Old Books

We watched a documentary about the Doors the other night and I learned a few things. One of those things I starts a discussion that I want to have later about the speed with which Art is created (Mo Yan is also a part of that discussion).

Another thing was that Jim Morrison self-published three books of poetry between '69 and '70. Eventually the content was published together by a company as the Doors skyrocketed in popularity.

They were together for only 54 months, but the combination of talent and rookies was powerful and strange.

Anyway, I started looking for those books. I saw a collection of "lost" and "rare" content from Morrison online for sale starting at $2.15.

No effing way. I dug a little, and that obviously wasn't what I was looking for.

But this article talks about exactly what I was looking for.

It discusses the three books, their "limited" print runs, and the fact that many of the books ended up with a friend of Jim's who passed on in 2010. There would be a series of auctions to raise money for music in education groups.

Bidding started at $5k. That made more sense. And it was back in 2016.

I found an eBay exchange with a similar photo to the one above that must have been from a winner of one of the original bids. It looks like they turned around and put it onto eBay. Oddly enough, they were stationed in San Luis Obispo.

It sold for nearly eighteen grand.

Did you know Jim Morrison's dad was Admiral Morrison, commander of the Navy during the Vietnam Conflict and did not exactly see the talent in what his well-read and formerly shy son was doing?

This begs a different conversation: How many father/son combos who were not either both president or king or emperor could have had an effect on so many humans? Name another combo that affected/effected as many other people?