Bill Siddons Bill Siddons Bill Siddons (born 1948) is an American music manager, best known for managing the Doors from 1968 to 1972. Siddons began his career as a teenage roadie with the Doors while attending Cal State Long Beach and six months later was asked to be the manager of the band in 1968. Siddons had this to say about his initial meeting with Jim Morrison: "So what was my first impression of Jim? He scared me to death." When Morrison died in Paris on July 3, 1971, Pamela Courson (Morrison's girlfriend) immediately contacted Siddons. He flew to Paris and arranged
Absolutely Live (The Doors album) John Densmore's drumming keep pace throughout as Robbie Krieger's guitar playing show him to be as much of a force in the Doors as Jim Morrison." In a 1970 review, Gloria Vanjak in "Rolling Stone" magazine is scathing about the album and in particular Morrison's performance, calling Celebration of the Lizard 'rancid'. In 1991, "Absolutely Live" and 1983's "Alive, She Cried" were repackaged and released as a two-disc set entitled "In Concert", with the addition of one track from 1978's "An American Prayer" and two from the band's July 1968 Hollywood Bowl concert, "The Unknown Soldier," which appeared on 1987's