Grateful Dead
Dinner Key Auditorium
Miami, FL
April 1-3, 1969
CANCELED
A three-day happening from April 1-3, 1969 at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami was canceled after the March 1st onstage antics and subsequent arrest for lewd and lascivious behavior, indecdent exposure, and other charges of the Doors’ Jim Morrison. The decision to deny permission for the event was made by one George MacLean, lessee of the auditorium from the city, who noted that participants proposed for the happening were “the same type people and the same type music as The Doors” (1).
“The Expanded Spiritual Music Concert”, was to involve a showing of the Jeebus-themed film “The Greatest Story Ever Told” and musical performances by “groups such as” the Grateful Dead, Country Joe and the Fish, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Steve Miller Band, Sweetwater, Joe Smith and the Believers, and the New Rhythm and Blues Quartet.
The “Easter Rock” event promoters (“Together Productions”) sought an injunction to allow the show to proceed, but were denied in March by a Dade County Circuit Judge (2). It seems not to have helped that at least one of the promoters had an outstanding warrant for illegal drugs possession.
REFERENCES:
(1) “Easter Program with Rock Groups is Banned in Miami,” Herald-Tribue, March 19, 1969, p. 16, retrieved via Google News.
(2) Barbara Malone, “‘Easter Rock’ Producers Lose Court Round,” Miami News, March 20, 1969, pp. 3A-4A, retrieved via Google News.
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