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Originally Posted by Torn Curtain
Yes, that may be why The Doors were a strong influence on The Stooges.
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Yep, and another The Doors/The Stooges tie-in is the presence of Danny Sugerman.
Danny started working answering fan mail for The Doors at age thirteen, wrote
No One Here Gets Out Alive, and similarly befriended Iggy after Jim died because he saw the same spirit in him. And depsite Iggy wrecking his Wonderland Ave. home many times over, he later became Iggy's manager. Sugerman was always trying his damndest to get The Doors back together with Iggy as the frontman. And perhaps it was the open invitation to Sugerman's place as a crash pad in the Hollywood Hills and the easy availability of heroin thereabouts that drew Iggy away from The Stooges. Of course, Iggy made attempts to clean up too. As many know, he was visited by Bowie while in a mental institution after The Stooges had been broken up for the second time, and taken abroad to West Berlin to hopefully change scenery and lose touch with former drug contacts. Also, Ray Manzarek, The Doors keyboardist/bass pedalist, once bailed Iggy out of L.A. county jail on a public drunkeness charge after he was nabbed walking down Santa Monica Blvd. wearing a green dress and carrying a bottle of cheap Ripple wine.