Think about it. The move from acid to heroin probably gave Love an additional slack-boost. By 1967, they had the money to support big, soul-sucking habits, and they sure used it. The picture on the back of Forever Changes says it all. One in a white sheepskin hat, his eyes closed, his hands raised in prayer.
Love is so hip it hurts.
But Morrison knew how to sell it to the little girls, and make like a puppy dog when it counted. However weird he acted, Morrison was always just your bad-ass big brother, drunk and high. Arthur Lee was weird wierd. Morrison was also white of course, and Lee did push the 1960s Weirdo-Meter by being a freak and black. But the same combo worked pretty well for Jimi Hendrix, another of Arthur Lee's friends, who also borrowed from the original black tripper's immaculate sense of style.