Dec 12. 1970. It was on this day that Jim Morrison and the Doors performed their last show. It was at a venue called The Warehouse in New Orleans, and it did not go well. By the late 1970’s the drinking and drugs had taken it’s toll. At the show Morrison was over weight, unshaven, and acting incoherent on stage. Midway through the performance he started forgetting the words, and instead tried telling jokes. He was hanging onto the mic stand to stop from falling over when the band kicked into “Light My Fire”. During the organ solo Morrison went and sat on the drum riser, and eventually just off walked stage, never finishing the song. Morrison died the next summer.
A Sad Anniversary: Jim Morrison and The Door’s Last Performance–it wasn’t pretty.
