Krieger is pleased that a couple of Doors fans have launched a drive to get Morrison pardoned for the Miami incident — even though he’s been dead for 36 years. It’s reported that Florida governor Charlie Crist is giving the matter serious consideration. After all, the convictions of Enron magnate Ken Lay, which were being appealed, got tossed when he died. “People are finding [in Morrison] what they are finding in Bruce Lee or Elvis Presley or James Dean,” Krieger explains, “a guy that had it all and threw it away, at the age of 27.”
And if Jim Morrison were alive today? Krieger has been asked this countless times. “He would be a mystery. But I hope I would still be making music with him.”
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