Off-Topic meandering music stuff..
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Yup! It's a great song.
I'm a pretty big fan of The Doors. The following may ruin The Doors for some folks..
If Jim Morrison survived, he would be a lounge singer on the Vegas strip.
His vocals and lyrics would suit the environment.
Also, I wonder what his drunken antics would have been if they'd already invented the wireless microphone. I think he would have been the musician who invented crowd surfing.
He was kind of a jackass. If I'd been in the band, I'd have eventually punched him in the mouth a few times.
By now, he'd have a string of divorces and spent all of his money. He'd probably be living in a run-down house, or maybe just living in a hotel room - and not even a very good hotel room. It'd be a hotel closer to the outskirts of the city. As much as he'd squandered his money, so too had he squandered his relationships - leaving him friendless and alone.
At any rate, even his antics would be fitting for his lounge act. Use this song as an example, but picture him on the stage in Vegas. It shouldn't be too hard to picture this. Well, I have no trouble picturing it. It just seems like a logical conclusion to his life and legacy.
I'm pretty convinced that he'd be a lounge singer today. I picture him up there, eyes closed and swaying to the music while singing The Crystal Ship. His act would surely end with 'The End' and he'd do two shows a night. Sometimes, he'd take an overweight older lady back to his hotel room but he'd no longer be able to 'perform'.
He'd go to sleep with the aid of sleeping pills and whiskey, hoping to keep the nightmares away.
I'm a pretty big fan of The Doors. The following may ruin The Doors for some folks..
If Jim Morrison survived, he would be a lounge singer on the Vegas strip.
His vocals and lyrics would suit the environment.
Also, I wonder what his drunken antics would have been if they'd already invented the wireless microphone. I think he would have been the musician who invented crowd surfing.
He was kind of a jackass. If I'd been in the band, I'd have eventually punched him in the mouth a few times.
By now, he'd have a string of divorces and spent all of his money. He'd probably be living in a run-down house, or maybe just living in a hotel room - and not even a very good hotel room. It'd be a hotel closer to the outskirts of the city. As much as he'd squandered his money, so too had he squandered his relationships - leaving him friendless and alone.
At any rate, even his antics would be fitting for his lounge act. Use this song as an example, but picture him on the stage in Vegas. It shouldn't be too hard to picture this. Well, I have no trouble picturing it. It just seems like a logical conclusion to his life and legacy.
I'm pretty convinced that he'd be a lounge singer today. I picture him up there, eyes closed and swaying to the music while singing The Crystal Ship. His act would surely end with 'The End' and he'd do two shows a night. Sometimes, he'd take an overweight older lady back to his hotel room but he'd no longer be able to 'perform'.
He'd go to sleep with the aid of sleeping pills and whiskey, hoping to keep the nightmares away.
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Terminal Velocity
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It's the same situation in a very old (2021) Cinnamon desktop on Debian, being a Cinnamon bug it is still their concern. With their forums I have no business since the previous decade, I made a joke, they banned me, end of story. I say report the bug if you can
OP
It's something to do with the theme. I'm not sure but you can be certain that I made no changes to the color on my end.
You can always highlight it, I suppose.
Let me try something.
OP
Try again...
OP
I'm not banned but, rather, they got hacked and my data was leaked. I am not going to give them a second chance.
Probably so.
Seems as though some of the performers of those times were destined to their own demise lived hard and fast and died.
I'd rather their end be as it was and go out in the fame they had then to wind up a decrepit pathetic drunk has been.
Jim Morrison wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
Even these days some excellent performers ran the same path and ended up pretty much the same way Dead.
Although they are no longer with us their legacy keeps them alive and most likely always will.
OP
While it was a cover (a fairly rare thing for The Doors), he had this to say on the matter:
He did make it to 27 years of age.
Coincidentally, Hendrix and Joplin also died at the age of 27.
So did Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain and Amy Weinhouse. 27 Club.
theLegionWithin
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I guess Ozzy didnt get that memo...
Hell man most everybody was doing drugs and drinking back in them days some were just more fortunate than others were.
I know I did my share of drugs and drinking before I got married it was just part of the times.
I know I did my share of drugs and drinking before I got married it was just part of the times.
OP
I admit to nothing. ;-)
I will say that I went to a very reputable school, one certainly not known as a party school. However, those organic chem grad students were certainly willing to help a guy out. I've been pretty willing to go on adventures for most of my life but I'm old now. These days, I'm quite tame. I have some periods of my life that are pretty fuzzy memories, but I'm told that I had a good time.
I did my share of hell raising in my younger days when you're supposed to and had a blast.
Now a days I to am very mellow old dude who still likes to take a shot or three of Wild Turkey but that's it.
I to damn old to be doing what I did in my teens fallen down at my age I could break something and that wouldn't be good.
I'm old and I admit it.
Now a days I to am very mellow old dude who still likes to take a shot or three of Wild Turkey but that's it.
I to damn old to be doing what I did in my teens fallen down at my age I could break something and that wouldn't be good.
I'm old and I admit it.
OP
I use that as a joke/excuse fairly often. "I might fall down and break a hip!"
theLegionWithin
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likewise - i experienced the "roaring 20s" in the 00's - partied hard and learned from the experience. comparatively I've gotten boring in middle age... but my liver/kidneys/various mucous membranes still function (mostly)!
OP
I revisited Riders On The Storm and I was pleased. I'll be out this afternoon and I think I'll cue up a Doors playlist. I have a hankering for some of the deep cuts and stuff that you'll never hear on the radio. I think I'll set it up as a random playlist but start the drive off with the sultry sounds of The Soft Parade (the song, not the entire album).
The only two pre-punk/new wave bands I can listen to are Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. The Doors have three good songs ("Break On Through", "Light My Fire", The End") and I believe Robbie Krieger is responsible for all of them.
And Jim Morrison? There may be more Doors' fans here and I don't want to insult anyone.
And Jim Morrison? There may be more Doors' fans here and I don't want to insult anyone.
OP
I politely called him a jackass earlier, though I may have edited out that word as some might see it as a swear (I do not. It's a donkey.)
I do love the Doors but I'm not a fan of the person Jim would become. Money and fame did not do him good, though we can't really guess what he'd have been like prior. If you like Krieger, read Set The Night On Fire - though Densmore's book is also good.
