‘He Was So Different From Anybody Else’: Robby Krieger Talks About Jim Morrison and The Doors In His New Memoir
- by David Chiu
Guitar legend Robby Krieger wants to set the record straight about one of the most infamous moments surrounding his former band the Doors: the accusation that singer Jim Morrison exposed himself to the audience at a Doors concert in Miami in March 1969.
That alleged gesture prompted criminal charges against Morrison and the cancellation of 15 tour dates for the band.
A jury at Morrison's trial the following year found him guilty of indecent exposure and he was sentenced to six months in prison; the singer, who was free on bond, died in Paris in 1971 as he was appealing the verdict. (In 2010, Morrison received a posthumous pardon from the Florida clemency board).
