1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is the production of I Heart 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis Media. Jim Morrison died at the 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: age of and he lived a life that frequently spawned 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: out of control. I can give you twenty seven reasons 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: why that statement is true. One would be the number 6 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: of empty film canisters that he filled with cocaine en 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: route to a late night hook up with a married 8 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: woman at Hollywood chat to him her mom. Another four 9 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: would be the number of lanes of traffic he'd crossed 10 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: on foot after tearing asks through an l a cemetery 11 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: in search of a headstone to defile. Two would be 12 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: the number of corporate parties he busted up with rage 13 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: and violence, including one that celebrated the opening of a 14 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: Lecture Records new office. Another one was the number of 15 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 1: girlfriends or wives, depending on the legality of a pagan 16 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: marriage ceremony that he left scared and alone. And nineteen 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: was the number of weeks he had left to live 18 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: after his old pal Jimbo told him a tall tale 19 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: about a night he confronted a couple of love birds 20 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:06,040 Speaker 1: with a twenty two revolver. On this our ninth episode 21 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: of season two, Cocaine two reelers, corporate punch ups, emotional abandonment, 22 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: and Jim Morrison lost in fantasy. I'm Jake Brennan and 23 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: this is the Seven Club. Yeah. The first line of 24 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: cocaine disappeared quickly up Jim Marrisley's nose. He scrunched his 25 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: nostrils with his fingers and snorted loudly. His nose went numb. 26 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:53,559 Speaker 1: He thought of his friend Jimbo and the thing Jimbo 27 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: always said, after chugging the first in a long line 28 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: of pull topped watery domestics, tastes like another one. The 29 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: first time gave Jim the confidence to snort the second line, 30 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: and the second line turned him into a superhuman. He 31 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: dropped rolled up hundred dollar bill down on the table, 32 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: brought his arms up in the air, and performed a 33 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: double herculean bicep flex. His mind went into overdrive as 34 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: he ran his fingers through his rough hair. Miami Lawyers, Wickens, 35 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 1: The Desert, Modesto, The Corner Pocket, Fogerty, the Wizard, Bloodshed 36 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: on Cello, Drive, Jay Sebring, Pan, Beautiful Pan, Jimmie Hendricks Dead, 37 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: Brian Jones Off the deep End. Yeah, at the back 38 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: of the Roadhouse they got some bungalows, blood, jimbo planes, 39 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: broken stages, sunset striped Patricia, the Blue Lady Venice Beach. 40 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 1: The woman standing next to him grabbed his arm and 41 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: kissed him square on the lips. It stabilized him. His 42 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: nose was still numb and tangling. His superpower is still intact, 43 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: but his mind slowed. He handed her the tightly wound 44 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 1: Benjamin and she leaned over to hoover up her own 45 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: with the line and joined Jim out on the trip. 46 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: The woman was Ingrid Thompson, and the two were in 47 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: her room at the Chateau Armand, the notorious Hollywood hotel, 48 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: where Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski lived as newlyweds before 49 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: moving to the clo Drive House where they were murdered 50 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: at the hands of the Manson family. Jim had a 51 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: room there too. He had waited until Ingrid's husband left 52 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: town for business, and then he knocked on her door, 53 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: bottle of bubbly in one hand and a film canister 54 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: full of blow in the other. Jim thought it was 55 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: so fitting, so perfect to arrive with an empty film canister. 56 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: The celluloid replaced with cocaine, and they were in Hollywood 57 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: after all, Ingrid didn't even think about saying no, and 58 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: they guzzled champagne. Jim dumped the coke from the canister 59 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: on the coffee table, pulled a credit card from his 60 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: back pocket, and they snorted line after line, and Jim's 61 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: mind would race and he would reach out and touch 62 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: her to get the others out of his head. He 63 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: thought of Pam off on a boomdoggle in Paris, probably 64 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: pissed at him again about something that he did or 65 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: didn't do. He thought of Patricia, technically his wife following 66 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: the pagan wedding ceremony, at least in the eyes of 67 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: some earth dirt mother that here Covin worshiped. He thought 68 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: of Jimmy, of Brian J. C. Bring, and then Janice 69 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: fucking Janice Janis Joplin was found dead on the floor 70 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: of her hotel room in Hollywood when she didn't show 71 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: up for a recording session with Paul Rothschild. It happened 72 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: right around the time Jim's Miami trial ended, a month 73 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: after Jimmy died, and they were both twenty seven. It 74 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 1: was like there were dominoes that had been set in 75 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: place years ago, and they were finally falling down. He'd 76 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,359 Speaker 1: do another line, and the faces of Janie and Jimmy 77 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: and Brian and Jay pushed to the front of his brain. 78 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 1: Jim saw himself as the next domino, standing up precariously, 79 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: just waiting for that gentle wind to come tip him over. 80 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: Then Ingrid would quickly grab his crotch through his jeans, 81 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 1: suck on his neck, touch him anywhere on his body, 82 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: and pull him, screaming into the present. It was only 83 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: the two of the in that room, and they finished 84 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: the champagne, but they were thirsty for more, for something else. 85 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: Ingrid blew another fat white line through the rolled up 86 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: see now, and it was like someone took a mallet 87 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: to her heart. Her eyes sprung wide open, and she 88 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: knew in that moment, she knew that she needed to 89 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 1: grab one of the razor blades from the bathroom. Vanity, 90 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: have you ever drank blood before? She asked Jim, wild eyed, 91 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: her heart and her head bounding fearlessly forward. Jim thought 92 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: about the wicked ceremony with Patricia, about the blood running 93 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: down his arm, and said, no, he hadn't, But holy 94 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: sh it, that seemed like a great fucking idea to 95 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 1: do right now, in this moment, where the hell is 96 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: that razor? Who's gonna go first? Ingrid returned from the bathroom, 97 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: razor in hand. As she sprang towards Jim, the light 98 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: in the room caught the sight of the blade and 99 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: glimmered on and off. The intermittent flashes hit Jim's eyes 100 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 1: like some sort of Morse code that he struggled to interpret. 101 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: She placed the Champagne flutes in Jim's hands and held 102 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 1: the razor blade to the meat between her thumb and 103 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: her paw. She sliced in deep. It didn't even hurt. 104 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: It felt like a warm washcloth running over her skin, 105 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 1: and the blades sank into her flesh and the blood 106 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: sprang out deep crimson. It spilled out fast, darker and 107 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: wetter than they expected, a big pool of it on 108 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: her palm that split into separate streams, dripping down the 109 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: length of her long fingers. It kept coming. Ingrid placed 110 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: her other hand over the incision side, but the blood 111 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: found away oozed out between her fingers. Jim held out 112 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: the Champagne flutes and caught the blood as it spurted 113 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: and trickled a few drops in each glass. Then a 114 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: few drops more. He wanted to get a decent amount 115 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 1: of blood and each flute. If they're gonna do this thing, 116 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: they were gonna do it right, not half acid. He 117 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: placed the flutes on the table, each now containing a 118 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: gulp of Ingrid's blood. Peeled his long sleeve shirt from 119 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: his torso and pressed it hard against her hand to 120 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 1: stop the blood from coming. And they kissed. And Jim 121 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: looked down and the blood was everywhere, on her arm, 122 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: his arms, his jeans, and on the floor, and the 123 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 1: champagne flutes in hand. Clinked them together in celebration, and 124 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,559 Speaker 1: then it was down the hatch, the blood still warm 125 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: and overwhelmingly metallic. Jim wiped his mouth with the back 126 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: of his arm. A faint white cokesdash on his upper lip, 127 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: and blood smeared across his cheek. The rest of that 128 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: night was a blur. He woke up a November morning 129 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: in seventy and assessed the dried blood that covered his 130 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: body in the bedsheets. The blood was darker now than 131 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: it had been the night before, and it was the 132 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: only thing Jim had to remind him that last night 133 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: actually happened. It was almost like a dream of fantasy 134 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: and fantasies have a way of dissipating in the cold 135 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: light of day, just how a dream slips away after 136 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: the first few minutes of consciousness. In the morning, he 137 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: was hungover, not just from the late night antics with 138 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: Ingrid in the Chateau Ramant, but from life a reality hangover. 139 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: The Doors had regained their footing during nineteen seven, despite 140 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: Jim's trial and sentencing. In addition to Morrison Hotel, they 141 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: released Absolutely Live in the Summer, a double LP that 142 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: included tracks recorded live in Hollywood in Detroit. It was 143 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: a disappointment they moved only half the units at Morrison 144 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: Hotel had A lecture was ready in thirteen, the band's 145 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: first compilation album to release during the holiday season. The 146 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: record with that infamous bust of Alistair Crowley on the 147 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: back cover. The label was clinging to the kinder, gentler 148 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: version of Jim then opted to use an older picture 149 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: of him without his gamy beard for the cover photo. 150 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: Another fantasy. The band was out of the frying pan 151 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: of controversy, but they hadn't found the subsequent fire. Jim 152 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: felt they were losing relevance, or maybe they had already 153 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 1: lost their relevance, and they were incapable of getting it back. 154 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: Jim just didn't have it in him. Get moved on, 155 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: moved on to fantasies of coke and blood lust and 156 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: decade in Hollywood hotel rooms forbidden love Triss. He would 157 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 1: white knuckle onto this fantasy for his horror him long 158 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: as he could, but the reality hangover would always catch 159 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: up with him. It always did. He laid still in 160 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: Ingrid's bed, caked in her blood, and could feel the 161 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: other shoe about to drop on his world. Patricia Keneely 162 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: was starting to suspect that he would be a no show. 163 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: Maybe Jim Morrison had a change of heart, Maybe he 164 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: had some else to be. He had forgotten all about it. 165 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 1: He bailed. Whatever the reason, Jim had left her high 166 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: and dry, alone, scared, confused, betrayed, alone in a New 167 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: York hospital with a doctor she had never met before. 168 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: She was terrified of what would happen next, and she 169 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:17,679 Speaker 1: had no one sitting next to her to share in 170 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: the terror. She was twenty four. She replaced the terror 171 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: with resentment and with anger. He had promised her, he 172 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: had looked her dead in her eyes in a hotel 173 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: room in Miami just weeks earlier, and promised her that 174 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: he would be with her. He would be there in 175 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: New York to comfort her, to listen to her, to 176 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: cry with her, hold her hand, and to be her person. 177 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: But in the hospital she went it alone, put the 178 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: hospital down on alone, laid back on the cold metal table, alone, 179 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 1: closed her eyes and listened to the doctor's voice. Alone. 180 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: Jim should have been there. He also promised he would 181 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: pay for the abortion. He had looked her in her eyes. 182 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: He would step up, he said. Liar, fucking pig. Liar. 183 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: Patricia broke the news of her pregnancy to Jim weeks 184 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: earlier in Miami, while the trial was happening. Thinking back, 185 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: she wasn't sure exactly what she was expecting for a 186 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: response that he would be ecstatic jump at the chance 187 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: to have a child with his Celtic pagan wife. Perhaps 188 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: she didn't expect that much, but she wasn't prepared for 189 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 1: his cold reaction. He shut down, wanted nothing to do 190 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: with it. She could have the baby if she wanted, 191 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: but it would be her burden and not his. He 192 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: was unprepared for parenthood, for that kind of responsibility. He 193 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: was unprepared for anything that required an equal amount of 194 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: sobriety and empathy. How could she have been so naive 195 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 1: to think that Jim Morrison would settle down or at 196 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: least give a single fuck. He gave no fox about 197 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:47,319 Speaker 1: Patricia's family situation, and Jim's lawyer, Max Fink, was dealing 198 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: with a handful of paternity suits against him at the time, 199 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: and the last Jim had known there were three women 200 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: who would come forward with claims, but he wouldn't be 201 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: surprised if there were more. His disaffected response and callous 202 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: attitude towards Patricia was a natural reaction at this point. 203 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:11,439 Speaker 1: Survival instinct, deny, defer, deflect, dig into the fantasy illegitimate 204 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: son of a rock and roll star, Jim saying, I'm 205 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: Maggie McGill, mom met Dad in the back of a 206 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 1: rock and roll car. Milan Blues of Maggie McGill closed 207 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: out The Door's fifth album, Marriston Hotel, released in nineteen seventy. 208 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: If the soft parade was brass and strings and Paisley 209 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 1: and lace, Jim Morrison's moment to get up on that 210 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: cooner pedestal and ride as Sinatra in the Hollywood Boulevard 211 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: gutter trip. The Morriston Hotel was a bona fide back 212 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: to basics record, no bullshit rock and roll, just the 213 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: band's meat and potatoes album, a slab of haulling Wolf's 214 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: struts and bloodshot masculinity that he can practically smell. Well, 215 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer. 216 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 1: The future is uncertain in the end, as always near, 217 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: Marriston Hotel was a product of nineteen seventy in the 218 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: same way that The Soft Parade was all late sixties. 219 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: Jimbo had written off the flower children and their rose 220 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: colored glasses, all the way back at the human being 221 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,559 Speaker 1: and beyond, and now he was getting the music he 222 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: wanted to hear out of his friend Jim. The no 223 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: bullshit music, callous, music, wise, and jaded Morrison Hotel is 224 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: a sixties hangover record. In his review for Rolling Stone, 225 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: Lester Bangs called the leadoff track roadhouse blues, angry hard rock, 226 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: and one of their very best ever in true hard 227 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: to impress fashion, though he panned the rest of the 228 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:39,119 Speaker 1: record for its mechanical, stereotype rock arrangements. Meanwhile, Cream Magazine's 229 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: editor Dave Marsh called it the most horrifying rock and 230 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: roll record I have ever heard, and he meant that 231 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: in a good way. Circus magazine went as far as 232 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: to crown at one of the best albums of the decade, 233 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 1: despite the fact that the decade had just begun. The 234 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: Doors felt vindicated, redeemed. They had been forsaken, they had 235 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: been banned, they had balanced pariously close to the edge 236 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 1: and being forgotten once and for all. Jim's behavior put 237 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: them on the map and also threatened to wipe them 238 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 1: from the map. And now they were finding themselves back 239 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 1: on the map anywhere. It didn't matter. It just felt 240 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: good to be back, and they were touring again, and 241 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: the new album was a hit. The Doors were relevant, 242 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: but Jim was a different story. Jim was dangerously close 243 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: to complete and total irrelevance. He was elsewhere, lost somewhere 244 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: deep in the recesses of his own mind. And there 245 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: were rumors that the reason why the band couldn't pursue 246 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: the more serpentine music of their earlier albums said Jim 247 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: simply wasn't up to the task. He had to be 248 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: drunk to even give a ship. He chugged cases of 249 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: beer at the studio. He reportedly drank thirty six beers 250 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: at one of the Morrison Hotel sessions. It wasn't an 251 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: active participant in the creative process. Raymond Zak had to 252 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 1: flipped through Jim's notebooks to find lyrics to use for 253 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: the new songs. Jim was so disconnected he was no 254 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: longer arriving a sessions with words and melodies like he 255 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: had in the past. An outlier from the start, Jim 256 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: was now traveling with his own posse. And there were 257 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: the Doors, and then there was Jim Mars, two parts 258 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: of a hole that was no longer whole. Patricia came 259 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: in hot looking to add clarity and context to this 260 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: increasingly muddled world, a world of drunken days and sleepless 261 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: nights and court trials and dysfunctional band dynamics. She flew 262 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: from New York to l A and went straight to 263 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: the Door's office. She wrote a note to Jim to 264 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: tell him about the abortion she had endured on her own, 265 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: and stuck it to a desk with a dagger. The 266 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: note was short and to the point that the dagger 267 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: drove the point home. Hey, motherfucker, time to deal with 268 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: this now. Pym had just returned from her trip to Paris, 269 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: and that night Jim found himself in the same room 270 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: with both women. And neither was happy with Jim, And 271 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: they hated him, but they loved him, and they both 272 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: wanted to end things with him, and they both wanted 273 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: to keep things going, and they both sympathized with the other. 274 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: They both wanted Jim to answer for the things he'd done, or, 275 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: perhaps more importantly, the things he hadn't done. They both 276 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: thought that they were standing at an impast with a 277 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: person that they no longer recognized, or that they had 278 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 1: never really recognized in the first place. Who was He 279 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: was Jim Morrison? A psychopath, an unfeeling shell of a person, 280 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: a pathological liar, or just another disappointing man, another petulant man, 281 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: child too wrapped up in his own fantasy to play 282 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: a leading role in anyone else's reality. Who was Jim Morrison? 283 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: He was no longer the Florida's son of a decorated 284 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: were Admiral. He was no longer the boy who inherited 285 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: the soul of a dying Native American. He was no 286 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: longer the homeless golden god of Venice Beach or the 287 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: shock Rocker or the Sunset Strip. And he was no 288 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: longer the face of American counterculture, no longer the gutter 289 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: poet who teased to wrap the audience with his hand 290 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: down his leather pants. It was hard to tell who 291 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: he was anymore, or where he was. Perhaps he was 292 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: exactly what Rosanna White had accused him of being years 293 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 1: ago before he got famous, what Dennis Wilson had pegged 294 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: him for outside the whiskey on the Strip when he 295 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: put his fists up and took his best shot. Dennis 296 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: Wilson was the real deal. But Jim Morrison, Jim Morrison 297 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:16,959 Speaker 1: was nothing more than a phony opposer, a fucking nobody. 298 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:29,159 Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this word word word. Jimbo 299 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,479 Speaker 1: for sure was a nobody, down and out. No one 300 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,479 Speaker 1: knew exactly where he came from or what exactly it 301 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: was that he did. He always had a different story 302 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: for where and when he met Jim Morrison. It was 303 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 1: on a rooftop in Venice Beach, watching the waves get violent. 304 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: It was in the Mojave Desert with nothing but peyote 305 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: in the wind to guide him. It was at a 306 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: house party at Steven Still's play. Sir John Davidson's house, 307 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 1: who really cares? And Jimbo was crashing it hard. Wasn't 308 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: even pretending to know someone there. He was there for 309 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: the action, for the mystery, for the excitement. He and 310 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,679 Speaker 1: jim instantly dialed in on each other's brains like a 311 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: radio wave that penetrated the room, stuffed full of party 312 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: goers from corner to corner. Simpatico dialed in EO. It 313 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: was at a club on the Sunset Strip, Jim and 314 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: the doors were opening for a bigger band, and maybe 315 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: it was love and he Jimbo was heckling the band 316 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: from the back. Or maybe he was working the bar, 317 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: or he was drinking at the bar. It didn't matter 318 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: how it all began. It just mattered that one day 319 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: Jim and Jimbo hit it off like Gangbusters. Motherfucker's got 320 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: on like a house on fire. Jimbo was and nobody 321 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: for sure. He had the same squarely responses when he 322 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 1: was asked where he came from, who are his people, 323 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,640 Speaker 1: what was his deal? What was his last name? He'd 324 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: never tell. He was from the Valley, he was from Hoboken, 325 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: he was from a Cornfield and some town you've never 326 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 1: heard of in Iowa. He was born in a taxi 327 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 1: in Bakersfield and grew up on the streets. He was 328 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: born with a silver spoon in his mouth and said 329 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: funk off to all the wealth and privilege. When he 330 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,239 Speaker 1: turned eighteen, he told Robbie Krieger that he was from 331 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,199 Speaker 1: an undiscovered moon off of Mars. And he told girls 332 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: whatever it was they wanted to hear that would lead 333 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 1: to the liberation of their pants from their bodies. You 334 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: get the idea. Most found him offensive, disconcerting, the belching, 335 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 1: the loud voice, the smell of the lack at the 336 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 1: coorum and social cues. He was the guy your mother 337 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: warned you about at the party, the guy that your 338 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: mother wouldn't allow to drive you around town in his car. 339 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: Others found him to be evil and Carney, a harbinger 340 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:29,200 Speaker 1: of destruction and chaos death himself. It was a dark 341 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 1: cloud that hung around Jim. It made his mood springs wider. 342 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: Jim was rowdier with Jimbo. He was drunker with Jimbo. 343 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 1: He was more unpredictable and more embarrassing with Jimbo. With 344 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: Jimbo whispering in his ear, Jim Morrison said fuck at all, 345 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: kill the father and fucked the mother. Yes, but fuck 346 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 1: it all, all of it, fuck family, fucked the suits 347 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: and the military and the capitalist pigs and the fucking privilege. 348 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: Just like John Forgard he said he wasn't no fortunate son. 349 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: He wasn't no fortunate son because he said, funk that 350 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: of the ship. But that wasn't enough. Jimbo insisted, fuck 351 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: the hippies and fucked the squares and also the women 352 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: and the children they bore. There was just now there 353 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 1: was just him, and he was in nobody. The duo 354 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 1: went full wild child and there were three sheets to 355 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: the wind, just pure Willie Bully is looking for release. 356 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:25,959 Speaker 1: Barreling through Hollywood Memorial Park cemetery lead and night. They 357 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: wanted to find ruyal Valentino's grave, but it eluded them. 358 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,360 Speaker 1: They stopped to piss on C. S Bea Mills headstone instead, 359 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: and Jimbo did the obvious thing as he relieved himself 360 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: in the prize plot and showed aberaty from our crowboats 361 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: move They're mad, dashed in the cemetery, spilled out on 362 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: the Santa Monica Boulevard, where driver's headlights reflected off two hairy, 363 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: pale bodies careening wildly in the street. Occasionally Jimbo would 364 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: give Jim a glimpse into himself and to his background. 365 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 1: He saved those moments, those crumbs for Jim a home. 366 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: One night, they met each other at the Griffith Observatory 367 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: in l A, the Art Deco institution that casts a 368 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 1: watchful eye on the city of angels below, acid tabs 369 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: dissolving under their tongues, the first few tokes from a 370 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,360 Speaker 1: newly sparked joint, tasting a lot like the desert forest 371 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: they just hyped through to reach the top. They sat 372 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,360 Speaker 1: on the edge of the parapet that formed a perimeter 373 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: around the observatory. Jimbo told Jim about a couple of 374 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 1: high school seniors love birds that he had met a 375 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 1: few years back. He was strolling along the beach in 376 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: some state park just west of Santa Barbara, where he 377 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: was working a metal detector, holding it out in front 378 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: of him, waving it in a half circle formation along 379 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: the top of the sand. As he pushed forward. The 380 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: sun was setting beyond the ocean's horizon, that indescribable burst 381 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 1: of color that seeps from the top of the distant 382 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 1: waterline and oozes into the sky, like blood billowing upwards 383 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: through an unattended glass of day old water. His pitch 384 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: black sunglasses kept the sunset from hurting his eyes, and 385 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,919 Speaker 1: it all so gave no indication to others what his 386 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: eyes were doing. That he was watching them, watching the 387 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 1: lovers and the sun bathers, and they exposed. He was 388 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: marching along the beach, turning up nothing as usual, when 389 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 1: he saw the boy and the girl, two love birds, 390 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: laying on their backs. The boy was wearing swim trunks 391 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: and she was wearing a one piece all black bouffon hairstyle. 392 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 1: He told jim that the sun had sunk below the horizon. 393 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: When he bound them up, he made sure the rope 394 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: was tight. He was remedial at best when it came 395 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: to tying knots, so he just kept threading the rope 396 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: back in on itself and tying small knots off, one 397 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: on top of the other, and they both begged for 398 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: their lives. The boy cried. Jimbo had a twenty two 399 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 1: caliber pistol stuffed down the back of his pants, and 400 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: he had reloaded a couple of times. He shot them 401 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,879 Speaker 1: up so much he dragged their bodies to a shack, 402 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,120 Speaker 1: tried to set it on fire, but the matches were 403 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: too wet from the sea moisture, so he just left 404 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,160 Speaker 1: them as they were. He stuffed twenty two back down 405 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 1: his pants and spent the rest of the time worrying 406 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: he was going to accidentally go off and shoot his 407 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: own dick clean off. It was a thrill, he told Jim, 408 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 1: A thrill to see them there on the beach, A 409 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: thrill to tie them up, to point the gun at 410 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 1: their heads and know what was going to come next. 411 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 1: A thrill to know that they were powerless to stop it. 412 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: They could do nothing. Jimbo at the power Jimbo said 413 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: what happened next, Jim couldn't quite believe what he was hearing. 414 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,159 Speaker 1: He held out the joint, contemplated it, wondering what the 415 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,439 Speaker 1: funk it was doing to him? What was it laced with? 416 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 1: The stars had started to poke out in the night sky, 417 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 1: both those that were really there and those not totally 418 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: obscured by the smog and light pollution, and also those 419 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: that weren't there, the ones that Jim was totally making 420 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: up in his mind. As the Ousley tab and the 421 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 1: joint made their unholy alliance in the depths of his brain. 422 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: Jimbo stared at him, hard, slow, He didn't blink. Jim 423 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: felt the crushing pressure on top of his head. He 424 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: was out in the middle of a hill and lost 425 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: Angeles is exposed to the elements as one could get 426 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: in southern California, and yet he felt boxed in claustrophobic, trapped. 427 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: Jimbo held his gaze, his eyelids squeezed and tight his 428 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 1: lips first, and then he laughed, a big, jumbo laugh 429 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: that started in his beer belly, a hefty laugh that 430 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: got bigger and more unpredictable as he got louder, and 431 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: Jimbo's body bounced up and down. He laughed so hard 432 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,880 Speaker 1: that he began to drool from the side of his mouth. 433 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: He slopped Jim on his back. The roach flew from 434 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: Jim's lips from the force of Jimbo's hand. I'm just 435 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: fucking with you, brother, he said, still laughing, and the 436 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 1: tears rolling down his cheeks now and Jim still sitting there, 437 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: petrified as he had entered inside a fantasy that he 438 00:24:45,359 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 1: could never crawl out of. Jim Morrison didn't want to 439 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 1: go to the party. But he went anyway, Why the 440 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: hell not. As far as Jim was concerned, he was 441 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: the reason that Electra Records was as big and successful 442 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: as they were. He was the reason that Jack Holtzman 443 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 1: had recently been able to negotiate a deal with more 444 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: Austin at Warner Brothers. He put that little folk label 445 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: on the map. The Doors had made it possible for 446 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: Holtzman to get a ten million dollar buyout when Warner 447 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,199 Speaker 1: required Electra and these music industry suits weren't gonna get 448 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: rich off records by Judy Collins and Tim Buckley. And 449 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 1: so if Electra was going to have a party to 450 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,399 Speaker 1: show off its new office, Diggs, Jim figured he should 451 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 1: at least put in an appearance. See what he had 452 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 1: helped Electra achieve. Let him all kiss the ring. Jim 453 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 1: wasn't totally off the mark. Electra had love and it 454 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: had the Paul Butterfield blues Band. But the Doors changed 455 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 1: the game for the little label that could. The Doors 456 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: would pave the way for the label's next wave of 457 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: rock and roll, when Electur would soon shift gears from 458 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 1: a largely folk based to cutting edge releases by the 459 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: MC five, the Stooges, and later by television in the cars. 460 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: In Jim's eyes, the new Electra office was the house 461 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 1: that the Doors built. Every big new desk that was 462 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: because of Jim. Every shiny new telephone that was because 463 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: of Jim. The floors, the windows, the water cooler, the 464 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 1: paper weights and the doorstoppers and paint jobs so fresh 465 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: you get a v O C. Contact Hie just by 466 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: hanging around Jim. Jim and Jim. He sipped on a 467 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: cocktail and let a cigarette burn between his fingers and mingled, smiled, 468 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,439 Speaker 1: made nice, put on a show. And the suits at Electra, 469 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 1: the secretary's and execs, and all the invited friends and colleagues, 470 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: wanted a moment with the Jim Morrison, the resurrected Rock, 471 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,719 Speaker 1: got back from scandal and poised to take the label 472 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: into the nineteen seventies. But deep down below the surface, 473 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: Jim knew that Jack Holsman should be on his knees 474 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 1: thanking him for his part in all this. Jim Morrison 475 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 1: was somebody Jack Holsman should be introducing him to every 476 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: guest at the party, not as Jim Morrison, the lead 477 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: singer of the Doors, one of the most popular and 478 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: certainly most controversial rock bands on the planet, but as 479 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: the reason they all got paid that week, the reason 480 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: they put food on their family's tables that night, they 481 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:14,879 Speaker 1: had a job in. The lecture had a pulse because 482 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: Jim did what Jim did. Because Jim wasn't a nobody. 483 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: At the moment, he was too busy being polite and 484 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: agreeable to argue this point, and there would be time 485 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: for that later. Give him a few more drinks, let 486 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: him talk with a few more guests. The resentment and 487 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 1: the demand for respect would find its way to the surface. 488 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 1: Give it time. Jim's actor friend Tom Baker, the one 489 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: who got him poached by the Feds on that drunken 490 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 1: plane right of Phoenix, went to the party with Jim. 491 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 1: The two were inseparable drinking buddies when Jim wasn't working. 492 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: Tom's latest film was Ghetto Freaks, a hippie exploitation mess 493 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: that was widely panned. Tom Baker didn't think that Jim 494 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: Morrison was a nobody. Tom had had too much to drink, 495 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: as usual, and Jim was an easy target, a sitting 496 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 1: duck of entitlement. If Tom was being honest with himself, 497 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 1: he was a little jealous of Jim's status. Tom was 498 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: Jim's fellow Hollywood vampire and equal when they prowled the 499 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,439 Speaker 1: streets and beaches of southern California without a care besides 500 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: which barstool they would come into. Here next, but here 501 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: inside Electra's swank new digs, surrounded by a who's who 502 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,400 Speaker 1: of the labels internal operations. Jim was part of the elite, 503 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: a king. Nope, Tom Baker Shirre didn't think that Jim 504 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: Morrison was a nobody. He was somebody, all right. He 505 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: called Jim out as a corporate shill and undercover bureaucrat. 506 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: Upon in the game of some money grubbing fat cats 507 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 1: CEO and Jim just made money for all the people 508 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 1: who were making even more money. He was lining these 509 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: guys stuffed pockets. But Jim was the one who had 510 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 1: to do the song and dance, get on a stage 511 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: and make a fool of himself. He was the one 512 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: who was made to go too far, take it to 513 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: the extreme, get arrested, go to court, deal with all 514 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: that bullshit. Meanwhile, it's in the elector office, this new 515 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 1: Warner Brothers funded corporate office, kept their noses clean and 516 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: counted their money Tom knocked back because Jim and Tonic 517 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: and elbow Jim and the ribs the universal non verbal 518 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: symbol for I'm just fucking with you, relaxed. I told Jim, 519 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,959 Speaker 1: there's no shame in being a corporate whore, just as 520 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: long as you know you're a corporate whore. Just keep 521 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 1: doing you, brother, keep railing against the man and fucking 522 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: with authority. But you got to admit it's pretty fucking 523 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: funny that you are the man. You are authority. You 524 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 1: may as well put on a three piece suit and 525 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: go sit at one of those desks all day. But 526 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: it's all good. It's all good, all good. Tom's indie 527 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 1: actor moral superiority complex cut inside Jim's head, fucked him up. 528 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: He was the man, no ship, No, he'd never be 529 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: the man. He was different. He didn't conform, He didn't 530 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 1: play the game the way they wanted him to. He 531 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: wasn't being controlled. He'd prove it right here, right now. 532 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: Fuck this corporate as party and funck Electra Records, Fuck 533 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: Tom Baker. Jim had built it all. Uh. He teared 534 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: down too. He was fucking Shiva. They could bow to him, 535 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: thank him for bringing this inevitable destruction to their pitiful 536 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: world of contracts and legal matters at billboard charts. They 537 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: brought this on themselves. Jim held his glass tumbler in 538 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: his hand like a baseball and suddenly hurled it down 539 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 1: the hallway, nearly missing a secretary. The next thing he knew, 540 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: he grabbed one of the office desks with both of 541 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: his hands and flipped it over on its side. Papers 542 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 1: went flying, the telephone bell claimed as he collapsed to 543 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 1: the floor. Jim fell in a full rage mode. He 544 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: kicked the door, swung at the wall, pushed people out 545 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: of his way, lunch for anything that wasn't bolted to 546 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 1: the floor, and made it take flight anger He smiles, 547 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: flowering and shiny metallic purple armor. Steve Harris, Elector's vice president, 548 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 1: got ahold of Jim and swung his destructive trajectory toward 549 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: the front door. Get him out of here, y'aller, and 550 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 1: Jim spung through the office and the booze catching up 551 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: with him, now swirling around in his brain faster than 552 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: his body, rocketed through the crowded party scene. He was 553 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 1: passed from person to person, from one set of arms 554 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: to another, and then the front door was open, and 555 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 1: he was out on the street, tossed out like a 556 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: regular nuisance disruptor, like someone who wasn't wanted anymore. He 557 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: was done, he was out, He was breaking on through 558 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: to another side. And at a door show in New Orleans, 559 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: he'd unknowingly walk away from the band forever Um Jake 560 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: Brennan and this is seven o'clock alright. 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