jim tells him to go [bleep] himself. the cop maces him. [ morrisonto. jim is arrested for breach of peace and immoral exhibition. [ crowd chanting ] two cops punch him in the face and kick him when he falls. this starts the reputation of the doors as a dirty and dangerous band. ♪ yeah! depp: it also marks a change between the doors and their audience. they're coming now to watch morrison go crazy. there is a growing sense that the fans are not there to hear the music, but to witness a spectacle. it is becoming harder and harder to distinguish between himself and the person who appears onstage. but the train keeps picking up speed, and no one wants off. in april 1968, the village voice chooses morrison as vocalist of the year. the doors win best band, and ray manzarek is best musician after eric clapton and ravi shankar. "the soft parade" goes gold, making four gold albums in a row. "touch me," written by krieger, gives the band their third top-ten single. ♪ come on, come on, come on, come on, now, touch me, babe ♪ ♪ can't you see that i am not afraid

on december 8, 1970, jim morrison celebrates his birthday by recording his own poetry. tious soldier, come home. depp: he's 27. friends can't believe the change in only two years. the poetry session snaps him out of a depression, and he agrees to perform live with the doors again. on december 12th, they play new orleans, introducing the new songs from "l.a. woman." ♪ don't you love her madly depp: for a moment, the old morrison appears. then he sits down on stage and doesn't get up. it is here ray says he sees all of jim's psychic energy leave his body. a few days later, pam courson returns to l.a. from a vacation in paris. she discovers jim sleeping with a woman who claims they were married in a pagan witch ceremony, but the witch flies back to new york and jim goes back to pam. she still envisions a life for the two of them that starts with jim leaving the doors. he'll stay home and write poetry while she runs an exclusive clothing boutique. just after the band finishes mixing "l.a. woman," jim announces he and pam are moving to paris. he'll relax for a while. he'll qu

>> you'll survive. >> so the doors unhinged talks a lot, obviously, not just about jim morrison, but o, you had a revolutionary business relationship that started in your garage band. >> it started with jim who said, i don't know how to play a chord on any instrument. i have these words and melodies but i don't know how to write a song. why don't we split everything? >> right. >> even the credit, lyrics by the doors. and so there was this foundation of four equal parts with veto power. i became mr. veto. >> you eventually vetoed a $15 million deal with cadillac. what were you thinking? >> i must be anti-american. we did very well. we were considering "come on, buick, light my fire. he said, great, i'll smash the car on television with a sledgehammer. that was a no. >> cadillac came at you with a $15 million deal and you said no. >> why? >> this is interesting. "light my fire" was primarily written by the guitar player. what does that say? he really cared about the whole catal catalog. >> jim died in 1971. >> it's sad, our keyboard player passed just a few months. i had a closing conve

is there any -- oh jane morrison and jim lazarus too. we will start with jane morrison. >> [inaudible] >> okay. great. >> well, my main concern about public transit is if we build those proposed high rise buildings on piers 30-32 a lot of [inaudible] needed there and takes it away from the rest of the city so i know there is a fontana went up in 1961 and a candidate jack morrison saw that and felt it was cutting off the view of the waterfront and worked as a supervisor in 62 to get a height limit there along the waterfront and that way people could always see across the port on the water waterfront and that passed and still in effect and i called the department and still have the height limit and piers 30-three they are building a high rise and they have to change the rules and i hope you don't change the rules but that is the issue. if we do there is a lot of muni required there and take it away from people all over the city to provide the muni that they need to go up and down the waterfront, so i think that's my main concern. what else