Just Because You are a rock star in France doesn't mean you can play Jim Morrison at the Cantab!
Notice Q in the background reading sheet music, bored out of his mind with the stunt!
It's my thumb, honest! Attorney G. Stephen Anzuoni was there...and will probably plead he was nodding off on marijuana on the job! HA HA
Found on Kenny Highland's Website.
File under: Mickey's Bliss
Since I'm a juvenile delinquent with the mentality of a five year old will Kenne be charged with child abuse and distribution?
It IS my thumb. My church wouldn't allow anything else, and YES, Jim Morrison used his thumb in Miami back in the 1960s....was he swinging his shirt back and forth "Want to see it?"
MY BASS PLAYER WAS AT THE DOORS SHOW IN 1969 AND SAID MORRISON WHIPPED OUT HIS THUMB ONSTAGE
1969: The Details Of When Jim Morrison Got Arrested On Stage For Indecency
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We say allegedly because no one actually knows what happened. He was knocked off the stage and rushed out of the audience by police but an arrest wouldn’t come for days. After the band left Florida six warrants for his arrest were issued, one for “lewd and lascivious behavior in public by exposing his private parts and by simulating masturbation and oral copulation,” the rest were misdemeanors like public drunkennness and profanity. There was clearly a moral panic over the way that Morrison inspired his audience, but were the police right to arrest him? Or were they just scared of the Lizard King, this Messianic figure of the ‘60s counter culture?
No one can agree on what happened when Morrison got on stage
https://groovyhistory.com/jim-morrison-arrested-indecency-miami-1969
To think, I used to be so respectable on all those French albums!
File under: FRENCH KISS
Public Domain Morrison Photos
jim morrison mug shot
source: Dade County
When charges were finally placed against Morrison it was clear that state officials wanted to show that some rock star couldn’t just zip into Florida and make a mockery of public decency. Even though the singer probably didn’t expose himself they didn’t care, they wanted him up against the wall. Larry Mahoney, a reporter for the Miami Herald at the time, was covering the show and he thinks that the conservative state of Florida just had it out for Morrison. In 1969 he told Rolling Stone:
When charges were finally filed against Morrison it was days after the event and the press smelled a rat. The president of the Crime Commission of Greater Miami wanted a Grand Jury to investigate Morrison and he wanted to hang Collier out to dry for inviting The Doors to Florida in the first place. The Miami Herald noted that with so many officers on duty at the show, that one of them should have made an arrest if any laws had been broken, unfortunately sanity did not win out in 1969. Joe Durant, an assistant to State Attorney Richard E. Gerstein, said at the time:
I was extremely shocked at the facts in this case as to what this man did, and the State Attorney’s Office will prosecute him and ask for the maximum sentence on each count to run consecutively.
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