A rock star directly translated Living Theatre stage tactics into his own performance

Evidence

Jim Morrison saw Paradise Now performed at UCLA on February 28. The next time the Doors played in Miami, Morrison followed the Living’s lead—drunkenly taunting his audience as “a bunch of slaves” before inviting everyone up on stage. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 2010

Categorization

• XREF: A concrete transmission chain from avant-garde theatre into mass rock performance—bearing on the ‘scene becomes a market’ structure; Morrison converting Paradise Now into the notorious Miami incident.