Anyone else annoyed by those teenage Jim fans?
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MoonlightMile71 — 19 years ago(January 20, 2007 07:23 PM)
Well I'm 17 and I would consider myself a big Jim fan. I am fully aware, and always have been, that Jim Morrison was not really involved with the punk movement. In fact, he died in 1971, several years befoer the punk revolution even began. I personally feel like teenagers today don't know Jim enough. What I mean by that is if you were to poll any random high school class, I question how many of the kids actually would recognize the name Jim Morrison, and if they could, then indenify the band he was in. Thats whatr really bothers me.
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LadyStardust214 — 19 years ago(January 21, 2007 08:40 AM)
I am annoyed by those people - there are bunches of them at my school. And all the girls who wear the Jim Morrison tees and "like" him think he was some sort of womanizer - and just that. (I am a girl too, but I respect him in the way you do: as a poet, intellect and artist)
But I also am a Heavy Metal/Punk Rock fan
Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen
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Subpop200 — 19 years ago(January 22, 2007 05:11 PM)
I liked the later Morrison when he was playing the blues and had the beard. Most Teens just like the picture Jim had taken back in 67 with Alexander the great hair cut. They called it the young Lion but to Jim it was an image he could never live2000 up to.
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L_i_z_a_r_d_K_i_n_g — 19 years ago(January 29, 2007 03:43 PM)
led zeppelin isn't close to beeing punk?
but.. i think the original post said something like:
"he wasn't some stupid rock star taking acid" (OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT)..
But he was definetly taking acid..
AND..
The ones that annoy me are the ones that listen to ashlee simpshon and sum 41 and mcfly and think they are heavy rock n' rollers! stupid, ignorant kids!
i love punk (the clash and sex pistols and so on), but i also love the doors.. why did you critisize punk anyway? (or whatever you were doing, why did you bring it up?) -
skulldugg65 — 18 years ago(January 23, 2008 03:35 PM)
No he did not. Jim did predict use of synthesis in music, but did not predict the end of "Quality Music", but instead Jim Described his admiration the different blends of music that evolve from folk music and "black" soul music. He admired most musicians for there devout way of expressing inner feeling that is insisted upon in the music. You REALLY do not know what you are talking about.
Thanks,
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Trouter2000 — 19 years ago(February 11, 2007 08:43 AM)
I know how you feel, Jim is often shown in the media as a simple wild man who liked to party. In some respects this is true, but he was just what you said, a poet and a philosopher, he had some problems but that was not what he was about.
I am glad to see the new generation (yourself anyway) apreciating him for who he was, and not for his image in today's media. -
tamagotchi09 — 19 years ago(February 12, 2007 12:22 PM)
i am a teen who likes the doors but i mean most kids are really pretensious such as yourself.he wasnt such a great poet i mean he was good but honestly your saying others get so caught up in his looks and2000 persona but i see him as a musician.i just listen to the music and yes he is attractive but not in my taste not everyone likes white guys
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Different_Voices — 19 years ago(February 16, 2007 05:45 PM)
I agree with you a hundred and ten percent. He was a poet, not a face on a t-shirt. Although admittedly, at least people know who he is. I spend my life telling people about William Blake, but only a handful know who the f u c k I'm talking about. So its nice to chat to people about one of my heroes who people actually know.
The Thin
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bri587 — 19 years ago(March 09, 2007 04:47 AM)
i just gotta say i love jim morrison and i have been wearing t-shirts with him on them i was a freshman in highschool. back then i did cause i was into the music w/o understanding it, now since ive grown up i am more into his lyrics and his books he got me into blake and nietzsche. so maybe these teenagers just need soemtime to grow up and have a better understanding of who he is. it does annoy me a little when my brotehrs friends who are into rap and bad music and they seem me with a jim shirt on and they say "jim morrison man hes awsome" but they wouldnt know his music if i played it for them
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alomba1328 — 19 years ago(March 09, 2007 10:04 PM)
I'm just thrilled that people who are 14 and 15 even know who Jim Morrison is. It's not everyday that teenagers idolize the same artists as their grandparents. I know that back when I was a teenager you didn't see anybody walking around a high school with a Frank Sinatra shirt on.
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Nick_of_the_Rebellion — 19 years ago(March 11, 2007 11:19 AM)
i agree. ive been a doors fan for 2 yrs and listening scice i was born. im 16 and the first song that played on the radio on the way home was break on through my dad told me. then i went to a party and i wore my dads aviators(he has a target bag full of broken ones hes a cop) and a white beep one of my friends said holy beep jim morrison came to my party. everyone says i look like jim (you can see my morrsion costume from halloween check my myspace www.myspace.com/missonaryoflove666) i dont dwell on it though. but back on topic. a bunch of freshman at my school where doors shirts and think they know the doors. i asked 1 who was the doors bass player and they said robby. "go change your shirt right now you do not deserve to wear that when you dont know they dident have a bass player". Also people who think there from the 80's and there country rock shudders there blues and rock for beep sake. i agree with the poster about the lyrics.