THAT DAY

On December 12, 1970, the Doors, without knowing it, performed for the last time with Jim Morrison...

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The band plays at the Warehouse in New Orleans, Louisiana. "Riders on the Storm" which would appear on the LA Woman album over the next year was performed live for the second and final time that night.

Members of the group Kansas also join the Doors on stage. The concert takes place normally, at least until the moment of interpreting "Light My Fire": Jim, however sober, completely loses his bearings, until he forgets the lyrics and stops in the middle of the song. Haggard and with a blank stare, he prefers to go and sit on the platform where the drums are placed.

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John Densmore, the drummer, then kicked him in the back to make him react. Morrison, unable to move until then, grabs the mic stand and slams it down repeatedly.

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Vince Treanor, the tour manager is forced to intervene to calm Morrison in his destructive madness. The gig is over...

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Thereafter, the Doors make the decision to stop the concerts and to return to Los Angeles to concentrate on the recording of the album LA Woman.

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John Densmore later said:

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"In Dallas, I still had hope that our band could perform live, even though it was clear that we were getting worse and worse on stage. But in New Orleans, Jim sucked. He He hadn't been drinking though, he simply had no more energy.

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Later, Ray (Manzarek, the keyboardist) told me that he saw all of Jim's psychic energy coming out of the top of his head. Me, I didn't see any of that, but indeed, one had the impression that he had lost all vital force."

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The soul of this shaman who had supposedly slipped into the mind of young Morrison when he was a child witness of a traffic accident including a Native American van, would it have escaped that evening? ...