It was September 9, 1967 when the Doors were on a concert at New Heaven, Connecticut. Morrison, who has already consumed a lot of alcohol and other drugs, provoked a cop, so about 2 hours later Morrison was taken to a local police station, photographed and booked on charges of inciting a riot, indecency and public obscenity. All charges were dropped several weeks later for lack of evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some months later the band began to record their third album with the title “Waiting for the sun”<\/strong>, in my opinion the less interesting Doors’ LP. John Densmore, the Doors\u00b4 drummer said that they had the “third album syndrome”<\/em>, meaning the difficulty of a band to have a stock of very good compositions, capable of filling a third disc in a row. Richie Unterberg of AllMusic wrote that “The Doors’ 1967 albums had raised expectations so high that their third effort was greeted as a major disappointment. With a few exceptions, the material was much mellower and while this yielded some fine melodic ballad rock … there was no denying that the songwriting was not as impressive as it had been on the first two records.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Although the audience had a completely different opinion and guided the album at the first place of the US charts, where it remained for 4 weeks and the single “Hello I love you” <\/strong>at the first place on the Billboard singles chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the launching of the album the group flew to Great Britain for their first performance outside North America. They held a press conference in London and played shows at the roundhouse. They also played dates in Europe, including a show in Amsterdam where Morrison collapsed on stage after a drug binge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Waiting for the Sun<\/strong> contained 11 tracks. Let\u00b4s have a look at the most important of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The intro track of the album is “Hello I love you”<\/strong>, one of the last remaining songs from Morrison’s 1965 batch of tunes. \u0399t had been demoed by the group for Aura Records in 1965 before guitarist Robby Krieger had joined the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Hello I love you”<\/strong> was one of the 3 Doors’ songs which topped the Billboard charts, even if many band’s fans (like me) consider that the tune does not represent the Doors sound, due to its commercial nature and shallow lyrics. By the way the lyrics were inspired by a young black girl who Jim Morrison saw at Venice Beach: “Do you hope to pluck this dusky jewel”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n