Jim Morrison, Music, And Mortality - No One Usually Gets Out Of Here Alive

Years ago, upon my first-ever arrival in Paris, there was clearly no doubt as to where I'd start my itinerary. I went instantly to the Père Lachaise cemetery.

That's the final resting spot of such luminaries as Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Sarah Bernhardt and Chopin. If I had been there during daylight, I'm sure I would have taken time to pay my respects to each one of them and other people.

However, it was around 1:00 am, and this was a pilgrimage to what's turn into more of a shrine than a grave. This is where Jim Morrison of the Doors is buried.

James Dean lived quick and died young. Kurt Cobain had given in, by his own hand, to emotional stress and frequent abdominal pains. There's a whole list of rock music idols that also lived 'out there.'

Marilyn Monroe took too many pills. Mama Cass choked on that fateful ham sandwich. Keith Moon simply exploded from self-indulgence.

Jim Morrison was distinctive. He lived rough so we did not have to. I believe that you can find those among us who live life on the edge for the sole purpose of conveying that experience for everybody else.

I do not think they make a conscious decision to do so, but the circumstances of their everyday living drew them to it. They embody a collusion of talent, freedom, credibility and forum. From that mixture, fate then intercedes and legends are forged.

His attraction was with a mystic dimension that somewhat co-existed with deep reality and his purpose was to channel it. This endeavor has been well-accounted both in Danny Sugarman's publication, 'No One Here Gets Out Alive,' and Oliver Stone's cinematic version of it, logically entitled, 'The Doors.'

Even at the late hour, I was one of around a dozen who surrounded Morrison's headstone. Another person's ghetto blaster churned through a litany of rock and music; candle lights and flashlights provided an eerily suitable atmosphere.

I was there for two hours. No one exchanged names or details. There had been different points of view expressed on the subject of rock music history, but no arguments.

Literary references and musical influences peppered the discussion with a subtle intensity that could have made him proud. The effect of everybody's comments seemed both polite and therapeutic, as they put Morrison's escapades and compositions into deep personal perspectives.

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