Danny Says Page #5

- Danny:
So I went up to Elektra.

- And I said hi,

- And they said,

- "Oh, boy, are we happy.

To have a press agent,

we've never seen one before!"

And I said,

"I'm glad to be of help.

By the way, I must say that

they were doing one very

intriguing song last night."

I said, "It was real catchy."

- So they played me.

- The first single,

- Which was "Break On Through",

- I said, "That's not it!

Something about a fire."

("Light My Fire"

( by The Doors plays )

"Oh, 'Light My Fire',

- oh, that can't be a single,

- it's seven minutes long."

And I said, "That's too big,

can't you cut it down?"

And they said, "You can't cut

down a song, that's heretical.

You can't do that."

- Finally, they figured out.

- t could be cut down,

- And they remembered that I was.

- The first person.

Outside the company

- who suggested that.

- They really try to cut it down.

- And, of course,

- with the release of that song,

- That became.

- A different record company.

- Then they.

- Called me up from Elektra.

- And asked to come and.

- Work for them.

- As a full-time to create.

- A publicity department.

- Danny was plugged in.

- To another part of the scene,

The part of the scene

that was bubbling under.

But also he stayed up

later at night,

and that was a big plus for us

- because then Elektra.

- Was on the street.

While I was asleep.

Danny:
We had great plans for

him in our heads then because

the buzz was starting to invent

him as a major sex object.

Gloria had seen pictures of him,

was intrigued with his record

and his photographs.

This was my next thing,

I was gonna go to California

to set up a phone call

between him and Gloria.

This is how expense accounts

worked in those days.

I flew to California

to set up a phone call.

People in California, it was

a joke then, but it was true,

they would do one thing a day.

And if you asked someone what

they did, they would say...

"I washed my hair today."

Long pause, and that was it,

and you would say, "Oh, I...

You know...

Made a salad.

- Woman:
That wasn't.

- Because of drugs?

Danny:
No, I think they were all

just winding down so fast

and finding that...

Everybody did this,

then nobody would ask

anybody to do anything more.

And I saw them perform in San.

Francisco, it was very jolly.

And I went backstage.

I was horrified.

It was like a sort of statue,

just sitting there,

and there were all these

groupie things.

Dirty girls.

Just rags and dirt,

and things falling off them,

and too much eye make-up

and a dopey, glazed look.

I was concerned that

this was bad for his image.

What if a photographer got this?

Gloria had told me that they're

always supposed to be alone.

Alone is sexy.

You're never supposed

to see them with a girl.

- I made him make the call.

- To Gloria,

She asked him her questions,

I got on the phone with her,

- she said, "That was very.

- nteresting, I look forward.

To meeting this young man."

And then,

as we were about to leave,

I had a little electric bulb

in my head.

And I said,

"Say, Jim, I'm staying with a...

an interesting chanteuse

called Nico, up in the Hills."

- And I thought I would.

- Bring him up there,

- And then he would.

- Fall in love with Nico,

- And then he would see.

- The error of his ways,

n letting all

these slimy, little groupies...

- And he would never.

- Settle for a woman.

Less beautiful, or mystical

or exotic than Nico.

- And since.

- There weren't too many,

- Then he would never have.

- Too many girlfriends,

And my plot would be on its way.

("Light My Fire"

(by The Doors continues)

We finally got up to the house.

And Nico was standing

in the doorway.

And he just looked at her,

- and she looked at him,

- and then they both.

Cast their glances downward.

They stared

at some imaginary spot

on the floor in between them.

And I tried to start

a little chatteroonie.

- And I saw.

- This was going nowhere,

- This was some kind of thing.

- They were acting out.

- And I came back.

- About an hour later,

- They were still.

- n the exact same positions,

They hadn't moved.

- Woman:

- And they hadn't said anything?

- Danny:

- They hadn't said anything.

- This is their way.

- Of acknowledging,

- "You're a beautiful, special,

- poetic person," I suppose...

Edie was after...

I had some pills with me,

I always traveled

with a little drug case then.

I hid them...

- somewhere under a bed,

- under a mattress,

Between two blankets

and another mattress,

and she got them.

She found them,

and she took about half

of everything that was there.

I don't know how she did,

when she was in the room,

but she did and she was magical.

She was having an affair

with Dino Valenti, he wrote,

"Come on, everybody,

shine on your brother,

let's love one another..."

And the evening wore by.

And the day wore by,

and he and I

went up to the room,

and we started smoking

a lot of hash.

I started making a major speech

to him about

"I have these things

in mind for you

and life is a roller-coaster

and stardom is a trip and..."

I didn't know what I was doing,

I was just sounding like

every movie I had ever seen

about what's in store,

and play the game.

He would just open his palm

about every five minutes,

and asked for another drug.

Incredible amount of hash.

About six hits

of orange sunshine.

Woman:
Nobody in those days

got scared

about taking too much?

Danny:
I was scared!

I thought he was gonna die!

I had never seen...

This was like...

Enough drugs for me and

- everybody I met in two weeks in.

- California!

- Woman:

- But you kept giving it to him?

- Danny:
I kept giving it to him,

- he wouldn't answer.

- And I would say,

- "What do you think about that.

Flight of brilliance, Jim."

"Got any more acid, man?"

In the middle of the night,

David Neuman came running

into my room and said,

"Oh, my God, you have

to see what's happening!"

She was in the courtyard.

She was crying and screaming,

and he was naked

up on top of this house.

And he was walking on it,

like jumping over the gaps.

Totally naked.

Jesus, what if he falls off?

Am I gonna lose my job?

It's all I could think of.

Who cared about him?

She came flying into my room

and threw herself

- on the bed and she was.

- Crying hysterically.

I never found out

what had happened, I mean,

"He is so evil,

oh, he is so evil."

"Oh, Nico, calm down and go

to bed, he's just stoned."

I went to his car and I took

the keys out of the ignition,

and put them

under the floor mat.

The next morning dawned,

and he said,

"Give me my car keys!"

And I said, "No, you're in

no condition to drive."

He was not smiling because

it totally reversed

everything that he stood for,

- and everything that.

- He tried to project.

Nico and Edie

suggested we go over to

some friend of theirs house

who had a swimming pool.

We got to this house,

he didn't have a bathing suit.

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