On 6 June 1970, The Doors played the Vancouver PNE Arena in Vancouver, BC, and as two onstage microphones captured the performance on a reel-to-reel tape recorder, the band churned out a mostly blues-soaked set, during which they were joined by guitar legend Albert King on four songs.
It was a classic skirmish of the 1960s culture war, pitting a nonconformist rock star and his bohemian fans against clean-cut defenders of acceptable behavior, the counterculture against the mainstream, and Jim Morrison against Anita Bryant.
Now the governor of Florida says he will seek to put an end to it by pursuing a posthumous pardon for two criminal convictions that Morrison, the frontman for the Doors, received after some very bad behavior at a 1969 concert in Miami.
EDITOR'S NOTE: STEPHEN DAVIS IS THE AUTHOR OF THE BIOGRAPHY JIM MORRISON: LIFE, DEATH, LEGEND (2004). HIS NEW BOOK IS LZ-'75: THE LOST CHRONICLES OF LED ZEPPELIN'S 1975 AMERICAN TOUR (BOTH FROM GOTHAM).
(CNN)—︎Jim Morrison has been dead for 40 years, but he's still causing trouble.
More than 40 years after Jim Morrison was convicted of indecent exposure and profanity for his behavior at a Florida rock concert the Doors’ front man is once again drawing headlines for that event, at Miami’s Dinner Key Auditorium on March 1, 1969, following remarks by Florida’s outgoing governor, Charlie Crist, that he was “willing to look into” a pardon for Morrison before his term expires in January.
(CNN)— The charismatic but unpredictable lead singer of American rock band The Doors could be about to receive a posthumous pardon almost 40 years after being convicted of exposing himself on stage.
JIM MORRISON COULD BE GRANTED A POSTHUMOUS PARDON 40 YEARS AFTER HIS CONVICTION FOR INDECENT EXPOSURE, COURTESY OF OUTGOING FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST.
RAY MANZAREK THE FORMER DOORS KEYBOARDIST TALKS TO EOIN BUTLER RECALLS JAMMING WITH JIM—AND VAN—MORRISON
You're coming to Dublin to play the Grand Canal Theatre this month. What can fans expect?Basically, it's going to be a five-man rock'n'roll band with new lead singer, backed by the Lombard Philharmonia Orchestra, playing all of The Doors biggest songs. It's going to be a tremendous wall of sound, I hope.
JIM MORRISON'S BOUTS WITH SEX, DRUGS AND BOOZE TAKE CENTRE STAGE IN A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE DOORS, NARRATED BY JOHNNY DEPP.
Anyone considering a documentary about The Doors might understandably focus on their charismatic singer Jim Morrison and his wayward, exasperating behaviour. Yet by the end of Tom DiCillo’s When You’re Strange (narrated by Johnny Depp), one wanted to hear more from his three tolerant, patient colleagues—drummer John Densmore, keyboards player Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger. They must have wanted to throttle Morrison, and especially his monstrous alter ego ’Jimbo.’
Jim Morrison liked to brag about his fast-lane lifestyle. “I’m gonna get my kicks before the whole s – – thouse goes up in flames,” he was fond of saying.
Turns out his body was the s – – thouse. And like an arsonist in leather pants, he burned it to the last cinder, a spectacle that nobody close to him enjoyed watching.
Here, listen to this, while a naked Indian tells you all about this house in Laurel Canyon where Jim Morrison once lived with his girlfriend Pamela Courson. Rothdell Trail is the "Love Street" of the same-named Doors song.
The three bedroom, one and three-quarter bathroom house, built in 1922, sits right behind the Canyon Country Store and comes furnished "with custom pieces designed for this home." The listing also mentions the "distressed floors, Iron fixtures, open beam ceilings," an "outdoor gym" (bit of a stretch there), and the "outdoor shower, located on the upper terrace" (with mature trees to block your bathing).
