British guitarist analyses Jim Morrison from The Doors live in 1968! 

If in the teen years, the kids would be very smart/mature. I'd suggest we move that time to late teens early 20s. While J.M. had the "rock god" persona, he was hardly like the front men of the era (e.g. Page of Zep)

@@christopherwood9213 Wait, how did Page get to be Zeppelin's front man?

And the people that never really Get them stop listening to them after that. They're attracted to a certain rebellious phase only, and never understand the deeper meanings of the art.

Thats when I discovered them 😍

I was at Morrison's grave outside Paris in 1982 when I was 14.

Some artists just did what they came here for, and called home! Be glad they were here ☺️ rip friends!

The thing about him is he was so captivating that you couldn't take your eyes off of him. I've only seen that type of aura with Elvis and Michael Hutchence had it too.

@@bobbiny32 True. There are few artists who commanded such attention. He was intense and unpredictable, with lyrics that set a mood and could go wild at any moment. There's never been another like him.

JAIL 🇺🇸

I think he studied to be an English teacher and may have done that initially for his job.

​@@deed.3230he was homeless after college before the band was a success. He lived on a roof. He wrote the song soul kitchen about the soul food restaurant, Olivia's soul food kitchen, where he would eat his one meal a day. She would give him a large plate of food at a discounted price and let him spend hours there

Yeah It's very sad ❤

​@@deed.3230he studied film making

Nature and Physics that s how cool he was! All for one one for all!

the thing that always stood out was Ray's playing IMO, that's why i like the Zombies too

Well said

Less is more was never so relevant.

Brilliantly said sir....

A tapestry of sound .excellent observation.

YUP, and most people dont even know it

M.K.Ultra. Military Industrial Complex. Subversion of a whole baby boom generation, via sex, drugs, and rock n roll? What say ya'll?

I say that psy ops were so much better in the 60's than today.

Aren't psyops new and improved these days?

@@steveevans424 ...yeah was kinda embarrassed that I couldnt remember his name ....I should look it up ,thats easy enough huh ?

I grew up listening to them. Jim's voice and delivery were one of a kind. No question about that. Too bad thst he had such powerful, relentless self-destructive demons.

“The scream of the butterfly” 🎶

*ARE!

I was 15 when he died, all of my children were exposed to the Door's music. Just as they were exposed to Jethro Full and Alice Cooper!

I had a blast listening to my older siblings Doors albums. I asked who had bought Strange Days one night at dinner in '74. Everybody denied having anything to do with it and only my two eldest brothers weren't there. Neither one of them has admitted to it, to this day. Kinda makes me think that either my grandmother was a closet Doors fan or that God wanted me to get into the Doors. I'm cool with either idea.

@@magnificentfailure2390 - It might *not* have been God.

psychoprosthetic yes it was God he told me late last night! Oh and by the way GOD isn’t a big meany either!

@@robert.m4676 - well he can't be a meany if he's into the Doors, because Morrison wasn't into him. God listens in mysterious ways.

@@magnificentfailure2390 An excellent recounting of no one wanting to admit to it. Cool.

Fil doesn’t have the leather pants & Belt “ Maybe ???? Fil only wares hoodies, he looks 19

Fil's is longer and more layered.

Fil is super gorgeous!!

Jay Sebring was the one who cut Jimmy’s hair, and Jay was one of the victims of the Manson murders.

@@Braglemaster123 haha good one

Thanks for your consideration. Listening to rock and roll for 50 plus years, and a small interlude of performing in the '70s, is probably the reason that my hearing is defective, and tinnitus rules in my head. Seriously, I got your drift irrespective of what case it was written in. To take issue with that is just too pedantic for words............peace.

Right on, love the way you put that! I always say that The Doors are the absolute exemplary group to represent what a "band" should be and is and you just put into words exactly why that's true. Each man played a component and created something extraordinary, they all helped bring the best out of each other and we're brothers too no matter how turbulent it was most the time. Truly a remarkable band.

Never thought of them that way. So true. The Doors like all great bands only work with all parts. Take away anything and they fall.

Wow. That's awesome!

I'm afraid they were unlistenable to after Jim died. A great, great shame. I know they've toured with other vocalists (I saw them when they were Doors of 21st century,(I was only 16 in 1968 when they came to Britain - too young to go to London on my own so I was told by my parents) and while Ian Astley had a great voice, it obviously wasn't the same. Mind, I didn't like the huge picture of Jim that was projected behind them. I thought it was disrespectful to Ian Astley. And he tried to dress the same as Jim; nobody could replace Jim and they shouldn't have tried. He was there as a vocalist, not a Jim clone. I don't like tribute bands for the same reason. It's false.

Classic DOORS 🇺🇸 🖤

Why could they ONLY flourish in the 60s? Their music has stood the test of time as generations after the 60s, incliding me, discover and appreciate their music

A great gig can flourish anytime.

@@tomderby2812 Because their music and how it was delivered were those of a band out of time. They didn't exactly "fit" in the sixties but that was the only time that music like The Doors would be accepted and appreciated. In no other decade could they have even secured a recording contract. I was born in the fifties, became musically aware at a young age (ie. 6 -7 years old) and sought out and followed all kinds of music to this day.

Classic 60s music 🖤 🇺🇸 😎

Good observation. Morrison was, from what I've read, really into the works of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud.

@@oscarhalpert5967 and Beaudelaire

Very much so agree. And he'd add humor to the mix.

He actually wrote a term paper for a college student. It was about the Elizabethan period and about Lord Buxton(?) Jim said he knows who that is, and from memory, wrote the paper.

The girl students would have been too distracted. lol

Jim WAS swag...just sayin'

Not after the third album, actually. Robby wrote "Light My Fire" from their first album, and also wrote "Love Me Two Times" from the second album.

Robbie brought the "pop" element (I offer that respectfully) to the group. For whatever reason, he had a feel for short/snappy songs that were the Doors and still salable on the charts. The fact that all four of these guys were college graduates set them aside from all other groups of the era. They were not the elite wanna-be "Harvard Yarders," like Simon and Garfunkel, and other urban folkies of the late 50s/early 60s. Morrison and Manzarek dropped out of UCLA's GRADUATE Film School (classmates of Francis Ford Coppola) full of the 50s/60s alternative film school concepts. Robbie and John were music majors at local L.A. universities learning jazz and classical guitar measures. Watch this video and others like it and compare the Doors to other "rock" groups of the times and you'll see a group that would have been as comfortable in a jazz club or a book store poetry reading put to music as an auditorium in New Haven. BTW - Watched David Crosby's docu-drama, and can't understand why he so hates Jim Morrison. Most likely, Crosby never read a book not written in the 20th century, so he had no concept of Morrison's connection to literature, or played with musicians of the caliber of Ray, John and Robbie.

CHRISTOPHER WOOD -Just a ‘Foot-Note’ * Both Ray and Jim Graduated from UCLA Film School in the Mid 60’s -Where Jim was Supposedly was Going to NYC,but for EveryOnes Blessings, Did NOT and Lived on a Roof-Top in Venice Beach, Tripping and Writing Songs and Poetry 👍

My favs r Riders on the Storm,n Light my fire 👏👏👏

Maybe that would explain why the first two albums are by far the best. There are some really good tunes later on too, but only the first two albums are great from start to finish, nearly every song is a memorable masterpiece.

What's your source on the Indian thing? I always heard the story but never about his Dad leaving. And I read quite a bit about the Doors.

His father helped start the Vietnam War

I also read where he was sexually molested as a child! He told his Mother but she didn't believe him. Supposedly by a family friend, male. He resented his Mother because of her unbelief.

I liked the "his brain is squirming like a toad" part because I liked toads. 😊

@WizardOfAus We have the Oedipus complex emerging here, taboo stuff, thousands of years old.

"On"

"Of"

How big is your brother now?

So many lyrics that floored me in my middle teens. The one I rememeber from that erea that was chick bait: "Before you slip into unconsciousness I'd like to have another kiss Another flashing chance at bliss." ~ Crystal Ships

CHRISTOPHER WOOD I like, "I see your hair is burning, hills are filled with fire. If they say I never loved you, you know they are a liar..."

I think they were all unique. Jim was a poet and into literature. Robby learned flamenco guitar before he got into rock. John was into Jazz. Ray was classically trained. Put them all together and you get...

Or Hendrix

Or CCR!!!

T Boudreau , lol...yep

My first two songs at 12 yr old ...."tell all the people" , "you're lost little girl". Made sense to me !

And he's not bad looking either right? It's no surprise that most of the comments are from women.

The dude had charisma oozing from him. Extremely underrated vocalist too imo.

x yz Old women !

Hi lorri, jim fan here, any chance of a bigger pic? Just curious....not that im fat shaming or skinny loving....ive just built up a pic in my head and i need closure....thanks in advance x

@@xyz2121 Jim was SMOKIN' HOT!!!! But, the band was amazingly talented. Truly great music and timeless.

windsordawn Ray was a great example of a great human ☺

Reminds me of Stewart Copeland, another great storyteller

This was purely as I focused on Jim ☺

Alex Jay -Yeah, But EveryOne Knew (Especially, Their Record Label-Electra)Jim was the ‘Poster-Boy’ and a Very Charismatic ‘Front-Man’ and of Course the Bands Trouble Maker Extraordinaire and Visionary

reese bene- preaching to the choir, bro.

Alex Jay - Try to Google or ‘You Tube’, The DOORS PBS Special and Interview in 1969 or 70 -it’s Freakin INSANE -Jim Predicts Rap Music and Dj(s) and the Usage of Computers in Music -Crazy

@@reesebene6082 This is the link below.... yes at approx 29.30 mins in this interview he predicts it... how insane is that WOW! Good spotting Reese ;) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L_qOXEAet2I.html

I've always wanted to know Bob Dylan's thoughts on Jim and the Doors.

Ha no surprise that Ray himself says that!

I call bull shit I’ve heard Ray sing 🤮 There’s a reason he was the organ player and not the lead singer

When does the next one come along? I can't wait!

Denmark

@@Cloud-ok6wy thanks. of course, It was copenhagen.

more like once a millennium

Chris stapleton's pretty interesting

@Linda.... excellent post ! Start with... Riders on the Storm, Moonlight Drive, L.A Woman, Touch Me, Light My Fire ! Enjoy the music ✌😎

We have all been exposed to different things at different times. I can't see any one giving you any grief over that. Might I recommend Peace Frog. Regards.

Linda, the Doors had some very commercial songs on the radio. Touch Me, Light My Fire, Love Me Two Times, Love Her Madly, Hello, I Love You, and People Are Strange. I had tickets to see them perform based on their commercial hits. I bought all the singles and didn’t own any of their albums back then. When Morrison was arrested and convicted, the concert in my town was canceled. It wasn’t until years after Jim died that I heard their more avant-garde music. Some of it I like, some I don’t. That is the beauty of art in all its forms. There is something for everyone to enjoy...or not. 🙂

@@sacluvsBM While I love many Doors songs, that one moves me, especially now since we have to stop the Forever Wars.

I see somebody's night got made

Lori Pond 😁

Smokin Dauberdoo420 So So So TRUE!!!!🤪

Faces look ugly when your alone women seem wicked when your unwanted.

Faces look ugly when you're alone 😊

I visited the site in 1992...Pere Lachaise cemetery. I was shocked at how 'run-down/messy' his grave site was😮 Someone stole the bust in '88. The grave, bust and the neighbouring graves were seriously defaced over time. One of the facing mausoleums was even dismantled. The graffiti was removed several times but kept coming back. In 2004, to combat the desecration, cemetery officials put up metal barricades around the site.

@@pbracey1, they had to, the people that go there mainly to see Morrison's grave are the primary ones that mess the place up. They make it difficult for everyone else.

While you're there check out Chopin, Moliere, Bizet, Seurat, Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, Edith Piaf, Balac, and many more.

I'm glad I got to visit Jim's grave in 92 before the barricade went up. But I also visited the graves of so many other great artists many of whom Jim worshiped. It was only right.

@@itslizmcmahon I saw his grave om the 70's.The madness was just starting.

Son of a US Navy rear admiral who was commander of the US naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

Thanks!