Homage to Jim Morrison, Poet

Jim Morrison reads his poetry in the studio

Sound engeneer: We have about a...forty minutes tape.
Jim Morrison: Ok, I´ll try to get as much as I can.

"Tsk!" - match sound - Jim lights a cigarette, have a bow and
starts reading:

"In that year we had an intense visitation of energy."

"I left school & went down
to the beach to live.
I slept on a roof
At night the moon became
a woman's face.
I met the Spirit of Music."
- Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison wrote a lot of poetry during his lifetime (1943-1971). After he recorded his last album
with Elektra records he was free of contracts. At this point he thought of leading his
life on a diferent way, write his poetry and do films. After 1969 there were 2 known
sessions of poetry recorded in the studio(one of them resulted in a 4 hours tape) which Jim planned to
release in the future as a spoken poetry album, just like Kerouac and other beatniks
successfully did in the 50´s. There are hopes that these tapes get a proper release soon.

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