breaks" A wild child like the calm before the storm, a mesmerizing danger stirs up the world with a whirlwind of words. A lizard king waits in the sun among the desert lords, a spirit and mind mixed together with a poetic nature, steps through the breaks of time opening the door to the other side. Between this world and the next, his voice will be heard forever echoing from the beyond, tune in or tune out, however you can hear the songs. "RIP Jim Morrison"
I'm wondering why he/they were wearing coats and long sleeves so often. I rarely find a need for them. Even with historical temp changes about as low as you go in the day would average 70 back then.
I remember driving by the old Morrison Hotel in downtown LA during the 70s when I was in college. It was still there then and I believe it was there during the 80s.
In 2011 I moved to Portland, OR and another Morrison Hotel on Morrison Street just East of the Morrison Bridge. As an Uber Driver, I drove up and down Morrison Street a lot in 2015 and kept seeing that window, which looked very similar to the one on the album cover. A few months later, the building changed and the Morrison Hotel was no longer there.
Ray seems like a big bullshitter. Everytime I've heard an interview with him over the years it's always left me with the sense he's embellishing. Not completely genuine that is...
Jim truly did suffer for his art, he was too preoccupied with death and the dark side of live which combined with his drinking excess would have made him unhappy. He would of been better off sticking to the straight and narrow he could of had a happy family life, he even once said in an interview he would of been happy just pottering round in a garden
Yeah!
This was a really interesting video.
I certainly enjoyed it and I'm glad you presented it to us,
[ Doors Fans].
I figured the Morrison Hotel was
a real place.
Of course it seemed to work just fine for The Doors.
Thanx!!!
Thank you for this, I truly love it. The Doors meant the world to so many of us who considered ourselves to be friends and peers :) We never expected Jim Morrison to pass so young! It was a groovy time to be young~ Kay ((*_*))
The second song Peace Frog is the only one on Morrison Hotel. The first and fourth songs are on Strange Days while the third one is off of the debut album...
Morrison Hotel CD by The Doors is in my collection and it happens to be on my 5 CD changer that is full of only The Doors CDs. The Doors and Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, is all I hear. A teacher once said that I looked like a lizard back in 1971. Maybe I caught Jim's spirit that year '71.
Tony C.
5 months ago