Years after the fact, Densmore corroborated Siddons’ account of what inspired Morrison: went to see Julian Beck and Judith Molina of The Living Theater and was inspired because they wore minimal clothes and were going up the aisles saying, ‘No passports, no pieces.’ It was pretty wild stuff. He said some things like ‘Why don’t we have a revolution here?’ and things like that-but that’s not inciting to riot. Siddons says: We had seen the Living Theater the night before, you know, and Jim copped a few lines. It’s easy to see someone like Jim Morrison getting way into them and trying to emulate the group for his audience. They often shed their clothing and conveyed messages of the counter culture. The group was experimental to say the least. According to both Siddons and John Densmore, Morrison had attended a performance by the Living Theater the night before and found inspiration in their work. What good has live theater ever done for us? Thanks to theater we can’t say Macbeth in public without getting cursed, and Jim Morrison maybe exposed himself. 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? 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. He was knocked off the stage and rushed out of the audience by police but an arrest wouldn’t come for days. We say allegedly because no one actually knows what happened. That night, inspired by a cosmic buzz and who knows what substances he allegedly incited a riot while exposing himself from the stage. By all accounts the band - John Densmore, Ray Manzarek, and Robby Krieger - played a hypnotic set, but their musicianship was overshadowed as it often was by Morrison’s antics. At the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, Florida, on MaJim Morrison and The Doors walked onstage to thousands of people crammed into a hot, overstuffed venue.
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