This is so mind bending. He can imagine something not yet created with such precision but because nothing like it exists he struggles to articulate the concept. It’s like he’s trying to describe a new color
@@jesseoliver936 I don't think I can answer that. I was 8 years old in 1960. The 60's and 70's really molded my musical tastes. My parents were into Country mostly but then Elvis came along and then the Beatles in 64. Any way, here are some of the albums that were mind blowing at the time. Anything from The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. Eat a Peach, Allman Brothers. Black Sabbath, Paranoid. Van Morrison, Moondance. Aqualung by Jethro Tull. Ram, Paul McCartney. Nilson Scmilsson by Harry Nilson ( John Lennon's favorite )Hunky Dory by David Bowie. Frank Zappa, Apostrophe. Anything by Tom Petty. The Doors and LA Woman by the Doors. Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon. Throw in lots of Mo Town and some blues. Wow, there are so many I could go on and on. .I tried to include some lesser known stuff. ZZ Top, Paul Butterfield, Janis Joplin Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Dylan, Cream, ELO, The Kinks, Bob Seger, Billy Joel, The Beach Boys, Wilson Pickett, Muddy Waters, Michel Jackson. I enjoyed reminiscing, I haven't thought about this for many years. Thanks.
New Order Comes to mind. But they were different before new order. But not just New Order, there were a lot of electronica bands pre MTV era. I think JM would have been a big part of that generation, just like Joan Jett. Joan Jett is still in the background with music, after her album releases sold at record stores.
He also predicted Los Angeles on fire it's on L.A. Woman. "I see your hair is burnin' Hills are filled with fire If they say I never loved you You know they are a liar Drivin' down your freeways Midnight alleys roam Cops in cars, the topless bars Never saw a woman So alone, so alone So alone, so alone"
@@kaecake9575 lol wtf are you talking about? The LA basin has had fires for centuries. Long before humans ever settled it. You should chill on the weed yo.
Andrea La Gamba Music is as good as it ever was. Perhaps you are talking about pop music? If you are then it's you who sucks as it means that you don't know how to find good music.
Andrea La Gamba Just because you and your friends don't like something doesn't make it bad. Open your mind, i dont get how natural selection misses you old fucks.
gee sad I agree. music has went to crap. its not about feeling or originality anymore. everyones selling out for the fastest way to get a million bucks. nothing is personal, or comes from the heart. these 'stars' are jokes compared to the legends.
nickserio35 No you disagree. I think music has got MORE original. Digital audio workstations and software allow you to create sounds that nobody has ever heard before and some fucktards are still strumming guitars. I've heard guitars before i'm fucking sick of real instruments. I want to experience something new.
And rap music rap is rooted in folkish black blues and poetry like souther trap rap music that influenced most hip hop stuff is like that mixed with a use of recordings and tapes aka sampling music from other songs even rock songs are those recordings min predicts and the tapes are like the beats that are rapped to. Your right also that it sounds like edm he basically described both.
well back then i think the only reason he knew this was because a lot of ppl in this generation knew that technology was gonna eventually get better and bigger it was just a matter of time
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Because of Manzarek’s experimentation with keyboards replacing the bass and early synthesisers. They knew where instruments were evolving, and if you can have a band with no bass player, then the future is one individual performing all machines, but yeah he’s a genius of course 👏🏽
It is amazing, but it's not shocking. Same way you and I can envision that in 10 or 20 years from now, artificial intelligence will walk among us, do our daily chores, help us with our routines, assist us in many different ways and etc. It is not a ground breaking discovery to understand where technology would go when you have the basics of it. If Jim's prediction was done in 1800 then it would've been shocking.
@@cristodimarti201that can be so true but they had to use real bass guitar on their last album. They got to Elvis’s bass player Jerry Scheff at last. That’s the beginning time of electronic keyboards it’s call moog synthesizer.
Because it was already happening. There were huge advances in tape music and electronic music between the 40's and the 60's, you already had people like Raymond Scott experimenting with sequencers and self-contained music "computers" in the 50's. Morrison was definitely aware of synthesizers because he played one on their second record, so he wasn't in the dark about what was going on in music at the time. Still it was a fringe thing at the time, so he still accurately predicted things that were yet impossible to envision.
He was dead-on, and me being an engineer and producer of my own records [using a midi-keyboard, a drum-pad, and a wide variety of synthesizers, samplers, and effects-plugins], it's so amazing how he predicted and seemingly was in favor of what a modern-day musician would look like & how we'd operate.
What he was saying in Paris after LA Woman was that he wanted to get into some pure Blues. Even jammed with some musicians in 71 playing blues before he overdosed.
Jim Morrison. A UCLA Graduate. Had an I.Q. of 149. Read thousands of books. Wrote thousands of poems. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, he was in a band called The Doors.
Jim was way ahead of his time. His true talent was writing. His books of verse/poetry are brilliant. A true legend that spent a short time here but will live on forever.
Not to diminish his IQ or his talents, which were plentiful, but the fact that he saw these things coming in 1969 isn’t really that amazing to me. The writing was already on the wall by then. Huge technological advancements were being made in both musical instruments/equipment, as well as with recording technology. Just listen to the albums that came out during the decade-long period of 1965 through 1975, in chronological order. The evolution was absolutely incredible. Synthesizers were a brand new thing (in 1969) that some bands were already starting to dabble in. The Beatles did it that very year on Abbey Road. So, here’s Jim, right in the middle of this big quantum leap in technology, speculating that it will eventually lead to an electronic form of popular music, where one person will use electronic devices to manipulate sounds. It really wasn’t much of a stretch to see that coming in 1969. Again, it doesn’t take anything away from the fact that he was an incredibly talented and intelligent person.
Wow, stunning he just predicted rap music, disco music, and electric synthesized music I mean it's all there if you really listen to this , it is really profound. The man was pure genius
P403N1X thats why skrillex is who he is he couldve been a dick and claimed the whole thing but he paid homage to jim morrison because he knew it would happen and sonny wanted to bring his words to life
P403N1X Not realy... EDM from that time has more incommon with RnB and Disco. Skrillex owes his carrier to Morder more than Morrison... And Now adays he owes his carrer more to Ritchie Hawtin since he has gone to Ibiza for the past 2 years and spun Tech house and techno sets... What happens to a genre innovator when that genre dies..... SKRILLEX!
He wasn't all that far off, as one year later in Germany, Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider would form a band that used electric instruments and synthesizers called Kraftwerk, often cited as the fathers of Electronica/Dance
"I can kind of envision maybe one person with a lot of machines, tapes and electronic setups singing or speaking and using machines. " He basically predicted DubFX
Jim Morrison was truly an amazing person with an amazing personality and an amazing inteligence and an amazing soul !!! What a sweet guy he is here. Amazing :-) He was such an interesting person. I wish he was still around :-( We'll... He gave as much as he could of himself,so hail to Jim. Resting In Paris xxx Mochim Shab Genu Ashanu Medim Jim. ;-)
henry landivar The electric guitar changed things, then pedals, etc. The Germans were doing freaky things (shocking.) Everything was pointing to electronics being the next big wave of improvements in society. He was an intelligent guy and deep in the industry. This clip is good, not mind blowing like you said.
1:37 I'M BREAKING A SWEAT IT'S ALRIGHT! Seriously though, what a great interview. It's only becoming more and more relevant as music technology evolves.
Love all the comments but he actually predicted Pink Floyd's new sound when they pioneered electronics into The Dark Side of the Moon and then Wish You Were Here. Take time to look into that. He had the timeline down right about 5 years... 1973 and 1975 respectively. Jim and the Doors actually used a Moog Synthesizer on the Strange Days track in '69 but didnt dabble beyond that he must've seen that's where Rock was headed. Germany had messed with electronics in music but wasnt true rock. Hope yall enjoy this. Please add to if I'm missing something.
For me, Jim is predicting electronic music (obviously), but also rap. I think Jim would have been intrigued by the new wave of artists deriving from the hip-hop culture.
He is right here about it all. The problem with all the technology, tapes, sounds etc, is that they don't translate well the the stage. So as he says, it gets back to where it started, the basics of instrumentation.
What jim actually was referring to was the usage of electronica in the context of blues and rock and roll. Which means dance/physical music. Electronic music up until then was for the most part a more cerebral/classical affair. In that sense, he was definitely ahead of the curve. Besides, ray manzarek's playing does seem to predict some elements of current electronic music, such as looping basslines and rythmic keyboard stabs.
It's such a shame he couldn't control his addictions. He didn't need any of it, he was intelligent and talented without all of that. Who knows what he would have created. Considering The Doors never sounded like anyone else before or after, they probably would have created some amazing music. Only a year or two later Brian Eno would come into the music world.
the Silver Apples were already a thing back then, but i don’t think their level of recognition was big yet. Jim, in many ways, was ahead of his time. rest in peace.
I'm seeing a lot of debate over what he meant. Clearly he means MODERN music. I say that because it covers all of the music past his time. He isn't talking about dubstep specifically, rap or anything else, he is talking about all music. We live in an age where if you are armed with a computer the next big album can come from your room. of course a lot of people think he might just be thinking about dubstep cuz skrillex slipped this sample in one of his tracks but look at the big picture.
Anyone who thinks this is visionary talk in 1969 or 1970 (not sure when this was taped) needs to learn more about music history from that era. Solo electronic acts were part of pop culture by then and some of the biggest and most influential records from that year fitted Morrison's description perfectly: Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach reached number 10 on the US Billboard 200 in 1969 and stayed there for a total of 59 weeks! Terry Riley, Gershon Kingsley, Dick Hyman, Morton Subotnick, Mort Garson, Pierre Henry LPs were all published on major labels with huge sales. There were thousands of people working with electronic instruments in the US in 1969, and most Universities had their own electronic studios. The concept of electronic music was decades-old by 1969, and the notion of some solo musician surrounded by tape machines and stuff was part of public consciousness. Hell, even George Harrison released a solo electronic Moog album in 1969!!
Theres Jim tripping in a dark, candle lit vocal booth gazing at the recording studio engineers hands and fingers as he works the knobs and sliders. An instrumental Doors mix blasts in Jim's headphones. Marveling over the technology, he imagines himself sitting there in front of the machines, pressing the buttons and tweaking the knobs to some black blues beatnick rhythm with spoken word poetry music. "if only i had some beats" he thinks to himself.
There was an attitude shared by a lot of people back around '69-70 that rock was dying out - John Lennon said something along those lines in his famous 1970 Rolling Stone interview, and of course The Doors came up with the song Rock Is Dead. Luckily, they were wrong, at least for the time being. But the electronic thing Morrison talks about here was just starting to happen, mainly in musical academia, but also in Germany (Krautrock). By the mid 70s, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream were happening, and Klaus Schulze was recording and performing live entirely on his own.
People freak out when they hear this interview as if he was some kind of messiah. But what really happens is that electronic music was born in the late 60thies and he was a music lover who paid attention to the newer trends. The first electronic music concert was on 1935 if you look in the Internet you would find it. It was not mainstream but it had already happened. Also Theremin, Moogs, Vocoder and LFO was invented before the fifties.Even the Doors music relies on electronic synths. We can say the Doors was part of that revolution.
Depends what you define as electronic music. Whatever happened in 35” couldn’t have been practical. But you’re right it was already around just not mainstream.
The Doors used a MOOG on Strange Days, and he already had knowledge of the mellotron which acted as a synth would, so he was basing his prediction on these two things.
"I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard." John Cage, 1937. Not saying Jim was wrong. He was just about 30 years late on that idea.
Dubstepp has no vib my man! The electronic dance scene is just starting to scratch the surface...long time listener of trance, house, and progressive! Can't wait to hear and see what the future of E.D.M. scene brings! Thank God for music!
@MichaelJohn5570 "drop tuning?" do you know how many classic songs including The Doors were not in "Standard tuning" they may have tuned to an old piano or slowed the master down, but it still sounds great doesn't it? i'd say so, that's why they're classics...
@MichaelJohn5570 you're also speaking to a musician, I'm just saying back then, ppl said the same things about those rock songs, its a new era with new ppl sayin the same things about new music, its good to some ppl, others dont care for it, I play drums & bass in a classic rock cover band as a class for my major in college and we study why the classics are still heard and being played today, but also i open itunes & have skrillex TDWP ADTR, WCAR, Slipknot, and i love it all :)
He was not only very articulate, well read and well spoken, he had great perspective, vision and foresight. Unfortunately, he also suffered from the usual plight of geniuses and emotionally disturbed people.. He felt the need to change and tinker and adjust his realm to make it more interesting and favorable to tolerate.
I'm pretty sure Jom knew that this was not an original idea, and that he wouldn't have been embarrassed by anyone realizing that it wasn't, b/c he wasn't trying to make them think it was. He was just saying that, of the possible options for music, this is one he believed would happen. He wouldn't have thought people would think it was original b/c so many people were talking about electronic music, Cage, etc. Zappa said more about it than Jim. That's real history, folks.
i'm 16 and i produce electronic music as a hobby. i hear people all the time saying how electronic music (dubstep, electro, house) will never be as the orginal music. don't take me wrong, i will always have respect for the pioneers of music, but when it comes to music, it doesn't matter what instrument you play, its what you can make out of what you have. our generation was blessed with technology. thererfore i will use it to my advantage. music is music either way. trust me. i know.
I think that he was making a comment on numerous things. One of which would've been Psychedelic music, which was the "electronic" music of its day, and was made electronicly with "Tapes" as Jim said. I think he was basicly saying that " this psychedelic music that has become so popular over the past couple of years will be the future of music and how its made".
I think what's most interesting is that what he was envisioning wasn't oriented around what he himself was doing. Most people who try to predict what changes will happen tend to say things that are obviously them, but with new tools. He was envisioning one guy with machines, when he was the member of a band. He was a singer but envisioned someone even just talking(ie rap).
"The truth is there, for who have eyes to see"....Not a mindblowing assesment to me. Plenty of his comtemporaries at the time thought the same exact thing about the future of music moving heavily into electronics. John Lennon for one. Don't get me wrong though, I love his forward thinking and grow to like him and his music/writing more and more.
Hah everyone keeps saying "Wow he was so accurate!" - meanwhile his band were on the frontier of using electronic keyboards in their music - Light My Fire for example has an iconic electronic organ melody in it... They knew what was coming cause they were at the forefront of using this new technology
@@quantum.9883 Yes, but Manzarek was fulfilling two roles in the band instead of one: organist and bassist, using his Vox organ and Fender keyboard bass, which I don't think anyone else had done before (Felix Cavaliere, Graham Bond and others used bass pedals on their Hammond B3s). The Doors also made early use of the Moog synthesizer on the song Strange Days in 1967. So they were taking the first steps of incorporating electronic keyboards and music into rock & roll. Someone else commenting here also made note that many of Ray's keyboard bass riffs were repetitive patterns, so the next logical step would have been to program those bass lines.
This is so mind bending. He can imagine something not yet created with such precision but because nothing like it exists he struggles to articulate the concept. It’s like he’s trying to describe a new color
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Not really. The writing was on the wall. After Dylan went electric music technology advanced rapidly.
@@dienomo off topic here but what’s your favorite album from each decade starting from the 60s to now? Any genre
@@jesseoliver936 I don't think I can answer that. I was 8 years old in 1960. The 60's and 70's really molded my musical tastes. My parents were into Country mostly but then Elvis came along and then the Beatles in 64. Any way, here are some of the albums that were mind blowing at the time. Anything from The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. Eat a Peach, Allman Brothers. Black Sabbath, Paranoid. Van Morrison, Moondance. Aqualung by Jethro Tull. Ram, Paul McCartney. Nilson Scmilsson by Harry Nilson ( John Lennon's favorite )Hunky Dory by David Bowie. Frank Zappa, Apostrophe. Anything by Tom Petty. The Doors and LA Woman by the Doors. Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon. Throw in lots of Mo Town and some blues. Wow, there are so many I could go on and on. .I tried to include some lesser known stuff. ZZ Top, Paul Butterfield, Janis Joplin Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Dylan, Cream, ELO, The Kinks, Bob Seger, Billy Joel, The Beach Boys, Wilson Pickett, Muddy Waters, Michel Jackson. I enjoyed reminiscing, I haven't thought about this for many years. Thanks.
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He predicted the new wave 70s and 80s electronic music
New Order Comes to mind. But they were different before new order. But not just New Order, there were a lot of electronica bands pre MTV era. I think JM would have been a big part of that generation, just like Joan Jett. Joan Jett is still in the background with music, after her album releases sold at record stores.
He also predicted Los Angeles on fire it's on L.A. Woman.
"I see your hair is burnin'
Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Drivin' down your freeways
Midnight alleys roam
Cops in cars, the topless bars
Never saw a woman
So alone, so alone
So alone, so alone"
And dj's
And 90 2000s 10s 20s lol
@@kaecake9575 lol wtf are you talking about? The LA basin has had fires for centuries. Long before humans ever settled it. You should chill on the weed yo.
Jim Morrison is a genius. He was WAY ahead of his time about everything.
He was a substance abuser, for sure. But, was his death "required" for calling too many institutions out? A real shame he did not live.
And on aaaaaa lot of acid
Yes, he was a visionary... sad 😭 he went our as he did
During this interview he said rock was dying yet it was still popular for decades afterwards, he clearly missed the mark on that.
@@nslouka90 Wrong. Rock died a slow death and its happening right now. There have been very few good new rock bands the last 10 years.
Wow Jim nailed it...Disco, rap and today's rock all operate as Jim described. RIP
and that's how music ended up shit like nowdays.
RIP music
Andrea La Gamba Music is as good as it ever was. Perhaps you are talking about pop music? If you are then it's you who sucks as it means that you don't know how to find good music.
Andrea La Gamba Just because you and your friends don't like something doesn't make it bad. Open your mind, i dont get how natural selection misses you old fucks.
gee sad I agree. music has went to crap. its not about feeling or originality anymore. everyones selling out for the fastest way to get a million bucks. nothing is personal, or comes from the heart.
these 'stars' are jokes compared to the legends.
nickserio35 No you disagree. I think music has got MORE original. Digital audio workstations and software allow you to create sounds that nobody has ever heard before and some fucktards are still strumming guitars. I've heard guitars before i'm fucking sick of real instruments. I want to experience something new.
He totally had a vision of RAVE culture and the rise of the DJ as a real musician and artist... A premonition of electronic culture in all its forms!
Dude listen to 'black polished chrome' he mentions DJ. So what's going on here?? He cant both predict the deejay and mention one ya feel me?
And rap music rap is rooted in folkish black blues and poetry like souther trap rap music that influenced most hip hop stuff is like that mixed with a use of recordings and tapes aka sampling music from other songs even rock songs are those recordings min predicts and the tapes are like the beats that are rapped to. Your right also that it sounds like edm he basically described both.
In the beginning there was Jack, and Jack had a groove.
that was happening before raves, hip hop, dancehall, and disco mixes came out before raves
That was shockingly accurate.
well back then i think the only reason he knew this was because a lot of ppl in this generation knew that technology was gonna eventually get better and bigger it was just a matter of time
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@@pbatjelly164 my thoughts exactly.
@@JordanCantFight how many times can you turn away once you do this?
Prophetic that was, shocking is exactly the emotion it evoked. Crazy stuff
I just love seeing a video that was uploaded 17 years ago.
How the heck did he manage to predict this in 1969,that’s quite amazing.
Because of Manzarek’s experimentation with keyboards replacing the bass and early synthesisers. They knew where instruments were evolving, and if you can have a band with no bass player, then the future is one individual performing all machines, but yeah he’s a genius of course 👏🏽
It is amazing, but it's not shocking. Same way you and I can envision that in 10 or 20 years from now, artificial intelligence will walk among us, do our daily chores, help us with our routines, assist us in many different ways and etc. It is not a ground breaking discovery to understand where technology would go when you have the basics of it. If Jim's prediction was done in 1800 then it would've been shocking.
@@kougou48 And of course I forgot that only two years later,The Who would use a backing tape on ‘Baba O’ Reilly’ and ‘Won’t get fooled again’.🇬🇧
@@cristodimarti201that can be so true but they had to use real bass guitar on their last album. They got to Elvis’s bass player Jerry Scheff at last. That’s the beginning time of electronic keyboards it’s call moog synthesizer.
Because it was already happening. There were huge advances in tape music and electronic music between the 40's and the 60's, you already had people like Raymond Scott experimenting with sequencers and self-contained music "computers" in the 50's. Morrison was definitely aware of synthesizers because he played one on their second record, so he wasn't in the dark about what was going on in music at the time. Still it was a fringe thing at the time, so he still accurately predicted things that were yet impossible to envision.
He was dead-on, and me being an engineer and producer of my own records [using a midi-keyboard, a drum-pad, and a wide variety of synthesizers, samplers, and effects-plugins], it's so amazing how he predicted and seemingly was in favor of what a modern-day musician would look like & how we'd operate.
I think if he lived he may have explored the type of music he talks about. incredible comment made in 1969!
He would have been awesome at edm in his later years.
@@frankdozier5131 he clearly saying it as a bad thing
@@motioved7666 no, that's just you projecting
What he was saying in Paris after LA Woman was that he wanted to get into some pure Blues. Even jammed with some musicians in 71 playing blues before he overdosed.
@@motioved7666He sounded about as neutral as neutral gets. There was no bias or pretense in anything he said.
Jim Morrison. A UCLA Graduate. Had an I.Q. of 149. Read thousands of books. Wrote thousands of poems. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, he was in a band called The Doors.
A high IQ, yet being a poet was his highest quality
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He made hits without base.
Plenty of stupid people with a recorded high IQ.
Madona has an IQ of 154
Jim was way ahead of his time. His true talent was writing. His books of verse/poetry are brilliant. A true legend that spent a short time here but will live on forever.
truly inspiring lyrically
This guy was so intelligent. He predicted the future of music! Can't believe this was from 1970! A real shame he died
1969.
Not to diminish his IQ or his talents, which were plentiful, but the fact that he saw these things coming in 1969 isn’t really that amazing to me. The writing was already on the wall by then. Huge technological advancements were being made in both musical instruments/equipment, as well as with recording technology. Just listen to the albums that came out during the decade-long period of 1965 through 1975, in chronological order. The evolution was absolutely incredible. Synthesizers were a brand new thing (in 1969) that some bands were already starting to dabble in. The Beatles did it that very year on Abbey Road.
So, here’s Jim, right in the middle of this big quantum leap in technology, speculating that it will eventually lead to an electronic form of popular music, where one person will use electronic devices to manipulate sounds. It really wasn’t much of a stretch to see that coming in 1969.
Again, it doesn’t take anything away from the fact that he was an incredibly talented and intelligent person.
@@Shikta-poobah67 Yes, what you have stated aligns with the developments of the day. Recording technology especially was advancing exponentially.
Wow, stunning he just predicted rap music, disco music, and electric synthesized music I mean it's all there if you really listen to this , it is really profound. The man was pure genius
crazy how accurate this is; but then again jim fucking Morrison knows what's up
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Ive been in to The Doors and Jim since i was about 15
as a DJ and hip hop producer this gives me chills and makes my love for Jim grow even more
Weird how he predicts electronic and machines, then skrillex comes along and plays with the band recently, very eerie.
You just fucked my mind
electronic music already existed in 1969, listen to Silver Apples for example
@@nippohippo7553 Kraftwerk was deffinetly not the first, they made electronic music pop
Jim Morrison - Is a not just a genius, he's a psychic.
The reason the band played with Skrillex was because they were aware of Jim's comments on this (clearly).
Fast forward to 2021 and this is even more accurate than anyone could've ever known
SAD isnt it... no one will admit it... but our civilization and culture is dying...
@@kevinpittman2517 he knew about electronics he predicted the 80s lol
Omg Jim Morrison predicted both 70s Disco and 80s Synth-Pop. God that guy was a genius.
The Lizard king, not only a poet but a VISIONARY. Genius.
Skrillex did a perfect job of using this in his track "Breakin' a Sweat." Modern EDM is derived from the Electronic music from around that time.
P403N1X thats why skrillex is who he is
he couldve been a dick and claimed the whole thing but he paid homage to jim morrison
because he knew it would happen
and sonny wanted to bring his words to life
P403N1X Not realy... EDM from that time has more incommon with RnB and Disco. Skrillex owes his carrier to Morder more than Morrison... And Now adays he owes his carrer more to Ritchie Hawtin since he has gone to Ibiza for the past 2 years and spun Tech house and techno sets... What happens to a genre innovator when that genre dies..... SKRILLEX!
fuck him i was gonna sample this, imma still do it he can kiss my ass i aint hear his song so idc
He wasn't all that far off, as one year later in Germany, Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider would form a band that used electric instruments and synthesizers called Kraftwerk, often cited as the fathers of Electronica/Dance
"I can kind of envision maybe one person with a lot of machines, tapes and electronic setups singing or speaking and using machines. "
He basically predicted DubFX
He nailed that question,
Wow Jim is so prescient here. I think he was such a creative genius.. I so wish he was still with us! ❤
Jim Morrison was truly an amazing person with an amazing personality and an amazing inteligence and an amazing soul !!! What a sweet guy he is here. Amazing :-) He was such an interesting person. I wish he was still around :-( We'll... He gave as much as he could of himself,so hail to Jim. Resting In Paris xxx Mochim Shab Genu Ashanu Medim Jim. ;-)
I can't believe how insightful he was. He basically described what I do every chance I get.
The dude was a prophet. Shear visionary 💫
we are still waiting for the next big thing. music now is so in need of something NEW!!!
this is the ending of breakin a sweat from skrillex
What a genius. First group I ever got into as a kid. I love the Doors. RIP Jim.
One name comes to mind. Gary Numan. Bowie/Eno esk guy. Simple all electronic synth guy 1979 probably heard of him
joe dunleavy Tangerine Dream was around that time also... Jim did;nt see the future he just read the writing on the wall.
henry landivar The electric guitar changed things, then pedals, etc. The Germans were doing freaky things (shocking.) Everything was pointing to electronics being the next big wave of improvements in society. He was an intelligent guy and deep in the industry. This clip is good, not mind blowing like you said.
Suicide is what came to mind for me. They started in 1970-1971.
Wow. Like seriously. This man had a vision into the future unlike the average soul.
1:37
I'M BREAKING A SWEAT
IT'S ALRIGHT!
Seriously though, what a great interview. It's only becoming more and more relevant as music technology evolves.
My love for this great band brought me here.
Love all the comments but he actually predicted Pink Floyd's new sound when they pioneered electronics into The Dark Side of the Moon and then Wish You Were Here. Take time to look into that. He had the timeline down right about 5 years... 1973 and 1975 respectively. Jim and the Doors actually used a Moog Synthesizer on the Strange Days track in '69 but didnt dabble beyond that he must've seen that's where Rock was headed. Germany had messed with electronics in music but wasnt true rock. Hope yall enjoy this. Please add to if I'm missing something.
JIM MORRISON IS A GENIUS, I SAY THIS TODAY,
IN 2022!!!!!!!!!!💯❤⚘
LOVE YOU FOREVER,
JIM!!!!!!!!!❤💯⚘
He was a rock and roll gypsy prophet, man. Pure and simple.
For me, Jim is predicting electronic music (obviously), but also rap. I think Jim would have been intrigued by the new wave of artists deriving from the hip-hop culture.
jim morrison knew dubstep befor it was dubstep.... jim...i love you.
Wow , he was way ahead of his game. What a genius. R.I.P. J.I.M.
He is right here about it all. The problem with all the technology, tapes, sounds etc, is that they don't translate well the the stage.
So as he says, it gets back to where it started, the basics of instrumentation.
Everything he said, has been spot on. One person with a machine, maybe singing or talking. Pretty cool video.
What jim actually was referring to was the usage of electronica in the context of blues and rock and roll. Which means dance/physical music. Electronic music up until then was for the most part a more cerebral/classical affair. In that sense, he was definitely ahead of the curve. Besides, ray manzarek's playing does seem to predict some elements of current electronic music, such as looping basslines and rythmic keyboard stabs.
So love Jim Morrison. No one understood him!
A few people understood him, but not many
robert is def one of my favs too, good luck to you to, God bless
It's such a shame he couldn't control his addictions. He didn't need any of it, he was intelligent and talented without all of that. Who knows what he would have created. Considering The Doors never sounded like anyone else before or after, they probably would have created some amazing music. Only a year or two later Brian Eno would come into the music world.
Wow , Jim Morrison right on point!
This is 68-or 1969. WOW, why can't these minds live on? RIP
They do, as floating heads in the year 3000.
Fcuking amazing. That is exactly how I've been making music for over 15 years now and it seems like everything is moving there
the Silver Apples were already a thing back then, but i don’t think their level of recognition was big yet. Jim, in many ways, was ahead of his time. rest in peace.
Wow he sure hit the nail on the head !
I'm seeing a lot of debate over what he meant. Clearly he means MODERN music. I say that because it covers all of the music past his time. He isn't talking about dubstep specifically, rap or anything else, he is talking about all music. We live in an age where if you are armed with a computer the next big album can come from your room. of course a lot of people think he might just be thinking about dubstep cuz skrillex slipped this sample in one of his tracks but look at the big picture.
where's the whole interview?
Alot of people say he predicted it, I feel he instructed it
Alot of artists back then and today look to him for answers
Absolute GENIUS! My Hero.
Anyone who thinks this is visionary talk in 1969 or 1970 (not sure when this was taped) needs to learn more about music history from that era. Solo electronic acts were part of pop culture by then and some of the biggest and most influential records from that year fitted Morrison's description perfectly: Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach reached number 10 on the US Billboard 200 in 1969 and stayed there for a total of 59 weeks! Terry Riley, Gershon Kingsley, Dick Hyman, Morton Subotnick, Mort Garson, Pierre Henry LPs were all published on major labels with huge sales. There were thousands of people working with electronic instruments in the US in 1969, and most Universities had their own electronic studios. The concept of electronic music was decades-old by 1969, and the notion of some solo musician surrounded by tape machines and stuff was part of public consciousness. Hell, even George Harrison released a solo electronic Moog album in 1969!!
Theres Jim tripping in a dark, candle lit vocal booth gazing at the recording studio engineers hands and fingers as he works the knobs and sliders. An instrumental Doors mix blasts in Jim's headphones. Marveling over the technology, he imagines himself sitting there in front of the machines, pressing the buttons and tweaking the knobs to some black blues beatnick rhythm with spoken word poetry music. "if only i had some beats" he thinks to himself.
There was an attitude shared by a lot of people back around '69-70 that rock was dying out - John Lennon said something along those lines in his famous 1970 Rolling Stone interview, and of course The Doors came up with the song Rock Is Dead. Luckily, they were wrong, at least for the time being. But the electronic thing Morrison talks about here was just starting to happen, mainly in musical academia, but also in Germany (Krautrock). By the mid 70s, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream were happening, and Klaus Schulze was recording and performing live entirely on his own.
Now, Kevin Parker is a one man band, Tame Impala.
I remember hearing a song on Trap City or Bass City years ago using this as the intro but I can’t remember what the upload was
One of the first batch of uploaded videos.
Oh my god.. he predicted the future of music so accurately
People freak out when they hear this interview as if he was some kind of messiah. But what really happens is that electronic music was born in the late 60thies and he was a music lover who paid attention to the newer trends. The first electronic music concert was on 1935 if you look in the Internet you would find it. It was not mainstream but it had already happened. Also Theremin, Moogs, Vocoder and LFO was invented before the fifties.Even the Doors music relies on electronic synths. We can say the Doors was part of that revolution.
The first practical audio tape recorder was unveiled in 1935. ... In 1950, Schaeffer gave the first public (non-broadcast) concert of musique
Depends what you define as electronic music. Whatever happened in 35” couldn’t have been practical. But you’re right it was already around just not mainstream.
The Doors used a MOOG on Strange Days, and he already had knowledge of the mellotron which acted as a synth would, so he was basing his prediction on these two things.
He just listened to kraftwerk in the late 60s early 70s. They where the pioneers.
Bro, Jim was a time traveler. And he clearly saw Hip-hop on the horizon.
hehehe :D
James Douglas Morrison
08 de diciembre de 1943
03 de julio de 1971
80 años
27 años
53 años
Cantante de The Doors.
I need to find out who has the rights to this audio clip, I would love to get permission to use this beneath an electronic soundscape
I love Morrison... And i love Dubstep as well :)
Wow, that aged like a good wine.
Fun Fact: Trent Reznor was 5 years old when the original interview was aired.
Coincidence? I think not.
"I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard." John Cage, 1937.
Not saying Jim was wrong. He was just about 30 years late on that idea.
Dubstepp has no vib my man! The electronic dance scene is just starting to scratch the surface...long time listener of trance, house, and progressive! Can't wait to hear and see what the future of E.D.M. scene brings! Thank God for music!
He predicted exactly what has transpired in music today.
Jim Morrison very intelligent and a voracious reader !!!!
@MichaelJohn5570 "drop tuning?" do you know how many classic songs including The Doors were not in "Standard tuning" they may have tuned to an old piano or slowed the master down, but it still sounds great doesn't it? i'd say so, that's why they're classics...
@MichaelJohn5570 you're also speaking to a musician, I'm just saying back then, ppl said the same things about those rock songs, its a new era with new ppl sayin the same things about new music, its good to some ppl, others dont care for it, I play drums & bass in a classic rock cover band as a class for my major in college and we study why the classics are still heard and being played today, but also i open itunes & have skrillex TDWP ADTR, WCAR, Slipknot, and i love it all :)
It's alright.
We all get sweaty sometimes.
That's good.
It helps cool us off.
He called what would happen in the 80's in the 70's. 100%
He was not only very articulate, well read and well spoken, he had great perspective, vision and foresight. Unfortunately, he also suffered from the usual plight of geniuses and emotionally disturbed people.. He felt the need to change and tinker and adjust his realm to make it more interesting and favorable to tolerate.
He foresaw synthesizer music of the 80's. It didn't take until now.
I'm pretty sure Jom knew that this was not an original idea, and that he wouldn't have been embarrassed by anyone realizing that it wasn't, b/c he wasn't trying to make them think it was. He was just saying that, of the possible options for music, this is one he believed would happen. He wouldn't have thought people would think it was original b/c so many people were talking about electronic music, Cage, etc. Zappa said more about it than Jim. That's real history, folks.
He was a visionary.
i'm 16 and i produce electronic music as a hobby. i hear people all the time saying how electronic music (dubstep, electro, house) will never be as the orginal music. don't take me wrong, i will always have respect for the pioneers of music, but when it comes to music, it doesn't matter what instrument you play, its what you can make out of what you have. our generation was blessed with technology. thererfore i will use it to my advantage. music is music either way. trust me. i know.
He was talking about A.I. writing and singing songs at then of his answer
I think that he was making a comment on numerous things. One of which would've been Psychedelic music, which was the "electronic" music of its day, and was made electronicly with "Tapes" as Jim said. I think he was basicly saying that "
this psychedelic music that has become so popular over the past couple of years will be the future of music and how its made".
Now there is some sample fodder right there!
Jim Was A God Of Rock & Roll And Absolute Genius. 😎
Pure genius 👌
Jim was such a special talented artist, and human being so deep, poetic and insightful. RIP legend 🙏 🕊🌹💘
..well 50 years after this statemant and he still got it right
Tragic loss...one of the greats
When played by different people the same piece has different sound and flow. You may very well like one better than the other.
I think what's most interesting is that what he was envisioning wasn't oriented around what he himself was doing. Most people who try to predict what changes will happen tend to say things that are obviously them, but with new tools.
He was envisioning one guy with machines, when he was the member of a band. He was a singer but envisioned someone even just talking(ie rap).
IM BREAKIN A SWEAT, ISSORAYT IM BREAKIN A SWEAT I SAID ISSORAYT
"The truth is there, for who have eyes to see"....Not a mindblowing assesment to me. Plenty of his comtemporaries at the time thought the same exact thing about the future of music moving heavily into electronics. John Lennon for one. Don't get me wrong though, I love his forward thinking and grow to like him and his music/writing more and more.
Безграничное уважение Джиму Морисону!гениален во всем!всегда в моем сердце!♥️♥️♥️♥️
Happy Birthday Jim
Hah everyone keeps saying "Wow he was so accurate!" - meanwhile his band were on the frontier of using electronic keyboards in their music - Light My Fire for example has an iconic electronic organ melody in it... They knew what was coming cause they were at the forefront of using this new technology
Weren't electric organs rather common for the 60s.
@@quantum.9883 Yes, but Manzarek was fulfilling two roles in the band instead of one: organist and bassist, using his Vox organ and Fender keyboard bass, which I don't think anyone else had done before (Felix Cavaliere, Graham Bond and others used bass pedals on their Hammond B3s). The Doors also made early use of the Moog synthesizer on the song Strange Days in 1967. So they were taking the first steps of incorporating electronic keyboards and music into rock & roll. Someone else commenting here also made note that many of Ray's keyboard bass riffs were repetitive patterns, so the next logical step would have been to program those bass lines.
2021 where you at???
Skrillex put part of this interview in his song "Breakin' a sweat!"
Yeah, also bear in mind that Tomorrow Never Knows by the Beatles (Revolver album, 1966) relied heavily on electronics.