I am not old enough to give you the answer you are looking for, but i was a big doors fan while in college 15 years ago. from what i learned about jim and the doors, it seems that jim was kinda a narcissist and was deified by his untimely death. Imagine how society would view Kanye if he had died young, though that may be too tough on jim.

i am kinda embarrased to refer you to a bio pic, but i liked the val kilmer one from the 80s. You should watch it if you haven't.

I’m old enough to remember the Doors.

Jim Morrison was a narcissist, his poetry and lyrics go from mediocre to bad, he wasn’t really that popular until years after he died.

You would hear a shortened version of “light my fire” on the radio now and then, but no one was really influenced by the Doors and no one really cared much about them.

I'm not old enough to remember him personally, but I do remember the 80s when FM Rock stations still played The Doors and Led Zeppelin incessantly. Back then, there was a syndicated radio show that -- for one episode -- broadcast interviews with the surviving band members. I distinctly remember the tone of voice (though not the exact words or quantity) of one of them saying, "I saw him take threee huuundred micrograms of acid" (at some location). Sounded angry and astounded just on the retelling. I think that's also where I heard bandmates talking about Jim pleading out to a possession charge and being required to do public service announcements instead of going to jail. He was a jerk about it. The PSAs were grouped as "Speed Kills" and he was supposed to hammer that home, but was ruining each take, saying things like (but not exactly cuz I don't remember), "Speed kills. Smoke pot, instead!"

From my personal view of his music, we had all The Doors albums in my house when I was growing up, so I'd heard them all. For reference, we also had Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, some Beatles, Rolling Stones, and other stuff like that.

I think Jim Morrison had a tight band behind him and wrote some decent lyrics. I think 'Light my Fire' was over-played and other songs should have gotten more attention. I do, however, appreciate that each band member got to solo on that, and the song's greatest weakness is that those solos get cut for airplay. It isn't even that the solos deserve special attention, but the song is too short and repetitive without it.

Too young to have seen them live or anything, but I’ve heard plenty of stories. The one that sticks out most was about a show they did, I think in Orlando, FL (not the infamous one in Miami). Basically, Morrison was too out of it to perform, so Densmore wound up singing and killed it. This has affected my opinion of him greatly. I’ve always seen him as someone who could’ve been great, but was too selfish and too much of a narcissist to get to that level.

Piece of shit human being, but I like his cover of house of the rising sun

I thought it was really cool that he inspired Wayne Campbell to start Waynestock

The music performed by the band ranged from outstanding to utter pretentious twaddle. Imho the most interesting thing about The Doors was the 1991 film about the band. Val Kilmer play Morrison. The likeness was uncanny.

The impression you get is the guy went to excess and succeeded at being a dick. Shame really cos I genuinely like most of their tracks.

My old man liked the Doors, L.A. Woman is a great album for me each track on it rocks, though riders on the storm was overplayed on the classic rock station growing up in the 90's 2000's. He was very much a rebel in his days so the music lines up lol

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Well, his dad was the Admiral that did the Gulf of Tonkin incident and there's a ton of evidence that The Doors were not an organic phenomena at all but in reality were most likely an intelligence operation. See Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon by David McGowan, it very clearly lays out the spiderweb of connections between 60s "counter culture" and intelligence agencies. To address your other questions; No. He was a piece of shit. He was not an activist, he was just as awful as any boomer you ever met. Very little is actually known about his early life because HE WAS AN OP. As far as the music goes, i could take it or leave it. Morrison didn't write the music anyway. He wrote a series of poems in one brief artistic burst that eventually became the lyrics to all of their songs, and he allegedly did this some time before he met the rest of the band.

His music is enjoyable. A lot of his poetry can be listened to on the album "an american prayer." Music is pretty influential to many of the artists of the era and even up to the 90's. I'd say he is no better or worse then any other over hyped "musical genius" icon that you'd see on the walls of college dorm rooms all across America.

I live real close to the house he lived in when he was a kid. There's even a "Riders on the Storm Inn" here in town... 😌 I don't know a lot about the man that he was and I'm too young to have seen The Doors play, though I really enjoy "People Are Strange," and a few other songs of theirs. I'm glad he found a way out of this place, though, even if it was only for a short time.

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I don't think he's associated with the youth anymore lol

Love the Muppets.

My mom's creepy boyfriends liked The Doors. I associate that with Morrison. Creepy old men.

Anyone interested in him should read the groupie memoir I'm With The Band by Pamela Des Barres. Great book.

https://archives.waiting-forthe-sun.net/Pages/Players/Women/des_barres.html

I grew up in the late 70s early 80s as a big alternative music fan

Literally nobody I knew liked The Doors. Very much a product of their time, as in, there wasn't much else to listen to, so being slightly different was cool.

Utterly eclipsed by, for example, Pink Floyd and, to an extent, Led Zeppelin at the time

I enjoy some of his music. And respect following he created.

You should take a look at his drawings, search a little for those. Example: https://www.gottahaverockandroll.com/jim_morrison_original_pencil_drawing_circa_1957-lot7524.aspx

http://quotingjimbo.blogspot.com/2011/12/jim-morrisons-drawing-from-high-school.html?m=1

By that and other information, sounds to me like he had hard childhood and unhappy life.

Information about him is not as easy to just find, but biography might be interesting read.

I'm still kind of pissed that I wasn't on that Crystal Ship he alluded to.

I went to his grave, it's in an amazing graveyard that's worth exploring regardless. He made sweet music but he's a pretty flawed human being... I'm happy to celebrate the culture he's been associated with though.

Just some bozo really

I'll answer with an analogy; A hammer can be used to build things, or to destroy things. Morrison appears to have preferred destroying things.