1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: The seven Club is the production of I Heart Radio 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: and Double Elvis Media. Jim Morrison died at the age 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: of and he lived the life that defied categorization. I 4 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: can give you twenty seven reasons why that statement is true. 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: Five would be one of the two numbers in a 6 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 1: given ratio. You know, five to one baby one in five, 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: No one here gets out alive. Another five would be 8 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: the number of studio albums he had released with The 9 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 1: Doors By They came at a strong clip. The gap 10 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: between that run and their final record l a Woman 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: would be the longest in their short career. One would 12 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: be the number of cult leaders that Jim Is doppelganger 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: Jimbo would be mistaken for when he was found passed 14 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: out on someone's store step. Two more would be the 15 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: number of slices on his wrist and forearms that he 16 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: endured during a wicked marriage ceremony surrounded by a few strangers, candles, 17 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: and ritualistic jetsam. Another four would be the number of 18 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: Credence clear Water Revival band members who would welcome him 19 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,479 Speaker 1: as one of their own when Jim fantasized himself away 20 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: from the reality of living behind bars. In ten will 21 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,479 Speaker 1: be the number of months he'd have left to live 22 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: after Miami jury reached its verdict and decided the fate 23 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: of one of the biggest rock stars in the world. 24 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: On this our eighth episode of season two, Doppelgangers, we 25 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: Can Marriage Ceremonies choolin and Jim Morrison lost in Fantasy 26 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: um Jake Brennan and this is the twenty seven clock. 27 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: Eleanor Brow had never seen anything like it before. She'd 28 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: never seen a man passed out on her doorstep before. 29 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: In her sixty eight years on this planet and all 30 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: the time spent at her home in West Los Angeles, 31 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: she'd never walked outside on a warm August morning, the 32 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: rising sun splintering through the patterns of palm trees, to 33 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: find an unconscious, bearded man blocking her path to her newspaper, 34 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: Bloody Red Son of Fantastic l A. The Times was 35 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,959 Speaker 1: there on the lowest and final step of her stup. 36 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: It was all she wanted that morning, the paper, in 37 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: her coffee, a cigarette or two. In silence. She could 38 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: hear the kitchen radio from inside talking about street riots 39 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: in Ireland, talking about traffic in l A. She wanted 40 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: that newspaper, but it was on the lowest and final 41 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: step beyond the man who was curled up, snoring, rank 42 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,079 Speaker 1: a derelict, perhaps, some homeless man who had wandered well 43 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: beyond the reaches of downtown l a Eleanor stretched out 44 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: her left leg and jabbed her foot into the sleeping 45 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: man's side. He rustled, rolled onto his back, His eyes 46 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: flickered open, bloodshot and dull, empty, dark and uncaring, completely unbothered, 47 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: completely unaware. What if he was more than a derelict, 48 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: elen her thought, more than an annoyance. What if he 49 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: was a member of that family, the Manson family. It 50 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 1: had been almost a year since the Manson family sent 51 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: bad vibrations through Los Angeles, through the country, through the 52 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: entire world. Almost a year since they walked into houses 53 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: and murdered innocent people with state knives and bayonets, murdered 54 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: that pregnant actress in the coldest of cold blood. Almost 55 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: a year since death to Pigs and Helter Skelter were 56 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: written in blood on living room walls and refrigerator doors. 57 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: And despite the passing of time, the murders hungover l 58 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: a like psychological smog, the cellular memory of a metropolis, 59 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: a nightmare that couldn't be shaken away, couldn't be sold 60 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: off a doorstep. It had been almost a year, but 61 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: Eleanor thought, what if? What if they didn't catch them all? 62 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: What if one of them escaped? What if there are others, 63 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: new family members who were carrying the torch. She looked 64 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: down at the bearded vagrant waking up on her west 65 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: l a doorstep, and she was convinced she had a 66 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: Manson accolade at her feet, a devotee of fear and 67 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: chaos and evil obstructing her path to her morning paper. 68 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: Eleanor ran back inside, locked the front door, snapped the 69 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 1: radio off, picked the phone receiver up from its cradle 70 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 1: on the wall, and called the police. She was one 71 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 1: of the lucky ones. She knew it. She was spared 72 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: and others would be spared as well. When the l 73 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: a p. D arrived, they didn't find a Manson family member, 74 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: or even a Manson family want to be. But they 75 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: did find a familiar face on Eleanor's steps, Jim Morrison's pal, Jimbo. 76 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: The cops knew Jimbo by sight, knew Jimbo by sound, 77 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: knew Jimbo by smell. They didn't know his full name. 78 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: Didn't even know if Jimbo was his real name. Oh. 79 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 1: The cops also didn't know that Jimbo had spent some 80 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 1: time hanging with Charlie Manson a wizard cracking open Bruski's 81 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 1: catching doors or Herstal's scoping chicks. I'm a girl watcher, 82 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 1: the wizard would sing under his breath, the Jimbo and 83 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 1: Jimbo would giggle. Eleanor Brow wasn't all that far off. 84 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: Jimbo never carried any i d Sometimes he had shoes on, 85 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: and other times he couldn't be bothered to lace up. 86 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 1: He was always in need of a cold shower, black 87 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: coffee in the swift smack upside the head. The cops 88 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: book Jimbo. The next day, the doors manager, Bill Sidne 89 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: has posted his twenty five dollar bail, and Jimbo was 90 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 1: free again. Now that the idealism of the sixties have 91 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: been replaced by the nihilism of a new, less naive decade, 92 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: Jimbo was spending less time in the shadows, less time 93 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: in the background. He had been calling out the flower 94 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: children on their bullshit since the human being, if not earlier, 95 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: and now that his insults were everyone else, his reality 96 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: he felt welcome, so welcome that he would sometimes take 97 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: Jim's place at parties, and no one was the wiser. 98 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: Jim had grown his beard o which made his already 99 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: striking resemblance to Jimbo even more striking, and they both 100 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: hid behind a bushy massive on camp, facial hair hair 101 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: grown out, and waving paunch. Getting paunch here, Jimbo could 102 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,039 Speaker 1: so easily pose for Jim that no one was the 103 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: wiser when he showed up at I'm on Egan's house 104 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 1: party in Jim's place. This was early the following year 105 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: in v and I'm in This fancy guest were watching 106 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: Alan Shepard and er Mitchell Walk on the Moon on 107 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: a small TV set in the living room. He had 108 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: invited Jim in order to coax him and the Doors 109 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: away from Elektra to Atlantic Records, the label he had 110 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: founded in nineteen nine with ten grand from his dentist 111 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: and had since built into the pre eminent R and 112 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 1: B soul, jazz and rock record label. Atlantic had Ray 113 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: Charles and Aretha Franklin, Coultran Megus Internet home in Buffalo Springfield, 114 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: Led Zeppelin, Crosbie Stills, Nash, and Young I'm had just 115 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: pulled a similar move with the Rolling Stones. He invited 116 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: Mick Jagger to a party, and in that smooth talking 117 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: son of a Turkish diplomat way made the Stones in 118 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: Atlantic Records band with a one million dollar advance. But 119 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: Jimbo didn't want to talk business, didn't want to talk 120 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: about record deals and advances and royalties. Jimbo wanted to 121 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: drink scotch. Jimbo wanted to make a scene, wanted to 122 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: tear a ragged edge to the sophisticated party's cheeky scene. 123 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: Jimbo stood up on the couch much time at chagrin. 124 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: He was wearing shoes that night, and Jimbo stomped on 125 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: the couch, bounced up and down, emulating the bouncing moonwalks 126 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: of Shepherd and Mitchell in the TV screen, the Scotch 127 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: and Ice and his tumbler splashing around and dropping onto 128 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: the couch, his spotless leather the Capital's pigs, Jimbo yelled, 129 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: reaching the except tuple din of the genteel house party atmosphere. 130 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: He bounced on the couch, his boot heels twisting into 131 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: the expensive leather. He reached out to the magret paintings 132 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: that hung in the nearby wall and attempted to knock 133 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: them down. His fingers clipped the frame in a painting 134 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: swan Precariously, I've been down so goddamn long that it 135 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: looks like up to me one the fucker's um that stood. Silentness. 136 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:31,239 Speaker 1: Silence would help end Jimbo's rant. Sooner, your capitalist pigs 137 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: holding art hostage, greedy fucking pigs, The artists will win. 138 00:08:38,800 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: Eddie gone, The artists will have the last laugh. Jim 139 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: and Pam were fighting again. Dishes flew across the kitchen, 140 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: pots and pans were volleyed. When hurtful words weren't enough. 141 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: When the cupboards were emptied, they went for the kitchen drawers. 142 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: The cutlery came out. Now they were fighting to be 143 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: heard above the clank and clatter of stainless steel tumbling 144 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: to the floor. Just like the last time they fought, 145 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: these two hot and cold, on again, off again life 146 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: partners parted ways in a huff, a tiff, then a huff, 147 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 1: and neither of them seeing the situation from the other's perspective. 148 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: When Pam got angry at Jim, she'd call up Jim's 149 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: limo driver and get the Royal rock star girlfriend treatment. 150 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: The driver will pull the car around and smile and 151 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: say hello, opened the door for shut it once she 152 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,199 Speaker 1: climbed inside, show for her around l a when she shot, 153 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: until she dropped, and Jim would go off and find 154 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: another girl to occupy his time. He knew it bugged 155 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: the ship out of Pam, as it should, and part 156 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,079 Speaker 1: of his desire to get some strange was so Pam 157 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: would bristle. He'd find a groupie, a fan, a friend, 158 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,679 Speaker 1: a friend of a friend, and the stranger the better. 159 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: This time, he wanted to take it even further, that 160 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: maybe this would be the time he'd leave Pam forever. 161 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: Maybe he wasn't meant to keep crawling back to her. 162 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: Life was short, too short to be lived Angry and 163 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: throwing dinnerware around the kitchen. It was this thinking that 164 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: led to where he was standing now and Patricia Kneely's 165 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: New York apartment, where he was sliced at his wrist 166 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: and form and was married in a wickened wedding ceremony. 167 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: Jim had met Patricia, an editor for Jazz and Pop magazine, 168 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: the previous year when she interviewed him for a feature. 169 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: She told him she was a witch, and in that 170 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: moment she had him interest Pete site set. From then, 171 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: the two kept in touch. Recently, on tour with the Doors, 172 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: Jim had split his downtime in the city between Pam's 173 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: hotel room and Patricia's apartment. The plot thickened. Patricia was 174 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: tight with the High Priestess of the Coven Wickens not Satanists, 175 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: mind you, dirt worshippers, Earth's disciples of the Great Mother, 176 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 1: the matriarch of all humanity and all life. The High 177 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: Priestess could bind the two of them for all eternity 178 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: a hand fasting ceremony. They wouldn't need to file paperwork 179 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 1: at city Hall, wouldn't need to stand at a church 180 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: surrounded by family members they hadn't seen since grade school. 181 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: All they needed were candles, the High Priestess and their 182 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: own blood. They'd sliced their wrists, their forearms. They let 183 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,559 Speaker 1: the blood drip into a cup. They drink from it. 184 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: They'd be bound, wet in the eyes of the Earth, 185 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 1: the Great Mother. The first thing Jim thought, standing there 186 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: and Patricia's candle at apartments surrounded by oddly shaped rocks 187 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: and seashells, animal horns and dried flowers. Was that Pam 188 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 1: would flip her wig if she were here? Holy funk, 189 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: would she lose her ship? He thought? He laughed, and 190 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: then he looked up into Patricia's eyes. He felt something 191 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 1: graze against his arm, and he looked down, blood running 192 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: from his wrists. The priestess was there to catch it 193 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 1: in her spiritual chalice, and the group started in incantation. 194 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 1: These are the hands that will work alongside yours as 195 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: together you build your future. Jim's eyes caught Patricia's again. 196 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: He reached his hand out to touch hers. You were 197 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: thus now and forevermore bound to your vow. The room 198 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: started to go blurry. Jim struggled to make out Patricia 199 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: only a few feet away from him. He felt the 200 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: heat from the candles, smelled the scent of Patricia's perfume, 201 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: the dried flowers, the decaying animal handlers. He couldn't bear 202 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: to look at his arm again, but he could feel 203 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: the warm stream of blood running down slow. He thought 204 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: of the wizard standing there with jimbo at the door's rehearsal, 205 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 1: wearing that sinking in that seemed to indicate that he 206 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: knew something Jim didn't. He thought of the housekeeper in Jamaica, 207 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: thought about how the place went dark, thought about dying, 208 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: and about standing on the precipice, teetering between this life 209 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: and the unknown. Teetering. The very thought of the word 210 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: made him think of his mother telling him not to 211 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,680 Speaker 1: teeter in his chair as a five year old. She 212 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: said if he teetered that he would fall backwards and 213 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 1: the hardwood floor would be a rude awakening for his head. 214 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 1: He teetered anyway, and it happened just like his mother said. 215 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: He slipped and fell backwards, head meet Flora. His mother 216 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: said it was God punishing him for not listening. Jim 217 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: closed his eyes to snub out the blurriness, and when 218 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 1: he reopened them, he wasn't there. He was no longer 219 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 1: standing in Patricia's candidate department. He was standing on the 220 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: side of Highway one two outside Modesto, California. The wind 221 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 1: kicked up and blew his long hair across the front 222 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: of his face. That's wide open, desolate horizon, expansive and 223 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: without promise, just a never ending stretch of pavement and 224 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:12,959 Speaker 1: muted vegetation, double lines, no clouds. The stars seemed to 225 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,319 Speaker 1: be multiplying in the newly darkened night sky. He felt 226 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: his heart beating in his ears. He thought about Highway 227 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: an American pastoral, a short experimental film he shot the 228 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: year before in the Mohabi Desert, a glorified student film, 229 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: posing his high arm. In it, he plays a character 230 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: named Billie who climbs out of a quarry soaking wet 231 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: and puts his boots on. In the desert, he flags 232 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: down a passing car standing on the side of Highway 233 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: one thirty two. The station wagon had already stopped, he 234 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: didn't have to flag it down, and Jim approached the 235 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: driver's side door that was rolled down. In the driver 236 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: a young woman hung her left arm out into the 237 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: warm night time air, and Jim peered inside, saw the 238 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: toddler sitting in the back seat. Saw the woman's protruding 239 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 1: belly nestled up against the steering wheel. Jim asked the 240 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 1: woman if she was having car trouble. She said she 241 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: thought one of her rear wheels felt wobbly. It was teetering. 242 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: Jim said he would check it out. He walked back 243 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: to the passenger's side rear tire and immediately found the 244 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: loose lug nuts, but instead of tightening them, he made 245 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: them looser. He clenched his hand around the thick steel 246 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: and went counterclockwise lefty lucy. He would catch the pregnant 247 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: woman's gaze in her side mirror and give her a 248 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: thumbs up. She was all set. She would start to 249 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: drive away, but the tire would wobble every more dramatically 250 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: than before, and she pulled back over just the ways 251 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 1: up the road, and Jim would be there, ready to intervene, 252 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: to offer his assistance. He was no longer the hitchhiker 253 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: and an experimental film. He was the one picking up 254 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: easy prey, a pregnant mother with her toddler alone on 255 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: this never ending stretch of Highway one thirty two. It 256 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: didn't get any easier. A few of the faraway stars 257 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: in the night sky flickered and flashed and made Jim's 258 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: eyes burn. He blinked four times, each blink in attempt 259 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 1: to blot out the brightness, to gain the upper hand 260 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: on sight. He opened his eyes again, and he was 261 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: back in Patricia's apartment. Patricia stood across from him, holding 262 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: onto his hands, bloody and trembling. Was modesto A memory, 263 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: a premonition, a daydream, a hallucination brought on by drugs, 264 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: by blood loss, a complete fantasy. Jim started to open 265 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: his mouth to say something to Patricia, repeat a vow 266 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 1: to betray the fact that he had just gone to 267 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: an entirely new geographic location in his head. But he 268 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: couldn't speak. His heart was still beating in his ears, 269 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: and now he felt it in his arms and in 270 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: his wrists. He looked down at his wrists outstretched to 271 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: lock hands with Patricia. He saw the blood spurting from 272 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: his arm in the rhythm of his heartbeat. Each thump, 273 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: and red droplets jumped from inside of him and landed 274 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 1: on his skin. He looked down at his wrists, his 275 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: eyes wide, and didn't watch the blood go bomp, bomp, bump. 276 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: Four more blinks, quicker now than before, and Jim Morrison 277 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 1: passed out. Teetered his head hit the hardwood floor. He 278 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: may have gotten married, but Jim Morrison had no idea 279 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: what exactly happened in that apartment that night. We'll be 280 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: right back after this word word word, John Fogerty called 281 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: the corner pocket. He pulled the pool cue back slowly 282 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: and then suddenly thrust it forward. This solid red ball 283 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: sunk into the corner pocket, just as John Fogerty said 284 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: it would. He threw out a subtle, celebratory fist pump. 285 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 1: Nothing too flashy, nothing condescending, just a simple acknowledgement of 286 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: a sweet shot. Fogerty standard issue dress code flannel shirt 287 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: and blue cheets, his everyman outfit that allowed both hippies 288 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 1: and rednecks, traditionalists and futures alike to identify with him 289 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,959 Speaker 1: struck a funny contrast to the swank Penhouse suite at 290 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,400 Speaker 1: the Fountain Blue on Miami Beach, where Crean's Clearwater Revival 291 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: were stationed while on the tour. This is the hotel 292 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: where Frank Sinatra taped a welcome home special for Elvis 293 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 1: Pressley when he returned from the Army, was the highest 294 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: rated TV special in ninet Not for nothing, then Fogerty 295 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: in the gang called their Penhouse Digs Sinatra swite. Jim Morrison, 296 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: never wanted to not sniff out a good party, had 297 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: dropped in to hang out when he heard that he 298 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 1: and CCR were in the same city at the same time. 299 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 1: He left. The nub of the joint he was smoking 300 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: hang from his lips as he clapped his hands together 301 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 1: and showed Fogerty some love for sinking the pocket shop. 302 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,959 Speaker 1: The previous year, nineteen sixty nine, was all about CCR 303 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 1: three type back to basics roots rock albums released in 304 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: just over nine months, a slew of perfect singles. Born 305 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: on the Bayou, Green River, Bad Moon Rise in Lowdi 306 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: down on the corner of Fortunate Son In the US, 307 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: they outsold even the Beatles, and they were on tour 308 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: behind Cosmos Factory, one of the two LPs they had 309 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: released in nineteen seventy. It was an album that would 310 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 1: help them cement a chart record for the most number 311 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 1: two hit singles without a number one, a record they 312 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 1: still hold to this day. Critics hated them, but that 313 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: didn't matter. Here they were, in August of nineteen seventy, 314 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 1: the boys who railed against Fortunate Sons and were called 315 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 1: back home by Bullfrogs, live in the high life, flanked 316 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: by spiral staircases and grand pianos and billiard tables inside 317 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,199 Speaker 1: their hotel room on a particular, really choice stretch of 318 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 1: Florida Beach. Born on the Bayou. They weren't, but for 319 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: Jim it was all good. Jim looked in forward his 320 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,920 Speaker 1: eyes and saw a fellow fantasy man, just another tall 321 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: tale teller, a good time seeker, another one who had 322 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: conjured up a fantasy and inserted himself inside of it. 323 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: The guy's record label was called Fantasy Records for crying 324 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: out loud, who knew what forward he saw when he 325 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: looked out his back door. Jim put the joint out 326 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: in an ashtray and picked up a pool queue. It 327 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,399 Speaker 1: was his turn. Whatever forward he was playing at, he 328 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,919 Speaker 1: was damn good at cutthroat, and Jim would have to 329 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: really concentrate to keep up. He could do this all day. 330 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: Truth be told, Jim would rather take in a penthouse 331 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: hang session with Willie and the Poor Boys any day 332 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: over what he was actually in Miami for. Jim was 333 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: back in Miami out of obligation. He was there to 334 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: pay the piper, to answer for his actions, to unwillingly 335 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: exit his self constructed fantasy and deal with reality, a 336 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:03,680 Speaker 1: reality that he had a party. The Obscenity trial was here. 337 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 1: He already had one legal win under his belt. The 338 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,479 Speaker 1: federal charges in Phoenix when Jim and Tom Baker had 339 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,440 Speaker 1: harassed flight attendants had been dropped when it was determined 340 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 1: that Tom, not Jim was the primary instigator. But Jim 341 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be able to wriggle away from the Miami 342 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 1: charches as easily. They had him right where they wanted him. 343 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 1: And there were thousands of witnesses at the Miami concert 344 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 1: And even though many of them had dissenting opinions of 345 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,360 Speaker 1: what exactly happened that night, all it would take were 346 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 1: a few brave souls to step up to the box 347 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: and bear witness against the drunk, disorderly, rabble rouser who 348 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: subsisted on fantasy. Jim took a shot and looked around 349 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: the room. He had an idea away out fuck the 350 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,960 Speaker 1: reality of the Miami courtroom. Maybe if he buried his head, 351 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 1: made himself real scarce, made himself into a completely different person, 352 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 1: then maybe the drama would end. Maybe they draw up 353 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: the case forget all about Jim Morrison. He looked at 354 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: Fogerty laughing at the side of the pool table with 355 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: his brother Tom and the other guys in CCR, Stu 356 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: Cook and Doug Clifford. Nearby, he saw Denham flannel mustaches, 357 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: cowboy hat, sunglasses. The whole fucking band looked like four 358 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: guys in witness protection. Jim had an idea. He'd called 359 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: together his own CCR character. He'd get inspiration from the 360 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: four guys in the band, John's flannel, Tom's Denham Stew's glasses, 361 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: Tom's hat. He'd shave his beard and leave the mustache. 362 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: He would be the newest member of CCR. They'd call 363 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: him Buck Harrington. That Buck Harrington man duke could not 364 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 1: sink a pocket shot and cut throat, but he sure 365 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: looked good holding the guitar. It would be like the 366 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: old days with Rick and the Ravens. Jim would hold 367 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,719 Speaker 1: the guitar on stage and strum it, but they wouldn't 368 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: plug him in. He would disappear. Fogerty and the guys 369 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: would love the idea. They'd welcome him with open arms. 370 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: Why not Jim Buck could play in their traveling band. 371 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: He gets stuck in lowd eyes off and has needed 372 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: As long as it Mandy wouldn't have to face a 373 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: jury in the Miami courtroom, and the Miami p D 374 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: would eventually come to the penhouse were at the Fountain Blue. 375 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: When Jim didn't show up to his hotel trial, they 376 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: questioned the guys at CCR. They'd say that they heard 377 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: that one of the last places Jim Morrison I've been 378 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,719 Speaker 1: seeing was with that shooting shipping pool, with Jim Morrison, 379 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: a shitty shooting pool, as they said he was. The 380 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 1: guys had all nervously laugh and say, yeah, for sure, 381 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 1: dude couldn't sink a simple pocket shot to save his life. 382 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 1: But they'd stopped laughing, perhaps a little too quickly, and 383 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 1: say that Jim had only hung out for a few 384 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: hours and then was on his way. The cops would 385 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,400 Speaker 1: walk up the Buck last. They look him up and down, 386 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 1: focusing on his curious mustache, his glasses, his hat. Don't 387 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: we know you from somewhere, They'd ask him. They tapped 388 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,120 Speaker 1: their pens against their pocket notebooks like they were running 389 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: through a portfolio of faces and names in their heads, 390 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 1: trying to place this Buck Harrington. Guy. Buck would just 391 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 1: shake his head, shrug his shoulders. No idea, officers, he responded, 392 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:06,920 Speaker 1: I've never had to run in with the law in 393 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: my life. And the cops would eventually leave, and as 394 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: soon as the penthouse sweet doors slammed shut, the guys 395 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 1: in CCR would all look at each other and bust 396 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: out laughing. Soon the national media would get hold of 397 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 1: the story of Jim Morrison's disappearance, and it would be 398 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: on the nightly news, front page news. The guys in 399 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: the doors would be distraught, but they get over it. Honestly, 400 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: they always found Jim to be more of a liability 401 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: than not, so this would likely be a blessing in disguise. 402 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 1: The charges in Miami would be dropped after a while 403 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: because there was no longer a Jim Morrison to face them. 404 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 1: He would disappear, He would beat reality. He closed his eyes, 405 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: It would be easy. He opened his eyes, and CCR 406 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: were gone. He was no longer standing slouch next to 407 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,119 Speaker 1: a pool table in the penthouse sweet at the Fountain Blue. 408 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: He was sitting in a Miami courtroom where fate was 409 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: about to balance out his good luck in Phoenix would 410 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: some very bad news. He bit in and out of 411 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: this courtroom for over a month. The jury was shown 412 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 1: photos of Jim giving Robbie's guitar head on stage in Miami, 413 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 1: photos of his hands down his pants, photos of his 414 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: belt unbuckled. Jim reclined back in his seat, scanned the 415 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: room with his eyes, and slipped back into CCR of fantasy. 416 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: Over a month Eventually, the jury deliberated, The jury came back, 417 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: the jury had reached their verdict. The gavel came down. 418 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: That woodham wood crack of old school authority, the sound 419 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: of the man of an out of touch generation, of 420 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 1: a stifled bunch of conservatives who got off on harshing 421 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: everyone's mellow. It echoed through the courtroom and snapped Jim 422 00:25:41,560 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 1: out of a day dream. Jim Morrison had just lit 423 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: his cigarette with the roach of his fading joint when 424 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,360 Speaker 1: he saw the breaking news report on TV. As soon 425 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: as he saw the face of Jimmie Hendricks in the 426 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: caption forty two to nineteen seventy, he stubbed out the 427 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: grass and stumbled forward to turn the volume up on 428 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: the TV set. He already couldn't believe what he was seeing, 429 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: but then it was Florida TV. A guy could see 430 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: a lot of unbelievable things on Florida TV. Jim had 431 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: seen a lot of himself on Florida TV in recent months, 432 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: more than he wanted the square Floridians he had sought 433 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 1: to escape from, sought sanctuary from long ago, spoke to 434 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 1: reporters and hoolier than that, tones kids, teenagers, regressing into 435 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: the dismissive ways of an older generation, distancing themselves from 436 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: the incident. They couldn't even bring themselves to describe what 437 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: had happened on that stage. It was just the incident. 438 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: Local and state politicians took to their microphones to condemned deprevity, 439 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 1: preach morality. When you're strange, people come out in the rain. 440 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 1: The whole lot of them would have tarred and feathered 441 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: Jim Morrison if they could have gotten away with it, 442 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: dragged him out into the street, shot him, and aired 443 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: it live on black and white TV sets throughout the nation. 444 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: But now it was time for something completely different. The 445 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: press had a new rock star to fill their air time, 446 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: another musician that they could use to strike sweeping social 447 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: post is about decency. The ABC anchor had interrupted regularly 448 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: scheduled programming to make a special announcement. Jimmie Hendricks was dead. 449 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,439 Speaker 1: The black and white TV flickered the picture and focus, 450 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: but the edges fuzzy and speckled Jimmy's frozen, smiling face. 451 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: The anchor cold and composed cut to the chase. Jimmie 452 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: hendricks experience is over. The acid rock musician died today 453 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: in London a hospital, apparently from an overdose of drugs. 454 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 1: Buck Hendrick's gone guy was light years beyond anyone else 455 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,159 Speaker 1: and only seven, just like Brian Jones the year before, 456 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: same ripe young age. That was strange. Jim tried to 457 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 1: remember the last time he had seen Jimmy. It may 458 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: have been Montreal, and Jim tried to hijack Jimmy stage 459 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 1: for a second time. Jimmy denied him. They all denied him. Janice, 460 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 1: Dennis Wilson, the whole fucking city of Miami, and the 461 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: prosecuting attorney used the conservative public's perception of Jim as 462 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 1: an opportunity to ridicule him during cross examination, get him 463 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: to cop de lude and the sivious behavior, like when 464 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,719 Speaker 1: he got on his knees on the Miami stage and 465 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: pretended to give Robbie head while he's soloed. But Jim 466 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: was onto them. He was onto them all, smug attorney. 467 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: You have seen Robbie Creaker do that solo thousands of times, 468 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: haven't you. Jim could be smug attorney, But you get 469 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 1: down on your knees to study the intricate fingerwork. Jim, Well, 470 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: he gets better all the time. He was quick witted. 471 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: He was smart, not like everybody said that he was dumb. 472 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,240 Speaker 1: He could handle things. The Beatles said this kind of 473 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: ship all the time at press conferences, and they get 474 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: compared to the Marx brothers. But not Jim. He was 475 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 1: stepped over. It wasn't the way he wanted it. When 476 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 1: twenty one year old photographer David Levine took the stand 477 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: to talk about the under exposed photos he captured the 478 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: night of the Miami Show, the prosecuting attorney didn't think 479 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: there were enough to work with, and he wasn't wrong. 480 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 1: Levine had photos of Jim with his hands down his pants, 481 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: and photos of Jim holding the lamb in his arms 482 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: and laughing, but there was no smoking gunshot. Even Jim's 483 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,720 Speaker 1: lawyer knew that already. He had contacted Levin before the 484 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: trial and bought a handful of photos to see what 485 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: the fuss was about. Not much of us, from the 486 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: looks of it, But the prosecuting attorney needed more from Levin, 487 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: so when the photos didn't do the trick, he asked 488 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: Levine about the masturbatory emotions that Jim made on stage, 489 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: asked him to demonstrate for the jury exactly what Jim 490 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: did with his hand. Here was crotch. Levine clenched his 491 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: fist and started to work his wrists down near his 492 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: belt buckle. Lefty lucy, righty tidy. The motion was slow, 493 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: it was subtle, and it was instantly identifiable. Levine blush. 494 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: A few of the jurors gasped, hands covered gaping mouths. 495 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: One of them smirked. Levin kept making the motion and 496 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: looked over at Jim. Jim raised his eyebrows up and down. 497 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: Nostros flared In silently mouthed la la, and Levine's general direction. 498 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: When the jury returned to the Dade County Courthouse, their 499 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 1: verdict was as swift as the trial was sluggish. Guilty 500 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: of open profanity, guilty of indecent exposure, both misdemeanors. On September, 501 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 1: the sentence came down six months hard labor five. Jim 502 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: Morrison was given the right to appeal, which many could 503 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: walk away from this harsh reality and try to come 504 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 1: up with a new game, but things would just get 505 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: even more complicated. He was only delaying the inevitable, pretending 506 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: to think about an appeals process when life and fantasy 507 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: would both get in the way. He would have himself 508 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 1: convinced he wasn't going to jail, and then he convinced 509 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: himself that it wasn't his kid. When Patricia confronted him 510 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: one day to say that she was pregnant, there would 511 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: be more fights, more outbursts, more insane attempts to build 512 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 1: a new reality, and there would be blood. Um, Jake Brennan, 513 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: and this is the seven Club, all right. The seven 514 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 1: Club is scored and co written by myself, Jake Brennan. 515 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: Zef Blundy is the lead writer and editor on the show. 516 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 1: Matt Bowden mixes the show. Additional music and score elements 517 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: by Ryan Spreaker and Henry Linnetta. 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