This 1971 Doors Classic Reveals Jim Morrison’s Distress From Conviction Before His Death
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- This 1971 Doors Classic Reveals Jim Morrison’s Distress From Conviction Before His Death. On October 30, 1970 Jim Morrison sat in a Miami courtroom waiting to hear his sentencing for indecent exposure and open profanity. His defense files a motion for a new trial- they are denied. The judge enters the courtroom and begins to lecture Morrison on his responsibilities as a citizen and an entertainer. The prosecution goes through a list of Morrison’s prior run-ins dating back to his 1963 Florida State University arrest when he was a student at age 19. The Judge then announces his sentence of six months in jail and a $500 fine for Indecent Exposure and a sixty day sentence for Open Profanity. He remains free on a $50,000 bond pending his appeal.
From Jim Morrison’s distress a paradox emerges that develops into a timeless Doors classic that will become his swan song.
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One of the most visited spots in Paris and it’s not like Paris doesn’t have much to see.
An empathetic intellectual, light years ahead of his peers!
He had head issues
He never 'whipped-it-out' I was there Miami '69
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!
It’s Mindblowing to think about how Jim was only in his early to mid twenties here
The eerie Riders On The Storm was fittingly the last song Jim Morrison recorded with The Doors 🚪.
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.
Riders on the Storm and Not to Touch the Earth are probably my 2 favorite Doors songs.
Such a rare and timeless sound! Nothing like it in Music!
Shaman's blue's for me thank you. 😊
" Unknown Soldier " for the vets
''My Eyes Have Seen You''
I adore listening to Jim speak about his ideas on life and society and anything, really.
Me too! Such an insightful and thoughtful man
lol men do not.adore, especially other men🤣🤣🤣🤣
Such a unique rock band and I've always loved them. I thought about Jim and the band when I'd be at Venice beach in my youth.
Jim had such a 1960s Venice Beach vibe..
Densmore said Jim never pulled it out , and a reporter asked him , " How do you know , you were way back there on the drums ? " And John said ," Because somebody would have tripped over it ! "
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 .
This is a gem of a video on Jim! His intellect and addiction, the artist touture.
Thank you so much 🙏 appreciate the positive feedback
The Doors are the best
One of a kind
Yes they are!!👍🔥
Talking about the coming dehumanizing of the computer age and those computers could only spell out your name on a dot matrix printer. Incredibly prescient.
0:50 i think people do not realize that $50k in the 70s is the equivalent of almost half million dollars in todays money adjusted for inflation.
That's a lot !!!!!
I thought i knew all there is to know about Jim Morrison and The Doors. Thank You for this enlightening video, Freewheelin'
My pleasure! Thank you for the kind words!
@@freewheelingideas
🌼y/w
Listening to the late Jim Morrison It's like travelling back in Time Wonderful video Rest in peace Jim 🙏 🇮🇪 🇺🇲
Thank you and I agree on the time travel
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Everyone should listen to the Morrison interviews on UA-cam, where he talks about, is conviction, and trial. He’s quite intelligent, and interesting to talk to. Pam was a heroin addict. It’s possible that a drunk, and overweight Jim Morrison snorted some heroin thinking it was cocaine, or very drunk, decided to try it at the nightclub and died on the toilet. Then moved to his bathroom at his apartment. Lots of theories, and no autopsy ensures you’ll never know.
Jim was fantastic❤🎉
He sure was
Morrison was a real life Jekyll and Hyde character when alcohol was involved. Had he not succumbed to alcoholism, he could have succeeded in about any occupation that interested him due to his high intellect. I could envision him teaching psychology, sociology, English literature, poetry, or philosophy at the university level. Of course we'll never know what could have been.
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.
I believe Morrison’s new and unique appreciation for life came way before Miami, probably during his rooftop days.
Amazing interview.
Love ya Jim 💙
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Loved him and love him now he was a great guy amusing and a great entertainer and rock star poet with the band the doors xxxx
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He was awesome 😎😎😎💯😎😎😎 and always had his eyes 👀👁️👁️👀 closed and so sexy 💋🌹🌹💜💜❤️💜🙏🏼❤️❤️💜💜💜❤️❤️
He could not have been more spot on about how only the middle class had the ability to voice their concerns to the country. Essentially that group historically had the resources to do so. Now the system seems to be working very hard at dismantling that middle class, in efforts to eliminate that capability as a means to more easily control the masses. If he could see the direction things have been going over the last several years, he would agree 100% I’m sure. RIP Jim.
“The Doors” is the one group I’d like to go back in time to hear! Sad that his life ended too soon.
He was Highly intelligent.
Extremely well read.
Definitely so
@@freewheelingideas I’d say almost Genius level.
😊Hello friends from México 🇲🇽 City! The doors my favorite rock band!
Hello 👋 awesome
We thought we knew it all...great time...but you have to live to maturity to know what life is really about!
Very true
Could've? Heck, he was as successful as a man can be in the entertainment business! He died an early death, but the real circumstances he killed himself for, were so nightmarish that I can all but guarantee 99 out of 100 would have done the same, and yes, it's is a true shame, but you people with your 'soapbox standing' little judgemental remarks need to just give it a rest! So Yaa, he died early ..that is correct sir, but he accomplished more than you have, and easily more than you could in a hundred lifetimes so ...another correct statement sir
Right on I agree with you 100% there man
Always fascinating to hear any tidbit of lessons related to The Doors - This was a very learned clip - Damn, they don't make em like Jim anymore; GENIUS to the max
Definitely
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Wow, Man, that was amazing to listen to. Prophetic in these times. That was just great. Already a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Doors but the the explained timeline is a great standpoint. I always thought Jim was railroaded in Dade County and I have a different take on his mindset now. Super informative and appreciated.
Thank you so very much for that positive feedback 🙏 greatly appreciate your insights
Prescient not ptophetic?
Alice Cooper told a story once that they were riding in a convertible sitting up on the top of the back seat/trunk. Jim suddenly stood up and jumped out going 30MPH. Broke his arm and performed that night somewhere.
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.
"Riders On The Storm" has been adopted by our News Tornado Chasers here... Fitting ( Jim Lives ON...forever
That’s kinda awesome!
@@freewheelingideas Yes, great way to pay homage & keep the Doors going!
Pam and Jim led separate lives in France. That’s what they said in Paris. He died alone in that Club. He became extremely depressed and spent a lot of time alone, after a holiday in Africa with Pam. Pam spent a lot of time with her French boyfriend/freinds. She’d turn up to Jim for money, then disappear again. She was probably alerted that Jim had collapsed in the Club and took some friends to carry him to the flat. He was already dead. I think he just gave up because of the trial and not being able to go back home to go on tour and realising that he was flogging a dead horse with a relationship with Pam. In Paris he had plenty of time to think and back down to reality. That’s when he realised….but then people insist on making a fairytale out of Jim and Pam!
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.
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also happy mother's day ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thanks 🙏
I wish you the best of luck with this channel as well as your others. You know almost as much as I do about 1960's and 1970's rock music.
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!
Maybe the best American band ever, the Beach Boys are right up there to.
💯 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
Thank You! Particularly good on JM's weaving in ideas from Nietzsche and Heidegger
You’re very welcome 🙏 thank you for the positive feedback!!
look up Jim Morrison Mort Sahl interview
Yes! I found that, tnx!
The interview at the end is super interesting. He has some profound social and societial insight there.
Convicted Criminal: give me a break.
What a genius. All that criticism from the hypocritical morality police.His behavior would look mild in today’s world.
💯 He was made an example of because of his status.
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” - Oscar Wilde (Jim lived it out)
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
So many can identify with Morrison's conflicts. That is why he was so popular. He also had a great voice. He was a tortured artist.
Many can relate to his internal conflicts.
JDM.......20th Century Prophet....
Jim & Elvis both hated their fame they just wanted to perfom their music so did they fake their death no , but if one day if 1 of them shows up say with a new group or from a hiding spot they put out music on U-TUBE
I’d watch that
Bi Polar means wild man. He was sick his entire life. Today he would be medicated and still alive.
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
@@ImogenePrivett 👉👍👈
He could have died unknown in Vietnam and nobody would be talking about his drinking and drug use.
I read he was very shy. At first, he would sing his songs from a spot off stage
I heard that as well.
The shyness didn’t last long obviously
Sadly nihilism was steeped in Nietschze and Heideger.
Pam killed him with powerful heroin. Jim was dabbling in it due to Pam’s addiction. The heroin in France comes straight from Marseilles and the Corsican mob. Same stuff from The French connection bust that disappeared from a NY City evidence locker and had been replaced with corn starch and flour. Corrupt cops sold it back to NY mob , I believe the Luchesse family. Jim’s soul mate and true love was college sweetheart Mary Werbelow from Clearwater Florida. She left him in late 65 or early 66. All his songs are about her, The Crystal Ship, The End, Soul Kitchen, many more . 100% fact and heroin overdose killed him, that’s why he was placed in the bathtub. They tried to revive him when they should have called the paramedics. Back then there was no Good Samaritan law to protect drug user and encourage them to call ambulance when a fellow user ODs . So out of fear and self preservation they waited to long and this genius of a man died so tragically and unnecessarily!
Uncut magazine featured an article a couple of years ago where Densmore said he and the other two Doors traveled to London in 1973 to recruit a replacement for Morrison and that person believe it or not was Paul McCartney! Don't think they got to see him.
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.
@@CiscoDuck 👍👍👍
WOW, the future the become mechanised computerised, a true fortune teller too.
Eerily accurate
@Freewheeling First, let me thank you for this really welcome video. Your production values are superb, as is your choice of photographs and your quite amazing narration of this difficult, often painful-to-hear life of the genius JDM. With the greatest of respect for you, may I please disagree with some of your facts as well as a number of your cross-references, in particular the allusions to certain literary and philosophic works by Nietzsche, Camus, Heidegger, and Dostoevsky-all of which I’ve taught on the doctoral level. It’s problematic to cite these authors out of context, as each of them grew, from one book to the next, and often rejected in their later publications what they had argued in earlier books. Of course, we all change and, hopefully, improve with time or shed beliefs that no longer represent what we feel. In Morrison’s case, the huge optimism he has for the future of his generation, during the Summer of Love (1967), morphed, by late 1969, into a bitter disappointment that much of his generation had already joined the Establishment. You make no mention of the creative writers (esp. the French Symbolist poets) who influenced Jim’s style-in both his poetry and his lyrics-or how they affected his vision. Ok, true, one can’t include everything in a 20-minute video, especially one as enjoyable as yours-which truly delighted me-and I’m not about to quibble about a few factual mistakes. They don’t materially alter your video. It’s mostly the use of cultural documents-the books-to which I take exception, but I’m happy to have you reject everything I’ve written here, since I admire very much what you have created. (Please pardon typos.)
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
well done. the pressure Jim had adopted is hard to imagine.
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.
I loved the doors and was a High School senior when I first heard the song Light My Fire driving home. I just sat in my car and said to myself Wow!at the last fast drum roll and cymbal crash. I also liked the long organ solo and beautiful guitar solo in the middle.I saw the Doors 3 times and walked out 2 times... because Morrison was just rambling poetry for like 20 minutes,so I left. I was into music,not poetry. I dont think Morrison understood that!
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!
The best song on LA Woman
Bro its almost too heavy to watch the whole clip, I know this story well, it hurts to hear it told, thanks for bumming me out but into this world we're thrown I guess cuz... a world without Jim, you breaking my heart kid! I'd forgotten this wound.... Gonna get some LA Woman time, roll a J and cry for a while, nothing but love, thanks man
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
@bobbygoodman2875 what you’re missing is that the doors were unique, not another cookie cutter band that predominated those times. Jim had a great voice, was charismatic and was an amazing poet and songwriter. He like most talented people/artists have sensitivities and views on life the average person doesn’t get that morph into drug/alcohol issues as a coping mechanism. He was a classic artist/poet like many others who had these issues and didn’t ever profess to be a musician but was a lyricist songwriter. You can’t deny the talent and success of this combination . Besides you really don’t know what happened in Paris to cause his death, nobody ever will now.
Jim Morrison was one of kind creatively
Exactly!!
He was posthumously exhonorated
That’s true!
at least he was smart enough to realize that france didn't have an extradition treaty so.....he didn't have to come back here....ever ! 😉👍
Demons! If he could have gotten into rehab.
Interesting guy. Like they said about Jimi Hendrix on dying so young, “he had a little too much current running through him”. I think Jim would have been horrified to learn how much his ex-bandmates benefitted financially off of his image for decades after he died. Fans have worshipped him like he is a God, when in fact he was just another human being that pooped and blew snot out of his nose like the rest of us.
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✌️
I wonder how his dad was a U.S. Navy rear Admiral had to do with Jim’s drinking and personality?
Have a great day!
Let your children is hardly cheerful or life affirming in the context of the song. It is chilling and depressing. Let you children play while a deviant is roaming around ?
Wonder if ol Charlie inspired this song?!
@@desertrose1226 NO! Manson had absolutely no influence on Morrison or the Doors.
MKUltra...????😳
The drawings were made by Morrison?
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
Well its worse now for young folks! Its the new guiled age today.
Interesting
Young people protesting is no surprise... they are in the process of 'learning'... they are exposed to new ideas. Their elders are concerned with paying bills, working shorter hours, tax breaks... issues far beyond Peace, Justice and happiness. The 'Cycle' goes on... from generation to generation. You'll see.
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❤❤.
Alcoholism was his downfall. He was a complete drunk.Everything else fall into line after that.
During the interview,they are discussing Computer's, did i miss something ? computing wasn't thrown on the Masses till mid to late 80's
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.
Genius, poet etc. however, he was just another 60s punk thinking his thoughts were so much deeper than the rest of the population. Such a waste
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
never go to the south
I can’t help to view JM Aas highly overrated and he. diluted any talent that he had with drink and drugs. He was abusive and I doubt he would strike anyone’s attention if he was an average or ugly man. “The End” is an exception and exhibits the talent of the group which was mostly informed by Densmore and Krieger, the drummer and guitarist, respectively. Manzarek always irritated me with the self important attitude he projected and pedantic stance. JM blew it and that’s a real shame.
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.
You've got another masterpiece here, though Morrison makes an extremely poor icon, hero, prophet or role model -- exactly the things he is to millions of people today. There is a great gulf fixed between his degenerate behavior and the perspicuous interview with which you close -- rare for its time. Père Lachaise? I'd rather visit César Franck's statue in front of Sainte-Clotilde.
The hippie movement was shaped by the central planners the balladeers denounced. Gee, why didn't those counterculture stars get drafted?
I was "there" at the time, I grew up with rock from Elvis to its last hurrah the 1980s. 1960s-70s fun and excitement was more than outweighed by the frightening jettisoning of normalcy and responsibility. "The summer of love was followed by the autumn of gonorrhea". The nightmare continues with pinstriped hippies running things by the more fatally childish notions of that era, incessantly bleated throughout the media-government complex now as then.
As with so many acts of the period I love the Doors' good stuff in spite of their degenerate stuff. Classic rock topics call for keeping a grip on at all times. Stronger than dirt, man!
Thank you 🙏
We are not all designed to fit into this sxxt show.
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I'm sure all that sex didn't have anything to do with his depression.
It probably did. He probably picked up all kinds of stuff.
I still think that Jim faked his death to avoid prison they would of eaten him alive in there.
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 ...
He traded on shock, and it went sideways. By that time, there was nowhere further to go. He was so overrated.
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.
Camus another existential meaningless philosopher. Not unlike marxism being ubiquitous in universities circa 2024.
Donald Trump!🤣
This guy was the most over rated musician in the history of music. The songs CAN be interpretted any way you want but they were simple. Thus guy was self centred and a narcisist with only an adequate voice with no range. HIS dad was right. If he was ugly, we wouldn't be talking about him today. To suggest this Band was the best American Band ever, is heresy. There are MANY, just from that era, that blow them away by any measure. CSN&Y, Steppenwolf, Birds, CCR and nany more. Uriah Heep had songs with better words, song by a singer with a voice that rivals the very best...ever and musicians who could PLAY. Morrison went to Paris and what did he do? He got drunk everday, became obese as hell and OD'd. His story is not one of a hero or a genius. He was just another addict who joined the "celebrated" 27 Club.
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 ✌️
No sympathy for a loser.
So you don't have any sympathy for yourself, that's great!
A loser ,and yet hear you are watching a video about him
What about the devil
Oh be nice! Have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste..
Have you ever felt like you are a puzzle piece thrown in the wrong box ....?
🧩 oh yea!