evidence of homosexuality?
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TheMemphian — 18 years ago(July 27, 2007 04:51 PM)
I doubt he was gay, but there is a homosexual characteristic in many of his influences. Brecht's "Whiskey Bar" had a line which Jim changed for the LP, but he says on a bootleg"Show me the way, to the next little BOY."
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angel_eyez121004 — 18 years ago(July 28, 2007 08:46 AM)
Well what I found on Brecht's "Alabama Song" lyrics was this
"Show me the way to the next pretty girl
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
Show me the way to the next pretty girl
Oh don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find the next pretty girl
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you
I tell you
I tell you we must die"
It says "next pretty GIRL"Not "Show me the way to the next little boy" like you said..
Here's the entire lyrics
Alabama Song
by Bertolt Brecht
Show me the way to the next whisky bar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
Show me the way to the next whisky bar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find the next whisky bar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you
I tell you
I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say say good-bye
We've lost our good old mamma
And must have whisky
Oh, y5b4ou know why.
Show me the way to the next pretty girl
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
Show me the way to the next pretty girl
Oh don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find the next pretty girl
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you
I tell you
I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say good-bye
We've lost our good old mamma
And must have a girl
Oh, you know why.
Show me the way to the next little dollar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
Show me the way to the next little dollar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find the next little dollar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you
I tell you
I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say good-bye
We've lost our good old mamma
And must have dollars
Oh, you know why.
Jim was not gay
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TheMemphian — 18 years ago(July 29, 2007 07:14 PM)
Humm, I only assumed it was the original lyric because Jim used the word "Boy" on the bootleg (The Live Doors, March 1967, Bulldog Records, BG CD 012) Maybe Jim was gay. (tee-hee) Or, maybe he was just teasing the San Francisco audience.
As for the original point, there is much gayness in Jim's Herofile, as is for any artistic person. I'm sure it was a consideration weather he explored it or not. -
Doc-McCoy — 18 years ago(July 31, 2007 04:05 PM)
"Or, maybe he was just teasing the San Francisco audience."
That would be my guess. He was a world-class audience provoker, even commenting in interviews that much of what he said and did onstage was to provoke audience reaction.
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ThereWillBeBeer — 13 years ago(September 15, 2012 07:43 AM)
I think he may have written that line in The Soft Parade just as another way of being anti-establishment or counterculture. That shock value thing. As I think Mick Jagger does when he sings 'how come you taste so good, just like a young man should' in Brown Sugar, changing the line from 'just like a young girl should' or 'like a black girl should' in the original studio version of the song. Jagger actually started doing that as early as 1972 and has sung it that way every single performance since, that I'm aware of.
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jefgg — 13 years ago(February 11, 2013 04:49 PM)
Jim was not gay. Notthattheresanythingwrongwiththat. Jim was tolerant and not uncomfortable around gays. In the book "No One Here Gets Out Alive" it said that he politely declined gays who approached him for sex. He said something like "that's not my trip". The time he said he wanted to blow Hendrix he was joking while admiring Hendrix's guitar playing. Jim had gay friends and The Doors let a gay group use some of their office space. He enjoyed anal sex with female groupies. None of those things mean that he was a homosexual.
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PoppyTransfusion — 11 years ago(July 03, 2014 03:51 PM)
I don't think Morrison was homosexual but this doesn't mean he never flirted with the idea. Others have cited influences on Morrison in this thread; Alexander the Great was a major influence and was how Morrison ended up with the great hairstyle he sported in 1967/8. I believe Alexander was (suspected of being) homosexual, but I could be wrong. Anyhoo, in a biography about Edie Sedgwick there's mention of a party where everyone was strung out on drugs. Jimi Hendrix was playing guitar during which Jim Morrison gave him a blow job. The behaviour was attributed to drugs.
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krypton_son — 10 years ago(August 21, 2015 06:41 AM)
I hate how people try to claim that famous people are secretly gay. I've heard everything from Abraham Lincoln to Julius Cesar to James Dean. Good Lord, Jim Morrison was the complete opposite of gay. Stop trying to dig for something that wasn't there.