Cymbals crash fade. 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. In contrast, this cut is unreservedly stellar. Mary was on the high school homecoming court. And here was the soundtrack to the opening months of 1967. Mary Werbelow, Jim Morrison and the Doors. Jim liked his alone time, in his bedroom, reading. Pre-Mary, Jim's buddy Phil Anderson brought him to a house party on Clearwater Beach. She never saw Jim again. Steve Morrison, a graduate of the U.S. In the early 1960's, Bill Cosgrove was a high school student, and although he was Canadian, the school he was attending was in Florida, which is where he meets Mary Werbelow. Its much harder to wear out a CD than a phonograph album, which would start skipping and popping within a few months, if you kept playing them. But when the Jaycees called to recruit her for the Miss Clearwater competition, Mary's mother answered the phone. Well, Top 40 airwaves. "Today I went to visit the building w/ the infamous garage apartment where Jim Morrison hid in the closet w/ Clearwater girlfriend, Mary Werbelow. Ill spare you, and me. Mary Werbelow is polite but firm: She doesn't do interviews. Id taken my first acid trip a few months earlier, and another in December. Less time for him. Ok, cool. This was about 55% of all the recorded Werbelow's in USA. That bass line is hypnotic, compelling and maddening. Time for her big question: "If your husband grew a beard, what would you do? Yah, his first song in front of an audience, according to Manzareks book. She wants that made clear: She does not want to talk about Jim anymore. "That was a lovely home," Mary says. Gates asked. "He was incredible.". As Mary's first command, she marched Jim to the barber. I will do this repeatedly. ", "Letting everybody push you around. More Gonzo Today Doors articles by Kyle K. 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We were in love, and he didn't want to do things that I didn't like. The organ solo is spare, clean, more Latin Rocky, Morrison yelling She gets They couldnt say high so Morrison just howls, but we get it. They don't really have a clue," says Mary Werbelow. Butter didnt like the way The Doors handled the blues. Mary Werbelow is polite but firm: She doesn't do interviews. Although California state didn't recognize common-law marriage, Courson's plaque was written as Pamela Susan Morrison in the mausoleum at Fairhaven Memorial Park after her tragic death. When Jim drove, Mary kept a notebook at the ready. She says his heroes were William Burroughs, William Blake, Hieronymus Bosch, Norman Mailer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Arthur Rimbaud, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac. Maniacal? "That's where the songs came from, out of those notebooks," said Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek. The third album, Waiting for the Sun (1968), was their first No. "Maybe you like it. The girlfriend in question was Mary Werbelow . . "It was heartbreaking. It makes it difficult to be around scented products, and she gave up her art. Maybe not. Cool photo, these guys looked hip. "This compilation of Jim Morrison's private communications to me during the years 1969, 1970 and 1971 -- his true 'lost writings' -- save for some confidences which are of such incandescent intimacy as forever to preclude publication poems . Putting this tune on was heavy, because you knew what was coming. Funeral arrangements by: Gendron Funeral & Cremation . Originally written by lead singer Jim Morrison about his break up with his girlfriend Mary Werbelow, it evolved (or devolved, depending on your perspective) into a 12+ minute peculiar opus. On August 21, 1966, Jim Morrison didn't show up for The Doors gig at the Whisky a Go Go. He was unmarried but had a common law wife named Pamela Courson, and in his will, he left everything to her. It peaked at 172 on the US Rock Digital Songs chart and has been played on a number of radio stations. Jim's parents, living in Virginia, send their increasingly incorrigible son back to Clearwater to live with his grandparents. In the studio, the band is smoking a lot of pot. I needed to be by myself, to find my own identity.". ", The third and final night of competition, more than 1,000 people packed Clearwater Municipal Auditorium. Perhaps. When Mary moved, she says, Jim had a knack for finding her. Its about taking acid! One of the most fantastic opening sides of any record is over. Everybody, everybody, remembers the notebooks. Oh, to travel back in time and be a fly on the wall as When the Musics Over came to life. Within two years of their breakup, Light My Fire was No. If she won, it was on to Miss Florida. At the forefront of the music scene, Jim's public and private life became increasingly entangled, causing his drug and alcohol addictions to worsen. He was drinking hard and taking psychedelic drugs. The lyrics at the start and ending are heartbreaking. It's great.". Its a new year, and there is some amazing music floating around, like nothing we had ever heard before. Most days in between, letters postmarked Tallahassee arrived at the Werbelow mailbox on Nursery Road. Sept. 17, 1967. While the "Crystal Ship" is sometimes thought to represent drugs, Ken Rafferty from The Annotated Lyrics makes this case: This song has nothing to do with drugs and everything about Jim Morrison's . Mind-fryingly great, and Doors, I salute you. Relationships Mary Werbelow has been in a relationship with Jim Morrison (1962 - 1965). and from Aldous Huxley's book about psychedelic drugs, The Doors of Perception. . Summer 1962. He grabbed the guy by the belt and threw him across the room. January 1967. Others waved money. Waiting. A million light-years from the teeny bopper music ruling the airwaves. Morrison and Darryl Arthur "Babe" Hill arrested for public drunkenness in Clearwater. Its oddly comforting. It's hardly something Mary brags about; she says she would have declined. Mary moves to India. In the summer of 1962, Mary met Jim Morrison near Pier 60, Clearwater. She painted, mostly realistic oil portraits. Talk about historic! They were nearly inseperable for 3-4 years and their breakup was so hurtful to Jim it prompted him writing "Crystal ship" and "the end". Promoters in city after city cancel scheduled Doors concerts. When the Musics Over was written and evolved, I believe, just before the Doors started playing at London Fog on the Sunset Strip in May, 1966. View the most popular Mary Werbelow pix. Soul Kitchen is a track Ive played repeatedly over the decades, and its just as good as the first time I heard it. Naval Academy, is called to duty aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. People would pick obscure words, and Jim would tell the definitions. We managed it, and the ominous beginning of Willie Dixons fine writing effort thrums out. It was a largely uneventful visit, but one that introduced him to Mary Werbelow and her boyfriend, Jim Morrison. But Morrison is at war with his own dark demons. Mary says he rarely drank in her presence. The cover boy, 26 now, has a paunch and beard, a cowboy hat with a skull and crossbones and noticeably slurred speech. They don't even mention Kennealy by name." Mary didn't have heroes like that. The Doors perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. Mary got her first real job, in the office of a hospital X-ray department. What I want is Morrison singing confusion, Thats right, I prefer much of the original 1966-early 67 lyrics, with the slower, scarier tempo. For indecent exposure, Morrison sentenced to six months "confinement at hard labor" in the Dade County Jail. On Monday, August 21, 1967, the group begins work on its second album at Sunset Sounds Studios in Hollywood. Always she said thank you, no. Hit a pothole and bang! 6 pictures of Mary Werbelow. If you know much of her story, and listen to the early Doors a lot, or just occasionally its hard not to think of her. The tempo downshifts and accelerations buttress Morrison's last. This is directed to Mary Werbelow, has to be, as she planned to be a model or movie star. I knew I wanted to be with him, but I couldn't.". Sept. 20, 1970. If anything, there is more echo on Densmores drums than any other track, but man does it work, from the opening snare whack on the four beat, and on. Mary bolted and, in a blur, hit the woman's fence as she sped off. They don't know his sensitivity and intellect, his charm and humor. Good back cover too. And wash her black Plymouth, a.k.a. Its title would be Strange Days. Yep, I swiped it! Have you read the interview done with her a few years ago by the Saint Petersburg Times and if so, what do you think about it? Mary won't say why; she doesn't want to add to the Morrison myth. From drug abuse to repeated infidelities to explosive arguments, their relationship was the definition of tumultuous and sometimes even escalated into violence. He wails about loneliness and rants about love. He mourns their breakup in the Doors' ballad The End. Jim starts film school at UCLA. . Might be wrong.). Pam still envisions a life for the two of them, which starts with Jim leaving The Doors'. Il n'a cess d'y rajouter des paroles, faisant d'une chanson d'amour une longue ballade chamanique. The relationship lasted a few years, and Morrison's co-band member, Ray Manzarek, would describe Werbelow as "Jim's first love." Sorry Pam. I let him go and never gave him that second chance. She held a deep place in his soul. And its a strange new world, with an island in your arms, country in your eyes but watch out for the arms that chain, eyes that lie because there are those, you see, that dont get it. I do hope she and Jim are together now though, wherever they are. They met in Hs on the beach and were inseperable. I smiled in anticipation, my memory of that poker-game tape still fresh. Didn't you know that?". As opposed to the first track, listeners fifty years ago had no clue what this song meant. Doors drummer John Densmore responded with a letter of his own: "Jim wrote The Crystal Ship for Mary Worbelo (sic), a girlfriend with whom he was breaking up. Its like a huge long instrumental intro. "So that crowd control works," Kallivokas teased, talking about theories that intrigued Jim in Collective Behavior class at FSU. "So, now you live in a screened-in porch?" . What are you gonna do about it? The remaining members released two more albums and split up in 1973. She still aches for love lost; her regret never relents. What are you gonna do about it? Toss the dude out of your home and two years later he goes iconic, and four years after he becomes a superstar, he then dies and becomes legendary. Update: Mid November now, nearly a year since this article appeared on the Gonzo Today page, becoming one of our most popular articles ever. If you see your name among the Clearwater High School graduates, someone is looking for you! That The Doors could continue on after all that, for five more albums of sometimes great recordings that remained popular across generations, is their stupendous triumph. She is finishing her junior year at Clearwater High. Morrison's words were dredged from memories of hitchhiking down dusty Florida roads as a teenager en route to visit his girlfriend Mary Werbelow. Mary Werbelow was connected to: -Jim Morrison. Mary Frances Werbelow North Hollywood, CA (North Valley) Phone Number Address Background Report Addresses Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA E 1st St, Los Angeles, CA PO Box, Panorama City, CA Phone Numbers (818) nay - peek View phones View Details AGE 50s Marie Casaus Werbelow San Angelo, TX Aliases Marie Werebelow Marie Werbellow Phone Number Three years after Morrison's death, Courson also died of overdose heroin at the age of 27. They live there for three years. Mary followed him out to California in 1964. So while those rascals were cleaning out my wallet, I was getting turned on to some seriously different sounds. It's super easy, we promise! What was it like for her these past 50 years, one wonders? Drummer John Densmores opening bossa nova beat simply rocks. Jim's was not among them. And she left Morrison in the mire, stunned, angry, and finally homeless, sleeping on a friends apartment rooftop, taking acid, writing, writing. Then I start the whole song over when Morrison starts singing again, about canceling his subscription to the resurrection. "She was the love of his life in those days. . "Needless to say, we were asked to leave.". Red carpet photos. Billy was Canadian, but he finagled his way into his parents allowing him to finish up high school in Florida. General CommentIt's about Mary Werbelow. . To write this mad half-century-later review, I looked up marxophone on Wikipedia. Manzarek, 74, died today in Germany while fighting bile duct cancer, according to his publicist. Kyle K. Mann Whatever. They caught up during a break, and talk inevitably turned to Mary. View the latest Mary Werbelow photos. This week, we're thrilled to hear from Bill Cosgrave, author of Love Her Madly, a lyrical and moving account of the days before legendary rock band The Doors became a worldwide phenomenonthe days before the shy, quiet Jim Morrison, who hadn't ever been heard to hum a tune, became a . He was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, a felony, plus indecent exposure and two other misdemeanors. She lives in California, alone, in an aging mobile home park. He enrolls at St. Petersburg Junior College. Jim Morrison and Mary Werbelow meet on Clearwater Beach. So, lets give thanks, and lets say a prayer for Mary, wherever she is. Yes, I miss the old school technology of vinyl, but skipping records used to really bum me out. The great Krieger guitar solo. Mary is 61, unemployed and rarely leaves her mobile home. Everyone has a story about Jim's brainy side. Get up. There were no computer edits then, so the tape was chopped! Morrison is later arrested, accused of exposing himself. The title dates the song, though I suppose it could be sung Twenty First Century Fox but, you know, Im glad it isnt, that I know of. Toni Says: What is Medicares creditable prescription drug coverage? The Doors' 12-minute album cut was inspired by a truly apocalyptic scenario: Jim Morrison's breakup with girlfriend Mary Werbelow. The top section of his transcript shown here is from SPJC, where he got B's and C's in basic classes, including English, math and biology. Mary called: "Come out wherever you are!". Side One, Cut Four: Twentieth Century Fox. Billy didn't know it yet, but their lives would become intertwined with his for years to come. In 1963, a sixteen-year-old Billy left his native Toronto and headed south to Florida to spend some time with family friends. It has also been used in numerous video games and movies. 1 on the Billboard charts. We definitely have a soul connection so deep. I really hurt him. Its a shock. I really hurt him.". A riveting memoir that works its magic like a slow-acting drug, revealing the story of Jim Morrison's first love, a long-lost friendship, and the man who existed before the Doors. ", By phone from his home in Northern California, Manzarek says all the guys in film school were in love with Mary. Often I begin with When the Musics Over. Yes, Ive written about this before. She says she's not sure if she has done right by talking so much. " The Crystal Ship " is a song by American rock band the Doors, from their 1967 debut album The Doors, and the B-side of the number-one hit single "Light My Fire". This was a crucial time for the band, as Morrison had suddenly developed his singing chops to a startling degree, literally a quantum leap in his vocal prowess. At FSU, he had a girlfriend, Mary Werbelow. Werbelow, TamaraJuly 21, 1971 - July 26, 2017Tamara Werbelow, 46, of Sarasota, FL, died on July 26, 2017. 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. Ok, heres where it gets a bit weird. The End remains another shoulda-been single hit, as the tune was originally a melodic break up tune for Mary Werbelow without the later-added and notorious Oedipal Section. A new documentary looks to dilute the effect the semi-biographical fever dream that was Oliver Stone's The Doors has on people previously unfamiliar with Morrison and/or Stone. The track is wet with considerable echo, somehow sounding like they are playing in the dark, with a few candles. His room was in back, books stacked everywhere save for the path to his bed. _ excited, like it was breaking news, not William Blake. Loser picks up the last one. January 4, 1967: Imagine it. Jim Morrison was her first love, before he got famous with the Doors. Girls? Morrison nicknamed himself Mr. Mojo Risin' _ an anagram of his name _ and is said to have referred often to the overdose deaths of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and predicted he would be No. His grave in Paris draws pilgrims from around the world, but not Mary. Over time, the lyrics of the song evolved, and they became longer. CDs last for years, if you treat them right. She worried they might grow apart. Pictorials. My only friend, the end, of our elaborate plans, the end, of everything that stands, the end, no safety or surprise, the end, Ill never look into your eyes again.. Which means its still pretty darn good. When Jim and Mary's . He didn't even appear to have rhythm. A bit glib, and The Doors knew it, refusing to release it as a single. Mary says she is tired. The chords are strange, the mood brittle, yet it all works to perfection. On her beach towel, Mary turned to her friend and uttered the first sexual comment of her life: Jim tagged along when his friend came over to flirt with Mary Wilkin. Go to www.sptimes.com/doors for more photos, music clips, a guest book and links to related Web sites. They don't really have a clue.". She enrolled in art school. If you really did your homework on Jim, his true love was Mary Werbelow who he was very serious with prior to him becoming famous. "I was so scared," she says, laughing. Some little promo shots for "Before The End: Searching For Jim Morrison" with people talking a bit about she and Jim, and there is some guy holding a picture of her talking about how she was Jim Morrison's first love. General CommentAnd then I found THIS COMMENT: This song came from poetry written in Jim Morrison's notebooks. He didnt like it. I'm in love with you.". Shes turning her back on James Douglas Morrison, who not much later conquered the world, an Icon forever. On his end, Jim would put in a dime for the first two minutes. Soul Kitchen starts with one of Manzareks crazy-making riffs, Densmores crashing, spooky rock drums (tuned to within an inch of their lives by Producer Rothschild) and a loopy, freaky guitar solo. WHERE THEY MET: Clearwater Beach, Pier 60. Jim studied film. Wild insanity: this, along with Jimi Hendrix, was peak psychedelia from the summer of 1967. Up here in the Santa Monica Mountains, location of my Topanga home, the only couple L.A. radio stations I can stand dont always get good reception. Morrison is now different. Hair shorn, Jim still attracted attention, shy behind granny glasses, army jacket and a conductor's hat. Mary has kept quiet, until now. (I believe that how it was anyway. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Biography submission guide. Free phone service. Mary has kept quiet, until now. Maybe you love getting your face stuck in the s - - -. And she felt he had swallowed her identity. I couldn't put this book down and read it in one setting (although it is a fairly decent length). The names listed below are alumni who have been searched for on this site from Clearwater High Schoolin Clearwater, Florida . How cool. He got epically drunk on Chianti at the all-day car races in Sebring, crawled around in a white fake fur coat like a polar bear covered in dirt and tried to launch himself onto the track. Total silence. Your own family and your true love say you suck ouch! I bought and downloaded it and read it avidly. I guess they couldnt figure out how to cut this 11 minute-long track down for radio play. But more than any Door, a presence looms over this cut. Mary Werbelow Death Fact Check Mary is alive and kicking and is currently 78 years old. Point being, I play the Doors incessantly while driving. They would talk for hours. Jim slinked forward, a hand towel around him. "I hated to let him go at night. She considered writing about the references but decided against it. . He and I met by telephone in 1996, when I was serving as pop music critic for the St. Petersburg. Manzareks solo, meh. And Phil Anderson, George Greer, Ruth Duncan, Gail Swift and Mary. "We connected on a level where speaking was almost unnecessary. Its a credible, well-written inside look at the crucial months just prior to the formation of the Doors, and the enigmatic, proud and stubborn Mary Werbelow. I realized drinking made him crazy. Nikolay Teplitskiy, Agop Kirkorian, Maria Kirkorian, Esther Romero and Johanna Lawrence, and many others are family members and associates of Mary. Help, let me out, help, I dont wanna get out. He lives high atop Topanga, California, where owls hoot and coyotes howl. Its too bizarre, edgy, freaky. (He remains my biggest influence on blues harmonica, for what its worth.). In late 1968, Mary moved to India to study meditation. "You're going to leave me," he would tell her. 1 record and included their second No. 1 single, Hello, I Love You. Maybe it's just time. I've never had anything like that again, and I don't expect I ever will.". 16 Magazine's Gloria Stavers. again. What could that moment have been like? Slave order No. Trick or Treat! He'd bait and goad, get a rise, take notes. I didn't knew that he had some participation in Ston'e movie but I think I read once that he participated in Coppola's Apocalypse Now (Creative Consultant, or something similar). 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. Its a big goddamn owy. As the song builds, Morrison brings you down and . They nurtured him, listened to him, celebrated him and backed him up. This was where you had to get up and turn the record over. A popular theory was that to escape the demands of celebrity, Morrison faked his death and vanished. Naturally, he had written all of two sentences. What are you gonna do about it? How long you do think it's gonna last? Their debut album, released in January 1967, included Light My Fire, Break on Through and The End. Hour after hour, day after day as those early Doors fought their way, after a hiccup with Columbia Records, to a deal with Jac Holtzman at Elektra and the crucial production of Paul Rothschild. Mary was in high school, Jim just finished a year at St. Pete Junior College. "Listen to this, listen to this," he'd say, "Tiger, tiger, burning bright . Classical, jazz and news usually the first two are fuzzy, and the current events on the news station KNX usually send me into a frothing rage or a state of stupefied boredom. Still a fine listen, with the nightmare carnival organ and Kriegers wacky guitar that rocks sarcastically yet supportively. They focus on Jim Morrison as drunk, drug abuser, wild man. But what the hell. Friends who thought they knew Mary couldn't fathom why she would want to hang out with the likes of Jim Morrison. Still, it added to the power of the event to have her on that stage. 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. Facts About "1999" "1999" was the lead single from Prince's 1982 album of the same name "1999" placed 339th on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time; Following Prince's 2016 death, the song hit the Billboard Hot 100 again, eventually rising to number 27 he'd say, dictating an observation. January 1964. 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. When he made it to her apartment in Los Angeles, Mary introduced Bill to her boyfriend, Jim Morrison. Furious at her father's snooping, she burned all Jim's letters, a move she came to regret, deeply. She wasn't much of a letter writer herself. "No, I'm not. So, I switch back to the Doors CDs. Scary looking little thing. Its direct and final. They were virtually soul mates for three or four years.". Where was Mary Werbelow when she got the news from Paris? She had heard Doors songs on the radio, but she didn't go to his concerts, she didn't keep up with his career. If she had appeared and said a few words, it would have stopped the show. "Oh, yeah," mom said, "she'll be happy to do it. A click on my car stereo instantly starts the track over. Jim had been sent here by his father, then a Navy captain, after he blew off his high school graduation ceremony in Virginia. And some never would. Prologue. Jim talked like no one she had met. Especially if I was high. 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. 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.