It's time for an update! Since the last, we've added a great number of new materials and information to our pages, and we're ready to share them with our viewers! This time around we're pleased to feature an additional poetry notebook, photographs, concert materials and reviews, and loads of new information!
The newest Jim Morrison poetry notebook, dubbed the King Script Notebook, is featured in our Poetry Books & Publications section, courtesy of Angela Bucchi Silvers, who also provided us with the extremely rare photograph of Jim Morrison performing with Eric Burdon and Blues Image at the Whisky A Go Go in 1969, an original print from the personal collection of Mike Pinera, Blues Image guitarist! We'd like to give a very special thanks to Angela and Mike for their contributions of these exclusive items to the MildEquator site!
Our concert items include a brand new first-hand review by Jim Lindstrom at the California State College show on October 6th, 1967! Along with that, we have a wealth of new materials and info throughout the concert pages, such as a major expansion of information about The Doors return to New York in 1967 to perform at Ondine, and the cancelled Cleveland 1969 concert! Along with our interest in the performance history of The Doors, we also strive to provide a factual studio history filled with recording dates and other information, and we're incredibly pleased to tell our viewers that an empty tape box from the recording of Love Street has surfaced, giving us a couple of the March/April 1968 recording dates for that song! These recording dates are exclusive to MildEquator.com and we'd like to give a very special thanks to the owner of the tape box who came forth to let us know about them!
See below for all the latest, and don't forget to keep checking back for more as we always have something new in the works!
In July of 1969, Jim Morrison begins writing Ode to L.A. while thinking Of Brian Jones, Deceased in what is known as the King Script Notebook, following the death of Brian Jones on July 3rd. Later in 1970, the notebook disappears from Jim Morrison's satchel and comes into the possession of Peggy Green, who auctions off the book in 1996. This original 6" x 9" notebook features seven pages of writings and two pages of drawings, and is the original source material for the Ode To L.A. pamphlets printed and distributed at The Doors Aquarius Theater performances on July 21st, 1969. Also included are lyrical passages to an unfinished musical piece known as Queen Of The Magazines.
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JIM MORRISON AT THE WHISKY A GO GO 1969
Contributed By: Angela Bucchi Silvers & Mike Pinera
On May 3rd or 4th, 1969 Jim Morrison is in attendance with Eric Burdon of The Animals at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles to see Miami band Blues Image perform. The duo are asked to join the group on stage for a jam, and a closeup photograph of Jim Morrison and Mike Pinera of Blues Image is taken by an unknown photographer. In 2024, an incredibly rare surviving print from the collection of Mike Pinera is delivered to longtime friend Angela Bucchi Silvers. MildEquator.com would like to give a very special thanks to Angela and Mike Pinera for an exclusive showing of this original photograph right here in our galleries!
"I was at The Doors concert at Cal State LA in '67. As this page states, it was held in the gym. Not the most comfortable venue. But we were kids and it was great! It was one of those moments where your life takes a turn. Somehow, to my hearing, the music was superior to the recorded versions, but nothing could compete with the spectacle of Morrison--reading poetry, tossing pages to the floor as he went, leaning over and gazing at Robby's guitar playing. I don't know how long they had gone on, but it must have been close to lights out, when I looked to my left and there through the doors came my dad--chinos, loafers, crew cut--and the look on his face was the pure expression of "what the hell is going on here?" The band was in the middle of a never end in this lifetime version of Soul Kitchen, Morrison was laying on his back on the stage thrashing around like he was having a rock 'n roll seizure, the plump little girl in the plastic see through dress looked like she was about to commit nasties on the lizard king's body right then and there at the foot of the stage, and there I was--14 years old, sitting in the bleachers and thinking "This is the best time I've ever had! I gotta do a lot more of this! And where do I get some weed?!"
