Peace Frog

Peace Frogs are images of a frog showing a v sign for peace. The image appears on a variety of clothing, such as t-shirts and hats to "promote positive and optimistic thinking throughout the world" [1] (http://www.peacefrogs.com/company/ourroots/). The rights to the image are held by the Peace Frogs & Crispies Company.

"Peace Frog" is a 1970 song by The Doors which appears their album, Morrison Hotel. It was released on vinyl February 1970 by Elektra/Asylum Records and produced by Paul Rothchild. The song blends into the next track on the album, "Blue Sunday," seamlessly, so radio stations often play the two songs consecutively.

"Peace Frog" was originally called "Abortion Stories." Guitarist Robby Krieger renamed its more tame title, "Peace Frog." The bloody images (There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles/There's blood on the streets, it's up to my knee, etc.) originated, like several songs of The Doors, from the poetry of Jim Morrison. Other such songs that are based on or have lines from Morrison's poetry include "Not to Touch the Earth" on the album Waiting for the Sun and "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)" on L.A. Woman.

The line "Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind" originates from his poem, "Ghost Song," that describes an event that occured when he was young. As Morrison described it in An American Prayer:

"Me and my — mother and father — and a grandmother and a grandfather — were driving through the desert, at dawn, and a truck load of Indian workers had either hit another car, or just — I don't know what happened — but there were Indians scattered all over the highway, bleeding to death."
"So the car pulls up and stops. That was the first time I tasted fear. I musta' been about four — like a child is like a flower, his head is floating in the breeze, man."

The opening scene of Oliver Stone's movie, The Doors, portrays this memory of Morrison's.

"No reason to get excited
the thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
who feel that life is but a joke.

But you and I we've been through that
and this is  not our place
So let us stop taking falsely now        
the hour's getting late."

(http://www.ntr.net/~olga/OLGA/d/dylan_bob/all_along_the_watchtower.crd)
On this verse we can see that Dylan was very into the ground. He was not like many other musicians that were living on a distant star. Dylan was one of the few that always said what he truly believed.(Santelli,159)
Another type of rock was the San Francisco rock. This musicians were either suck up groups that became famous because of that or groups that never made it out of a garage. The suck up groups never influenced much because their music never made much. Some of the garage bands managed to make it. This bands were the most influential.
One of them was Carlos Santana. His music was very different from many others. As a Latin American he had the influence of salsa, but his real calling was rock. On his music he managed to combine the two very gracefully. He said all his inspiration came from inside of him, not from any outside source. He became real famous in the seventies, but he started his career in the mid sixties. One of the highlights of his career was when he played on Woodstock.

Janis Joplin was another musician that made it. She was considered a hippie. She wanted to succeed like any other hippie wanted to, in their own terms. She managed to get some recognition, which she received more than any other female artist of the time. Unfortunately, she died at the age of 27 because of a heroine overdose. The way she finished her career was not so uncommon to the San Francisco scene musicians.

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The Words of Jim Morrison

~I am the Lizard King. I can do anything.

~A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom
to be yourself.

~Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear
has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.
You are free.

~We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander
in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half-
formed shadow of our lost reality. When others demand
that we become the people they want us to be, they force
us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind
of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit
this murder with smiles on their faces.

~I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with
the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at
the most important moments.

~I think the highest and lowest points are the important
ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom
to try everything.

~ I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature;
my heroes are artists and writers.

~If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver
people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

~I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature
of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the
audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors them-
selves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking
place on stage.

~When you make your peace with authority, you become an
authority.

~Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its
fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also.
A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music
to reveal ourselves.

~We are from the West. The world we suggest should be of a
new wild West, a sensuous, evil world, strange and haunting.
The path of the sun.

~A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the
facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that
can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's
not saying that people shouldn't keep  trying to rebel against
the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer
death, disease and war.

~Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was
curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity.

~It's a search, an opening of one door after another. Our
work, our performing, is a striving for a metamorphosis. Right
now, we're more interested in the dark side of life, the evil
thing, the night time. But through our music, we're striving,
trying to break through to a cleaner, freer realm. Our music
and personalities as seen in the performance are still in a
state of chaos and disorder, with maybe an element of purity
just showing. Lately, when we've appeared in concert, it's
started to merge.

~Think of us as erotic politicians.

~The only time I really open up is on stage. I feel spiritual
up there. Performing gives me a mask, a place to hide myself
where I can reveal myself. I see it as more than performing,
going on, doing songs, and leaving. I take everything
personally, and don't really feel I've done a complete job
unless we've gotten everybody in the theatre on common ground.

~I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone
stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and
I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again...
and they won't be able to forget me- ever.

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