What are you gonna do about it? "There was no one who wasn't under observation," Gates says. Mary Werbelow was born in 1945 and is 78 years old now. She was just finishing her junior year at Clearwater High, where all the boys had flattops; she was not going to be seen with such a hairy mess. 50 years later, its a bit much. In the spring of 1965, Bill Cosgrave was smuggled across the border into the United States after receiving an irresistible invitation from his captivating friend Mary Werbelow. Its Mary Werbelows tune. Come on. The End gained additional cultural clout by being used powerfully in Coppolas Apocalypse Now. With it tinkling sweetly, we go bar-hopping with band, into a land that precedes Lucy in the Sky and is much, much darker, a morphing cross of psychedelia and alcoholism, that cheesy Vox Continental rock organ mixed with the mad son of a hammer dulcimer. The days are bright, and filled with pain Morrison sings in The Crystal Ship. ", "That's a real key to understanding Jim," Gates says. The judge lets him stay free on appeal. Across a dozen conversations, she amplifies on stories the old Clearwater crowd tells, and adds some of her own. And she left Morrison in the mire, stunned, angry, and finally homeless . I'm surprised he held out that long. Everyone has a story about Jim's brainy side. Mary called: "Come out wherever you are!". So, then, what you are holding, here, is testimony as to how Dennis Jakob is, by fluke, . And some never would. Well, Top 40 airwaves. In the spring of 1965, Bill Cosgrave was smuggled across the border into the United States after receiving an irresistible invitation from his captivating friend Mary Werbelow. No doubt about it, she was a knockout. Great tune, one of the few cover tunes the Doors would record, written by the legendary Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill back in the 1920s. . "I had to go out and see what parts of that were me. By July, Light My Fire hits No. Reviewer Kristine Morris Interviews Bill Cosgrave, Author of Love Her Madly: Jim Morrison, Mary, and Me. He lives in Kelowna, British Columbia. Jim studied film. Might be wrong.). The scream of a young man whose father, Admiral Morrison, helped start the illegal, immoral Vietnam War with a bogus action in the Gulf of Tonkin. (There's a few moments where Polyphonic and Morrison are vocalizing at the same timewe recommend turning on captions). Different indeed! I figured it was about some girlfriend being cajoled into cooking and sex, and indeed, there are some echoes of Morrisons ex-girlfriend Mary Werbelow in there, with the learn to forget repeating lyric. The remaining members released two more albums and split up in 1973. And she felt he had swallowed her identity. He'd look away and challenge nonbelievers to pick any book and read the beginning of any chapter. Mary and best friend Mary Wilkin spread their beach blanket near Pier 60. Therefore, the couple shared the same tragic end at the same . As the song builds, Morrison brings you down and . Because she is very much in there, the glowing gem at the heart of the legend of Jim Morrison. Mary Werbelow was connected to: -Jim Morrison. "I looked at you, you looked at me." Hmmrocking track though. Jim's parents, living in Virginia, send their increasingly incorrigible son back to Clearwater to live with his grandparents. No, not Electra Records head honcho Jac Holtzman, though that would have been nice. A recording musician since the 70s and radio broadcaster in multiple fields in the '80s and '90s, Kyle sometimes supports himself part time as a Union film crew member in Hollywood. The version I heard in March 67 at the Avalon Ballroom, that one time I saw the Doors. I never gave him that second chance. 0. Since she was the same age as Jim Morrison, Mary Werbelow may have passed away by now. A 1990 letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times suggested that the Doors song Crystal Ship was about crystal methamphetamine: The ship stood for a hypodermic needle, the kiss meant drug injection. For a long time, any time I would think about him, or anyone would talk about him, I'd cry. Its about taking acid! July 3, 1971. The End. Were you prepared to hear it in ten minutes? Later, Cosgrave hooked up with them again, this time in L.A., and when Werbelow and Morrison broke up, Cosgrave and Morrison spent countless . The Doors release their first album. And the Strange Days re-release is next. . Its January 1967, remember, before my obnoxious neighbor Dianne Vitale across the street dreamed of The Doors. Morrison doesnt kick in with vocals until nearly a half minute of this power trios music, underpinned by an actual bassist, Larry Knechtel, who lays down an unspectacular if thoroughly solid funky bass pattern over Manzareks Rhodes Piano Bass. And it didn't for a long time. Nice generous expanded song track, with time to let it tingle along, Densmores tubs thumping away, and the entire band, even Rothschild, singing in the background. I just knew I had to be away from him. What are you gonna do! 1 on the Billboard charts. This was about 55% of all the recorded Werbelow's in USA. He says Jim called him back, loving life. He and Ray Manzarek start the group that becomes the Doors. Jim Morrison's first 'major love' is Mary Werbelow. 3. The end of laughter, and soft lies. Cover your ass, with the soft, but its ok. The end of nights we tried to die. What ever happened to her? On July 3, 1971, Pamela Courson reported that she found him dead in the bathtub of their apartment in Paris. And all because of Paul Rothschilds edit. Arrrgh. Mary got her first real job, in the office of a hospital X-ray department. In Paris, Morrison found dead in the bathtub of the apartment he shared with Pamela Courson. Before starting film school in Los Angeles, Jim Morrison spent 2{ years in college in Florida. "We connected on a level where speaking was almost unnecessary. Mary won't say why; she doesn't want to add to the Morrison myth. He mourns their breakup in the Doors' ballad The End. Another great listen, all these damn years later. Mary was in high school, Jim just finished a year at St. Pete Junior College. Jim had begun the wax job when Mary's father rescued him with a picnic basket and suggested the couple adjourn to the Clearwater Causeway. The lyrics at the start and ending are heartbreaking. Ever. Yet, without the commission of her harsh act, the crucial early Morrison lyrics dont get written, much less sung and sold for lots of money and lasting fame. As sung on the breakthrough first Doors album in the summer of 1966, it is his counter-rejection to what was a long, slow break up with Mary Werbelow, who shared, along with his father Admiral Morrison, a distaste for the Doors. Then Densmores drums kick in, the first two snare hits pounding with the bass line. But what the hell. A specially-created Doors logo was lit underneath the famous Venice sign. More than once, she says, he asked her to marry. . The tempo downshifts and accelerations buttress Morrison's last. In 1963, a sixteen-year-old Billy left his native Toronto and headed south to Florida to spend some time with family friends. State witnesses saw what they saw. Magazine pics. Blues rock. He was unmarried but had a common law wife named Pamela Courson, and in his will, he left everything to her. They would indeed never see each other, and speak on the phone but once as Morrison, post fame, begged for another chance, only to be spurned yet again. Mary's father banned Jim from the Werbelow house. He enrolls at St. Petersburg Junior College. RidderOnTheStorm1969: Even that crackpot Patricia Kennealy announced Fireheart to be published on 3 July 2021, half a century since the day Morrison died. There were no computer edits then, so the tape was chopped! Less time for him. Mary and Jim break up. She wasn't much of a letter writer herself. I wish she had spoken, but for whatever reason she did not. I actually restart Musics Over at various points over and over. On Monday, August 21, 1967, the group begins work on its second album at Sunset Sounds Studios in Hollywood. Kyle K. Mann Log in now to tell us what you think this song means. Mary says he rarely drank in her presence. "I'd see him when he really needed to talk to someone. Trick or Treat! This song was too hip then, and almost still is now. I see now it wasn't.". Clearwater High School Alumni Class List. Ballad time. New Pasco County commissioner accused of faking his residency, Guide to Plant Citys Strawberry Festival, one of the largest festivals in the nation, Gov. It developed into an 11-minute epic. No sonic tricks, no fuzz, no wah, just notes. Some 15,000 fans cram into the 10,000-capacity Dinner Key Auditorium, a sweaty, converted seaplane hangar in Miami. Few bands divide critical opinion like the Doors. Register to let other graduates of Clearwater High School find and contact you. Morrison reportedly told Werbelow that the Doors' first three albums were about. Maybe you love getting your face stuck in the s - - -. Mary's ethnicity is Hispanic American, whose political affiliation is currently a registered Unaffiliated/Non Affiliated; and religious views are listed as Christian. She discovers Jim sleeping with a woman who claims they were married in a Pagan witch ceremony. The cause of death was listed as heart attack; drugs were suspected. Quite the opposite, she says. On Oct. 30, 1970, he was sentenced to six months of "confinement at hard labor" in the Dade County Jail. When Jim and Mary's . He was at FSU for the 1962-63 academic year and the fall trimester of 1963. She had heard Doors songs on the radio, but she didn't go to his concerts, she didn't keep up with his career. Then repeat at that length. When Jim drove, Mary kept a notebook at the ready. Album: 1999. For indecent exposure, Morrison sentenced to six months "confinement at hard labor" in the Dade County Jail. The days are bright, and filled with pain he sings, working to let her go but still gutted, reminding her that the time you ran was too insane and making us wonder what the hell it was that happened that provoked the running. She says she didn't have the heart to tell him she had never really listened to them. "Letting people tell you what you're gonna do, letting people push you around. The whole dramatic section about What have we done to the Earth and We want the world and we want it now was a later revision. I loved that Ray Manzareks wife Dorothy was there as well. "We're just going to talk in rhymes now," he would say. This is Greek tragedy material, with the cruel Gods above laughing. One of the most fantastic opening sides of any record is over. Billy didn't know it yet, but their lives would become intertwined with his for years to come. Trouble is, you were laying on the couch, or the carpet, for the past 25 minutes. "Why can't we be together now?". About Mary Werbelow is a member of the following list: Jim Morrison. Now many years later, Morrison has raised his head again last month when I heard that Canadian Bill Cosgrave - who is a brother of another friend here in British Columbia - had written a book about his friendship with Jim Morrison and his then partner, Mary Werbelow.