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jim morrison’s grandparents home
from the doors, jim morrison posted in music by pete_nice
Jim Morrison went to live with his paternal grandparents in 1961-62, when he attended classes at St. Petersburg College (then a junior college).
The home was demolished on Aug. 15, 2005. The developers (prominent Scientologist realtors in the area) auctioned the doors (get it?) on eBay to raise money for a charity. A series of condo towers were created on the property, and the developers have stated they would place a memorial plaque in the south tower where Jim Morrison would have lived.
The name The Doors comes from a William Blake quote: "“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
View a photo essay on Jim Morrison's grandparents' home from The St. Petersburg Times.
jim morrison’s birthplace
from the doors, jim morrison posted in music by pete_nice
On December 8, 1943, James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was born at Brevard Hospital at this location.
Since then, the building has changed ownership many times, but has kept its general construction, most notably the curved-linear facade.
The son of a future Navy rear admiral (George Stephen Morrison), the Morrisons moved a great deal while Jim was growing up. The elder Morrison was unsupportive of Jim's musical ambitions, and by the time Jim Morrison had graduated from UCLA he had cut ties with his family.
When a neighbor brought over The Doors debut album to George Morrison, he wrote Jim a letter asking him, "to give up any idea of singing or any connection with a music group because of what I consider to be a complete lack of talent in this direction.'
The relationship was nonexistent after that point.
view full location details...pachyderm studios
from nirvana, steve albini, pj harvey posted in music by donkeyoti
Pachyderm Studios is a legendary studio tucked into a rural Minnesota forest on a trout stream.
Nirvana recorded "In Utero" here with Steve Albini (Shellac) in February 1993.
The site has recorded a host of musicians: PJ Harvey, Andrew Bird, Soul Asylum, the Jayhawks and many more.
The studio was recently sold, and the website indicates the new facility will be called Organica Recording.
Other notable albums recorded at Pachyderm:
• Armchair Apocrypha – Andrew Bird
• Arise Therefore – Palace
• From Here to Infirmary – Alkaline Trio
• Grave Dancers Union – Soul Asylum
• Hollywood Town Hall – The Jayhawks
• Rid of Me – PJ Harvey
• Seamonsters – The Wedding Present
• Stuart Davis – Stuart Davis
• Throwing Copper – Live
• Fontanelle – Babes In Toyland
view full location details...rosevear’s music center
from nirvana posted in music by pete_nice
This building still exists (with the large Rosevear's sign above it), but the music shop has moved just down the street to 110 East Wishkah Street.
view full location details...“this land is your land”
from woody guthrie posted in music by pete_nice
In the early months of 1940, Woody Guthrie arrived in New York City. Dubbed "the Oklahoma cowboy" by his contemporaries, he was embraced by the leftist folk scene at the time.
On constant radio rotation at the time was Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." Guthrie found the song distasteful- unrealistic and complacent. On February 23, 1940, in a small boarding house at the corner of 43rd st and 6th Ave in NYC, he went about writing an answer to Berlin. Guthrie's response was the song "This Land is Your Land."
Adapting the melody from "When The World's On Fire" by the Carter family, "This Land is Your Land" has become a powerful national song, still open for interpretation today.
One of the original versions of the song had a final verse that goes like this:
"As I went walking, I saw a sign there,
And on the sign there, It said 'Private Property'
But on the other side, it didn't say nothing!
That side was made for you and me."
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