Yesterday, that girl and
I drove to Cleveland. While there, we
toured the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Lots of guitars and crazy outfits on display there. Many videos to watch. I really liked seeing the original lyrics for
songs, sometimes scratched down on scraps of paper. Famous Bob Dylan songs. Beatles songs.
You name it.
I stood at the Doors
exhibit for quite a while.
Jim Morrison was a
shooting star, a poet. He, Janis Joplin,
and Jimi Hendrix—all died at the age of twenty-seven.
Posted is a photograph of
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jim Morrison, and the lyrics for Riders on the
Storm as Jim Morrison wrote them. The
song turned out to be the last song he and the Doors recorded together. Morrison left for Paris and died only a few
weeks after recording the song.
The song is both
beautiful and dark…so very much like Jim Morrison himself.
The Doors are my favorite
American rock band of all time.
Don’t rest in peace, Jim
Morrison. Keep on rocking, man.
--Mitchell Hegman
cool!
ReplyDeleteI loved the hand-written lyrics. Jimi Hendrix had beautiful handwriting.
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