The Doors 1967 Interview - Mike Lazar & Steve Flesser, Pierce College, Oswego, NY 

Jim thinks before he speaks, takes his pauses, this guy is facinating to listen to, soothing, very brilliant guy, Jim Morrison rest in peace my friend😎

Morrison's intelligence and eloquence is evident in the way he speaks. legend

Love how Jim goes on talking about the first place they played. He gives the names of everyone there and tells the sad story of the owner who was dying of cancer. It's sort of funny how the interviewer seems to be almost desperate to ask someone else something because him takes forever to answer any questions with his long pauses interrupted by deep breaths that he takes. On another note, I find it quite remarkable how Jim bother to memories the name of everyone who worked at that establishment. He seemed to be fascinated by people.

The Atmosphere of a Dying Arcade was how Jim described Venice. Jim was always great at painting a picture with words. The questions are inane but it’s great to hear all four Doors talk anyway so to me this a great interview because it’s just when they were getting big in 1967. Thanks for posting this! The Doors Forever!

I've got the feeling that the interviewers think Morrison was stoned, he doesn't get to speak very much, but that's the way he always spoke. (He could be stoned, but that doesn't mean you can't be coherent) I love to listen to his interviews thru the years, he's got a lot of insight in the world around him, and seemed wise beyond his years.

"Does it have any significance you to you fellas in terms of a calling of life?" *Silence* A deep, profound voice answers - "Death" "'Death', you think it correlates with death?" "That's what I just said"

Jim speaks so slowly and melodically with care you just have to love it.

Jim's answer was so logical about a student's academic life and social life. The interviewer that challenged Jim's view ends up agreeing with him saying, "exactly". I cracked up laughing.

@poorthello.....I was in the locker room with the Doors for the duration of the interview. Ray used the expletive early in the session and again very clearly and definitely near the end of the interview when asked what he wanted to say to the group's fans. Jim was nowhere near the microphone at that point and was leaning against a bank of lockers far behind the other members of the group. Jim Morrison was never vulgar during the interview or when the band members were doing promos for us.

"that's what I just said..." haha love jim

The interviewers sound like the police

Man I wish I could have heard more about the London fog and all that. Amazing that we even have Jim talking about it.

Jim turns the tables on the guy at the end. He says: Hi, I’m Steven Flesser and your listening to the Jim Morrison show! Hilarious!

Mike Lazar doesnt even know that Jim wasnt asking "Whats the difference?" He answered that there's no difference between touring and one night stands.Mike doesn't get it then he gives an explanation but that question was rhetorical and it just flew straight over dummy Mikes unwittingly head! Us fans knew what the mastermind Jim meant! Whoa that blew me away!😅

I love how relaxed Jim is

It was an honor to meet the one and only Mr. Stephen Flesser ! How crazy he got to interview our band on the same day of this interview but 50 years later....! 🙏🏼🤘🏼

Thanks for loading and sharing this, its brilliant. I love how Jim is sooo naturally uber cool, and especially when he is talking about very early gigs at the "London Fog" a very small club in LA. Jim makes a point of naming all the people who worked there, Jim was very obviously a real peolle person, it's a pity the interviewer didnt respond or engage with Jims story telling.

Around ~ 22:00 Jim talking about performing on the Ed Sullivan Show the next week, a now infamous performance where he sang “Girl we couldn’t get much HIGHER” against the shows wishes! He says in this interview because it’s live “ya never know what will happen” and the he “is looking forward to it”! What a premonition... I love it !

That was great. I was only a few months old then but hearing that gives me a smile. Especially toward the end of the interview. What a sense of humor.

😅 I thought it was a FBI and CIA interrogation...but could see Jim rolling his eyes and the slow baritone reply laced with sarcasm 😂

My roommate in 1967 was Richard Roman, whom I had gone to school with since kindergarten. He asked if I was going to the concert that evening for our freshman class. I said probably; the group had a hit this summer, Light my Fire, that I liked. The upper class was pissed cause only us freshmen got to go. A few months later we had a “sock hop” at the ballroom; the live band was Tommy James and the Shondells. Another group that had a number 1 hit that performed in the gym was the Buckinghams, followed by Jay and the Americans. Carlos Mentoya and his flamenco guitar performed, rounded out by a string quartet. Rod Sterling from Rochester stoped by for a presentation shortly before his death. I feel like Forest Gump remembering this incredible year. After my first year I lost my student deferment and received a draft notice. My abject fear was being drafted, carrying a 100 pound nap sack, M16 and drowning in the Mekong Delta, so I enlisted in the Air Force, spent 18 month is in Okinawa, two months in Da Nang, and 20 months in Southern Italy. We go through life not seeing the forest for the trees. Ashley Seymour

I have this opinion. We now evaluate everyone (interviewers, interviewees, type of questions and answers, etc.) on the basis of everything we already know. But at that precise moment there were only four boys almost unknown to the general public, who were asked "elementary" questions (which today sound boring) because they were deemed necessary to make them known to the public of Lazar and Flesser. Knowing Jim Morrison, it is obvious that already at that moment he did not have to accept these kinds of interlocutors (or questions) brilliant or stimulating. And his intellectual superiority with respect to the kind of questions is evident, as well as his intelligence and cunning in "directing" the interview where he wants. They were still unaware of the great change that the general public (the mass) would mean in their lives and careers (in a sense by decreeing the end of their instinctive creativity or by making it more difficult and painful). And then, Jim Morrison's personality emerges strongly, compared to the indefinite ones of Robbie and John (who never know what to answer and often pass the word to him, ask for his help) and that of Ray, more concrete and focused on musical discourse, but very "impersonal". Already at this point the key words of his entire life are pronounced in a few minutes: "death", "unconscious", "fun", "sensual", "strangeness", "sleep", "fuck!". Although he uses them almost by chance, today we know instead that he used them with intention, scattering them in the speech like the crumbs of the tale of Tom Thumb, to find his way home. That was his personal way of blazing a path towards him, both knowingly and unknowingly. And lastly he leaves us his boredom for all that is "due" and "agreed" and his irrepressible irony, certainly a sign of great maturity in that context in which others appear intimidated and a little empty. A great speaker, a great psychologist, a great sociologist, a great poet. We miss you, Jim.

Jim: "Hi I'm Steve Flesser listening to the Jim Morrison Show"

Screwy questions-Great answers

These interviewers are a couple of squares man. No way they were Doors fans lol

this is an interrogatory not a interview

I can see why some stars refuse to do interviews.

why do these interviews sound like arguments

"The name came about in a dream" Given the factual story and the way Ray told it later on about where The Doors name came from it is almost as if Ray was trolling him here.

These guys were sharp when they began. I'm sure they had control,and an understanding of the $$$$$$ side as well. thanks rutazzurra!

Hate when people assume Jim’s wasted because he thinks about his answers before just blurting out bs. The mans IQ was 149, that’s above genius, he was no dummy.

"DO YOU THINK THEIR ATTITUDES ARE THE WAY THEY SHOULD BE?!"

That was a great interview! Thanks for posting!

It sounds like Bob and Ray are doing the interview. Next question: “What wattage are the lightbulbs in a typical recording studio?” “You’d have to ask the studio.”

fearless for four guys who literally popped up into the public consciousness only months before, the decorum, the thoughtful responses and mostly just their even keeled and balanced demeanor is really quite a thing. the Doors to me will never be Jim and the band, it's always been a four pillar monument each bringing their idiosyncrasies to the fold.

The interviewers ask some lame questions, but I love the answers Jim,Ray,Robbie and John give. Great to hear a whole interview from as early as September of 67 !

Thank Ray for holding the group together for longer than 12 weeks. And prob robbie too lol. But Ray was the oldest and the glue

the pictures! I liked them a lot! ;) are they taken during the "Strange days" recordings? I guess so, since I never saw any picture from the recording sessions of their first album "The Doors" and those from the recordings of "Waiting for the sun" are visibly more "professional" as they were at their apex during that time and also the studio and technology looks more complex that are these from this photo session and also the look, specially of Jim's is very different, with long hair there and far more unpredicted behavior ;)

Sounds like an interrogation. How weird.

Jim Morrison was not the one who used this expletive. It was Ray. I watched him say it.

Jim’s description of the London Fog is amazing

10,000 thanks for posting this.

This interview should be started with the Dragnet theme and Joe Friday’s introductory spiel about drugs. Then Officers Friday and Gannon proceed to interrogate the four suspects.

Where do they get these interviewers? "how do your songs come from the unconscious?" If they knew it wouldn't be the subconscious.

Jim was brilliant. A genius. I miss him bigtime. Ray as well.

The Interviewers Are on Speed. So fast and aggressive.

This promo was not accidental. Jim was very inventive and thought the entire group would get a good laugh out of his imaginative statement. He was really getting into the promo business by the end of the interview.

haha this was a neat interview the sarcasm was awesome

The interviewers were quite bad. The one time any of the band opened up was Jim talking about the London Fog, and then the guy asking the question goes, "And now over to Robbie Krieger." Shees. 19:45

Everything is about time & $$$ in the USA; even back then, craziness.

The guys sound like they are trying to bust that guy's chops. lol!

they barely asked Densmore a question

This is awful. The questions are somewhat stupid. Do they write there own songs? Did these interviewers do any homework before this interview? Jim sounds bored.

That was hilarious at the end by Jim! LOL.

A closing word:……………”Sleep.”

I like how they make their promo stuff basically unusable. Mike Lizard & Steve Bless-her

wht great questions , really

I can tell you from firsthand experience that the expletive "f..." you are referring to was uttered by Ray Manzarek, clearly the most articulate member of the group.

I was there

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Imagine having a Christmas party with the doors

18:50 that mic quality though!

No mention of Huxley? WTF.......still cool that they interviewed at my college

This wasn't the first time they were interviewed by the police. Bob Dylan, s interviews with the authorities are hilarious. The police seemed to be very interested in Rockers in the 50s and 60s. Some just took notes. Some filmed without asking the band's.In the states there was a lot of taping. No permission granted and none asked..

The entire band HAD to be high during this Q & A.

lol you can feel the annoyance of the group during this

I can't imagine taking these questions seriously.

Everyone in the comments talks about jim.So i ‘ ll do the difference I LOVE RAY !

James Douglas Morrison 08 de diciembre de 1943 03 de julio de 1971 80 años 27 años 53 años

Bobby .... Robby. 🤠

Where in hell is pierce college?!?!?!?!? I sat in the front row for this concert! It was for our feeshman orientation week/ weekend. The college was at THAT time SUCO, State University College at Oswego!!!! It now is SUNY at Oswego, the premier school in the state university system! What in hell and/or where in hell is pierce college??????????

Jim was either really stoned or he wanted to be somewhere else - both maybe?

This interviewer is not jiving with the guys. They’re reluctant to give him much.

Jim studied Marlon.

You're listening to the Mike Lizard show!

KEEP AN OPEN MIND AND OPEN HEART I GET THAT FROM JIM MORRISON RIP MR JIM AND RAY 🎸❤️🇺🇲🌏

The interviewer is terrible.

💘

The Jim Morrison show

Jim "sleep" lol

donde puedo conseguir esto subtitulado? es la primera vez que lo escucho!

The interviewers are terrible. They sound like attorneys questioning someone on the stand.

James Douglas Morrison 08/12/1943 03/07/1971

Inane questions

It does sound like an interrogation.

awesome!

It's so funny listening to Jim talk to these people interviewing him where he's so much more intelligent that they can't even understand him..

23:44 lmfao

Don't think Ive ever heard so many infuriating nonsensical questions in an interview before. If anyone needs some LSD its those interviewers.

OK, I tried, I really did..but I can't listen to anymore of this...my friend's father said the show was totally killer, God I sure as hell hope it was better than this interview (although that's still not saying much)

At 7:44 it almost appears that there is a human face to the left of Robby’s feet. Ahhhhh whatever...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

I like how jim says the names of the London Fog being sarcastic giving useless information mimicking the stupid questions. Hillareous.

Any of you may answer. So guys, where do you purchase your drugs?

Wish joe Rogan was doing this interview

Do you have a message for your fans? Yes, Sleep and F@ck! Words to live by!

Christ FBI interviewer or what.. No wonder the guys were being obstructive, so would I.

Can anyone tell me in what month Jim died

Morrison was stoned during this

Wow, that could be the most boring interview of all time!! Of all the questions that could have been asked of the Doors, wow!

It's the pills😮