How Jim Morrison Joined The Doors | The Big Interview 

It’s amazing that these two legends are still with us in 2024

I'm glad these two guys can be together without any tensions and reminisce about the best times of their life.

Sophisticated, experienced, intelligent, and physically in great shape, the members of The Doors band. Great respect.

I was doing door-to-door political work in LA circa 1987 when at one house none other than Ray Manzarek opened the door. Nice guy. We had a good convo.

I was in jr high when the doors came out and have loved every album and every song! No other band like the doors! 🚪

Legends never die... Jim is my legend !!

It’s so sad. So many great musicians died way too young. Unfortunately there’s not anyone to carry on the rock and roll music. It sucks. There’ll never be another Jim.

One of the true great bands.

Great to see these two guys together. Thank you The Doors!

I remember in San Diego when I was in the Navy I saw Robby Krieger perform The Doors with his son singing part of the set and then a Jim Morrison look alike came out to sing the rest. It was a wonderful performance!

Dan Rather has a dream job! And he’s earned it. He is curious, and a great listener. He’s always well prepared with great questions. I love these interviews! Keep ‘um coming Mr. Rather. 👍🏻

I'm a big doors fan since the '70s in I've seen a lot of their stuff before and after the internet and I got to say John and Robbie both showed up during this interview and it's one of the best

When I first heard the doors in late 60’s I bought the vinyl. Still love em. This interview is ridiculous. Dreamy memories. “Artists”

Jim Morrison 1943-1971 was a great singer and poet and filmmaker and songwriter and he will be forever missed by the people who were there

How clever hindsightful and articulated and at the same time down to earth and charming, they were a one of a kind band!

This is awesome. Thank you.

Great group and love Dan's interviews.

Never seen them talking about Jim Morrison. Thank you for posting.

Love those guys and love The Doors!!! Jim passed away before I was here but got to see The Doors when Ian from The Cult did a concert with them. Amazing show.

It's great to hear from these 2 two less well known Doors. I love their spirit.

Thank you Dan ,John and Robbie ❤. JO JO IN VT 💞

Lead singer of INXS gave off those Morrison vibes.🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼

One of a kind, instead of big I think you should name this one THE GREAT INTERVIEW . Thank you Mr. Rather .

The Doors released six studio albums in five years. Albums that are still unique and classic originals. There's no comparison.

Jim was a genius... With many personal problems self-created or not we really don't know. He was a private person, the more we seem to discover about him the less we know. It's what happens to me to me... I have been reading everything about him since I was a teenager and I know very little, however, Jim was an incredibly interesting person and a great artist.

Very Interesting 👍 Saw the Doors Twice....they were something!

How he "joined"?? Morrison was the co creator of the whole thing (band) together with Ray Manzarek.

2:05 I'm sure Jim took that drawn bow string metaphor from Nietzsche, he was such a reader

Dan Rather on the Bus! Great Interviews!

An example of what happens when four great musicians end up together

An L.A. woman told me I was strange while I was waiting for the sun as I watched the soft parade from my Morrison hotel window. Yea... Peace on earth.

I'm so glad to see and hear you, teacha's!

Time for another DOORS Tour with IAN 😎✌

Jim Morrison reminds me of the 'Lake Side Poets' of the 18th. century, the imagery the alcohol and other drug-induced state is on par with them. Although many have entered this state some have even produced literature and songs from being in its grasp, few have returned from it, at least not completely.

Dan's Great

Jim came up with the name. He and Ray started the Doors. Robbie and John joined them.

This great interview is just an excerpt. Only 9 mins. Where can we find the entirety of this interview? Anyone?

Jim should of gotten sober and shown his true essence. I bet the doors would have gone through the seventies reinvented and gotten better. His voice on love her madly is magical to my ears. The band was magical. What a bummer jim died .

Dan Rather?? Didnt know he was still around.he hasnt aged in 40 years

A great asset to the band I’m sure

Joined? Or founded?

Jim Morrison didn't meet or join the Doors, he named the Doors.

I always felt the doors are a bunch of tamers trying to tame a self-destructing mythical creature.

Out of all things I always saw Jim Morrison as a writer first.

Jim was an intellectual bookish individual who if he didn't get into this life, he would have been a college professor of English.

How these guys must miss him...

..he used dovetail joints and a strong wood resin...

He didn't joined The Doors, he found the band with Ray Manzarek

By saying…. WAZZZUPP

wow, I look at the two and try to imagine how it would have been if jim was with them too...

Jim didn't join the doors. He was the doors.

All my life I listened to great musicians. Jim Morrison was the first - and only - 'music legend' that connected with me. All of the other guys I admired were brilliant musicians but boring individuals. Jim came at me with the force of a hurricane. His music, his image, his lifestyle. Jim sweeps you up and holds you in his majesty. He hits you from all sides. He pummels you like Muhammed Ali. Jim Morrison was a rare human being: A dark demented Messiah.

He just ran into them.

instantly clicked

Maybe initially Jim used alcohol to get over his stage fright and because many other writers were drinkers so he was exploring that myth.

I thought Jim and Ray were the original Doors.

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Jim was gonna be bigger then Elvis he was unique as Fu%k

He saw the Magic....just wanted to Share it...original Magic jumps from silent reading at home or The Library of Congress.

Jim "joined" the Doors? No, Jim did NOT join the Doors! Jim and Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger and John Densmore FORMED the Doors together. There was no existing Doors band for Jim to join! Ray and his brothers had a band, he saw Jim after college who showed him some songs he wrote and Ray said, "Let's start a band!" John came along on drums and played with Ray & Jim sang along with the other Manzarek brothers who quit, and then Robby came along and THEN they BECAME the Doors which was a new band with a new name. Jim did NOT join The Doors!

How awesome is this? That Dan Rather's casual projection of all mistakes in human nature, to say something as assuming as 'how much longer' it would take to write a song the way Jim Morrison would transcribe his experiences to the band, then when Robby has to correct Mr. Rather exclaiming, "No, it actually was a lot faster". ( to paraphrase ) lmao. Because not only is was Dan Rather's mistake a common one for the average interviewer, professional or not, it really reveals how we all think that way.. how we all make assumptions, but for what? I don't need to hear Dan's assumptions on what he thought would have been faster ( just as much as you don't need to hear me whining about this). I mean , does he (Dan) have musical experiences that we don't know about ? Was Dan Rather mystical? lol I still don't get these Dan Rather rock and roll interviews. Then again, I also don't understand the point of the Rolling Stone magazine beyond say, the '70s. I'd rather hear an interview through a contemporary who is also in the field of music, and preferably from that era ...although I could think of interesting combinations, but not Dan Rather.

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Is Dan Rather an honest man?

Says he doesn't know if that's what Jim meant, then goes on to explain the exact same thing as the meaning of Jim's words.

Axs I'm the author of EIGHT DAYS IN AN INNER CITY SCHOOL please talk about the out of control OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING for k-12 teachers that's why we have teacher shortages

WE ALL KNOW THIS MEETING OF THE MINDS!!! While the song “Hang On Sloopy” was playing in the background, Jimbo was walking on the beach and bumped into Ray Manzerek who was meditating.

Jim's father drove the world's biggest battle ship during a US war? or not? My Dad was vile and powerful. This impacts kids forever. I'm glad to learn he had songs and melodies in his head) Singing your mind is dangerous. Ask a Presiident.

Jim Morrison did not "join" the Doors. Manzarek and Jim were acquainted in College and Manzarek dug Morrison's writings. It was not a joining as much as it was an "evolving "

What does your title even mean??? Jim STARTED The Doors, he didn't join them.

What if Jim was exposed to the writings of Karl Barth?

How did ZJim.become Rush Limbaugh??? Google picture hit images compare the hands while smoking Unreal.

morrison is a hard to place figure in music then & legacy wise now. as they pointed out, he had no music experience in the past & couldnt read music, nor play any instrument. that in itself is almost unprecedented in the annals of commercial music.... secondly, he was very inconsistent. he could have terrible nites live in wh/ he could be straight up destructive. & on the 3rd & 4th album, he could put out some material, that at best was just filler.... 3rd, the bands sound was unique & they had talent, but it also had a component of a mixture of croon lounge lizard meets campy gothic.... so, the doors fit in this odd place on rock's shelf in that era & in legacy. its also why many peers in the indust didnt like them & many today downplay them.... but heres the thing, kind of like w/ dennis hopper in acting, at the same time w/ morrison, you knew there was something not only unique, but also brave & potentially very powerful. to be a fan, you had to give them rope. b/c w/ morrison, his strong suit, that separated him from the pack was his sense of theater, film soundscore & narrative. like experimental stage, you knew there would be off nites & material, but you also knew something powerful singular could rise to the surface. & even his honest detractors will admit that.... when off, a nasty trainwreck or half baked concept, but when on, pin drop, stunning power, esp live or on record. if one is fair, even if you dont like them, they deserve their due for their highwater works and moments. b/c when they hit gold, they struck unique mother veins. remember the end & WTMO were in full form by the summer of '66. go back and listen to all the music that year, on either side of the atlantic, contracted or underground. no, one was in the zipcode of those songs, except maybe the velvet undergrd. Or listen to their pop rock songs, like light my fire, people are strange or touch me, in that venue they could shine too w/ almost an anthem epic feel... morrison understood lyrical hooks, thematic irony, symbolist layered meaning & he knew how to project it on stage when he was on his A game w/ palpable intensity, bordering on danger. he was a literature, philosophy, theater, film devotee who could arrange thematic ideas into dense unique forms of moody rock. he also understood violence, power & america's hidden but powerful relatioinship w/ it. no one like him then or sense w/ those same talents & sensibilities. in some ways, savant, considering his lack of musical background. bowie, is probably his closest peers in regards to his unique gifts he had in melding theater, poetry, literature to rock.

I get aggravated at all the low-IQ people who bring up the incident from singing The End at the Whiskey. Jim was a voracious reader of classic literature, and that was nothing more than a reference to the Oedipal Complex. It was from a play written by Sophocles called Oedipus Rex.

Sorry, I don't get it. Super lyricist...if you think "like a dog without a bone" is eloquent. John Fogerty and Ronnie Van Zant are several ranks above Jim Morrison and they never flopped around on the stage floor to be "artistic"..

When you do not understand Jim Morrison, you over intellectualize your analysis of him. You either "get" him, or you don't.

With a Hinge and Bracket? Two UK comedians/comidiennes (allegedly). I went into my local record store once - I asked - "What do you have by the Doors?" Answer - "A fire extiguisher and a sand bucket". You couldn't make it up! Actually, I did; well, I stole it from a real comedian.

I think Jim Morrison dying made him a bigger star. He was also an alcoholic so that was the real demise.

I loved their musicianship but I LOATHED and DESPISED the singing. He loved that one single note so much he sang that one single note through every single song he ever sung. I cannot describe how much his singing BORED ME TO TEARS. I know, I will catch a lot of flack for this but the doors is probablhy the one band I never want to listen to

Jim M was an army brat, whose father was responsible for Gulf of Tonkin.

Ok they were not fired for that they did a lot worse

Those lyrics were just those of a drug addict drunk for shock value that put them more on the map and I love The Doors and Morrison

Paid actors

Can't stand Jim Morrison which in turn leads to not liking the Doors in the slightest. Crazy, huh?

I always found his 'poetry' extremely trite and contrived. Its really bad...