MYTHICAL PLACES

In 1966, a year after the formation of the Doors, the group was only in its infancy, having no contract with a record company or a first album, they performed in small student parties. before landing a resident band contract at the London Fog, a tiny live music bar located on Sunset Blvd and only a few steps from the famous Whiskey A Go Go...

The London Fog is a small bar-concert managed by a certain Jesse James, The Doors, presented as a local group forging their image there, Morrison, still shy, often sings covers of Blues while turning his back on the audience, the latter being reduced to a dozen unfrequented regulars.

From January to May 1966, The Doors play 5 x 45 minutes there (...and no more, the manager cutting the music beyond this time.) 6 evenings a week, from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., and this for the modest sum of $5 each ($10 on weekends). Jim Morrison will also meet Pamela Courson in this bar, who will become his companion.

One evening, a fight breaks out and the Doors, taken for fault, are thrown out. (Facts drummer John Densmore would deny.) They would play the rest of 1966 at the famed Whiskey A Go Go.

In 2016, a collector's box limited to 18,000 copies offered the group's first live recordings at the London Fog in May 1966.

Today, after having been a beauty salon for many years, the building has become a hairdresser-barber.