axl rose=jim morisson?

[no more patience]

opinions?

[Tomorrows]

Jim never got a chance to fully fly. Axl might make a comeback.

[mikegiuliana]

^ I am going to agree.. Jim morrison and the doors to me were ay ahead of their time... brilliant awesome music and very diverse..

[tomass74]

JIM MORRISON >? Axl

[Krispy Kreme]

Therre would be no Axl Rose if there had not been a Jim  Morrison.

[A Rose]

They have a same in common.Like they both did rants on stage.

[Mattattack]

Axl should have died at 27. We've had to watch him grow old and sport hair extensions.

[mikegiuliana]

Axl should have died at 27. We've had to watch him grow old and sport hair extensions.

if axl had passed when the illusions came out we'd all be sitting around saying wow by now gnr would have been the best band ever and had 4 more albums out by now

[Catt]

yeah, but axl still has some dealing to do with his rough karma....

[MadmanDan]

Axl is 10 times more talented than Morrison, but Morrison was a true pioneer, the first bad-ass rock star, noone can ever take that away from him.

[Locomotive98]

Axl is 10 times more talented than Morrison, but Morrison was a true pioneer, the first bad-ass rock star, noone can ever take that away from him.

Morrison is THE rock star - no one else comes close.

[Slashead]

Axl is 10 times more talented than Morrison, but Morrison was a true pioneer, the first bad-ass rock star, noone can ever take that away from him.

Before Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Vince Taylor and Little Richard were quite bad ass...

[BLS-Pride]

Morrison over Axl anyday of the week.

[Dr. Blutarsky]

Morrison as a lyricist was truely amazing. The Doors were poetry to music.  Not to mention the first dangerous rock star. Listen to what he was doing in the 60's. He is so emulated these past 35+ years.  Axl has some work to do to catch up.

However, dead rock stars seem to get the glory over the living ones.

[Tomorrows]

Axl is 10 times more talented than Morrison, but Morrison was a true pioneer, the first bad-ass rock star, noone can ever take that away from him.

Before Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Vince Taylor and Little Richard were quite bad ass...

Yeah, not to mention blues artists like Robert Johnson and Bo Diddley. Jim Morrison: the first? Thats pretty mistaken.

[nycangel]

jim morrison will always be one of the best no matter what, but axl does have amazing talent, and for me he comes quite close to being able to being compared to morrison in a lot of ways, their quite similar.

[JohnMorrison73]

i personally like morrison more than axl, but i like gnr more than the doors.   

[TheMole]

I'm surprised so many people actually like the doors, I don't see it.
Lyrical genious? We call these kind of lyrics, "yoghurt lyrics" over here. You know, like in "A Whiter Shade Of Pale". They're a cool collection of words, induced by the dellusions of a man completely doped up and out of his senses. They sound good together, but any actuall meaning one might find in them is probably more of an accomplishment of the listener's mind than morrison's genuis shining through.

Same goes for the music. It's more an endless collection of cool sounding riffs played indistinctively one after another, jumbling some notes and getting sloppier to come to some kind of climax.

Not that I hate it, but I would never call it visionary, revolutionary or even "really good". I usually turn down the radio when the doors come on...

[strattao]

Before Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Vince Taylor and Little Richard were quite bad ass...

Little Richard?!? I mean, you can't deny the man's place in music history... but BAD ASS???

[Amish]

Yeah, to me the Doors sound pretty much like any other band of their time.  The music sounds dated to that period, as well as the voice.  When I hear the Doors, I might as well be listening to Tom Jones.

Of course, many people say that about Guns N Roses.  Most of the world views GNR as just another 80s metal band, in the same category of Bon Jovi, Poison, Winger, Warrant...all those.  The hear GNR and get a retro feeling and it excites them, just like if you were to see a pair of roller skates and remember when you were a kid.