Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 11, 2005 10:52:54 GMT
This is one of the stories I really love about this guy. He had a really good sense of humour. True as success wore him down he lost that a bit but as Ray rightly says in his critique of Olly Stones Doors movie Jim was NOT a sullen miserable sod always obsessed with death and the dark side. The guy had fun and the guy liked to laugh!
December 31st 1965
The Doors had been booked to play a private New Year party by a friend of the Kriegers and spent most of the time playing requests for the popular songs of the day from those at the party. As they ring the New Year in Jim throws a quarter into the air and catches it in his mouth and swallows it. A toast for The Doors being portrayed as a living Juke box.
From Doors On The Road by Greg Shaw.
I am not sure if any of the other books mention this incident and will have to take a look but its a testament to the guy that he was able to have a laugh at a time when most of The Doors were struggling even to eat let alone get a break with thier music. And it must have been amazing to actually hear them play all the songs of the day at the party.....oh for someone to have had a tape recorder. 1966 saw the Doors get some higher profile gigs like London Fog which led to Whisky, Ondines and The Scene so those early days of playing requests at parties were gone forever but should not be forgotten as this incident is as much a part of Doors history and legend as New Haven, The Whisky or any other.
40 years later little incidents like that tend to be forgotten but they helped define the band and its members so its important fans remember as management only see the 'next little dollar' a line by the way taken from 'Moon Over Alabama' from 'Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny' By Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.....
Show us the way to the next dollar
Don't ask why
For we must find the next little dollar
Or if we don't find the next little dollar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you
I tell you
I tell you we must die
Oh Moon of Alabama
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have dollar or you know why
.......which was rejected by Jim and the other Doors when they did thier interpretation which had been suggested by Dorothy Fujikawa.
Times change sadly.
But nontheless....
What a guy! and what a band!
December 31st 1965
The Doors had been booked to play a private New Year party by a friend of the Kriegers and spent most of the time playing requests for the popular songs of the day from those at the party. As they ring the New Year in Jim throws a quarter into the air and catches it in his mouth and swallows it. A toast for The Doors being portrayed as a living Juke box.
From Doors On The Road by Greg Shaw.
I am not sure if any of the other books mention this incident and will have to take a look but its a testament to the guy that he was able to have a laugh at a time when most of The Doors were struggling even to eat let alone get a break with thier music. And it must have been amazing to actually hear them play all the songs of the day at the party.....oh for someone to have had a tape recorder. 1966 saw the Doors get some higher profile gigs like London Fog which led to Whisky, Ondines and The Scene so those early days of playing requests at parties were gone forever but should not be forgotten as this incident is as much a part of Doors history and legend as New Haven, The Whisky or any other.
40 years later little incidents like that tend to be forgotten but they helped define the band and its members so its important fans remember as management only see the 'next little dollar' a line by the way taken from 'Moon Over Alabama' from 'Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny' By Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.....
Show us the way to the next dollar
Don't ask why
For we must find the next little dollar
Or if we don't find the next little dollar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you
I tell you
I tell you we must die
Oh Moon of Alabama
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have dollar or you know why
.......which was rejected by Jim and the other Doors when they did thier interpretation which had been suggested by Dorothy Fujikawa.
Times change sadly.
But nontheless....
What a guy! and what a band!
