Break on through : the life and death of Jim Morrison by Riordan James 1949- & Prochnicky Jerry

Author:Riordan, James, 1949- & Prochnicky, Jerry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Morrison, Jim, 1943-1971, Rock musicians
Publisher: New York : Morrow
Published: 1991-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

BREAK ON THROUGH

decided that a special rider should be a*ttache T d to all performance contracts involving the group. Bill Siddons remembers breaking the news to the band: "This group of men sent out a letter saying that The Doors were troublemakers and that, if in the judgment of the hall manager, the content of the performances was immoral, indecent, or illegal, the show would be ended immediately. So the promoters had to do a lot of pushing and fighting to get us into the halls. They had to give a personal guarantee that if anything happens, they, the promoters, would be solely responsible for it."

At this time the band's accountants advised them that they were also in a crisis situation over "Feast of Friends," the title they had decided to call their documentary (after a line in "When The Music's Over"). Some thirty thousand dollars had already been spent on the project, but there was still a great deal of editing to do and none of the planned fictional sequences had been filmed. While Morrison was satisfied with the progress, the other Doors were worried that the film was turning into another white elephant along the lines of "The Celebration of the Lizard." Frank Lisciandro recounts what happened: "Robby, John, and Ray pulled the plug because the accountant had a bottom-line mentality about it. We were in the middle of the editing process. Paul [Ferrara] and I went to see Jim, who was staying at one of his infamous small motels somewhere. We said, 'What's going on? We're in the middle of this project, we've got most of it filmed, what are we gonna do?' He said, 'Don't worry about it. Just keep working. I'll take care of it.'"

A compromise was reached. Plans for additional filming were dropped and Ferrara and Lisciandro agreed to work without salary. The Doors put up the four thousand still needed to complete the editing and lab work. Morrison later described the situation to Rolling Stone: "In conception, it was a very small crew following us around for three or four months in a lot of concerts, culminating in the Hollywood Bowl. Then the group went to Europe on a short tour and while we were there, Frank and Paul, the editor and photographer, started hacking it together. We returned, we looked at the rough cut and showed it to people. No one liked it very much and a lot of people were ready to abandon the project. I was almost of that opinion, too. But Frank and Paul wanted a chance, so we let them."

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