When people think of The Doors, their minds instantly go to Los Angeles in the late ’60s — smoky clubs, wild energy, and Jim Morrison’s hypnotic voice echoing through the chaos. But one question often pops up among Aussie fans: Did The Doors ever make it to Australia? The short answer is: no, they [...]
Jim Morrison, the enigmatic frontman of The Doors, is renowned for his poetic lyrics and electrifying stage presence. However, his artistic pursuits extended beyond music into the realm of filmmaking. The Jim Morrison Film Festival, held on March 27, 1970, in Vancouver, Canada, celebrated this lesser-known facet of his creativity. Organized by Poppin Magazine's [...]
Jim Morrison's original gravestone bust has finally been found after 36 Years! The imposing sculpture of James Douglas Morrison, made by the Croatian artist Mladen Mikulin, was found by chance by Paris Police. Strange days have found us… Cemetery cool and quiet Hate to leave your sacred lay Dread the milky coming of the [...]
JIM’S POETRY is often narrative and auto biographical. Ron Alan talks about the “Graveyard Poem” in this excerpt from the book “Jim Morrison: Friends Gathered Together”. What’s the background of the “Graveyard Poem”? Ron: That took place actually a night that we played a club called the Sea Witch which was on the Sunset [...]
Jim and I were so different our backgrounds so different. Being rowdy to me was going to a bar playing pool and getting into fights. Jim could come along and watch that stuff but he could not really join in with it. When we’d go to San Francisco and hang out with Michael [...]
Read the original article HERE They started the Summer Of Love a pop phenomenon and ended it in whirlwind of booze, LSD and out-of-control hedonism. Yet in between, The Doors still managed to make their unsung masterpiece Through the looking glass: The Doors in 1967 (Image credit: Mark and Colleen Hayward \/ Getty Images) New [...]
In February 2025, it was reported that reel-to-reel recordings of Jim Morrison's music were found in a timber home in Tasmania. The recordings are believed to be unreleased and were discovered in the estate of John Haeny, a producer who worked with Morrison and The Doors. The recordings were found in the estate of [...]
FAROUT Magazine (Written by Tom Taylor – 20th July 2022) Jim Morrison resides somewhere in our consciousness as a character more so than a man. He is a rock ‘n’ roll edifice concocted in a test tube—all hair, leather, sullen and enigmatic. If you were to draw a Rockstar, you may well draw [...]