Before the concert in Amsterdam, the Airplane purchased a slab of Lebanese Gold hashish, which they offered to Morrison to nibble. Greedily, he ate a huge chunk. Ray Manzarek remembers him stumbling on stage during the Airplane’s set. “Jim started singing with Grace and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out.”
Slick chuckles. “I liked Jim. Most women did. He was gorgeous, but he was so screwy – half the time you couldn’t talk to him. He used himself as a human guinea pig, see how far you can push the human brain. I remember coming back from an Airplane gig in 1967 and going to the Tropicana Motel with Kantner, and Morrison was in the hallway, goofy on acid, stark naked and barking like a dog. Paul just stepped over him and went into his room.”
The article quoted an interview from 1970 which stated he didn't do drugs at all. That the martini was his "Crystal Ship."
The article was fucking horrible claptrap, teenie bopper bullshit, throwing in Doors song titles throughout the article. It was something a freshmen in high school would turn in.
There were a LOT of "trendmakers" in the 60's in terms of music that were related to, or even IN military intelligence. The Morrison to Admiral morrison question. How did this film student, with no musical experience whatsoever, (seriously NONE) suddenly appear in Manzarek's garage with FULLY WRITTEN songs. Not just lyrics, but fully composed songs?
Frank Zappa's dad was a chemical warfare expert at Edgewood Arsenal (tied to MK-ULTRA), Frank himself never did drugs. Ever. But encouraged everyone else to. Oh, and his manager was this out of place guy named Herb Cohen, who was most likely CIA. He was in Congo in 61 when the CIA took down Lumumba. Just a cohencidence.
John Phillips (Mamas and Papas) put together the Monterey Pop Festival. First of its kind. Got ALL KINDS of media attention, even before they had a lineup set. His dad was career navy. Cass Ellito's parents were career Navy. Oh, and he was somehow "In Cuba" during the Cuban Revolution where "Castro" forced Batista out of power. Another Cohencidence.
Basically, there is a lot of Cohencidences running around Laurel Canyon and the music scene of the time. The military and intelligence connections were astounding in their depth and breadth.
Overall, I'd say that the 60's counterculture/hippie movement was just the next step in the plan to take down America from within like we see today with the degeneracy. The musicians at the time were seeded with specific thoughts and phrases and concepts that separated parent from child. These were planted, they were encouraged, they were promoted, they were media driven. This brought on the copycats and the second generation of musicians following the same ideals, but without the military connections.
The Laurel Canyon scene on the mid 60's was the seed. It was a plant to get the next generation of musicians to have a specific "leftist" agenda. Controlled opposition.
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cyclops1771 ago
That Jim didn't like drugs is crazy talk.
PhimoticEmbrace ago
It said he didn't like heroin or the idea of needles. Doing acid and eating pot doesn't mean you'll do anything. Opiates aren't psychedelics.
cyclops1771 ago
The article quoted an interview from 1970 which stated he didn't do drugs at all. That the martini was his "Crystal Ship."
The article was fucking horrible claptrap, teenie bopper bullshit, throwing in Doors song titles throughout the article. It was something a freshmen in high school would turn in.
If you really want to go down a rabbit hole, check out the Laurel Canyon scene.
iDontShift ago
thanks for the link.
makes me think good chance those musicians didn't die...
then went back to their 'normal life'
others, like zappa, are in it for life.
cyclops1771 ago
That rabbit hole took 3 months of my life digging into that shit.
Crazy shit
Chimaira92 ago
What's your opinion on it all.
cyclops1771 ago
There were a LOT of "trendmakers" in the 60's in terms of music that were related to, or even IN military intelligence. The Morrison to Admiral morrison question. How did this film student, with no musical experience whatsoever, (seriously NONE) suddenly appear in Manzarek's garage with FULLY WRITTEN songs. Not just lyrics, but fully composed songs?
Frank Zappa's dad was a chemical warfare expert at Edgewood Arsenal (tied to MK-ULTRA), Frank himself never did drugs. Ever. But encouraged everyone else to. Oh, and his manager was this out of place guy named Herb Cohen, who was most likely CIA. He was in Congo in 61 when the CIA took down Lumumba. Just a cohencidence.
John Phillips (Mamas and Papas) put together the Monterey Pop Festival. First of its kind. Got ALL KINDS of media attention, even before they had a lineup set. His dad was career navy. Cass Ellito's parents were career Navy. Oh, and he was somehow "In Cuba" during the Cuban Revolution where "Castro" forced Batista out of power. Another Cohencidence.
Basically, there is a lot of Cohencidences running around Laurel Canyon and the music scene of the time. The military and intelligence connections were astounding in their depth and breadth.
Overall, I'd say that the 60's counterculture/hippie movement was just the next step in the plan to take down America from within like we see today with the degeneracy. The musicians at the time were seeded with specific thoughts and phrases and concepts that separated parent from child. These were planted, they were encouraged, they were promoted, they were media driven. This brought on the copycats and the second generation of musicians following the same ideals, but without the military connections.
The Laurel Canyon scene on the mid 60's was the seed. It was a plant to get the next generation of musicians to have a specific "leftist" agenda. Controlled opposition.