Part 1 of the Doors Are Open. This was filmed during the Doors' world tour in 1968. The footage of the Doors was filmed at the Roundhouse in Lodon, England.
@@leeheaps2458 hey, why change? Drink and drugs, yes that change life JIM for the Grave, and in Grave... ain’t no dreams‼️( Sabbath: Call of the Wild.. ha, ha) bye
I remember buying this on video cassette in 1990. Always been a fan after. Now it’s 2023 and I still love them back when I heard them, I’m sure some people here actually saw them perform.
I saw this movie at the midnight movies when I was 16.I have had a strong passion for the Doors and think they were very bright imaginative young men back in the day.Jim Morrison, what can anyone say ? WOW!
John Densmore says in his memoir "That night Jim was on and we played our asses off. Best performance on tape." Densmore, John. Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors . Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
@@biancachristie Yes I was sure of it even if I haven't read Densmore's book it is clear that Morrison is inspired and in great form, it is one of his best performances.
Remember watching this on Granada TV in the UK. Must've been about 9 years old. Fascinating watching after all these years. They were four and now there are only two. Truly great band.
I remember watching & taping this on TV when i was a kid around 1988-89 the very night before i was going on my summer hols with my parents! I was bout 12 years old & not long found the doors! I couldn't wait to get home that whole fortnight to watch it again, and again, and again,..thanks to Granada TV, Manchester! One of the first docs,s, maybe the first i EVER saw bout em, great place to start!!
I was 12 when I got into em ,after the film my film my dad showed me a real photo of Jim from an old 70s mag of his and he used to like them but I had the doors in Europe on vid
I was about 22 when I got into them ( watched The Doors at the cinema starring Val Kilmer) and the next day I went out and bought all of their albums on CD , I’m 55 now and they just get better with the passage of time ❤
I don’t think there can ever be a band like the doors ever again. I’m not saying that they made the best music in the world. But they were just so unique. They made you just completely relax and zone out to the music and let it take you for the ride. Jim Morrison with some of the great lyrics he’s had that could really make you think of what really is the meaning or even so many options come to mind when trying to comprehend it can really let ur mind run wild. Even some of the lyrics that sound elementary had more meaning behind them then most ppl think. Jimbo was a free spirit and a very deep thinker and also a very troubled guy. He could be very sharp in the mind or a complete loose cannon. And to be able to eat as much acid as he did and still put on a great show is unreal. And just to think one day he showed up and just said that’s cool I’ll be the singer no problem. Went from being really shy to completely controlling the show. These guys just loved to get ppls minds rolling and even get ppl all wound up. They just wanted everyone to have a good time and to really just get sucked into the music and feel the good vibes and close ur eyes and just hop on for the ride. Let everything go anger, stress, anexity. Just wanted ppl to let everything go just for how long the show would be and let the mind and body be free. For and example a lyric from when the musics over. He says before a sink into the big sleep. I won’t to here the scream of the buttery fly. To me that means before he passes away and his body is in the forever sleep state. He wants to here the scream of the buttery fly. He wants to here something that he’s never heard before. He wants to here something that you will probably never be able to hear ever in life. He wants to here this beautiful noise so when he’s passing away this amazing scream or noise will be so beautiful it would send him off into death free and happy and just the feeling of everything’s going to be alright. I think the doors are a band that ppl either hate or they love. There a band that either you get or you just don’t get it. But with no dought these guys are legends. 🚪
You're right. Its not like the Beatles, Hendrix, Sabbath or zeppelin or the sex pistols or nirvana or soundgarden whom all had clones trying to copy them. The doors were so unique that no band tried to copy them, most great bands have many bands imitating them. Its unique that one of the greatest bands of all time has no one copying them. Cant think of another band like that. Greatest American band of all time, first American band to have 8 consecutive gold albums and that had never been done at that time. They put L A. Bands and the whiskey a go go on the map. The doors were also more deep and intelligent than most 60s bands. So brilliant all 4, and the other 3 are underrated musicians. G.O.A.T. of American bands. Someone argue with me, I'll wait
@@donniewynn3277 In many ways , Frank Zappa and Capt. Beefhart copied the Doors. John Sebastion did not copy Jim Morrison , but his movements live on stage were very similar.
Johnny Drama: Dear friend you are absolutely right! Hearing the butterfly's cry of pain is a very religious feeling and very close to God as it is his most vulnerable and sensitive creature who exudes joie de vivre while being created to live for just one day! and this joy of his life is rather sad for this reason and to hear his cry of despair is to share his pain, his fragile and desperate life of a moment that manifests itself in the joy of living for just one day!
The Doors are surely one of the best and influential bands are the 60's! You can really feel from their performances and their recordings and all the stuff we read about them, that they were bulldozing the doors wide open! pushing against the establishment, political elite and social norms of that very conservative era in the USA especially, and the the rest of the world! Thank heaven they existed! The world we live in today is a not quite as bad as it could have been without them! Not forgetting the rest that encouraged us to question authority!
In the audience there were Mick Jagger,Bill Wyman, Paul McCartney and George Harrison,David Bowie,Clapton and many more. These two concert are part of the rock'n'roll history! The Doors are unique,no one like them..
This is the best filmed live performance of The Doors that I've seen--(and from what I've read the band also thought it was one of their best gigs.) All the elements were in place---an intimate indoor venue (the Roundhouse only sat 2500)---late night shows--a psychedelic vibe---it was this type of environment where The Doors really excelled. A smaller auditorium-like setting allowed Morrison's theatricality to fully engage the audience. If I had a chance to see The Doors back in the day it would have to be in a venue like the Roundhouse or either of the Fillmore Auditoriums--that's where they were at their best!!
With hindsight, today it is possible to identify precisely in this discourse one of the causes of the beginning of the end: a success built on slow and spontaneous creativity, to be shared with a small receptive and selected audience, transformed into a machine to make money, without more time to devote to creativity and an audience less and less interested in the artistic and musical aspects. An audience of teenagers. I can understand EVERYTHING that happened. After all: what is the music industry today?! There are very few artists who manage to escape the meat grinder mechanism and remain true to themselves, perhaps giving up large earnings :-(
There is a reason i was so sucked into The Doors and Morrison as an 11 year old girl from NE England, while my friends were worshiping Boy bands and rave. Morrison was not only beautiful on the outside he spoke to me with his words. No religion, leader, nor book have had the effect upon my 33 years upon this earth as Jim has and appears to be talking to a large number of todays youth. He was a profit, a philosopher, and a poet and to some of us the nearest thing to a god we will ever see.
The Doors make me proud to be an American and Jim Morrison makes me proud to be from the Southern United States.... Him being born in Florida....me being from Texas.... Of course The Doors are universal... The Doors are infinite.... The Doors are for anyone anywhere that thinks. RIP Jim and Ray.
Cobain haters don't get mad, but Jim spoke to his generation the same as Cobain in the 90s. Not comparing them. Oh boy I'm gonna get crap for this so come on with it, I'm ready
An Oasis Can not even close. Roundhouse was by far their best. The Doors in their prime. Dont get me wrong the bowl was great as well but he wasnt able to connect with the audience and the elements like he did here in the roundhouse! Complete shaman in this performance its unbelievable. All band members were completely in tune with the musical moment
@@shepherdoffire9263 Agree 100%!! Morrison absolutely has the "shaman" energy here and the band compliments it perfectly!! A beautifully eerie, psychedelic, goth-like performance--the audience is totally locked in. THIS is the type of venue and atmosphere where The Doors were magical--they took you to a different realm and you would lose yourself for a couple hours on the trippy journey!! AWESOME!!
I saw the Doors in 1970 bowls of hash and joints were being passed not only up n down rows but forward n backward they eventually reach the stage where members of band took but turned their backs to the audience and cops when they took hits ( lesson learned from New Haven , CT.) . Police didn't do anything but grab joints off the stage n floor n pocketed
Amazing that Granada tv filmed and transmitted this on tv in 1968 when you see how stuffy and straight tv was back in those days. Apparently there were queues for the Roundhouse going right round the block that night. They only ever had 1 big hit in England but the hip people who had heard the albums that had been released up to that point knew they were something special.
Lol.." the doors music....is exceptionally loud....please don't adjust your set". Fuckin love it....the doors always played loud. I seen them at the Westbury theater,in Westbury Long island,ny. Morrison was so drunk and obnoxiously loud>....you could barley hear the vocals.... horrible audio all together,the sound quality,sounded like it was playing through a megaphone,that has been smashed ..lol. the great thing is he didn't give a fuck!! Luv it,good ol' Jimbo.
Este sigue siendo para mi el mejor concierto de the doors en vivo (de los que hay registro filmico), la version de when the music's over y de the unknow soldier son las mejores que escuche de the doors en vivo
Hi, I totally agree with you, I wrote just that, it is James Douglas Morrison's best performance because it has so much more mysticism than all the other performances. Morrison is much more in touch with divinity and with himself, in fact he confesses some hidden fears of him.
In these early days right after Light my Fire the audiences for these shows were probably very naive thinking they were going to get some teeny bopper pop like the Monkeys or something and they got the real deal here. The audience looks shell shocked at what they're witnessing.
Ahhh... back in the good old days... when rock stars were kamikaze shaman possessed holy fool geniuses who danced on a tightrope across the abyss .. shooting stars blazing across the night sky
When the music's over....When the music's over....WHen the music's over ...turn off the light ...turn off the light....When the music is your special friend dance on fire music is your only friend until the end.....
when I listened it my family hated me for the bad sound but I love this DVD because show very strange sequences I'm not sure but I think that the sequences have a relation with the vietnam war
yeah they didnt understand the doors its not what they were against too me thats what they stood for i bet all the assholes that tried too persucute jim if any are still alive are just pissed at how famous and how loved jim is and ray robbie and john and ive never seen a frontman like jim or a band like the doors they are fave band always will be rip jim and pam love the doors forever rock on
Jim was clever, but not a godness; Jim changed the life of many people. Suppose Jim was sad e never satisfied. Suppose Jim was near the truth when he realized he could never get it. Jim gave us much, and we're thankin' him in the best way we could....
Killers ⚔️of⚔️ Creation Let’s talk about lawlessness Cause it don’t rest Man wears it It keeps him dressed Let’s talk about rudeness Don’t it get you pissed It’s surrounds us like water does a fish It’s the song of this world It won’t end It’s the song of this world It is his friend It’s tortures Mother Earth Without her we wouldn’t have a birth Let’s poison her ocean And fill it with radiation Where the killers of creation Let’s treat her like a whore She makes us money And we need to score Can’t you see that we are bored We want it We want it We want it all Little do they know one day they’ll fall This is the final call We want it We want it We want it We want it all Little do they know one day they’ll fall This is the final call Let’s talk about lawlessness Cause it don’t rest Man wears it It keeps him dressed Let’s talk about rudeness Don’t it get you pissed It’s surrounds us like water does a fish DLT
If Jim Morrison were still alive today , in the year 2022 , I like to think he' d be doing what Roger Waters is doing. An exhaustive 4 month extreme; political, anti-war , anti-fake news, stop Palestine abuse and human rites concert tour !!!
