Riders on the Storm was Jim Morrisons ultimate existential - TopicsExpress



          

Riders on the Storm was Jim Morrisons ultimate existential statement. It echoed a popular song from Jims childhood, Vaughan Monroes 1949 hit record Riders in the Sky. Acknowledging humanitys fragility, and essential solitude, amid a soundscape of thunder and rain, the song was also an explicit warning not to pick up Jims psychotic alter ego: the demonic hitcher, the killer on the road--or sweet family will die. Riders was also an explicit, extremely poignant plea for tender, womanly love. Nothing Jim Morrison, or any other auteur of the rock movement, ever wrote was as melancholy, true and compelling as Riders on the Storm. -- From Jim Morrison--Life, Death and Legend, by Stephen Davis (New York: Penguin, 2004).
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:22:51 +0000

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