Love hearing "All Things Must Pass" playing in the background. It was released in November of 1970 so this gives you a sense of the impact it must have had at the time.
There is only Earth , and sky. Jim was a child of that union.He was, what all great artists should be, an alarm, a wake up call , pointing to beauty, and danger.
@@sterlingcooper3978 Those darn "Dramatic" Arts. Thank God, they never lean towards poetry. Thinking you're better off with the dinosaur media. Gotta hand it to someone who polices the comment section, & has no opinion on the posted content. Good job! Put on your mask!!
@@sterlingcooper3978 Ahh, I'm sorry. You should have told me you were channeling Mr.Mojo Rising himself. Please forgive me Jim, for commenting on an interview with a Poet, with a poem, and to the pedestrian that claims to speak for you,..."this channel has no content". Lol
Jim no es ni aburrido pongo atención a la conversación y jim no deja oportunidad sin reír tampoco lo siento deprimido, traducir la conversación al castellano por favor alguien que se apiade de sus millones de fans de Sudamérica ❤
1. Mexican Bloody Mary (Pat tries 2 of them...) 2. A beer (Michelob) 3. Vodka Collins (X2) Remember, this is a man who, according to Doors' manager Bill Siddons, downed 36 beers in one day during the LA Woman sessions.
Thanks for this reply, Nick. I have two things to add. One a question re the drinks, and the second a very odd reality concerning how college age kids in SF, in the summer of 1969 reacted to the Doors. 1. Drinks. Were you able to hear all of that on the tape, or do you have a separate source for the info? I have only listened to the tape once, and I would like to go thru it to find the drink orders just because I liked hearing the orders and the ice, etc., the first time. However, if this info is not in the tape, I do not want to waste my time. I mean, I heard him mentioning tequila for the first drink, and this sounds like it could be a Mexican Bloody Mary. 2. In the summer of 1969 I was 21, and home from college for the summer. My folks lived in Marin and I used to go to the Fillmore West and The Family Dog at the Great Highway as often as I could, which wasn't too often (4-5 times?). Anyway, I had gone to the FW in early July and at one of the breaks they announced other rock acts that Bill Graham had scheduled. They announced the Doors for later that month, maybe an area (Cow Palace? Kesar Stadium?) and there was a tremendous BOOOO! and someone even said F*** YOU! real loud. This kinda surprised me, but thinking back on it a bit, from this perspective of >50 years later, the Doors were a) from LA; and b) were never a sort of hippy, flower power, "love is all you need" band. Nor were they topically political. In fact, they were sorta *scary*--and that was just not the vibe of the moment, for sure. ...and c) for sure...it was after Miami, and in general, people who were anti-war/politically active viewed Miami as making all the anti-war people (pretty much everyone in college) look bad. It was a public embarrassment that they wanted no connection to. It was just odd to hear the negative reaction. I had never heard any negative response to any of the 60s bands. Anyway, thanks! @@nickgodalin6487
@@mtnsawfish Yes, The Doors performed at the Cow Palace in Daly City July 24 or. 25. It must not have been a very good show because the next day (July 26, 1969) an article titled "Morrison Closes Doors on Fans" appeared in the SF Examiner. Regarding the Chorush tape, yes, it's all there. If you listen closely, the dialogue goes like this: JM: Anybody want a cocktail before we order? Pat: A Mexican Bloody Mary? JM: Is that with tequila?... I'll try one of those. Later, JM: (to Pat Faralla) Did you like this? Do you want another one?....(to the waiter) OK, yeah, she'll have another, and I'll have a beer, I guess. ... Michelob. Then later, JM: (to waiter) Can I have a Vodka Collins? Then towards the end, JM: Can I have one more and....the check I guess. Everyone's got to be moving on... www.reddit.com/r/thedoors/comments/jev73k/jimbo_and_bob_chorush_1970/?rdt=57869 With Bob Chorush and Pat Faralla: pin.it/sbwF2uK pin.it/3ROkxlN
Yes, very consistent with what I had heard the first time. Was this around 11 AM, or something like that? Different direction... Doing some recent reading/listening, it sounds as if Morrison basically lived in the vicinity of the Doors' office on Santa Monica. Maybe 1969 until he went to Paris. He maybe had a motel room at the Alta Cienega, drank/ate regularly at The Palms, The Phone Booth, and maybe The Extension, also the Garden District, and probably went over to Courson's apartment on Norton, only about a mile away. He just walked to those locations (except Norton). Gosh. This is not the life most folk think he lived, is it? Good discussion! I am learning a lot. BTW, I cannot recall who was the main act that night at the FW, but *believe* that Country Weather was on the bill. I can kinda still see them, in my mind... It seems like only a little while ago... Thanks!@@nickgodalin6487
This interview has been published in a couple of Morrison biographies. "The Lizard King" by Jerry Hopkins (1993), and the late Danny Sugarman's "Doors Illustrated History" from the 1980s. Not hard to find maybe online
the whole way through he kept nervously laughing like a schoolgirl with a crush, great hearing morrisons opinions but the interviewer was slightly annoying.
That's exactly why it's interesting. Same with the Ben Fong Torres conversation with Jim in an apartment a few weeks later. It's just a fly on the wall conversation with a music legend shortly before he died.
@@Wildrover82 I really don't need to listen to a half hour of two guys hanging out at the taco shop. I like information and ideas, which Morrison had a lot of. Chorush talked too much (because honestly who cares what he has to say) and negated Jim's potential as a interviewee. Crap interview by an ingenue.
@@shangrila73eldorado well, i used to feel the same ....until the context of this interview became more clear to me after a little fact-finding research. Despite what's on the tape, this was printed/published in the 1/15/71 issue of the LA Free Press ("The Lizard King Reforms: Taking the snake & wearing it") Chorush says clearly that he "doesn't work for the Free Press" as a regular. He's freelance. Which explains the various digressions, the very casual nature & tone throughout the luncheon, & also the long dialogue regarding popular music, Pink Floyd & Miles Davis, preferred venues for rock shows, writing reviews for live shows & records, & publishing in different popular magazines. I'm not totally sure, but i think this was just a one-off thing Chorush agreed to do as a professional assignment. I did correspond w/him shortly b4 he died & he admitted that he had to prepare quite a bit for this by brushing up on the latest Morrison news, & he had been warned by more than one person that Morrison had a reputation for being a "difficult interview" (the recordings from this period don't support that tho). I think too that Chorush had a thing for Morrison, which interfered just a little with his sense of objectivity......just listen to him; he's giddy as a schoolgirl! 😊❤
Not sure , But feel that people that Think very deep and are intellectual , View the Pain Of life and suffering a lot deeper than the average person , that constantly keeps distracted with what ever it maybe , Work , hobby , but constantly being distracted. To where like Jim and any deep thinkers Dwell on these Dark realities of existence more so. They don't laugh as easily because of this. I am not a Scholar or social scientist. It's just a how I view it. Not saying I am correct by any means.
Love hearing "All Things Must Pass" playing in the background. It was released in November of 1970 so this gives you a sense of the impact it must have had at the time.
someone is playing the whole album, right?
Awesome interview. UA-cam is a treasure trove for Jim Morrison interviews and poetry readings as well as Doors content.
Very intelligent man. Calming voice.
Never thought I’d hear JM defending the beautiful song Up on the Roof in the year 2022. Thanks for posting.
Never heard this one. Amazing what keeps surfacing, including the photo.
never heard Jim in conversation... this is so cool
There is only Earth , and sky. Jim was a child of that union.He was, what all great artists should be, an alarm, a wake up call , pointing to beauty, and danger.
Little over dramatic?
@@sterlingcooper3978 Those darn "Dramatic" Arts. Thank God, they never lean towards poetry. Thinking you're better off with the dinosaur media. Gotta hand it to someone who polices the comment section, & has no opinion on the posted content. Good job! Put on your mask!!
@@siauciunaite even Morrison would have laughed at your post since he had a good sense of humor ,by all accounts, and your post deserved some ribbing
@@sterlingcooper3978 Ahh, I'm sorry. You should have told me you were channeling Mr.Mojo Rising himself. Please forgive me Jim, for commenting on an interview with a Poet, with a poem, and to the pedestrian that claims to speak for you,..."this channel has no content". Lol
@@siauciunaite he got rich screwed all he could traveled the world...a good ride
Cool interview. Down to earth conversation. 👍🏽
I don’t know if I’ve ever heard this part 🤷♀️ thank you for posting 💚
Thank you for posting this.
I've never heard it 👍
Thanks for sharing
Great interview
Jim was one who knew the way but never once professed to follow it.
Jim sounds thoughtful and articulate anything but a crazy drunk that he is described in other interviews
Ha ha --"let's go out in the street and observe the desolation."
thanks!
Jim no es ni aburrido pongo atención a la conversación y jim no deja oportunidad sin reír tampoco lo siento deprimido, traducir la conversación al castellano por favor alguien que se apiade de sus millones de fans de Sudamérica ❤
JAMES DOUGLAS MORRISON
08 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1943
03 DE JULIO DE 1971
80 AÑOS
27 AÑOS
53 AÑOS
Cant tell if the tape is not running at speed or Jim's voice is getting deeper and heavier with each drink
Buckminster Fuller..... The geo-desic dome craze...
The 'late' Jeff Buckley was a classmate of mine when we attended junior highschool. 🎇
Damn Bob laughs a lot...
He seems to have ordered four drinks with lunch during the course of this interview.
1. Mexican Bloody Mary (Pat tries 2 of them...)
2. A beer (Michelob)
3. Vodka Collins (X2)
Remember, this is a man who, according to Doors' manager Bill Siddons, downed 36 beers in one day during the LA Woman sessions.
Thanks for this reply, Nick. I have two things to add. One a question re the drinks, and the second a very odd reality concerning how college age kids in SF, in the summer of 1969 reacted to the Doors.
1. Drinks. Were you able to hear all of that on the tape, or do you have a separate source for the info? I have only listened to the tape once, and I would like to go thru it to find the drink orders just because I liked hearing the orders and the ice, etc., the first time. However, if this info is not in the tape, I do not want to waste my time. I mean, I heard him mentioning tequila for the first drink, and this sounds like it could be a Mexican Bloody Mary.
2. In the summer of 1969 I was 21, and home from college for the summer. My folks lived in Marin and I used to go to the Fillmore West and The Family Dog at the Great Highway as often as I could, which wasn't too often (4-5 times?).
Anyway, I had gone to the FW in early July and at one of the breaks they announced other rock acts that Bill Graham had scheduled. They announced the Doors for later that month, maybe an area (Cow Palace? Kesar Stadium?) and there was a tremendous BOOOO! and someone even said F*** YOU! real loud. This kinda surprised me, but thinking back on it a bit, from this perspective of >50 years later, the Doors were a) from LA; and b) were never a sort of hippy, flower power, "love is all you need" band. Nor were they topically political. In fact, they were sorta *scary*--and that was just not the vibe of the moment, for sure.
...and c) for sure...it was after Miami, and in general, people who were anti-war/politically active viewed Miami as making all the anti-war people (pretty much everyone in college) look bad. It was a public embarrassment that they wanted no connection to.
It was just odd to hear the negative reaction. I had never heard any negative response to any of the 60s bands.
Anyway, thanks!
@@nickgodalin6487
@@mtnsawfish Yes, The Doors performed at the Cow Palace in Daly City July 24 or. 25. It must not have been a very good show because the next day (July 26, 1969) an article titled "Morrison Closes Doors on Fans" appeared in the SF Examiner.
Regarding the Chorush tape, yes, it's all there. If you listen closely, the dialogue goes like this:
JM: Anybody want a cocktail before we order?
Pat: A Mexican Bloody Mary?
JM: Is that with tequila?... I'll try one of those.
Later,
JM: (to Pat Faralla) Did you like this? Do you want another one?....(to the waiter) OK, yeah, she'll have another, and I'll have a beer, I guess. ... Michelob.
Then later,
JM: (to waiter) Can I have a Vodka Collins?
Then towards the end,
JM: Can I have one more and....the check I guess. Everyone's got to be moving on...
www.reddit.com/r/thedoors/comments/jev73k/jimbo_and_bob_chorush_1970/?rdt=57869
With Bob Chorush and Pat Faralla: pin.it/sbwF2uK
pin.it/3ROkxlN
Yes, very consistent with what I had heard the first time.
Was this around 11 AM, or something like that?
Different direction...
Doing some recent reading/listening, it sounds as if Morrison basically lived in the vicinity of the Doors' office on Santa Monica. Maybe 1969 until he went to Paris. He maybe had a motel room at the Alta Cienega, drank/ate regularly at The Palms, The Phone Booth, and maybe The Extension, also the Garden District, and probably went over to Courson's apartment on Norton, only about a mile away. He just walked to those locations (except Norton).
Gosh. This is not the life most folk think he lived, is it?
Good discussion! I am learning a lot.
BTW, I cannot recall who was the main act that night at the FW, but *believe* that Country Weather was on the bill. I can kinda still see them, in my mind...
It seems like only a little while ago...
Thanks!@@nickgodalin6487
@@mtnsawfishI appreciate you sharing that.
This is from December 1970.
21:56 on earthquakes
is there a transcript of this anywhere? I'm deaf and the CC is pretty off especially the last 20 minutes. Help thank you!
I’ll see what I can do for you Kath
@@othervoices76 Thank you
This interview has been published in a couple of Morrison biographies. "The Lizard King" by Jerry Hopkins (1993), and the late Danny Sugarman's "Doors Illustrated History" from the 1980s. Not hard to find maybe online
Ask about father,
It sounds like Bob is talking more than Jim.
Towards the end of the interview, Chorush loosens up enough to become more talkative, less focused on official "interview" questions.
the whole way through he kept nervously laughing like a schoolgirl with a crush, great hearing morrisons opinions but the interviewer was slightly annoying.
This isn't an interview. Chorush is a lightweight.
I'm glad it's not an interview. Conversation is more interesting...
That's exactly why it's interesting. Same with the Ben Fong Torres conversation with Jim in an apartment a few weeks later. It's just a fly on the wall conversation with a music legend shortly before he died.
@@Wildrover82 I really don't need to listen to a half hour of two guys hanging out at the taco shop. I like information and ideas, which Morrison had a lot of. Chorush talked too much (because honestly who cares what he has to say) and negated Jim's potential as a interviewee. Crap interview by an ingenue.
@@shangrila73eldorado well, i used to feel the same ....until the context of this interview became more clear to me after a little fact-finding research.
Despite what's on the tape, this was printed/published in the 1/15/71 issue of the LA Free Press ("The Lizard King Reforms: Taking the snake & wearing it")
Chorush says clearly that he "doesn't work for the Free Press" as a regular. He's freelance. Which explains the various digressions, the very casual nature & tone throughout the luncheon, & also the long dialogue regarding popular music, Pink Floyd & Miles Davis, preferred venues for rock shows, writing reviews for live shows & records, & publishing in different popular magazines.
I'm not totally sure, but i think this was just a one-off thing Chorush agreed to do as a professional assignment.
I did correspond w/him shortly b4 he died & he admitted that he had to prepare quite a bit for this by brushing up on the latest Morrison news, & he had been warned by more than one person that Morrison had a reputation for being a "difficult interview" (the recordings from this period don't support that tho).
I think too that Chorush had a thing for Morrison, which interfered just a little with his sense of objectivity......just listen to him; he's giddy as a schoolgirl! 😊❤
@@AirflowToTheTurbo Love that conversation with Torres. Pam's there too I recall which makes it even better and more interesting.
Jim is bored and really never laughs. Very depressed soul.
This was January 1971 Jim was burnt out by this point. In a couple months he would leave for Paris and never return
Not sure , But feel that people that Think very deep and are intellectual , View the Pain Of life and suffering a lot deeper than the average person , that constantly keeps distracted with what ever it maybe , Work , hobby , but constantly being distracted. To where like Jim and any deep thinkers Dwell on these Dark realities of existence more so. They don't laugh as easily because of this. I am not a Scholar or social scientist. It's just a how I view it. Not saying I am correct by any means.
Or the realization of shedding skin he really wanted to hang on to.@@wesharrington5937
@@vicvega3614 First week of December, 1970. At one point they mention Gimme Shelter which came out in theaters around Dec 8th, 1970.
. The last year of his time in L.A. was a pretty debauched individual.
I think he was flattered anyone would want to interview him.😢