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 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis Media. Jim Morrison died at the 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: age of and he lived a life unlike any other, 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: a life of provocation, rock and roll in danger. I 5 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: can give you twenty seven reasons why that statement is true. 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: One would be the pair of brown leather pants that 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: he wore so often that would become his calling card 8 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: more than music. Jim Morrison was a sex symbol first, 9 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: provocateur second, and a singer third. Six more would be 10 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: the number of words that he's sang live on National 11 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 1: TV that got the Doris banned from The Ed Sullivan 12 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: Show for good. Another two would be the number of 13 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: times he tried to steal Jimmie hendricks thunder on stage. 14 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 1: The first time he just waltzed on up there. The 15 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: second time he banged. Both times he was denied. One 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: more would be the number of files the FBI opened 17 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: up on him after he had taunted one too many 18 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: cops and attempted to incite one too many riots. Jim 19 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: could run from authority all he wanted, but authority had 20 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: its eyes on him constantly. And seventeen would be the 21 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: number of months he had left to live after he 22 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: wrapped his nineteen sixty seven Shelby Mustang around a telephone 23 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 1: pole in the heart of Hollywood. On this our fourth 24 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: episode of season two, bad words, FBI files, wrecked cars, 25 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: and Jim Morrison lost in another fantasy. I'm Jake Brennan 26 00:01:26,400 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: and this is the seven clock. Jim Morrison impatiently mashed 27 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: all the apartment buzzers with the palm of his hand. 28 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: He burped under his breath. Another nauseating wave of heartburn 29 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: gurgled up the back of his throat. He smushed the 30 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: flesh of his hand into the buzzer panel touched him. 31 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: All above him, the insides of high end apartments on 32 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: this avenue and Chelsea buzzed. Jim Morrison, the unexpected visitor 33 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: on the stoop outside, waited for someone, anyone, to let 34 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: him in. It was almost three in the morning, not 35 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: that that mattered. New York, the city that Never sleeps. 36 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: Jim had no clue what street he was on, but 37 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: he knew this was the place. He had given the 38 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: limo driver a vague set of directions, said he would 39 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: keep an eye out the window and let him know 40 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: when to stop. Just head to Chelsea. He instructed in 41 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: between hiccups, just head to Chelsea, he said, go to Chelsea, 42 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: and then here, right here, right here, here, This was 43 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: the place. Jim was there to see one person, in particular, 44 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 1: Jack Holtsman, president of Elektra Records. The guy who had 45 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: taken a chance on the doors, taking a chance on 46 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: Jim when no one else wanted to. The guy who 47 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: had been there to nurture the band as they began 48 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: storming the charts, setting new precedents. The guy who had 49 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: gotten two D Camarado to chill the funk out when 50 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: Jim sprayed down studio be at Sunset Sound after thinking 51 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 1: he was on fire. Holtzman helped Jim attain his celebrity 52 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: and also helped him get out of jams. But tonight 53 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: Holzman wasn't any of those things to Jim. Tonight he 54 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 1: was the guy would miss the party. And fuck it. 55 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: If Jack Holsman was going to be all anti social 56 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: and hide and his swank record executive pad here on 57 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: ship where the hell were they, well, Jim would just 58 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: bring the party to him. The party that evening was 59 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: in the wine cellar of the Delmonico Hotel on Park Avenue, 60 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: Park Avenue the nice part of town, where Holtzman grew 61 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: up the son of a doctor. The party celebrated the Doors, 62 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: their success in New York and their recent appearance on 63 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: the Ed Sullivan Show. It was a schmooze and booze 64 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: replete with New York writers, editors, radio people, groupies galore, 65 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: even Andy Warhol and his entourage. Everyone was stoned, Everyone 66 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: was horny. Half the girls in the room wanted to 67 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: fuck Jim. Half of the boys did too. Andy Warhol 68 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: had been working an angle on Jim ever since the 69 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: band started their stint at on dime Away Hip Club 70 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 1: on East fifty nine. He wanted Jim to star in 71 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: his new movie simply called Fuck. An artsy skin flick. 72 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: Wanted to film Jim fucking Nico, the stone faced German 73 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,799 Speaker 1: blonde actress and model who was singing with the Velvet Underground, 74 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: the New York band that Warhol had assembled. Jim kept 75 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: putting Warhol off. The guy gave him the creeps. He 76 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: looked like a school teacher, looked like a narc with 77 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 1: that shocking white hair and unaffected stare. That stare like 78 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: he was sizing you up to drug you and eat 79 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: you later. While simultaneously judging you. He would just stare 80 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 1: at Jim and wait for him to talk, to say 81 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 1: the thing he wanted to hear, and when Jim didn't 82 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,919 Speaker 1: say it, Warhol's whole presence just got weirder. At the 83 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: Ondine Residency, Warhol would hover around him at the bar, 84 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: Jim racking up another bar tap, chased handfuls of pills 85 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: with screwdrivers, the vodka to o j ratio naturally favoring 86 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 1: the vodka. Warhol watched girls sit at one of Ondine's 87 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: little cocktail tables next to Jim and jerk him off 88 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: all he descended deeper into total fucked up nous. They'd 89 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 1: pull his cock right out of his leather pants, wouldn't 90 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: even try to hide it with a tablecloth overhang. Warhol 91 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: lurked and watched. Once Jim caught him watching, but he 92 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: was so drunken high that he had no reaction. Judging 93 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: about how hard the girl was working on him below 94 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: the belt, Jim wasn't having much of a reaction to anything. 95 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: Some nights, Jim will be carried out of Ondine and 96 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: all back to the place he was crashing at on West. 97 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: He was Jim fucking Morrison, he could do what he wanted. 98 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: He could take a CoP's helmet, grab a girl on 99 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: the side of the street and kisser spray out a 100 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: recording studio with a fire extinguisher, show up piss drunk 101 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: to a university homecoming, and get himself a random hand 102 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: job at a cocktail table. Whatever, it didn't matter. Seven 103 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 1: rock Star Ship. Someone at The Ed Sullivan Show had 104 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: tried to tell Jim Morrison what to do earlier that week, 105 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: told him he couldn't do what he wanted. How did 106 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: that go for you? Mr? Ed Sullivan Show director, Mr 107 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: CBS big wig. Jim got on national live television on 108 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 1: the show that helped us turn artists like Elvis Presley 109 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 1: and the Beatles into larger than life cultural icons, and 110 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: during light My Fire, saying the exact line, the TV 111 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 1: executive told him not to sing girl, we couldn't get 112 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: much higher, if anything, He did it because he was 113 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: told not to do it. The Ed Sullivan Show had 114 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: famously censored Bob Dylan years earlier when they asked him 115 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: to change lyrics to talk in John Birch paranoid Blues. 116 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: Dylan walked, and just recently CBS and censored Pete Seeger 117 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: when he sang waist deep in the Big Money on 118 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: the Smothers Brothers Show, and they weren't censoring Jim Marrison. 119 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 1: Once again, he bit the hand that fed him, the 120 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 1: hand that fed his band. The hand slapped act and 121 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 1: the doors were banned from the Ed Sullivan Show. At 122 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: the Delmonico party, Jim took what he wanted, drank what 123 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: he wanted, did what he wanted. He smashed open champagne 124 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: bottles and sloppily drank from the jacket edge. He grabbed 125 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: vintage bottles of wine at random from the racks in 126 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: the basement and smashed those open two passed them around. 127 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: Who needed a corkscrew when you had a strong arm 128 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: and the edge of a wooden table. And at some 129 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: point he decided it was bullshit that Holtzman wasn't there. 130 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: He found his way into a limo with some other 131 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: party goers destination Chelsea. On the way out of the 132 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: Delmonico warhol gave Jim an ivory and gold telephone. He 133 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: said it was French. He was still trying to woo 134 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: Jim for the Funk Movie. As the limo picked up 135 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: speed down Park Avenue, Jim rolled down the back window 136 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: and tossed the phone at a trash camp three points. 137 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: He screamed. He never looked to see if you made 138 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: the shot. After Jim had pressed on the apartment buzzer 139 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: panel a few more times, he heard the lock on 140 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: the door slide open. Someone just probably wanted the rackets stop. 141 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: He was in Oltzmann was going to be so surprised 142 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: when he opened his door and Jim was standing there. 143 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: He had two bottles of champagne in his hand, and 144 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: the party would continue. Jimmy just stepped into the lobby 145 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: when he felt it and the heartburn raised up his 146 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: throat again. He stumbled, shook his head as if he 147 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: could simply shake off the uneasy feeling. The lobby began 148 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: to spin. First the walls got blurry, and then the 149 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: staircase straight ahead began to vibrate and twirl. One of 150 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: the champagne bottles slipped out of his hand and exploded 151 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: on the lobby floor, the sound of breaking glass and 152 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: physy alcohol reverberating through the first floor of the building. 153 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: His left foot twisted up on him, and he reached 154 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: out for a railing, a table, a surface, anything to 155 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: brace himself, and there was no railing table or surface. 156 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: He fell hard on his knees, and then the palms 157 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: of his hands followed. Bent over. He vomited all over 158 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: the swank Chelsea lobby and the party, the wine, the champagne, 159 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: the grass, the pills, the gold, telephone, the warhol Stare, 160 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: the Delmonica. It all came up the whole evening, splattered 161 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: across the cold, shiny floor. He felt like ship, but 162 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: soon he would feel even worse, and when he did, 163 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: he'd find someone to blame and lash out. Jim Morrison 164 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: was blind. His eyes burned like hell, and they watered. 165 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: The more he rubbed them with his knuckles, the more 166 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:02,079 Speaker 1: they felt like they were consumed by flames. The fiery 167 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: sensation was in his nose, too, and his throat like 168 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: carbonated soda if the soda was made from fire. He 169 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: felt his throat tightened up. It was swelling shut, and 170 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 1: he was sure of it. He gasped for breath, felt 171 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: around for the door of the bathroom stall with his hands, 172 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: and tried again to open his eyes, and not only 173 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 1: made it worse. And he'd never been maced before, and 174 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,679 Speaker 1: now here at the bathroom backstage at the New Haven arena. 175 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: He'd gotten a taste. There was a first time for everything. 176 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:32,599 Speaker 1: He'd never played New Haven before. It never pulled a 177 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: random van into the bathroom behind the dressing rooms either 178 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: fucking police brutality and a little spray botti. He thought 179 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: he could hear the girl screaming next to him. She 180 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: likely caught a decent whiff of the stuff when New 181 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: Haven's finest went all a grow on Jim. Jim was 182 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: just trying to get a moment of privacy. He was 183 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: trying to get into the girl's pants, if only for 184 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: a quickie pre show, and the bathroom was empty and 185 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 1: the stall called to him. He was rudely interrupted by 186 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:58,599 Speaker 1: the New Haven fuzz. Around the time he had the 187 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: girl up against the wall the all the cop appeared 188 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: out of nowhere told him to beat it, scram He 189 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: didn't seem to recognize Jim. To the cop, he was 190 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: just another long hair that he got to order around. 191 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: But Jim wasn't budging that knew Heaven pick fuck right off. 192 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: Cause and effect. If Jim Morrison tells the cop to 193 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: eat it while grabbing a hefty chunk of his crotch 194 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: with his hand, that perhaps the cop will offer one 195 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 1: last chance to submit to authority and clear out of 196 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: the bathroom. And then if Jim Morrison replies with the 197 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,839 Speaker 1: last chance to eat it and really doubles down on 198 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: the obscene crotch grab, and the cop will likely reach 199 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: into his pocket, pull out a small canister of mace 200 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,839 Speaker 1: and unloaded into Jim Morrison's muck. Because he's a smug motherfucker, 201 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: because he has long hair, because he obviously wants to 202 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: fight authority every chance he can get. The cop didn't 203 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: hear who he was. He just wanted to see what 204 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: Jim would look like when he felt his face melting off, 205 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: and he wanted to remind Jim that the cops had 206 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: the power. Jim Morrison stumbled from the bathroom and tried 207 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: to shake it all off. You never got me down. 208 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: I'm pig, he thought to himself, never got me down. 209 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: Contrary to what the New Haven cop thought, Jim firmly 210 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: believed that he had the power. He was bigger than 211 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: the police. He transcended authority. It was a person's innate 212 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: right to challenge authority, to not accept reality for the 213 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: sham that it was. That ship went all the way 214 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 1: back to throw and he would set the example that 215 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: others could follow, others could buck informity right along with him. 216 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: He was continuing to become Jim Morrison. Jim Morrison, the 217 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:30,559 Speaker 1: rock star, leader of the biggest rock band in the country, 218 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: the one who took no ship, answered to no one, 219 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 1: the one who transcended it all. He brushed off his 220 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 1: past life, brushed off his family like it was all 221 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: danger iff on his collar. He denied even had a family, 222 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: denied his flowerda Man beginnings. After the record label told 223 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 1: him he couldn't disappear into a new identity called James Phoenix. 224 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: He took the Phoenix trajectory all the same and rose 225 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: from the self constructed ashes of the bridge to his 226 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: past that he burned down. Didn't want a military father 227 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: that he had to impress it and conformed to. Didn't 228 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: want a mother to dodo for him. Didn't want a brother, 229 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: didn't want a sister. He was a lone wolf. He 230 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: didn't need anybody. He'd make it on his own. Even 231 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: with the doors. He was separate from the pack. Ray, Robbie, 232 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 1: and John would have their own hang and Jim would 233 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: be off on his own trip. He told everybody that 234 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: his family was dead, he had no family. At a 235 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: door show in Washington, d C. Jim's mother, Clara and 236 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: his brother Andy came to finally witness Jim and his element. 237 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,119 Speaker 1: It had been so long since they talked, and eternity 238 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: since they had seen each other, and they went looking 239 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: for him. Backstage, Jim had the band and crew run interference. 240 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: Clara and Andy were routinely intercepted and redirected promised visits 241 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: by Jim that never happened. The show went on, the 242 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 1: show ended, and everyone went home. Clara and Andy never 243 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: got to see Jim. When the Doors finally went on 244 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: stage in New Haven on that night in December. December nine, 245 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: nine seven, Jim once again assumed the role of the 246 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: lone wolf, leading a trio of brothers. His agonauzing face, 247 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 1: his pains. It's subsided, but the humiliation stuck with him. 248 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: The humiliation he felt in front of the girl he 249 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: was trying to impress, The humiliation he felt in front 250 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: of Tommy and the Riviera's, the opening band, who were 251 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: milling around backstage when he was maced. And there was 252 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: something off about that opening man, the way they stood 253 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: around like a bunch of sheltered products. A bunch of 254 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: pussys who had never taken a girl to a bathroom stall. 255 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: For the funk of it. It was almost like they 256 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: were taking great pleasure and watching Jim get roughed up 257 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: by New Haven's finest, like they were in on the joke. 258 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: Maybe they called the cops to come bug him in 259 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: the bathroom fucket. Jim thought, they're just a nobody party 260 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: band that plays a bunch of cover songs and gets 261 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: the crowd warmed up for the real deal. I'm the 262 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: real fucking deal, Jim Morrison. In the Doors, they didn't 263 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: play a lot of cover songs, but when they did, 264 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: they made them their own. Doors defied them like backdoor Man, 265 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: the Willie Dixon blues song made famous by hound Wolf. 266 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: At six six and three hundred pounds, Wolf cutt and 267 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: posing almost mythical chef in the Chess Records cannon. For Jim, 268 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: there was something mystical about Howland Wolf's music, something sinister 269 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: and transportive, something defiant and singular. He wrote a motorcycle 270 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: on stage, drink bottles of liquor handed to him by 271 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: audience members. He was distosterone and kearney, and when the 272 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: Doors played back door Man, Jim got the channel wolf 273 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: let his inner wolf out. It was during an instrumental 274 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: break of this song at the New Haven show the 275 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: Jim decided that he was done being humiliated for the evening, 276 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: it was the cops turn to be humiliated. The band 277 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: vamped on the songs Chuggle Luck grew low and steady, 278 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: and Jim began to speak directly to the audience. How's 279 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 1: everyone in New Haven tonight? The crowd roared back. We 280 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: are in New Haven, right new Haven, Connecticut, and this 281 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: is the United States of America, right landed the free 282 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: home of the Brave, and the crowd kept cheering in response. 283 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: The band held steady on the song's bumpy groove. I 284 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: thought it was America too, man, Someone out of tell 285 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: these little men in the blue shirts that this is America, 286 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: these little fat men in the little blue shirts. Jim 287 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: looked around for a cop in the audience and locked eyes. 288 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: I was just looking for some privacy backstage, just a moment, 289 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: me and a girl and this little fat man in 290 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: a blue shirt. This little piggy comes up to me 291 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: and says, what you doing boy? The cops staring at 292 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: Jim put his hand on his club and pulled it 293 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 1: slowly from his belt. Jim blew a kiss at the cop. 294 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: As the band started to pick up steam a little 295 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: more urgent, a little louder now, and Jim kept talking 296 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: into the microphone. I said, I'm looking for some peace 297 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: and quiet, officer, And then he told me. He said, 298 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: I don't like your jerk off attitude. I don't like 299 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: your jerk off face, and I don't like your jerk 300 00:16:55,800 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: off hair. I don't like you jerk off. The kids 301 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: and the crowd began to stop their feet, rattle the 302 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 1: wooden chairs where they sat, and they were picking up 303 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: what Jim was throwing down. And then that little fat 304 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: pig in the blue shirt pulled his little bottle from 305 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: his belt and sprayed my eyes in my face. What 306 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: the fuck? New Haven? The band came up raised the Oregon, 307 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: whining the lead melody while John landed some weld timed 308 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:26,679 Speaker 1: symbol crashes. They were following Jim's lead, feeding off his energy, 309 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 1: and now the audience was nervously laughing along with its cheers, 310 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: stopping their feet louder and faster. The cops and the crowd, 311 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: upwards of thirty of them, had begun to assemble to 312 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:40,640 Speaker 1: band together. The houselights suddenly came on and Jim howled 313 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 1: undeterred b man, and there were cops on the stage 314 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 1: now to approach Jim. One pulled the microphone stand away, 315 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 1: while the others slapped a pair of handcuffs on his wrists. 316 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: A devilish smile crept across the Jim's face, and then 317 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: he looked out at the crowd and give them a 318 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: mock who me short expression. In Jim's mind, he was invincible. 319 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: He was the bold, the picture of the waging dang 320 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: do a Lamona at midnight, the truth teller, He exposed bullshit. 321 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: He was also a trend setter. The first musician to 322 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: be arrested on stage during a performance made history. The 323 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: cops were beginning to know him as something else, entirely 324 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: public Enemy number one. Meanwhile, the crowd was confused, unsatisfied. 325 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 1: Some tried to rush the stage to follow their fearless leader. 326 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: Others spilled out into the New Haven night, looking to 327 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,440 Speaker 1: pick up steam on the heat that Jim had generated, 328 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: and like the band, vibing on Jim's words, the kids 329 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 1: and the crowd didn't want to let the momentum die, 330 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 1: and they picked up rocks hurled them towards cops and cars. 331 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,959 Speaker 1: The cops broke up the maze bottles again and sprayed 332 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: them at the young faces scarring by, and Jim Morrison 333 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: wasn't the only one arrested that night. The fact that 334 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: he took as a sign of success. Now, if he 335 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 1: could only get more buy in from the audience, aamp 336 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 1: up the chaos. He wake up the next morning inspired 337 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 1: by the possibility that the chaos could be We'll be 338 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:26,120 Speaker 1: right back after this word word word. The kid at 339 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 1: his arms spread wide. In his mind, the wingspan was 340 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 1: even wider than it was in reality. His arms went 341 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 1: the distance from the crowd below. He looked Christ like cliche, 342 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 1: of course, but impossible to deny. He looked like Christ, 343 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 1: but thumber than Christ. Christ wouldn't stand on a balcony 344 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 1: railing like a dumbass, And this kid teetered on the 345 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 1: rounded edge of the railing, just inches away from losing 346 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: his balance and toppling to the floor, some twenty ft 347 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 1: in the air. The audience below gasped at each muscle 348 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,680 Speaker 1: spasm and each jerk forward or backward it is body made. 349 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 1: His leg twitched, his back sprang to the side, his 350 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: outstretched arms flapped maniacally as his stone balance went to 351 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: ship and Jim Morrison watched from the stage of the 352 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 1: Chicago Colosseum and for a fleeting moment felt happy, contented. 353 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: He had created this thing, this palpable sense of revolution, 354 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: of nihilism, of anti authoritarianism, whatever it was, this sense 355 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 1: that doing what you were told or what was expected 356 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: of you was for the birds. He imparted this wisdom 357 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 1: to the crowds at door shows, in the way he 358 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: slunk around the stage, the way he whooped and hollered, 359 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: the way he planted that seed of indiscriminate uprising, and 360 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 1: whoever would listen. He had said it before on the 361 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: stage of the Whiskey, and though he didn't always use 362 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: the same words, his message was still the same. Kill 363 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: the father, fuck the mother, destroy what you love. Reality 364 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,199 Speaker 1: is not what you think it is. And now it 365 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: was starting to take shape. Jim was starting to slip 366 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: into the role of existential conductor. And there was a 367 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,199 Speaker 1: kid standing on a balcony railing at the Chicago Colosseum, 368 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: unfettered and free and funk at all, and dumb too. 369 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: Jim couldn't deny that idiocy was definitely part of it. 370 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: And there was a kid on the balcony railing, and 371 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: Jim had a smile devilishly and acknowledge that he made 372 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 1: that happen. Jim looked at the balcony and thought about 373 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: death too, deaths on balconies. It had only been a 374 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 1: month since Martin Luther King Jr. Had been assassinated on 375 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 1: the balcony at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis. Riots broke 376 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: out in dozens of American cities, including right there in Chicago, 377 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: and the world was still very fragile. Jimbo told Jim 378 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,239 Speaker 1: one night, the King should have seen it coming, just 379 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: like the hippies had it coming to them. Piece of 380 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 1: love as a crop, he told Jim, five buds deep 381 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: into a Moose Boost six pack. Piece love. King kill 382 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 1: Jim and thought about Martin Luther King Jr. Thought about Jimbo, 383 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: thought about death, about riots, about his connection to the 384 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: kids who stood up and made a dash the stage 385 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: or climbed the railing in the balcony and dared tempt fate. 386 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,679 Speaker 1: He thought about all these things as the kid let 387 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,959 Speaker 1: himself fall forward from the balcony. He dropped like a 388 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 1: stone within the blink of an eye, the crowd below 389 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,400 Speaker 1: had parted and the kid belly flopped under the coliseum 390 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: was hard floor. The entire room went silent. The kid 391 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 1: jumped to his feet as quickly as he had fallen 392 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: his own personal phoenix moment. The audience cheered. They felt empowered, 393 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: ready to take the stage or do whatever needed doing. 394 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: Jim Smile a dream into action. The entire scene at 395 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: the Colosseum gave Jim something to be happy about in 396 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,919 Speaker 1: his rock star fantasy was beginning to become a not 397 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: so sober game of diminishing returns. The Doors began the 398 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: year starting to record their third album, Waiting for the Sun. 399 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: Jim loveed hard to get his epic poems on theater 400 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: piece Celebration of the Lizard on the record, but he 401 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: was met by opposition from the group and Paul Rothschild, 402 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,199 Speaker 1: who would quietly become the fifth Door by continuing to 403 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: be an integral creative linchpin in the producer's scene. And 404 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 1: the multi part creation was so long that it would 405 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,719 Speaker 1: take up an entire side in the album, and no 406 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: one but Jim liked it enough it could figure out 407 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 1: a way to make it work for jim celebration of 408 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: the Lizard transcended hum, drum, rock and roll to be 409 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,439 Speaker 1: something new, something daring, something unexpected, something that could be 410 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: truly different. But to everyone else it was confusing. To serpenty, 411 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,199 Speaker 1: it was two out there. It just wasn't something they 412 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: were ready to tackle. And the other three Doors members 413 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 1: like being on the charts, and then they wanted to 414 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,919 Speaker 1: stay there. They bum Jim the funk out Waiting for 415 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,919 Speaker 1: the Sun was released in the summer of night. It 416 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: hit number one on the Billboard two hundred. It's big single, 417 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,400 Speaker 1: Hello I Love You, spent two weeks at number one. 418 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: It was all Jim channeling Jimbo, the theme song of 419 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: a slick letcher gawking at hot young chicks throwing by 420 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: on the sidewalk. While it's sat atop the singles chart. 421 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: The song shared space in the top five with jose 422 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: Feliciano's ny long stringed cover of the Doors single from 423 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: their self titled debut Like My Fire. One night, Jim 424 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 1: found himself near blackout drunk at a Chamber's brother's show 425 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: that Jimmy Hendrix was crashing. He snaked his way to 426 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: the stage, wound himself around Jimmy's leg and held on 427 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: for dear life. When he was finally plucked from Jimmy's leg, 428 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 1: his head at the end of a Jack Daniel's bottle 429 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 1: that was in the hand of Janice Joplin. He was humiliated. 430 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: He felt dismissed by his own band in the studio 431 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: and now dismissed by his peers in public. Maybe he 432 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 1: was doing this rock star thing wrong. Maybe he had 433 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,719 Speaker 1: to tweet the fantasy. He tried again with Jimmy, this 434 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: time at a show in Montreal. Jim positioned himself to 435 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,479 Speaker 1: near the stage, and when Jimmy and the experience had 436 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: a break between songs, he made his move Jimmy. Jim yelled, 437 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 1: pointing at himself to draw attention. Jimmy, can I jam 438 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: with you? I'll come up there. We'll kill Jimmy waved 439 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: his hand at Jim warded off the dark spirit. No, man, 440 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 1: we're good, Jimmy. It's me Morrison. I'm Jim Morrison. Man, 441 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: I know you are, Jimmy replied, and I'm Jimmy Hendricks. 442 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 1: Jim stood there expressionless as the Jimmy Hendrix Experience jumped 443 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,959 Speaker 1: into the next group left. Jim and the dust begging 444 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: for scraps on the side of the road. The Doors 445 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: are one of the biggest bands on the planet, and 446 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,959 Speaker 1: Jimmy Hendricks wanted nothing to do with him. Jim left dejected. 447 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 1: From there, he refocused. If he wasn't going to find 448 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: satisfaction as an artist, he would find it as an agitator. 449 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: First the Singer Bowl Show and Queen's The kids were 450 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 1: all right. The kids rioted, the wooden chairs flew, and 451 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: blood ran down their shirts. Then in the latter part 452 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: of the Doors launched a tour of the Midwest, rife 453 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: with unrest, violence and routine rioting. Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Phoenix. 454 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: The band hired armed body currents. By the time they 455 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,719 Speaker 1: got to Phoenix, Jim was ready to take it as 456 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,360 Speaker 1: far as he could go. I want to see Phoenix 457 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 1: flipped the funk out, he told the other guys in 458 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: the vand right as they took the stage, Jim was 459 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: provocative as ever. He cursed, he made have seen gestures, 460 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 1: He threw things at the audience. He wanted them to 461 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 1: all do the same thing back to him. He wanted 462 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: a mirror image. And then he went and chopped off 463 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: his hair and his sudden lack of lovely Greek god 464 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,439 Speaker 1: locks was national news, bigger than this arrests, bigger than 465 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: the civil disobedience. He was curating coast to coast. But 466 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: the cops weren't fooled by short hair and glamour shots. 467 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 1: The cops wanted Jim. They had heard about the public 468 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,119 Speaker 1: arrest in New Haven, and they wanted to show some 469 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,919 Speaker 1: solidarity in Phoenix, and they were ready to bring the 470 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: hammer down or Jim stepped over the line in Phoenix. 471 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,640 Speaker 1: Jim danced all around the line but didn't take too far. 472 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 1: They came close to putting him in cuffs, but reached 473 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: a compromise. Instead, get the funk out of Phoenix and 474 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: never come back. The doors weren't welcome there anymore. This 475 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 1: was right around the time that the FBI opened up 476 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 1: a file on Jim Morrison. Jim Morrison's car emptied out 477 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: as soon as it jumped the curb. The passengers knew 478 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: they were lucky. It could have been so much worse. 479 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: Jim sixty seven Shelby GT. Five must could have hit 480 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 1: a telephone pole, hit a building, hit another car, maybe 481 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 1: a pedestrian, But instead Jim slowed it to a coast 482 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,640 Speaker 1: and it bumped up on the curb. He had barely 483 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: applied pressure to the brake at when the doors flung 484 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,439 Speaker 1: open and everyone ran for their lives. And they were 485 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,919 Speaker 1: getting out while the getting was good. Jim was drunk. 486 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,879 Speaker 1: Jim was often drunk, but at this moment, late at 487 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,199 Speaker 1: night in early December in West Hollywood, Jim Morrison was 488 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: more drunk than usual. He had spent the last few 489 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: hours time went on at Doug Weston's Troubadour, the legendary 490 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 1: club where Lenny Bruce was arrested for obscenity, where Joni 491 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 1: Mitchell had recently made her local debut, and where Richard 492 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: Pryor had just recorded his first live stand up album. 493 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: He sat at the bar, had the bartender set him 494 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: up another round, and then another one more. Keep him coming. 495 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: Hit on a girl, she blew him off. A couple 496 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: of guys hit on him, and he blew them off. 497 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: The Doors had just taped their first and only performance 498 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour earlier that evening. Robbie 499 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: pleaded supporting a juicy black eye which you wouldn't let 500 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 1: the makeup conceal. Depending on which story you believe it 501 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: was the result of a beat down by a bunch 502 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: of rednecks who didn't like the band's long hair, or 503 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: him had given it to him. The band performed their 504 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: new single, Touched Me, and it's b side, Wild Child, 505 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: with its brass and strings. Touched Me was a more 506 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: orchestrated and sonically adventurous sound for the band, known for 507 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: a more raw live in the studio field. It also 508 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: gave Jim room to stretch out as Kroner chops and 509 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: sing like one of his idols, Frank Sinatra. The Kroner 510 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: angle was played up on the Smothers Brothers performance, Jim 511 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: with his puffy black dress shirt and handheld gold microphone 512 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: dangling his toe into schmaltzy er waters, the elderly Smothers 513 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: Brothers orchestra and suits playing strings and horns behind him. 514 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 1: The Doors have been recording their latest album at e 515 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: Lectures brand new state of the art recording studio known 516 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: as Electra Sound west on Lasianaga Boulevard and West Hollywood. 517 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: The string players came from the l A Philharmonic and 518 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: the horn players were from the local jazz pool. George 519 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: Harrison crashed sessions and compared with the band was due 520 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 1: to the Beatles work on Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. 521 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 1: When the Soft Parade was released in early nineteen nine, 522 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: it had cost the band eighty dollars to make eight 523 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: times what it cost to record their debut. After the 524 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: Smother's Brother's taping, Jim went lone wolf again and parted 525 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 1: ways with the band. He found himself at the Troubador's Bar, 526 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: found himself surrounded by a chick we wanted and a 527 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: couple of dudes who wanted him. Last call came and 528 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: Jim had the great idea to take them all for 529 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: a spin and his Shelby the night Miss Blue Shelby 530 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: Mustang was a gift from electress Jack Holtzman. When light 531 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 1: My Fire went to number one, he asked the band 532 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 1: what they wanted for taking a lecture all the way 533 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: to the top of the charts. Ray and Robbie asked 534 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 1: for swanky reel to reel tape recorders. John wanted a horse. 535 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 1: Jim was in love with a Shelby Gt. Three fifty 536 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,239 Speaker 1: that his hair stylist J C. Bring and riven all 537 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: over town. It was a gearhead's dream and a Babe 538 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: Magnet at the same time, Jim called it the Blue Lady. 539 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: He climbed into the Blue Lady with his new friends, 540 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: and as soon as they pulled out on the Santa 541 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 1: Monica Boulevar, the neon burning from every building on the 542 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: block assaulted his drunk eyes. The roads spun, the street 543 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: lights sizzled and sparked. Jim didn't get far until he 544 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: jumped the curb, and his passengers soberly realized that a 545 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: ride with a drunk Jim Morrison probably wasn't worth risking 546 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: their lives for. Jim worked up the courage to get 547 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 1: the Blue Lady back on the street again. It was 548 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 1: late after hours in Hollywood. Nightlife was lurking in the shadows. 549 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: The streets themselves were open, but it was really quiet. 550 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 1: Jim had no idea what time it was, and he 551 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: couldn't get his eyes to focus so that he could 552 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: read the clock on the dash. Jim pulled the Blue 553 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 1: Lady back on the Santa Monica Boulevard. Steady, Keep her steady. 554 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: He threw it in first gear and felt the purr 555 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: of the engine as his right foot gently pressed the 556 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: pedal toward the floor. Second gear steady, stay focused, and 557 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: the gt fimmed as Jim tried to get his bearings 558 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: and find his way back to the Tropicano Hotel for 559 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 1: a dollar at night bed. He was contemplating third gear 560 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 1: when he went through an intersection. He didn't know if 561 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 1: the light was green or red, and maybe there wasn't 562 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: a light at all, who knows. Fuck it, he didn't 563 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 1: slow down. The intersection came, and the intersection went and 564 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: out the window we saw a blurry street sign alert 565 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: him that he was now on Sunset Boulevard. He snapped 566 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: the radio on the code of Diana Ross and the Supremes. 567 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: Love Child was playing the tambourine. The glockenspield the strings. 568 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: Jim road to the bat and he grabbed the stick 569 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 1: shift tight with his right hand and saying at the 570 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 1: top of his lungs. The telephone pole stopped the Blue 571 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: Lady immediately when it jumped the curb for a second time, 572 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: and Jim's head flat back against the seatback is the 573 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 1: front end of the car connected with the pole. The 574 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,240 Speaker 1: shocking crunch of metal and wood, the impatient hiss something 575 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: busted under the hood. Diana Ross is yearning lead vocal 576 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 1: fading out, Jim stumbled onto the street and assessed the 577 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: Blue Lady's current situation. He felt around his body to 578 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 1: make sure he was still in one piece, ran his 579 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: hand through his hair. Steam rose in the December air 580 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: from the front end of the car where it was 581 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: connected to the telephone. Pol If this wasn't a colossal 582 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: funk up, he didn't know what was, but colossal funk 583 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: ups like this were too difficult to unfunk up. He 584 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 1: felt temporarily sober and needed to find another bar to 585 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,800 Speaker 1: regain his composure. And where the hell was Bob Newworth. 586 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,720 Speaker 1: New Worth entered the Doors of Orbit recently under the 587 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 1: guise of documentary filmmaker. He was a Zeleeg type of 588 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: shadow figure at the birth of the music scenes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 589 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 1: in Nashville, Austin, and Santa Monica, a songwriter, a roadie asideman, 590 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,520 Speaker 1: he was at Newport, at Monterey at Woodstock, so it 591 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: was only natural that new Worth would be on the 592 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: scene to follow Jim and the Doors on tour and 593 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: shoot footage for an upcoming documentary about the band's life 594 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: on and off the stage. But new Worth wasn't there 595 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: just to shoot footage. Neworth was there to be Jim's wrangler. 596 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 1: Keep was on the low, wolf new Worth, keep up 597 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: with Jim was drinking, his party, his wolfing. But Jim 598 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 1: was scormy. Scormy enough that he disappeared at the troubadour 599 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: and then wrap his car around a telephone pole. For 600 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 1: anyone was the wiser. As Jim went crazy on Sunset Boulevard, 601 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,400 Speaker 1: the rest of the nation in the world went crazy 602 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,759 Speaker 1: right along with him. Nixon was in Vietnam, was on. 603 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,440 Speaker 1: Jim was about to dive deeper, push everything, his music, 604 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,399 Speaker 1: his poetry, his insane behavior further, and blur the line 605 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: between what was real and what was fantasy. It was 606 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 1: a deep dive one that no one in Jim Zorbit 607 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 1: could prevent, not even Bob Neworth. I'm Jake Brennan in 608 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 1: This is the seventh Clock, all Right. The seven Club 609 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: is scored and co written by myself j Brendan Zef 610 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 1: Blundy is the lead writer and editor on the show. 611 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: Matt Bowden mixes the show additional music and score elements 612 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 1: by Ryan's Breaker and Henry Linnetta. 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