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[crazyhorse80]

Just stumbled across this on the website fivetoone.tumblr.com, of what they claim is video of Jim participating in a performance of The Living Theatre, which is the troupe that "inspired" his Miami antics. Here's the story regarding this video, copied and and pasted from the website:


From THE LIVING THEATRE: ART, EXILE AND OUTRAGE by John Tytell (Grove Press, 1995):

“Doors singer Jim Morrison and poet Michael McClure actively participated in performances of Paradise Now at the [San Francisco Bay Area’s] Nourse Auditorium…. McClure brought Morrison to visit at [Lawrence] Ferlinghetti’s office. Julian [Beck, of the Living Theatre] was on and off the telephone to New York, frantically worried about the money to get the troupe back to Europe where engagements has been scheduled. Quietly, Morrison offered to assist with money.

“Morrison–who had read Artaud and Ginsberg in college–saw himself as a revolutionary figure. Agreeing that repression was the chief social evil in America and the cause of a general pathology, he was typical of the sectors of support The Living Theatre had received in America. His long improvisational song ‘When the Music’s Over’ was a basic statement of apocalypse. Another of his songs proclaims, as inParadise Now, ‘We want the world, and we want it now.’ Morrison had seen every performance in Los Angeles and followed the company up to San Francisco.

“On the day after his visit with McClure, Jim Morrison have Julian twenty-five hundred dollars for the trip home…”.


Here's the link to the video, and Jim is supposedly seen around the 4:19 mark:

Jim in The Living Theatre

Also, thought I'd mention there is suggestive material in the video, and it could be considered R-Rated, for those with prudish eyes...

[Encuentro]

crazyhorse80, on 03 March 2012 - 02:54 PM, said:

Just stumbled across this on the website fivetoone.tumblr.com, of what they claim is video of Jim participating in a performance of The Living Theatre, which is the troupe that "inspired" his Miami antics. Here's the story regarding this video, copied and and pasted from the website:


From THE LIVING THEATRE: ART, EXILE AND OUTRAGE by John Tytell (Grove Press, 1995):

“Doors singer Jim Morrison and poet Michael McClure actively participated in performances of Paradise Now at the [San Francisco Bay Area’s] Nourse Auditorium…. McClure brought Morrison to visit at [Lawrence] Ferlinghetti’s office. Julian [Beck, of the Living Theatre] was on and off the telephone to New York, frantically worried about the money to get the troupe back to Europe where engagements has been scheduled. Quietly, Morrison offered to assist with money.

“Morrison–who had read Artaud and Ginsberg in college–saw himself as a revolutionary figure. Agreeing that repression was the chief social evil in America and the cause of a general pathology, he was typical of the sectors of support The Living Theatre had received in America. His long improvisational song ‘When the Music’s Over’ was a basic statement of apocalypse. Another of his songs proclaims, as inParadise Now, ‘We want the world, and we want it now.’ Morrison had seen every performance in Los Angeles and followed the company up to San Francisco.

“On the day after his visit with McClure, Jim Morrison have Julian twenty-five hundred dollars for the trip home…”.


Here's the link to the video, and Jim is supposedly seen around the 4:19 mark:

Jim in The Living Theatre

Also, thought I'd mention there is suggestive material in the video, and it could be considered R-Rated, for those with prudish eyes...

It looks like Jim, but it's hard to tell. I paused the video at the 4:19, and I still can't be sure. The video is so dark. It could be anybody.

[Silver Forest]

Encuentro, on 03 March 2012 - 04:07 PM, said:

It looks like Jim, but it's hard to tell. I paused the video at the 4:19, and I still can't be sure. The video is so dark. It could be anybody.

Yes, it looks like him. It seems there's even his well known necklace. Interesting stuff.

[Hamlet]

where is he?

I only see a lot of people shouting they can´t take their gear off, and then do exactly this.

[Encuentro]

Hamlet, on 03 March 2012 - 05:46 PM, said:

where is he?

I only see a lot of people shouting they can´t take their gear off, and then do exactly this.

Pause the video at the 4:19 mark. In the middle, slightly to the right, you will see somebody who looks like Jim.

Edited by Encuentro, 03 March 2012 - 08:06 PM.

[daniel@falaschi.net]

That´s not Jim Morrison.

[Just Another Dark Witness]

Looks a little like Jim, but I don't think it's him, either. Everyone back then looked like Jim! Lol... Especially in the dark, shirtless, that age,etc. Lotsa people had that type hair. I was there. I remember it pretty well. And how come no one has ever said that Jim did at least one performance with these guys? I don't think he would do that. He was too big a star, too cool and all that. He would have silently watched from the wings, knowing Jim. Hey, doesn't mean I'm right though. Could be him, I just doubt it is-

[Hamlet]

Well, it´s not Jim if it is the performance the day before Miami, b/c he was bearded then.

[hilts]

I don't believe its Jim either.

[lizard_jim]

One thing its clear for me I HATE the Living theatre

[jymwrite]

Hamlet, on 04 March 2012 - 10:20 AM, said:

Well, it´s not Jim if it is the performance the day before Miami, b/c he was bearded then.

Definitely! I think some biographer would have noted if Jim was onstage with The Living Theatre as a participant. Maybe even the Living Theatre itself would have thrown it in their history or something.

[sammy]

well it sure does look like him, but like somebody said, he was bearded at the time.  wasn't the living theatre "audience participation".  they could talk, stand up, participate as they saw fit?  he could have done it, but i don't ever remember hearing that he went back to see them

[icewood]

Wasn't Jim, in addition to being bearded, slightly heavier at this point than the gentleman in this clip?  Doesn't look that much like him.