There was never a group that sounded like the Doors before the Doors, and never a group that sounded like them after. Completely original and never duplicated.
+Walt Jabsco Go to your bedroom, turn off the lights and lie down. Listen to comfortably numb loudly through headphones, focus on the lyrics and the story of withdrawal and beauty. Goosebumps will ensue.
Amen...He had an IQ of 149. Brilliant mind, very well read and cou articulate himself excellently. LSD, alcohol ... no problem. Take a look at an interview. This man, along with many other things, was a philosopher ❣
@@Kassandra_ yeah a stupid sober person does not sound more eloquent or intelligent just due to lack of drugs or alcohol. It's like Mozart people just resent the skills they don't possess themselves.
@ Assana shelest "Occupation?" Well, let me answer for Jim reciting his - in my opinion - most essential autobiographical sentence: "I`M KIND OF HOOKED TO THE GAME OF ART AND LITERATURE." Jim Morrison - a poet, philosopher, film scientist, musician, singer, Rock superstar etc. Greetings from Germany Michael
The Doors were like the first goth band, had a few early elements of it, the spooky, gloomy, eerie, romantic, poetic, and mysterious aspects of their persona and music. Jim had one of the best ever rock baritone voices, smooth like velvet at times, full roar at others.
They all do, it's crazy how young they were... I'm turning 27 this year and I feel so untalented, unaccomplished and un-alive, times definitely have changed
It may sound shallow, but looks count for something. If Jim had been ugly, then the Doors would likely have been a modestly successful band liked mostly by dudes. But, especially in those days, having a dreamy-looking front man helped to get a band noticed by girls, doubling the audience, and the awesome talent kept them hooked for decades. It is showbiz after all.
RCAvhstape Yes looks still do count for something. Its the way it is. In my observations people who are better looking generally get better treatment. Sad but true.
Jim was not a trouble soul. He gave music and his fans everything he had. So much so that by age 25 he was burnt out. He lived a short life, but accomplished a lot. He was just being himself, and a lot of people love that.
He speaks slowly because he's on drugs, that's probably why his voice gets you thrills. He's constantly in a altered state of consciousness, which makes him sound different from the ordinary people when he speaks, but that should not be mistaken for wisdom.
The thing I admire most about Jim besides his talent as a poet, songwriter, and singer ….. is that he is a true example/definition of an original. He brings so much originality to the table, doesn’t follow other people and generic trends. He naturally thinks different from most people and combines that with innovative eccentric intelligence. In present times, there’s very little originality. You inspire me Jim!
@@Sycophants_should_suffer He wasn't really that, he even criticized the movement. The Doors were dark underground getting so popular for the reasons Morrison hated, though he liked the attention and being wanted to a certain point in time. People don't get how young he was. I don't as well in a complete sense, as he's 2 generations before me, and my mom even remembers him as already dead, as she was only 8 then. So, he sensed something is wrong and started changing, maturing in a way when he went to Paris, and shortly prior to that, but he never got a chance to complete that, to break on through to the other side completely, though he tried and tried. I think that's his tragedy. And he was 3 years younger than I am now, I still can't believe it. I look at him similar to 40+ people who are now alive.
Jim was just beautiful. Not just his looks but the passion he had for music and especially poetry. He was very expressive in his work but he was also a mysterious and quite man. Truly amazing ♥
Jesus he was so insanely hot. Not just his outward appearance, but also the way he carries himself. That walk on its own. I don't know how 1 man can be so beautiful
@@jaimonjohn2516 For a start the Manson murders were after this interview . Jfk , Martin Luther King and the likes he must've meant Lee Harvey Oswald people like that .
Jim had an outlook on life that the others didn't understand , he wanted to live fully and experience what he could. The others didn't understand. He sung what he felt , he didn't like being the good looking guy he just wanted people to understand him and his life. You we're a true poet sad that others don't understand and share his outlook on life.
The way his eyes changed in an instant at 0:49 is absolutely mesmerizing, I found myself rewatching that part over and over just so I could stare into his eyes. I can see he has a beautiful soul and mind from that moment. Oddly enough I know that from his perspective he was just staring at a camera.
4:10 "I think these days,especially in the states,you have to be a politician or an assassin to be a superstar." .... 50 years later nothing has changed. You're so wise Jim. Not only beyond your years but also beyond true human understanding at that time.
I really like the fact that while everyone else says their full name he just says Jim... In my mind it means that he wasn't affected by the fact that he was famous.
Although this is when they were just starting out. It notices how different he was, how he stands out from the other three, even in the manner of his stroll towards the camera. He's in another world, rather whimsical. 'Name?' Jim. 'Occupation?' Um... The pause and he looks up as he contemplates and then gives that cheeky grin, it's as if he could have been anything, he could have said anything, he could have chosen to be anything. Here, though, he was the poet and frontman of The Doors.
You absolutely nailed him. At his core, Jim was a poet and that is how he wished to be remembered. The "Lizard King" was his stage persona--his shtick.
Sue Burgess Maybe. I’ve see/read & heard enough to believe he had issues with fame & was even socially phobic! Why (other than it was the Hippies-n-Psychedelic Drugs Days) do you think he did drugs, although alcohol was his real ‘demon.’?? “It’s better to burn-out, than fade away.” Jim was the result of a tragic [Shakespearian! ...& Jim liked introspection & soliloquy , added to his Nietzsche, Foucault & Philosophy!] confluence of Free Spiritedness, Lost & EVER Searching Persona and Never Enough Highs. In Paris, he began to actually look better, less ‘Physically Sculpted’ & more Rounded [inwardly & outwardly], yet his inner organs just couldn’t take the strain he’d subjected himself to. I think, finally, Jim simply had to...pay the piper, so to speak. Too bad, because he WAS Brilliant at what he did...
Val Kilmer absolutely KILLED it when he played Jim. The mannerisms and looks... so spot on. Jim was a beautiful and mystical human being, that’s for sure.
Val did a great job, apart from the director did an appaling job portraying Jim as being a complete jerk all the time and not honing in on what he was really like. That movie could have been great if the director had of done better research and It's ashame he did not show Jims true personality.
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sometimes I can't believe Jim really existed... he was a genius, he gave so much to this world in just a short 27 years. his death was truly a loss to music and poetry alike, i wonder what more he had in store for us had he lived through the 70s.
Don't get me wrong, but why do you say he was a genius? Einstein was a genius and gave us the theory of relativity. So what did Jim do that changed the science of music?
Die hard fans of celebrities See no wrong in their So call God's I agree with u The word genius has become an everyday banana U write a song,u like it Bam!,he or she becomes Geniuses Fucking ridiculous!
@@ninjasuzume9590 he and the rest of the Doors changed the history of music. They paved the way for many bands and genres that I love. If your definition of genius relates only to science that’s fine, to me a genius is anyone who has truly mastered their craft in a significant and revolutionary or unique way
Ray was a darling! Not a looker in the traditional way like Jim but someone who really loved those close to him and would do anything for them. The teddy bear of The Doors. May his memory be a blessing.
It's amazing how Jim Morrison continues to fascinate people and draw new fans every year! I think it boils down to his persona--it resonates so well with a lot of folks (especially younger people)--that dark, smoldering presence with a hint of danger and uncertainty. Nobody ever projected that aura quite like Morrison--and to this day people are mesmerized by him!!
That's just false. Pure drugs exist today in almost the same capacity they did then. There are more fake compounds today, but that doesn't mean the real ones stopped being produced. And "pure" acid makes one just as incoherent as "impure" acid. It's all about the dosage.
The tragedy is that most people have chosen money over rock and roll. The raw libido and authenticity from this time is my spiritual home. Imagine if we all just completely shook free from corporatism.
And, listen...he was deep and thoughtful. He sounds as he could just rant on and on for hours. I feel like he never really cared what others thought, but he definitively wanted to be heard and listened to.
Jim Morrison, who was a deep, philosophical thinker, was TOTALLY acting and being satirical with his "I'm so 'out of it'" schtick. He knew exactly what was going on, and he had a brilliant mind. What a precious, precious soul he was ....
What about Val Kilmer that played his character in the movie? What about Patrick Swayze? These 3 are probably the top 3 lookers of the male species of all time.
"...someone not quite at home, not quite relaxed, aware of a lot of things, but not quite sure about anything. I'd like to do one... just feeling of being totally at home." - that hits hard, now I know why I feel this connection with The Doors
Ever since I was a teenager, I had a connection with the doors music , like when I listened to it , it takes me to another level of emotion understanding worldly/ soul deep, hard to explain There is something about Jim, his thoughts, voice and writing that I truly resonate with , love love the doors. ♡♡♡
Jim Morrison was super brilliant, and known to be. He read incessantly, had stacks of books all over his small apartment. He loved Proust, Byron, Rimbaud, and the "Beat" writers, Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, among others. He was a poet, and could quote many book's and Author name by one reading one sentence from the book. I read about him when I was a teenager, and I read many of the authors he read because of that. He was really an interesting young man, and yes, absolutely beautiful too. He wasn't always beautiful, he was a chubby kid, and I think that's probably why he seemed to not take the rock star thing so seriously (?) He was also really in to history, and greatly admired Alexander The Great, who he had his hair cut in a style to replicate. I love The Doors, just beautiful music.
I don't know where he's chubby, and I've seen many photos of his early life. But, he was deemed difficult early on, in school especially, he made trouble there, and I don't know if he was popular due to it. He was a weirdo but learned enough body language to be desirable to others so that he could get away with it. I think also as the oldest child he took it the hardest from his strict, traditionalist parents, but his siblings were different, and his sister says she thought he was quite fun. I guess he provided some kind of relief to his siblings from a traditional boxed, yet always moving household. I mean, I don't know whether he was ever insecure about his looks, as his first serious relationship was with a beauty queen, who herself was quite wanted I can imagine.
Jim could be a real idiot when he wanted to be, but man, he was so aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Just like Hendrix, his cool factor was off the scale, in a way todays rock stars just don't possess. Nobody has that effortless charisma any more!
@@elizabethmcleod246 According to Jim, apparently the most philosophical of all the signs! Personally, i'd argue in favour of Libra, and that's not just because i am one! 😉
Wonder Man I read where morrison would walk down the streets of amsterdam and FREELY without question openly accept any and all drugs and whatever the fuck else was given, handed to him by complete total strangers, dutch, and whoever the fuck else, and take what was just given him ON THE SPOT proves the guy just didnt care
Wonder Man so maybe the guy was just one big asshole, playing everybody, that was good when patricia kenealy found out the truth about that jim's parents and sister were alive, that pissed him off good, exposed his little 'trying to be cool routine' saying he doesn't remember being born, one of his blackouts or some shit, lies all the time, makes light of serious things, you reap what you sow
His answer always sounds to me like his real occupation is just being himself, and not even James Douglas Morrison, but Jim...just Jim...neither more, nor less
It's sad to hear in Jim Morrison's statement about how the Doors' music felt to him the alienation of his childhood: "The mood I get … is a heavy, sort of gloomy feeling … Like of someone not quite at home, not quite relaxed … aware of a lot of things but not quite sure of anything. I’d like to do one [song] of just ... feeling totally at home". His father was a navy admiral and political conservative and it seems he and Jim did not get along. I recall reading somewhere that Jim felt smothered by the austere environment he grew up in; much of the passion in his music and his addictive, self-destructive path leading to a young death can be explained by his reaction to the childhood trauma of alienation and anxiety.
This Band as a whole is the definition of what the 60s were all about.... a conscious pursuit of the true existence and meaning of life, perception, a new reborn life outside of whats been set up for you.... This was Rock N Roll this was the youth this was the truth.... God Bless the world finds this again and never lets go.... Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek are some of the wisest people i have ever gotten the honor to listen to. A Whole time and culture when people were really starting to figure out and pursue the true meaning of life and to glorify all things greater than ourselves. A True pursuit chasing all the things that really matter within the short time here of this life on earth. This was real. This Is Rock N Roll....
Tim Nolan simply put a men and true, I agree, the dude could be doing who knows what, maybe one or more people know, or maybe nobody knows, I hope if he is alive and knowing him, he's incredibly enjoyed the years of his life seeing what this world's become since his day and age, I hope he's in love right now, sittin down with his wife and kids, reading to them :) and i hope he leaves instructions on the REAL him for him when he does pass, or if he does have a family, he shouldn't or do it in secret for just certain people, just so it NEVER gets out publicly, the public sucks, the public is a murdering greedy trampling MOB.......
he was stoned majority of the time I believe, you can just tell, I hope wherever he is Jesus, by God's grace, found him-saved him. People always say 'I found Jesus' thats wrong, he finds YOU. Man is depraved evil wicked has no will at all to choose God and doesn't want to and wouldnt even if he were able to, so God HAS to intervene himself in men's-mankind's lives personally, or no one would ever be saved-born again.......
Favourite group. Love Strange Days and Waiting For The Sun. They are so unique and there has never been a group since. Rock, blues and jazz hybrid done well. Very talented!
I actually met Jimmy in Paris in '71. I don't have the exact date, but it was around mid June. He came stumbling out of the Les Deux Magots bar as my buddy and I were coming in. Nobody was with him. He had a lot of shit in his hands (notebooks, keys, papers) and he dropped it where it all splayed across the sidewalk. I picked it up for him, which is when I noticed who he was. God, he was fat. He was disoriented drunk and ended up going back into the bar with my buddy and me. We stayed in there at least 4-5 hours drinking. Jimmy alternated between beer and Chivas. He was very quiet, which is understandable considering the volume of alcohol that must have been in his system. He seemed cordial when he did speak or say something, although we could rarely make out any of the words. I do remember him saying, "The Devil lives and shits in your eyes. Yours, mine, everybody's". I have no memory of leaving the place and woke the next morning with a hangover of biblical proportions. Some people have told me this guy probably wasn't Jimmy, but I know it was. I was stone sober when I walked into the place and, even grossly overweight, it was clearly Jimmy Morrison. Both Jimmy and my buddy are dead now. At 74, I soon will be too. But, I've been able to tell my tale about meeting the great Jimmy Morrison.
... can you imagine being down the front somewhere (with hindsight, or course) at one of their early gigs? Would have been incredible ... actually, 'incredible' doesn't quite cut it.
Unfair? I hear you you want to lay in his arms, but unfair? I don't know about that word under the context. Entitled much! Animals being kept in filthy cages and prisons' metal floors all their life and then scalded into water and slaughtered because people somehow believe they share the same anatomy with a lion, that's unfair. We humans have it easy. Hardly anything unfair about being a human. Desire is the antidote to happiness/peace.
@@justdev8965 Living a life out in an era you can't, and don't want to, relate to... feels pretty unfair. No one else has to understand how shitty that can be, I'm doing just fine.
@@predatormusic2959 He was an avid reader. One of his teachers expressed how surprised he was by how broadly Jim read. He really liked Nietzsche, Kafka, and Balzac. A very smart guy.
G D BLESS THE BAND MEMBERS THE DOORS LOVE PEACE AND ROCK AND ROLL... JIM WAS SO SLIIIII AND SMART,, HA!!WE SHOULD ALL BE SO CALM LIKE JIM,,, STONED .. LOVE HIM,,..GREAT VIDEO!!! PEACE..
There was never a group that sounded like the Doors before the Doors, and never a group that sounded like them after. Completely original and never duplicated.
xpat73 same with the floyd. two great bands.
+Ulysses M. I have tried my hardest to get into Pink Floyd. I just can't for some reason. They don't do anything for me. I love The Doors though.
+Walt Jabsco Go to your bedroom, turn off the lights and lie down. Listen to comfortably numb loudly through headphones, focus on the lyrics and the story of withdrawal and beauty. Goosebumps will ensue.
spaceshanty15 Ok, I will try this when I go to bed tonight. I'll let you know what I think. Don't think I've ever listened to that one.
Walt Jabsco listen to careful with that axe eugeue (live at pompeii version) at night too. ;)
-Name?
-Jim.
-Occupation?
-Smile.
Sasha Alexandrova ...part of his mystique was his enigmatic persona.plus the Doors were big while being hard to categorize.christ,they were good!
+auggiedoggy exactly what I thought he even looked like he was going to say it lol
What does he say?
His occupation is being Jim.
@@SlowRide723 I thought it was to be Chevy Chase..?
I feel like Jim is the type of guy who just casually leads a cult
Potes -_- wow, yeah!
He just liked classic literature and was a free spirit.
Anna Vajda the perfect makings of a casual cult leader
@@potes-_-9525 LMAO
I’d give anything to be in his cult-😳😏
Can we take a moment to appreciate these mens ability to do interviews while high
Interview on orange sunshine.
Look how well they play and perform high so yeah they can manage a conversation.
Amen...He had an IQ of 149. Brilliant mind, very well read and cou articulate himself excellently. LSD, alcohol ... no problem. Take a look at an interview. This man, along with many other things, was a philosopher ❣
@@Kassandra_ yeah a stupid sober person does not sound more eloquent or intelligent just due to lack of drugs or alcohol. It's like Mozart people just resent the skills they don't possess themselves.
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I think Jim's smile for question of ocupation explains it all. Ocupation? What ocupation? I'm a free man :-)
Andrzej201 i love his smile.
He was the complete slave. Caught, trapped--and enslaving others throughout his slavery...
that smile really does hold the secrets :)
@N lol
Occupation: Trickster Shaman
I love the absolute difference in presentation between Manzarek and Morrison.
"Name?" "Raymond Daniel Manzarek."
"Name?" "Uh, Jim."
Occupation ?
- ummmmmmm
It is hilarious
what is Jim asked at 0.58?
@ Assana shelest
"Occupation?"
Well, let me answer for Jim reciting his - in my opinion - most essential autobiographical sentence:
"I`M KIND OF HOOKED TO THE GAME OF ART AND LITERATURE."
Jim Morrison - a poet, philosopher, film scientist, musician, singer, Rock superstar etc.
Greetings from Germany
Michael
Laugh my ass off
The Doors were like the first goth band, had a few early elements of it, the spooky, gloomy, eerie, romantic, poetic, and mysterious aspects of their persona and music. Jim had one of the best ever rock baritone voices, smooth like velvet at times, full roar at others.
Is that Emo?
goth...? do you mean psychedelic rock..?
@@alma_net7420they were everything but he is correct, they were goth in some ways
He could sound exactly like Sinatra
You’re forgetting the aspect that makes goth “goth” he since about the occult and has been open about it
Died at 27....think about that. He was far ahead of his time and age....He seems much older in his interviews.
I think he looks his age but the hair and style was way mature for his age and he was already a rebel
it is called an education and reading real books about truth before all the lies are on the little computer
@@mayevb2998 I'm jealous about his hair tho. so beautiful.
Look up the 27 club.
They all do, it's crazy how young they were... I'm turning 27 this year and I feel so untalented, unaccomplished and un-alive, times definitely have changed
No one will ever top how gorgeous Jim Morrison was. ever.
Yes I agree
It may sound shallow, but looks count for something. If Jim had been ugly, then the Doors would likely have been a modestly successful band liked mostly by dudes. But, especially in those days, having a dreamy-looking front man helped to get a band noticed by girls, doubling the audience, and the awesome talent kept them hooked for decades. It is showbiz after all.
Loved Jim....before my time! Sorry but Michael Hutchence had it all over him!....js
***** It can be, however most people would agree subjectively then. For example, most people would agree that Jim is very good looking.
RCAvhstape Yes looks still do count for something. Its the way it is. In my observations people who are better looking generally get better treatment. Sad but true.
Jim was . . . . insanely beautiful. Poor, poor troubled soul.
not troubled.... just incomplete and more complex then the of us mortals
He was born in the wrong age. Should have been born in the 1700"s.
Christina Tomlinson Exactly. Troubled.
Jim was not a trouble soul. He gave music and his fans everything he had. So much so that by age 25 he was burnt out. He lived a short life, but accomplished a lot. He was just being himself, and a lot of people love that.
@@jsamc in what sense? Why the 1700s? I'm genuinely asking
When he speaks, his voice is like a deep ocean and I just sink into the abyss that is him. A true rock star.
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You're like a cult follower. Settle down
Don't go creepin' around any ranches in California
nigga what 😂😂
He speaks slowly because he's on drugs, that's probably why his voice gets you thrills. He's constantly in a altered state of consciousness, which makes him sound different from the ordinary people when he speaks, but that should not be mistaken for wisdom.
The thing I admire most about Jim besides his talent as a poet, songwriter, and singer ….. is that he is a true example/definition of an original. He brings so much originality to the table, doesn’t follow other people and generic trends. He naturally thinks different from most people and combines that with innovative eccentric intelligence. In present times, there’s very little originality. You inspire me Jim!
He is a hippie. Not sure if you're aware of the massive hippie movement in the 60s in America. How is that original?
@@Sycophants_should_suffer He wasn't really that, he even criticized the movement. The Doors were dark underground getting so popular for the reasons Morrison hated, though he liked the attention and being wanted to a certain point in time. People don't get how young he was. I don't as well in a complete sense, as he's 2 generations before me, and my mom even remembers him as already dead, as she was only 8 then. So, he sensed something is wrong and started changing, maturing in a way when he went to Paris, and shortly prior to that, but he never got a chance to complete that, to break on through to the other side completely, though he tried and tried. I think that's his tragedy. And he was 3 years younger than I am now, I still can't believe it. I look at him similar to 40+ people who are now alive.
Jim was just beautiful. Not just his looks but the passion he had for music and especially poetry. He was very expressive in his work but he was also a mysterious and quite man. Truly amazing ♥
And a psychopath
He is drunk here most of times that`s why he`s talking so slowly. Deep.
cole tipton psychopath is WAAAY overstated...Stone’s movie played that part of him up, BIG TIME.....
Alcoholic 😵😱🖤 ❗❗
What you wrote is truth, the same I see Jim also. Beautiful in mind and heart, in music in poetry and how he looked a really rockn roll star 😍🎧✌️❤️😎
Jesus he was so insanely hot. Not just his outward appearance, but also the way he carries himself. That walk on its own. I don't know how 1 man can be so beautiful
“I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be,and feel alone.”
Become what a person dream on, the achivement of being a rock star, and after all felling alone is the worst thing ever!!
Unificar...
''We are obsessed with heroes
who live for us & whom we punish.''
--Jim Morrison
"our guy"
Such an insightful man!.
1:07 holy mother of everything that man is sickeningly gorgeous
Ya mean Jim?
He has the bone structure of a lion, his beauty is almost painful... Gah!
I guess no-one here ever seen a pic of Elvis Presley.
DIONYSUS INCARNATION....that was JIM.
My uncle looked just like him
I can't tell if he is profound or high.
Definetly both
oh dear, stop. please.
Both.
You are correct!!
looks like he's on opiates...
4:10 Whoa! Jim said, "I think these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something to really be a superstar."
He is talking about charles manson
@@jaimonjohn2516 No he wasnt
@@Lord_Hillcrest02 then who he was referring
@@jaimonjohn2516 For a start the Manson murders were after this interview . Jfk , Martin Luther King and the likes he must've meant Lee Harvey Oswald people like that .
Even when he spoke Jim never seemed to be on planet earth, and that's what was so great about him
I know :)) He was physically down on earth, but spiritually and mentally he was floating around LOL
Jim had an outlook on life that the others didn't understand , he wanted to live fully and experience what he could. The others didn't understand. He sung what he felt , he didn't like being the good looking guy he just wanted people to understand him and his life. You we're a true poet sad that others don't understand and share his outlook on life.
That's exactly what I say when the conversation comes around Jim.
If others don't understand you, than you failed. But I don't think Morisson wasn't understdood.
sounds like everyone else in this life, except the good looking part
Except the fact he was a raging alcohol,ic somthing to consider
So very accurate
The way his eyes changed in an instant at 0:49 is absolutely mesmerizing, I found myself rewatching that part over and over just so I could stare into his eyes. I can see he has a beautiful soul and mind from that moment. Oddly enough I know that from his perspective he was just staring at a camera.
Jim's face was priceless. Beautiful.
😂😂😂
4:10 "I think these days,especially in the states,you have to be a politician or an assassin to be a superstar." .... 50 years later nothing has changed. You're so wise Jim. Not only beyond your years but also beyond true human understanding at that time.
what a great line that is. one of many.
I really like the fact that while everyone else says their full name he just says Jim... In my mind it means that he wasn't affected by the fact that he was famous.
Although this is when they were just starting out. It notices how different he was, how he stands out from the other three, even in the manner of his stroll towards the camera. He's in another world, rather whimsical. 'Name?' Jim. 'Occupation?' Um...
The pause and he looks up as he contemplates and then gives that cheeky grin, it's as if he could have been anything, he could have said anything, he could have chosen to be anything. Here, though, he was the poet and frontman of The Doors.
nahhhhhh the guy just doesnt give a shit
You absolutely nailed him. At his core, Jim was a poet and that is how he wished to be remembered. The "Lizard King" was his stage persona--his shtick.
Amelia K. I love Jim but he was a total narcissist.
Sue Burgess Maybe. I’ve see/read & heard enough to believe he had issues with fame & was even socially phobic! Why (other than it was the Hippies-n-Psychedelic Drugs Days) do you think he did drugs, although alcohol was his real ‘demon.’?? “It’s better to burn-out, than fade away.” Jim was the result of a tragic [Shakespearian! ...& Jim liked introspection & soliloquy , added to his Nietzsche, Foucault & Philosophy!] confluence of Free Spiritedness, Lost & EVER Searching Persona and Never Enough Highs. In Paris, he began to actually look better, less ‘Physically Sculpted’ & more Rounded [inwardly & outwardly], yet his inner organs just couldn’t take the strain he’d subjected himself to. I think, finally, Jim simply had to...pay the piper, so to speak. Too bad, because he WAS Brilliant at what he did...
Ray was always the most talkative Door.
and the most intelligent and massive talent...
On the other hand john and robby were somewhat quiet.
He had an excellent speaking voice too.
Yes, and, at times Jim. Jim could 'talk the doors' off you.
And Jim is the second most talkative Door. John and Robby, not so much.
Val Kilmer absolutely KILLED it when he played Jim. The mannerisms and looks... so spot on. Jim was a beautiful and mystical human being, that’s for sure.
He was decent but the overall movie was pretty lame and I was an extra in that movie
That writing was awful but Kilmer was great, probably the only good thing about that movie.
Val did a great job, apart from the director did an appaling job portraying Jim as being a complete jerk all the time and not honing in on what he was really like. That movie could have been great if the director had of done better research and It's ashame he did not show Jims true personality.
Nope
No
Jim couldn't get old ...his colors were too bright,.he was too good for this Earth
That part when they ask Jim's "Occupation" and Jim responds "Ummmm", and ends it with a smile...brilliant.
Jim was the most handsome man in the world😍
+Oriana De Holanda He ordered his looks from a catalog. Sadly that catalog wasn't available in the town where I was born.
... and you are the most beautiful woman in the world :-)
sometimes I wish we could comment here with the gifs from 9gag... it looks like beautiful girls can't comment on the internet with their real faces as avatars or else a sausage storm rains upon them
Oriana De Holanda ohh yes! You're right! ✌
I'm 100% straight and I can totally agree with you he was the most handsome
sometimes I can't believe Jim really existed... he was a genius, he gave so much to this world in just a short 27 years. his death was truly a loss to music and poetry alike, i wonder what more he had in store for us had he lived through the 70s.
So glad we at least got Roadhouse Blues, L.A. Woman and Riders On The Storm in the 70s.
In reality,he seemed to
have a don't give a fuck
Attitude,and eventualy
A death wish in my book?!
Don't get me wrong, but why do you say he was a genius? Einstein was a genius and gave us the theory of relativity. So what did Jim do that changed the science of music?
Die hard fans of celebrities
See no wrong in their
So call God's
I agree with u
The word genius has
become an everyday
banana
U write a song,u like it
Bam!,he or she becomes
Geniuses
Fucking ridiculous!
@@ninjasuzume9590 he and the rest of the Doors changed the history of music. They paved the way for many bands and genres that I love. If your definition of genius relates only to science that’s fine, to me a genius is anyone who has truly mastered their craft in a significant and revolutionary or unique way
Ray was a darling! Not a looker in the traditional way like Jim but someone who really loved those close to him and would do anything for them. The teddy bear of The Doors.
May his memory be a blessing.
Ray was awesome!!!
I always thought he was a pompous ass but an incredible musician. This isn't the popular opinion among Doors fans?
I always thought he went to college in my home town. But he didn’t
@@hmpz36911 No, it isn't.
Finally someone appreciating another member from The Doors. Everyone else can't stop talking about Jim's looks.
It's amazing how Jim Morrison continues to fascinate people and draw new fans every year! I think it boils down to his persona--it resonates so well with a lot of folks (especially younger people)--that dark, smoldering presence with a hint of danger and uncertainty. Nobody ever projected that aura quite like Morrison--and to this day people are mesmerized by him!!
I’m pretty sure it’s the music not a “persona”. A persona doesn’t have there, has to be some substance at some point.
1:32 "The music can't help but reflecting things that are happening around you."
Thanks for the mark.
Robby always seemed to be just quietly floating along with it. I appreciate that man so much.
Jim makes more sense when he's stoned than anybody today.
Well said
LOL!
must be hard to do interviews on acid.
EnigmaOnThe5th he is drunk, his pupils are small, so is not acid.
belsinhaeu
acid and drugs were so much pure then. they just made you look smarter
That's just false. Pure drugs exist today in almost the same capacity they did then. There are more fake compounds today, but that doesn't mean the real ones stopped being produced. And "pure" acid makes one just as incoherent as "impure" acid. It's all about the dosage.
Must be hard to be among humans when you’re Jim Morrison.
Heroin.
Jim had such a sweetness as evident at 0:49. RIP.
The tragedy is that most people have chosen money over rock and roll. The raw libido and authenticity from this time is my spiritual home. Imagine if we all just completely shook free from corporatism.
Their music takes you to another world. The lyrics, the melodies of the cosmos.
-Name?
-Jim
-Occupation?
-Ummm :)
You just gotta love him
Te B 🎶Don’t you love him madly?🎶 😊
more like -Ummm :B
You mean "Uh Jim"?
Cool gamer literally me😭
I could just look at Jim forever.
And, listen...he was deep and thoughtful. He sounds as he could just rant on and on for hours. I feel like he never really cared what others thought, but he definitively wanted to be heard and listened to.
Ray didn't wanna say he was 29 lol
Age: 29 Looks: 39 lol
And Jim didn’t want to say his occupation and instead looked at the camera and smiled.
Jim was probably the most charismatic frontman ever
Jim was too beautiful for this world.
Jim Morrison, who was a deep, philosophical thinker, was TOTALLY acting and being satirical with his "I'm so 'out of it'" schtick. He knew exactly what was going on, and he had a brilliant mind. What a precious, precious soul he was ....
Amy Luther Yeah, satire killed him at 27
@@psilocypher LOL !!
It’s called being on DRUGS dude. Relax
Truth. Jim did get out of control sometimes, though.
It's a fine line, trying to open the eyes of the sleeping blind.
Could this man be more beautiful and smart as can be ❤❤❤❤❤❤
he was so beautiful
The most good looking person to have ever walked on the planet.
What about Val Kilmer that played his character in the movie? What about Patrick Swayze? These 3 are probably the top 3 lookers of the male species of all time.
I don't care what anyone says, Jim was a true artist and poet the world will never see the likes of him again. Live on.....
Ray was always such an intellectual,a wise old man even at age 29..
Hola
@@PaulinaBarrientospabjojot Que Paso?
He had a gorgeous smile. 🙌❤ Rest in peace Jim💋
Ladies n Gentleman ...from Los Angeles , California ....Thaaa Doohhhhrs !!!! 🎼
The chemistry and respect Jim and Ray have for each other, particularly in their business, is exceptional and fun to watch.
Ray was always giving off vibes that he was in love with Jim.
"...someone not quite at home, not quite relaxed, aware of a lot of things, but not quite sure about anything. I'd like to do one... just feeling of being totally at home." - that hits hard, now I know why I feel this connection with The Doors
Ever since I was a teenager, I had a connection with the doors music , like when I listened to it , it takes me to another level of emotion understanding worldly/ soul deep, hard to explain
There is something about Jim, his thoughts, voice and writing that I truly resonate with , love love the doors.
♡♡♡
5:26 looked like Jim wanted to smile, almost breaking character.
JULES. ⚡
What character hes jim
@@finessed5493 Gloomy 😞
He's high as hell right there
The acid was kicking in
Jim Morrison was super brilliant, and known to be. He read incessantly, had stacks of books all over his small apartment. He loved Proust, Byron, Rimbaud, and the "Beat" writers, Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, among others. He was a poet, and could quote many book's and Author name by one reading one sentence from the book. I read about him when I was a teenager, and I read many of the authors he read because of that. He was really an interesting young man, and yes, absolutely beautiful too. He wasn't always beautiful, he was a chubby kid, and I think that's probably why he seemed to not take the rock star thing so seriously (?) He was also really in to history, and greatly admired Alexander The Great, who he had his hair cut in a style to replicate.
I love The Doors, just beautiful music.
He was chubby for a while, but he was a cute kid with sweet face most of the time, if you look at his photos.
I don't know where he's chubby, and I've seen many photos of his early life. But, he was deemed difficult early on, in school especially, he made trouble there, and I don't know if he was popular due to it. He was a weirdo but learned enough body language to be desirable to others so that he could get away with it. I think also as the oldest child he took it the hardest from his strict, traditionalist parents, but his siblings were different, and his sister says she thought he was quite fun. I guess he provided some kind of relief to his siblings from a traditional boxed, yet always moving household. I mean, I don't know whether he was ever insecure about his looks, as his first serious relationship was with a beauty queen, who herself was quite wanted I can imagine.
So hot and smart too ooh 😍 There is also a word for people who are mainly attracted to the mind. Beauty is nice but paired with intelligence is so 👌
@@anzhelicasuprun575he kind of looked like Billy Idol when he was a kid but as he got older his looks changed a lot.
@@AS-wj1duI prefer someone’s mind over their beauty. Beauty doesn’t last.
That smile. . I could press repeat on that a million times a day...
So, that is how you get high.
The Doors……a synthesis of brains, sex appeal, and dysfunction. It’s unreal they put out 6 supercharged albums. Legends
Occupation: smiles at the camera
He was indeed beautiful.. RIP gone way too soon.
They where born a long time before my parents.
Still I'm the one listening to their music.
Jim could be a real idiot when he wanted to be, but man, he was so aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Just like Hendrix, his cool factor was off the scale, in a way todays rock stars just don't possess. Nobody has that effortless charisma any more!
Both Sagittarius
@@elizabethmcleod246 According to Jim, apparently the most philosophical of all the signs! Personally, i'd argue in favour of Libra, and that's not just because i am one! 😉
Every Sagittarius I've ever known in basically a whole law unto themselves & they don't give a shit whether anyone likes it or not. LMAO
Have you considered Rush Limbaugh? He has effortless charisma.
His iq was around 148, not an idiot
jim's smile says it all
how can you take morrison seriously when he's always fucked up on something
Wonder Man I read where morrison would walk down the streets of amsterdam and FREELY without question openly accept any and all drugs and whatever the fuck else was given, handed to him by complete total strangers, dutch, and whoever the fuck else, and take what was just given him ON THE SPOT proves the guy just didnt care
Wonder Man so maybe the guy was just one big asshole, playing everybody, that was good when patricia kenealy found out the truth about that jim's parents and sister were alive, that pissed him off good, exposed his little 'trying to be cool routine' saying he doesn't remember being born, one of his blackouts or some shit, lies all the time, makes light of serious things, you reap what you sow
@@wonderman8174 you gonna cry?
Its rare to see he smile
People are strange, When you're a stranger
Faces look ugly, when you’re alone
Yes 👍💕💕💕🔥🔥🔥
I like when Jim was asked his occupation he gave a little slightly wicked smile,my man!!
OMG Jim was so beautiful.
"i wanna leave them puzzled" ooohh man. i love that.
Jim was so gorgeous 😍❤️
His answer always sounds to me like his real occupation is just being himself, and not even James Douglas Morrison, but Jim...just Jim...neither more, nor less
July 3rd, 2019
Rock on Jim
We will continue to play ur music. The doors will forever live on
With Jim in front of the most 'humble ' ,unique, talented of all bands !!! ❤️ The Doors!!!
Jim was, is, and will be an absolute genius! ❤️
Thank god Oliver made that film so younger generations will know just how great that band was
Are you serious? They were CIA and helped destroy America!
@@Flat_Earth_Addyyeah?? And the Beatles destroyed Britain!
It's sad to hear in Jim Morrison's statement about how the Doors' music felt to him the alienation of his childhood: "The mood I get … is a heavy, sort of gloomy feeling … Like of someone not quite at home, not quite relaxed … aware of a lot of things but not quite sure of anything. I’d like to do one [song] of just ... feeling totally at home". His father was a navy admiral and political conservative and it seems he and Jim did not get along. I recall reading somewhere that Jim felt smothered by the austere environment he grew up in; much of the passion in his music and his addictive, self-destructive path leading to a young death can be explained by his reaction to the childhood trauma of alienation and anxiety.
His performance on the Ed Sullivan show says "ICON". Ray Manzarek was a keyboard phenomena.
This Band as a whole is the definition of what the 60s were all about.... a conscious pursuit of the true existence and meaning of life, perception, a new reborn life outside of whats been set up for you.... This was Rock N Roll this was the youth this was the truth.... God Bless the world finds this again and never lets go.... Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek are some of the wisest people i have ever gotten the honor to listen to. A Whole time and culture when people were really starting to figure out and pursue the true meaning of life and to glorify all things greater than ourselves. A True pursuit chasing all the things that really matter within the short time here of this life on earth. This was real. This Is Rock N Roll....
Robbie And John were deep to. what an amazing band The Doors.
Never Let The "Man" Take It Again. Live Free.... Glorify God in all his Beauty, Light and good.
Jim was truly so thoughtful and insightful he changed the music industry forever. Tragic he died so young he was a bright soul so rare to come by.
My favorite band of all time other groups of the era have been forgotten but not the Doors they are still relevant today.
Ok, im not gay aight, but 0:47
update: turns out i'm bisexual lol
Yes you are ! To the tone of ' Break me in '
SMP nah that's pretty gay, you would've had aids by the 80s
SMP HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAFAQ
Yeah 😄
sergiarts te pasas bro xD
Densmore seemed the most sober of the bunch.
Densmore was picked on by the rest of the Doors...Jimbo especially enjoyed playing with his head...
TheIrishrogue68 densmore's alive, morrison may be D E A D.
Jim could be alive.
Tim Nolan simply put a men and true, I agree, the dude could be doing who knows what, maybe one or more people know, or maybe nobody knows, I hope if he is alive and knowing him, he's incredibly enjoyed the years of his life seeing what this world's become since his day and age, I hope he's in love right now, sittin down with his wife and kids, reading to them :) and i hope he leaves instructions on the REAL him for him when he does pass, or if he does have a family, he shouldn't or do it in secret for just certain people, just so it NEVER gets out publicly, the public sucks, the public is a murdering greedy trampling MOB.......
he was stoned majority of the time I believe, you can just tell, I hope wherever he is Jesus, by God's grace, found him-saved him. People always say 'I found Jesus' thats wrong, he finds YOU. Man is depraved evil wicked has no will at all to choose God and doesn't want to and wouldnt even if he were able to, so God HAS to intervene himself in men's-mankind's lives personally, or no one would ever be saved-born again.......
Jim had a calmness to his voice.
Favourite group. Love Strange Days and Waiting For The Sun. They are so unique and there has never been a group since. Rock, blues and jazz hybrid done well. Very talented!
Jim morrison was a genius .
Robert de Niro left side at 0:03 man with the hat.
+Lt Mojo Risin holy crap! good eye man!
+Lt Mojo Risin
DeNiro was 25 at that time. That man looks much older (but he does look like him)
Sarsourette2002 I know ;)
Holy fuck
I THINK ROBERT DE NIRO IS A TRAVELLER IN TIME ?
I actually met Jimmy in Paris in '71. I don't have the exact date, but it was around mid June. He came stumbling out of the Les Deux Magots bar as my buddy and I were coming in. Nobody was with him. He had a lot of shit in his hands (notebooks, keys, papers) and he dropped it where it all splayed across the sidewalk. I picked it up for him, which is when I noticed who he was. God, he was fat. He was disoriented drunk and ended up going back into the bar with my buddy and me. We stayed in there at least 4-5 hours drinking. Jimmy alternated between beer and Chivas. He was very quiet, which is understandable considering the volume of alcohol that must have been in his system. He seemed cordial when he did speak or say something, although we could rarely make out any of the words. I do remember him saying, "The Devil lives and shits in your eyes. Yours, mine, everybody's". I have no memory of leaving the place and woke the next morning with a hangover of biblical proportions. Some people have told me this guy probably wasn't Jimmy, but I know it was. I was stone sober when I walked into the place and, even grossly overweight, it was clearly Jimmy Morrison. Both Jimmy and my buddy are dead now. At 74, I soon will be too. But, I've been able to tell my tale about meeting the great Jimmy Morrison.
This is a great touching story. Heart aching too.....the guy seemed so lost ....
"Do you want people to like you?"
- I'd like them to listen and to give the music a chance
Ray was one of the most intellectual people to have lived
Beautiful Person .
I cant 't explain it but jim was just amazing, it would have been fantastic being able to live those years even just for a moment
... can you imagine being down the front somewhere (with hindsight, or course) at one of their early gigs? Would have been incredible ... actually, 'incredible' doesn't quite cut it.
I just want to lay in his arms and listen to him talk... life is so unfair.
Unfair? I hear you you want to lay in his arms, but unfair? I don't know about that word under the context. Entitled much!
Animals being kept in filthy cages and prisons' metal floors all their life and then scalded into water and slaughtered because people somehow believe they share the same anatomy with a lion, that's unfair.
We humans have it easy. Hardly anything unfair about being a human.
Desire is the antidote to happiness/peace.
@@justdev8965 Living a life out in an era you can't, and don't want to, relate to... feels pretty unfair. No one else has to understand how shitty that can be, I'm doing just fine.
You have "Stars" and then you have "STARS"...and He was a FUCKING STAR.
holy sweet acid jebus just check out those sideburns
So profound personality he had 💫🙂🙏love you jimmy 💫
WOW the Doors...what a band. Recently got into them... Jim Morrison's lyrics are so dark and dreamlike... pure talent 😎
The way Jim looks, talks sounds everything just seems way ahead of his time
His IQ was 148 and three quarters so they just rounded it off to 149.
Genius
Wait Jim had a 148-149 IQ? Holy crap didn’t expect that! Maybe he’d show it better if he hadn’t been tripping and buzzing all the time
@@predatormusic2959 He was an avid reader. One of his teachers expressed how surprised he was by how broadly Jim read. He really liked Nietzsche, Kafka, and Balzac. A very smart guy.
@@nietzschesghost8529 The Bible may have helped a lot.
Hahahahhhaha the bible.
G D BLESS THE BAND MEMBERS THE DOORS LOVE PEACE AND ROCK AND ROLL... JIM WAS SO SLIIIII AND SMART,, HA!!WE SHOULD ALL BE SO CALM LIKE JIM,,, STONED .. LOVE HIM,,..GREAT VIDEO!!! PEACE..
he's. so. fucking. gorgeous. how.
I love Robby in this video piece. Walking in the airport with the shades. Awesome