JIM MORRISON INTERVIEWED ON NOVEMBER 6, 1969: THE HIGHLIGHTS
Jim Morrison's interview with Howard Smith of the American newspaper "The Village Voice" on November 6, 1969 ( link here ) gives us the opportunity to highlight some little-known aspects of The Doors singer's personality. Opinions, inclinations and attitudes that are often overlooked in favor of the more obvious and striking features of this extraordinary musician. The context in which the interview takes place finds Morrison at the beginning of the recording of The Doors' fifth LP, "Morrison Hotel". At the same time, the band's previous work ("The Soft Parade") and the group’s internal tensions of the past year were disappearing from the horizon of his life. Instead, there was the ominous shadow of the trial in which he was involved because of the complaints made against him during a concert in Miami on March 3, 1969. The reporter does not excel in asking particularly interesting questions, a circumstance which annoys Morrison and leads to...
