“Out of print since many years but soon available again the legendary booklet “Stone Immaculate” by French photographer Patricia Devaux!! A privately printed, limited new edition of 500 copies, with 23 beautiful photos of Jim’s grave, some never seen before! + new text addition. Price will be 20 euros + mail”
Patricia Devaux
sta per ristampare il suo libro Stone Immaculate
sara' un' edizione limitata di 500 copie numerate ed autografate
e conterra' 23 foto della tomba di Jim, comprese alcune di inedite e un nuovo testo
il costo sara' di 20 euro+spese postali
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L'autore del libro e' Ben Fong Torres che gia' in passato si era occupato dei Doors su Rolling stone.
Ben Fong-Torres,was born in Alameda, California. In May 1969, he joined Rolling Stone magazine as news editor. His interview subjects included Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Neil Diamond and Diana Ross. Fong-Torres left Rolling Stone in 1981, and has written for Esquire, GQ (where he was pop music columnist for three years), Playboy, and Harper's Bazaar. In 1983, he joined the San Francisco Chronicle, where he was a feature writer and radio columnist until 1992. He is the author of several books including "Not Fade Away: A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock & Roll" (1999) and "The Hits Just Keep On Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio" (1997). He wrote the main biographies for People magazine's tributes to Jerry Garcia and Frank Sinatra, and is a contributor to two books published in 1998: "Rolling Stone: The Seventies" and "The Encyclopedia of Country Music." Fong-Torres was portrayed as himself in Cameron Crowe's movie "Almost Famous." In 1993, Fong-Torres won $99,000 on the game show Wheel of Fortune. He lives with his wife in San Francisco, and is vice president of content at Collabrys Inc, a company that specializes in brand marketing.
anni fa era uscita anche una intervista su cd a Jim Morrison
From the CD liner notes, by Ben Fong-Torres:
Working for Rolling Stone, I used to pop into Hollywood on a regular basis. Sometimes I stayed at the apartment of a rock publicist friend, Diane. One of her neighbors was Pamela Courson - Jim Morrison’s old lady. One February afternoon in 1971, Jim came around, looking for Pamela. She wasn’t there, so he decided to hang out and wait.
When Diane introduced us, I asked for an interview. He and I hit it off right away, and got into doing this parody of a TV talk show. I played Dick Cavett; he was a rock star.
He told a couple of jokes so risque that they would have gotten Cavett canned, and then, with my cheap cassette recorder running, we settled into a pretty serious chat about the Doors and the blues; the future of rock, and his own future.
Despite his reputation as a wild man; despite his busts for obscenity and for exposing himself on stage, Morrison had struck me, in published interviews, as a smart, thoughtful guy. Maybe he wasn't quite the poet and artiste he fancied himself to be, but at least he was playing with the conventions of rock, performance, and theater. He was at home on the edge.
Jim was planning to move to Paris within weeks, and this turned out to be his last interview before his departure in March. In July, I was in Hollywood again - visiting with his friends and associates, and writing his obituary.
Nuova edizione del bellissimo libro "Break on through"
qui la nuova copertina e una foto di Jerry Prochnicky
qui sotto un commento favorevole al libro di Joe Russo che critica apertamente
il libro di Stephen Davis, ovviamente siamo d'accordo con Russo ,
Break on through e' un libro fantastico!!!
BREAK ON THROUGH—The Life & Death Of Jim Morrison
by James Riordan and Jerry Prochnicky
(Harper Collins books)
THE best Doors/Morrison biography done so far will be re-released on November 7th with a new cover and design. Jerry is an ORIGINAL Doors fan from the 60's and co-produced the book MY EYES HAVE SEEN YOU with me in 1996. If you have never read this fine book,or have misplaced your original copy—do yourself a favor and revisit the history of THE DOORS. FORGET that horrible cut-and-paste RIPOFF by Stephen Davis from a few years ago and read the REAL story told with flair, imagination, detail and most important—ACCURACY. -Joe Russo
THE LIZARD KING WAS HERE—The Life and Times of Jim Morrison in Alexandria, Virginia by Mark Opsasnick
By David Montgomery
Every community that doesn't have a Mark Opsasnick needs to get one. He is a tall and obsessed man from Greenbelt who quietly rages against forgetting. What he rescues from collective amnesia are not the big things. One of his favorite phrases is: "miscellaneous and unknown."
He's the guy to ask about, say, Patsy Cline's seminal gigs at the Dixie Pig in Prince George's County. Or James M. Cain hard-boiling his last novels in a house near College Park. Or the true story of the local "haunted boy" who inspired "The Exorcist."
This morning Opsasnick is driving down a winding street in Alexandria. Anybody else would have seen just the tall oaks and blooming crape myrtles shading neat Tudors and Colonials. Opsasnick looks more deeply and sees something that isn't here anymore.
"We're entering Morrison country," he says dramatically, like a tour guide to a secret landscape. "These are the streets he walked on, these are the fields he played on, the sidewalks he traveled to visit his friends."
That would be Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors.
"There's his girlfriend's house where he went around back and threw pebbles up to her window to get her to come out," Opsasnick continues. "Here is the corner where he would hold court and act crazy. . . . I can almost visualize a teenage Morrison shuffling from his house."
The house is a stone-fronted Cape Cod in the 300 block of Woodland Terrace. Opsasnick started with the relatively well-known fact that Morrison lived here from the middle of his sophomore year through graduation from George Washington High School in 1961. Then he gave his subject the full Opsasnick treatment: He investigated those 32 months as if they involved the birth of the nation or the fate of the Earth.
The resulting brand-new opus -- "The Lizard King Was Here: The Life and Times of Jim Morrison in Alexandria, Virginia" -- fits well with the other five volumes that make up the author's investigations: another encyclopedic search-and-rescue mission down offbeat byways of the local past.
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