Wow... looks like it went for $134,000!! I sure don't have that kind of money just sitting around waiting for something like this to come along.. but I seriously think that if I did.. I woulda been a contender. Anyone else?

link to ebay sale

Hell yeah.

Then I'd go into La Ren on July 3rd, rip it to little pieces, and pass them out.

Considering it went for twice that five years ago its a seriously flawed investment sadly.........

Please fill me in Alex. Isn't the guy who just sold it yesterday the same guy who Morrison left it with (in a bag among other things if I remember correctly) back in 71 a few weeks before his death? If so, how did it go for "twice that five years ago"?.. and if it did.. how did it get back to the original guy who got it from Jim?

Hope this makes sense. Am seriously sleep deprived today.
Thanks.

Yeah, I thought this was all the stuff in the bag minus the tapes. What actually happened to the original reel tapes Jim had in there?

This same notebook was sold in 2001 and went for over 200,000 dollars
Moments In Time is proud to announce the acquisition of the Final Book of Poetry kept by Jim Morrison. Written entirely in Morrison's hand, this extraordinary discovery was given to Morrison's roommate the day before his death. It offers deep insight into Morrison's tormented last days. An auction is scheduled for June, 2001 with details to be announced soon. Private offers over $325,000. shall be considered before auction, for immediate sale. Arrangements can be made to view the original book of poetry. We will be happy to respond to your inquiries. Starting auction bid ..........$225,000.
This auction used the same scans of the book the latest one did...
check em out here....
http://newdoorstalk.proboards43.com/index....read=1107718321

So whoever bought it may have been the seller or it may have been someone they sold it on to...who knows....I have no idea what the final bid was on 2001....it never claimed on the auction site that it was being sold by this 'friend' who Jim left his bag with........

The story of the so called 'friend' and the bag with the tapes in has been around for a while......this 'friend' made a lot of money selling the reels to a bootlegger and it became Lost paris tapes....who knows if all the reel went onto LPT or if more remains somewhere.....was the poetry book in the bag....no idea..we have this tale from the people who ended up with it but Morrison could have left it lying around whilst in a drunken daze ....who knows....these so called 'friends' of Jim can say anything really so I don't believe too much of whats said about it......
They could have stolen it from him for all we know........
They hardly made any effort to get it back to his relatives now did they and we have no clue as to how much money the bag made for them...........
We don't even know if it was the final book of poetry Jim was writing in....The Paris Journal is supposed to contain his last ramblings as well.....who knows the truth really.....

The notebook which has the lines "Last words, Last words, out" is the final notebook he had with him when he died in the apartment. It would not have been in the white shopping bag he left with his friend. Alex, is the one being sold now have that last line in it?
Jim went to a recording studio with his reel from the poetry session, didn't he have the engineer put it onto a casette so he could listen to it anytime? The reel Jim was carrying with him was a copy, not the original which was left in L.A. and used on the American Prayer album.

We do not know he 'left' a shopping bag with his friend mate.......we have the word of people who have made a pretty penny out of the whole scenario and they can say anything they want.
We do know that he had a copy of the poetry session on him and that it ended up with people who sold it to a bootlegger. How it came into their possesion we will only ever have their word for........
The story they tell is Jim took his tape to them because he knew they could make a cassette of it for him with equipment they had (supposedly because this rich American could not find a way to play his tape) and he forgot it and told them to keep it till he came back....but he never did....which is convenient.......we will never know the truth of this......same with the tape of the session with the street musicians....which has been passed off as recorded in Paris but was probably something he did in LA that may well have been on the same reel as the poetry session....we will never know the truth.....


I am like you sceptical of this last notebook selling point which is something nobody can verify....as you say the last notebook he had was the one he had on July 3rd..........the seller makes more money if its the last one not the second last one .......
I would imagine the last one was packed by Pamela in the box she marked '127 Fascination' and is in the hands of the Courson family but surely if there are several notebooks it would be difficult to gauge which was his last as I would imagine he flitted between notebooks as the whim took him...........
What was the last poem Jim was working on?
We will never ever know that........but of course that won't stop people telling us which one it was
The lines "Last words, Last words, out" are a nice tidy little coda to Jim Morrison's story but could have been written weeks before he died...........he would leave blank pages and then go back to things....he would begin something....move on to something else and then return to what he was doing before........just because it was the last written page in a notebook does not mean it was hte last thing Jim wrote if you get my drift...........


Jim's Paris Journal

I think, that it not the best theme for conversation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone has put on sale, someone has bought. Also what??? What for about it to speak? I suppose to talk about a guitar from Liverpool:))) It is a theme for laughter!

This is weird......the recent auction of Jim's last notebook seems to have been passed off as the first time it was sold......ida millers site had this

"July 28, 2006 Jim's final writings sold
Jim Morrison's final writings went on the Cooper Owen auction block within the last hour at London's Abbey Road studios. A notebook from his last few months of life was being sold for the first time by musician Philippe Dalecky, and was expected to fetch 100,000 pounds. I clicked on the site to see if the auction had finished, and discovered that I could watch on-line and only had to wait about 15 minutes for Lot 77 to have its turn. It was all over in just over one minute. The opening bid was GBP 40,000 or about $74,500. After 33 bids, this auction closed with a winning bid of GBP 72,000 or about $134,114. WOW!! To read more about the item, including how the gentleman came to have possession of this notebook, go here"

It seems as if it was sold by this Philippe Dalecky character but the same volume was sold in 2001 by Moments In Time.........
http://www.momentsintime.com/autographs.htm

"Moments In Time is proud to announce the acquisition of the Final Book of Poetry kept by Jim Morrison. Written entirely in Morrison's hand, this extraordinary discovery was given to Morrison's roommate the day before his death. It offers deep insight into Morrison's tormented last days. An auction is scheduled for June, 2001 with details to be announced soon. Private offers over $325,000. shall be considered before auction, for immediate sale. Arrangements can be made to view the original book of poetry. We will be happy to respond to your inquiries. Starting auction bid ..........$225,000."


This is a page from the 2006 Cooper Owen auction


and this was from the 2001 Moments In Time auction...

Some shady goings on here...or what??????????

I agree Alex........false hype it appears and shady indeed.

Okay.. I'm admittedly confused now. Is this supposedly the _same_ notebook.. somehow passed off twice as the "first time" sold..... or two _different_ notebooks....? Although the writing of each is _exact_, the notebooks themselves look like 2 different ones..? Maybe it's just the photography.. but the top one doesn't look "yellow" with age.. it looks like a pad of yellow paper. The bottom one is unarguably white (perhaps just a 'black and white' photo of the yellow page?) The bottom book also looks wider, and the spaces between the lines are a little bigger too.

Haven't even finished first cup of coffee here yet, so maybe it's just caffeine deprivation..? Alex? Jim? Am I seeing this right.. or should I just drink more coffee and shut up? :-)

Its just the 'scans' go to...........a scanner in 2001 cannot be compared to the stuff we have now in 2006.........its exactly the same page just poorly scanned in 2001 compared to the good scan in 2006........


Oh yeah! also I enlarged the photo from the old scan to add it to my photobucket account so that the writing was clearer.............

Well that was a sneaky thing to do to a person who wasn't fully awake yet and was trying to compare the sizes of lines and spaces :-)

Gotcha on the scan thing though. Makes sense now. Thanks.

can you find more information about this notebook?
what is "last few months"?
while in Paris or including Paris and America?



WHAT?!
They are actually saying that Jim Morrison delivered this notebook to Pam (supposedly) because he had an intention for tomorrow, the day after he gave her the book. The after was death.

who bought this notebook?
do you know?
who sold this book?
do you know?
and why did this person sold this book?

da fuck!

I can't stand it when I see $$$$
I wanna fuck the whole shit to pieces!
Crush you to pieces!

Ana ...actually take the trouble to read what is posted and you will know exactly the same as the rest of us know

I want to read this notebook.
Someone please tell me if the person who bought it has the right to publish it?
Or was it already published?

thank you

http://store.famebureau.com/

It's back for the third time...2001....2006....now 2008 and it's still this Philippe Dalecky who is touting it....very weird as he must have withdrawn it from the previous auctions due to the price not being right.
Check out You Tube for the ridiculous notion that the Fame Bureau discovered this rare item....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NMj-EEL9Lb8

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qMfo0-2Gs9w&...feature=related

What a bunch of scam artists this lot are......


From the Fame Bureau site

this is the first time that I have heard about a morrison related product that has been sold and I don't know whether he would have approved. its quite a luxury for people to pick up items from these artists who are dead and who had these own possessions, but its like selling handwritten lyrics and as we know jim morriosn was not in it for the money, even, if someone he knew endorsed it or bought it. I read that someone payed millions for a public phone in a shop that ringo starr had alledgedlly used. You hear some interesting stories, funny infact.

It's hardly a product mate ...this is an important bit of Doors History being touted around by some creep who for all we know stole Jim's bag from him after he fell asleep pissed out of his brain on the couch and told him he did not have the bag when he arrived in the flat when he woke from his drunken stupour. After two attempts to flog this I fear for the integrity of the notebook which shud be in the hands of someone who can look after it not some asswipe trying to bump the price up by using a You Tube movie with two other scam artists to make out this has just turned up.


From the Fame Bureau site 2008


From the Moments In Time auction 2001

It's just a notion but the difference between the scan from 2001 and photo from 2008 seem to indicate a lot of deteriation in the notebook in the last few years...maybe this crook is not the one best suited to looking after this treasure regardless as to whether it's Jim's last notebook or his second from last or the one before the one before the second from last????

Maybe if he has the time from his busy schedule selling shoes and organising the 2008 animatronic Jim Morrison Vegas show the Doors manager mite find time to check this out as its a lot more important than a fucking Converse sneaker .....after all this saga has been trundling on for rather a long time....don't you agree Jeff?

Some more pages from the FBI website

I agree Alex this notebook should be purchased and placed in the Doors archives. I've seen this notebook come up for sale in 2006.

Here's a few newspaper articles for the sale of the notebook in 2006, a couple of page scans and the original auction advertisment from 2006. The last link is a two part video from the Fame Bureru.

Lifestyle Extra - UK News

Last Writings Of Doors Icon Morrison For Sale
Monday, 3rd July 2006, 18:44

The last writings of Doors singer Jim Morrison before his tragic early death in 1971 are expected to fetch £100,000 at auction in London later this month.

A notebook containing poems, lyrics and musings jotted down by the troubled star in the last few months of his life is being sold for the first time by auctioneers Cooper Owen at London's Abbey Road studios on July 28.

Mystery has surrounded Morrison's death at the age of 27 in Paris, where he had moved from America to concentrate on writing, 35 years ago today.

The influential singer was found dead in his bath having suffered heart failure and many people, including his then girlfriend, have suggested he had taken a drugs overdose, either by accident or deliberately.

The eccentric rock star and poet regularly carried notebooks with him to jot down ideas as they came to him. Throughout his time in Paris, he was always seen with a white plastic carrier bag containing his notebooks and other possessions.

This spiral-bound pad contains 20 pages of his last writings, including variations on older poems as well as new poems and partial lyrics full of profanities and sexual references.

The lines in the book will give biographers and fans an insight into the star's mind in his last few months. One new song lyric seems to sum up his Paris idyll: "Let the piper call the tune / March, April, May, June."

Others reveal a different mood with outbursts such as "JERK-BAIT SCROTUM, INC ... F**K S**T P*SS C**T". One page reads: "What can I say? What can I do? I thought you found my sexual affection stimulating," followed on the next page by: "UMHM / Glorious sexual cool / I'm finally dead."

This book is now being sold by musician Philippe Dalecky, who has held onto it for 35 years since Morrison left his bag with him the last time they saw each other, three weeks before he died.

Mr Dalecky said today: "I met Jim when he came to Paris in March 1971. We used to hang around and drink and play music together.

"One day I saw him and he was carrying in his bag reel-to-reel tapes he had made and I took him to my place to make a cassette recording of it for him. We had a few drinks and then he left with the cassette.

"I saw Jim had forgotten the bag so I shouted after him, but he just said, 'OK, keep it for now', and I never saw him again. I went to St Tropez the next day and it was a real shock when I came back to Paris and heard he was dead.

"Jim was like a shooting star in my eyes. I saw him only about seven or eight times but each time was really intense."

Included with the notebook is one of the last photographs taken of Morrison, which shows him staring out of the window of the Paris flat where he died.

Louise Cooper, of auctioneers Cooper Owen, said: "Jim's last days are a bit of a mystery, but from his writings you can see he had a very troubled mind.

"People knew this book existed but nobody except the author of his biography had seen it. It the most important pi

"This is a very important piece of history because it sheds a little more light on what he was thinking before his tragic death."

http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story....rrison_for_sale


Independent Online

This was The End: Jim Morrison's final notebook and photograph put up for sale

By Louise Jury, Arts Correspondent

Published: 04 July 2006

Twenty pages of handwritten poems and lyrics in the last notebook used by the singer Jim Morrison before his death 35 years ago are to be sold at auction.

The notebook, which is expected to make up to £100,000, was left behind in a plastic bag when Morrison borrowed a friend's home studio to make a tape. It has been kept since by the owner of the studio, Philippe Dalecky, whose girlfriend at the time, Elizabeth Lariviere, was a friend of Morrison's lover, Pamela Courson.

He has now decided to sell it at a Cooper Owen's Music Legends sale at the Abbey Road studios in London on 28 July. It is being auctioned with a photograph of the 27-year-old singer which was also in the bag.

Speaking from France yesterday, M. Dalecky, a French music producer now aged 57, said he had not known who Morrison was when they were introduced. "If it was Jimi Hendrix I would have kissed his feet because he was my hero. Later I realised the depth of my ignorance, but our relationship was pretty easy because I was not a fan," he said.

"He was like a shooting star in my life. I saw him about seven, eight, 10 times in about a month and a half. He was not the aggressive drug addict person that has been described many times. He was really cool and collected."

Yet M. Dalecky said that Morrison already looked much older than 27. "His heart was the heart of an old man. He drank too much, he had too many drugs, you could see through the look in his eyes that he was kind of fed up. He lived too fast in a few years."

A sense of that world-weariness was evident in the notebook, M. Dalecky said. "On the penultimate page, it says: 'Umhm/Glorious sexual cool/I'm finally dead' - like a premonition, like he was expecting his death, like he had had enough already."

Jim Morrison had moved to Paris with Pamela Courson to take a break from performing and to concentrate on writing. He was already in the habit of carrying notebooks. And in Paris, throughout the month before his death, he began carrying them in a white plastic shopping bag from the Samaritaine department store, also including personal photographs, a tape of his 1970 birthday poetry reading, cigarettes, pens and articles about the Doors.

When Morrison found it hard to write, he resorted to drink and on one occasion picked up a pair of buskers to record with him in the studio. He did not have the means to listen to the resulting reel-to-reel recording, but Philippe Dalecky had the facilities to make a tape of it.

Morrison was so thrilled with the cassette he left in a hurry. When M. Dalecky noticed the forgotten carrier bag, he called after Morrison half-way down the block. "He looked up and said, 'OK, just keep it,' and that was the last I saw of him," M. Dalecky said. The singer was found dead in his bath on 3 July 1971 from heart failure aggravated by heavy drinking.

Stephen Davis, the author of The Last Days of Jim Morrison, has seen the notebook. "It represents a confident and finished sequence of poems," he said. Some are variants of older poems, such as "The Ancient Ones", "Winter Photography" and "The Hitchhiker".

But there is one previously unknown poem, "Impossible Garden", which refers to "a beautiful savage like me" and "the most insane whore in Christendom", and a new song lyric, "Now You Are In Danger".

Some pages contain just a few jottings with page 17 containing one line: "She'll get over it."

M. Dalecky would like the notebook to go back to the US, but is not sad to be selling. "It's been around me for these 35 years and I think it's time for me to let it go," he said. Louise Cooper, of Cooper Owen, said: "This is one of the most incredible items we have put up for sale. Jim's last days are a mystery to us all and this notebook sheds a little more light on the state of his mind before his tragic death."

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/n...icle1159306.ece

Music Legends Auction

Cooper Owen’s 28th July MUSIC LEGENDS auction will take place at the historic ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, London and includes a wide ranging selection of lots of our usual high standard.

Highlights include:
Jim Morrison’s last known handwritten notebook, containing finished and unfinished poems, lyrics and musings, Paris 1971



Sale 2161 Lot 77
Jim Morrison's last handwritten notebook, Paris 1971 together with one of the final photographs taken of him a very rare, important and insightful lot comprising a seemingly innocuous stenographers spiral bound notebook with 20 pages of handwritten musings, stanzas, finished, unfinished and reworked poems and lyrics in blue ballpoint pen in the hand of a deeply troubled Jim Morrison possibly started prior to his departure from Los Angeles and the majority written during his last days in Paris.

Jim Morrison using the alias (part of his name) 'James Douglas' - arrived in Paris in March 1971 to take a break from performing and to concentrate on his writing. His long time girlfriend Pamela Courson (who used the name Morrison on occasion) had travelled before him and arranged for them to rent the large 19th Century apartment in the Fourth Arrondissement of model and starlet Elizabeth Lariviere known as Zozo, where Jim planned to spend his days writing.

Jim had a habit of carrying several spiral bound notebooks with him at all times - to jot down notes, poems and ideas as they came to him, he took some of these notebooks with him when he packed for Paris.

Throughout June of 1971 Jim carried a white plastic shopping bag from the Samaritaine department store with him wherever he went. It usually contained one or two of his spiral notebooks, some personal photographs, a tape of his 1970 birthday poetry reading a pack of Marlboros, a lighter, a few ballpoint pens and some interviews and articles about The Doors.

Jim found it increasingly difficult to write, becoming unsettled, erratic and ultimately ill and resorted to his old ways of drinking hard - on one drunken occasion in June picking up a none too talented pair of buskers and bringing them to a studio, insisting they record with him.

Jim felt one rendition of Orange County Suite produced during this ad hoc session had produced some interesting results but did not having the means to listen to his reel to reel recording of it.

A few days later he bumped in to Zozo's boyfriend, Philippe Dalecky who had the means to make a cassette from Jim's reel to reel at his home studio in his apartment on the Rue Chalgrin.
Having made the tape, Jim keen to listen to it left in an excited hurry. Dalecky noticed that he has left his plastic bag behind - he ran after him shouting that he had forgotten it to which Jim, now half way down the block, shouted back All right… keep it… see you later… bye!

The next day Dalecky travelled to Saint Tropez with Zozo. He would never see Morrison again. The hazy circumstances of his untimely death are well documented.

Stephen Davis, author of The Last Days of Jim Morrison has studied the notebook in some depth.

The contents of Jim's last notebook are 'full of stanza's and imagery - it represents a confident and finished sequence of poems'.

'Several pages are variants of older poems, such as The Ancient Ones, Winter Photography and The Hitchhiker. Other pages contain only one or two lines, but variations in the writing style indicate they may have been thought over for days. The notebook contains both wonderful new poems and scabrous jottings. A previously unknown poem, Impossible Garden, refers to a beautiful savage like me and the most insane whore in Christendom. A new song lyric, Now You Are in Danger, seems to sum up Jim's Paris idyll: Let the piper call the tune/March, April, May, June. The next page contains short lyrics for a blues song: We're two of a kind/We're two of a kind/You want yours, and I want mine.'

Page 17 contains one line: She'll get over it.
Page 18: What can I say? What can I do? I thought you found my sexual affection stimulating
Page 19: UMHM/Glorious sexual cool/I'm finally dead
Page 20:In that year we were blessed/By a great visitation of energy.

Sold with a colour Polaroid photograph of Morrison taken during his time in Paris. The ghostly shot captures him staring out the window of the apartment where he would eventually die and is believed to be one of the last photographs taken of him. (2)

Estimate £ 80,000-100,000

http://www.cooperowen.com/
http://www.cooperowen.com/asp/fullCatalogu...4&saletype=



ABC News On-Line Jul 29 2006

McCartney's first guitar strikes a chord with bidders
The guitar that Beatles legend Paul McCartney learnt to play his first chords on has sold for $A803,000 at auction.

The instrument was the star item in the sale of rock memorabilia at London's famous Abbey Road studios, where the Beatles produced most of their hits.

Schoolboy McCartney learnt to play guitar on the Rex acoustic model belonging to his childhood best friend.

Ian James, 64, sold the instrument to help fund his retirement.

It was bought by Craig Jackson, an American auction enthusiast.

The guitar was accompanied by a letter from McCartney.

Among the Beatles memorabilia, that of the late John Lennon sold for 50 per cent more than equivalent items relating to McCartney or George Harrison, whose Fender Stratocaster guitar sold for $A24,000.

An anonymous bidder bought a pair of Lennon's famous round glasses for $A73,000.

The last known handwritten notebook used by The Doors frontman Jim Morrison fetched $AUS194,000. (US$148,613.6848)

It contained finished and unfinished poems, lyrics and musings written in the last days before his death in Paris in 1971.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1700321.htm


From Pitch Perfect Reviews
May 31 2007

$80,000 For A Piece of The Lizard King
Rock memorabilia: Jim Morrison’s last notebook for sale
By Rachel Heisler


Amazing. 36 years after his death, Jim Morrison’s last notebook surfaces, and YOU can own it. The ebay bidding starts at $160,000 and for that little chunk of change the winner will recieve the notebook, which contains 20 pages of handwritten musings, finished and unfinished and reworked poems and lyrics, the above photo of Jim in Paris and the movie The Doors: 30 Year Commemorative Edition. Here’s the story about the lot that is currently up on ebay:

Jim Morrison, using the alias James Douglas, arrived in Paris in March, 1971, to take a break from performing and to concentrate on his writing. His long-time girlfriend, Pamela Courson, had travelled before him and arranged for them to rent the large 19th-century apartment in the Fuurth Arrondissement of model and starlet Elizabeth Lariviere, known as Zozo, where Jim planned to spend his days writing. Jim had a habit of carrying several spiral-bound notebook with him at all times to jot down notes, poems and ideas as they came to him. He took some of these notebooks with him when he went to Paris.

Throughout June of 1971, Jim carried a white plastic shopping bag from the ‘Samaratine’ department store with him wherever he went. It usually contained one or two of his spiral notebooks, some personal photographs, a tape of his 1970 birthday poetry reading, a pack of Marlboros, a lighter, a few ballpoint pens and some interviews and articles about The Doors. He found it increasingly difficult to write, became unsettled, erratic and ultimately ill, and resorted to his old ways of hard drinking. On one drunken occassion in June, he picked up a none-too talented pair of busker and brought them to a studio, insisting they record with him.

Jim felt one rendition of “Orange County Suite” produced during this ad hoc recording session had produced some interesting results, but he didn’t have the means to listen to his reel to reel recording. A few days later, he bumped into Zozo’s boyfriend, Phillippe Dalecky, who had the means to make a cassette from Jim’s reel at his home studio in his apartment on the Rue Chalgrin. Having made the tape, Jim listened to it and left in an excited hurry. Dalecky noticed that he had left his plastic bag behind. He ran after Jim shouting that he had forgotten it, to which Jim, halfway down the block, shouted back: “All right? Keep it? See you later! Bye!” The next day, Dalecky travelled to Saint Tropex with Zozo. He would never see Jim again.

Stephen Davis, author of The Last Days of Jim Morrison, has studied the notebook in some depth:

“Several pages are variants of older poems, such as ‘The Ancient Ones,’ ‘Winter Photography’ and ‘The Hitchhiker.” Other pages contain only one or two lines, but variation in the writing style indicate they may have been thought over for days. The notebook contais both wonderful new poems and scabrous jottings: ‘JERK-BAIT SCROTOM, INC.’ The profanities Fuck Shit Piss Kill. A previously unknown poem, ‘Impossible garden,” refers to a ‘beautiful savage like me; and ‘the most insane whore in Christendom.’ A new song lyric ‘Now You Are In Danger’ seems to sum up Jim’s Paris idyyll: ‘Let the piper call the tune / March, May, April, June.’ The next page contains short lyrics for a blues song: ‘We’re two of a kind / We’re two of a kind / You want yours, and I want mine.’”

Page 17 contains one line: “She’ll get over it.”
Page 18: “What can I say? What can I do? I though you found my sexual affections stimulating.’
Page 19: “UMHN / Glorius sexual Cool / I’m finally dead.’
Page 20: “In that year we were blessed / By a great visitation of energy.”

The listing can be found my going to ebay and searching for Jim Morrison notebook. While we understand why an individual would try to make a buck by selling such an interesting piece of history, we’ve asked the seller to donate the book to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It would be wonderful for all Morrison fans to have access to this, one of the most interesting pieces of music memorabilia to ever surface. Bidding is estimated to reach $160,000-$200,000.

Rock ‘n’ roll can never die. Jim lives.

Thousands of other pieces of rock memorabilia will be up for auction Saturday, June 2, at The Orleans Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV, from 5-9:30 p.m.

http://www.pitchperfectreviews.com/?p=364#more-364

Live Auctioneers
Estimate $160,000 - $200,000


THE FAME BUREAU'S ROCK 'N' ROLL CIRCUS
5:00 PM PT - Jun 2nd, 2007


offered by
The Fame Bureau

21 Denmark Street
London, WC2H 1BN

Lot 316
316** The Doors - Jim Morrison's last notebook


A very rare and important lot - a stenographers spiral bound notebook with 20 pages of handwritten musings, finished and unfinished and reworked poems and lyrics in blue ballpoint pen in the hand of Jim Morrison possibly started prior to his departure from Los Angeles and the majority written during his last days in Paris.
Jim Morrison using the alias (part of his name) 'James Douglas' – arrived in Paris in March 1971 to take a break from performing and the concentrate on his writing. His long-time girlfriend Pamela Courson (who used the name Morrison on occasion) had travelled before him and arranged for them to rent the large 19th century apartment in the Fourth Arrondissement of model and starlet Elizabeth Lariviere known as Zozo, where Jim planned to spend his days writing.
Jim had a habit of carrying several spiral bound notebooks with him at all times to jot down notes, poems and ideas as they came to him, he took some of these notebooks with him when he went to Paris.
Throughout June of 1971, Jim carried a white plastic shopping bag from the 'Samaratine' department store with him wherever he went. It usually contained one or two of his spiral notebooks, some personal photographs, a tape of his 1970 birthday poetry reading, a pack of Marlboros, a lighter a few ballpoint pens and some interviews and articles about The Doors.
Jim found it increasingly difficult to write, becoming unsettled, erratic and ultimately ill and resorted t his old ways of drinking hard – on one drunken occasion in June picking up a none too talented pair of buskers and bringing them to a studio, insisting they record with him.
Jim felt one rendition of 'Orange County Suite' produced during this ad hoc recording session had produced some interesting results but he did not have the means to listen to his reel to reel recording of it.
A few days later he bumped into Zozo's boyfriend, Philippe Dalecky, who had the means to make a cassette from Jim's reel to reel at his home studio in his apartment on the Rue Chalgrin.
Having made the tape, Jim keen to listen to it, left in an excited hurry. Dalecky noticed that he had left his plastic bag behind – he ran after him shouting that he had forgotten it to which Jim, now half way down the block, shouted back "All right…keep it…see you later…bye!"
The next day Dalecky travelled to Saint Tropez with Zozo. He would never see Jim again. The hazy circumstances of his untimely death are well documented.
Stephen Davis, author of "The Last Days of Jim Morrison" has studied the notebook in some depth.
The contents of Jim's last notebook are "full of stanzas and imagery-it represents a confident and finished sequence of poems".
"Several pages are variants of older poems, such as 'The Ancient Ones', 'Winter Photography' and 'The Hitchhiker'. Other pages contain only one or two lines, but variations in the writing style indicate they may have been thought over for days. The notebook contains both wonderful new poems and scabrous jottings: "JERK-BAIT SCROTUM, INC." The profanities F**k S**t P**s C**t. A previously unknown poem "Impossible Garden", refers to a "beautiful savage like me" and "the most insane whore in Christendom". A new song lyric "Now You Are In Danger" seems to sum up Jim's Paris idyll: "Let the piper call the tune / March, May, April, June". The next page contains short lyrics for a blues song: "We're two of a kind / We're two of a kind / You want yours, and I want mine".
Page 17: contains one line "She'll get over it".
Page 18: "What can I say? What can I do? I thought you found my sexual affection stimulating".
Page 19: "UMHN / Glorious sexual Cool / I'm finally dead."
Page 20: "In that year we were blessed / By a great visitation of energy."
Sold with a colour Polaroid photograph of Morrison taken during his time in Paris. The ghostly shot captures him staring out of the window of the apartment where he would eventually die and is believed to be one of the last photographs taken of him.
The lot is also accompanied by a DVD copy of "The Doors: 30 Years Commemorative Edition." (2)

REFERENCE: Davis, Stephen "The Life and Death of Jim Morrison", 2004.
£80,00-100,000
$160,000-200,000

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/3682955




Jim Morrison's Last Notebook

FBI Jim Morrison's Last Notebook part 1 (Fame Bureru )
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NMj-EEL9Lb8

FBI Jim Morrison's Last Notebook part 2
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qMfo0-2Gs9w

"July 28, 2006 Jim's final writings sold
Jim Morrison's final writings went on the Cooper Owen auction block within the last hour at London's Abbey Road studios. A notebook from his last few months of life was being sold for the first time by musician Philippe Dalecky, and was expected to fetch 100,000 pounds. I clicked on the site to see if the auction had finished, and discovered that I could watch on-line and only had to wait about 15 minutes for Lot 77 to have its turn. It was all over in just over one minute. The opening bid was GBP 40,000 or about $74,500. After 33 bids, this auction closed with a winning bid of GBP 72,000 or about $134,114. WOW!! To read more about the item, including how the gentleman came to have possession of this notebook, go here"

I just noticed this I posted 2 years back in the early part of this thread from Ida Miller's site.
Ida watched the auction on line and saw the lot go for $130 grand but the notebook is still in the hands of Dalecky who is flogging it later this week ......I am confused.....unless there was a reserved price on it and he refused to part with it unless it was met.....not that well up on auction etiquette.
It's funny cos in 2001 the starting auction bid was ..........$225,000..... but 2006 the bidding began at $74,500.......wonder what the crook Dalecky is after this time round and will he let it go........and where the hell is Jampol whilst all this is happening.....sitting on his fat arce sucking up to a shoe company it seems.....unless I am doing him a disservice and he is aware of the events of later this week......in which case I apologise......

It cannot be doing this piece of pure gold in terms of Doors History any good to be touted about year in year out by some nob looking for a good payout.......it shud be getting some TLC from The Doors....

Looks like apology as Doris has indeed just confirmed that The Doors are taking measures to address this situation.....
Although after this item has been auctioned at least five and 'sold' twice already I don't exactly feel reassured by that

Sold for £58,000 to someone who attended the auction.......
Auction went...
Open 18. 40
Bids went
30K 34 36 38 40 45 48 50K 52 55
then 58
closed at 18. 42 sold to a floor bidder....there were NO internet bids.

I watched the auction too. That was one of the fastest auctions I have ever witnessed. It only took like 1-2 mins to complete each transaction.

Like you said, it was a bidder that attended the auction in person that bought the notebook. It would be interesting to know if there was "reserve price" as the Ebay listing didn't indicate any "reserve price."




For history and information purposes here's the initial (min bid requirements) and closing bid as the sale appeared on Ebay "Live" Auctions Sept 4 2008 and the webpage for the Live Auctioneers site.

EBAY LISTING

163: The Doors – Jim Morrison's Last Notebook
Item number: 140257632471

Starts at: GBP 37,500.00 Place Absentee Bid
(approximately US $68,212.50)



Closed at: GBP 58,000.00
(approximately US $103,211.00)


Estimate: GBP 75,000.00 - GBP 85,000.00
History: 11 bids
Lot number: 163 (View all lots)
Auction Date: Sep-04-08 09:00:00 PDT

High Bid: Live Auction Floor Bidder

http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/163-The-D...emZ140257632471


LIVE AUCTIONEERS
It's More Than Rock 'n' Roll
9:00 AM PT - Sep 4th, 2008

Lot 163
The Doors – Jim Morrison's last notebook

(11 Bids)
Estimate £75,000 - £85,000

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/5548761

Hopefully, we will find out after the auction ends if the notebook went home with its new owner or if the French guy still has it in his possession.

This was The End: Jim Morrison's final notebook and photograph put up for sale

Twenty pages of handwritten poems and lyrics in the last notebook used by the singer Jim Morrison before his death 35 years ago are to be sold at auction.


The notebook, which is expected to make up to £100,000, was left behind in a plastic bag when Morrison borrowed a friend's home studio to make a tape. It has been kept since by the owner of the studio, Philippe Dalecky, whose girlfriend at the time, Elizabeth Lariviere, was a friend of Morrison's lover, Pamela Courson.

He has now decided to sell it at a Cooper Owen's Music Legends sale at the Abbey Road studios in London on 28 July. It is being auctioned with a photograph of the 27-year-old singer which was also in the bag.

Speaking from France yesterday, M. Dalecky, a French music producer now aged 57, said he had not known who Morrison was when they were introduced. "If it was Jimi Hendrix I would have kissed his feet because he was my hero. Later I realised the depth of my ignorance, but our relationship was pretty easy because I was not a fan," he said.

"He was like a shooting star in my life. I saw him about seven, eight, 10 times in about a month and a half. He was not the aggressive drug addict person that has been described many times. He was really cool and collected."

Yet M. Dalecky said that Morrison already looked much older than 27. "His heart was the heart of an old man. He drank too much, he had too many drugs, you could see through the look in his eyes that he was kind of fed up. He lived too fast in a few years."

A sense of that world-weariness was evident in the notebook, M. Dalecky said. "On the penultimate page, it says: 'Umhm/Glorious sexual cool/I'm finally dead' - like a premonition, like he was expecting his death, like he had had enough already."

Jim Morrison had moved to Paris with Pamela Courson to take a break from performing and to concentrate on writing. He was already in the habit of carrying notebooks. And in Paris, throughout the month before his death, he began carrying them in a white plastic shopping bag from the Samaritaine department store, also including personal photographs, a tape of his 1970 birthday poetry reading, cigarettes, pens and articles about the Doors.

When Morrison found it hard to write, he resorted to drink and on one occasion picked up a pair of buskers to record with him in the studio. He did not have the means to listen to the resulting reel-to-reel recording, but Philippe Dalecky had the facilities to make a tape of it.

Morrison was so thrilled with the cassette he left in a hurry. When M. Dalecky noticed the forgotten carrier bag, he called after Morrison half-way down the block. "He looked up and said, 'OK, just keep it,' and that was the last I saw of him," M. Dalecky said. The singer was found dead in his bath on 3 July 1971 from heart failure aggravated by heavy drinking.

Stephen Davis, the author of The Last Days of Jim Morrison, has seen the notebook. "It represents a confident and finished sequence of poems," he said. Some are variants of older poems, such as "The Ancient Ones", "Winter Photography" and "The Hitchhiker".

But there is one previously unknown poem, "Impossible Garden", which refers to "a beautiful savage like me" and "the most insane whore in Christendom", and a new song lyric, "Now You Are In Danger".

Some pages contain just a few jottings with page 17 containing one line: "She'll get over it."

M. Dalecky would like the notebook to go back to the US, but is not sad to be selling. "It's been around me for these 35 years and I think it's time for me to let it go," he said. Louise Cooper, of Cooper Owen, said: "This is one of the most incredible items we have put up for sale. Jim's last days are a mystery to us all and this notebook sheds a little more light on the state of his mind before his tragic death."

By Louise Jury, Arts Correspondent
The Independant
Tuesday, 4 July 2006


Old hippies and music lovers with a poetic bent found their way to Shoreditch's trendy Idea Generation Gallery last night, where the last notebook of The Doors's Jim Morrison – the one he gave away in Paris just weeks before he died – was auctioned by The Fame Bureau. Anyone looking for clues to his state of mind in his final days can find them in these pages. One poem reads, bafflingly: "Now you are in danger/ Old sheep/ Now you are in danger/ When the true king's murderers are allowed to run free/ & 1,000 musicians arise in the night..." The guide price for the notebook was £80,000 to £100,000.
The Independant
Cover Stories: Jim Morrison's last notebook
By The Literator
Friday, 5 September 2008

East London Advertiser 24

Hendrix burnt guitar fetches £280,000 at auction—half the asking price

04 September 2008


AN AMERICAN music boss paid £280,000 tonight (Thurs) for the lost legendary Jimmy Hendrix guitar which has been missing for 40 years.

The 1965 Fender Stratocaster was sold at a showbiz memorabilia auction in London’s East End with lots that also included the first Beatles contract with Brian Epstein and a set of Elvis Presley’s fingerprints.

The bid for the Hendrix guitar was won by a delighted Daniel Boucher, 51-year-old music company boss from Massachusetts who flew over to London specially for tonight’s auction, held at Bethnal Green’s Idea Generation Gallery.

The guitar had been expected to fetch £500,000—but he got it for little more than half that.

“I’ve got myself a bargain,” he told the East London Advertiser afterwards.

“The credit crunch worked for me.”

He is taking the guitar back to the US where he will play it himself.

“It still works and I’ll plug it in,” he added. “I can’t wait to hear it—I’m absolutely delighted.”

There was fierce bidding by phone. But Daniel was present in the gallery and managed to beat off the competition from agents acting for clients around the world.

The guitar was the first one to be famously burned by the Rock icon and was the highlight of the packed auction.

Other pieces under the hammer included the first fully-signed Beatles contract with Brian Epstein in 1962 which went for £240,000.

The legendary Bechstein grand piano from the Trident Studio—used by The Beatles for Hey Jude on the famous White album and by Elton John, David Bowie and Freddy Mercury—went for £200,000.

Auction bosses declared the night a success—but admitted most items went for way less than the guide prices. Only two dozen items out of 250 lots met expectations.

The only known existing record of Elvis Presley’s dabs, on a 1970 gun permit application form for a .38 revolver, sold for £46,000—it had been expected to fetch £75,000.

Doors’ frontman Jim Morrison’s last notebook detailing his final days in Paris in 1971 went for £58,000, little over half its asking price.

The Bustier worn by Marilyn Monroe in the 1959 film Some Like It Hot sold for £20,000, just £10,000 short of what was expected.

http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/cont...3A00%3A44%3A403

Yeah the hendrix guitar was big news here and was expected to fetch half a mill.....its still playable as a guy from the BBC was playing it on news 24.....
Jims notebook has halved in price since it was auctioned by MIT in 2001 so its not much of an investment and hardly something one could use to make money from a publishing deal......I seen better poetry scrawled on the walls of Darlington Railway Station toilets than some of whats in the notepad to be honest....but it was a Historic document and its sad The Doors and all who sail in her did not feel it was worth investing in.....like The Paris Journal before it another bit of Morrison History thats probably gone forever......but then a bunch of people who are more mesmerised by a 'cool shoe' cannot be expected to see much value in some Morrison scrawl on a two bob notepad ......shameful really

Dot music.com

News
January 12, 2001

LIZARD KING’S LAST POEMS FOR SALE

A book of poetry by legendary Doors frontman Jim Morrison is to be auctioned on the internet.

The book, which contains work written less than a month before Morrison’s death, is under the hammer at auction site momentsintime.com

Morrison gave the book to his Paris roommate the day before he died. The book is written entirely in Morrison’s own hand and contains lines like, “I write these words/In the narrow privacy of my cell/To a Mexican girl” and “I’m finally dead.”

Momentsintime.com say the book “offers deep insight into Morrison’s tormented last days” Bidding for the item starts at $225,000.

END.

Thats interesting Sara....MIT claimed that the current bid was $450 grand and the next bidder needed to reach half a mill.....I recall seeing that the notebook had been sold on the MIT site ......I seem to remember a figure of 200 grand not 450.....if someone had offered dalekey 450 grand I can't see how he still had it seven years later...
a lot of strange shit has gone on with this notebook and I wonder if the next twist will see Phil The Frenchman selling it again next year??????

[froggyaccent]

"Vell you know I got to looking. Around my flat. (And) I found a couple of pages. That must have er uh, how you say in American :" fell out."

"Jeem I think had theeese pages loooose... ."

[/froggyaccent]

This notebook reminds me of seeing the original typed roll of Jack Kerouac's On The Road for sale. It delighted me to know it still existed, but like this Paris notebook of Jim's felt it belonged in The Smithsonian not in a collector's safe. You just have to love the French, they love every American dollar Jim brings them but they would never spend a few thousand euros to own his work for display in The Lourve.

In an email Danny Sugerman once told me he had " devoted his life to bringing every photograph, every recording of Jim's sees the light of day." I always thought that was a pretty noble cause. I think it would be a shame if every written word of Jim's isn't given to his public.

While I have seen many of the pages of this notebook, I can not be sure I have seen them all. I did this several years ago through long tedious, somewhat disengenious emails with the broker. Being somewhat perched headlong on the end of candle searching for something that has already found us, I believe that there is an unquestionable duty to the future in preserving certain things like poetry and music and film and all of the arts in general.



Money Beats Soul everytime I guess.

That level of commitment can only ever come from a fan Michael....Danny was #1 ......without him we are pretty much fucked as whats replaced his commitment to ensuring The Doors History sees the light of day whether free or for a sum of money is a shoe with The Doors stuck on it.
From the day he became too ill the promise of the Bright Midnight became nothing more than a series of farces and fuck ups.....

It went more like " I have devoted my life to seeing that every photograph, every recording of Jim's sees the light of day." As I recall we were discussing the merits of a BMR release.

I wonder what happened to all of the BMR releases? There were promises that a new CD would come out every 6 months. Bruce Botnick giving out the Doors office phone number as a ploy for people to hand over their Doors shows as a way of building the Doors live show database. There was one website on-line, unfortuantely the name escapes me at the moment, this guy was collecting Doors shows on behalf of The Doors Official Site. Alot of so-called gathering of Doors shows but the project seems to have dried up since BMR was renamed BMA.

" I have devoted my life to seeing that every photograph, every recording of Jim's sees the light of day."

Alex is right, Danny was the #1 Doors fan and it's too bad that his devotion has not been honored in the form of someone stepping up to forefill his wishes.

According to yesterday's Rolling Stone daily news column, another Frenchman is trying to profit from an item that he claims once belonged to Jim Morrison. A Super 8 Movie Camera has found it's way to Ebay.

There is no explanation of how the seller aquired this Super 8 camera and no letter of authencity proving it once belonged to Jim Morrison. The Seller claims there is no reserve on the item but reserves the right not to sell the camera if the bid is too low.
Potential Buyers BEWARE!


Rolling Stone
Rock and Roll Daily News

News Ticker: Estelle, Elbow, VMAs and Jim Morrison
9/10/08, 10:15 am EST

A Super 8 camera allegedly owned and used by the Doors’ Jim Morrison is for sale now on eBay. The camera still works, according to the seller.

You can check out the sales page here. http://cgi.ebay.fr/THE-DOORS-JIM-MORRISON-...parms=72%3A1115

Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/inde...d-jim-morrison/

The super 8 film that was shot in that camera would be a lot more interesting,too bad kodak didn't make negatives to back up there prints.Now we live with high def and video which can be stored on drives and transfered to other storage devices,we are lucky to have what we have of The Doors on film and video,Beethoven never had these clever tools to reach out in to eternity.

The super 8 film that was shot in that camera would be a lot more interesting,too bad kodak didn't make negatives to back up there prints.Now we live with high def and video which can be stored on drives and transfered to other storage devices,we are lucky to have what we have of The Doors on film and video,Beethoven never had these clever tools to reach out in to eternity.

They were writing binary code in those days. The Ninth. Any competent musician can read this and play along.




I loved the scenes in Amadeus, showing Mozart rolling the billiard ball and writing music onto staff paper right out of his head. Just basic math. Nowadays, we seem to need machines to do this. But, they've taken music studies out of too many schools in the US.

you're right either that or the program is neglected by the administration.

i used to talk about music a lot w/ my 12th grade economics teacher. considering his passion for music i was surprised when he told me that after teaching band for one year he switched to economics and sociology permanently. when i asked him why he said, "because nobody at this school gives a shit about music."

That's sad to hear NP, but unfortunately music seems to have become a non-essential part of education. Many High School's have cut funding for music programs, with administration citing it as an "extra-curricular" activity. My oldest son teaches music at a local High School here... gratis.. 2 days a week. There's no funding for the program. I hope things change.

It's been proven music in the developing mind opens up math and language skills, it's a key to the human mind. Music is the square root to our emotion's, however our educational system due to economic problems is turning a blind eye. My son's school has fund raisers to keep the music program alive and thats a good thing.
When it comes to Morrison's last notebook I can only hope the Morrison/Courson estate would procure the notebook to be included with the rest of his poetry,for them the investment would be a very good one.