Janet Jackson wrote:
> Pink Floyd. Jimi Hendrix. The Doors -- indeed, Ken, there's a band I'd like
> to have seen.
>
You might not have wanted The Doors the way I saw them: wasted at a
promotional concert for a radio station back in June 1967. Whole lot of
big names: Canned Heat (barf), Janis Ian, Havens, etc., etc., and then
The Doors. John Densmore, their former drummer, wrote about the evening
years later. He validated the rumor mill that had been spinning for
years. Jim Morrison was trying to come down off a 3-day acid trip. He
proceeded to level off by drinking an entire bottle of whiskey. THEN he
went out and performed. "The End" was quite unlike anything you think
you've ever heard. Morrison brought a rather skewed sensibility to
what's already a psychodrama. Memorable...I guess so.
Ken
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