40th Ann JM Memorial Huntington Beach July 3 2011

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The Rock and Roll Emporium Celebrates the 40th Anniversary Memorial of Jim Morrison Starting July 3, 2011




Huntington Beach, CA, June 25, 2011 --(PR.com)-- The Rock and Roll Emporium is celebrating the life and art of Jim Morrison starting on the 40th anniversary of his death with a memorial event featuring an extensive exhibit of rare artifacts spanning Morrison’s entire career as a poet, artist and musician. The celebration starts Sunday July 3rd 2011 at The Rock and Roll Emporium 205 Main Street in Huntington Beach, CA 92648.

“With 2011 being the 40th anniversary of the death of Jim Morrison, we wanted to host a memorial celebration of his music, life and legacy,” said Andrew Kirby, managing partner of The Rock and Roll Emporium. “We’ve gathered artifacts from the very beginning of his career as a film student to hand-written poems including one of the first songs he wrote while living on a rooftop in Venice Beach, to a collection of more than 400 rare historic photographs. This is a great chance to own a piece of history from one of the most notable and iconic bands to come out of Southern California.”

Some of the key artifacts for sale in the exhibit are: the Original Bail Bond sheet signed by The Doors' lead singer, "James Douglas Morrison" from his arrest on suspicion of indecent exposure during a concert at Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami's Coconut Grove section in 1969; rare photographs by Ron, Raffaelli, Henry Diltz and Joel Brodsky; rare concert posters, gold records, autographed items, original tribute artwork; and original poetry written in Jim Morrison’s hand including the lyrics to the song "Moonlight Drive" from The Doors' second album called "Strange Days" which was released in October 1967.

The Celebration starts July 3rd with the unveiling of the Moonlight Drive Lyrics and continues with a candle lighting at Surf City Nights Tuesday July 5th. The RARE Gallery is also planning an appearance by noted photographer and close friend of Morrison, Frank Lisciandro in the Fall, date to be announced.

The Rock and Roll Emporium is a leading resource for Rock and Roll Memorabilia, Guitars and Gifts and is a major attraction Orange County, CA. The Gallery has collected vintage guitars, authentic autographed guitars; drum heads, photos, collectibles and rock 'n' roll-inspired apparel and accessories from many of the best-known and respected artists in the world.

For more information on the event, call 714-960-4040.

The Rock and Roll Emporium
Kate Kirby
714-960-4040
[e-mail]
www.therockandrollemporium.com


County Seek Missing Papers On Jim Morrison Arrest
The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinet
July 1991


Miami - A Dade County Circuit Court administrator has asked for a police investigation into the disappearance of 43 documents from the court file detailing the 1969 obsenity arrest of the late rock star Jim Morrison.

The investigation was sparked when the original bail bond sheet signed 22 years ago in Miami by The Doors' lead singer, "James Douglas Morrison" sold for $15,950 at a Sotheby's New York acution house in June.

"I'm pretty sure the documents were stolen from our files,: said Dade Clerk of the Courts Marshall Ader, who reported the theft to Miami and Metro-Dade police last month.

Ader said he wants the FBI to investigate the case. Miami and Metro-Dade police do not have any authority in New York.

The bond sheet stems from Morrison's arrest on suspicion of indecent exposure during a concert at Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami's Coconut Grove section. If it is authentic, it had to come from the Dade case files and Adler wants it back.

After hearing of the auction, court officials looked in the Morrison file and discovered the disappearane of 42 other items, including photographs, transcripts and other court filings.

A spokesman for Sotheby's in New York could not be reached for comment.

Ader says he has no idea who may have pilftered the documents from the file, now lept in the county's archives.

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Entertainment Weekly Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 1991 | Published in issue #81 Aug 30, 1991

THE HARD (ROCK) SELL
By Bob Cannon

An unopened Beatles' Yesterday and Today album brought in $301 at a Philadelphia Beatles convention in 1976. The same album today is listed in collectors' guides at $4,500. Just why are rock artifacts such a booming business? ''Our strategy of collecting made the market happen,'' claims Stephen Routhier, vice president of memorabilia and display for the Hard Rock Cafe, the outfit that must share in the responsibility for sending prices of rock relics sky-high. Bolstered by a $2 million spending frenzy in 1986 and '87, the Hard Rock has gathered more than 10,000 rock artifacts for display at its 22 clubs. Routhier says, ''We were getting (a grand majority of really good stuff) at considerably less than what it costs now.'' And what might that price be? Jimi Hendrix's platinum album award for Are You Experienced? sold for $2,600 at a Sotheby's New York auction in June. That same day a 1970 postcard from John Lennon to his son Julian brought a whopping $3,250. Boy George's dreadlocks reside at the Hard Rock in Singapore. Price in 1987: $600. Here are some more jaw-dropping prices from recent Sotheby's auctions: * Grateful Dead autographed drum head (list price $35): $300 * Elvis Presley autographed 40-inch-by-40-inch stage scarf: $800 * Madonna's signed bustier: $9,900 * Jim Morrison's 1969 bail bond from Dade County, Fla.: $14,000

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Miami Herald

Posted on Wed, Mar. 01, 2006

Whereabouts Of Court Papers From Trial Remain A Mystery


Whereabouts of court papers from trial remain a mysteryFor years, a Miami-Dade court official searched for missing court papers related to Jim Morrison's 1969 criminal case, but to this day the disappeared documents remain a mystery.

BY LUISA YANEZ

Twenty years after Jim Morrison's 1971 death, a Miami-Dade court records clerk made a disturbing discovery:

Forty-two pieces of paper from the singer's criminal file -- including his signed bail bonds and his arrest record -- were missing. The documents had been pilfered, but exactly when and by whom remains a mystery to this day.


The theft came to light in 1991 when Sotheby's in New York announced an upcoming auction. Among the rock collectibles on sale: one of Morrison's Miami-Dade bail bonds.


Who gave Sotheby's the stamped original? Were other Morrison documents being auctioned?


Enter Gordon Winslow, the clerk's historian and archivist. Winslow made it a personal crusade to recover the documents. He reported the Sotheby's sale to local police, but the auction house's attorneys maintained that it did not have a stolen item -- and thus could sell it. Someone paid $15,900 for the bail bond.


Winslow began his own sleuthing. A strong lead pointed him to Danny Sugerman, a Door's insider who co-wrote two Morrison books, No One Here Gets Out Alive (1980) and The Doors: The Illustrated History (1983). Sugerman was the last person to check out Morrison's court file before the records vanished, the probe showed.His signature is the last on the Morrison file's sign-out sheet prior to the discovery of the theft. Records cannot be removed from the reading room.
''He is the prime suspect,'' said Winslow, who sent Sugerman a certified letter in 1992 demanding the item back. Sugerman didn't respond. He died last year. A spokesman for Sugerman said he did not know of such documents.

William Siddons, the Doors former manager, said Sugerman took valuable Morrison documents from his garage. ''He ripped me off too,'' said Siddons, who said he owns Morrison's copy of one of the bail bonds. ''Someone offered me $5,000 for it. I said no.'' Today, Winslow holds little hope of recovering the Morrison documents. ''They're gone, sold to private collectors,'' said Winslow, now retired.
Today, anyone viewing the remaining three boxes of Morrison trial files -- permanently stored at a records center in West Miami-Dade -- does it under the watchful eye of a clerk.

Miami Herald researcher Paul Hodges contributed to this report.

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Published: June 29, 2011
Updated: 6:46 p.m.
H.B. Shop Opens ‘Doors' to Jim Morrison Memorial
By SEAN GREENE
FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER



When Jim Morrison won gold records for his music, he used to smash them.
Or play Frisbee with them, or try to play them on the record player.

That's the story Andrew Kirby, co-owner of Huntington Beach's Rock and Roll Emporium, tells about the two awards for the Doors' second and fifth records, Strange Days and Morrison Hotel.
"It's unusual to find them intact," he said.

On Tuesday, the emporium will celebrate the Lizard King's life, days after the 40th anniversary of his death on July 3, 1971.
Instead of its regular table at Surf City Nights in downtown, the emporium will rope off a rare bust of Jim Morrison in a candle lighting event from 5 to 9 p.m. Visitors can sign a memory book to tell how the Doors influenced their lives in addition to viewing other Morrison artifacts.

The memorial is timed to coincide with the media attention Morrison's death will undoubtedly receive with a celebration of his life and his art, the emporium's owners said.

"We want to celebrate the memorial aspects," Kirby said. "If we were to do it on (the anniversary), it would be like we were celebrating his death."



The gold records, along with handwritten poetry by Morrison, candid photographic prints, and original artwork, now engulf much of the wall space in the small rock 'n' roll gallery on Main Street.
But the crown jewel of the exhibition is the original paper on which Morrison scrawled out the lyrics Moonlight Drive on the roof of his Venice home, co-owner Kate Kirby said.

The Kirbys decided to create the display when Doors collectors told them they were traveling to Paris, where Morrison is buried, for the anniversary. Former Doors members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger will perform there to kick off a world tour.

In Southern California, however, there will be no such celebration.
The emporium has been collecting Doors memorabilia for several years in anticipation of the anniversary.

Kate Kirby said other than the lyrics and poetry, her favorite artifact on display is an original bail bond from his infamous indecent exposure arrest after a Miami concert in 1969. Last year, the governor of Florida pardoned Morrison of the alleged crime.
The Rock and Roll Emporium opened in 2004, collecting and selling rock 'n' roll memorabilia, clothing and records.

In the past, the shop has premiered a never-before-seen collection of candid photographs of the Beatles, celebrated the 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's Rainbow Bridge album and held a 20-year memorial of John Lennon's assassination. The Kirbys also host the work of numerous local artists and photographers once a month.

The emporium hasn't always been so focused on the art of rock 'n' roll, however.



For about six months in 2006, the shop carried and later sold a few strands of Elvis Presley's hair in a gold-gilded frame with a towel and photograph. It even came with a hefty set of DNA paperwork certifying authenticity.

"At that point we decided we wanted to be more about the music and less about the body parts," Kate Kirby said.

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