Also dead at 27

Robert Johnson
Ron Mckernan (Grateful Dead)
&
Peter de Freitas (Echo and the Bunnymen)

Whole bunch more too. Here's a list that includes explanations of the unfortunate circumstances.

GIGWISE, Dead At 27: Rock'N'Roll Music's Infamous Death Club

Once upon a time I loved the Doors...I listened to The Soft Parade (the song, not the whole damn album) at least once a day...then I heard the Sex Pistols. To this day I haven't been able to voluntarily sit through Light My Fire.

So you saw the light... By discovering The Sex Pistols? :laughing:

Man, I used to like really sh*tty music like The Doors, but then I saw the light and discovered REAL talented bands like The Sex Pistols.

That's a good laugh.

The Doors s/t, Strange Days and LA Woman are great albums, I don't care what anyone says.

I always thought The Doors were cool. More so when I was younger but that organ music grew old on me.

Morrison was a nut if he would have had a better band behind him who knows what he would have done. Probably still die though.

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison died all at 27 within 1 year of eachother.

Ray Manzarek is a bad ass! If he would have had another band they would have bailed on him after day #1, the Lizard King was a drunken bastard (albeit incredibly awesome).

I think if possible the mods should add a poll for favorite Doors album to this thread.

I think it would be great if that became mandatory for every official artist/band thread.

Blender Mags hates Jim Morrisons Lyrics...

The 40 Worst Lyricists In Rock — #10 to #2
Posted Tuesday 10/09/2007 1:00 AM in Guide by Jon Dolan, Josh Eells, Tim Grierson, Andrew Harrison, Ben Mitchell, Tony Power and Mark Yarm
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10 • Jim Morrison
Why would a guy who looked this good shirtless want to be smart, anyway?

As a teenager, Morrison was alleged to have read a hundred books a week. Before his 1971 death in a Paris bathtub the Lizard King made pretentious-rocker history fusing French symbolism, Blake-ian romanticism and Beat shamanism into dreamlike evocations of L.A. excess. The result: poetry a drug-mad hippie would come up with if he’d never read a single book.
Worst lyric: “Breakfast where the news is read/Television children fed/Unborn living, living, dead/Bullet strikes the helmet’s head” (“The Unknown Soldier”)

-Blender Magazine

I actually love these lyrcis:love:

Me too!!

They also hate progressive rock and most things that have to do with musical decency.

http://cdn1.ioffer.com/img/item/247/...TxnFdM0fS4.jpg

Does this look like a music publication you should take seriously?