Danny Says Page #6

So I went through this pile of

bathing suits and I said,

"Here, Jim, this looks like

it will fit you. Put this on

and then we will go swimming."

"Where's my car keys, man?"

- I said, "We'll find them later,

- put this on."

That's when he took off his

thing and he got naked,

- and I saw his cock,

- which was very big.

- Woman:
What do you mean.

- Very big?

Danny:
It was long.

- It was like a salami,

- it was long.

We all drove back to the house.

We found that

all the dining room chairs

had been put on the table,

and there was a still

from Chelsea Girls,

on the back of it, it said,

"Jim, your ass is mud.

Call us and

get to rehearsal fast."

I said, "Have you looked

under the mat of your car?

Perhaps you put the keys there,

as so many people do."

And he gave me a look like, "Oh,

so that's where you hid them."

And he got them

and he drove away.

- And he hated me from that.

- Point on.

He was constantly trying

to get Jac Holzman to fire me.

- Woman:
Why?

- Danny:
From Elektra records.

Well, cause I had kidnapped him.

Steve:
Jim got really pissed.

And he called me, and he said,

"Keep Danny Fields

away from me!

And I'm gonna call Jac now."

Jac:
The only person I knew

who wasn't a big fan of Danny's

was Jim Morrison.

If you get to close to one

of your artists personally

- that when you have.

- To sit down and have.

A hard talk...

it's tougher to do.

- But we needed someone.

- To stay close to that group.

- Interviewer:
And you felt.

- Danny was too close?

No, I have no idea.

In his later days,

he is said to have become nicer.

However, when I went to visit

his widow

to give her my condolences,

- the lovely Pamela,

- who didn't live long after that.

And the dog kept jumping on me,

and she told me it was Jim,

- and I went...

- (gasps)

And he vomited on me.

(laughing)

I swear to God it's the truth,

I have witnesses.

- He won't die.

- Host:
The reincarnation.

No, he doesn't need

a reincarnation,

he is incarnated at all times.

This is a song that we...

We first sang together in a

hotel room in Newport.

That's right.

That's right, at the festival.

- Yeah.

- It was.

- We sang it all night.

- I know!

(laughs)

Yes, I loved you in the

morning

Our kisses deep and warm...

- Danny was one of the people.

- That just flipped out.

Over Leonard Cohen's music.

- He just thought.

- t was wonderful.

And we all were

at Newport learning,

- "Hey, That's No Way.

- To Say Good-bye."

And Danny was singing,

and we were all, of course,

drinking and carousing

and having a great time.

I decided to take acid,

'cause I was near the water

and I always found that

when I tried it in the city,

I'd start hallucinating over

an oil slick.

"Whoa, those colors."

So I thought, you know,

nature is better.

I didn't realize I would end up

in the hotel room of...

two super-human or extra-human,

projective artists.

And I'm on the floor,

exploring E = MC2 over H.

She looked over me and she said,

"Oh, I have to show you

the sunrise on the cliffs."

Because, you know, she's a.

Taurus, she's the earth mother.

And...

- She's there to respond to the.

- Needs of people who she's with.

And she took me out,

they propped me up

and put me in a car,

and we drove out to the cliffs.

And Leonard and I...

just stood and laughed

and talked about everything.

Anybody who will take you

for a walk

- by the ocean.

- When you're on acid.

s saving probably both lives.

(laughs)

He was part of the fabric

- of what was going on.

- Culturally in the city,

Not just music.

But the cultural involvement of

people who were against the war,

and people who wanted to see

a more loving culture and

create different kinds of music

and different kinds of events.

I didn't hang out

with the fast, druggy crowd.

He really understood

that I was not

the real folksinger deal,

I was something else that very

few people really understood.

I think that went a long way in

his being able to really

do things with my records,

and with me as an artist,

that were appropriate.

And that took me to the edge

and pushed me over,

but not too far.

- Danny:
What the company freak.

- Was supposed to be.

A liaison primarily

between both the artists

and the younger community,

and the communications area,

the writers and editors.

Having not existed before,

it's up to the person

who takes it to invent it.

And then it becomes

not a job but a role,

as McLuhan defined a role,

versus a job.

A job is something which can

be replaced by a machine.

In the summer of 1966

in Los Angeles,

I met the legendary Billy James,

an executive at.

Elektra Records, Hollywood.

He sat barefoot on his desk.

He was the coolest guy of all.

And so he became a role model,

I guess still is. God bless him.

- Billy James:

- The world "freak" is defined.

n my OED

as a sudden or causeless

turn of the mind,

or disposition of mind

that is subject to such humors.

I also thought of the jester,

and then I thought of Mercury,

I thought of the messenger.

And then I thought of the.

Jungian archetype

of the eternal boy.

There is the...

somehow different

aspect to the freak.

And it sometimes creates

harmony among one's colleagues.

And sometimes

it creates discomfort.

I thought

there should be a drug album

because, especially Elektra,

- they had all,

- when I was in college,

They had recorded

these lusty university songs.

Beery, kinda

drink, drink, drink.

And Cook That Beer,

or whatever you do to it.

Why not have a smoking song?

So how do you do it?

And then I was in Washington.

Square and I saw David Peel.

(crowd cheering)

("I Want To Get High"

- (by David Peel.

- & The Lower East Side plays)

David Peel:
Okay,

I met Danny Fields in 1968.

He had a way with words that

made you wanna become part of,

whatever he was doing.

- He brought me.

- To Max's Kansas City.

- After the show,

- and he bought me a steak dinner.

How could I say no

to a steak dinner

when I'm used to eating...

- pizza all my life.

- On the streets?

And I told Jac Holzman about it,

and saw a big crowd...

I like marijuana,

You like marijuana...

I said, "Well, there it is," and.

- "Up against the wall,

- motherfuckers!"

And Jac thought, "Well this is

indeed avant-garde,"

and then looked around

and said, "Hmm,

light poles, hmm.

We can do this, live!"

Jac:

We were allowed to plug into

the outlet at the secret bottom

of a lamp post in New York

to power the Nagra tape recorder

that we had out there.

Some cop came up and said,

"You can't do that."

We showed him our fancy

- $600 order and that was it,

- and we recorded.

- David Peel & the Lower East Side.

- n one afternoon.

In a way,

the Have a Marijuana album,

was this to the establishment.

And we had this gigantic

marijuana leaf on the cover.

Danny:
William S. Harvey thought

it was a terrible idea and...

We had a bet, he said it wasn't

gonna sell 10,000,

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