Michael Dubin

And Jim's dad was on an aircraft carrier fighting the war.

And we wrote The Unknown Soldier, which is sort of, you know.

And so there was this tension.

But this lawsuit I got into, the sweet thing about it was I met Jim's dad for the first time.

He came to defend his son's legacy even after all of that.

Yeah.

The Doors were knocked off their hinges for a couple of years with Ray and Robbie thinking that they could go on without Jim, let alone yours truly.

Right.

The Stones without Mick and the Police without Sting.

Founding members of the Doors is cool.

Well, we didn't want to replace him, so we made a couple albums with Ray and Robbie trying to sing.

But immediately Madison Avenue was on it because Rolling Stone had Jim on the cover saying, he's hot, he's sexy, and he's dead.

We were kicking around a few names, Joe Cocker.

I can't think of any right now.

But, you know, it's hard to fill those leather pants.

The 27 Club.

Yeah.

I wax on a little bit about that club in this book.

There's an African mythology that the elders are supposed to watch the kids from 14 to 27.

And this mythology was going on thousands of years ago.