Barney’s Beanery will celebrate the 65th birthday of the Doors' Jim Morrison on Dec. 8 with a live radio broadcast featuring bandmates Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger. KLOS DJ Jim Ladd will  discuss and sign copies of "Live at The Matrix 1967," a two-CD set recorded in San Francisco  in March 1967 that Bright Midnight/Rhino released today.
“We decided to celebrate this occasion because Barney’s is a place where Jim Morrison hung out often,” says Barney’s Beanery principal David Houston, who bought the place in 1999 from Erwin Held. He is only the third person to own the venue.
In the late ‘60s, Morrison and Janis Joplin were regulars at Barney’s Beanery, with Jim famously barred from the dining establishment for allegedly urinating on the bar. Houston will commemorate the event with a memorial plaque where Morrison might have tinkled.