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by Greil Marcus


  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)
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  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

  trial

  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,”

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  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

 

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