New Order Comes to mind. But they were different before new order. But not just New Order, there were a lot of electronica bands pre MTV era. I think JM would have been a big part of that generation, just like Joan Jett. Joan Jett is still in the background with music, after her album releases sold at record stores.
He also predicted Los Angeles on fire it's on L.A. Woman. "I see your hair is burnin' Hills are filled with fire If they say I never loved you You know they are a liar Drivin' down your freeways Midnight alleys roam Cops in cars, the topless bars Never saw a woman So alone, so alone So alone, so alone"
@@kaecake9575 lol wtf are you talking about? The LA basin has had fires for centuries. Long before humans ever settled it. You should chill on the weed yo.
This is so mind bending. He can imagine something not yet created with such precision but because nothing like it exists he struggles to articulate the concept. It’s like he’s trying to describe a new color
@@jesseoliver936 I don't think I can answer that. I was 8 years old in 1960. The 60's and 70's really molded my musical tastes. My parents were into Country mostly but then Elvis came along and then the Beatles in 64. Any way, here are some of the albums that were mind blowing at the time. Anything from The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. Eat a Peach, Allman Brothers. Black Sabbath, Paranoid. Van Morrison, Moondance. Aqualung by Jethro Tull. Ram, Paul McCartney. Nilson Scmilsson by Harry Nilson ( John Lennon's favorite )Hunky Dory by David Bowie. Frank Zappa, Apostrophe. Anything by Tom Petty. The Doors and LA Woman by the Doors. Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon. Throw in lots of Mo Town and some blues. Wow, there are so many I could go on and on. .I tried to include some lesser known stuff. ZZ Top, Paul Butterfield, Janis Joplin Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Dylan, Cream, ELO, The Kinks, Bob Seger, Billy Joel, The Beach Boys, Wilson Pickett, Muddy Waters, Michel Jackson. I enjoyed reminiscing, I haven't thought about this for many years. Thanks.
Andrea La Gamba Music is as good as it ever was. Perhaps you are talking about pop music? If you are then it's you who sucks as it means that you don't know how to find good music.
Andrea La Gamba Just because you and your friends don't like something doesn't make it bad. Open your mind, i dont get how natural selection misses you old fucks.
gee sad I agree. music has went to crap. its not about feeling or originality anymore. everyones selling out for the fastest way to get a million bucks. nothing is personal, or comes from the heart. these 'stars' are jokes compared to the legends.
nickserio35 No you disagree. I think music has got MORE original. Digital audio workstations and software allow you to create sounds that nobody has ever heard before and some fucktards are still strumming guitars. I've heard guitars before i'm fucking sick of real instruments. I want to experience something new.
What he was saying in Paris after LA Woman was that he wanted to get into some pure Blues. Even jammed with some musicians in 71 playing blues before he overdosed.
And rap music rap is rooted in folkish black blues and poetry like souther trap rap music that influenced most hip hop stuff is like that mixed with a use of recordings and tapes aka sampling music from other songs even rock songs are those recordings min predicts and the tapes are like the beats that are rapped to. Your right also that it sounds like edm he basically described both.
well back then i think the only reason he knew this was because a lot of ppl in this generation knew that technology was gonna eventually get better and bigger it was just a matter of time
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Jim Morrison. A UCLA Graduate. Had an I.Q. of 149. Read thousands of books. Wrote thousands of poems. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, he was in a band called The Doors.
Because of Manzarek’s experimentation with keyboards replacing the bass and early synthesisers. They knew where instruments were evolving, and if you can have a band with no bass player, then the future is one individual performing all machines, but yeah he’s a genius of course 👏🏽
It is amazing, but it's not shocking. Same way you and I can envision that in 10 or 20 years from now, artificial intelligence will walk among us, do our daily chores, help us with our routines, assist us in many different ways and etc. It is not a ground breaking discovery to understand where technology would go when you have the basics of it. If Jim's prediction was done in 1800 then it would've been shocking.
@@cristodimarti201that can be so true but they had to use real bass guitar on their last album. They got to Elvis’s bass player Jerry Scheff at last. That’s the beginning time of electronic keyboards it’s call moog synthesizer.
Because it was already happening. There were huge advances in tape music and electronic music between the 40's and the 60's, you already had people like Raymond Scott experimenting with sequencers and self-contained music "computers" in the 50's. Morrison was definitely aware of synthesizers because he played one on their second record, so he wasn't in the dark about what was going on in music at the time. Still it was a fringe thing at the time, so he still accurately predicted things that were yet impossible to envision.
Wow, stunning he just predicted rap music, disco music, and electric synthesized music I mean it's all there if you really listen to this , it is really profound. The man was pure genius
Jim was way ahead of his time. His true talent was writing. His books of verse/poetry are brilliant. A true legend that spent a short time here but will live on forever.
He was dead-on, and me being an engineer and producer of my own records [using a midi-keyboard, a drum-pad, and a wide variety of synthesizers, samplers, and effects-plugins], it's so amazing how he predicted and seemingly was in favor of what a modern-day musician would look like & how we'd operate.
Not to diminish his IQ or his talents, which were plentiful, but the fact that he saw these things coming in 1969 isn’t really that amazing to me. The writing was already on the wall by then. Huge technological advancements were being made in both musical instruments/equipment, as well as with recording technology. Just listen to the albums that came out during the decade-long period of 1965 through 1975, in chronological order. The evolution was absolutely incredible. Synthesizers were a brand new thing (in 1969) that some bands were already starting to dabble in. The Beatles did it that very year on Abbey Road. So, here’s Jim, right in the middle of this big quantum leap in technology, speculating that it will eventually lead to an electronic form of popular music, where one person will use electronic devices to manipulate sounds. It really wasn’t much of a stretch to see that coming in 1969. Again, it doesn’t take anything away from the fact that he was an incredibly talented and intelligent person.
P403N1X thats why skrillex is who he is he couldve been a dick and claimed the whole thing but he paid homage to jim morrison because he knew it would happen and sonny wanted to bring his words to life
P403N1X Not realy... EDM from that time has more incommon with RnB and Disco. Skrillex owes his carrier to Morder more than Morrison... And Now adays he owes his carrer more to Ritchie Hawtin since he has gone to Ibiza for the past 2 years and spun Tech house and techno sets... What happens to a genre innovator when that genre dies..... SKRILLEX!
He wasn't all that far off, as one year later in Germany, Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider would form a band that used electric instruments and synthesizers called Kraftwerk, often cited as the fathers of Electronica/Dance
"I can kind of envision maybe one person with a lot of machines, tapes and electronic setups singing or speaking and using machines. " He basically predicted DubFX
Jim Morrison was truly an amazing person with an amazing personality and an amazing inteligence and an amazing soul !!! What a sweet guy he is here. Amazing :-) He was such an interesting person. I wish he was still around :-( We'll... He gave as much as he could of himself,so hail to Jim. Resting In Paris xxx Mochim Shab Genu Ashanu Medim Jim. ;-)
For me, Jim is predicting electronic music (obviously), but also rap. I think Jim would have been intrigued by the new wave of artists deriving from the hip-hop culture.
Love all the comments but he actually predicted Pink Floyd's new sound when they pioneered electronics into The Dark Side of the Moon and then Wish You Were Here. Take time to look into that. He had the timeline down right about 5 years... 1973 and 1975 respectively. Jim and the Doors actually used a Moog Synthesizer on the Strange Days track in '69 but didnt dabble beyond that he must've seen that's where Rock was headed. Germany had messed with electronics in music but wasnt true rock. Hope yall enjoy this. Please add to if I'm missing something.
henry landivar The electric guitar changed things, then pedals, etc. The Germans were doing freaky things (shocking.) Everything was pointing to electronics being the next big wave of improvements in society. He was an intelligent guy and deep in the industry. This clip is good, not mind blowing like you said.
He is right here about it all. The problem with all the technology, tapes, sounds etc, is that they don't translate well the the stage. So as he says, it gets back to where it started, the basics of instrumentation.
What jim actually was referring to was the usage of electronica in the context of blues and rock and roll. Which means dance/physical music. Electronic music up until then was for the most part a more cerebral/classical affair. In that sense, he was definitely ahead of the curve. Besides, ray manzarek's playing does seem to predict some elements of current electronic music, such as looping basslines and rythmic keyboard stabs.
It's such a shame he couldn't control his addictions. He didn't need any of it, he was intelligent and talented without all of that. Who knows what he would have created. Considering The Doors never sounded like anyone else before or after, they probably would have created some amazing music. Only a year or two later Brian Eno would come into the music world.
There was an attitude shared by a lot of people back around '69-70 that rock was dying out - John Lennon said something along those lines in his famous 1970 Rolling Stone interview, and of course The Doors came up with the song Rock Is Dead. Luckily, they were wrong, at least for the time being. But the electronic thing Morrison talks about here was just starting to happen, mainly in musical academia, but also in Germany (Krautrock). By the mid 70s, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream were happening, and Klaus Schulze was recording and performing live entirely on his own.
the Silver Apples were already a thing back then, but i don’t think their level of recognition was big yet. Jim, in many ways, was ahead of his time. rest in peace.
I'm seeing a lot of debate over what he meant. Clearly he means MODERN music. I say that because it covers all of the music past his time. He isn't talking about dubstep specifically, rap or anything else, he is talking about all music. We live in an age where if you are armed with a computer the next big album can come from your room. of course a lot of people think he might just be thinking about dubstep cuz skrillex slipped this sample in one of his tracks but look at the big picture.
People freak out when they hear this interview as if he was some kind of messiah. But what really happens is that electronic music was born in the late 60thies and he was a music lover who paid attention to the newer trends. The first electronic music concert was on 1935 if you look in the Internet you would find it. It was not mainstream but it had already happened. Also Theremin, Moogs, Vocoder and LFO was invented before the fifties.Even the Doors music relies on electronic synths. We can say the Doors was part of that revolution.
Depends what you define as electronic music. Whatever happened in 35” couldn’t have been practical. But you’re right it was already around just not mainstream.
The Doors used a MOOG on Strange Days, and he already had knowledge of the mellotron which acted as a synth would, so he was basing his prediction on these two things.
Theres Jim tripping in a dark, candle lit vocal booth gazing at the recording studio engineers hands and fingers as he works the knobs and sliders. An instrumental Doors mix blasts in Jim's headphones. Marveling over the technology, he imagines himself sitting there in front of the machines, pressing the buttons and tweaking the knobs to some black blues beatnick rhythm with spoken word poetry music. "if only i had some beats" he thinks to himself.
@MichaelJohn5570 you're also speaking to a musician, I'm just saying back then, ppl said the same things about those rock songs, its a new era with new ppl sayin the same things about new music, its good to some ppl, others dont care for it, I play drums & bass in a classic rock cover band as a class for my major in college and we study why the classics are still heard and being played today, but also i open itunes & have skrillex TDWP ADTR, WCAR, Slipknot, and i love it all :)
He was not only very articulate, well read and well spoken, he had great perspective, vision and foresight. Unfortunately, he also suffered from the usual plight of geniuses and emotionally disturbed people.. He felt the need to change and tinker and adjust his realm to make it more interesting and favorable to tolerate.
"I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard." John Cage, 1937. Not saying Jim was wrong. He was just about 30 years late on that idea.
I'm pretty sure Jom knew that this was not an original idea, and that he wouldn't have been embarrassed by anyone realizing that it wasn't, b/c he wasn't trying to make them think it was. He was just saying that, of the possible options for music, this is one he believed would happen. He wouldn't have thought people would think it was original b/c so many people were talking about electronic music, Cage, etc. Zappa said more about it than Jim. That's real history, folks.
I think that he was making a comment on numerous things. One of which would've been Psychedelic music, which was the "electronic" music of its day, and was made electronicly with "Tapes" as Jim said. I think he was basicly saying that " this psychedelic music that has become so popular over the past couple of years will be the future of music and how its made".
Incredible. He seems as though he is completely out of his mind but he is spot on! Kids now love country and rap-r&b. They hate rock. A person with machines speaking or singing. Wow. He was a genius!
1:37 I'M BREAKING A SWEAT IT'S ALRIGHT! Seriously though, what a great interview. It's only becoming more and more relevant as music technology evolves.
Hah everyone keeps saying "Wow he was so accurate!" - meanwhile his band were on the frontier of using electronic keyboards in their music - Light My Fire for example has an iconic electronic organ melody in it... They knew what was coming cause they were at the forefront of using this new technology
@@quantum.9883 Yes, but Manzarek was fulfilling two roles in the band instead of one: organist and bassist, using his Vox organ and Fender keyboard bass, which I don't think anyone else had done before (Felix Cavaliere, Graham Bond and others used bass pedals on their Hammond B3s). The Doors also made early use of the Moog synthesizer on the song Strange Days in 1967. So they were taking the first steps of incorporating electronic keyboards and music into rock & roll. Someone else commenting here also made note that many of Ray's keyboard bass riffs were repetitive patterns, so the next logical step would have been to program those bass lines.
i'm 16 and i produce electronic music as a hobby. i hear people all the time saying how electronic music (dubstep, electro, house) will never be as the orginal music. don't take me wrong, i will always have respect for the pioneers of music, but when it comes to music, it doesn't matter what instrument you play, its what you can make out of what you have. our generation was blessed with technology. thererfore i will use it to my advantage. music is music either way. trust me. i know.
Dubstepp has no vib my man! The electronic dance scene is just starting to scratch the surface...long time listener of trance, house, and progressive! Can't wait to hear and see what the future of E.D.M. scene brings! Thank God for music!
I think what's most interesting is that what he was envisioning wasn't oriented around what he himself was doing. Most people who try to predict what changes will happen tend to say things that are obviously them, but with new tools. He was envisioning one guy with machines, when he was the member of a band. He was a singer but envisioned someone even just talking(ie rap).
