At PublicAffairs I was privileged to work, again, with my editor Clive Priddle, publisher Susan Weinberg, Melissa Raymond, Jessica Campbell, Tessa Shanks, all-seeing production manager Christine Marra, copy-editor and fact-checker Gray Cutler (what errors remain are not hers), Jane Raese and Pete Garceau for their spare and clean designs, indexer Donna Riggs, and, at Faber & Faber, again, with my editor Lee Brack-stone, Helen Francis, Anna Pallai, and Ruth Atkins. Wendy Weil of the Wendy Weil Agency, with Emily Forland and Emma Patterson, and their associates Anthony Goff and Georgia Glover at the David Higham Agency in London, always make life easier.
This book began with nights my wife Jenny and I spent at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, waiting for the Doors to come on. We took handbills on the way out, and for some reason, over five houses in forty-four years, they never disappeared.
Illustration Credits
p. v: © Larry Miller
p. 11: Illustration by Erik T. Johnson
p. 45: Photo by Peak
p. 74: Photo by Herb Greene, 1965
p. 77: Poster design by Dennis Loren
p. 84: Photo by Tabitha King
p. 85: Photo by George Rodriguez
p. 101: Illustration by Reynold Brown
p. 138: © Tate, London, 2011 and © 2011 Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, licensed by DACS/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
p. 140: © Estate of Wallace Berman
p. 188: Jacket cover © 1984 Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc. from The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross MacDonald. Used by permission of Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
Endpapers: © Family Dog 1967—© Rhino Entertainment 2008, artist Victor Moscoso, www.victormoscoso.com
Index
Albums and songs are credited by recording artist; books by author; art works by artist; films by director and/or referenced principal. Albums and songs not credited are by the Doors.
“Alabama Song (WhiskyBar),”
“All Your Love” (Bluesbreakers)
Allen, Joan
Alloway, Lawrence
Altamont
Ambler, Eric
Arnold, Gina
“Auguries of Innocence” (Blake)
Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco
Babitz, Eve
on Jim Morrison
on Oliver Stone
“Baby Please Don’t Go” (Them)
“Baby What You Want Me to Do” (Presley)
“Back Door Man,”
Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara)
“Bad Romance” (Lady Gaga)
Baker, Chet
Baker, Tom
“Ball and Chain” (Big Brother and the Holding Company)
Band, The
Barks, Carl
Barry, Dave
Batman Forever (Kilmer)
Beach Boys
Beatles
Begley, Ed
Beiderbecke, Bix
Benjamin, Walter
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Berman, Wallace
art
iPhone/iTunes commercials and
Berry, Chuck
“No Money Down,”
other songs
“Big Black Train” (Golden Chords)
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Big Fix, The (Simon)
“Big Two-Hearted River” (Hemingway)
Bill Haley and the Comets
Bishop, Larry
Blade Runner (Scott)
Blonde on Blonde (Dylan)
“Blowin’ in the Wind” (Dylan)
“Bo Diddley” (Diddley)
Boot Yer Butt!
Botnick, Bruce
“Break on Through (To the Other Side),”
Brecht, Bertolt
Bringing It All Back Home (Dylan)
Brooks, Harvey
Brooks, Louise
Buffalo Springfield
“Buick ‘59” (Medallions)
Bukowski, Charles
“Bullfrog Blues,”
Busby Berkeley chorus line
Byrds
Cain, James M.
Camus
Captain Beefheart
Catch-22 (Heller)
“Cease to Exist” (“Never Learn Not to Love”) (Beach Boys/Manson)
“Celebration of the Lizard,”
Chandler, Raymond
Charles, Ray
Chet Baker Sings
Churchill, Winston
Circle Jerks
Clapton, Eric
Clear Light
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Clutter family murders
“Come on in My Kitchen” (Johnson)
Conner, Bruce
Cooke, Sam
Cortázar, Julio
Costello, Elvis
Courson, Pamela
Crash, Darby
Crawdaddy! (magazine)
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
Crist, Charlie
Crowley, Aleister
“Crystal Ship, The,”
Cult
Dallas performance (December 1970)
Damiano, Gerard
Dead Man (movie)
Dean, James
DeLillo, Don
Dennis, Ty
Densmore, John
beginning of The Doors
Doors, The (movie) and
on Morrison/Doors
reforming the band and (2003)
Riders on the Storm (book)
Detour (Ulmer)
Dick Tracy
Diddley, Bo
Dillon, Kevin
DiMartino, Dave
Diski, Jenny
“Do the Clam” (Presley)
Donahue, Tom
Doors, The
art and
death and music
fine art tradition and
myths and
name of band
original band members
popularity
popularity in Europe
reforming the band (2003)
Shaw on mood of songs
songs on radio today
Doors, The (album)
about
KMPX radio
Morrison on
Doors, The (Stone/Kilmer)
about
actors playing band members
ads for
description
“End, The” performance at Whisky à Go Go
fire concert
making “Light My Fire,”
reviews
Douglas, K.C.
Dutschke, Rudi
Dyer, Geoff
Dylan, Bob
Ed Sullivan Show, The
Masked and Anonymous (Charles/Dylan)
“Easy Ride,”
Ed Sullivan Show, The
Eddie and the Cruisers (Davidson/Paré)
Eichler houses
Electric Prunes
Eliminator (ZZ Top)
Elvis is Back! (Presley)
“Emöke” (Škvorecký)
“End, The,”
Densmore
Doors, The
Doors, The (Stone)
Krieger
Manzarek
Morrison
Whisky à Go Go, Sunset Strip
“End of the Night,”
Blake and
Densmore
Krieger
Manzarek
Morrison
“Endless Sleep” (Reynolds)
Every Mother’s Son
Everything You Know Is Wrong (Firesign Theatre)
Faber, Manny
Faithfull, Marianne
“Fall on You” (Moby Grape)
Family, The: The Story of Charles Manson’s Dune Buggy Attack Battalion (Sanders)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson)
Feliciano, Jose
Ferrara, Abel
“Fever,”
Fiedler, Leslie
Fine Disregard, A: What Makes Modern Art Modern (Varnedoe)
Fingers (Toback/Keitel)
Firesign Theatre
“Five to One,”
Fogerty, John
Folger, Abigail
“For What It’s Worth” (Buffalo Springfield)
Ford, Harrison
Ford, Tennessee Ernie
400 Blows, The (Truffaut)
“409” (Beach Boys)
Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The (Dylan)
Fromme, Squeaky
Frykowski, Voytek
Fukuyama, Francis
Fulsom, Lowell
“Fun, Fun, Fun” (Beach Boys)
Germs
Get Shorty (Keitel)
Gibbons, Billy
“Gimmie Shelter” (Rolling Stones)
Gingrich, Newt
Ginsberg, Allen
“Gloria”
beginning of The Doors and
Densmore
Doors
Jim Morrison
Krieger
Manzarek
other groups and
Van Morrison
Going After Cacciato (O’Brien)
Golden Chords
Gopnik, Adam
Gordon, Kim
“Got Me Under Pressure” (ZZ Top)
Graham, Bill
Grateful Dead
Great Jones Street (DeLillo)
Great Society
Grosz, George
“Guantanamera,”
Guston, Philip
Guthrie, Woody
“Gypsy Woman” (Impressions)
Hamilton, Richard
Haynes, Todd
“Heartbreak Hotel” (Presley)
Heller, Joseph
“HelloLove You,”
demo version
Krieger and
Hemingway, Ernest
Henley, Don
“Heroin” (Velvet Underground)
Herriman, George
“Hey, Soul Sister” (Train)
Highway 61 Revisited (Dylan)
Höch, Hannah
Holbrook, Hal
Honolulu (April 1970)
Hopkins, Jerry
Hopscotch (Cortázar)
Howlin’ Wolf
Hubbard, L. Ron
Huelsenbeck, Richard
Hunter, Meredith
Huxley, Aldous
“I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” (Electric Prunes)
I Was a Rich Man’s Plaything (Paolozzi) (photo)
Ice Storm, The (Lee/Allen/ Maguire)
“If I Lose, I Don’t Care” (Poole)
Ike and Tina Turner
“I’m a Man,”
Impressions
“In the Midnight Hour” (Pickett/Doors/Them/ Quicksilver Messenger Service/Grateful Dead/ Jefferson Airplane)
Independent Group
Inherent Vice (Pynchon)
Innocent, The (McEwan)
Isley Brothers
“I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)” (Redding)
“I’ve Got Dreams to Remember” (Redding)
Ives, Charles
Jagger, Mick
James, Skip
Jan and Dean
Janco, Marcel
Jarmusch, Jim
Jefferson Airplane
Jess
Jim and the Lords
Johnson, Robert
Jolson, Al
Jones, Christopher
Joplin, Janis
Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (Hamilton)
Keitel, Harvey
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kerri, Shawn
KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Festival
Kilmer, Val
Doors, The (movie)
other movies
in Top Secret!
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kite (Rauschenberg)
KMPX, San Francisco
Kooper, Al
Krazy Kat comic strip
Krieger, Robby
Detroit concert (1970)
Doors, The (movie) and
on Doors/Morrison
Morrison on
reforming the band (2003)
Kunstler, James Howard
“L.A. Woman,”
Krieger
Morrison
Pynchon’s Inherent Vice and
L.A. Woman
producer
release
LaBianca, Rosemary/Leno
Lady Gaga
Landau, John
Lead Belly
Leaves
Lennon, John
Lenya, Lotte
Lerner, Max
“Let’s Spend the Night Together” (Rolling Stones)
Lewis, Jerry Lee
Lichtenstein, Roy
Life of Byron Jaynes, The (Kunstler)
“Light My Fire,”
“Light My Fire”/Ed Sullivan Show, The
Densmore
Doors, The (Stone)
Krieger
lyrics and
Manzarek
Morrison
“Light My Fire”/making
Densmore
Krieger
Manzarek
Morrison
Little Richard
London Fog club, Los Angeles
Loose Jam (Wilson)
Lost Highway (Lynch)
“Love Hides,”
Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965–1970 (album)
“Love Me Two Times,”
Lovecraft, H.P.
Lubahn, Douglas
Macdonald, Ross/books
Mack, Lonnie
MacLachlan, Kyle
Madsen, Michael
Maguire, Tobey
Mailer, Norman
Malcolm X
Manson, Charles/murders
Doors music and
effects on society
music and
Neil Young and
Woodstock and
Manzarek, Jim
Manzarek, Ray
beginning of The Doors
Doors, The (Stone) and
reforming the band (2003)
San Francisco concert (January 1967)
singing in place of Morrison
Manzarek, Rick
Martin, Dean
Martin, Sara
Marvelettes
Masked and Anonymous (Charles/Dylan)
Mathis, Samantha
Matrix
“Maybellene” (Berry)
McEwan, Ian
Mean Streets (Scorsese/Keitel)
Medallions
“Memphis” (Berry/Mack)
“Mercury Blues” (Douglas)
Miami (1969) concert/Morrison exposing himself
Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek on
Doors, The (Stone)
felony charges/banning of Doors
pardon for Morrison
Mildred Pierce (Cain/Haynes)
Miller, Larry
“Miss Amanda Jones” (Rolling Stones)
Moby Grape
Monterey Pop Festival (1967)
Moon, Keith
“Moonlight Drive,”
Morrison, Jim
on alcohol vs. drugs
arrest in New Haven (1967)
beginning of The Doors
Boot Yer Butt!
death
description (1970)
on Doors concerts
on Doors songs/lyrics
Presley and
Presley comparison
Rolling Stone interview
San Francisco concert (January 1967)
Morrison, Van
Morrison Hotel
Moyle, Allan
Muddy Waters
Music from Big Pink (The Band)
“My Eyes Have Seen You,”
“My Favorite Things,”
“My Funny Valentine,”
“My Head’s in Mississippi” (ZZ Top)
“My Wild Love,”
&nbs
p; “Mystery Train”
Elvis and
Morrison/Presley comparison on
Parker and
“Mystery Train”/Doors
Morrison after Redding’s death
“Never Learn Not to Love” (“Cease to Exist”) (Beach Boys/Manson)
Nixon, Richard
“No Money Down” (Berry)
No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Biography of Jim Morrison (Hopkins and Sugerman)
“No Particular Place to Go” (Berry)
“Not to Touch the Earth,”
Oar (Spence)
Obama, Barack
O’Brien, Tim
Ochs, Phil
“Ohio” (Crosby Stills Nash & Young)
“Omaha” (Moby Grape)
“One Night” (Presley)
Ono, Yoko
“Pain in My Heart” (Redding)
Paolozzi, Eduardo
I Was a Rich Man’s Plaything (photo)
Intimate Confessions (photo)
Paré, Michael
Parent, Steven
Parker, Junior
Parsons, John
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Payola
“People Are Strange,”
Krieger
Morrison
Rothchild
Performance (Roeg/Cammell/ Jagger)
Pickett, Wilson
Pleasantville (Ross/Allen/ Macguire)
“Please Mr. Postman” (Marvelettes)
Polanski, Roman
Pollock, Jackson
Pollock (Kilmer)
Poole, Charlie
Pop art
cheap songs and
High and Low Museum of Modern Art, New York (1990)
Paolozzi/Berry examples
Pompidou Center, Paris (2001)
popularity of shows
songs
transient vs. lasting art
Potter, Dennis
President Elect (Rosenquist)
Presley, Elvis
Pryor, Richard
Pump Up the Volume (Moyle) description
Pynchon, Thomas
“Queen of the Highway,”
Densmore
Manzarek
Morrison
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Rauschenberg, Robert