L.A. Woman

Opening in 1970 and mainly focusing on 1971, this final chapter starts by baerly going over Morrison's trial for "lewd and lascivious behavior" and so in the meantime Elektra (the company that released The Doors music) released Absolutely live and 13 of The Doors greatest hits. Now Morrison was grounded to reality as he had but one album left to make before his contract with Elektra would be fulfilled. This finale album, released three months before Morrison's death was L.A. Woman and the music upon it would go back to The Doors main roots; the blues. Though considered an alright album, many think The Doors did not play up to their full potential. For this alum a rhythm guitarist and bassist were added to the normal Doors line up. Unlike the previous albums L.A. Woman did not tell so much of a consistent story as much as have Morrison's lyrics have many poetic images. The album opens with "The Changeling" and would end with "Riders on the Storm". There are but three songs that would really stand out with some importance as the others had reappearing images from the first three albums. The songs are; L.A. Woman, L'America and Riders on the Storm. L.A. Woman was a song sung like a good-bye love letter to Jim's favorite place (L.A.). It is also during this song Mr. Mojo Rison' was born. This was an alias for Jim Morrison (a rearangement of the letter in his name would show this) as he would often use it when calling back to the other in America. This song also shows some of Morrison's intelligence as the song's lyrics were born of many possible books Jim read (City of the Night, and other that the book won't state). Another song that's fairly important is L'America for the simple reason that it was to be used in a movie but was rejected at the last minute (though many of The Doors songs were used in Apocalypits Now). And the last song recorded by The Doors and the last song Jim sang with them; Riders on the Storm. If that wasn't reason enough to call it special it was called 14th on the top 100 song bilboard for a few weeks. This is also The Doors exit; not with a bang but a rainstorm as they (The Doors) and their artistic vision fades away within the storm.

Relate; This is getting harder and harder... I really, once again, can't relate with Jim. I think this has gotten to the point that I'm no longer trying to relate with him. I don't relate with Jim's poetry and lyrics all that much and in this chapter there isn't much else to go off as the author rambles on about nothing. Well other then music there was Jim's trial and one worded death. My unrelated remarks to those are; I've never been tried for something I did wrong and, two, I believe to still be alive...

Reflect; Having just watched a movie today (Grave of the fireflies) I'm still on the incorrect mind to reflect upon Morrison and since I finished my project before this blog I already answered all my questions about this chapter so it doesn't leave that big an impact on me.

~Erica T-T (still thinking about that movie)