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UPDATE: Read more about 'A Day with The Doors' here.
Incredible pairing of items signed by The Doors during their tour stop in Toronto, Canada, on April 20, 1968, in support of their forthcoming third studio album, Waiting for the Sun. The items were obtained by 14-year-old fan Don Hickman, the winner of a local radio and television contest that granted him ‘A Day with The Doors,’ which included a VIP ticket to the band’s concert at the C.N.E. Coliseum that night.
The lot features a vintage glossy 10 x 8 promotional photo of the Doors taken by photographer Paul Ferrara, picturing the band at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens in 1967, signed in blue ballpoint by Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore, with all signing first name only; and two off-white sheets, 3 x 5 and 5 x 3, with one signed and inscribed in ballpoint by Morrison, “Don, Jim,” and the other sheet signed in ballpoint by Manzarek, Krieger, and Densmore, “Ray,” “John,” and “Robby,” with one of the band members adding the inscription, “To Don, Doors.” Condition: The signed photo is in very good condition, with moderately heavy overall creasing and poor-to-moderate signature contrast; the set of signatures is in fine condition.
Also included are 12 vintage glossy 35mm Kodak Brownie candid photographs taken by Hickman (and Densmore) backstage at the C.N.E. Coliseum; the one taken by Densmore shows the recipient, Hickman, posing with Morrison just moments before The Doors took the stage. Condition: The signed photo is in very good condition, with moderately heavy overall creasing and poor-to-moderate signature contrast; the set of signatures is in fine condition. Accompanied by a vintage glossy 7.25 x 5 promotional photo of The Doors bearing secretarial signatures.
Completing this rare Doors multi-signature group lot is its wonderfully detailed provenance story, which centers around the Hickman family’s day with The Doors. The story, which can be read here, addresses the band’s limo arrival at the Hickman family residence, Morrison’s covert bar-hopping along Yonge Street, a quick media interview at CBC studios, and the group’s five-song set at the C.N.E. Coliseum, which was delayed due to Morrison’s pronounced inebriation.
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