Saturday, December 09, 2006

This day in music history.

December 9, 1968, Backstage, before a concert in New Haven, Jim Morrison gets into a verbal spat with a policeman after the cop questions the age of a girl Jim was kissing. Jim tells the cop "eat it" and the cop maces Jim in the face. Jim was allowed to take the stage and during the instrumental break of "Back Door Man" Jim told the audience what had happened back stage. He asked if this was the United States Of America and told how a little man in a blue suit had sprayed him with mace. By the end of the song a cop came on stage and told Jim he was under arrest. Jim shoved the microphone in the cops face and said "speak your peace pig" at that point another officer came out and they pulled Jim off stage and arrested him for "breach of peace", "resisting arrest" and "performing an indecent and immoral exhibition".
Back Door Man by Willie Dixon
Wha, yeah!, cmon, yeah, yeah, cmon, yeah
Yeah, cmon, oh, yeah, ma
Yeah,
Im a back door man,
Im a back door man
The men dont know, but the little girl understand
Hey, all you people that tryin to sleep
Im out to make it with my midnight dream,
yeah
cause Im a back door man,
the men dont know
But the little girls understand,
all right, yeah
You men eat your dinner, eat your pork and beans
I eat more chicken, than any man ever seen,
yeah, yeah
Im a back door man,
wha,
the men dont know
But the little girl understand
Well, Im a back door man
Im a back door man
Whoa, baby, Im a back door man
The men dont know
But the little girls understand