Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Mar 14, 2023 17:43:10 GMT
New Haven Connecticut 9th December 1967
One of the most dissected Doors concert in their career as Jim Morrison gets arrested on stage in the full glare of legendary Vietnam War photographer Tim Page who records the action on film.
A day after his turning 24 the cops over react to Jim baiting them proving having them there is the problem rather than Jim Morrison.
They make total idiots out of themselves and have to lie and invent charges to try and not lose face.
Tim Page actually posted a few times on this Scorpywag forum on the NH thread in Trials & Tribulations section which was a pleasant surprise to me to see Scorpywag was read by someone of his stature.
Pity we could not get an interview with him about New Haven.
‘ In the middle of the FIRST song he stops and tells the audience what just happened’.
That line from idiot Tom DiCillos 2010 so called documentary annoys the fuck out of me.
This is not at all a true representation of what happened that night in New Haven. It was during the 5th song WTMO and he cleverly weaves into the song his 'little blue man' rap in the same way he would intersperse poetry into it.
It's not as if this was some kind of secret if I knew it surely someone could have corrected DiCillo.
It's an important moment in Doors History and not some throwaway shit like Mr Mojo Fucking Risin.
For the bands own documentary to get this wrong is an insult to themselves and their fans. To me this is the worst documentary on The Doors I have ever seen. Yes there were some pretty pictures but the tale told by Johnny Depp makes Braveheart look like a documentary.
### My critique of When Your Strange is on the film section
Adorning posters and T Shirts the famous poster from the gig with the wrong date.
There are posters and other New Haven memorabilia with the 8th slapped on them.
Surely it wasn't that difficult to find out when it was happening or had happened.
At least the ticket had the correct date.
11-12-1967
Bridgeport Post CT
11-12-1967
The Yale Daily News CT
11-12-1967
The New London Day CT
"On December 9, 1967, the Doors were scheduled to play a concert in New Haven, Connecticut. Jim Morrison had turned 24 years of age the day before. His birthday had not been a joyous occasion because the Doors concert on December 8 in Troy, New York had been a huge disappointment.
The Troy crowd did not respond well to Jim Morrison and the applause after the concert died quickly. In fact, there was no encore at this concert. The Doors departed quickly and Jim decided to take a limo all the way back to New York city instead of taking the plane. Jim was depressed and hoped that New Haven would be more receptive the next night.
The New Haven crowd seemed to be waiting in anxious anticipation of something special about to happen. Policemen provided security at the show and they lined the hallways making sure that no one could get backstage. Before the show started, Jim met a local college girl. He wanted to talk to her in private and they located a shower stall near the dressing room. Shortly after entering the stall, the young couple began making out. At this point a police officer happened upon the scene. He failed to recognize Jim as the lead singer of the Doors and ordered him and the girl to clear out. Jim refused to move. The officer repeated the order and Jim again refused, telling the officer, "Eat it!" The officer withdrew his can of mace and offered Jim one last chance. Jim responded, "Last chance to eat it!" The officer now lost his patience and fired the mace directly into Jim's face.
Jim screamed in pain from the effects of the mace. He stumbled down the hall to the dressing room with tears streaming down his face. The Doors manager Bill Siddons informed the police just who it was they maced. The officer who maced Jim, explained he hadn't known who Jim was but he still wanted to arrest him. Siddons, fearing a riot if the star attraction was hauled off to jail, pleaded with the police to let Jim take the stage. The police relented and Jim and the officer apologized to each other. Before long the Doors hit the stage. The crowd was very enthusiastic in New Haven. Jim responded by moving and jumping about the stage. The crowd was going wild and shouting along with Jim as he screamed the lyrics to "When The Music's Over." They excitedly applauded Jim's every move onstage. The last song of the night was "Backdoor Man." During the instrumental break, Jim started talking to the crowd. Policemen lined the stage and the areas just offstage. Jim began telling the people how he met a girl prior to the concert. He continued on...
"We started talking and we wanted some privacy and so we went into this shower room. We weren't doing anything you know. Just standing there and talking. And then this little man came in there, this little man in a little blue suit and a little blue cap. And he said, "What ya' doin' there?" "Nothing." But he didn't go away. He stood there. And then he reached 'round behind him and he brought out this little black can of somethin'. Looked like shaving cream, and then he sprayed it in my eyes. I was blinded for about thirty minutes."
After this speech, Jim returned to singing the song when the lights suddenly came on. Jim asked that the lights be turned off. In a matter of seconds, Jim was flanked by two policemen. Jim offered the microphone to Lt. Kelly so he could say his thing. At this point, Ray Manzarek approached Jim. Just then, the officer grabbed the mike and the two officers started dragging Jim off the stage. The police said the concert was over and everyone was to go home. On this night, Jim Morrison had taunted and embarrassed the police. The police weren't going to stand for it. They chose to flaunt their authority by arresting Jim and making a scene. Once they had Jim out of the view of the audience, they proceeded to punch and kick him repeatedly before throwing him into a cruiser and bringing him to the station.
According to the official police report, Jim was arrested when he began using vile and filthy language while relating a sexually explicit story. This was totally false information. The police said they arrested Jim when they began receiving complaints from people in the audience. It was obvious though that the police were angry and embarrassed, so they arrested jim on trumped-up charges. It is amazing to compare the official police report to eye-witness testimony. The police allege that Jim was arrested for an indecent performance yet it is clear that he was simply telling a truthful story to the audience. Jim said nothing that was sexually obscene. The police allege Jim resisted arrest. There are plenty of witnesses who saw the police beat Jim and yet Jim did not even fight back. This charge was invented to justify the injuries that were inflicted upon Jim.
Jim Morrison had become the first rock star to be arrested while on-stage, yet the police had no grounds upon which to lay charges. They could not admit in their report that he was arrested because he had embarrassed them. They clearly invented these charges and it would be obvious to the most casual observer. The only fabric of truth in their report was a reference to the girl in the shower stall. Charges were eventually dropped but it proved to foreshadow trouble yet to come. It made Jim Morrison noticeable to the authorities and this would become painfully obvious in Miami.
Jim never forgot the New Haven incident. Recollections of the bust echo in the song, "Peace Frog" in the line, "Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven." It would appear that strange days had finally tracked Jim Morrison down."
HBB.
11-12-1967
Press Democrat Santa Rosa CA
11-12-1967
11-12-1967
Meriden Record Journal CT
12th December 1967
Hartford Courant CT
One of the most dissected Doors concert in their career as Jim Morrison gets arrested on stage in the full glare of legendary Vietnam War photographer Tim Page who records the action on film.
A day after his turning 24 the cops over react to Jim baiting them proving having them there is the problem rather than Jim Morrison.
They make total idiots out of themselves and have to lie and invent charges to try and not lose face.
Tim Page actually posted a few times on this Scorpywag forum on the NH thread in Trials & Tribulations section which was a pleasant surprise to me to see Scorpywag was read by someone of his stature.
Pity we could not get an interview with him about New Haven.
‘ In the middle of the FIRST song he stops and tells the audience what just happened’.
That line from idiot Tom DiCillos 2010 so called documentary annoys the fuck out of me.
This is not at all a true representation of what happened that night in New Haven. It was during the 5th song WTMO and he cleverly weaves into the song his 'little blue man' rap in the same way he would intersperse poetry into it.
It's not as if this was some kind of secret if I knew it surely someone could have corrected DiCillo.
It's an important moment in Doors History and not some throwaway shit like Mr Mojo Fucking Risin.
For the bands own documentary to get this wrong is an insult to themselves and their fans. To me this is the worst documentary on The Doors I have ever seen. Yes there were some pretty pictures but the tale told by Johnny Depp makes Braveheart look like a documentary.
### My critique of When Your Strange is on the film section
Adorning posters and T Shirts the famous poster from the gig with the wrong date.
There are posters and other New Haven memorabilia with the 8th slapped on them.
Surely it wasn't that difficult to find out when it was happening or had happened.
At least the ticket had the correct date.
11-12-1967
Bridgeport Post CT
11-12-1967
The Yale Daily News CT
11-12-1967
The New London Day CT
"On December 9, 1967, the Doors were scheduled to play a concert in New Haven, Connecticut. Jim Morrison had turned 24 years of age the day before. His birthday had not been a joyous occasion because the Doors concert on December 8 in Troy, New York had been a huge disappointment.
The Troy crowd did not respond well to Jim Morrison and the applause after the concert died quickly. In fact, there was no encore at this concert. The Doors departed quickly and Jim decided to take a limo all the way back to New York city instead of taking the plane. Jim was depressed and hoped that New Haven would be more receptive the next night.
The New Haven crowd seemed to be waiting in anxious anticipation of something special about to happen. Policemen provided security at the show and they lined the hallways making sure that no one could get backstage. Before the show started, Jim met a local college girl. He wanted to talk to her in private and they located a shower stall near the dressing room. Shortly after entering the stall, the young couple began making out. At this point a police officer happened upon the scene. He failed to recognize Jim as the lead singer of the Doors and ordered him and the girl to clear out. Jim refused to move. The officer repeated the order and Jim again refused, telling the officer, "Eat it!" The officer withdrew his can of mace and offered Jim one last chance. Jim responded, "Last chance to eat it!" The officer now lost his patience and fired the mace directly into Jim's face.
Jim screamed in pain from the effects of the mace. He stumbled down the hall to the dressing room with tears streaming down his face. The Doors manager Bill Siddons informed the police just who it was they maced. The officer who maced Jim, explained he hadn't known who Jim was but he still wanted to arrest him. Siddons, fearing a riot if the star attraction was hauled off to jail, pleaded with the police to let Jim take the stage. The police relented and Jim and the officer apologized to each other. Before long the Doors hit the stage. The crowd was very enthusiastic in New Haven. Jim responded by moving and jumping about the stage. The crowd was going wild and shouting along with Jim as he screamed the lyrics to "When The Music's Over." They excitedly applauded Jim's every move onstage. The last song of the night was "Backdoor Man." During the instrumental break, Jim started talking to the crowd. Policemen lined the stage and the areas just offstage. Jim began telling the people how he met a girl prior to the concert. He continued on...
"We started talking and we wanted some privacy and so we went into this shower room. We weren't doing anything you know. Just standing there and talking. And then this little man came in there, this little man in a little blue suit and a little blue cap. And he said, "What ya' doin' there?" "Nothing." But he didn't go away. He stood there. And then he reached 'round behind him and he brought out this little black can of somethin'. Looked like shaving cream, and then he sprayed it in my eyes. I was blinded for about thirty minutes."
After this speech, Jim returned to singing the song when the lights suddenly came on. Jim asked that the lights be turned off. In a matter of seconds, Jim was flanked by two policemen. Jim offered the microphone to Lt. Kelly so he could say his thing. At this point, Ray Manzarek approached Jim. Just then, the officer grabbed the mike and the two officers started dragging Jim off the stage. The police said the concert was over and everyone was to go home. On this night, Jim Morrison had taunted and embarrassed the police. The police weren't going to stand for it. They chose to flaunt their authority by arresting Jim and making a scene. Once they had Jim out of the view of the audience, they proceeded to punch and kick him repeatedly before throwing him into a cruiser and bringing him to the station.
According to the official police report, Jim was arrested when he began using vile and filthy language while relating a sexually explicit story. This was totally false information. The police said they arrested Jim when they began receiving complaints from people in the audience. It was obvious though that the police were angry and embarrassed, so they arrested jim on trumped-up charges. It is amazing to compare the official police report to eye-witness testimony. The police allege that Jim was arrested for an indecent performance yet it is clear that he was simply telling a truthful story to the audience. Jim said nothing that was sexually obscene. The police allege Jim resisted arrest. There are plenty of witnesses who saw the police beat Jim and yet Jim did not even fight back. This charge was invented to justify the injuries that were inflicted upon Jim.
Jim Morrison had become the first rock star to be arrested while on-stage, yet the police had no grounds upon which to lay charges. They could not admit in their report that he was arrested because he had embarrassed them. They clearly invented these charges and it would be obvious to the most casual observer. The only fabric of truth in their report was a reference to the girl in the shower stall. Charges were eventually dropped but it proved to foreshadow trouble yet to come. It made Jim Morrison noticeable to the authorities and this would become painfully obvious in Miami.
Jim never forgot the New Haven incident. Recollections of the bust echo in the song, "Peace Frog" in the line, "Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven." It would appear that strange days had finally tracked Jim Morrison down."
HBB.
11-12-1967
Press Democrat Santa Rosa CA
11-12-1967
11-12-1967
Meriden Record Journal CT
12th December 1967
Hartford Courant CT
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