from  Classic Rock (cover:  Robert Plant)

   January 2004 - Page 108

"THE ROCK BOOKS YOU MUST OWN"

includes:

NO ONE HERE GETS OUT ALIVE  (Plexus  £7.95)

by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman

Like Sugerman's later Wonderland Avenue, this is a compelling if utterly cheesy stagger through L.A.'s underbelly in the footsteps of Jim Morrison.  There's sex, drugs and Satanism, but mostly there's booze.  But is it the true story of Morrison and The Doors?

When in doubt about the truth, always print the myth:  Jim Morrison - shaman, poet and modern renaissance man;  also possibly still alive, having faked his own death.  It's all in here, man.

This book did not start the mythologising of Morrison but it certainly added some bulk to the story.  In the late 70s all male teenagers in the world were issued with their own copy of this book and a quarter-ounce of ropy hash, seemingly by the government;  many of them bought into the idea that pissing your leather trousers after six pints of cider made them in some way the spiritual heirs of Jimbo.

Tommy Udo

See also:

    'Waiting For The Sun' by Barney Hoskins  (Bloomsbury  £8.95)    Definitive account of the L.A. music scene

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