Adventures in PARIS | Visiting the Grave of Jim Morrison
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- Опубліковано 14 лют 2022
- An interesting day of exploring in Paris, France, in which I visit the Pere Lachaise cemetery and find the grave of Jim Morrison, lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock band The Doors.
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My wife is a dedicated viewer of yours. But me, I'm a creepy bastard, so this cemetery thing caught my eye.
Did you know that there is a difference between a Cemetery and a Graveyard? The difference is that a Graveyard is on church grounds, while a Cemetery is its own property.
#themoreyouknow
That's fascinating. I found out a while ago that the local cemetary during cowboy times were referred to as "Boot Hill" . That name/term is referenced in a lot of Westerns. Also, the term "potter's field" is used to refer to a pauper's grave. I learned that term watching news coverage of NY during the worst of the pandemic last year
Thank you, now I don’t have to google them…,
Wow. As Carson would say: "I did not know that"
Mr. Morris had Luck with this Shiny Weather in Februar in Paris, usally it is very Fogy and mostly Clouds and Rain.
Love how the Crow starts going about 4min in, and after you say "there are more than a million people buried here". Nice video. Give thanx
Can't wait for Corsica! Yes! Le! (in Corsican) Perhaps the most beautiful island in the Mediterranean.
Did you know Jim Morrison's grave is empty. He's alive and living with Elvis in Brazil! 😜
When I was there in 2018, there's was a volunteer who helped me find the grave of Guillaume Apollinaire.
Visited Jim Morrison's grave in summer 1984. It looked very different, the block headstone with the plaque wasnt there. The bust on block headstone was still there and I remember someone had wrote Jim with an arrow pointing down below it in red. There was about 6-9 people sitting around in silent respect. I remember getting a bit emotional for a while.
I saw it in 1991. The plaque with lettering was there, bust wasn't there. Several bottles and some flowers adorned, people there, mostly silent and respectful. Unforgettable.
❤Jim Morrison
He was a wild and unpredictable, intense, mysterious creative ❤️ So well said Gabe! I made the visit to his grave a top priority in Paris, and yes it is hard to find! I’m glad because it sort of weeds out those who are dedicated to finding it. And yes you are Jim Morris’son! That’s hilarious.. Enjoy your time in Paris!!
I remember your video from there, it was what reminded me to check it out the last time I was in Paris five years ago.
Do most of the youth and teenagers in the US now remember Jimm Morrison?
@@asianfacility5682 I doubt it. There are many young people who have not heard of the Beatles
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Oh that's awesome! I miss making videos like that :)
@@asianfacility5682 If they are well educated on rock legends then yes! Jim died before I was born, but my parents made sure I knew who he was.
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again.
The coolest Cemetery I've ever been to..Thanks for sharing .
Enjoy Corsica 🍺
I visited Jim Morrison's grave in October 1989. Sweet oblivion in a bustling city. Rock on Jim and Oscar🎃☘🎃☘🎃☘🎃
What a beautiful winters day in Paris😍
I guess I'm also one of those types that enjoy visiting old cemeteries in my travels. Especially the ones in Europe with very old headstones and monuments. One of my favorites was the old cemetery in Salzburg. Some very interesting grave markers/monuments.
Some other famous people to note buried there is Frederic Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Colette and Modigliani ( would love to visit those tombs someday )
Rossini also
I'll admit I was kind of glad that you didn't visit the catacombs. I don't know why anyone would want to see that. But that's just me. I walked the cemetery a few years ago and it was good to see it again. I remember when the bust of Jim Morrison was intact and people would sit there smoking weed and listening to the Doors music. You are the best. 🤗
I never thought I would find a video of a cemetery interesting, but somehow, you made it so. It actually looks like a fascinating place. Now I want to see you there at midnight with your ghost hunting gear lol
Another interesting video thank you. Old cemeteries are architecturally fascinating places with a variety of styles over the years.
Really interesting video 😁Beautiful city 🗼🇫🇷Thanks for sharing 👏👍😁
Gabriel, my great-grandma is part Corsican. Did you know that Napoleon Bonaparte (Buonaparte) was Corsican? Also, the Corsican language is a Tuscan dialect of the Italian language.
I didn't know that until after checking. Interesting. Thanks
Beautifully shot introduction! I remember going there (although my companion and I were intent upon findin Collette's grave, truth be told). I love old cemeteries--thank you for the focus you chose for the beginning of this video! The whole video was interesting--and good ending!
That was really impressive. Thank you for showing to us.
great video.. brilliant views from that building
Truly spectacular view from the top of that building! Thanks for doing that!
Hi, at 10:27 it's actually the list of parisians who died during ww1. The sign reads "To the dead of the Great War, Paris to its children"
I see, thanks for the info.
Enjoyed all your Paris series of videos , looking forward to corsica next .
Great video
RIP Jim
Love Paris
Thank you
That is interesting! RIP 🙏 thank you Gabriel 😊❤ you always show us interesting places!
I've been to Père Lachaisse in 1980. To take photos from all the cats who used to live there those days.
Enjoyed the video Gabe cemetery monuments are really nice
Very nice and super chill.
A great share ,with the world ! thankyou from France ritchie .
Great content as always! 👍
I don't find cemetery's creepy. I find them peaceful. That cemetery is lovely. Good luck to those school kids!
I could just walk right up to Jim Morrison's grave when I visited the cemetery but that was decades ago.
Another great video of Paris, Gabriel. You have certainly does this beautiful city justice. Jim Morrison and the Doors' 'Light my Fire'; one of my favourite songs ever. Looking forward to Corsica 🙂🌟✨
I've always wanted to go to Paris up until the new residents arrived. Might as well go to Baltimore now.
I had a blast visiting the catacombs a few years ago. I bought pretty much all my tickets online in advance to avoid the long lines. This is the way to go in Paris since there is so many tourists all year long!
Thank you for the walk-around the cemetery! I’ve been to Paris twice and I didn’t visit the place because I don’t like being in cemetery. Glad I get to see it thru your video.
Wow very interesting I did not know that cemetery monuments looked like that., very sad about Jim Morrison
really enjoyed this one , thanks gabe. blessings from crete
love Paris, never been to Corsica and looking forward to your videos!
Love that rooftop view ☺️
The creepiest graveyard I’ve been in, is Grey friars in Edinburgh Scotland. I visited in the daytime and it still gave me the creeps.
Omg. Your so brave visiting the huge cementery gab,. 💪💪💪 And the people you meet there in Paris are very kind and friendly.🍷🍾🥂
Thank you Gabriel for a interesting video Paris is a big city im when look out over it from The talest building 👍😀❤️
thanks for giving us a view of Jim Morrisons' resting place. if I ever went to Paris - that would be on my to-do list. be safe. ~ JDS/CT
Paris is so amazing. The view of the streets and the Champs Elysees at night is really cool from the top of the Arc de Triomphe. Another place I loved going was the Basilica at Sacré-Coeur( Sacred Heart). Some beautiful views from up there. Did you visit Sainte Chapelle? The Gothic era stained glass is awesinspiring. *If you want a somber or creepy cemetery go to Salem, MA and visit the victims Graves from the Salem Witch trials.
This cemetery is akin to the one in Easy Rider, and the one in Galveston Texas
Thanks for the Video Gabriel. Years ago I visited Jim Morrison's grave as well as Edith Piaf. I went especially to visit Oscar Wilde's & on the way found composers Frederic Chopin & Bizet.☘😃🙏.
Met Jim Morrison around Venice Beach back before the Doors even existed, He was a student at UCLA if i remember correctly, and poet dressed in leather & writing his musings down on the beach. He looked like a pale duck out of water. I was a local surfer kid, God smacked in awe at the masses of wandering immigrants arriving in California back in those days, Now most those old immigrant hippies and beatniks who are still alive by chance, are endlessly complaining & leaving our state. Their old cosmic cause and effect reality created an unaffordable densely populated mess. But those left behind will clean up the mess and start anew as they always do.
Amazing that you met him, yes I think he was studying film at UCLA.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos I had to actually fact check myself. it was summer of '64 i was a 13 year old surf rat at the time, it wasnt until a couple years later when i saw his picture on my best friends big sister's Doors album in '67 did i realize the old guy i met dressed in leather & writing poetry at the beach that day was the lizard king. Boy that makes me feel old now ,haha. was a strange time at the beach back then being an unhip local kid and seeing all those people who eventually became household names or were dead by the time i finished High School. In high school we called them psyhchedelic relics. I really enjoy your travel Vlog, I'm a big armchair fan of Harald Baldr & Bald & Bankrupt.. You guys do it right! a cut above the rest.
Awesome 👍
thx gabe
There is a sense that Jim Morrison's ostensible referent through a monument somewhat detracts from his poetics, 'rider of the storm'.
Hi, Jim Morris' son :D
Lachaise was built by the same architect that built Melatenfriedhof in Cologne. That's the largest cemetery in Germany I believe.. pretty sure. There are at least 55,000 graves there. Napoleon commissioned the same architect to build the cemetery after he took over Germany.. the Germans were burying their dead within city limits and the plague was rampant so he stopped them by building Melaten. Lachaise is huge! Beautiful stonework.. so much personality. Wrought iron and just incredible stone... The effort put into the stone is beautiful! I plan on getting locked inside and spending the night... of course next morning straight to the hotel and pass out lol
That would definitely be an interesting experience.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Wondering if there is a guards office in the cemetery? I know they lock the gate at night.. it's got trace lighting inside. Do they walk the grounds at night? That is the question.. most likely being such an old and huge piece of history there has to be something like that. If not I can get in and do it.
There is a guard shack at the main entrance. I'm sure you could find a way to stay overnight though, it's a big place, lots of places to hide.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Plan is to of course hide well.. they probably walk through so I have to be hidden completely. Maybe on top of a mausoleum.. then morning, I would have to wait until enough visitors enter to mix in to get out LOL
I think it'll work, good luck!
Oh cool Gabe, I've been twice last time I visited Jimbo's grave it was 2019 on his memorial ❤ The Doors will always be my favourite band
It was very hard for me & my daughter to find Jimbo's gave the 1st visit & it was raining heavy
There are loads of famous people buried in Pere Lechaise cemetary in Paris.
Great video. Loved it. I have visited many cemeteries in cities around Europe. So many beautiful ones. Outside of Europe I like the ones in Manila. :-) Got to visit this one in Paris! Love the Doors too..
That's funny Jim Morris son 😂😆😂😆😂 lol good one
You are OK Gabriel!!
Ya a marble bust that was loosely placed on his grave. That was back in the '80s last I saw. It is about a block east into the cemetery from the visitor office.
Over 1 000 000 population of the departed here in Père Lachaise alone
Thankyou
went down the catacombs 11 years ago? and found that only a fraction of the chambers,then,were open. Gabriel, did you not think to enquire about pre-online bookings for many places in the covid times, even to see if places that charge admittance are open?
A blesssed good day sir Gabe Wowww what a nice beautiful 😍 So impressive Cemetery in Parish
Thank u so much for your wonderful walk around tour video Stay safe Godbless u 🙏🙂 from your solid fan supporter viewer from the Philippines 🇵🇭 sir Vhin 👏👏👏👏😍😍👏👏👏💕👏👏👏👏👏
Coming from a huge bird lover, it was so fitting to see a crow walking around the cemetery ~ great sight coverage from beginning to end of this intriguing video. The view of the Eiffel tower ~ wow!!!
What is the symbolism of a crow? I have them in my yard daily.
Yu Can find huge street art if yu go to district13 in paris near Chinese quarter and lovely la butte aux cailles area
Outstanding commentary followed up with that choice closing panoramic shot of Paris. . . :>/
Gabriel, great video, view at the end cheaper and maybe better than from Eiffel tower, i loved cemetery tour as well ( i am on creepy person), unique thing to show in Paris. Just as anecdote... I come from a town of 400.000 residents from east southern part of Europe and we have online cemetery guide, when you just put searched name in the search bar and it comes out with matches by the row and field where the grave is located, no large wall with names needed :)
I like taking a walk in the cemetery for me it is very relaxing and feels creepy at the same time.
I just went before they opened in the morning and got into the catacombs
Hi G! I was there a few years ago. Lots of famous people buried here. Saddest thing I came across, right near Jim's grave is the grave of a 22 year old woman killed during the terrorist attacks at The Eagles of Death Metal. That one really hurt. ✌️
Hi Gabe which action camera you are using at this moment...is this the same dji osmo
I visited Morrison's grave about 10 years ago, no fence around it, but some older hippie women seemed like they were camped out there. They were American not French and one said she spends all day everyday there to guard him. I don't remember a bust of his head at that time? I am a big Edith Piaf fan and spent more time visiting her grave site in a different part of that cemetery.
Sound like interesting fr ur video
Ah that's a shame the catacombs are amazing 👏 🥰🥰
Witty 😊
Is that cemetery for only those of the Christian faith? As for the conversation about Marseille - Yes it is on the Mediterranean coast. If you ever decide to visit Marseille, don't forget to go out to the island of Chateau D'If famous because of Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Count of Monte Cristo".
It's the most Grande cemetery I have ever visited, did you visit Edith Piaf's grave Gabe? ✌🌻
Ugh.. those prices don't sound too inviting.
Try going to the botanical museum. Theres a bunch of skeletons there.
It scare me to walk through the graveyard...I don't know why but the dead silence there is just terrifying
My mother Always told me 'it's not the dead we should be afraid of.....
Marianne Faithful's boyfriend at the time gave him a hot shot. MK Ultra plant into the 60's music scene.
Wow! Jim Morris'son you are from now !!!
That is such a coincidence. My dad was also called Jim Morris.
Cool.
I heard that to help with the Paris homeless problem, the Pere Lachaise cemetery will be used to house the homeless, one way or the other.
You'd need a week in Paris.... What you'd need a week at Pere Lechasse cemetary.
Greyfriars kirkyard (Edinburgh) is pretty creepy
Sad you missed the Catacombs, but there is a nice Horror movie about it, starring the US singer PINK: Catacombs from 2007
"Too think that everyone you see (including ourselves) will be dead soon, if not today, then in just a few tomorrow's" - Aristotle
Usually you do not go to such places by yourself in Europe.
Paris is hot in July. Dress for the South of France!
Gabriel, please tell me what phone service you use to get maps while walking.
T-Mobile.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos do you get the international travel pass or just use the free data?
I have an international plan, so I don't get the extra pass. The data is super slow though, 256 kbps. I paid for the international travel pass for a month once and it didn't make any difference.
Hey Gabriel, I will have to make an effort to go to the graveyard on my next trip to Paris. Once this virus is under control I plan on making some trips. Most of them will be in Asia but I do want to spend about a week in Paris and then drive around France 🇫🇷 for maybe a month. I understand that there are parks for camping all over Europe so I will take advantage of that, provided I can get the right transportation. Do you have any knowledge of renting a small van or something like that? I would trust your opinion on such things.
That building you went to the top, I have been in it but didn't know about the top. I was there to go to a meeting that lasted from 15:00 to 03:00 the next day. It was an awesome event and one that I will remember the rest of my life. I will probably be going back to that building next time I go to Paris but I think I will go a little earlier and go to the roof and take a video of Paris from that hight.
Travel safe my friend.
Not creepy whatsoever. I am a taphophile, a taphophile is someone who loves funerals (not really interested in funerals), cemeteries and has an interest in death rituals. I try to carve-out a day to visit cemeteries whenever I'm in Europe. I spent 4 hours at the Laeken Cemetery in Brussels, Belgium (there are tunnels that run underneath the cemetery) and the Old Jewish cemetery in Prague is on my bucket list. Due to lack of space, some graves are 12 deep. So interesting!
Elvis Juice, my favourite beer! Did u like it :)
Yeah it was a good one.
Went there in 1988, graffiti everywhere, girls crying at the grave and everything.
Looks like they did a good job of cleaning the place up.
many late night parties there
Is the marking for Jim Morrison's grave site on google maps incorrect?
It lead me right there.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos I saw that later on. I guess it was a long build up, over 6 minutes, to something i thought you'd use anyway, as I've seen you previously use.
Also, you can make reservations for the Catacombs on-line so you don’t have to wait in line. Just show up like 10 minutes early and go straight to the front…. Instead of waiting for hours. 💀
Being your a world traveler, u should visit places that may disappear due to global warming, island countries being over taken by water.