11/13/2020
First Impressions are lasting ones...
Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison first met each other sometime late at night March 6 or March 7, 1968 at a jam session at the New York City nightclub, the Scene to be frank, it's less of a collaboration between Hendrix and Morrison than a Hendrix jam session interrupted by Morrison staggering drunkenly on stage and yelling obscenities. According to The Doors Interactive Chronological History,
On this night, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin are in the club. Hendrix is on stage jamming with a group of musicians playing drums, bass, and second guitar. Jim, during one of the bluesier jams and heavily intoxicated, jumps up on stage and begins to wail some very obscene lyrics. As the song progresses Jim doesn't. He soon collapses on the stage grabs Hendrix by the ankles and then clumsily drags himself away knocking a table of drinks over into Janis's lap! She retaliates "I wouldn't mind... if he could sing". Hendrix is not impressed by Jim's behavior and a little upset.
The next and last time that Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison met each other was at an April 2, 1968 concert in Montreal at the Paul Sauvé Arena. Just like the previous month, Jim Morrison drunkenly interfered with Jimi Hendrix performance. Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeek's Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy describes the incident as follows:
Amid all the chaos, Jim Morrison tried to get on stage. British soul star Geno Washington saw what happened next: 'The place was fu**in' packed, the people are going ape s**t, Jim Morrison is drinking his drink and staggers up to the front of the stage, "Hey Jimi! Jimi! Let me come up and sing, man, and we'll do this s**t together." So Jimi goes, "That's okay, fella, I can handle it myself." And he said, "Do you know who I am? I'm Jim Morrison of the Doors." "Yeah," said Jimi, "I know who you are—and I'm Jimi Hendrix."