This 1971 Doors Classic Reveals Jim Morrison’s Distress Before His Death 

So Jim was good looking, talented, famous, rich and well hung? He drew a natural Royal Strait flush!

@@Webedunn And , the most important thing , according to Jim , a poet !....... ' The future's uncertain , and the end is always near ...." Roadhouse Blues " , but , you've inspired me Webedunn, and I'm from that era and as a tribute to vets , I'm playing " Unknown Soldier "have a good one .

@@waldoparsnip1025 I’m just a bit behind you but in the early 80’s we were HUGE Doors fans. Jim left us far too early…

@@Webedunn Hey , never too late ! Now you're a fan for life I'm sure ! I was 16 in '69 , so , that's my excuse ! Ha! I remember where I was when we heard the news , devastating ! I worked with younger guys who weren't " hip " to the Doors but it didn't take them long hanging with me . I always would tell them , " Jim's still alive living in the south of France "Have a good one , oh yeah , if you're not familiar , play " Unknown Soldier " for our brave veterans who gave it all for us .Enjoy .

Me too! Such an insightful and thoughtful man

lol men do not.adore, especially other men🤣🤣🤣🤣

Jim Morrison entered my life through a book: 'No one here gets out alive. Great voice great band

WOW - What an honor

How awful to be accused of something you didn’t do and in those times things were a lot stricter.

Please tell us more about that night.

Tell us more...please!

Loads of people have said he didn't do it

He had head issues

Drug addiction and mental Illness among other things.

Thank you so much 🙏 appreciate the positive feedback

Jim had such a 1960s Venice Beach vibe..

Such a rare and timeless sound! Nothing like it in Music!

Shaman's blue's for me thank you. 😊

" Unknown Soldier " for the vets

I agree..Eerily fitting!

.. and the basis for one of the scariest horror movies of the 80s. The Hitcher, starring Rutger Hauer and Thomas Howell.

He was Mkultrad as a child by his high brass military cult father.

Da, JEMS DOUGLAS ALIAS JIM MORRISON A FOST UN FENOMEN AL MUZICII VERITABILE ROCK PSIHEDELIC, UN SHOW-MAN CARISMATIC, POET, AȘADAR UN BOEM INCURABIL!!❤🎉D-ZEU să-l odihnească în pace și liniște pe acest băiat minunat JIM MORRISON ✌️🤏🤞🖕👊✊️🙏🙏

No he would not have succeeded at anything in the end except his own eternal demise. He started out listening to the bad philosophers, the false Prophets of human Self defication. So many souls, those bad philosophers, have dragged into hell with them.

I would argue that when it came to Jim Morrison, nothing was as it seemed.

@@SamRose-ds1ffI think he was just a walking contradiction. Such a fascinating person to read about.

The evidence points to Morrison having a bleeding ulcer and anemia just before his death. He was winded just carrying an armload of firewood up three flights of steps at the Paris apartment building. Being in this poor condition, drinking at dinner and then taking a hot bath could easily have triggered the heart attack. There is no credible evidence of any other drug use or substance use at the time of his death. Read the book by Jim Seymore on Morrison's death. He is the only one to actually investigate in Paris, do interviews---to actually research the evidence.

One of a kind

Yes they are!!👍🔥

My pleasure! Thank you for the kind words!

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Thank you and I agree on the time travel !

Hello 👋 awesome

Thank you so very much for that positive feedback 🙏 greatly appreciate your insights

Prescient not ptophetic?

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He was awesome 😎😎😎💯😎😎😎 and always had his eyes 👀👁️👁️👀 closed and so sexy 💋🌹🌹💜💜❤️💜🙏🏼❤️❤️💜💜💜❤️❤️

Definitely

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Seems to me their relationship was far from it, more troubled than anything - they both had serious problems. Alcohol and drug dependency does not bode well for a satisfying relationship.

He was an idiot!

Poor Jim I would have been an excellent friend for him if I were there

He sure was

Thanks 🙏

Definitely so

@@freewheelingideas I’d say almost Genius level.

Very true

Thank you 🙏 I appreciate that! I only have this one at the moment.

@@freewheelingideas I am sure you will do very well. Your videos are top quality!

Right on I agree with you 100% there man

Wow really? That’s crazy!

Alice, who knew Jim quite well, has said he wasn't surprised with Morrison's demise but that he made it as far as 27!

George Michael did some similar crazy shit a while back.. lol

I heard that he had broken some bones in his life but never went to the hospital for them.IAlways wondered how it happened.

This is pure nonsense. Alice Cooper never said that 😅

💯 and a sound that no one else has been able to replicate

@@freewheelingideas Absolutely nobody sounds like the Doors! Robbie Krieger is still making good music as well. Thanks

No maybes about it

You’re very welcome 🙏 thank you for the positive feedback!!

It’s called the cantillon effect

That’s kinda awesome!

@@freewheelingideas Yes, great way to pay homage & keep the Doors going!

Yes! I found that, tnx!

Actually that's William Blake, who coined the term "When *the doors* of perception are cleansed, man will see the universe as it really is, infinite" . It's where they got the name of the band from .

but he didn't 'live' it out.....he died 😒

Not quite….The quote was expressed by Blake,

@@TheNewOriginals450 that’s right thank you

The thought of a medicated Jim doesn't make me feel happy.

@abelincoln6785 What makes you think Jim would voluntarily take his psych medication on a consistent basis? Oh I agree with you, don't get me wrong . . . I think you are correct. But Jim was so undisciplined and self-destructive, getting him to go to a doctor or psychiatrist would have been like pulling teeth. It was a different time then. Different American culture. Everyone was obsessed with getting high and music. Today, he would have to be court ordered to take the meds and hopefully sent to have a conversation with Dr. Drew Pinsky. Someone to talk some sense into him.

Was he actually diagnosed bipolar?I’ve never heard that.I don’t buy into any of this…sorry

When you take meds for BiPolar it pushes down all your creativity I know I’m bipolar I used to be highly creative and very passionate not anymore since I’ve been on meds! I don’t see Jim taking the meds for it because he’d be the first one to say hey I don’t like losing my creativity and thought process

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Many can relate to his internal conflicts.

I heard that as well.

The shyness didn’t last long obviously

And Iggy pop and Alice Cooper

shoulds got the other morrison

@@JamesHadfield-qz9rv ??

@@DJBOOTS378 He's talking about Van 'the man' Morrison. One of the Doors said there was about a 30 second consideration of recruiting Eric Burden to replace Jim. Nobody could replace Jim.

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I’d watch that

Thank you!🙏 it dehumanizes to turn them into a profit making machine. No wonder most of them lose their mind.

@@freewheelingideas that’s true. talent by itself doesn’t contain self-care. Self-care is something separate that needs to be cultivated alongside talent.

Thanks for your positive feedback and constructive criticism. The literary influences cited were specific to lyrics in Riders and the parallels in Jim’s story and the characters in the stories. I look forward to your insights on future videos! Cheers

Incredible! Yea I totally get that, not exactly there for poetry.

Me niether. So boring. He was already drunk asking the audience for a drink. He would really ruin the concerts with all his silly drunken nonsense. I hear he was a real lost alcoholic a-hole. The other students in my homeroom at school didnt like the concert they went to. Im embarrassed that I worshipped him so much back then. Im a drummer and wanted to see the drummer John play. The musicians were so good. He was a poet first, not really a musician. Thanks. I can even try and play a lot of their material. Very good like jazz rock, bluesy sometimes. Love ya!

💯 He was made an example of because of his status.

Eerily accurate

Sorry to bum you out! A lot of younger people don’t these stories so trying to keep Jim’s music alive. ✌️

@@freewheelingideas well told dude, i'm crying my eyes out, needed me some Jim Time cuz.... you have my thanks

First of all Morrison never was worried about money it wasn’t a factor. sure some fans worship him like he’s a god but look at the influence he had on people then and even now.The guy accomplish so Much in such a short amount of time✌️

Jim Morrison was one of kind creatively

Exactly!!

Well Jim is referring to mechanization and seems unfamiliar with the term but the word computerized that the interviewer uses may have been broadly referring to emerging technology used at the time.

@@freewheelingideas my thoughts as well and nasa/moon landing (69) and the wizard of oz 🌞

Computers were around by the late 50’s, definitely in the 60’s; not as we knew them in the 80’s certainly, but they did in fact exist with colleges and universities,Tech aficionados, gov’t, and espionage.

Jim was a talented artist. Have you seen his watercolors from the mid-to-late 1950s? I wish we could upload images here on YT because I would send you some of his art and you would likely be astonished by its brilliance. Your question is a good one and I was happy to see it here.

Those are from the court room illustrator

That’s true!

Wonder if ol Charlie inspired this song?!

@@desertrose1226 NO! Manson had absolutely no influence on Morrison or the Doors.

We’re in the midst of a repeat now. Eerie

GESCHICHTE WIEDERHOLT SICH IMMER WIEDER,AUCH HEUTE DA PROTESTIEREN JUNGE MENSCHEN FÜR UMWELT,FRIEDEN,GERECHTES LEBEN WIE DAMALS!!DIE DOORS UND JIM MORRISON PASSTEN IN DIE 60ER,ER WAR EIN REBELL UND ES ENDETE LEIDER TRAGISCH,RIP. JIM AND RAY❤❤ROBBIE AND JOHN❤❤.

But he was clever enough to avoid the draft.

@@maryperry1773 Imagine the thanksgiving dinner with his parents every year. 😄

@@Noumenon4Idolatry He hadn’t seen his parents in awhile, they weren’t doing family dinners.

@@maryperry1773 Yeah. I’m aware of that. I watched the interview of his father on RU-vid. Very different people those two.

His daddy made sure to keep Jim out of the front lines of the war he started. Jim served in a different branch entirely.

EXACTLY. The band played played almost embarrassingly simple music and Jimbo, with no range, sung very simple lyrics. Fans like to fancy themselves as intelectuals so they take his ambiguous lines and conjure up mystical meanings to rationalise his "greatness". 'Ol Jimmy had had one note and then he would scream. Compare his vocals, lyrics/message and songs with those of his contemporaries, such as: Deep Purple, Yardbirds, Led Zepplen, Who, CSN&Y, CCR, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Steppenwolf...and the list goes on. If I can't fall asleep, I'll listen to the Doors

It probably did. He probably picked up all kinds of stuff.

Something must interest you about him.The large solid doors fan base would disagree with you.But everyone is entitled to their own opinion✌️

@@DJBOOTS378 Yes. As you can read, I think “ The End” is a powerful composition, propelled by the Densmore’s and Krieger’s agile musicianship and JM wrote some powerful lyrics while creating a stage persona that was way beyond anything of the day. The problem was, with drink and drugs, he became more of a spectacle and descended into abusive ness (“ You’re all slaves!” of which he announced to a crowd on the east coast. I think some confrontation can be a useful on stage technique, but this and other pompous statements did him no favors and begs the question,, ‘ and aren’t you a slave to your vices (drink, drugs and hyper sexual behavior?) That is, unless he had dug into every audience member’s medical files….! In my view, the most that can be said of him is that he had all the makings of a cultural hero, he inspired Iggy, Patti and Nico (to name a few) and developed a theatrical persona and act to a higher level that, perhaps, has still yet to be topped.

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Thank you 🙏

Lots of people agree with you

@@freewheelingideasWe have the clownish Danny Sugerman to thank for this absurd myth.

Ray Manzarak commented when he visited Paris that the grave was too short.

' Still alive in the south of France ...

🧩 oh yea!

The albums speak for themselves. And they are far from "shocking". The Doors had a sound unlike any other band of any era. And Jim had arguably the greatest baritone voice in rock history. You just hated his off stage lifestyle choices and so seek to trash his art.

You have zero evidence to be claiming this crap.

@@ChristopherBingham-sz5zb no I don’t have the evidence personally but I’ve read enough books and saw enough interviews from people who were there when he died. He died at 27 found in the bath tub laying with his head on the faucet. No on goes in the tub that way, he was placed there. His GF was a heroin junkie, he did heroin that night that’s a fact. Go look at the interview with Danny Sugarman. I love it when morons with zero knowledge try to refute stuff. Morrison GF Pam never told anyone it was Jim Morrison dead in that apartment , she said it was Douglas Morrison . He was buried within days, no autopsy. Go do your research like I did. In the meantime go get your shinebox

@@ChristopherBingham-sz5zb everything I listed is a historical fact. Go do your research. Look at the Danny sugarman interview and read the book about the French Connection. Don’t make comments on stuff you know nothing about soy boy.

@@edwardcapobianco2975 Read the book by Bob Seymore, the only person to actually go to Paris and do research, ask questions, interview witnesses, etc. What Danny Sugerman says is irrelevant. Your statement is in no way historical fact--it is just supposition. Do your research soy boy, whatever that means.

@@ChristopherBingham-sz5zb Danny sugerman was banging Pam for 3 years after she returned to Paris up until she died of a heroin OD in 74. She told him the truth about heroin being involved. He talks about it in an interview years and years after Pam died. 27 year old men don’t just have heart attacks. She reported his name to French authorities as Douglas Morrison Poet, not Jim Morrison of the doors. She did everything in her power to mask his true identity. She did not want to have an autopsy under any circumstances. Marianne faithful mick jaggers gf was dating a big heroin dealer to stars in 1971. He was known as the count and he sold the shit to Morrison. The following morning her and the count blew town and went to Morocco. She talks about it in an interview, even Densmore said Jim dabbled in heroin..I was in France in 1979 when i was 15 years old and went to Morrison grave . Graffiti In French i on the grave site said junkie and had a drawing of a hypodermic needle. This was decades before social media and any mention of possible heroin death. If Pam had listed Jim’s true identity, 100% the coroner would have done an autopsy and found heroin in Jim’s body. There are numerous first hand accounts of French journalists who speak of the night stating Morrison died of a heroin overdose and people at the Rock and Roll Circus where many famous musicians hung out and scored smack. I don’t know what parts you doubt. Also the heroin from the French connection case was stolen from the police evidence locker in manhattan and sold back to the luchesse family and Matty Madonna. It was Replace with cornstarch and flour, and the only reason they found out about it was because the place was inundated with beetles and bugs that were eating all the cornstarch and flour, and when they went to do a test on the product that was being held in the evidence locker, which was just a cage. It was all flour and cornstarch. No heroin left at all that is 100% fact.

Of course this is just your opinion. Regarding him being fat, Morrison weighed 150 pounds at around 5'10 in Paris. How is that fat?

@@cespo77 Of course it's my opinion but as to his weight, he gained over 50lbs drinking himself into a drunken stuper everyday. That, is not my opinion. This information comes from those who carried him from the bar where he OD'd, took him home and put him in the bath tub before calling the authorities. This arrogant fool was vulgar, crude, angry, treated his girlfriend horribly, was in trouble with the law MULTIPLE times. As I have said, if he wasn't possessed with great looks, we may not have heard about The Doors. Fir a xo called "writer" his songs were very simple but cague enough such that critics could interpret tge lines go mean anything they wanted, then call it brilliant. They did this because they knew he was bright and a voracious reader...but as a writer...he couldn't hold a candle to a multitude if his contemporaries. That is my opinion.

@@bobbygoodman2875 Morrison was never fat. His face might have appeared bloated and had a little bit of a belly, but was still slim. Look at photos when he was in Paris he was not at all fat. When he first started with the Doors he weighed 135 pounds ( which is very gaunt) and by 1970 he weighed 150 -160 pounds. For 5'10 that is not fat. Again, that is your opinion. For me, the Doors were one of the greatest bands to come out of the 1960's. They were ahead of their time. Most rock songs are simple. It is the idea that makes it genius. His voice was great and on recordings sounded like a crooner. Most rock bands at the time were heavily into drugs. That was the scene. If he had lived, maybe he would have matured and grown out of it just like many of the rock legends who survived that period.

@@cespo77 Google Morrison's weight gain in Paris. The first story is by CBS and it says he gained so much weight, he was unrecognizable. His friends said he was 50 pounds heavier and that would qualify as obese on his 5-10, 150 body. He earned the weight legitimately, drinking heavily EVERYDAY at Rock 'n Roll Circus on the West Bank. Music is very personal but some of it is not. The Doors music was dominated by the organ and who are the celebrated musicians that played baseball, lead guitar and beat the skins? The thing is, they didn't have be great, the music was so simple. You and millions of there love that and that's great, but compare their lead vocal (singular), lyrics/composition and musicianship with others of that period: Led Zepplen, The Who, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Yardbirds, Cream, CSN&Y, CCR, Byrds and I can go on. I what way might tDoors have been ahead of their time? To me, it was a return to the very early and simpler R & period with nothing special but the orgnan. There was no range in Morisson's voice, no harmonies, nothing great about the drums or guitar. As for drug abuse, he was a user himself AND a sloppy drunk. He dried from an overdose!!! IF I want to go to sleep, I'll listen go the Doors.

@@bobbygoodman2875Your statement is full of what ifs and false statements ✌️