Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Apr 5, 2011 21:10:54 GMT
The Lizard King
The Essential Jim Morrison.
Page 18
Jerry Hopkins attended this Paris ’72 show:
##Hopkins says 1973 so I corrected him.
Doors performed at Olympia Theatre (1972). There were many in the 2,000 seat theatre who were in tears, and many who wondered why no one in the band even so much as mentioned Jim that night, or visited the grave the next day. The Doors did not do so, they said later, fearing an unpleasant crowd scene.
At the cemetery there was a crowd, Doors or no Doors. Within days of Jim’s burial, his grave became a pilgrimage site.
So there we have some more confirmation that they did not go in 1972.
This excuse they came out with is just bunkum.
Nothing stopped them going along unnanounced in the early morning. Going there with a blaze of publicity would have started a scramble but they could easily have gone early on and sent someone up to the grave to see that there was not a big crowd there.
Then at least they could have said they tried but too many people there made it impossible for them.
And why would there have been an 'unpleasant' crowd scene?
Perhaps a bit of jostling but unlikely that a riot would have occured.
Simply more waffle from these three who lack the guts to come out and say we were pissed off with Jim so we thought fuck him.
And surely paying tribute to him at the gig would hardly have started a riot.
The Lizard King
The Essential Jim Morrison.
Page 135-36
Jerry Hopkins:
The Doors were another hospital case. While Billy Siddons was now able to find them more bookings, everyone I talked to agreed the relationship between Jim and the others was strained.
Bill Belasco (Producer of un realized film script “St Nicolas”):
“The conflict grew out of the Miami incident, for which they all held Jim responsible and they’d begun to do numbers in their heads that he had runined their careers.
Which I always resented, because they wouldn’t have had careers if it hadn’t been for Jim Morrison.
So we was carrying the whole burden on his back. And they were making it uncomfortable for him, because he made the group. They knew going in he was not responsible by their standards. When the money was rolling in, nobody complained. When things went wrong, caused by that same frenetic personality that made things right earlier, everybody ran away.”
Jim Aubry and others tried to convince Jim to leave the band. It was no secret that Atlantic Records wanted him. MGM Records also wanted Jim, alone and Belasco tried to talk him into the move. “He could’ve made millions alone,” Belasco said. But refused to act. Though he may not have had anything other than his livelihood in common with the other three members of the groups, he remained loyal.
##Aubry was a former CBS TV chief whoonce said 'Jim Morrison is going to be the biggest motion picture star of the next ten years' Bellasco was his assistant.
The Essential Jim Morrison.
Page 18
Jerry Hopkins attended this Paris ’72 show:
##Hopkins says 1973 so I corrected him.
Doors performed at Olympia Theatre (1972). There were many in the 2,000 seat theatre who were in tears, and many who wondered why no one in the band even so much as mentioned Jim that night, or visited the grave the next day. The Doors did not do so, they said later, fearing an unpleasant crowd scene.
At the cemetery there was a crowd, Doors or no Doors. Within days of Jim’s burial, his grave became a pilgrimage site.
So there we have some more confirmation that they did not go in 1972.
This excuse they came out with is just bunkum.
Nothing stopped them going along unnanounced in the early morning. Going there with a blaze of publicity would have started a scramble but they could easily have gone early on and sent someone up to the grave to see that there was not a big crowd there.
Then at least they could have said they tried but too many people there made it impossible for them.
And why would there have been an 'unpleasant' crowd scene?
Perhaps a bit of jostling but unlikely that a riot would have occured.
Simply more waffle from these three who lack the guts to come out and say we were pissed off with Jim so we thought fuck him.
And surely paying tribute to him at the gig would hardly have started a riot.
The Lizard King
The Essential Jim Morrison.
Page 135-36
Jerry Hopkins:
The Doors were another hospital case. While Billy Siddons was now able to find them more bookings, everyone I talked to agreed the relationship between Jim and the others was strained.
Bill Belasco (Producer of un realized film script “St Nicolas”):
“The conflict grew out of the Miami incident, for which they all held Jim responsible and they’d begun to do numbers in their heads that he had runined their careers.
Which I always resented, because they wouldn’t have had careers if it hadn’t been for Jim Morrison.
So we was carrying the whole burden on his back. And they were making it uncomfortable for him, because he made the group. They knew going in he was not responsible by their standards. When the money was rolling in, nobody complained. When things went wrong, caused by that same frenetic personality that made things right earlier, everybody ran away.”
Jim Aubry and others tried to convince Jim to leave the band. It was no secret that Atlantic Records wanted him. MGM Records also wanted Jim, alone and Belasco tried to talk him into the move. “He could’ve made millions alone,” Belasco said. But refused to act. Though he may not have had anything other than his livelihood in common with the other three members of the groups, he remained loyal.
##Aubry was a former CBS TV chief whoonce said 'Jim Morrison is going to be the biggest motion picture star of the next ten years' Bellasco was his assistant.