By Laura Medina
As the drummer, The Doors’ John Densmore said he was singed by fame. He wasn’t burnt by fame nor consumed by the flames of fame, like the lead singer, Jim Morrison on “On Air LA 25” podcast festival at KCRW Studios, https://www.onairpresents.com/stories/on-air-la-25-evening-of-music-the-doors
As a first-hand witness, he knows it is the lead singer who gets consumed by fame. A subject that a decade younger punk rocker, Billy Idol discussed a week earlier.
People and fans project their fantasies and assumptions and expectations on the lead singer, causing the pressure and stress leading to alcoholism and drug addiction to cope with all that attention and stress.
John talked about how Jim was already a narcissistic yet creative and expressive alcoholic.
He described Jim as “creative, self-destructive Dionysian Alcoholic Sex God.”
John discussed there was sexual energy and sexual attraction and narcissism with creativity that all matches and combines together in one human being.
Remember in the mid to late Sixties, Alcoholic Anonymous was new and considered lame, not widely accepted among the Rock n’ Roll set, like it is now.
To cope and deal with fame during the mind-altering psychedelic Sixties, it was considered mainstream normal to drink your problems. John commented if Jim was alive today, he would be an health freak who avoids alcohol.
John added when The Doors formed then got running into legends that they are, Jim’s United States Naval Admiral dad was commanding battleships in Vietnam’s Gulf of Tonkin, that unofficially started the Vietnam War without Congress, Senate, or the public approval and awareness.
This created shame and stress on Jim Morrison. He coped by writing poetry that evolved into those timeless classic songs that defined LA and California in the Sixties, morphing into today’s rock classics, making The Doors legends.
Even the fame from admirers and his dad starting the Vietnam War, Jim unintentionally created the rock n’ roll uniform of black leather jeans and matching black leather jackets. John commented to Jim, does it get hot down there in the crotch?
That black leather jeans uniform continues thru Billy Idol. Jim Morrison set the standard for the continuing generation of rockers through Lenny Kravitz to Yung Blud of today.
To this day, dealing with being a rock legend, John Densmore simply says he’s divorced and still go to the bathroom.
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