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Hey, what would you guys like to hear?
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No, you do something!
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We're over Hollywood Bowl right now.
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And that's where, of course, Judy Garland,
and Leopold Stokowski, and Jan Peerce,
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and Eddie Fisher, when Debbie lets him
out of the house, entertain for many people.
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Of course, they entertain one at a time,
not all at once.
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You know, the Hollywood Bowl, I always say,
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has probably the most diverse set
of musical offerings
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of any major music festival in the world.
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If you go all the way back to the very beginning,
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the Hollywood Bowl was really a very natural site.
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Nestled into a canyon where
a group of people realised, quite by chance,
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that there was a great natural acoustic.
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And they decided that we should use this space.
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And this was not at a very developed time
in Los Angeles history,
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so this is very much on the outside
of what is now Hollywood.
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The Bowl was situated
just at the top of Highland Avenue.
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And in many ways it's situated
as the gateway to Hollywood.
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If you're coming in off the pass,
you come across the Bowl first
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before you get down
into what we now think of as Hollywood,
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with the Chinese Theatre, and the Roosevelt Hotel
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and all the other great landmarks of Hollywood.
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And, I think, when you drive by and you see
the beautiful iconic statue,
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you know that this is a town for artists,
and musicians and actors,
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and it's a place for culture.
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And they did plays, they did Easter Sunrise services,
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they had rallies, they had community meetings,
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they had a production of Twelfth Night.
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Occasional events that took advantage
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of this very natural,
acoustically wonderful, bucolic canyon.
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There was no shell,
there wasn't even permanent seating.
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It was just an open space.
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But a group of those people got together and realised
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that there was something here that could
really be made something permanent,
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something that would be a gift
to the people of Los Angeles.
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And there was a woman, who we really think
of as the mother of the Bowl,
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who was a part of this group of civic leaders
and philanthropists
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who cared so much about the Bowl.
And her name was Artie Mason Carter.
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And she asked the director
of the LA Philharmonic at the time,
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the founder of the LA Philharmonic,
if he would bring the orchestra to perform
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for an Easter Sunrise service, which he did in 1921.
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And that was the first time the Philharmonic
performed on that spot.
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In 1922, the Philharmonic started
an annual summer series of concerts.
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And it's been the home of the Philharmonic
ever since that time.
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The first couple years of the Bowl,
when it was very much used sporadically,
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there wasn't any shell, there was a platform,
a wooden platform and a stage.
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The shell was brought in, I think,
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particularly when the orchestra
was having a regular appearance at the Bowl
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to help with the acoustics
for the musicians on stage.
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But really in the beginning years, the shells
were always intended to be temporary.
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What people might not realise is that
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they were very purposefully designed
to last for one season.
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So that way you'd have a different look every year.
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And they were considered to be temporary structures.
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So the first few changed in shape.
We had an elliptical shape,
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there was a very famous pyramid shape
that Lloyd Wright had designed.
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Eventually settling on a streamlined Moderne style,
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which is the concentric rings
that Allied Architects built.
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And the early shells, from what I understand,
had pros and cons.
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Some of them worked better than others,
some of them helped the acoustics on stage,
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and some of them, perhaps, didn't do quite as well.
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But because they weren't intended to be
permanent, it didn't really matter so to speak.
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The shell was designed
to project the sound out, just that shell.
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Although there's 18,000 seats,
so that's a lot of projection for that shell.
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The whole shape of the Bowl
is like a big speaker, right?
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- Yeah.
- So if you're up in the back,
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- I think you can hear pretty damn good.
- You ever been up there?
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Yeah. I saw Miles Davis there.
I saw the Stones there.
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- You did? Yeah?
- Yeah. Yeah.
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- The Stones?
- Yeah.
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- Yeah?
- With Charlie Watts.
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The Bowl used to have a reflecting pool,
right in front of the stage,
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which had fountains that shot out of it.
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And they would use it in the intermission,
timed to music and to light.
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It was a very iconic component of the Bowl's
architecture for many, many decades.
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They had dancing waters with lights
in between acts and it was, basically,
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to provide a screen
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in between acts so that people
could go onstage and change the set-up.
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And it was very pretty, and it was very nice.
And it actually...
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The sound in the Bowl was better then,
at least to my take,
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because the water took the sound off the stage
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and reflected it up and out. And it was very pretty.
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When we played there, there still was
the big reflection pool in front of the shell.
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And so they covered that
and put a green fake lawn on there.
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So really we were in front of the shell
and we knew water was beneath us,
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which was kind of unnerving
with all that electronic equipment.
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Had Jim really been out of it that night...
I mean, he was on acid that night,
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but had he fallen off stage,
he would have fallen into the water,
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which would've been interesting.
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The Bowl was primarily used for
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the Philharmonic Orchestra
for many, many, many years.
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There was a jazz series fairly early
at the Bowl in the '30s and '40s.
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You had people like Benny Goodman,
Duke Ellington and others
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who would make regular appearances at the Bowl.
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You'd see Count Basie,
innumerable artists, jazz artists.
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What happens is...
The interesting change in the tenor
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is when orchestral music started to be influenced
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by non-orchestral or pop or jazz influences.
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And I think that's when people started to
really take notice about change is in the air.
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I think the most famous example of that
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is when Frank Sinatra performed
with the LA Philharmonic for the first time
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in the early '40s at the Bowl.
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And if you go back and read the L.A. Times
from the week,
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maybe the week prior and the week after that concert,
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just article after article everyday about,
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"Is it okay for Frank Sinatra to perform
with our great orchestra?"
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Because orchestras at that time
didn't perform with people like Frank Sinatra.
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A young jazz singer or pop singer
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couldn't be the soloist
in front of a symphony orchestra.
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As the '60s came in and you started to see
more pop and rock influence generally
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in the culture, I'd say
probably the late '50s is when Dick Clark
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started his rock and roll reviews
at the Hollywood Bowl.
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So in 1958, was the first time Dick Clark
put together a rock and roll review for us.
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And Duane Eddy was the first rock performer
to ever grace the stage
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of the Hollywood Bowl, playing his guitar, of course.
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Since then, things kind of unfolded very quickly.
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If you look back at the ledgers from the early '60s,
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it's all of the great bands
that you would imagine from that period,
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any of the icons that you can think of.
People like Johnny Cash, Ray Charles,
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the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones,
the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix,
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the Grateful Dead, the Byrds and the Kinks.
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All my contemporaries played there,
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Hendrix, and the Dead, and the Beach Boys,
and I was jealous, but I was in awe.
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I wanted to be up there. And I was.
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I think what's really special
about going to concerts at the Bowl,
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and particularly the rock concerts,
is that there's so much energy
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when you're in that very isolated canyon.
You know you're surrounded by the city,
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but at that moment it's just you and the performer.
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Because there's nothing else to distract you.
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People know that there's so much history
that's running through that whole canyon.
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So I know that when performers
tell me that when they play the Bowl
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it feels different to them
than any other venue they've played,
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because they know who else has stood on that stage.
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And they know they're part of a tradition
that's gone back 91 years,
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almost unchanged.
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These iconic moments in music history
have taken place on that very same spot.
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It feels, you know, it's almost a cliché,
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but it feels like hallowed ground for
a lot of performers.
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And I think the audiences feel that, too.
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I think to the Doors, or any artist, playing
the Hollywood Bowl is kind of a goal.
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The Hollywood Bowl was always this
incredible, iconic venue, you know?
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And to think that I would play there
was like, "Whoa," you know?
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How do you get to the Hollywood Bowl?
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You get to the Hollywood Bowl by limo, of course.
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But for us to get there then, we had to get
a number one record,
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and then we had to play a bunch of places,
and then we played Madison Square Garden,
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and up and down the coast,
and started to play all over the country.
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The first gig we ever played
was at the Hughes Aircraft,
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where Ray's mom worked.
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We got the gig, I think it was for
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either a Christmas or Thanksgiving
kind of party they had.
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You know, we had to play jazz standards
and stuff like that.
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And Jim had never...
We had never actually done a gig before.
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Somehow we got through the gig. It was actually fun.
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Back then not a lot people had this going on.
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And so they just stared at us like we were from Mars.
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And no screaming, it wasn't Doors mania.
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It was like, "Whoa. Who are these aliens?
Although, they're interesting.
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"That lead singer, boy, black leather, whoa."
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And they go play high schools,
little gigs, private parties.
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Get $20 and split it four ways.
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The Valley Teen Centre was in the Round.
That was weird.
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We go down to the stage, we get on it,
and then they start up the motor.
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And it starts to slowly turn as we play.
I mean, that's, you know...
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We're already playing music
that's kind of psychedelic.
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And, so, when you finish,
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the stage doesn't necessarily stop
at the aisle you came down.
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So you don't even know where you are.
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You don't need drugs. Play a circle in the Round.
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I do remember playing Las Vegas in an ice rink.
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They covered the ice with plywood or whatever.
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It was so fucking cold in there. Can we say that?
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How can you rock out when you're freezing?
That was odd.
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After a year and a half of rehearsing
in the garage in Venice,
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we got a gig at the London Fog.
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The London Fog was a tiny little hole
in the wall on the Sunset Strip.
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Legendary Doors gig. It's absolutely legendary.
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Rayjust asked all his old film school buddies
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to come out with their girlfriends and friends.
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So that at least their opening night,
they would be packed.
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And we packed it with our friends and got the gig,
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and then no one was there the next night.
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- As tiny as it was and virtually deserted...
- And on the billboard, what did it say?
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The billboard was hysterical.
It was hand-painted on a sheet.
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- Right.
- They had it suspended from a pole.
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- And it said, "The Doors..."
- "Band from Venice."
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"Band from Venice. What else is there to say?
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"There's nothing else to say about them.
This is their first gig."
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- Do we...
- Was it B-A-N-N-E-D or...
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No, no, hardly, yeah, right. It's what... Yeah.
Wouldn't that have been great?
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- Banned from Venice.
- Banned. You can't play in Venice.
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Anything went in Venice.
That was our claim to notoriety.
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We were, in fact, a band from Venice,
Venice Beach, California.
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- You go from the London Fog...
- London Fog.
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- To the Whisky.
- Whisky a Go Go.
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Ronnie Harran booked us into the Whisky a Go Go.
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And thank God she came by, man.
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Yeah, she came down to London Fog and saw us there,
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and immediately fell in love with Jim.
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And a couple of weeks later we were playing
at the Whisky.
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She said, "How would you guys like to be
the house band at the Whisky a Go Go?"
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The three of us go, "Yes!" Jim says, "Hold on."
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He said, "We got to think about it.
Why don't you come back in a day or two,
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"and we'll give you the answer."
She leaves. We attack Morrison.
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"Why you... Goddamnit!" I think we were
even getting fired from the London Fog.
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It was like really serendipity.
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The better angels of ourselves had brought her in.
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"Come on in. You've got to see this band.
You're gonna love the lead singer."
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So we start pummelling Morrison on the arm.
And I said to him,
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"We need the Whisky. That's the Whisky a Go Go.
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"She wants us to be the opening act, the house band.
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"We play one set, the headliner plays,
change the house. We play another set
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- "and the headliner plays."
- "And we get paid."
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"And we get paid union money."
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- We were getting, like, 10 bucks a night.
- Five.
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- Five. Ten bucks on weekend.
- $7.50.
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So Morrison says, "You don't wanna appear
too anxious."
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He said, "I know we need the gig. We'll take the gig.
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"But you don't wanna appear too anxious."
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Two days later she comes back and Jim says,
"Yeah, we talked it over.
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"Wen take the gig."
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A week or two later we were at the Whisky a Go Go.
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And the headliner for our first week there was...
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Didn't he tell her, "We have to look
through our schedule,
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- "but we can probably do it."
- "We'll probably fit it in here
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"because our schedule is empty
for the next 20 years. We have nothing."
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The act that we opened for was Van Morrison.
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Jim Morrison and Van Morrison.
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They were called Them,
of course, we were called the Doors.
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But Van Morrison and Jim Morrison
were on the same stage.
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And our last set, we all jammed together
at the same time.
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- Played Gloria.
- Morrison and Morrison doing Gloria.
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Man, oh, man.
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The next time I saw them they were at,
I believe, it was Ondine in New York City.
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And I noticed an enormous change in Morrison.
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He had developed to his stage presence.
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He was really a performer by then.
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Initially, I just thought, "This guy's
not gonna make it as a performer."
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He just seems too shy.
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He mostly kept his back to the audience,
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and really didn't do that performer thing
of engaging the audience.
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And then Jim gradually got the courage
to turn around and face the audience.
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At first, I thought, "God, he's so introspective.
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"He's just like fooling with the mic cord
and doesn't know what he's doing.
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"And I'm a professional. I've been playing
weddings and Bar Mitzvahs forever."
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At the time, I didn't know
that he was kind of finding his own.
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He wasn't gonna imitate James Brown like
some other singers.
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He was gonna find his snake skin
uniqueness and that gradually evolved.
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Fillmore was good. God, the Fillmore.
Wow, was that fun.
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Psychedelic ballrooms and San Francisco.
Holy cow! The Fillmore and the Avalon.
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Boy, were those fabulous places to play.
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Tripped out audience, and the girls
doing that dancing with their long hair.
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And we'd play The End,
and they would be in seventh heaven.
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That Indian-style thing.
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And they're all dressed
in Indian-styled clothes. They just loved it.
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And the early gigs like that, that sort of,
maybe, second bill in a concert hall,
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just making the jump from clubs.
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I would say for me, that was the most exciting time.
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Because all this work we did was gonna happen.
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"Oh, my God, this train's leaving the station.
This is gonna go, maybe."
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The... The high from that was fantastic.
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Playing giant concerts, the first few times,
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of course, this mass adulation, it's great.
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But that incubation where
the baby's coming out. That's heaven.
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And finally the Hollywood Bowl called in 1968.
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In 1968, they said, "We'd like you to play
the Hollywood Bowl."
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And we said, "Well, by God, let's check our schedule.
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"Yes, I think we can make the Hollywood Bowl."
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For them to score a concert there at the Bowl,
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and for them being a Los Angeles band, it was as if
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they were giving a gift back to the city,
and the city was welcoming them
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and honouring them by allowing them
to appear at the Bowl,
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or inviting them to appear at the Bowl.
So, yeah, it was a big deal.
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I didn't know how prestigious it was
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until I finally started to hear
the conversation around the office.
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I just thought for them, at the beginning,
that it was another concert,
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but when I heard them talk about it...
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They felt as if it was something prestigious,
and something special and important.
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So it was very prestigious.
It was a great place to play.
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A real honour to play the Hollywood Bowl.
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'Cause we were just beat hippies
from Venice Beach, California.
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There we were.
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Looking at this Hollywood Bowl doc now,
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it's like some glorious, psychedelic dream
I had a long time ago.
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And it's real clear, it's in HD and beautiful.
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And I don't know who was playing drums,
but he's good.
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Again, I go back to the emotion
of the Hollywood Bowl.
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That was the fun part.
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Playing the keys with John Densmore,
and Jim Morrison and Robby Krieger.
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Genius Krieger on guitar,
the guy who wrote Light My Fire.
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Morrison and those lyrics.
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God Almighty, those great, great lyrics.
"This is the end, beautiful friend".
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What a time, man.
Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it.
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It was fabulous. It was our youth.
We were in the prime of our youth.
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Never to be, ever again, for this guy.
This body will never do that again.
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But it's always up here, man.
Always up here and right here, you know.
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My guys, my band. Boy, was it fun.
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