"I often wonder if his death has been an elaborate charade.
"Jim was a restless soul, always looking for something else in his life, and even six years of success - and excess - with The Doors hadn't been enough for him.
"A year earlier, he had shown me a brochure for the Seychelles and said, 'Wouldn't this be the perfect place to escape to if everyone believed you were dead?'. At the time, I never thought anything of it."
"Jim was a restless soul, always looking for something else in his life, and even six years of success - and excess - with The Doors hadn't been enough for him.
"A year earlier, he had shown me a brochure for the Seychelles and said, 'Wouldn't this be the perfect place to escape to if everyone believed you were dead?'. At the time, I never thought anything of it."
Or, indeed, thought to mention it in the previous thirty-eight years for some reason. Perhaps he was afraid we'd laugh at him.
Of course, if Morrison is still alive, he'd be spending his time hanging round that Parisian graveyard, the Pere Lachaise, giggling at the people visiting his empty grave. Or maybe he just spends his days trying to figure out how to access his money, somehow.
[Thanks to Michael M]
He trotted out that story when I met him about 6 years ago, hinting strongly that he might have heard from Jim. Manzarek wrote a terrible novel called, regrettably, "The Poet In Exile" based on the premise that a keyboardist named Roy starts getting postcards from the Sekritly Not Dead singer of his band.
ReplyDeleteThe man is such a sleaze, trying to sell bad fanfic to Doors fans by insinuating that maybe he's really alive after all. Honestly, he's one of the creepiest men in rock I've met.