Q&A #2 - "Jim Morrison: Friends Gathered Together" new book
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2025
- This video (part 2 of 3) was recorded during the Q&A session with Frank Lisciandro after the presentation of his book, "Jim Morrison: Friends Gathered Together" at Book Soup in Los Angeles. The new book includes interviews and conversations with 14 of Jim Morrison's friends, colleagues, mentors and lovers; the different points of view make for a more accurate rendering, a more humane and truthful portrait. The book is available at Amazon.com. Ebooks are available for Kindle, iBook, Nook and Kobo.
Frank I love how you talk about Jim like he were in the present...you can tell you are a genuine friend...I think Morrison was a "real" person and your brilliant book as well as the way you talk about him illustrates this...so thank you for sharing your thoughtful insight and memories with us of one of the greatest artists of modern time.x
I have read countless books on Jim Morrison and from them I conclude that Jim was a very deep person and a very gifted poet (and melodist) I don't believe that it is possible to think at those depths without a very soft soul and a soul as soft as that will absorb a hell of a lot of mankinds injustice to it's own kind.
Beautiful thought. He had the soul of a clown, in his words. But so much of his work, and the intended imagery & references, flies well above the heads of his audience, to this day. A true genius.
@@ChorusArtists yeah agreed, the soul of a clown for sure, after all, a clown has a very soft and sad soul alone in a circus of fools.
Good shit !
I liked the part where Frank was asked what he didn’t like about Jim. He paused and thought about it for a moment, then said l have nothing to say !. You could just tell how much he loved and respected him. James Douglas Morrison, the ULTIMATE AMERICAN.
Appreciate the book immensely. Couldn't put it down until I finished it. I have a different view of who Jim was altogether now. Thanks.
Wow, the story of the ring box vendor is all you ever need to know about JDM. One of a very, very few certifiable geniuses who were demonstrably kind to the people at the lowest rungs of society. You can judge a man by how he treats those far below his class.
I find it fascinating how different everyone's perspectives on Jim Morrison are. Partially this is because every person has many sides to them, which they show to different people and then every observer has their angle on what they see. Clearly Frank Lisciandro being Jim's trusted friend saw his best sides and desires to as well, while on the opposite side we have David Crosby's bitter insecure reaction. As someone who has always had Jim's music and poetry in my life since about 1975 (14) I celebrate his demonic and angelic sides and find his single greatest performance to be the 1970 Isle of Wight concert where there is no 'entertainment', just his most compact intense performance of his strongest song poetry.
Unlike Fran I never knew him personally but his energy lives on in the music and poetry. If I had to choose the one observer of Jim I appreciate and trust the most that would have to be John Densmore. He does not naturally embellish, as though that was needed but embellishment is a negative. Think of Oliver Stone's awful film. Far better but also queasy at times is 'cosmic' Ray who loves his own raphsodies about Jim, building up the story and myth. John LOVED Jim the man and the art and despaired for him, both appreciating Jim and CREATING WITH HIM! His drumming was percussion to JIm's voice. He confronted Jim because he was NOT embellishing. He was sincere, had integrity, in a way lacking in both the more 'liberal' Robby and Ray who called him a 'communist' because of his insistence of respecting Jim's commitment to true MORALITY in spiritual art and caring in a way I KNOW Jim would have appreciated.
I love Stone's film. It's messy and entertaining. I think Jim would have a good laugh at it and view it as a comedy. On another note, I live in Los Angeles and ran into Ray at a DVD store on Pico in the early 2000s. I would go there every Tuesday to load up on new releases. I saw someone with their back to me with a stack of DVDs that matched mine and made some off-handed comment that I can't exactly remember. He turned around and we started talking about film and the whole time I was thinking, "Oh my God, I'm talking to a legend." I finally worked up the nerve and casually said, "I'm a big fan of your music." He was very gracious and we continued to talk about film and "Jimbo" and Ray's refusal to watch Stone's film because he felt like it didn't honor the memory of Jim. I countered that the movie had its merits and turned on a lot of young people to their music, which he appreciated. We talked about when he knew it was over, when the spirit had left Jim. He seemed very protective of him, like an older brother. His wife Dorothy finally walked up, he introduced her and they left. Sweet guy.
I enjoyed your book very much!
thank you for putting it out there.
I love the story at the end 💛🌼✨
frank......i am almost finished with your book. you did an outstanding job. thank you. after watching this question and answer thing you did i would have liked you to answer the question that was posed to you regarding what you didn't like about jim morrison. i watched you very carefully and saw the emotion on your face and the body language you presented. from what i saw...... there was something you didn't like about morrison but you refused to answer because he was your good friend and you didn't want to say anything negative but you should be very open with people regarding this subject.
I thought he was going to mention the alcohol, I'm kinda glad he said nothing though.
Just (Maybe). He was going to say, His Choice in His Lady, Pam and All Her ‘Demons’
@@reesebene6082 You hit the nail on the head. My thoughts exactly. He knew...
J Day - Hey Jay- Isn’t It Incredible (Well, Predicable) that She Slept with Danny Sugerman right after Jim’s Passing- Go Figure, RIGHT
@@reesebene6082, I'm not surprised at all. She wanted Jim around when it was convenient. He was no angel, but I can totally understand why. How ironic that she never got to spend one dime of his money.
I think he was Jim's friend and will always say good things about him. But he's not trying to cash in on dirt, which is great
Somebody once said to Jim that he was anything the other person who he was with thought he was and Jim replied 'cruel but true'.
JDM's sense of humor was different when he was hammered. Frank shoulda pointed that out I think. It got a bit darker when he was wrecked, but otherwise he was a good natured guy who loved to laugh. That's the Jim that the media was never that interested in, and is lesser known.
you watched Stoned which was so inaccurate and not who Jim was...so bs
@@aryalogo6624 WTF are you saying? "You watched Stoned"? If you mean that I watched the horrible Oliver Stone Doors movie, yes I did at the premiere actually. It sucked HUGE and is full of lies and bullshit. It's like you're agreeing with me as you tell me my comment is BS. WTF?
Speaking of Jim's bad joke telling reminded me of a joke he told in a late-in-life interview that went like this: What is the difference between a girl's track team and a bunch of midgets? Moronic, but very, very funny (although I guess not politically correct).
It is my experience that alcoholics are depressed.
no all of them are depressed
some people are just addicted to booze like smoking its a drug
Back then (As One Knows) There was No ‘AA’ or ‘Betty Ford Clinic’, As Alice Copper (Vince)- Jim’s Friend Said; the Only ‘Fix’ or Solution Back then, was the Mental Psychiatric Ward (And How Extreme Was That) -Jim was Self-Medicating and (Thinking) Jim was Calming or ‘Depressing’ his Mind/Brain from Over Processing or Creating-All the Time(Once a Poet) Your Always Thing and Analyzing and Being with someone like ‘Bubble-Head’ Pam; Can NOT Be EASY~
When they are 27 they aren't even a tenth of the way to the bottom of actual ennui
friend or not,making money from Jim Morrison.......is wrong.
I don't think he would mind. People were making money off Morrison from the day The Doors made it big. At that point you become product.
So no one can write about Jim Morrison and sell the book, they are supposed to be silent forever and give information away at their own expense, is that the logic?
i dont agree with the whole jim the addict thing i dont belive in addicts there are those who just want everything out of life.
Lisciando is a strange cat. He disses THE DOORS movie ( like Ray did) and claims to be on a mission to tell us what the ' real' Jim was like.
Yet, if you read " Feast of Friends" his personal recollections , and those of others , portray a person just like the film version- worse even!