1969-March-1 (Saturday) The Doors Dinner Key Auditorium Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida Disc 1 - 56.59 1 Jim's Intro > .55 2 Backdoor Man > 'Love My Ass' > 6.13 3 Five To One (w/ 'A Bunch Of Slaves') 8.14 4 "I'm Talkin About Love" (talking) .47 5 Touch Me (attempt) 1.28 6 Love Me Two Times 3.17 7 When The Music's Over > 5.42 8 Jim Speaks About Change > 8.23 Away In India > 9 Jim Talks To The Audience > 8.32 When The Music's Over 10 Celebration Of The Lizard > 1.22 11 Light My Fire 10.44 12 'I Wanna See Some Action - No Limits No Laws' 1.15 First show of the 1969 US tour Notes that came with this recording: Lineage: Audience Recording (Master reel) > 8-track tape > Greg Shaw's DAT > maggie7's DAT > CDR > Flac Original uploader Maggie7 added: "Recieved this from greg Shaw as a copy of the master tape in the late 80's. He mentioned that this source was the one used during the trial." First torrented at Trader's Den on January 23, 2007 According to the legend, there used to be a hippie who used to tape all the shows at Thee Image and venues of the late-60's, the same guy taped this show on reel to reel near the front of the stage and sold 8-track cartridges of the show. The show on the original master ends with a Miami-Dade officer telling people to get off the stage while the Italian bootleg CD fades out at the end of "Light My Fire", the audience tape goes on for at least another 5 minutes. There are two possible sources of this show due to two different transfers made from the master reel. One is an 8-track tape and the other is a cassette. Unfortunately the 8-track sourced tapes have some drop-outs through the recording (misses 18 seconds from 'When The Music's Over') while the cassette transfer is clean of this. The bootleg LP 'Miami 69' (Living Theatre Records ) was released from a copy of a copy of the cassette transfer and therefore a bit more complete and without drop-outs and all tracks are intact. Reportedly the LP starts 5 seconds earlier, hearing more harmonica before 'Backdoor Man' during Jim's intro. There are three offending tracks - according to Dime rules - on this recording, which has been released as two on 'Boot Yer Butt' (a collection of live recordings from various bootlegs issued in 2003). Two, over one minute segments of Jim's rapping which here means Track 4, 5 and 12. In all, a little bit more than three minutes that's not included here from the 57 min long recording. Buda TEXTS Excerpt taken from the book, 'Break On Through' p. 285-286: "The inner turmoil driving Jim Morrison began to peak in early 1969. The tremendous frustration he was feeling toward his art became more and more dominating until it dictated many of his actions. The release he had always felt before being onstage was becoming one of increasing anger toward the audience. In concert now he would often shout obscenities at the girls in the audience. Backstage, he sometimes demanded oral sex from groupies no matter who else was present. The fans had given him the platform from which he thought he would be able to do so much and now he believed they were making a mockery of it. As the cumulative effects of years of drinking began to take hold, Morrison couldn't see that it was he who had made himself a clown. It was his drinking and his refusal to take responsibility for what The Doors had become that prevented things from turning around. It was he who had embraced the sex symbol role and now it was he who was rebelling against it." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt taken fr the Interactive Chronological History of Doors at www.doorshistory.com: "The Dinner Key is a converted seaplane hanger with rafters and a rickety old stage. The University of Miami originally wanted to hold the event at the Convention Hall but Ken and Jim Collier of Three Image Productions offer the band more money to play the hangar. This show is for the students who when polled by the school newspaper, The Hurricane, overwhelmingly chose The Doors as the band they would most like to see. The hall is designed to hold 7,000 and the official count for the show was over 12,000, almost double the capacity! (not counting the hundreds who crawled in second floor windows after scaling the walls) The promoters took out the chairs in the hall in an attempt to cram more people in and make more money for themselves and this upset the manager of The Doors, Bill Siddons, who was guaranteed $25,000 based on the hall having a $42,000 maximum but was not given a percentage deal as the promoters took in over $75,000. They had upped the scale without upping The Doors fee. Arguments go on for over an hour while all await Jim's arrival. Ultimately, Siddons considers taking the equipment off the stage and not playing at all! "We had one guy stationed at every door and we had thirteen thousand people in that building and that didn't include the people who got in when my guys were thrown off the door. You ever seen sardines in a can? They have a lot of room compared to what that place was like that night." - Bill Siddons, Doors Manager "When Siddons reminded the promoters that this wasn't in the contract the promoters said, 'What are you gonna do about it?' Bill threatened to take the equipment and leave and the promoter said, 'You think you're gonna get this equipment outta here? You're gonna play this show.' Here's the band's brand-new equipment and a hall full of shouting people and the promoter is holding a gun to our heads." - Vince Treanor, Doors Technician/ Road Manager There are also over 2,000 fans outside pounding the walls and trying to get into the hall which is already bursting at the seams on what turned out to be the hottest night of the summer with no air conditioning and little circulation. The place is sweltering and full of angry faces broiling in the suffocating summer heat waiting for a rock concert they so dearly want but by now the mood has turned from excitement and intrigue to exhaustion and disgust - then Morrison shows up, drunk for even his standards! Bearded and wearing a leather hat adorned with a skull and crossbones, Jim finally arrives, obvious to everyone at first glance, drunk off his ass! Jim then gets ushered to the stage but decides to take his own sweet time while sizing up the crowd. He teases the already angry crowd by waiting through intro after intro of "Break On Through" and drinking on the side of the stage. People are beginning to move around becoming more restless and raising the already unbearable heat. The crowd tries to make the best of the situation but it's all too much. By this time, the rafters below the roof are full of guys who have climbed up to get some fresh air and a better look as the whole place is packed with people smeared wall to wall, top to bottom, and then Jim Morrison takes the stage! Billy Hadley, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Regarding the case which evolved from the night... Under the pressure of the court case, as well as the burden of Patricia's abortion, Jim wrote a message to his fans, which doubtlessly also served as a cheering up to his own psyche, and which was published in several American magazines as a reader's letter: "It's a matter of demolishing experience, just a question of gathering up all fragments into one zone of awareness, then pulverizing them sufficiently to expel from the system through its tiny doors, leaving behind the mind stripped bare, devastated and stark as ground zero. You got to have the balls to lace your own network with it; let the risk illuminate your own fluids. Look at these capillaries! Lit up like emerald peacock feathers! You gotta hook your brain fibre on the spike of a distant star and let it stretch you at the receding speed of the primal explosion. All the way, brothers and sisters, to the breaking point, and pray for a glimpse before the tissue tears. The extension of the human mind, the structure of technology squats on the surface area of collective consciousness. Get out from under the antientropic plumbing; become not just the source of energy but the receiving substance as well. Rediscover selfprogramming! It's more than likely that a little self-abuse will be necessary to bruise away the dependence on bad habits. A little hootch, a little cootch, even a bloody brawl will keep you tainted in the understanding of Pilate's apostles and off their provendor menu. Keep yourself honest until the day you got the karmic warhead primed and can explode in their faces, leaving them gasping around mouthfuls of powdered teeth. For now, take it as a delight to be nothing more than a stab of flesh with the total mathematical content of a pleasure quotient. Use your brain as an instrument for appreciating sensual input with its developed intricacies only as experiments in methods of acquiring more and better pleasure. Enough keeps the mythology erect - too much brings it down and through the floor. Ache on through to the other side! Kill the image! Create the essence! Never forget: the cockcunt and the brain are just opposite ends of the same organ." (Jim Morrison, 1969) Jim turned himself in to the FBI in Los Angeles on April 4, 1969. On Nov 9, 1969 he entered a not guilty plea in Miami. The trial did not start until Aug 12, 1970. Max Fink was Jim's defense lawyer, the prosecuter was Terrence McWilliams and Judge Murray Goodman presided over the case. Much evidence was heard from witnesses for both sides. Most of it was contradictory. On the court also more than 400 photos were also examined and not one contained even part of their theory. The whole case really was a pile of shit... nowadays this bollocks would have been laughed out of court if that was the best the prosecution could come up with. On September 20, 1970 the jury found Jim Morrison guilty on the misdemeanor charges of indecent exposure and profanity. He was found not guilty on the felony charge and the misdemeanor for drunkenness. He was released on a $50,000 bond and returned to Miami on October 30, 1970 for sentencing. Judge Goodman sentenced Jim to six months of hard labor and a $500 fine for public exposure and sixty days of hard labor for profanity. The sentences would run concurrently. He would be eligible for release after two months and would be on probation for two years and four months. His lawyer filed an immediate appeal. Until the appeal could be heard, Jim would be free on the $50,000 bond. ..and here's some suggestions and facts taken from everywhere.. Jackie Gleason and Ms. Florida Orange Juice becoming a rallying point for the "decent Americans" was one of the evilest elements to arise from Miami in a societal sense. People had just begun to loosen up and the "powers that be at the time" saw fit to use this band as a staging ground to stop the groundswell of alternative lifestyles and try to get everyone to take a step backwards or a different direction, as though, they, were so damn moral, and as so many men were dying in Viet Nam. A Travesty! Jim did expose how a bunch of wankers ran his home states judiciary... Judge Goodman ended up under arrest for corruption and the crazy woman on the prosecution side Ellen Morphonios ended up as a nut case judge 'Maximum' Morphonios (nicknamed The Time Machine by the crooks) who once sentenced a robber to 1,197 yrs in prison after he urinated on the courtroom floor.