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No other venue on LAs notorious rock block can lay claim. Allegedly, the whole of the venue came to a standstill. Situated on a dusty corner of Sunset Strip, the Whisky a Go Go is a piece of living music history. Once they got stuck into the epic track, Morrison began an LSD infused vocal ad-lib that would go on to become the song’s trademark but here was where it was debuted and nobody apart from the frontman knew where it was going. It was all going so well.Īugust 21st would spell the end of The Doors’ run at the venue, however, as during their performance of ‘The End’, which was their set closer over this period, Jim Morrison, who’d missed the first of two sets that night because he was at the Tropicana Hotel tripping on LSD, (allegedly naked excluding a pair of cowboy boots) decided they were going to play it earlier in their performance. On the last night of his residency, The Doors joined the band on stage to perform ‘In the Midnight Hour’ and a twenty-minute raucous jam session of Them’s ‘Gloria’. One such moment came when Van Morrison, performed a two-week residency at the West Hollywood landmark in May 1966 with his group Them, he would be joined by Jim Morrison and co for the run of shows. They held a 3-month run at the notorious club before Morrison would inadvertently get them sacked from their residency. The Doors would create a whole host of moments that have found their place in the history books from their stint at the venue. However, this caught the eye of Mario Maglieri, who owned Whiskey a Go Go, sure enough, he didn’t need any persuading in handing the band a spot at his venue. The Doors earned this coveted spot following a three-month residency at the not so well respected Los Angeles club called London Fog which is often described as being ‘run down’ and ‘sleazy’. 1966 was the year where The Doors would hone their craft and become the talk of Los Angeles, which was largely down to their now-legendary residency at Whiskey a Go Go.