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Doors chronology error in movie

posted 14 years ago by cryptical70
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Althouth Johnny Depp's narration seems generally accurate, I noticed one error regarding the Doors history. Something only Doors historians would really notice.

The narration says that the Miami incident occurred in March 1969, the trial occurred in August 1969, Morrison was convicted in October 1969, and then he flew to the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 while his lawyers were appealing the conviction.

The above timeline is not true. Although the Miami incident did happen in March 1969, his trial didn't start until August 1970. Therefore his gig at the Isle of Wight Festival occurred while he was still standing trial. He received his guilty verdict in October 1970 when his lawyers filed an appeal. During this time he recorded the LA WOMAN album, recorded his AMERICAN PRAYER poetry, performed his final concerts in Dallas & New Orleans, and flew to Paris for good.

[–] doorsscorpywag 14 years ago

Thats true mate....the band had planned to include a short European tour after IOW....switzerland, france, denmark again, germany and italy. But the judge insisted that the trial adhere to his timetable and after allowing the band time off to play IOW insisited they return after the short recess. Black sabbath were the support. catus and taste replaced the doors for tha dates.

There is a ton of innacuracy in di cillos film and some of it major stuff that could easily have been avoided by utilising a bit of research.
di cillo just makes stuff up and spouts the NOHGOA school of doors history.
the narrative is very bad and even the footage is haphazardly presented giving no sense of time progression.....there was a lot of 1967 footage that could have been utilised....

[–] dwillsxbr 14 years ago

So the Judge set a timetable of when the band could perform, is that the reason why they missed Woodstock?

[–] shortshorty88 14 years ago

ool i never had thought about that, i always thought they didnt want to play woodstock, holsh!t doors at woodstock would of made my day :)

[–] cryptical70 14 years ago

No, the trial didn't occur until a year later. They missed Woodstock because Jim really did not want to play those type of festivals.

[–] dwillsxbr 14 years ago

cryptical70
"No, the trial didn't occur until a year later. They missed Woodstock because Jim really did not want to play those type of festivals."

Sorry but that does not add up.
The Isle of Wight festival WAS a Woodstock type of event, if anything it was a UK/Europe version of Woodstock.
Maybe Jim passed on Woodstock because it was in the US and Isle of Wight festival was in the UK?

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[–] yeahimsteve 14 years ago

When Jim sat down with Ben Fong Torres that day in 1971 and had the unplanned interview, they talked about Woodstock and what Jim thought of it. I can't recall his exact word to describe the people who went to Woodstock, but I believe he called them "Zombies" or something similar. The interview is on Youtube in parts, and I tried searching for it to double check his exact word he used, but I had no such luck finding it. I'm almost positive he calls them Zombies, and in general, does not speak highly of the concert goers. I found his feelings odd, but hey.

[–] bestpartof_thetrip 8 years ago

I don't remember where I saw it but he said something like "people in Woodstock are like lost souls in a limbo." And I also saw somewhere else that he thought he might get shot (??) not sure about the last one.

[–] duck_knight81 13 years ago

"Black sabbath were the support. catus and taste replaced the doors for tha dates"

That's an interesting note, and since I've been a big Doors-fan since my mid-teens, I have read as much as possible about the band (I hope I am one of the biggest Doors-fans here in Sweden).
But this thing about Black Sabbath as a supporting band is something I've never heard or read about, and I'm not saying that i disbelieve you - I'm just curious what source you've got that information from?

[–] bornskeptic 9 years ago

Holy [email protected] Sabbath, Cactus, Taste. Consider these bands and their place in music. All friggen legendary now. Back then, just subs for the Doors. Yawn.
omfg.