The Doors Forum

Vince, in the video clip of "Roadhouse Blues" you see a lot of police on the front of the stage. Why & where was that? You also see parts of the New Haven show, but this is not the show I mean. It's the show where Jim is jumping and crawling on his back like he's in pain. Looks like a huge stadium or so.

Peace.

It could be the Singer Bowl show it is was at night with starkly harsh lighting.

Jim did a lot of jumping around and thrashing on the floow. We did not often have police right on stage.

I believe you are referring to the Singer Bowl footage.

Remember people, I have not seen clips of anything for YEARS - . From Korea it is relly hard to tell what you refer to. If I could see the thing I might be able to tell you when and where.

I take an educated guess based on what you describle.

Yes - We did have police on stage at Singer Bowl - Lot of good it did. At this show Jim did do a lot of flopping and thrashing.

Oh, You will see Toni Parisi (Another Very Disturbed, incredibly talented young man from a dysfunctional family who committed Suicide - Age 22) and I behind the amp line. That will be a sure indicator of the location.

Is that him in the black between you and John?

I got no idea if it is the singer bowl. If I remeber correctly, Jim had a brown leather jacket w/ white wool on the ends. I also believe he bought a programbook of a band who also played there (the who?).

So did the authorities come up with the idea to put up police on stage? & if so for what reasons?

And ofcourse a big thanks for answering the question above!

Peace.

jim4371 wrote:Is that him in the black between you and John?

You can clearly see Vince to the right of Tony from this pic.

Really, to have police up on the stage was pointless. The only thing it served to do was rile up the audience even more!

I know that's Vince, I was asking if that was indeed Tony.

And - who's the cameraman ?

Paul Ferrara.

Yes, indeed police on stage will fire up the audience even more.
At the concert I'm talking about there is so much police on stage that the audience can't even see the band where they paid a ticket for with their hard earned money!

Peace.

You're talking about the Singer Bowl.

jim4371 wrote:You're talking about the Singer Bowl.

The Singer Bowl it is.
So why was the police in such a great number present on stage? Was it to keep the band safe? Was there a violent vibe that night? What was it & who put them up stage?

Peace.

OK - It is Singer Bowl, you can even see the turntable behind Jim - The stalled turntable that it.

Left to right

Ray, John, Toni Parisi, Robbie, Me, and Paul Ferrara squatting with the Arriflex 16mm Camera.

Jim is the bundle on the downstage area in front of the Turntable.

Ken Kowalski should be somehwere in there as well. I don't see him in the photos, which is a nice one. He may have been out of frame the the far right, behind Paul. Ken wouldbe sen in photos during summer of 1968 until this show after which he returned to Lowell.

Toni went back to Lawrence. The last time I saw Toni was 1968, September, Labor Day when I left for england from LaGuardia Airport in New York.

Where have all the people gone?

Thanks for your input Vince! Great to hear/read these stories.
I got family in Italy with as last name Parisi. Sad story though about Tony.

Peace.