[FreeTally]

If I were Toby, I'd sing it anyway as he walked on stage, unplanned.

You mean pull a Jim Morrison?

Thats how I think every performer should handle "censhorship requests" from networks. Just say it anyway. If they "bleep" it out on the 8-second delay, so be it.

[weegee]

The Doors were told immediately after the deal on Ed Sullivan that they were to have been booked for 6 more shows. Some perfomers consider this when they hold their tongues. MTV has gotten into the business of promoting personalities and not music; you have to play nice to keep getting airtime.

Meanwhile, Jim Morrison wasn't fazed. He'd already played Sullivan's show. And he didn't do it with the snide "in your face" defiance shown in Oliver Stone's film, he just sang the song as written. The surviving members of the band really don't like that movie.