{"id":11109,"date":"2021-06-07T00:48:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/who-was-jim-morrison-a-beautiful-self-conscious-dork-said-eve-babitz\/"},"modified":"2021-06-07T00:48:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:48:52","slug":"who-was-jim-morrison-a-beautiful-self-conscious-dork-said-eve-babitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/lifestyle\/who-was-jim-morrison-a-beautiful-self-conscious-dork-said-eve-babitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Was Jim Morrison? A Beautiful, Self-Conscious Dork, Said Eve Babitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article originally appeared in the March 1991 issue of Esquire. Get access to every Esquire story ever published at Esquire Classic. J.D. Souther once told me he spent his first years in L.A. learning how to stand. Jim knew how to stand from the start. He stood pigeontoed, filled with poetry against a mike with that honky-tonk Berlin organ in the background, and sang about \u201canother kiss.\u201dAnd there is something to be said for singing in tune. Jim not only sang in tune, he sang intimately\u2014as Doors producer Paul Rothchild once pointed out to me, \u201cJim was the greatest crooner since Bing Crosby.\u201dHe was Bing Crosby from hell. Jim Morrison in London, 1968.Chris WalterGetty Images In those days, in the \u201960s, people in L.A. with romantic streaks who knew music went for the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Paul Butterfield\u2014and for clubs like the Troubadour and the Trip and the Ash Grove. The Whiskey, where the Doors flourished, was the kind of place where the headliner would be Johnny Rivers, a white boy who covered Chuck Berry\u2019s \u201cMemphis.\u201d By the \u201960s, white boys weren\u2019t supposed to cover soul anymore, but at the Whiskey it was still groovy. The Carpenters played the Whiskey.At the Whiskey, the bouncers were bouncers, the management was from New York City, and the women wore beehive hairdos long after it was cool.Rock groups who went to college and actually got degrees were not only uncool, they were unheard-of.Jim went to college and he graduated. My friend Judy… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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This article originally appeared in the March 1991 issue of Esquire. Get access to every Esquire story ever published at Esquire Classic. J.D. Souther once told me he spent his first years in L.A. learning how to stand. Jim knew how to stand from the start. He stood pigeontoed, filled with poetry against a mike…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":11110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWho Was Jim Morrison? 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