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 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: and Double Elvis Media. Jim Morrison died at the age 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: of and he lived a life of self inflicted turbulence. 4 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: I can give you twenty seven reasons why that statement 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: is true. Eleven would be the number on a scale 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: of one to ten that Jim would approach while performing 7 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: on stage. He screamed, louder, cursed more, jumped higher. Even 8 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: on nights when he missed most of the notes, he 9 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,480 Speaker 1: still gave a performance. Twelve more would be the number 10 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: of weeks the doors would hold onto the coveted spot 11 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: of house band at the Whiskey A Go Go on 12 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: the Sunset Strip before Jim's hatred of authority and foul 13 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: mouth got them kicked out for good. Another one would 14 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: be the number of Walt Disney affiliated studios he hosed 15 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:51,279 Speaker 1: down with a fire extinguisher buck naked, and three will 16 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: be the number of years he'd have left to live 17 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: after the man who would become Iggy Pop witnessed Jim 18 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: give a beautifully destructive performance in Detroit on this our 19 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: third episode of season two. Foul mouths, fire extinguishers, beautiful destruction, 20 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: and Jim Morrison lost in another fantasy. I'm Jake Brennan 21 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: and this is Phil Tanzin. He couldn't believe what he 22 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: had just heard. His ears were hot. He was enraged, 23 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: he was shocked, and tan Zini did a shock easily. 24 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: His ears were hot with the filth coming from the 25 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: mouth of Jim Morrison. He wouldn't be surprised in the 26 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: least if someone told him in that moment that smoke 27 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: was literally coming from his ears. His nost was flared 28 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: and a shutter surged through his body. Tan Zini stood 29 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: up from a desk in the office at the back 30 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: of the whiskey a go go. Stood up so fast 31 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: that he banged his knee in the desk drawer hard. 32 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 1: The pain and his knee only added to the frustration 33 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: he was feeling. He lost it fuck. He hopped on 34 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: one foot, grabbed his knee with his hands and tried 35 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: to rub the pain out. He had to move quickly 36 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: in the atmosphere, and the whiskey was getting x rated 37 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: real fast, and tan Zini had to bring the hammer down. 38 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: He dragged Jim Morrison off the stage by his long hair. 39 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: If he had to pull the plug on the equipment, 40 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,839 Speaker 1: something anything to make it stop. He could hear Jim 41 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: on stage, doubling down on his initial obscenities with cathartic 42 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: shouts into the overloaded microphone. Kill Fuck, Killed Fuck. It 43 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: was August and the doors were dragging out and especially 44 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: loud climactic edition of the end. Robbie Kreeger played the 45 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: repetitive Eastern guitar vamp over and over like he was 46 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: in a trance, and Raymond's Eric made his vox organs 47 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: squeal while his left hand held down the looped bassline. 48 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 1: John Densmore brought his jazz chops to the forefront with 49 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: some well timed fills that exploded like bombs. The whole 50 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: band was buzzing with tension and release, and then we 51 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: get loud and unhinged Jim shrieking into the mic, and 52 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: then tighten everything up and get quiet again. It was 53 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: in those moments of quiet that Jim began to slowly 54 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: turn the song into theater, obscene theater. His unrehearsed ramble 55 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: in front of a stunned crowd was a reductive take 56 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: on that of his Rex, and his final lines were 57 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: what made Tanzini leap from his chair like a bat 58 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: out of hell, father, I want to kill you. Jim 59 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: wrapped one of his black weather cloud legs around the 60 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: microphone stand, rubbed his crotch against the long metal pole 61 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: the way that he always did, the way that made 62 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: the girls in the audience to loose their ship. It 63 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: wasn't jested, it wasn't coated. It was blatant. And this 64 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: was why the girls and boys flocked the Whiskey in 65 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: the summer of sixty six to see this aloof elegantly 66 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: wasted rock god Wh's effortless sex all over the sunset strip. 67 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: And he didn't disappoint. He never disappointed. But then things 68 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: been weird. Father, I want to kill him. Jim regained 69 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: a balance on the stage floor, leads into the microphone stand, 70 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: and looked up toward the club's low ceiling. No one moved. 71 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: The Go Go dancer stopped moving in their suspended cage, 72 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 1: The audience ground to halt, waitresses stopped serving drinks. All 73 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: eyes were on Jim, eyes shut tight as he made 74 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 1: this assault on the mic. Mother, I want to fuck you. 75 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: All the night lost Tanzani knew that Jim was going 76 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: to push him over the edge. Ever since they had 77 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: hired the doors to be the Whiskey's houseman back in May. 78 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: He wouldn't say how or when. He couldn't, but he 79 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: knew it would happen. And Jim have been pushing his 80 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: butt for months now. He was arrogant, he was condescending. 81 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: He racked up an absurd bar tab and he was 82 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 1: searching for buttons to push, hell bent on butting the 83 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 1: hand that fed his band. He found the button in Tancini. 84 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: He pushed it and this was the moment, the button moment. 85 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: It was happening right now. Another one of the Whiskey's owners, 86 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: Elmer Valentine, could be a little softer with the bands, 87 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,799 Speaker 1: even if his background suggested otherwise. Valentine was a former 88 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 1: Chicago cop who made his way to l A after 89 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: being indicted for extortion in Shy Town. His side hustle 90 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: was running nightclubs for the mob. Was on their payroll 91 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: into Valentine and other cops at the time. It was 92 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 1: the way things were. It wasn't dirty, it just was 93 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: what it was, a means to an end. Valentine was 94 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: never convicted, but he got out of town, headed west 95 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: and redefined himself as a club owner. And since he 96 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: had some experience under his belt. After running PJS in 97 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: West Hollywood, Valentine took a trip to Europe and discovered Discothex. 98 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: He brought the concept back to l A and make 99 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: the Whiskey a go go the preeminent place for live 100 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: rock music in the city, perhaps even in the entire country, 101 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: and he never let those wise guy connections dry up. 102 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: When the Whiskey opened, he signed Johnny Rivers to play 103 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: regularly for a year. Mr Secret Agent man himself. Bill Gazari, 104 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: another l A club owner, claimed that Valentine's stole Rivers 105 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: from his place and he wanted Johnny Rivers back. Valentine 106 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: can go fund himself. Gazari put in a call to 107 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: the infamous Chucky English, one of Sam Gi and Kanna's 108 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: top men in Chicago, and Chucky English made the trip 109 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: across the country to the Whiskey and laid it out 110 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: real nice. Johnny Rivers goes back to Gazari's or Valentine 111 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:42,039 Speaker 1: was a fucking dead man. Valentine remained calm. You got 112 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: on the phone, rain back home to Chicago. Felix Saldericio 113 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: a k A Milwaukee Phil a k A hit Man's 114 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: hit man with at least fourteen confirm Mafia Kills, who's 115 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: a close friend of Valentine's. Valentine needed him to come 116 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: out to l A and do him this favor. Get 117 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: this fucking Gazari funk off his back, and so he did, 118 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 1: and so that was that it was settled. Johnny Rivers 119 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 1: kept playing the whiskey. The whiskey didn't feel mobbed up. 120 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: It felt like the coolest room on the planet. The 121 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: Whiskey cigarette Girl Patty Brockhurst was also its house DJ. 122 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: Valentine wanted patrons to keep dancing between bands, and since 123 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: there wasn't enough room on the floor for a DJ booth, 124 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: a glass walled booth was mounted above the floor, where 125 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: Patty would spin LPs and dancing or miniskirt. It was 126 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: such a hit the Valentine hired some additional dancers to 127 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: join Patty. The crowd shook their asses NonStop following the 128 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: direction of the women suspended from the dance cage above 129 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: the whiskey. A Go Go turned the strip into the 130 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:42,559 Speaker 1: Promised Land, the scene to end all scenes. Raymond Zara 131 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: called it Mecca. Even if it's glamorous, commercialized seen was 132 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: the exact opposite of the Bohemian artist fantasy they had 133 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: concocted on Venice Beach. The Whiskey attracted Hollywood elite Carrie Grant, 134 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: Jane Mansfield, Steve McQueen, Jack Parr. They all got their 135 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: rocks off at eight and nine oh one Sunset Bull 136 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 1: of her as the Whiskey Ago Goes house band. The 137 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: Doors opened for Buffalo Springfield, the Birds Love Captain Beefheart, 138 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: Frank Zappin and the mothers of invention the Turtles. When 139 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: them came into town, their frontman Van Morrison went on 140 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: a bender for days with Jim and they saying g 141 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: L O R I A on stage together two brothers 142 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,239 Speaker 1: from other mothers, a duo of Morrison's for the ages 143 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: right there on the Sunset Strip. Earlier in that year, 144 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: the Doors has secured a recurring gig at the London Fog. 145 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: The club was a few doors down from the Whiskey, 146 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: but not nearly as respected. At least they were Whiskey adjacent, 147 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: They were in the orbit, and they were where the 148 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: action was. But the doors had no draw and the 149 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: fog wasn't consistent with payment. Serendipitously, Ronnie mellon the Whiskey's 150 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: talent bookers saw the Doors at the fog on the 151 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: night they were let go, She went back and told 152 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: Valentine they needed to be the Whiskey's houseman. Now, Tanzini 153 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: was regretting the whole thing, regretting ever, allowing Jim Marrison 154 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: to defile the stage, to rub his tight pants and 155 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: the mic stand to how like a wounded animal, to 156 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: play his music way too fucking loud, to say the 157 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: kinds of things a normal person just wouldn't say on stage, 158 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: You sick fuck. Tansini was screaming as he approached the stage, 159 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 1: You say that six ship about your mother on my stage, 160 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: on my stage. Who the funk? Who the funk do 161 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: you think you are to say that six ship on 162 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: my stage? Then tan Zini fired the band and they 163 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 1: were done. He was all out of patients, with Jim 164 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 1: being all on a fox, the cush gig they had 165 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: won over every other band in l A was taken 166 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 1: away from them just like that, and it was all 167 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: Jim's fault. The Doors knew there was a caveat that 168 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 1: came with having Jim Morrison as their front man. This 169 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: was the caveat, But Jim wasn't just a liability on 170 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: stage in front of an audience. He didn't even need 171 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: an audience. He slipped deeper into that fantasy world, felt 172 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: himself more invincible as the months went on and the 173 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: band game notoriety. His act wasn't merely attention seeking. He 174 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 1: was all in, so far in that it was almost 175 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: second nature when he took off all of his clothes 176 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: and lit up the recording studio with a loaded fire extinguisher. 177 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: Paul Rothschild stepped outside the New Jersey State Prison for 178 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: the first time in nine months and felt that early 179 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 1: morning July sun smack him in the face. It was 180 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: hot and muggy, felt like summer, smelled like Trenton. He 181 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: didn't take the moment for granted. That Jersey sun could 182 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,079 Speaker 1: smack the every loving ship out of him all day. 183 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 1: If he wanted to, he'd soak it up the maximum 184 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 1: security behemoth dwarf Frothchild, where he stood waiting for the 185 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: gates to ceremoniously open, his balding head a little more 186 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: bald than when he was first put in the cell 187 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: nine months earlier. Holy shit, he thought nine months he 188 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: grow a human being in nine months. He had done 189 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 1: his time with murderers. These racketeers and psychopaths, as well 190 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 1: as those who like himself, were there because of some 191 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: petty bullshit. Rothschild was there for a couple of joints 192 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: if you could believe that he couldn't marijuana possession. In 193 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: the mid sixties, the police had raging, hard honest to 194 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: bus people smoking grass, fringe folk, hippies, rock and rollers. 195 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: So the squares put him inside the Trent and Fortress 196 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 1: and did their best to make him feel like a 197 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 1: different person, a normalized person, a reformed person. The nine 198 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:51,319 Speaker 1: months Rothchild spent inside were full of monotony. There was 199 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: no music, no work, and certainly no grass. But he 200 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: couldn't stamp the music out of Paul Rothschild. Rothschild was 201 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: Electro wreck and senior staff producer. He was hired by 202 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: Electra president Jack Holdsman in sixty three. He had produced 203 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: records by folk He's like Phil Oaks and Tom Rush. 204 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: In sixty four he discovered the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. 205 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: When he was sent to jail in November nine, Holsman 206 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:17,960 Speaker 1: kept him on the payroll. It was only nine months 207 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: and Electra would be waiting for him when he got 208 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: out and now there he was the one Electra and 209 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: Holsman were waiting for, standing there under the hot July sun, 210 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: receding hairline, dramatic mutton chops on his cheeks, beads around 211 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: his neck, sandals on his feet, unless cigarette behind his ear, 212 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 1: real fucking far from reformed. But how would he do this? 213 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,319 Speaker 1: How would he acclaim back into reality? Who would he 214 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: work with? Who would want to work with him? A 215 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: producer with a rap sheet, Jack Holsman of the Perfect 216 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: group that summer, Arthur Lee of Love, Electra's first rock 217 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: group and a quintessential example of the mid sixties psychedelic 218 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: folk rock scene in l A, brought Holzman to the whiskey. 219 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: He had to see this band. The singer was wild, unpredictable, 220 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:04,079 Speaker 1: a nique. The band really cooked. It took Holsman to 221 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: repeat visit, but he got turned on. And the doors 222 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: have been dicked around by Columbia Records, signed and then 223 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 1: sat on with little enthusiasm by the label's brass. They 224 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: had been picked up and dropped with a little fanfare, 225 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: and they needed a place to go. Polsman needed another 226 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: exciting rock band and continue to diversify, which was roster, 227 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:25,319 Speaker 1: the Doors are gonna blow people's minds, or as l 228 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: a critic Jean young Blood said, the Beatles and the 229 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: Stones are for blowing your mind. The Doors are for afterwards, 230 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: and your mind is already gone. The Doors welcomed Rothschild 231 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,559 Speaker 1: with open arms, a record producer fresh out of the 232 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: joint for smoking dope. Yes, that was the only icebreaker 233 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: the band needed, and they were all in. Rothschild and 234 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: the Doors checked into Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, a 235 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: studio that Disney's director of Recording, two D. Camarada, had 236 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 1: built in the late fifties at Walt Disney's request. Used 237 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 1: at first to record music for vintage Disney films, it 238 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: would become a legendary spot where the Beach Boys would 239 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 1: make pets sounds. The Stones would finish exile on Main Street. 240 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 1: Janis Chopping would record Pearl and Prince would track Purple Rain. 241 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: In six days, the Doors were done. They tracked Light 242 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: by Fire, Break On Through to the Other Side, Soul Kitchen, 243 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: Backdoor Man, the End, along with the other six songs 244 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 1: that would make up their groundbreaking self titled debut album. 245 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: The band was picking up steam. Their sound was new 246 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: and hungry. They put the drama of the Whiskey behind them, 247 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: but Jim wasn't done with all the drama yet. There 248 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: was other drama to find and exploit. He wasn't done 249 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: with the theater yet either, and there were still words. 250 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: He hadn't said things, he hadn't done people, he hadn't shocked. 251 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: He wasn't done with the fantasy. The doors were trying 252 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: to record the end when Jim, stoned and ranting, decided 253 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: to rip the television cord out of the wall and 254 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: smash it to ship. He hurled it towards Rothschild in 255 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: the control room of the studio, but the boxing TV 256 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: was stopped by the large wall of sound proof glass 257 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: separating the control room in the studio. Jim was shocked 258 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: the glass didn't break. It was a letdown anti climb 259 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: actic a. Rothschild cut the session short. Jim obviously needed 260 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: to sleep this one off. Rothschild put him in a 261 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: car and had someone drive him home, but Jim didn't 262 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: make it home. Jim wasn't done, had to finish what 263 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: he started. He bailed out of the car as it 264 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: was rolling down Sunset Boulevard, just like he had bailed 265 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: to kiss the fourteen year old that time on Hawthorn. 266 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: He ran down sunset, moaning and groaning so loud that 267 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: he fitted perfectly with the human wildlife crawling around at 268 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: this late hour on the streets. When he made it 269 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: back the sunset side, everyone was gone. And then he 270 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: saw smoke coming from the building's windows. Jesus, he thought 271 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: they kick him out of the studio, and then the 272 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: place catches on fire. He climbed the gate and found 273 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: his way into the empty building. He could tell the 274 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: fire it was coming from the studio room they have 275 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: been recording in. He had to do something. He was 276 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: sweating and panting from all the running. He was already hot, 277 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: and he just got hotter and hotter the closer he 278 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: got to the studio room. With the fire inside, his 279 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: heart beat wildly and his arms shook with unchecked adrenaline. 280 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: It was time to go full wild child. It was 281 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: time to get real faro and Jim took his clothes off, 282 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: took them all off. He felt free, loose, unfettered, fucking invincible. 283 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: He burst into the room and used his clothes to 284 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: try to smother the flames. Threw his shirt down on 285 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: some fire. It's smoldered, threw his jeans down on some 286 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: fire and they seemed to do the trick, but there 287 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: was too much fire, too much smoke. He didn't have 288 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: that many clothes, and frustrated, he threw ash trees around 289 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 1: the room, up ended the table if it wasn't bolted 290 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: down to get tossed, and then he grabbed the fire 291 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: extinguisher from the wall and let it ripped spray down 292 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: the whole room. The crackling of the flames and the 293 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: white noise surge of the fire extinguisher filled his ears 294 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: with a beautiful cacophony foam from the fireston which recovered everything, 295 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: the control board, the tapes, John Densmore's drums, and Robbie 296 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: Creaker's guitar, and not an inch of the room was missed. 297 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: Jim was thorough. He was both a hero and a 298 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: wild force of destruction. He could have his cake, and 299 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: he did too. As the fire extinguishers sputtered its last 300 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: final blasts of white foam, Jim collapsed in her chair, exhausted, fulfilled. 301 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: He had finished when he started. Later that night, Rothchild 302 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,119 Speaker 1: found Jim nearly passed out in that chair, and the 303 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: entire room covered in chemical foam. It was like a 304 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: marshmallow crime scene. He shook. Jim awake was babbling about 305 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: a fire fire. Rothchild was confused and angry. There was 306 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: no fire. It was just a studio room entirely covered 307 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: in goo and a bunch of random ship thrown around 308 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 1: and smashed. Damn Jim Rothchild said, it took a real 309 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: beautiful thing, fucked it up good. Jim, still naked and 310 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 1: out of his mind, smiled At times like these, the 311 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: devilish encouragement and hostility of his friend Jimbo bounced around 312 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: in his head. Even when Jimbo wasn't standing right next 313 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: to him, Jimbo was always there, always commenting, always provoking. 314 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: Even if Jim was naked and alone in a recording studio, 315 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: it wasn't really ever alone. And yeah, Rothchild was right. 316 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 1: He did fuck it up. He sucked it up real good. 317 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 1: But it was a private act of insanity. It's shocked Rothchild, 318 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 1: a guy who had recently spent time in the big 319 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: House and didn't shock easily. But Jim needed a bigger audience, 320 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: a bigger stage, passing insanity along to the masses, and 321 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: they were thirsty for it anyway. Twenty tho unsuspecting hippies 322 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: in a public park was a good place to start. 323 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this word. We were Jim 324 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 1: Morrison and Jimbo made the scene. Jim tagged along behind Jimbo. 325 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,919 Speaker 1: Jima looked out onto the crowd of twenty people gathered 326 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: in Golden Gate parkin thought, fuck these flower children. Fucked 327 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 1: this grassroots activism, and fucked these wild eyed, deluded losers. 328 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: President Kennedy was still dead, and after Watts, Cleveland had rioted, 329 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: oh Mad rioted, and there were almost two U S 330 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 1: soldiers in Vietnam. The world was a ball of confusion, 331 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: and these starry eyed, optimistic fools thought that holding hands 332 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: in the middle of San Francisco would make things better. 333 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: At least the folks and Watts knew what was up. 334 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 1: Fuck sh it up, make it stint, make the establishment 335 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: feel the pain the human being. Even the name was stupid. 336 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: Life was chaos, disorder, life was fucked up. Life wasn't 337 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 1: tidy and lovey dovey, and where was the fun and 338 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 1: just floating along in ignorant bliss. Anyways, it was always 339 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: more fun to make a mess of things. And this 340 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: is what Jimbo thought while he made his way through 341 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: the throngs of smiling San Franciscan's, pausing to take in 342 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: Timothy Learry's speech from the stage and the one time 343 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: Harvard professor and LSD prophet recently touring college campuses to 344 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:35,920 Speaker 1: spread the good word of the acid. Ture rang fourth 345 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 1: with the mantra that the whole movement would adopt the 346 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 1: movement that was taking form here and now in Golden 347 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 1: Gate Park, turn on, tune in, and drop out, drop out. 348 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: Jimbo fixated on those final words. He plucked them from 349 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 1: Leary's entire sentence and kept on repeating them out loud, 350 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: quietly at first, and then louder. It was his own mantra. 351 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: Now he spun around in the public park and the 352 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 1: cozy jan whevery sunshine, yelling drop out, and all the 353 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: smiling faces. Jimbo plucked the flower from behind the ear 354 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: of a teenage girl with long blonde hair. He squeezed 355 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 1: it in his palm into The petals had been ripped 356 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: off and the stem was crumpled, and then he let 357 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: it droop and fall into the ground. The girl looked 358 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: on in horror. He snatched a joint from the fingers 359 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,159 Speaker 1: of short haired flower chap some young kid who was 360 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: in the early stages of letting it all hang out. 361 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: Jimbo snatched the joint and just ate it. Stuck the 362 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,399 Speaker 1: lip roach in his mouth and started to chew. He 363 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: smiled while his cheeks moved up and down, and then 364 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: blew residual smoke right back into the kid's face. Fuck him, 365 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 1: he thought. He grabbed girls dresses and pulled them sky 366 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 1: high to get a peep, deliberately bumped his rugged shoulder 367 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 1: into the shoulders of passing kids with rose colored glasses 368 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 1: and gob smacked faces. Fun Pretzel book, he would really 369 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: dig his shoulder into, set them reeling, flailing backward, and 370 00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:00,120 Speaker 1: then follow up with a bloated, drunk confrontation, what the 371 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: fucking your problem? Jim Morrison trailed Jimbo, stoned and drunk 372 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: as usual, chuckling at Jimbo's hijags, but also affording himself 373 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,479 Speaker 1: the luxury of keeping his distance. Louis plenty going on 374 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:17,679 Speaker 1: in January, but on this particular Saturday, San Francisco was 375 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: certainly where it was at the human being. A prelude 376 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 1: to that year's Summer of Love was builled as a 377 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: gathering of the tribes, and truly it was hippy. Kids 378 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,920 Speaker 1: walked side by side with business men in suits. Everyone 379 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: was encouraged to breathe a little deeper and take things 380 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 1: a little slower, peacefully, protests the war, love one another, 381 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: smile upon another, look at the world in a different way. 382 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: Come together. Rainbow colored posters for the mass event asked 383 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: people to bring flowers, insects, feathers and candles, to bring animals, symbols, chimes, 384 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,400 Speaker 1: and flutes. Organizers expected about a thousand people to show 385 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: up at Golden Gate Parks polo fields, but guestimates put 386 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: the actual number of attendees between money and thirty. Thus, 387 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 1: other posters promised all SF rock groups, which translated to 388 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: a who's who of San Francisco rock and roll circa 389 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 1: early nineteen The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Sir Douglas, Quintent, 390 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:18,640 Speaker 1: the Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Big brotherren holding company. Big 391 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,159 Speaker 1: Brother eddiet to release a debut record yet, but they 392 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 1: were making waves in the scene, largely due to their 393 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: lead vocalists, Janis Joplin. It was also the first major 394 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: counterculture gathering that used the local Hell's Angels chapter for security, 395 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: seeing as there was no police presence, and they passed 396 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: out drinks from the back of a station wagon, helped 397 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: lost kids find their free flowing parents, and for the 398 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 1: most part, stayed out of trouble, and there was a 399 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: general sense of unease at the Angel's presence. After all, 400 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: they had attacked anti war protesters the year before and 401 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: carried with them in overall air of menace the Jimbo 402 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,640 Speaker 1: found delightfully ironic. A couple of hits of acid from 403 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,360 Speaker 1: Alan Ginsburg and kem Kesi, though, kept them on their 404 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: best behavior for the moment. You know what I see 405 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: when I look out at this crowd, Jimbo asked Jim, 406 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: draping his arm around jim shoulders and pulling him in close. 407 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 1: I see a whole lot of people who aren't happy, 408 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: who want something else, and they don't want to be 409 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: told what to do by Sea Hall and the President 410 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 1: and the fucking pigs Man. They sure sh it ain't 411 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: gonna get what they want by holding hands and Golden 412 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: Gate fucking park. Me and Jimbo snared it up a 413 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: real big lugi and spat it out into the ground, 414 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,439 Speaker 1: tugged at his crotch and looked around at the hippie 415 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: dream gathering steam in the wide expanse of the polo fields, 416 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: and saw it bursting a loud, resounding pop. Revolution was 417 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: not this immaculate. This won't last, Jim. I see these 418 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: crowds rising up, getting angry. We'll get tired trying to 419 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: give piece a chance, and they'll just be dying to 420 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: go crazy. And they'll want someone to show them how, 421 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: to tell them that it's okay, to tell them that 422 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: they don't have to listen to their parents or the cops. 423 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: Fun the parents, fuck the coughs, fox society. All these 424 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: motherfucker's wanted self expression. They want to be left alone 425 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: and allowed to do whatever they want whenever they want. 426 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,199 Speaker 1: The Hell's Angels they're like wolves and then wolves and 427 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: sheep's clothing. Brother, you know what the fund do they 428 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: get out of this. They're gonna flash through true colors too. 429 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: People will say those Hell's Angels went crazy, when you know, 430 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: you know that the Hell's Angels are just gonna do 431 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: what the Hell's Angels do. Fucking ship. Oh. The crowd 432 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: around them started to back away. A large empty circle 433 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 1: was formed in the grass as people pushed each other back, 434 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: and the sound of anticipatory conversation increased. Jim thought it 435 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 1: had something to do with Jimbo. At first. Was he 436 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: being too loud? Was he now scaring off large groups 437 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: of calm pe seekers. He noticed that the crowd now 438 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: going and I was looking to the sky. Little white 439 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: tablets rained down on the mall. Obviously these white lightning, 440 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: recently made illegal in the state of California. Acid tabs 441 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 1: were falling from the sky like mona from heaven. Jim 442 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: smacked Jimbo on the chest, the universal sign in the 443 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: sort of situation for shut the funk up pointed upwards 444 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: a parachute who was making his descent from the deep 445 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: blue sky above a plane tailing off in the distance 446 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: as its engine sputtered and gurgled, and the parachuter tossed 447 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 1: white lightning calves here and there, the hands from the 448 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: crowd reaching out, reaching out and grabbing the promise of 449 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 1: another trip, and they squealed with joy in this wild 450 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: westfield full of love and compassion and altered states of mind. 451 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: Jimbo was unimpressed, though, as Jim could tell by the 452 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 1: one syllable grunt he made under his breath. And then 453 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: he turned to gym and said, turn on true man. 454 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 1: Jim Osterberg knew a fellow drop out when he saw 455 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: one and this guy on stage at the University of 456 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: Michigan's intramuro Sports building. This guy was a colossal scene 457 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,919 Speaker 1: shifting pants shifting drop out. He hit the stage late, 458 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: stumbled around like a buffoon, grabbed the microphone, and mumbled 459 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: a litany of offcolor remarks and curse words. The kind 460 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 1: of ship you didn't say in public, the kind of 461 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 1: ship you definitely didn't say at the University's homecoming concert. 462 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 1: In his untucked white dress shirt and dark leather pants, 463 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: he can barely stand upright. Jim witnessed Jim and thought, 464 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 1: takes one to no one. For Jim Osterberg, Jim Morrison 465 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: was an inspiration. The rest of the audience didn't share 466 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,439 Speaker 1: Jim Osterberg's excitement. The rest of the audience was pissed. 467 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: It felt screwed over, and they paid three dollars for 468 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: this train wreck. And the students in the audience expected 469 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: better things from performers at the University of Michigan's homecoming show. 470 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: Performers like The Righteous Brothers, Dion Warwick, the Four Tops, 471 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,959 Speaker 1: the Beach Boys, consummate performers who knew how to deliver 472 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 1: a show. Give him a bang for three bucks. The 473 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,199 Speaker 1: Doors should have been that band. All signs pointed to 474 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,400 Speaker 1: that band, a band that would wild them, a band 475 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: that was grabbing hold of some corner of the country zeitgeist. 476 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: At the moment in the fall of the Doors were 477 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: on top of the world. They released their self titled 478 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: debut album that year, Lecture bought them a huge billboard 479 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 1: in the sunset Strip, the first of its kind for 480 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: a rocket roll band. The first single from the record, 481 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: Break On Through to the Other Side, didn't live up 482 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: to its title, but it's follow up made up for 483 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: lost time. Light My Fire spent twenty three weeks on 484 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 1: the Billboard charts, peaking at number one or three of 485 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: those weeks. Light My Fire, cut down from its seven 486 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: minute album length to a barely three minute radio version, 487 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 1: was everywhere. During the summer of sixty seven, Jim Morrison 488 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,360 Speaker 1: threw down his hit single money for a custom black 489 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 1: leather suit, walk that lock and skin tight pants. It's 490 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: hard to overstate just how revolutionary Light My Fire was 491 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 1: when it appeared on the pop charts for weeks before 492 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 1: Light My Fire debut. The number one slot on the 493 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: Billboard Charts was held by songs like Whitney by The Association, 494 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 1: Grooving by the Young Rascals, and Happy Together by The Turtles. 495 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: Bubblegum pop ruled the airwaves, and Light My Fire was 496 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,120 Speaker 1: an invitation to explore something well off the beaten path 497 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 1: of pop conformity, not to mention the gateway to an 498 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 1: album version that was more than twice the single's length. 499 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: The Door's debut altered the public's perception towards what a 500 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: number one song could be. They followed up quickly in 501 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: the early fall with Strange Days, which was immediately a hit. 502 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: Its singles People Are Strange and Love Me Two Times 503 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: would do well even if they weren't generation defining songs 504 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: like Light My Fire. Crawdaddy magazine called the live show 505 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: beautiful and frightening and said that the doors in concert 506 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: were the best of the West has to offer, and 507 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: just like the epic, the end closed out the debut record, 508 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: Strange Days featured an equally long coda when the music's 509 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: over that the band would transform into dramatic, dynamic, improvisational 510 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,239 Speaker 1: rock and roll a live when they were firing on 511 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 1: all cylinders moved aside, and they could swim to the moon, 512 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: climbed through the tide, penetrate the evening. But the city 513 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: sleeps to hide and they were ascending. But in ann Arbor, Michigan, 514 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: they got caught on a wrong When the band first 515 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: appeared on stage following the local opening group, the Long 516 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: Island Sound, Jim wasn't even there. Ray, Robbie, and John 517 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: picked up their instruments and began to vamp on Soul Kitchen. 518 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: Once the audience realized that they were just going to 519 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: play without their front man, Ray's twittering organ line repeating 520 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: over and over again, the booze started and this was 521 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: gonna be disastrous. They needed Jim, no matter what stad 522 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: he was in. Ray knew he was stone drunk. Back stage, 523 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 1: he had been nursing a whiskey bottle all day, not 524 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:08,719 Speaker 1: all afternoon, all day morning, noon night. The band stopped 525 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: playing and exited at the stage. They came back minutes 526 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 1: later with Jim. They started up Soul Kitchen again, this 527 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: time with their frontman front the center. Jim tripped on 528 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: his own feet, fell over, pulled himself up on the 529 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 1: microphone stand, tripped again through his wild mane of hair backwards. 530 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: He was beyond wasted, and that's when he started cursing 531 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 1: into the mic. He pulled it close against his lips, 532 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: completely missing the insistent heartbeat rhythm of Soul Kitchen and 533 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: rambling on. He thought about Jimbo rambling to him and 534 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: channeled it, just let it come through him, rambling man 535 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: and the mic was tied against his lips, and his 536 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: words were muffled, stunted, slurred, go down, Soul Kitchen. Kids 537 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 1: in the audience were shocked, not that they didn't say 538 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: fun themselves, but bands on stage did not say. Jim 539 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 1: picked up the brief from the stage, a beer can, 540 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,719 Speaker 1: a pencil, a crumpled up piece of paper from his pocket, 541 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: and chucked it at the audience, whatever he could get 542 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: his hands on, whatever wasn't tied down. Jim shouted his face, 543 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 1: not directly in front of the mic, but close enough 544 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 1: that a handful of the audience were able to hear 545 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: his taunts, and they started to get upset. Jim was drunk, 546 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: he was late, he was insulting the audience, and now 547 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: he was daring the audience to what to challenge him, 548 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: to rush the stage, to take him on the cops 549 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 1: stepped in before things got out of hand and usher 550 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: Jim and the band off stage, and the Long Island 551 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: Sound stepped in the soften the blow and began playing again. Backstage, 552 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: Jim breathed heavy, and the heavy breathing of a man 553 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: who was feeling the tug of war between whiskey and 554 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: LSD in his system, The heavy breathing of a man 555 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 1: who drunk or not had the crowd in the palm 556 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: of his hand and set them reeling. He had control 557 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 1: to Jim oster for his theater. It was expression. It 558 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: was something new, big, dumb and confrontational, alive and definitely 559 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 1: wasn't Elvis Presley, and it wasn't the fucking Beatles. It 560 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: was the future. Jim aster Burke took what he had 561 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: seen back to his bandmates and the Psychedelic Stooges. He 562 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 1: had a vision he'd ride the Jim Morrison character to 563 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 1: the extreme, to the next level, transcendentally dumb, insightfully idiotic, 564 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 1: artfully primitive. The Psychedelic Stooges changed their name to simply 565 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: the Stooges, and Jim Osterburg started calling himself Aky Pop. 566 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: Jim Marrison meanwhile had put Anne Arbor on the map 567 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 1: as yet another location for his crowd bating antics. It 568 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 1: wasn't the complete insanity he imagined, the kinds of fantasy. 569 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 1: Jimbo helped him a vision that would come soon enough. 570 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,000 Speaker 1: The next step would involve authority cops. Soon enough, when 571 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: the tour rolled into New Haven, Connecticut, Jim would ratchet 572 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: up that spectacle, and it would take him weeks to 573 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: get the taste of the mace off of his tongue. 574 00:32:46,360 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan and this is seven Club all right. 575 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is scored and co written by myself, 576 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 1: Jake Brennan. Zef Blundie is the lead writer and editor 577 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 1: around the show. Matt Bowden mixes the show. Additional music 578 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 1: and score elements by Ryan's Breaker and Henry Linnetta. 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