THE DOORS - Maggie M'Gill
"Jim Morrison & the Doors on the Road" (50)
"I'm an old bluesman, I've been singing the blues since the beginning of the world." For Jim, the blues was primordial, painful, and lustful; he never tried to make it cleaner and more polished, in fact it was precisely that devastating mental and physical state that he loved. This blues was born in the craziest way. It was during a show in Michigan in February '69 (a delirious period between tours and recordings of "TSP") where Jim arrived "too" drunk - which happened on several occasions during that time - that Densmore and Krieger, exhausted, left the stage (John explains this well in his book). At that point, the loyal Manzarek picked up the guitar and started playing a blues that Jim began to sing. The night ended terribly but gifted the band a great blues to prepare for the next album. Morrison sings about "the illegitimate son of a rockstar" and months later, Kennealy, pregnant with Jim, chose to have an abortion.