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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:03,546 --> 00:00:04,923 Hey, what would you guys like to hear? 2 00:00:15,517 --> 00:00:17,060 No, you do something! 3 00:00:29,113 --> 00:00:31,991 We're over Hollywood Bowl right now. 4 00:00:32,075 --> 00:00:37,080 And that's where, of course, Judy Garland, and Leopold Stokowski, and Jan Peerce, 5 00:00:37,121 --> 00:00:41,334 and Eddie Fisher, when Debbie lets him out of the house, entertain for many people. 6 00:00:41,417 --> 00:00:43,753 Of course, they entertain one at a time, not all at once. 7 00:00:44,587 --> 00:00:46,256 You know, the Hollywood Bowl, I always say, 8 00:00:46,297 --> 00:00:49,634 has probably the most diverse set of musical offerings 9 00:00:49,676 --> 00:00:52,220 of any major music festival in the world. 10 00:00:53,471 --> 00:00:56,432 If you go all the way back to the very beginning, 11 00:00:56,474 --> 00:01:00,270 the Hollywood Bowl was really a very natural site. 12 00:01:00,311 --> 00:01:04,983 Nestled into a canyon where a group of people realised, quite by chance, 13 00:01:05,024 --> 00:01:07,151 that there was a great natural acoustic. 14 00:01:07,694 --> 00:01:09,904 And they decided that we should use this space. 15 00:01:09,988 --> 00:01:13,491 And this was not at a very developed time in Los Angeles history, 16 00:01:13,533 --> 00:01:16,786 so this is very much on the outside of what is now Hollywood. 17 00:01:16,828 --> 00:01:20,123 The Bowl was situated just at the top of Highland Avenue. 18 00:01:20,164 --> 00:01:23,084 And in many ways it's situated as the gateway to Hollywood. 19 00:01:23,167 --> 00:01:26,671 If you're coming in off the pass, you come across the Bowl first 20 00:01:26,754 --> 00:01:29,257 before you get down into what we now think of as Hollywood, 21 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:32,051 with the Chinese Theatre, and the Roosevelt Hotel 22 00:01:32,135 --> 00:01:34,095 and all the other great landmarks of Hollywood. 23 00:01:34,178 --> 00:01:37,849 And, I think, when you drive by and you see the beautiful iconic statue, 24 00:01:37,890 --> 00:01:41,686 you know that this is a town for artists, and musicians and actors, 25 00:01:41,728 --> 00:01:43,354 and it's a place for culture. 26 00:01:44,397 --> 00:01:48,026 And they did plays, they did Easter Sunrise services, 27 00:01:48,067 --> 00:01:50,570 they had rallies, they had community meetings, 28 00:01:50,653 --> 00:01:53,531 they had a production of Twelfth Night. 29 00:01:53,615 --> 00:01:55,825 Occasional events that took advantage 30 00:01:55,867 --> 00:02:01,539 of this very natural, acoustically wonderful, bucolic canyon. 31 00:02:01,581 --> 00:02:04,042 There was no shell, there wasn't even permanent seating. 32 00:02:04,083 --> 00:02:06,502 It was just an open space. 33 00:02:06,544 --> 00:02:09,088 But a group of those people got together and realised 34 00:02:09,172 --> 00:02:12,967 that there was something here that could really be made something permanent, 35 00:02:13,051 --> 00:02:15,553 something that would be a gift to the people of Los Angeles. 36 00:02:15,595 --> 00:02:18,389 And there was a woman, who we really think of as the mother of the Bowl, 37 00:02:18,473 --> 00:02:22,018 who was a part of this group of civic leaders and philanthropists 38 00:02:22,060 --> 00:02:25,897 who cared so much about the Bowl. And her name was Artie Mason Carter. 39 00:02:25,980 --> 00:02:29,233 And she asked the director of the LA Philharmonic at the time, 40 00:02:29,275 --> 00:02:33,071 the founder of the LA Philharmonic, if he would bring the orchestra to perform 41 00:02:33,112 --> 00:02:35,948 for an Easter Sunrise service, which he did in 1921. 42 00:02:36,032 --> 00:02:39,702 And that was the first time the Philharmonic performed on that spot. 43 00:02:39,744 --> 00:02:45,083 In 1922, the Philharmonic started an annual summer series of concerts. 44 00:02:45,166 --> 00:02:48,336 And it's been the home of the Philharmonic ever since that time. 45 00:02:48,419 --> 00:02:51,756 The first couple years of the Bowl, when it was very much used sporadically, 46 00:02:51,798 --> 00:02:55,843 there wasn't any shell, there was a platform, a wooden platform and a stage. 47 00:02:55,927 --> 00:02:57,679 The shell was brought in, I think, 48 00:02:57,762 --> 00:03:01,307 particularly when the orchestra was having a regular appearance at the Bowl 49 00:03:01,391 --> 00:03:05,103 to help with the acoustics for the musicians on stage. 50 00:03:05,186 --> 00:03:08,940 But really in the beginning years, the shells were always intended to be temporary. 51 00:03:09,023 --> 00:03:11,109 What people might not realise is that 52 00:03:11,150 --> 00:03:13,903 they were very purposefully designed to last for one season. 53 00:03:13,945 --> 00:03:17,156 So that way you'd have a different look every year. 54 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,576 And they were considered to be temporary structures. 55 00:03:20,618 --> 00:03:25,289 So the first few changed in shape. We had an elliptical shape, 56 00:03:25,373 --> 00:03:28,668 there was a very famous pyramid shape that Lloyd Wright had designed. 57 00:03:28,793 --> 00:03:32,588 Eventually settling on a streamlined Moderne style, 58 00:03:32,630 --> 00:03:36,259 which is the concentric rings that Allied Architects built. 59 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:39,303 And the early shells, from what I understand, had pros and cons. 60 00:03:39,345 --> 00:03:42,890 Some of them worked better than others, some of them helped the acoustics on stage, 61 00:03:42,974 --> 00:03:45,560 and some of them, perhaps, didn't do quite as well. 62 00:03:45,643 --> 00:03:49,605 But because they weren't intended to be permanent, it didn't really matter so to speak. 63 00:03:51,357 --> 00:03:57,572 The shell was designed to project the sound out, just that shell. 64 00:03:57,655 --> 00:04:03,995 Although there's 18,000 seats, so that's a lot of projection for that shell. 65 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,165 The whole shape of the Bowl is like a big speaker, right? 66 00:04:07,206 --> 00:04:08,416 - Yeah. - So if you're up in the back, 67 00:04:08,499 --> 00:04:10,877 - I think you can hear pretty damn good. - You ever been up there? 68 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,338 Yeah. I saw Miles Davis there. I saw the Stones there. 69 00:04:14,422 --> 00:04:16,632 - You did? Yeah? - Yeah. Yeah. 70 00:04:16,674 --> 00:04:18,092 - The Stones? - Yeah. 71 00:04:19,093 --> 00:04:20,553 - Yeah? - With Charlie Watts. 72 00:04:20,636 --> 00:04:24,015 The Bowl used to have a reflecting pool, right in front of the stage, 73 00:04:24,056 --> 00:04:25,641 which had fountains that shot out of it. 74 00:04:25,683 --> 00:04:29,479 And they would use it in the intermission, timed to music and to light. 75 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:34,192 It was a very iconic component of the Bowl's architecture for many, many decades. 76 00:04:34,275 --> 00:04:39,864 They had dancing waters with lights in between acts and it was, basically, 77 00:04:39,906 --> 00:04:42,450 to provide a screen 78 00:04:42,533 --> 00:04:46,037 in between acts so that people could go onstage and change the set-up. 79 00:04:47,330 --> 00:04:51,000 And it was very pretty, and it was very nice. And it actually... 80 00:04:51,042 --> 00:04:55,379 The sound in the Bowl was better then, at least to my take, 81 00:04:55,421 --> 00:04:58,549 because the water took the sound off the stage 82 00:04:58,633 --> 00:05:02,220 and reflected it up and out. And it was very pretty. 83 00:05:02,303 --> 00:05:08,100 When we played there, there still was the big reflection pool in front of the shell. 84 00:05:08,184 --> 00:05:14,065 And so they covered that and put a green fake lawn on there. 85 00:05:14,148 --> 00:05:18,277 So really we were in front of the shell and we knew water was beneath us, 86 00:05:18,361 --> 00:05:21,906 which was kind of unnerving with all that electronic equipment. 87 00:05:22,949 --> 00:05:29,080 Had Jim really been out of it that night... I mean, he was on acid that night, 88 00:05:29,163 --> 00:05:32,333 but had he fallen off stage, he would have fallen into the water, 89 00:05:32,416 --> 00:05:33,751 which would've been interesting. 90 00:05:40,550 --> 00:05:42,260 The Bowl was primarily used for 91 00:05:42,343 --> 00:05:45,221 the Philharmonic Orchestra for many, many, many years. 92 00:05:45,513 --> 00:05:49,684 There was a jazz series fairly early at the Bowl in the '30s and '40s. 93 00:05:49,767 --> 00:05:53,229 You had people like Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and others 94 00:05:53,271 --> 00:05:55,189 who would make regular appearances at the Bowl. 95 00:05:55,273 --> 00:06:01,529 You'd see Count Basie, innumerable artists, jazz artists. 96 00:06:01,779 --> 00:06:06,117 What happens is... The interesting change in the tenor 97 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,120 is when orchestral music started to be influenced 98 00:06:09,161 --> 00:06:12,290 by non-orchestral or pop or jazz influences. 99 00:06:12,331 --> 00:06:17,295 And I think that's when people started to really take notice about change is in the air. 100 00:06:17,336 --> 00:06:19,338 I think the most famous example of that 101 00:06:19,422 --> 00:06:23,301 is when Frank Sinatra performed with the LA Philharmonic for the first time 102 00:06:23,342 --> 00:06:24,802 in the early '40s at the Bowl. 103 00:06:24,886 --> 00:06:28,848 And if you go back and read the L.A. Times from the week, 104 00:06:28,931 --> 00:06:31,976 maybe the week prior and the week after that concert, 105 00:06:32,018 --> 00:06:34,854 just article after article everyday about, 106 00:06:34,937 --> 00:06:39,025 "Is it okay for Frank Sinatra to perform with our great orchestra?" 107 00:06:39,108 --> 00:06:43,571 Because orchestras at that time didn't perform with people like Frank Sinatra. 108 00:06:43,654 --> 00:06:45,323 A young jazz singer or pop singer 109 00:06:45,364 --> 00:06:48,409 couldn't be the soloist in front of a symphony orchestra. 110 00:06:50,620 --> 00:06:55,917 As the '60s came in and you started to see more pop and rock influence generally 111 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,754 in the culture, I'd say probably the late '50s is when Dick Clark 112 00:06:59,837 --> 00:07:02,340 started his rock and roll reviews at the Hollywood Bowl. 113 00:07:02,381 --> 00:07:07,428 So in 1958, was the first time Dick Clark put together a rock and roll review for us. 114 00:07:07,511 --> 00:07:11,432 And Duane Eddy was the first rock performer to ever grace the stage 115 00:07:11,515 --> 00:07:14,310 of the Hollywood Bowl, playing his guitar, of course. 116 00:07:14,352 --> 00:07:18,022 Since then, things kind of unfolded very quickly. 117 00:07:18,105 --> 00:07:21,275 If you look back at the ledgers from the early '60s, 118 00:07:21,359 --> 00:07:24,570 it's all of the great bands that you would imagine from that period, 119 00:07:24,654 --> 00:07:29,867 any of the icons that you can think of. People like Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, 120 00:07:29,951 --> 00:07:36,207 the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, 121 00:07:36,248 --> 00:07:40,544 the Grateful Dead, the Byrds and the Kinks. 122 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:44,840 All my contemporaries played there, 123 00:07:44,882 --> 00:07:50,471 Hendrix, and the Dead, and the Beach Boys, and I was jealous, but I was in awe. 124 00:07:50,846 --> 00:07:55,101 I wanted to be up there. And I was. 125 00:07:56,060 --> 00:07:58,938 I think what's really special about going to concerts at the Bowl, 126 00:07:59,021 --> 00:08:02,650 and particularly the rock concerts, is that there's so much energy 127 00:08:02,733 --> 00:08:08,197 when you're in that very isolated canyon. You know you're surrounded by the city, 128 00:08:08,239 --> 00:08:10,866 but at that moment it's just you and the performer. 129 00:08:10,908 --> 00:08:12,827 Because there's nothing else to distract you. 130 00:08:12,910 --> 00:08:17,081 People know that there's so much history that's running through that whole canyon. 131 00:08:17,164 --> 00:08:20,543 So I know that when performers tell me that when they play the Bowl 132 00:08:20,584 --> 00:08:23,504 it feels different to them than any other venue they've played, 133 00:08:23,587 --> 00:08:26,215 because they know who else has stood on that stage. 134 00:08:26,257 --> 00:08:29,927 And they know they're part of a tradition that's gone back 91 years, 135 00:08:29,969 --> 00:08:31,178 almost unchanged. 136 00:08:32,471 --> 00:08:37,268 These iconic moments in music history have taken place on that very same spot. 137 00:08:37,351 --> 00:08:38,769 It feels, you know, it's almost a cliché, 138 00:08:38,853 --> 00:08:40,938 but it feels like hallowed ground for a lot of performers. 139 00:08:40,980 --> 00:08:43,733 And I think the audiences feel that, too. 140 00:08:43,774 --> 00:08:48,821 I think to the Doors, or any artist, playing the Hollywood Bowl is kind of a goal. 141 00:08:49,780 --> 00:08:56,120 The Hollywood Bowl was always this incredible, iconic venue, you know? 142 00:08:56,162 --> 00:09:01,292 And to think that I would play there was like, "Whoa," you know? 143 00:09:01,375 --> 00:09:03,002 How do you get to the Hollywood Bowl? 144 00:09:03,085 --> 00:09:05,546 You get to the Hollywood Bowl by limo, of course. 145 00:09:05,629 --> 00:09:09,216 But for us to get there then, we had to get a number one record, 146 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:14,472 and then we had to play a bunch of places, and then we played Madison Square Garden, 147 00:09:14,555 --> 00:09:17,975 and up and down the coast, and started to play all over the country. 148 00:09:18,059 --> 00:09:21,562 The first gig we ever played was at the Hughes Aircraft, 149 00:09:21,645 --> 00:09:23,355 where Ray's mom worked. 150 00:09:23,439 --> 00:09:26,567 We got the gig, I think it was for 151 00:09:26,650 --> 00:09:30,321 either a Christmas or Thanksgiving kind of party they had. 152 00:09:30,362 --> 00:09:33,908 You know, we had to play jazz standards and stuff like that. 153 00:09:34,366 --> 00:09:38,662 And Jim had never... We had never actually done a gig before. 154 00:09:38,746 --> 00:09:41,874 Somehow we got through the gig. It was actually fun. 155 00:09:41,957 --> 00:09:45,503 Back then not a lot people had this going on. 156 00:09:46,253 --> 00:09:50,883 And so they just stared at us like we were from Mars. 157 00:09:52,009 --> 00:09:55,054 And no screaming, it wasn't Doors mania. 158 00:09:55,137 --> 00:10:00,351 It was like, "Whoa. Who are these aliens? Although, they're interesting. 159 00:10:01,018 --> 00:10:04,522 "That lead singer, boy, black leather, whoa." 160 00:10:04,855 --> 00:10:08,776 And they go play high schools, little gigs, private parties. 161 00:10:08,859 --> 00:10:11,278 Get $20 and split it four ways. 162 00:10:11,612 --> 00:10:16,659 The Valley Teen Centre was in the Round. That was weird. 163 00:10:18,536 --> 00:10:25,084 We go down to the stage, we get on it, and then they start up the motor. 164 00:10:25,167 --> 00:10:31,882 And it starts to slowly turn as we play. I mean, that's, you know... 165 00:10:32,383 --> 00:10:35,302 We're already playing music that's kind of psychedelic. 166 00:10:36,178 --> 00:10:40,599 And, so, when you finish, 167 00:10:40,683 --> 00:10:44,854 the stage doesn't necessarily stop at the aisle you came down. 168 00:10:44,895 --> 00:10:46,730 So you don't even know where you are. 169 00:10:46,772 --> 00:10:49,608 You don't need drugs. Play a circle in the Round. 170 00:10:50,025 --> 00:10:54,446 I do remember playing Las Vegas in an ice rink. 171 00:10:56,323 --> 00:10:59,660 They covered the ice with plywood or whatever. 172 00:10:59,743 --> 00:11:03,289 It was so fucking cold in there. Can we say that? 173 00:11:04,832 --> 00:11:10,254 How can you rock out when you're freezing? That was odd. 174 00:11:10,838 --> 00:11:13,716 After a year and a half of rehearsing in the garage in Venice, 175 00:11:13,757 --> 00:11:15,676 we got a gig at the London Fog. 176 00:11:15,759 --> 00:11:20,931 The London Fog was a tiny little hole in the wall on the Sunset Strip. 177 00:11:21,557 --> 00:11:25,895 Legendary Doors gig. It's absolutely legendary. 178 00:11:26,103 --> 00:11:29,190 Rayjust asked all his old film school buddies 179 00:11:29,273 --> 00:11:31,275 to come out with their girlfriends and friends. 180 00:11:31,358 --> 00:11:33,944 So that at least their opening night, they would be packed. 181 00:11:34,195 --> 00:11:37,031 And we packed it with our friends and got the gig, 182 00:11:37,114 --> 00:11:39,325 and then no one was there the next night. 183 00:11:39,742 --> 00:11:44,163 - As tiny as it was and virtually deserted... - And on the billboard, what did it say? 184 00:11:44,246 --> 00:11:47,791 The billboard was hysterical. It was hand-painted on a sheet. 185 00:11:47,833 --> 00:11:51,587 - Right. - They had it suspended from a pole. 186 00:11:51,629 --> 00:11:55,007 - And it said, "The Doors..." - "Band from Venice." 187 00:11:55,090 --> 00:11:57,301 "Band from Venice. What else is there to say? 188 00:11:57,384 --> 00:12:00,262 "There's nothing else to say about them. This is their first gig." 189 00:12:00,346 --> 00:12:02,806 - Do we... - Was it B-A-N-N-E-D or... 190 00:12:02,848 --> 00:12:05,809 No, no, hardly, yeah, right. It's what... Yeah. Wouldn't that have been great? 191 00:12:05,893 --> 00:12:08,020 - Banned from Venice. - Banned. You can't play in Venice. 192 00:12:08,103 --> 00:12:12,650 Anything went in Venice. That was our claim to notoriety. 193 00:12:12,733 --> 00:12:17,238 We were, in fact, a band from Venice, Venice Beach, California. 194 00:12:17,821 --> 00:12:19,823 - You go from the London Fog... - London Fog. 195 00:12:19,907 --> 00:12:21,909 - To the Whisky. - Whisky a Go Go. 196 00:12:21,992 --> 00:12:24,828 Ronnie Harran booked us into the Whisky a Go Go. 197 00:12:25,454 --> 00:12:28,290 And thank God she came by, man. 198 00:12:28,332 --> 00:12:31,335 Yeah, she came down to London Fog and saw us there, 199 00:12:31,418 --> 00:12:33,170 and immediately fell in love with Jim. 200 00:12:33,879 --> 00:12:37,007 And a couple of weeks later we were playing at the Whisky. 201 00:12:37,091 --> 00:12:40,511 She said, "How would you guys like to be the house band at the Whisky a Go Go?" 202 00:12:40,594 --> 00:12:46,600 The three of us go, "Yes!" Jim says, "Hold on." 203 00:12:47,184 --> 00:12:51,480 He said, "We got to think about it. Why don't you come back in a day or two, 204 00:12:51,522 --> 00:12:57,027 "and we'll give you the answer." She leaves. We attack Morrison. 205 00:12:57,403 --> 00:13:01,949 "Why you... Goddamnit!" I think we were even getting fired from the London Fog. 206 00:13:02,032 --> 00:13:05,035 It was like really serendipity. 207 00:13:05,077 --> 00:13:07,788 The better angels of ourselves had brought her in. 208 00:13:07,871 --> 00:13:11,333 "Come on in. You've got to see this band. You're gonna love the lead singer." 209 00:13:11,375 --> 00:13:15,921 So we start pummelling Morrison on the arm. And I said to him, 210 00:13:16,005 --> 00:13:18,924 "We need the Whisky. That's the Whisky a Go Go. 211 00:13:19,008 --> 00:13:21,885 "She wants us to be the opening act, the house band. 212 00:13:21,927 --> 00:13:28,017 "We play one set, the headliner plays, change the house. We play another set 213 00:13:28,058 --> 00:13:29,768 - "and the headliner plays." - "And we get paid." 214 00:13:29,852 --> 00:13:32,229 "And we get paid union money." 215 00:13:33,522 --> 00:13:36,191 - We were getting, like, 10 bucks a night. - Five. 216 00:13:36,233 --> 00:13:40,362 - Five. Ten bucks on weekend. - $7.50. 217 00:13:42,197 --> 00:13:47,119 So Morrison says, "You don't wanna appear too anxious." 218 00:13:47,202 --> 00:13:50,456 He said, "I know we need the gig. We'll take the gig. 219 00:13:50,539 --> 00:13:53,208 "But you don't wanna appear too anxious." 220 00:13:53,250 --> 00:13:58,464 Two days later she comes back and Jim says, "Yeah, we talked it over. 221 00:13:59,298 --> 00:14:01,592 "Wen take the gig." 222 00:14:02,009 --> 00:14:05,429 A week or two later we were at the Whisky a Go Go. 223 00:14:06,055 --> 00:14:08,724 And the headliner for our first week there was... 224 00:14:08,766 --> 00:14:11,018 Didn't he tell her, "We have to look through our schedule, 225 00:14:13,645 --> 00:14:16,273 - "but we can probably do it." - "We'll probably fit it in here 226 00:14:16,315 --> 00:14:21,362 "because our schedule is empty for the next 20 years. We have nothing." 227 00:14:21,904 --> 00:14:25,491 The act that we opened for was Van Morrison. 228 00:14:25,991 --> 00:14:27,785 Jim Morrison and Van Morrison. 229 00:14:27,868 --> 00:14:30,537 They were called Them, of course, we were called the Doors. 230 00:14:30,621 --> 00:14:34,708 But Van Morrison and Jim Morrison were on the same stage. 231 00:14:34,792 --> 00:14:39,088 And our last set, we all jammed together at the same time. 232 00:14:39,254 --> 00:14:43,801 - Played Gloria. - Morrison and Morrison doing Gloria. 233 00:14:43,842 --> 00:14:45,010 Man, oh, man. 234 00:14:45,094 --> 00:14:49,306 The next time I saw them they were at, I believe, it was Ondine in New York City. 235 00:14:49,348 --> 00:14:51,975 And I noticed an enormous change in Morrison. 236 00:14:52,017 --> 00:14:55,145 He had developed to his stage presence. 237 00:14:55,187 --> 00:14:58,440 He was really a performer by then. 238 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,903 Initially, I just thought, "This guy's not gonna make it as a performer." 239 00:15:02,986 --> 00:15:06,156 He just seems too shy. 240 00:15:06,198 --> 00:15:09,326 He mostly kept his back to the audience, 241 00:15:09,410 --> 00:15:14,415 and really didn't do that performer thing of engaging the audience. 242 00:15:14,498 --> 00:15:19,670 And then Jim gradually got the courage to turn around and face the audience. 243 00:15:20,838 --> 00:15:24,258 At first, I thought, "God, he's so introspective. 244 00:15:24,341 --> 00:15:28,345 "He's just like fooling with the mic cord and doesn't know what he's doing. 245 00:15:28,387 --> 00:15:32,850 "And I'm a professional. I've been playing weddings and Bar Mitzvahs forever." 246 00:15:32,975 --> 00:15:37,688 At the time, I didn't know that he was kind of finding his own. 247 00:15:37,771 --> 00:15:41,567 He wasn't gonna imitate James Brown like some other singers. 248 00:15:41,650 --> 00:15:48,365 He was gonna find his snake skin uniqueness and that gradually evolved. 249 00:15:48,907 --> 00:15:52,411 Fillmore was good. God, the Fillmore. Wow, was that fun. 250 00:15:53,036 --> 00:15:57,624 Psychedelic ballrooms and San Francisco. Holy cow! The Fillmore and the Avalon. 251 00:15:58,167 --> 00:16:00,878 Boy, were those fabulous places to play. 252 00:16:00,961 --> 00:16:06,717 Tripped out audience, and the girls doing that dancing with their long hair. 253 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,053 And we'd play The End, and they would be in seventh heaven. 254 00:16:11,805 --> 00:16:13,390 That Indian-style thing. 255 00:16:13,432 --> 00:16:17,895 And they're all dressed in Indian-styled clothes. They just loved it. 256 00:16:17,978 --> 00:16:24,526 And the early gigs like that, that sort of, maybe, second bill in a concert hall, 257 00:16:24,568 --> 00:16:27,029 just making the jump from clubs. 258 00:16:27,070 --> 00:16:31,867 I would say for me, that was the most exciting time. 259 00:16:33,076 --> 00:16:36,914 Because all this work we did was gonna happen. 260 00:16:36,955 --> 00:16:41,585 "Oh, my God, this train's leaving the station. This is gonna go, maybe." 261 00:16:41,627 --> 00:16:44,922 The... The high from that was fantastic. 262 00:16:45,005 --> 00:16:47,174 Playing giant concerts, the first few times, 263 00:16:47,257 --> 00:16:50,594 of course, this mass adulation, it's great. 264 00:16:50,677 --> 00:16:56,725 But that incubation where the baby's coming out. That's heaven. 265 00:16:57,226 --> 00:17:02,439 And finally the Hollywood Bowl called in 1968. 266 00:17:02,523 --> 00:17:06,401 In 1968, they said, "We'd like you to play the Hollywood Bowl." 267 00:17:06,443 --> 00:17:10,447 And we said, "Well, by God, let's check our schedule. 268 00:17:11,281 --> 00:17:14,117 "Yes, I think we can make the Hollywood Bowl." 269 00:17:14,701 --> 00:17:18,288 For them to score a concert there at the Bowl, 270 00:17:18,372 --> 00:17:24,795 and for them being a Los Angeles band, it was as if 271 00:17:24,878 --> 00:17:28,340 they were giving a gift back to the city, and the city was welcoming them 272 00:17:28,423 --> 00:17:31,593 and honouring them by allowing them to appear at the Bowl, 273 00:17:31,635 --> 00:17:34,471 or inviting them to appear at the Bowl. So, yeah, it was a big deal. 274 00:17:34,596 --> 00:17:39,101 I didn't know how prestigious it was 275 00:17:39,142 --> 00:17:42,813 until I finally started to hear the conversation around the office. 276 00:17:42,854 --> 00:17:45,524 I just thought for them, at the beginning, that it was another concert, 277 00:17:45,607 --> 00:17:47,901 but when I heard them talk about it... 278 00:17:48,610 --> 00:17:52,406 They felt as if it was something prestigious, and something special and important. 279 00:17:52,489 --> 00:17:55,659 So it was very prestigious. It was a great place to play. 280 00:17:55,701 --> 00:17:58,203 A real honour to play the Hollywood Bowl. 281 00:17:58,287 --> 00:18:03,584 'Cause we were just beat hippies from Venice Beach, California. 282 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:06,295 There we were. 283 00:18:06,378 --> 00:18:10,632 Looking at this Hollywood Bowl doc now, 284 00:18:12,593 --> 00:18:17,347 it's like some glorious, psychedelic dream I had a long time ago. 285 00:18:18,098 --> 00:18:21,852 And it's real clear, it's in HD and beautiful. 286 00:18:25,355 --> 00:18:31,028 And I don't know who was playing drums, but he's good. 287 00:18:34,323 --> 00:18:37,868 Again, I go back to the emotion of the Hollywood Bowl. 288 00:18:37,951 --> 00:18:38,994 That was the fun part. 289 00:18:39,036 --> 00:18:44,583 Playing the keys with John Densmore, and Jim Morrison and Robby Krieger. 290 00:18:44,666 --> 00:18:48,420 Genius Krieger on guitar, the guy who wrote Light My Fire. 291 00:18:48,503 --> 00:18:50,464 Morrison and those lyrics. 292 00:18:50,547 --> 00:18:56,178 God Almighty, those great, great lyrics. "This is the end, beautiful friend". 293 00:18:56,219 --> 00:19:01,433 What a time, man. Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it. 294 00:19:01,767 --> 00:19:06,355 It was fabulous. It was our youth. We were in the prime of our youth. 295 00:19:08,273 --> 00:19:13,403 Never to be, ever again, for this guy. This body will never do that again. 296 00:19:14,196 --> 00:19:20,243 But it's always up here, man. Always up here and right here, you know. 297 00:19:21,244 --> 00:19:24,581 My guys, my band. Boy, was it fun. 28455

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