Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:12:19 EST
From: DethRokrX@aol.com
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Drunk poetry
Message-ID: <1ea.2e668c19.2eb7f2a3@aol.com>


I had to laugh at receiving an Audities digest that consisted of about ten
consecutive posts with the subject, "RE: Drunk poetry". I thought that I had
somehow stumbled onto a Dylan Thomas listserv.


You'll get no argument from me re the Doors being classic rock's most 
overexposed band, or much of Morrison's verbiage being overwrought and
pretentious.


I like some of the Doors' material ("The Crystal Ship" is one of my favorite
minor-key songs -- must be that major seventh chord that Manzarek put in
there ;-) ), but, yeah, I'll weigh in with the crowd that thinks that the
band is somewhat overrated. And I'm with those who've opined that Morrison
was a hugely pretentious poetaster of the first order. It's what sets him
apart in my mind as being more obnoxious than the typical rock star.

In fact, when I was in high school there was one of those periodic spasms of
popular revival of the Doors. Irritated by it, I wrote a song about ol'
Licorice Legs called "Mofo Risin'". Looking at them now, the lyrics seem
just as overwrought in their own way as were Morrison's (I had an excuse; I
was seventeen years old), but writing it was sure cathartic.


Gregory Sager