Jim Morrison:Life,Death,Legend,pages 27

The Doors finished up 1967 at Winterland,in San Fransisco.Otis Redding had just died in a plane crash on December tenth.Jim had idolized Redding since he was a young child.So Jim requested a dozen long stemmed roses,"Not romance red,blood red."Jim commented.So he shows up on stage with all these roses handing them to the younger prettier girls in the audience and sang in tribute to Otis Redding the refrain:"Poor Otis dead and gone,left me here to sing this song,pretty little girl with a red dress on,poor Otis dead and gone."

Around the end of 1967 it was both the begining and the end.The band had just hit the top and Jim was already down the road of self destruction. If Robert Plant were to die I would do the same for him in tribute.It's the right thing to do for someone you dearly idolize.