1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: The Seven Club is a production of I Heart Radio 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: and Double Elvis Media. Jim Morrison died at the age 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 1: of and he lived the life of unpredictability. I can 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: give you twenty seven reasons why that statement is true. 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 1: Eight would be the number of months between when he 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: started to record his last album and when he took 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: his last breath. Three more would be the number of 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: bandmates he left behind in his expat dust when he 9 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: left l a another lost angel for the City of Lights. 10 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: Another one would be the number of bricks that landed 11 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: at his feet and got him swept up in the 12 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: civil disorder and student protest with the other street fighting man. 13 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: Another two would be the number of stories he'd fall 14 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: from his hotel window when he lost his balance serenading 15 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: no one in particular. One more would be the number 16 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: of subterranean bathroom stalls he would become intimately acquainted with 17 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: and the bowels of a filthy rock and roll club 18 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: in order to get the fixed he desperately needed. And 19 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: twelve would be the number of ours he had left 20 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: to live after he would have sworn he was approached 21 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: by that google eyed helter Skelter murderer, the man he 22 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: knew simply as the Wizard. On this our eleventh episode 23 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: of season two, ex pats two story tumbles, bathroom stalls, 24 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: and Jim Morrison lost in fantasy. I'm Jake Brennan and 25 00:01:21,840 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: this is the twenty seven cop M. Jim Morrison sat 26 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: at the small table outside the Cafe de Flores and 27 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: hoped that someone would recognize him. He hoped that one 28 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: of these random Parisians walking through another one of their 29 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: random days would notice the big bad American rock star alone, 30 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: prone in contemplation, that maybe, just maybe one of them 31 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: would stop, lower their sunglasses down to the bridge of 32 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: their nose, squint their eyes, and look real close. Searched 33 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: their mind. They knew this one wasn't he, But mostly 34 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: they'd stopped for a brief moment, and that look of 35 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: recognition would slowly creep across their face, and then it 36 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: would be gone, light bulb off. They kept walking. In 37 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: the Spring of nine one, Jim Morrison felt is relevant 38 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: slowly slipping away. It slipped away in the prison sentence 39 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,119 Speaker 1: that followed him like a dark cloud slipped away. When 40 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: he lost his status as a rock and roll provocateur 41 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: public enemy number one. He had been caught, slapped on 42 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 1: the wrists, threatened with further punishment, and left to grow 43 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: a beard and blow like some large marine mammal. No 44 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: longer up for the chase. I've been down so goddamn 45 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: long that it looks like up to me. Paris was 46 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: as good a place as any to get beached. Paris 47 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: was desperately needed, a breath of fresh air, a change 48 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: of scenery. The Cafe de Floor, the Eiffel Tower, Notre 49 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,639 Speaker 1: Dame sin The place was replete with art and culture 50 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: and history, a siren calling out to the artists, the poets, 51 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: the lovers. Jim looked at himself in the mirror and 52 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: saw all those things he didn't recognize much else. Jim 53 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: arrived in Paris with nothing more than the clothes on 54 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: his back and a few extras in a suitcase. He 55 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: in Pamela took destrolling the city, sitting at small tables 56 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: in the late afternoon sun, coffees in hand, watching the 57 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: world slowly passed them by. In Paris, Jim Morrison wasn't 58 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: the Jim Morrison, the lead singer for the Doors. It 59 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: was just another Jim. He was barely recognized at all. 60 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: With two a few minutes during a conversation with a 61 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: stranger before he was made Hey, wait a minute, aren't you. 62 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: Jim's drinking slowed down, He shaved off his beard. He 63 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: wasn't angry, his temper went away. Wasn't jealous, wasn't possessive. 64 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 1: He was loving life, and loving pam and loving seeing 65 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: a new city through eyes that weren't burdened by hangovers, 66 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: burdened by the demanding schedule of an American rock band, recording, rehearsing, 67 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: playing shows, speaking with reporters, going through the motions, playing 68 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: the game. In Paris, it seemed as though Pamela's hope 69 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: for a complete reinvention of life as they knew it 70 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: was coming true. They drove south toward Wine Country, made 71 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: their way into Spain, Madrid, Granada. They hopped to play 72 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: in the Marrakesh and crashed with Pamela's friend, the Count's mother, 73 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: at the Villa Tailor, a large estate outside the old city. 74 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: When they returned to Paris, Jim was clearheaded, refreshed, returnished, 75 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: ready to reassess everything his life. Maybe they'd stay in 76 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: Europe forever, maybe he'd never go at home. And then 77 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: Jimbo showed up who is here, Pamela asked when she 78 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: first found out, as if she and Jim had gone 79 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: to great legs to disappear somewhere on the edge of civilization, 80 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: at the edge of Hollywood civilization at least, and Jimbo's 81 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: presence was a breach and infiltration of bubble burst. They 82 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: had been found. Jim too, thought it was odd. How 83 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: did Jimbo even pay for a plane ticket across the Atlantic? 84 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: How the hell did he get a ship together long 85 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: enough to board a plane and then stumbled his way 86 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 1: through the streets of Paris and tracked Jim down, And 87 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,359 Speaker 1: the questions were useless. There was a loud knock on 88 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: their hotel door, and he was there. He'd never said 89 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: exactly how he got there, no matter how many times 90 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 1: he was asked. He was a living, breathing, unreliable narrator. 91 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: But there was no skirting around the obvious. Jimbo was 92 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: there in Paris. Jim and Pamela's serendipitous retreat had come 93 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: to an end. The third wheel had been reintroduced. Things 94 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: were going to change back in America. L a Woman 95 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: was released on April nine, The Doris Final record for 96 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 1: Electra Records under their contract. No one knew it at 97 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: the time of its release, but it would be the 98 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: Doors final record with their original line up. It had 99 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: been preceded a few weeks before by one of the 100 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: album's two singles, Lover Madly, and both the album and 101 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 1: the single commanded the charts. The album hung on to 102 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: the charts for a solid three months, and for the 103 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: album's cover, Jim got his revenge on the record company 104 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 1: and their desire to market him a rock and roll 105 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: Dorry and Gray. He got revenge doubly. Electra had included younger, 106 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,359 Speaker 1: clean shaven images of Jim for the release of the 107 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: compilation album thirteen and also the live album Absolutely Live. 108 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 1: Even though Jim no longer looked like he had when 109 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: the Doors began, he was heavier, he had a bushy beard. 110 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: On the cover of l a Woman, Jim appeared next 111 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: to the other members of the band in his current form, 112 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: bloated and harry. This was reality, baby, this is raw 113 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: and unfiltered, just like the music, but even better. He'd 114 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: had Jimbo go to the photo shoot for him as 115 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: his proxy, and the two were looking increasingly similar, and 116 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: no one knew Jimbo sat on a stool and slouched 117 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: his shoulders towards the ground, intentionally allowing the others in 118 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: the band to dwarf him. Per Jim's instructions, funk that label. 119 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: Jim sent his proxy to the photo shoot and then 120 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: left the country bail. Two times he'd gone away, and 121 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: who was going to stop him. The reviews for l 122 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: A Woman were a mixed bag. You can kick me 123 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: in the ass for saying this, Richard Meltzer wrote in 124 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: his review for Rolling Stone, this is the Door's greatest 125 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,559 Speaker 1: album and the best album so far this year. Robert 126 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: Christgau said that the band has never sounded better. Melody Maker, 127 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: on the other hand, called it a spunkless, sterile effort 128 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: that sounds as if it's been put out just so 129 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: everyone won't forget the name. Jim's antics had split Doors 130 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: fans into opposing camp. Jim wanted to break from all 131 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: that critical drama, the drama about whether or not the 132 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: Doors were the real deal for real American blues band 133 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: or a psych band, or just a bunch of posers 134 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: who deserved to crawl back to some bungalow on Venice speech. 135 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: When Jimbo showed up, Jim started his coughing fits. He 136 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: would start to cough dry at first, and then something 137 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: would rumble loose, and he'd go on for a solid 138 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: ten or twenty seconds before he coughed up blood. Sometimes 139 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,839 Speaker 1: it would be some spotting on a tissue or a handkerchief, 140 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: and other times he coughed up dark crimson clots. It 141 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: worried Pamela. It was one thing to control jim on 142 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: his own, but now he seemed hell bent to get 143 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: off the rails again. The coffee fits only seemed to 144 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: bother him when they were actually happening. Afterwards, he couldn't 145 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: wait to move on to the next thing, the next drink, 146 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: the next snort, the next meal, the next indulgence. Jimbo 147 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: sniffed out the seedier side of Paris. It wasn't all 148 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: out dork cafes and riverside walks and idell accept pieces. 149 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,359 Speaker 1: It was a city of tortured poets and lost souls, 150 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: a city where down on their luck artists could go 151 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,839 Speaker 1: even further down, as far down as their wallet and 152 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 1: personal constitution could take them. Paris was underground, seedy, dark, sticky. 153 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: It was down a darkened hallway, around a corner, inside 154 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: a bathroom. Stall covered in black mark a graffiti. Paris 155 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: was not the city of light if you just knew 156 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: where to look, Jimbo urged Jim, forget about all the 157 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: redemption nonsense redemption. What you really want to do is 158 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: get gone, real, gone, long gone. Step inside a stall 159 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 1: in the darkest spot of one of Paris's unknown recesses, 160 00:09:47,320 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: and get gone forever. M h. Pamela knew that her 161 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 1: fantasy was up the moment that Jim fell out the 162 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: window of the hotel in the heart of the Left Bank, 163 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: straight down onto Rue de la Sienne. Comedy. It was 164 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: a comedy, for sure, someone's comedy. Pamela wasn't laughing. Though 165 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: Jim had a lot to drink that night. Is drinking 166 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: had increased daily since Jimbo's arrival, and he was reaching 167 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: levels of debauchery that she hadn't seen since the last 168 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: time she was in Los Angeles and lost track of 169 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: Jim's whereabouts. Perhaps he was out with Patricia somewhere that night, 170 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: that last night in l A when they fought and 171 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: went their separate ways once again, or with some other 172 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: FLUSI groupie he had just met with Jim. You never knew, 173 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: but Pamela knew that she just had to look the 174 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 1: other way unless she wanted to see something that she 175 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: really wouldn't like. He drank Stella's that night, and then 176 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: some brandy, then some whiskey straight from the bottle, and 177 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: then back to the Stella's again. He had been drinking 178 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 1: for so long that night that it was no longer night. 179 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: The sun had risen and it was a new day, 180 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: another day to drink and lose himself. Jim opened the 181 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: tall window in their room, and Pamela asked him what 182 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: he was doing from the couch where she fought off sleep. 183 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: He stuck his hands out into the cool morning air, 184 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 1: and it was raining. He grasped the wrought iron railing 185 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: outside the window and pulled himself outside. He expected to 186 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 1: fall at that moment, but didn't. He lifted a leg 187 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: up and made an effort to stand on the railing, and, 188 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: in his drunken state, lord of Arrue de lan sienne 189 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: commodiev below. In his mind, he was back on stage, 190 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: on stage in Philadelphia or Phoenix or Mexico City. The 191 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: rapidly descending rain pattered on the top of cars and buildings, 192 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: and it was the applause he craved. It was raucous 193 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: and roaring, consistent, loving the audience. He did this for them. 194 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: He pulled up his second leg and yelled out onto 195 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: the wet morning, what I just got into town about 196 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:23,479 Speaker 1: an hour ago, He's saying to no one in particular. 197 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 1: His voice was ragged and beat down, a shadow of 198 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: the shadow that he had brought to the l a 199 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: woman's sessions. He stumbled, balancing his bloated frame atop the 200 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 1: thin black slice of old school architecture. He spread his 201 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 1: arms invincible, invincible or simply out of fox to get 202 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: to go around and seriously the wind blow pedestrians below 203 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,959 Speaker 1: on early morning. Johnson looked up and remarked, the old 204 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: fish American about to plummet, not to his death, mind you, 205 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: not from two stories up, but to a perfectly embarrassing 206 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: and perhaps damaging landing on the wet street low. And 207 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: they didn't know who he was, and they weren't clapping 208 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: for him, but the rain was, and the rain told 209 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: him to keep going. Pamela yelled from the couch. Jim 210 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:16,439 Speaker 1: needed to stop sucking around. Jim and Pamela had recently 211 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: returned from Marrakech to find their flat temporarily unavailable, Pamela 212 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: booked them the room on the second floor at the 213 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: hotel not too far from Notre Dame in Luxembourg Palace, 214 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: a swank slice of Parisian history. The hotel stakes its 215 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: claim as the first boutique hotel in the world not 216 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 1: to mention the place where Oscar Wilde succome to meningitis 217 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: in It would be either him or the wallpaper, he 218 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: famously said, right before he died, one of them had 219 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: to go. The wallpaper is still there, and now Jim 220 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: and Pamela were renting a room there, as were many 221 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 1: rock stars in the nineteen seventies, the decade where rock 222 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: and roll became synonymous with decadence. As much as Paris 223 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: was about recharging batteries, it was also about decadence. Jim 224 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: was writing poetry for himself, but it wasn't working. He 225 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: and Pamela were living off of the small fortune he 226 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: had accrued in the doors, the part of the fortune 227 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: that had yet to be lost on legal fees, and 228 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: they did what they wanted and went where they wanted. 229 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,599 Speaker 1: Jimbo introduced Jim to the place that would become his 230 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: go Too hot in Paris, Deep underground, no windows, no light, 231 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: just darkness, debauchery deep down. The Rock and Roll Circus 232 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: had opened in nineteen sixty nine and quickly made its 233 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: name as the rock club in town. It hosted shows 234 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: by everyone from Led Zeppelin to the Beach Boys. On 235 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: the walls were murals of rock and roll stars, mostly 236 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: English groups, painted as clowns. One of the murals featured 237 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: none other than Jimmie Hendricks. But as quickly as the 238 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: Circus became known for rock stars and rock shows, it 239 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: just as quickly gained a reputation as a place to 240 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: score and shoot harrowin a true shooting gallery. The shows 241 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: started to play second fiddle. The clientele got shadier, and 242 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: the venue became filthier. The bathrooms became notorious, drug sex. 243 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: Whatever you wanted, the Circus had it, especially if it 244 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: was the kind of desire that you couldn't talk about 245 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: with just anybody. The Circus was the perfect place for 246 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: the people who liked to go down slow by one. 247 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: The Rock and Roll Circus was known as much as 248 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: the place not to be as it was the place 249 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: to be. Pamela's dealer, friend and sometimes lover. The count 250 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: supplied the club with junk. A rumor had started that 251 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: it was the Count who had given Janice Joplin the 252 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: lethal dose of heroine that put her under once and 253 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: for all, and for those who wanted to get rock 254 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: star high and perhaps even approached that oblivion inducing buzz 255 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: that caught the likes of Janis and others. The Count 256 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: had the ship that rendered the real world irrelevant. Jim 257 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: found himself on the couches of the circus on any 258 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: given night, sometimes with friends, other times alone. And Pamela 259 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: had introduced him of the Count, and soon he was 260 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: sending lines upon lines of the Count's smack up his nostrils. 261 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: Jimbo sat next to him or stood next to him 262 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: as each line went straight into his system, doing lines 263 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: with Jim and tandem, and they'd race each other, ready 264 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: set go and see who could get fucked up the fastest. 265 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: But outside his window on the second floor of the hotel, 266 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: there was no Jimbo. It was all Jim Monkey See 267 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: Monkey do. It was three or four sheets to the 268 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: wind standing outside and the rain balancing on the slippery 269 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: wrought iron. Pamila yelled at Jim again to get back inside, 270 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: to stop before he hurt himself. And she rested her 271 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: head on the couch's throw pillow and closed her eyes. 272 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: Within seconds she heard it smack. She jumped from the couch. 273 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: She was up. She was alert, She was so stone, 274 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: but fought through her self medicated haze to get her 275 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: bearings and figure out what was going on. She looked 276 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: over at the window, still thrown wide open, small spits 277 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: of rain making their way in side the hotel room. 278 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: The wind blew gently inside, and Jim was gone, real gone. 279 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: Pamela ran to the open window and stuck her head outside. 280 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: Jim lay spread eagle on top of a parked car 281 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 1: on the street below. It had broken his fall when 282 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,959 Speaker 1: he slipped and tumbled the two stories to the ground, 283 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,399 Speaker 1: and there was a Jim Morrison sized dent in the 284 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: hood of the car. He rised around, a bit, too 285 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: fucked up to feel any real pain, but disoriented enough 286 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: from the fall to require a moment or two to 287 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 1: collect himself, and by the time Pamela had made it 288 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: downstairs to the street, Jim was off the hood of 289 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 1: the car and upright. She ran to him, held him 290 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: close and made sure he was really okay. Jim laughed, 291 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 1: It was just to laugh a goof just the stupid thing. 292 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 1: He was fine, he'd make it. He felt that wave 293 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: of confidence overtake him. He was invincible. He could fall 294 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 1: out of a hotel window in Paris on a rainy morning, 295 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: ship faced off his nut, could do anything anything. First, 296 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 1: he felt like another beer. Wait till Jimbo heard about this. 297 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: Pamela had a better idea. She had some extra smack 298 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 1: from the count, some rainy day smack. It was a 299 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: rainy day, after all, lay back and groove on a 300 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: rainy day, and they both knew that the thing that 301 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: would make them feel more invincible than anything was a 302 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: couple of fast, strong lines of heroin. It was like 303 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: landing on a car from a second story window, so 304 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: fast and so hard and so unexpected, but when you 305 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: did it and walked away from it, there was no 306 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 1: better feeling in the world. We'll be right back after this, 307 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: word word word. The brick landed near Jim's feet with 308 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: a clunk. Jim noticed it coming at him, soaring through 309 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: the air, and leapt out of the way to avoid 310 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:53,199 Speaker 1: being hit. He pulled Pamela to his side, shielding her. 311 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: The brick wasn't meant for them, Jim Coltell after he 312 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 1: took stock of the area outside placed Sammy shell, where 313 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: he and Pamela were returning from after dinner. The brick 314 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: had been thrown by a kid, one of a small 315 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: group of kids who had been aiming for the cops 316 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: hanging out down the street. The French police looked just 317 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: like the American police to Jim, oppressive fuckers, the same ship, 318 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: different language. Jim stood on the side of the street 319 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,439 Speaker 1: with Pamela clutch tight against him and silently rooted for 320 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: the David in this street war scenario. And now the 321 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 1: brick laid at Jim's feet. Red pieces splintered on the 322 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: cobblestone below from the impact, and the cops took notice 323 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,479 Speaker 1: and yelled at the kids in French. The one who 324 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: had thrown the brick, he couldn't have been older than seventeen. 325 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 1: He interlocked his arms together and the universal sign of 326 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: up yours and spat the cops direction. His friends grabbed 327 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,360 Speaker 1: some rocks and began to hurl those two multiple David's, 328 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 1: taking on multiple goliaths. Oh shit, Jim thought, this is 329 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 1: gonna be good. Jim and Pamela moved out of the 330 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: way as the cops began to take chase. This was 331 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: music to his ears. Those kids were heroes. Fuck at 332 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: the already fucked the police, fucked the man, and God 333 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: bless these fucking kids who aren't going to take any bullshit. 334 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: It was exactly the kind of thing Jim had preached 335 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: from the stage, the sort of anti authoritative stance he 336 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 1: pied piper the masses towards Jim was known to tussle 337 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,959 Speaker 1: a bit himself, taunt a cop here, get refed up 338 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: by a cop there. But it had been a while. 339 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 1: It had been a while since he stuck out his 340 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: foot and tripped up the status quo. And this little 341 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: scuffle new Place Sa Michelle made him hungry for action. 342 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: These kids inspired him. Brave, sure, dumb maybe, but suck 343 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: it that were standing up for something. Jim saw these 344 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 1: little street scenes break out around the city, usually on weekends. 345 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 1: Sometimes the drama was high, and other times it was 346 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: more subdued. Protest and unrest and civil disobedience. It wasn't 347 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: just an American thing. It pumped through the veins of 348 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 1: the French working class and continued to echo the events 349 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: of recent years. No one was about to forget what 350 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: happened in in sixty eight students took to the streets 351 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,119 Speaker 1: of Paris and rioted. The unrest started first in the 352 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: suburbs in a small college town, brought on by students 353 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: who were dissatisfied with the conditions of their university, which 354 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: was under construction while pretending to be fully operational. They 355 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: wanted an end to classes of conservatism. They wanted to 356 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: visit dorms and the opposite sex. They wanted less repression 357 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 1: and condescension from the police and other authority figures. They 358 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: wanted an end to the Vietnam War. It was and 359 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 1: it was high time for a complete rethink of society. 360 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 1: The students took their suburban protests to the city, to Paris. 361 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 1: They needed a larger audience. It wasn't about the conditions 362 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: of the university anymore. Now, it was about the inability 363 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: of the authoritative powers that be to listen to anyone 364 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 1: under thirty years old. It was about the old guard 365 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: failing to keep up with the times. The cops shut 366 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: down the university protests and forced their way in Paris. 367 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: The riots spilled outside. Tens of thousands of students marched. 368 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:02,199 Speaker 1: The clashes with police continu Kids dislodged cobblestones from the 369 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: street to use his makeshift weapons. They throw bricks. The 370 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: night of May tenth nine, the students build barricades to 371 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: protect themselves from riot squads. In response, the police used 372 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:18,159 Speaker 1: upwards of five thousand grenades that one night alone, five 373 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: thousand grenades, tear gas grenades, and also riot controls, c 374 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 1: es gremades, the sort that we're being used by soldiers 375 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 1: in Vietnam. Everywhere I hear the sound of marching charging 376 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: feet boy a general strike began work as united with students, 377 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: sit ins, demonstrations, occupations. What started as a student protests 378 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: and become a national protest. The people were tired of 379 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: being down trotted. They were standing up. President de gall 380 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: hopped on a helicopter and cut the funk out panicked, 381 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: and the day he left, tens of thousands of protesters, 382 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: led by local unions, walked through the streets of Paris 383 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: channing adieu de gaal adieu de Gall. And that vibe 384 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 1: hung around Paris, hung in the air, was never properly cleared, 385 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 1: and the resentment couldn't be swept away with political concessions. 386 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: The resentment was still there. Jim new resentment. He could 387 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: talk about that ship all day. He resented his father, 388 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: He resented the government, the club owners at places like 389 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 1: the Whiskey he tossed his ass out on the street 390 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: for a couple of curse words. But he may have 391 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 1: resented the police the most. As he stood and watched 392 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: the police take off after the kids, he got the 393 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: rolling stones on his brain. Hey, so my name is 394 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: called disturbants. I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the king, 395 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: I'll rail at all his servants. He told Pamela he'd 396 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: be right back. He bent down and picked up the brick, 397 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: and he was off and running. Jim Morrison, the street 398 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 1: fighting man. Jim ran hard, probably harder than he'd run 399 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: since the days in Venice Beach, when he was rail 400 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: thin and could move his body easily from one place 401 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: to another. And as he ran down the street in 402 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: the Latin Quarter, he felt his body fat just mount away. 403 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: The wind whipped through his long hair, and he was lean. 404 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: He was mean. He was a spelt street fighting machine. 405 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: Because some was here and the time's right or fighting 406 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: in the street boy. He gained on the cops, and 407 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 1: when he felt he was close enough, he launched the brick. 408 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: It's soared through the air and smacked one of the 409 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: cops right in the back of his neck. The cops 410 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: stopped and turned around. The kids kept running and disappeared 411 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: around a corner. And no matter the cops wanted Jim. 412 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: Now Jim made contact. He was now public enemy number one, 413 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: And finally someone noticed the pigs. Jim shouted, shouted so 414 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: hard he had to steal his feet into the ground 415 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: and lean his upper body forward, his fists clenched. Come 416 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 1: get me, you mother fucking dunk suck of. But with that, 417 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 1: Jim tore off in the opposite direction. His adrenaline was 418 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,199 Speaker 1: through the roof, his chest thumped. His heart was beating 419 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 1: so hard he could feel his shirt pull away rhythmically 420 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: from his body. Now he ran even faster than before. 421 00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: He was the hunted. Now he was the one they wanted. 422 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: Each storefront and the restaurant, an apartment building was a 423 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: blur of concrete and brick and stuck up. He dodged 424 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,360 Speaker 1: a kid on a bike, jumped out of the way 425 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: of a car coming out of a narrow alleyway. He 426 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: jumped over a fire hydrant at full speed and caught 427 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: the top of the hydrant with his left shoe. He 428 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 1: hit the pavement, chest still thumping, sweaty, fired up. He 429 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 1: wasn't even off the pavement, and he felt two sets 430 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: of hands grabbed him by the back of his shirt 431 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: and yank up Jim. Jim turned his head to look 432 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 1: at Pamela standing next to him. Jim, are you all right? 433 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,199 Speaker 1: Kind of slipped off somewhere there. Jim looked down at 434 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 1: the ground to see the brick that had been thrown 435 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 1: by the kids still next to his feet, still missing 436 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: a few shards of red. He turned his head again 437 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: and saw the cops and kids farther away in the distance, 438 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 1: now still in their game of Captain Mouse. Jim mitched 439 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: his belly underneath his shirt and cleared his throat. Well, ship, 440 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: I guess we'd better get going. And for a moment, 441 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 1: it all seems so real to him, the running, the chasing, 442 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 1: the adrenaline and the heartbeat. But he knew now that 443 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: it wasn't real, knew that it was just a fantasy. 444 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 1: He could tell the difference. Sometimes it wasn't so easy, 445 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 1: the line was blurred. Sometimes the past would come back 446 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: and it would bring fear with it, and it wouldn't 447 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: be so easy to snap out of Jim Morrison saw 448 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 1: things all night long, things that weren't there, people who 449 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: weren't there. He could have sworn they were there, and 450 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: they were there on the street corners, leaning up against cars, 451 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 1: skulking down darkened Alley's. He thought a lamp post was 452 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,639 Speaker 1: a man, and then mistook a bicycle for a woman, 453 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: crawling around on all four is looking for something on 454 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: the damp Paris sidewalk. He was afraid the visions would escalate, 455 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 1: that he would see the faces of Jimmy and Janice 456 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 1: again like he had at the show in New Orleans, 457 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,640 Speaker 1: that it was all part of a larger mind funk 458 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: that was taking part in his head against as well. 459 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: It was ongoing but getting worse, and he was powerless 460 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 1: to stop it. Or maybe it was just the sweet 461 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,879 Speaker 1: and sour chicken, the meal he had earlier that evening, 462 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 1: or maybe the beers he chased it with. Yeah, that 463 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: was it. Maybe he was just hallucinating from bad Chinese, 464 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: funky visions brought on by funky chicken. On the last 465 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: night Jim Morrison was alive, He recoiled and faces seen 466 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: in the dark on the streets of Paris, and decided 467 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: he'd finally had enough. He was going to the movies. 468 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: Held dinner with friends had been nice, but he needed 469 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 1: a minute to clear his head. Pamela looked back to 470 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: their flat and Jim walked on. When he first arrived 471 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 1: in Paris, he detoxed alcohol as much as he could, 472 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 1: but old habits die hard, especially when old friends show 473 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 1: up to lead you back to those old habits. He 474 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: ramped up the drinking again, not to mention the drugging, 475 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: and on this night he thought he'd take himself for 476 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: a walk in a movie and contemplate dialing back to 477 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: the batteries some more. He stumbled upon a theater playing 478 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: a revival of Pursue Robert Mitchum Western from bought his ticket, 479 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: grabbed some popcorn, found the seat. The seat he found 480 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 1: was down front, in the center of the row and 481 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: where the theater wasn't very full. He propped his feet 482 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: up on the seat in front of him. He found 483 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 1: the movie to be more psychological melo drama than High 484 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,719 Speaker 1: Noon gun Slinging, which was fine. Related to Mitcham's character Jeb, 485 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: who loses his family and his chase by rivals tragic 486 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: catching hell from all sides Jim could relate. It's a 487 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: seat taken, brother. He heard someone whisper a few seats 488 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: down to his right. He looked over and saw the 489 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: frame of a short man in the light reflecting off 490 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: the movie screen, settling down into a seat too away 491 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: from him. The seat was a few down, and Jim thought, 492 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: why would he know if it was taken? And also, 493 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 1: with all these empty seats in this theater, why was 494 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: this guy sitting so close to Jim. Nope, Jim whispered back, 495 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,719 Speaker 1: short and sweet to the point, and the man kept talking. 496 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 1: I can't go wrong with Bob Mitchell, he whispered again. 497 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: Jim was torn between politely nodding at the man's comments 498 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: and just ignoring them all together. And they were already 499 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: twenty minutes into the movie, and Jim didn't come to 500 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: the theater to talk to strangers in the dark. And 501 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: the man leaned over towards Jim and carried on with 502 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 1: that horse whisper. People call Bob Mitchell m a wild man, unpredictable, 503 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 1: one of the crazy ones. Brother, But that was then, 504 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: and this is now one brother. We're all wild man now. 505 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: The whole world is wild unpredictable. Jim started to catch 506 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: a weird vibe and turned to look at the whispering 507 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: man again. The light from the movie screen caught some 508 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: of the contours of the man's face. Jim saw his 509 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: long hair, his beard, his bushy eyebrows, saw his eyes 510 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: roll around inside his head like there was zero gravity 511 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: inside his eye sockets and his eyeballs were untethered and 512 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 1: went where they wanted without reason. Wouldn't you say, the 513 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: whispering man continued, wouldn't you say that we're all wild men? Brother? 514 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: I know all about you, all about you. I know 515 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: where you came from, and I know where you're going. 516 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: When then the man smiled, his teeth crooked in his 517 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: eyeballs ping ponging around, and immediately a shiver went up. 518 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: Jim spine, Holy shit, the wizard, the wizard here in Paris. 519 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: Jim's hands started to shake. He slowly put his popcorn 520 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: bag shaking on the floor next to him. How he 521 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 1: had been in a state prison in Los Angeles since 522 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: April of sentenced to death for the murders of seven people, 523 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 1: including Jim's hairdresser, Jay c Bring. He was behind bars, 524 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: locked up. They caught him then, Who the funk was? 525 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: This guy Jim was seeing things. He knew it. He 526 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: shook his head. He needed fresh air, He needed a cigarette. 527 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: He needed to get far away from whoever the funk. 528 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: This little whispering man was two seats down from him 529 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: at the second run theater. Jim hit the street and 530 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 1: gasped as if he hadn't breathed for minutes. He wondered 531 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: if he had tensed up so much inside that he 532 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 1: had held his breath, and now now he needed a drink. 533 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: I hit all that ship he was thinking before about 534 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: needing to detox again, needing to take a break. He'd 535 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: reassessed that later that was a problem for another day, 536 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 1: another night, not tonight. He didn't feel like going home, 537 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: and there was only one place he wanted to be 538 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: this late at night, down the stairs, underground, blackout the 539 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 1: night he needed to score. 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