We had a bad storm come through a few months ago and we had no power for seven days. Every night I got out my flashlight when I went to bed and read this book until I fell asleep. After a week I had read the entire thing. Reading about Jim all week saved my life and my sanity. Thank you Jim for being there for me.
I read the book in 1980 as I headed off for basic training in the Air Force. I knew of some of the Doors songs but wasn't really a "Fan" back then. Huge Fan Now. I really felt a connection since I grew up in Alexandria, VA. Also a Military Brat and was familiar with a number of places Jim apparently visited. I accept that he died in Paris. Someone of his character would have reemerged and would have been discovered. Jim Morrison was one of a kind. Extraordinary insight of human nature, history, Religion and Philosophy.
i remember hearing about the book "coming soon" and, being a major Doors fan in my high school years, anxiously awaited its arrival in book stores then grabbed one of the 1st copies available in my area and devoured it for the 1st time soon after. since that 1st read i must have read it more than 10 times
I read the book in I think 1980 my Freshman year. I was a big doors fan even although my older brothers didn't bring home Any doors albums. I didn't even know who Jim was until the radio commercial about An American Prayer album was just an ad on kmet. Great read and know I'm hearing read aloud to me from the horses mouth.. awesome!
To clarify, that would be a half-Jewish horse, who sniffed horse in the 70s (& 90s, with Fawn Hall) & who embellished a story about Jim's g/f riding him like a horse one night in 1973.
@@giftedplanksify Right. Yes. In his "memoir " Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess, Sugarman gives us an incredibly lurid & minutely-detailed account of a West Hollywood night spent sniffing drugs and having sex with Pam Courson, sometime around 1973 or 74. She apparently confessed to him her participation in Morrison's death couple of years earlier, also by drugs....her drugs.
Jim Morrison 1943-1971 and I have read this book on my free time and the photos were awesome and I have been a doors fan for 30 years since 1994 and my late dad got me into the doors and I will continue to listen to the doors just like my dad and Jim Morrison's life was so different than mine though and he has been gone for 53 years now and I think it's just obvious that Jim is definitely dead or he fake it and there's no reason of a rumor that he is alive or dead and Jim's friends and family members are shocked that he's not alive anyway and I knew his life was very difficult and he was gone before I was thought of yet but the doors music still plays and I miss my dad's stories about Jim Morrison 💔 😢😢
The photos are good ,I always saw this book in cling film in my record shop and thought it would b trash as I read the description, so I bought it years after rays book 2001,The Doors illustrated history best photos every mag and paper wrote ,that was not about his life
If you listen to Robby’s autobiography he basically says that a lot of the book is made up. And that Ray Manzareck helped embellish a lot of the stories..because basically they were trying to build up the Morrison “myth” which they knew would keep the music alive…and it worked.
Is that Jack Nicholson, Chinatown tough cop doing the reading? Nice touch. Btw, the blood wedding has since been shown to be pure fiction. In fact most of the book was the product of its writer’s imagination.
@@sierrasky2491 Only the hard facts, originally collected by Jerry Hopkins beginning in 1972, "match" the other books. Hopkins spent 3 yrs conducting extensive research on several continents gathering up factual details of Morrison's life (mostly interviews from 1972-1975 w/all of the key figures who tell their own versions of experiences). At the end (1975), he apparently had a manuscript draft that "was the size of the Manhattan telephone directory" (direct quote). No major publishing house was interested, given that the times/culture had changed in 3 yrs & the "Big Five" (top 5 major USA book publishing cos.) all felt Morrison's time had come and gone. In '75 or '76, Hopkins gave up on the project & gave over the m.s. to Sugerman, a "key figure" interviewed earlier, who had become an acquaintance. Sugarman (w/Manzarak) sat down & dreamed up dozens of scenarios & encounters that Jim "might/could have had" with various (also fictitious) persons during his 27 yrs, complete w/fully-imagined dialogue. Basically he was (they were) relying on the question, "What would Jim have said/done in x situation?" And unfortunately, in fabricating these stories & vignettes to increase the book's market value & inserting them liberally to spice things up, he also edited out large quantities of Hopkins' original research material, due to anticipated length constraint limits. This resulted in the book as published having a lop-sided "truth value", yet one heck of a hot zinger marketplace"commercial value" (aka...smut value) I would bet that, if Jerry Hopkins' original unchanged manuscript had been published back then as it was, w/no involvement from DS, the "other bios" would never have been written, having been rendered redundant or superfluous.
He wouldn't need to inject it. Alcohol chemically reacts with Heroin to massively increase its potency. The rock n roll circus was one of the main venues in Paris to score Heroin at the time. The last thing they would need , would be the attention the club would receive if a star like Morrison was found dead of an overdose on the premises.. Jim snorted some Smack that he had picked up for Pam. Unfortunately for him it was very pure, that and the amount of booze he had drunk, sealed his fate. Dumping him in a bath of warm water hides the time of death, after he had been carried back to the flat.
@@sierrasky2491 Indeed it does. But the alternate story, where Pamela gives him some of the fluffy pink ("China White") purified Marseilles 'cotton candy' powder & says either "Don't do too much Jim! Don't do too much" or "It's coke" also sounds about right too...
I agree. For a long time I've thought Jim's death was basically an accidental heroin/alcohol overdose. Combining those two drugs is like playing with rocket fuel.
@@nickgodalin6487did you know Pamela's drug dealer also dealt drugs to Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. The count as his name was. Died a few years after Jim n Pam.
@@RachaelClarkeClarke it’s a glorified fan-fiction of Morrison’s life, with no purpose other than to make as much money as possible, even members of the band and close friends have long since called it out for that.
Yeah, but this time Robbie is too much of "oh, this didn't happen in that 'scandalized' way, rather happened like I tell you, writing this book" vibe. He underestimates almost every exaggeration in the stories, with Jim in the center. Exaggerated maybe, yet in accordance with Morrison's daily choices. But, yeah I know, Krieger warns us about the probable existence of these kinds of Jim-experiences. He accepts Jim's sometimes obnoxious mostly irritating but somehow sweet-in-a-way manners, saying he'd reply with words of sorry, all blush his face and the three music afficionados would forgive whatever their rebellious, dark, beautiful poet\singer had done just 10 minutes ago on the stage or in a bar in a car wherever whatever... Some hours ago, I realized that whoever was a friend or an acquaintance to Jim, they all were in love with him. Awestruck, in other words. All jaws dropped with just a glance to his stature+face+movements+hands+boots+white|shirt+leather pants, oh the leather pants! Before I listened to Robby Krieger's book 'Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors' from 2021, I was - once again - into grunge stories, explicitly about Layne/Kurt/Cornell/Dave/Pfaff. Whatever.. So many years later, I jumped into the water while the so-called "lizard king" is also in. Electrifying and most-effective stories staggering one's psyche and reminding us of this essential truth: prophet or not, this man awakens the minds entering his world, be it just from a tiny corner or taking a huge place in Jim's life - like Pam, his other hook-ups, the drinking, the potent acid trips, his ambition or rather proclivity to take revenge on his father+mother. It's crazy. Crazy. [see: Almost Famous] Once illuminated with his light, go beside him. He'll always be there. American god of new Greeks.
Initially, I had read this book on two different occasions and was fascinated by it. But come to find out years later, the book is loaded with falsities and was also an inspiration for that overblown Oliver Stone movie, which Ray Manzerek totally despised of. I’ll no longer recommend this book to anyone else.
This HAS to be an ABRIDGED reading because there is NO WAY this entire book can be read aloud in just over an hour.....Not really complaining as much as just saying😶
Anybody know why that Howard Smith intwrview from......i think 1970....was so contentious from the begining.....the journaliat practically called him a fat anti semite......i just was amazed at the obvious contempt he had for Jim...anyone know if there was a history beforehand?
This sounds pretty true to form according to the other autobiographies. If it's embellished it's not really embellished that much. It sounds like Jim Morrison died of heart failure. But we will never know. A psychopathic personality. Created by the drug culture of the 60s? Or the outpouring of a creative mind?
unfortunately, with everything we now know, this rendition of morrison's biography is not exactly the best archive. The Remainder of the doors dubbed this book 'nothing here but a bunch of lies. But like Levar Burton taught us, you don't have to take my word for it. sincerely a voracious Doors collector.
@@missingremote4388 He could have done any number of different things instead of "getting high", as you stated. But, & this is crucial, often for JM ingesting a drink/drug for its "high" effect WAS a valuable, worthwhile goal in & of itself. So, a judgement such as yours (Shame on you! Look what you COULD have accomplished in life instead of wasting away your talents & potential!) is anathema in his case, as well as irrelevant & particularly unfair. For the majority of his life, Morrison would never have assumed, as your comment implicitly assumes, that drug use (even if excessive and/or frequent, even if illegal or censured) is wrong.
I read all of the biographies and it matches up pretty close if they embellished it it wasn't by very much. Maybe one or two scenes just to up the drama. Seems pretty accurate.
@@DJBOOTS378 No, he really doesn't. Danny worked for the band for years after the book. I've read plenty of interviews with them. I've never seen one word about them talking negatively of the book
@@MrOctober44 I read the book in 1980 when it first came out. I believed it for about a year. No Internet back in those days. Did some hard research. Things just didn’t add up. Read Robbie Krieger‘s book and Frank Liscindranos. Compare them, and you will see what the truth is.
Id say jim was closer to 185 at his chuppiest ...because he WAS 5'11.....while not giant ,he was slightly taller than average. ...and id say he prolly was about 140 at his thinnest
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We had a bad storm come through a few months ago and we had no power for seven days. Every night I got out my flashlight when I went to bed and read this book until I fell asleep. After a week I had read the entire thing. Reading about Jim all week saved my life and my sanity. Thank you Jim for being there for me.
I read the book in 1980 as I headed off for basic training in the Air Force. I knew of some of the Doors songs but wasn't really a "Fan" back then. Huge Fan Now. I really felt a connection since I grew up in Alexandria, VA. Also a Military Brat and was familiar with a number of places Jim apparently visited.
I accept that he died in Paris. Someone of his character would have reemerged and would have been discovered.
Jim Morrison was one of a kind.
Extraordinary insight of human nature, history, Religion and Philosophy.
i read this 40 years ago. gave my copy to a woman i worked for for her daughter every one i know read it at the time
i remember hearing about the book "coming soon" and, being a major Doors fan in my high school years, anxiously awaited its arrival in book stores then grabbed one of the 1st copies available in my area and devoured it for the 1st time soon after. since that 1st read i must have read it more than 10 times
I read the book in I think 1980 my Freshman year. I was a big doors fan even although my older brothers didn't bring home Any doors albums. I didn't even know who Jim was until the radio commercial about An American Prayer album was just an ad on kmet. Great read and know I'm hearing read aloud to me from the horses mouth.. awesome!
Same!!!
To clarify, that would be a half-Jewish horse, who sniffed horse in the 70s (& 90s, with Fawn Hall) & who embellished a story about Jim's g/f riding him like a horse one night in 1973.
@@nickgodalin6487 I don't think Jim was around in 73 he tried heroin maybe once or twice and gave him horse energy
@@giftedplanksify Right. Yes. In his "memoir " Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess, Sugarman gives us an incredibly lurid & minutely-detailed account of a West Hollywood night spent sniffing drugs and having sex with Pam Courson, sometime around 1973 or 74. She apparently confessed to him her participation in Morrison's death couple of years earlier, also by drugs....her drugs.
Jim Morrison 1943-1971 and I have read this book on my free time and the photos were awesome and I have been a doors fan for 30 years since 1994 and my late dad got me into the doors and I will continue to listen to the doors just like my dad and Jim Morrison's life was so different than mine though and he has been gone for 53 years now and I think it's just obvious that Jim is definitely dead or he fake it and there's no reason of a rumor that he is alive or dead and Jim's friends and family members are shocked that he's not alive anyway and I knew his life was very difficult and he was gone before I was thought of yet but the doors music still plays and I miss my dad's stories about Jim Morrison 💔 😢😢
The photos are good ,I always saw this book in cling film in my record shop and thought it would b trash as I read the description, so I bought it years after rays book 2001,The Doors illustrated history best photos every mag and paper wrote ,that was not about his life
If you listen to Robby’s autobiography he basically says that a lot of the book is made up. And that Ray Manzareck helped embellish a lot of the stories..because basically they were trying to build up the Morrison “myth” which they knew would keep the music alive…and it worked.
Yeah he said that Danny Sugerman made up or adlibbed a lot of this in No One Here Gets Out Alive
Thanks Peter a lot of people don’t believe that I don’t know why
Robbie is also an Uber neurotic Jew, so it’s no surprise he complains about this book
@@williemays2 you shouldn’t be saying things like that Willy👁️🔥👁️
@@DJBOOTS378 you use jimmy as your avatar but you dont like the truth... you need to reconcile brother 🤔
I've read this more than once, really good book!!!♡♡♡♡♡
Obviously Danny loved Jim and these stories are embellished to say the least but good book
This book and Hammer Of The Gods were the first two rock bios I read.
Is that Jack Nicholson, Chinatown tough cop doing the reading? Nice touch.
Btw, the blood wedding has since been shown to be pure fiction. In fact most of the book was the product of its writer’s imagination.
Book matches other autobiographies pretty well
So true, so true. Turns out Sugarman was a hack.
@@sierrasky2491 Only the hard facts, originally collected by Jerry Hopkins beginning in 1972, "match" the other books. Hopkins spent 3 yrs conducting extensive research on several continents gathering up factual details of Morrison's life (mostly interviews from 1972-1975 w/all of the key figures who tell their own versions of experiences). At the end (1975), he apparently had a manuscript draft that "was the size of the Manhattan telephone directory" (direct quote).
No major publishing house was interested, given that the times/culture had changed in 3 yrs & the "Big Five" (top 5 major USA book publishing cos.) all felt Morrison's time had come and gone.
In '75 or '76, Hopkins gave up on the project & gave over the m.s. to Sugerman, a "key figure" interviewed earlier, who had become an acquaintance.
Sugarman (w/Manzarak) sat down & dreamed up dozens of scenarios & encounters that Jim "might/could have had" with various (also fictitious) persons during his 27 yrs, complete w/fully-imagined dialogue.
Basically he was (they were) relying on the question, "What would Jim have said/done in x situation?"
And unfortunately, in fabricating these stories & vignettes to increase the book's market value & inserting them liberally to spice things up, he also edited out large quantities of Hopkins' original research material, due to anticipated length constraint limits.
This resulted in the book as published having a lop-sided "truth value", yet one heck of a hot zinger marketplace"commercial value" (aka...smut value)
I would bet that, if Jerry Hopkins' original unchanged manuscript had been published back then as it was, w/no involvement from DS, the "other bios" would never have been written, having been rendered redundant or superfluous.
He wouldn't need to inject it. Alcohol chemically reacts with Heroin to massively increase its potency. The rock n roll circus was one of the main venues in Paris to score Heroin at the time. The last thing they would need , would be the attention the club would receive if a star like Morrison was found dead of an overdose on the premises.. Jim snorted some Smack that he had picked up for Pam. Unfortunately for him it was very pure, that and the amount of booze he had drunk, sealed his fate. Dumping him in a bath of warm water hides the time of death, after he had been carried back to the flat.
Sounds about right to me.
@@sierrasky2491 Indeed it does. But the alternate story, where Pamela gives him some of the fluffy pink ("China White") purified Marseilles 'cotton candy' powder & says either "Don't do too much Jim! Don't do too much" or "It's coke" also sounds about right too...
yes, i think you got it right-
that’s the most likely way it happened
I agree. For a long time I've thought Jim's death was basically an accidental heroin/alcohol overdose. Combining those two drugs is like playing with rocket fuel.
@@nickgodalin6487did you know Pamela's drug dealer also dealt drugs to Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. The count as his name was. Died a few years after Jim n Pam.
Thanks. It's great!
If this is the whole book it can't be more than about 40 pages question mark
“Nothing here but bunch of lies”
How so?
@@RachaelClarkeClarke it’s a glorified fan-fiction of Morrison’s life, with no purpose other than to make as much money as possible, even members of the band and close friends have long since called it out for that.
Why is this on an hour?
First book I ever read rip jim
Robby's book is the best, Read what he said about this fan boy
Yeah, but this time Robbie is too much of "oh, this didn't happen in that 'scandalized' way, rather happened like I tell you, writing this book" vibe. He underestimates almost every exaggeration in the stories, with Jim in the center. Exaggerated maybe, yet in accordance with Morrison's daily choices. But, yeah I know, Krieger warns us about the probable existence of these kinds of Jim-experiences. He accepts Jim's sometimes obnoxious mostly irritating but somehow sweet-in-a-way manners, saying he'd reply with words of sorry, all blush his face and the three music afficionados would forgive whatever their rebellious, dark, beautiful poet\singer had done just 10 minutes ago on the stage or in a bar in a car wherever whatever... Some hours ago, I realized that whoever was a friend or an acquaintance to Jim, they all were in love with him. Awestruck, in other words. All jaws dropped with just a glance to his stature+face+movements+hands+boots+white|shirt+leather pants, oh the leather pants! Before I listened to Robby Krieger's book 'Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors' from 2021, I was - once again - into grunge stories, explicitly about Layne/Kurt/Cornell/Dave/Pfaff. Whatever.. So many years later, I jumped into the water while the so-called "lizard king" is also in. Electrifying and most-effective stories staggering one's psyche and reminding us of this essential truth: prophet or not, this man awakens the minds entering his world, be it just from a tiny corner or taking a huge place in Jim's life - like Pam, his other hook-ups, the drinking, the potent acid trips, his ambition or rather proclivity to take revenge on his father+mother. It's crazy. Crazy. [see: Almost Famous]
Once illuminated with his light, go beside him. He'll always be there. American god of new Greeks.
Initially, I had read this book on two different occasions and was fascinated by it. But come to find out years later, the book is loaded with falsities and was also an inspiration for that overblown Oliver Stone movie, which Ray Manzerek totally despised of. I’ll no longer recommend this book to anyone else.
I gotta say, i hear a nice hint of Alex Grey's voice in ya bud. Peace! ✌
This HAS to be an ABRIDGED reading because there is NO WAY this entire book can be read aloud in just over an hour.....Not really complaining as much as just saying😶
Anybody know why that Howard Smith intwrview from......i think 1970....was so contentious from the begining.....the journaliat practically called him a fat anti semite......i just was amazed at the obvious contempt he had for Jim...anyone know if there was a history beforehand?
Morrison was scot/Irish, he was a Presbyterian not Roman catholic. Lot of calvinism in the poetry of William Blake and the lyrics of Jim Morrison
He was raised a catholic according to the book "life death, legend, Jim morrison."
@@jimbobjimjim6500 Danny sugar.an was wrong, Sugarman book has a lot of errors.
@@LindaSkidmore-r1k this book wasn't written by sugarman.
Danny, I wish you & Jim were still here with us. I miss you both. It's been a long time. At least you & Jim are together over there.
I got the book when i was sixteen i still have it im fifty six now 😢
Are you likely to upload the remainder?
There isn't anymore, that's the whole thing.
@@Francazio the whole book is only an hour read? wow!
@@Francazioimpossible to get 300+ pages into one hour, definitely abridged at least.
@@dirk_diggler46558 no no, but this is the whole book on tape recording. Sugerman definitely shortened the audio version compared to the written.
@@DaveSCameron of course, but this is the whole book on tape recording. Sugerman definitely shortened the audio version compared to the written.
Ah yes the very first Jim Morrison fan fiction lmao
forget this book, just a bunch of propaganda.
want to know about the Doors?
read Robby Krieger
and John Densmore
yeah, Ray`s book sucks ass as well.
I remember stealing this book
En español por favor
Danny Sugerman is so full of BS it's coming out of his mouth
Yeah, he was out for the$$$$
@@DJBOOTS378 100%. I'm pretty certain Morrison would of kicked his ass had he lived.
@@majik_man I would pay to see that one would be great!!
He sounds drunk or high …
Or both.
1:04:48
I bet Jim nevor wore that ring
This sounds pretty true to form according to the other autobiographies. If it's embellished it's not really embellished that much. It sounds like Jim Morrison died of heart failure. But we will never know. A psychopathic personality. Created by the drug culture of the 60s? Or the outpouring of a creative mind?
Speedballs
I hear it’s all sensationalistic bs ….
You heard right all BS well mostly
Great book
unfortunately, with everything we now know, this rendition of morrison's biography is not exactly the best archive. The Remainder of the doors dubbed this book 'nothing here but a bunch of lies. But like Levar Burton taught us, you don't have to take my word for it. sincerely a voracious Doors collector.
did ANYBODY give Jim a Book of Mormon🤔
I read this book at 15 yrs old, no idea what became of it.
He was born dead. He had no heart to love, to only beat. May God give him the love he never knew.
I could not disagree more.....Jim was more Alive than 99.9 percent of all other humans.....the pinnacle of empiricism!
Imagine jim learning to play a guitar instead of being high
@@missingremote4388 Jim's drug use, and mostly psychedelics, wanned by 68....by that time Jim's drug of choice was scotch in massive quantities.
@@missingremote4388 He could have done any number of different things instead of "getting high", as you stated. But, & this is crucial, often for JM ingesting a drink/drug for its "high" effect WAS a valuable, worthwhile goal in & of itself.
So, a judgement such as yours (Shame on you! Look what you COULD have accomplished in life instead of wasting away your talents & potential!) is anathema in his case, as well as irrelevant & particularly unfair. For the majority of his life, Morrison would never have assumed, as your comment implicitly assumes, that drug use (even if excessive and/or frequent, even if illegal or censured) is wrong.
Nothing Here But Lots Of Lies. That's what the rest of The Doors and Jim's closest friends called this book.
Source?
Yep you got that right!
Lol. Yet the Doors kept Danny as their PR guy for years?
I read all of the biographies and it matches up pretty close if they embellished it it wasn't by very much. Maybe one or two scenes just to up the drama. Seems pretty accurate.
@@DJBOOTS378 No, he really doesn't. Danny worked for the band for years after the book. I've read plenty of interviews with them. I've never seen one word about them talking negatively of the book
This isn't even the whole book
Yeah, this book sucks it’s not the truth
What are the lies?
@@MrOctober44 I read the book in 1980 when it first came out. I believed it for about a year. No Internet back in those days. Did some hard research. Things just didn’t add up. Read Robbie Krieger‘s book and Frank Liscindranos. Compare them, and you will see what the truth is.
Parts of this are seemingly Dannys fantasies. Certainly not the full story.
I never liked Danny Sugarman .
Id say jim was closer to 185 at his chuppiest ...because he WAS 5'11.....while not giant ,he was slightly taller than average. ...and id say he prolly was about 140 at his thinnest
Alive is a relative term!