Live at The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (The Doors) Doors' manager Bill Siddons. A 2002 interview recorded with Ray Manzarek, the Doors' keyboardist, who died in 2013 is also included. The Isle of Wight Festival had some 600,000 attendees and the Doors hit the stage at two o'clock in the morning on August 30, 1970. Their set was particularly dark due to lead singer Jim Morrison's not wanting bright spotlights for the film recording on the band. Much of the recording sees the group bathed in a single red spotlight. Jerry Hopkins in his biography of the band, "No One Here Gets Out Alive", commented on the cold wind
The Doors Scheff, Jack Conrad (who played a major role in the post Morrison years touring with the group in 1971 and 1972), Chris Ethridge, Charles Larkey and Leland Sklar are credited as bassists who worked with the band. On December 9, 1967, the Doors performed a now infamous concert at New Haven Arena in New Haven, Connecticut, which ended abruptly when Morrison was arrested by local police. Morrison became the first rock artist ever to be arrested onstage during a concert performance. Morrison had been making out with a girl fan backstage in a bathroom shower stall prior to the start