He had the smoothest voice in the world. A voice you could easily fall asleep smiling to. His poetry reads like wonderfully new, yet old lullabyes. Brilliant. Such an inspiration.
He was a very educated man. He said school came easy for him. And its very obvious that he was well spoken and had a very large vocabulary. His comand of the english language was exquisit. Very thoughtful.Way beyond his years on this wonderful world we live in.
Very educated man, very clever, what a voice even when he talks... it's like a lullaby sometimes. I think he was a good person, he needed other things, and to be understood. I think his death is a shame because he was so alone, and depressed and there have been many lies. Thank you Jim wherever you are.
+ThePoet Who Wrote It..... A very "groovy" and "right-on" time to be a teenager - I got to live through it and even met my first love in the summer of love, 1967. There was no better time for music and romance - good luck studying Jim M.!
David Ludford Welcome. Yeah, he was. This writer REALLY dug deep all the way back to his childhood; to the incident at the Miami; and his death in Paris. Good Stuff.
Jim talks about how great music of the 60's is ... he was so right. It was golden age for music and he knew it. I love the sound of his voice, and like others have posted, he is lucid and relaxed. What a loss. No modern personalities like this since. Michael Hutchence wanted to be Jim, but didn't make the cut. I like him, may they both rest in peace, but Jim had an intelligence and depth (when he wasn't drunk) about him that was genuine; he was brilliant. He burned out his life way too soon.
Nicholas Andrew Salazar I have never watched/listened to a CC interview. I was saddened by his death, but outside of his music, I knew little about him. I’ll have to check it out.
I met Jim when Billy Squire and I opened up for The Doors and John Lennon. I was 19 or 20 and left our dressing room and I was roaming the walkways getting ready to open our show. Jim was leaning upon a wall in a dark dingy walkway leading to The backstage area. I was a Doors aficionado and loved Morrison’s lyrical genius. I some how gather the nerve to approach
Was he joking? I kinda feel that but have no idea that he might joke like that with watching Ray talk about him. I've met a couple heros, luckily they were nice and took the time with everyone there to sign and take pics
It's a pleasant surprise to hear him talking so calmly, thoughtfully, and unpretentiously. No posturing or speechifying, just a very intelligent and genial young man who would behave civilly if introduced to your aunt. Would probably offer to help out with the dishes.
moses wapshot In another part of this interview, Jim even graciously offers to order some take-out lunch for Howard. Jim figures Howard must be hungry by now, since it is around lunchtime. Howard's 'gracious' response is to point out that Jim has put on weight and asks if he's been eating a lot. Really? How much ruder & more insulting can you possibly be? If I was in Jim's shoes, that would have been the end of interview right then & there. Jim handled it well, tho', and didn't let it get the best of him. Bravo, Jim!
@@gewizz2 He liked his cigars. Deeper research finds he was a victim of mk ultra and CIA... They made him out to look like a druggie womanizer ushering in the lsd hippy masses when he was an intellectual, a poet and genius. Faked death and was recycled back into the system as Rush Limbaugh (who just died from lung cancer). Truth is stranger than fiction. I hope the truth comes out one-day.
what a kind, thoughtful, intelligent man. All of those artists in the 60's/70's were so down-to-earth and REAL. They seemed to truly care about what was happening around them instead of giving penny-worth opinions on all the typical hollywood/industry gossip BS that's constantly in the spotlight these days.
Jim was from the Hippie generation... a movement that had a social conscience and the beginning of concern for the environment. I was in that same movement....Americas finest H O U R..! ! !
It’s so interesting how arrogant he looks sometimes but in his interviews he’s very down to earth and simple. He’s often doing something very normal, eating, having a cup of coffee or just chilling.
Yes, very down to earth. And I'd guess that 'arrogance' if that's what it even was, was just him being so naturally gorgeous, like a modern day statue of David.
I really enjoyed listening to this interview. I think it show's a side of Jim Morrison that others, including myself may have never known. So thank you for sharing.
This interview makes me sad. I remember when the Doors first album came out. What a unique sound they had. I played that album over and over again. Jim had such a presence on stage. So unique.It’s so tragic that just felt the need to destroy himself at such a young age.
It also shows his great sense of humour, I can only imagine what he could have achieved if he hadn't self destructed, a loss for the art world in general.
This is by far the best interview with Jim I've ever heard! It's so nice to hear him being a bit light-hearted. You really get a sense of his personality. It's great! Thanks for sharing! Love my Jim.
Being 60, the music of The Doors is part of my youth, and I love it. Until listening to this, however, I didn't really have an opinion about Morrison's personality. This interview has made me appreciate him as a very bright man. His death is truly a loss for us all.
Jim was so measured in his responses. Very articulate and well spoken. He was an intellectual as well as a rock star. I wish we had so many more recordings and more footage of him. When you listen to him or watch him it feels like he's still with us. Like the band are just on hiatus and he'll be on stage again in the Summer exuding sex appeal and danger as he always did.
I love this interview. I think morrison is drinking coffee. In any event, he sounds sober. Or way sober enough. Anyway, he's wonderful. You can see more of his very true self. I wish the poisen of alcohol hadnt destroyed this wonderful spirit. The interviewer must be the same pompous arse that annoyed john lennon in that famous in-bed press round-up with yoko ono. Anyway, john lennon and jim morrison were stellar people and authentically kind. They even tried to sincerely accommodate all the self-important, arrogant baffoon journalists! I am none-the-less extremely grateful for this interview. I feel like i'm with the real jim morrison... and it's a soft, funny, interesting, delicate, and wonderful place to be... thank you fir the clip...
+Brenda Anne Du Faur l met and spoke with Ray... He was Jims best most loyal friend in the band and refused to take the $10,000 a day that the others two took to advise Oliver Stone when the movie was made, because of the way Jim was being portrayed as a drunk etc. So if yoo watch the movie yoo will see the 'Thanks giving' scene and notice how Ray is portrayed as an ass.That was the dirty trick Stone played on him..Ray was a genuine person, who invited me backstage in Santa Rosa, because l had done a sculpture of Jim and he wrote a dedication on a photo of it, later he contacted me thru Danny Sugarman and asked if l would give a copy to Jims mother who had seen it and wanted it. l was elated and it was all l ever needed out of that piece.
I love Jim's speaking voice too! His IQ was rumored t be in 160s n when sober was quite witty & articulate.One fatal flaw as he was in love with Pamela who was a junkie. Conspiracy theories abound but I think she wore him down n he let her shoot him up. He went to Paris I'll & fighting alcoholism, while she crashed he took a bath n OD"d!!!!
+Walter Butler Is this all you do all day? Denegrate long dead famous people for fun? What an odd hobby and what a small, insecure person you must be. I imagine you surrounded by dirty laundry and filth in your shitty little apartment. Don't be late for your shift at Burger King. That is, if you work at all.
Jim was a very ariudite dude,his influence on rock and popular culture is still felt today,one always has to remember your listening to a young man,he never got old like the Rolling Stones,it’s a young person views of that era..
These are great, these old interview tapes. Cuz I grew up in the 80s listening to the Doors and hearing Jim make the big statements on stage ("I am the Lizard King" and all that), but I never got to hear him just have a normal conversation, in normal time, with anyone. In many respects, he just comes off as a normal dude (or at least he talks like one). Thanks for the posts.
thank you for the posting of this interview.......i have read it in Jerry Hopkins book , The Lizard King: The essential Jim Morrison......its one thing to read, but listening to it almost makes it almost surreal, i also got to view it with my son.....we are big fans of the doors, and having the opportunity to learn more about one of the most influential person and band in our lives is great....so thank you very much for this post......the quality of it almost makes u feel like u r there
Morrison was a very introspective person. I think he sort of stumbled into the rock star thing, became good at it, quickly tired of it and then retreated to being a non-musical poet (his true nature) again.
Now... he said that a true friend is able to embrace one's virtues and flaws... imagine that wonderful, crazy, mental, inteligent, lost, confused, brave and weak soul to be your friend, hero and coward, the king and the pauper.. it is a challenge... being his friend was a journey through someone's soul... soul that was not a savana on gentle breeze, but universe with all its beauty, wisdom, fear and eternity... this is how I see him... but, on the other hand, this is how I see every human.
Well... The Italians and Irish both are Catholic which have different values than Protestant based families. Of course Jim is talking about American born Italians and Irish which were minorities in the USA. That is the connection .
I saw the Doors at the Whiskey a Go-go in 1965,I was 15,snuck in,he mingled in the crowd.Great show!Ray Manzerak said in an interview after Jim's death,that Jim wasn't drunk all the time, drank maybe 10% of the time,but usually very intelligent,kind person
Jim Morrison, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern ...musical lightning rods. Great to hear Jim mention his affinity for these other great revolutionary artists of the twentieth century.
I doubt that Jim is enjoying everything about the opportunity, but it is allowing him to show who he really is, and yes, the light sparring gives him the opportunity to shock the world by being surprisingly possessing of common sense, & a pretty moral guy with a sense of humor-when he wasn't out murdering someone in the desert, of course.
I wish so intently that our society could have saved Jim. He was so intelligent and artistically gifted and was such an accident of the times. I grew up then. And it was such an accidental and tragic loss. We need more Jim Morrisons.
Jim also had to search for the right answer because there were so many things he couldn't say or would be unwise to say, so he had to search for a way to say it-to be saying something worth saying-without saying what he really couldn't.
Compare his voice and manner with the ignorant rap artists of today. He might have been a wild man on stage, but he is at least intelligent and well read.
To go from zero singing chops to emitting one of the best voices caught on tape--vinyl. His real father did an interview with Jim's sister in the 2000s(his Dad died in 2008.) You can surmise his Dad was the old-fashioned cliche of a prickish military Dad of the 50s that hated that his son was an artist and intellectual. That small interview spoke a lot. "Father?".....Yes, son?......"I want to kill you." From Doors' song, "The End" Check it out.
They say that when the DOORS first started, Jim sang to the crowd with his back to them..He was a very shy person, Genius IQ level, Loved his drugs, (Especially alchol) loved TACOS, and his poetry and words to songs were basically UNBELIEVABLE...😀☺😀☺😎😎😎
Jim:Who do you like the best? (assuming Interviewer indicates to Jim) Jim:I knew it! Interviewer: How did you know it? Jim:Cos your hair... is so curly. (:
Jim was Jim. There were none like him. To go from unemployed nobody to your first rock band, which just happens to be the Doors, would certainly confirm your belief in your own spirit and ideas. He was a shaman, that is, one who sacrifices his sanity and personality for the rest of the tribe. Shamans were part of the human experience for millenia. He was a modern version of the one who goes outside this world and travels to the next.
Richard Bexborn yeah, me, too - his demeanor with her seems so natural, laid back and easy going. I think he was good at interacting with kids, because he had a childlike spirit, himself. He was in tune with them & they could sense that, so it created good vibes both ways.
I'm sure this is who he really was and people probably expect Jim to come off in an interview as if he were performing on stage. Thanks for putting this up. He's interesting to listen to unplugged.
Haha, Jim plays the "putting on the spot game with the question "who do you like the best" but when the question is put back at him he's very vague...haha
thank you jeff ! Wasn't trying to come off like a Prophet or a poet there, its just the way I saw Jim Morrison I was 14 yrs old when Light my Fire was number one all over the country He was quite the Rock persona back then
Response to question about his Irish humor: “Hey, should we make him an honorary member of our Irish Socialist Anarchist Conservative Revolutionary Party?” 😂😂
It's funny hearing Jim already calling 50's rock and roll classic/ early rock and music from 1970 modern music when it's only 12 to 15 year removed from that period
thank you for actually agreeing with me. and that's exactly it, he was very studious and articulate, he liked to get out his thoughts clearly. but I don't know, with jim I honestly think he could have been drunk. if you read the other doors members' memoirs and stuff, they say that it got pretty severe. to the point where all day everyday, jim was just drinking. but, they've also said that even while drunk, he was still somewhat coherent. so he could very well have been drunk in this interview.
Jeg tror bare at mange havde ondt i røven fordi han bare gjorde som han ville.Folk siger tit at Jim var ensom men jeg tror at han godt kunne lide at være sig selv fremfor at han blev kontaktet af folk og gramset på af folk.Jeg tror at Jim var nem at tale med fordi han var høflig overfor folk som interviewede ham.Jim vi savner dig.RIP.
this is a really good save here, i noticed alot of what jim says about being heavy in school etc etc. was used in the movie the doors and again in the documentary when youre strange
