i never met the guy, and im pretty sure we went of got along.... but he is hands down the epitimy... did i spell that rifght OF ROCK AND ROLLLLLLLLLLLL
Damn I know that publicity is necessary to keep this stuff for free, but God I hate so much to press on a video and listen to a boring commercial instead of a song... >:(
great version , so poetic voice.i didnt know him but he seemed so so tired , if he didint get a rock star he would hade been a writer or something like that , the rock killed him
fuckin Jim....never b another....nice version of a great song....they never played,or he never sang anything the same way twice......chk out all the great versions of them doing mystery train...or sometimes called black train song.....great version fron philly......
He is so out of tune. It doesnt even sound like Jim Morrison. It sounds like some pissed up bloke singin Karoke. Is this really the Doors? If it is he must've been totaly spasticated that night! Normaly he sings well when he's pissed up.
a bit distorted, but overall it's pretty good. The Doors had problems getting bookings after the Miami farce, they signed up to this as headliners, and a lot of people were just waiting to rubbish them. Jim got Gene Vincent involved, and was instrumental in John Lennon's participation. He even cut his beard off, and the photos here show the unusual look of a short bob he sported for a while until the Morrison Hotel photo sessions a few months later.
the crystal ship stands for life itself......breakable as a crystal ship.......wind may blow you in the wrong direction, and boom........the end. he wrote this for a girl he loved and who died, as far as i know. therefor he says we will meet again. and for him, life is the crystal ship. with a million ways to spend your useless time until he meets her again. for example
no problem.......but this is my interpretation of it....who knows what jim thought while writing.........but is sounds like it makes sense to me.....greetz
@Jennifurby1 i think his lyrics is an attempt at making people know him, as if he wanted them to know his veiws and understand him, and so if u are a fan of the doors u know jim to a limit
@KidsWithGuns1992 it's the movies fault... :( Ray, John and Robby say that Jim was a really fun guy to be with... not that monster that the movie portrays. :s
How tha f... 23 people can dislike this? This is so fuckin amazing nowadays there are artists as talented as Jim, I wish Joplin Hendrix Lennon & Morrison come back T.T
Jim Morrison was too real. If only he'd been in it for ego and money, like Bowie and Jagger, he'd probably be alive today, because the world doesn't want to see truth. Look at how Amerika turned on him, chewed him up and spat him out. Amerika eats its own children. That's why the US govt starts wars.
Thanks for posting this version of Crystal Ship, Truely unheard of as far as The Doors everyone is used to hearing on the radio. Long live the Lizard King he can do anything. Where did you get this version of this song? Its fuckin raw!
To judge the way U can find light in the darkness or darkness in what for everyone else is enlightenment? Thousands killed in the name of Light. How an artist can create art, beauty and light beyond their own darkness or can paint the most beautiful expression of heaven based on fear to his own demons or his day by day living hell? A Van Gogh in his insanity or an Edgar Allan Poe in his alcoholism? He walked "through" darkness, but not "in" darkness....
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Where the mics located - was it just one? I remember (sorta) seeing them set that up right in front a stool/near the mic. Because live, being there - it sounded much more like the album track - Gorgeous. it does reproduce the silence during his singing of this, but Varsity Stadium went "wild" afterwards. It's too bad that you can't really hear that. Still an all, thanks for the memory.
I understand him. Finding truth with lonliness pain and anguish with singing from the heart is a great from the Gods. Outside signing he always was seeking "the End" which he explains his anger towards his parents and comparing to the stupidity of the Vietnam war.To him, it was their war or killing,, not his. All he ever wanted in life was to be HOME and be loved.
JIm always said everything he sang was just him imitating Frank Sinatra. Not talking about what Jim wrote, only his singing style. He said he based all of his singing 100% on Sinatra.
MadHandsome ... Everybody's a copycat then. It's just not possible to not do something that others do, especially not in terms of singing in a microphone. One of the things that makes you unique is how you incorporate the bits and pieces you take from others and make them your own.
It sounds like he's struggling to keep track of the band. And if that's correct, he's doing a good job too. It's obviously an early thing, and it may even be their first live on that stage (could explain the volume issues as well). - I love it! Thx for posting!
Sinatra reportedly, thought Jim was a bit of a copycat. He does enunciate like Sinatra famously did, I mean, you CAN understand every word Jim says, and he was sex symbol, making the girls swoon like Frank had. I bet Jim would have loved to know that both Sinatra and Elvis were paying attention!
When Jim was really hot, he was hotter than Elvis and Sinatra combined.
Man this song is beautiful. I bought a bootleg Doors record in the early 90's and this was on it. This is the definitive version of this song. The best ending, 'I'll drop a line'. I agree but I say it's the GREATEST version!
@gameshooter21 Well, I am not too big on Frank's singing myself, tho, I like his acting. I just meant in that style. I think Jim would have brought it to a new level.
I was at this concert - he sang at night - all you really see was his hands holding the mic - great hands.. The Doors.. highpoint. Escorted in from the airport by the Vagabonds - I wonder if there is a video of that somewhere - sight to see :-)
@vinobody Vagabonds Another Ontario-based motorcycle gang that was more or less absorbed by the Hells Angels when it expanded into Ontario in 2000-2001.
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When i was a teenager i used to have all The Doors records. Looking back now i think they were a lame band compared to so many other good ones from the 60s era. They didn't seem to have any soul and the records seem kind of cold to me now.
I wish people can understand beyond his drunkness. Which was his great desire. He was like a black sheep sometimes even for his own band members and family. Jim was a genious and a very sensitive misunderstood person. A soul that came to this World a little bit out of time trying to fulfill a dream to be a poet and an artist. And is in that way he wants to be remembered.
@crystalship42 Why do people act like they know other people who they never met? Jim and the rest of the Doors made great music, but stop acting like you were inside his head his whole life. You are so much like the people who watch E to know every detail about Brittany spears life so they can claim to know everything about them; it truly is pathetic.
@Lateralus8808 With all respect my friend. How do you know about my personal experiences with Jim or The Doors? How do you know what I know? And I don't F***** care about entertaintment or what kind of underwear Britt B*** was wearing last nite. Let me tell U young man....
@Lateralus8808 I grew up listening The Doors 30 years ago. Who really knows The Doors understand what I'm saying. U GOT I.!! Jim wants from us to get into his head.To understand the message for wich he lived. We don't need E! or whatever. We read, study, hear and live. His poetry,mysticism and philosophy is a continous search of yourself in order to live in a higher consciousness seeking freedom. No superficial canned media for a superficial generation. Don' hate. Is for U too.
@Lateralus8808 I actually think we are the exact opposite of the people on E. We dont sell our minds to the megapixels, like those in tune with pop culture do. We do think the same way as him. and since you made an assumption, i'm going to assume your gay. That's how pathetic an assumption you made
@noobpowner901 Yes, it makes so much sense that I'd be homosexual for that statement. What I was saying is I don't think I know Jim Morrison personally because I've listened to his music. Maybe you're gay for being so obsessed with him you actually think you know what he's thinking from listening to his music aloneor you're an equallly pathetic woman. Unless you knew him personally, I doubt you know exactly how he felt since lyrics can be taken many different ways.
@Lateralus8808 Thats why i said it was an assumption, making it equally as senseless as your assumption. I really dont want to start a youtube fight on assuming someones gay, thats pretty stupid, especially on such peaceful a song. Anyways, Im not talking the tangible lyrics you look at on paper. Im talking about the emotions that inspired Jim To write the song. You must unplug your eye's from black screens and meditate, just listen, read about Jim, listen some more, and you may have a dream
@noobpowner901 You don't want to start a fight on youtube on assuming someone's gay? Do you even remember your first post when you assumed I was gay? I have to unplug from the real world of technology and plug into a spritiual and emotional world? So you're saying I'm not emotional or spiritual. Again, you're acting like you know somebody from something you heard/read.
@Lateralus8808 I dont know everything about Jim and neither does he. again, your comments are proving that you have to unplug your eyes from the real world of technology and plug into the emotional, spiritual world of connecting with a person
@noobpowner901 You don't know how Jim felt personally; you may think you do because a song touches you, but those are your emotions reacting, not Jim's. I'm sure people that look at paintings don't feel or think the same things the artist was feeling/thinking. That's why art is great.
@Lateralus8808 you really have alot to tell me. I applaud your desire to enlighten me through youtube. But, you dont know how I feel personally, so how can you determine how I feel?
I just saw a brilliant Doors documentary a few nights ago on tv narrated by Johnny Depp. This song is one of my favorites. I still can't shake alot of the feelings the show brought up. I've lived thru the 60's and your words sum up so much of my thoughts today about Jim. He's so much more than his indulgences or weaknesses. They are irrevelant to what remains: his enduring beauty as a poet and a man ahead of his times. I have so much compassion for him.
@crystalship42 I understand why it's hard for people to look past his drunkeness for obviouse reasons. But at the same time it's still hard to to overlook his obvious talent.
@llamasarus1 I understand....I really do. Need to go far from what your eyes can reach when you're searching the soul. But it happened before in other great people lives as easy and familiar to mention: Edgar Allan Poe or Arthur Rimbaud between others...
@crystalship42 He was gifted with mny gifts, including thr understanding of the "other" world, or the part of the world thai is hidden, like the blood and vessels and organs of the universe.
If he would developed in aculture with the appropiat structires and knowledge he might be a great healer and shaman.... but anyways,even in his darl silene light he epresed his gifts masterfully, sublimely in his songs. withput desestimation of Manzrek and Kriegoer, and also Densmore.
@Quetzalcuetlachtli They were, and are, something unique in hisotory, special, bringers of bot sacred and profane hierophany. James was a hyerofant, in the sense of a somewhat both tragic nd grceful Silene. Krieger are manzarek are endonated people also... Desnmore, very talented, but lacks i think that sacred hyerophantics gifts,but the four mde something beautiful, illumination and darkness. Hyerophants
@Quetzalcuetlachtli I understand. Realy I do. Is a call for us to discover who we are behind this skin. Is just a thin glass what divides the "other" world from ours. Just a thin glass. And we can look through it and see in an imperfect way, like a "fun house" effect. But is there. Thanks for your beautiful comments. Thanks.
@crystalship42 Genius eh... If you’re going to call somebody that you should at least be able to spell the word. With that said, the guy was a sub-mediocre singer and a real nasty drunk. He was no smarter than Cobain. That guy was so smart he blew his fucking head off with a shotgun…. GENIUS!
@bohs1984 “BEING A DRUNK IS A GOOD DISGUISE. I DRINK SO I CAN TALK TO ASSHOLES. THIS INCLUDES ME.”Yeah! His best words are written. But I don't know if U can read and understand poetry. If U think UR smarter because U spect to live longer don't feel like "blowing your fucking head off" as U said. Better start doing something with it than pointing other people. We all have some of angels and demons. The message is: If U decide to be an asshole, be a good one.
@crystalship42 "I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me- ever." jdm
@GNEGNODIN Jim was not afraid to die. His spirit was overwhelmed, and his vessel too weak to sustain for too long. Now that the vessel is broken, those who can find LIGHT trough his DARKNESS will see that the message is not in the weakness of the vessel, is in it content. I respect your point, but can be superficial to judge based on preconceived ideas of what is wright or wrong. It can be a better message for humanity if Good & Evil kiss each other and make peace. Through art is be possible.
True thats why he wore a cross and other band members considered him as a celtic christian. But I am sure that most likely you, yourself are a “christian” thus giving carte blanch on the passing judgment spiel. Look at it like this Jim was a person just like you and me, the differance was he had a talent for writing. He was an alcoholic, however in those years they didn’t know what an alcoholic was, and thats what killed him.
what you might not uderstand is that he came at the perfect time, we were the ones "who came a little bit out of time". yes, remember his words, that's what he wants...
@itwouldbeuntrue Yes. Is a common phrase used, for people that comes with a higher level of intuition to understand human and spiritual sides than the rest of society.He came on time, but his message of caos and revolution, not easy to digest for his generation hurts by war, racism and political corruption. Was not completely understood. But yes, in someway, always the mass will be slower to understand and asimilate, because it's complexity. All depend which side we looks.
@jgraz42 Maybe my intuition or perception of things. Some just common sense. Or posibly I think too much. I don't like superficialities. U can learn more of what U can find beyond letters, words and gestures.I write some poetry,short stories...I know what is to be in the crowd without leaving my desert. But is just my way I mean. Everyone have their ways to look and understand things...
@crystalship42 I understand his drunkenness and GENIUS. I grew up with him as my mentor. Good or bad. He was right in his time, the time was not right for him. We are all sensitive and misunderstood if we are viewing this video. He is not a martyr, however. A drunken poet with the soul of a man.
@strummer77clash As I said. His generation was not prepared for this kind of soul. Time,(meaning everything that uncluded his generation including ours).A soul can't fix anywhere "(FEELS LIKE NOT QUITE AT HOME). I agree with U. He was not a martyr. Circumstances can make U one. He lived searching the unknown and he died for it. He knew that would be the price.Too high? Can't judge. For me he is a Soul, a Man, a Poet, and a Drunk.
@strummer77clash The "time" ??? was not right? What ??? When else but the fucken sixties could he have gotten away with all his crap. I know, I was there..........
@Aldebaron9 You are absolutely right. There was no other time for him and apparently this is not his time, either. I like to think that the music industry would embrace something like The Doors now, but they were too impulsive and under produced then. Imagine what would happen to them today? Nothing. Sad but true. I like to think the music industry will come to their senses and revisit those qualities, but it's not going to happen. I am happy that you were there to enjoy the ride.
@strummer77clash That was groovy man... can you please remind me how to spell phart? Because it is backing up inside of me and if I dont remember how to spell it, all the pharts will eventually build up so much until I burst...oh my lordy, I certainly don't want to burst....
@crystalship42 I wish people would become more literate from Morrison's influence. Or learn to use spellchecker. I wish people can understand beyond his drunkenness. Which was his great desire. He was like a black sheep sometimes even for his own band members and family. Jim was a genius and a very sensitive misunderstood person. A soul that came to this World a little bit out of time trying to fulfill a dream to be a poet and an artist. And is in that way he wants to be remembered.
@PepperWhite62 Mr. Spellcheker. Sorry. Mr. PepperWhite62?. IS POSSIBLE I WAS DRUNK. And it is possible if you ask Jim Morrison if he cares it is possible he will answer F***** You. Too strong for your literacy?. Is ok, you got people attention. Relax. Is my second language. I saw you around correcting people in YOUTUBE. And I don't care. I express what I feel in the way I want. And all people here express themselves in the way they want. Arrogance makes people stupid.. Go back into the context.
@crystalship42 We are sharing with all kind of people from different cultures, backgrounds and languages. Literates, Illiterate people. Who cares? Is how and what we feel what matters. You made a stupidity getting personal. I will never get personal with someone just because how they're express themselves. If you can't have tolerance for other people limitations, you're a person with the worst limitation. You are in the wrong place. Sorry.
@SpryPunk - i did - i got some picturesof me and him together somewhere - he was nice guy but when he come round he end up staying whole night dancing and turning up music to loud - i used to say no jim no jim
On The Doors last record (with JM) I was stunned by how strong his voice was. I thought he was on his last leg, but who knows how many more songs he had in him? Rideres on the Storm is on his last record, and that's one of his best, so, who knows what we lost.
We're all children of god, childOfGod41, and should treat each other as we'd like to be treated, with utmost respect. That being said, with all due respect, FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING SUCK (AS WELL AS YOUR EAR FOR MELODY). and yes the LIz King was more than often drunk or high as a kite, BUT EVEN WHILE ON THE BRINK OF DEATH DUE TO DRUG TOXICITY HE BORE MORE INTELLECT, ELOQUENCE, AND FAR MORE TALENT IN THE TIP OF HIS SCALY TALE THAN YOU'LL EVER HAVE OR EVER KNOW.
I dunno, i don't think this version is particulary great ,it's very distincive alright but mostly due to the way it was recorded as opposed to way it's performed.
@kilo1981 Nah you don't get it. It is both. Listen to the way he sings the very last line, it's with more passion than the original. It's a better version with sorrow in it, more passion and feeling.
yeah really ive been skipping over this version but uh this is a great version i love the clapping and chearing at the end you can really tell this is early morrison fucking great dude timeless
The band did an excellent version of Crystal Ship at the 1968 concert at Sam Houston Coliseum in Texas. Can still remember the stage being bathed in only blue light while Jim sang it. Great band. Great poet.
bcp de rareté et de travaux alors revené avant de me traiter d'arrogant et autre vous comprendrai peut etre mieux pk je me permet de dire ça (je ne parle pas sans savoir les gars faites en autant
You have to ask yourself why is it most people who post on Doors youtube videos don't seem to want to find out who murdered Jim Morrison and why? For more information about this, go to
erichufschmid(dot)net and enter, "The
Strange Death of Jim Morrison." If someone killed you, would you want to
be remembered as a lead singer of a band and a poet, or would you want the police to find out who murdered you and
Oh tell me where your freedom lies
The streets are fields that never die
Deliver me from reasons why
You'd rather cry, I'd rather fly
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he opened my eyes, its unbelievable how blindly you walk through life
vvl3m3vv 3 weeks ago 2
i never met the guy, and im pretty sure we went of got along.... but he is hands down the epitimy... did i spell that rifght OF ROCK AND ROLLLLLLLLLLLL
thecrystalshiplsd 1 month ago
アカペラ風でかっこいい。
MAOMI777 1 month ago
Damn I know that publicity is necessary to keep this stuff for free, but God I hate so much to press on a video and listen to a boring commercial instead of a song... >:(
TheRottenTV 1 month ago 3
great version , so poetic voice.i didnt know him but he seemed so so tired , if he didint get a rock star he would hade been a writer or something like that , the rock killed him
champlaurent1 1 month ago
minha Ignorancia é minha paz e meu conforto - talvez Jim acabou compreendido muitas coisas que tiravam isso dele... aí vem o alcool e as drogas...
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fuckin Jim....never b another....nice version of a great song....they never played,or he never sang anything the same way twice......chk out all the great versions of them doing mystery train...or sometimes called black train song.....great version fron philly......
kevin104z 1 month ago
He is so out of tune. It doesnt even sound like Jim Morrison. It sounds like some pissed up bloke singin Karoke. Is this really the Doors? If it is he must've been totaly spasticated that night! Normaly he sings well when he's pissed up.
MOONST0MP 2 months ago
@MOONST0MP I kindna like this version, so Mandom! ~.^
inogi339 1 month ago
it hurts so gewddddd
JailBirdy8 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Doors
That's beautiful...
Pmitsou123 3 months ago
such a sad beautiful song
xXxBlackheartxXx1000 5 months ago 8
hey jim lets run .
mikr671 5 months ago 6
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Just another Rockstar that Crashed and Burned!!!!
DarthArcher 5 months ago
You can like feel the soul inside of the drunken Jim
PowerslaveFilms 5 months ago 3
a bit distorted, but overall it's pretty good. The Doors had problems getting bookings after the Miami farce, they signed up to this as headliners, and a lot of people were just waiting to rubbish them. Jim got Gene Vincent involved, and was instrumental in John Lennon's participation. He even cut his beard off, and the photos here show the unusual look of a short bob he sported for a while until the Morrison Hotel photo sessions a few months later.
SuperEliteTim 5 months ago
@SuperEliteTim he said he felt already like a 50 year old man
And that's what supposed the french coroner too, when he checked his corpse.He said he thought it was of a 50year old
hegemoniuspiper 1 month ago
his poetic instincts will mesmerize you into the unexplored.....the untamed......the virgin territory...where the mind has never traveled......
Junkie354 5 months ago
@Junkie354 damn well spoken
djk28161 3 months ago
he sounds WASTED here
joshster89 5 months ago
love this.
Francescara77 8 months ago
Lovely version.
drithdx 9 months ago
i wonder how drunk he felt during this concert :)
steviousdevious 10 months ago
hands down
thecrystalshiplsd 10 months ago
The crystal ship was inspired by lighted up oil derricks off the Santa Barbara coast.
samspad 10 months ago
@samspad how do you know this
6669990 7 months ago
Whats the meaning "of crystal ship"? is he talking about being drunk? I mean a reference to glasses and bottle?
gardenofarcane 11 months ago
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the crystal ship stands for life itself......breakable as a crystal ship.......wind may blow you in the wrong direction, and boom........the end. he wrote this for a girl he loved and who died, as far as i know. therefor he says we will meet again. and for him, life is the crystal ship. with a million ways to spend your useless time until he meets her again. for example
the days are bright and filled with pain..
misuse of drugs to forget the pain
huntAblunt 10 months ago
@huntAblunt Thankx I was looking for it forever
gardenofarcane 9 months ago
@gardenofarcane
no problem.......but this is my interpretation of it....who knows what jim thought while writing.........but is sounds like it makes sense to me.....greetz
huntAblunt 9 months ago
@huntAblunt were did you find out he wrote this for a girl who died
6669990 7 months ago
@6669990
in some documentary i guess, i really dont remember well.....its for his first love mary werbelow.........
huntAblunt 7 months ago
Love The Doors but annoys me how people talk about Jim like they knew him or something..
KidsWithGuns1992 11 months ago 64
@KidsWithGuns1992 Exactly, no on knew Jim Morrison except Jim Morrison.
Jennifurby1 8 months ago
@Jennifurby1 i think his lyrics is an attempt at making people know him, as if he wanted them to know his veiws and understand him, and so if u are a fan of the doors u know jim to a limit
withouttail 8 months ago 3
@withouttail I agree with your point of view as well. Music is about connecting after all.
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@KidsWithGuns1992 Exactly. No one knew Jim Morrison except Jim Morrison.
Jennifurby1 8 months ago
@KidsWithGuns1992 it's the movies fault... :( Ray, John and Robby say that Jim was a really fun guy to be with... not that monster that the movie portrays. :s
Senseless00 5 months ago
AMazing Long live to The king Jim Morrison!!
battmojo 11 months ago
How tha f... 23 people can dislike this? This is so fuckin amazing nowadays there are artists as talented as Jim, I wish Joplin Hendrix Lennon & Morrison come back T.T
battmojo 11 months ago
Jim Morrison was too real. If only he'd been in it for ego and money, like Bowie and Jagger, he'd probably be alive today, because the world doesn't want to see truth. Look at how Amerika turned on him, chewed him up and spat him out. Amerika eats its own children. That's why the US govt starts wars.
mitreswell 11 months ago 3
Groovy, man, groovy.
Mogtepyigsoloth 1 year ago
@Mogtepyigsoloth Good Vibe...I like it..:-)
crystalship42 11 months ago
Thanks for posting this version of Crystal Ship, Truely unheard of as far as The Doors everyone is used to hearing on the radio. Long live the Lizard King he can do anything. Where did you get this version of this song? Its fuckin raw!
maidenaztec6797 1 year ago
Morrison was indeed a genius, but spent his life so screwed up that even his spirit can't remember how it went.
Huggerocamaro 1 year ago
That's better..
MrWayroadRoyal 1 year ago
To judge the way U can find light in the darkness or darkness in what for everyone else is enlightenment? Thousands killed in the name of Light. How an artist can create art, beauty and light beyond their own darkness or can paint the most beautiful expression of heaven based on fear to his own demons or his day by day living hell? A Van Gogh in his insanity or an Edgar Allan Poe in his alcoholism? He walked "through" darkness, but not "in" darkness....
crystalship42 1 year ago
I miss Jim! I agree, 100% crystalship42!!!
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
oh wonderful, this sounds so good!
BlondeRocknRoll 1 year ago
Where the mics located - was it just one? I remember (sorta) seeing them set that up right in front a stool/near the mic. Because live, being there - it sounded much more like the album track - Gorgeous. it does reproduce the silence during his singing of this, but Varsity Stadium went "wild" afterwards. It's too bad that you can't really hear that. Still an all, thanks for the memory.
111abf111 1 year ago
sublime version! du grand morrison !
427nobody 1 year ago 3
very good record from trening room
bond00777777 1 year ago
I wish folks could understand how being a drunk destroys creativity. If he wasn't so self- destructive he would be alive and creating.
Same with drugs, it takes your spark of creativity and mashes it into ashes. Go ask Jimi.
TheGranule 1 year ago
@TheGranule Drugs only harbor more creativity.
ShurikenOfLight 1 year ago
I understand him. Finding truth with lonliness pain and anguish with singing from the heart is a great from the Gods. Outside signing he always was seeking "the End" which he explains his anger towards his parents and comparing to the stupidity of the Vietnam war.To him, it was their war or killing,, not his. All he ever wanted in life was to be HOME and be loved.
yOuGoTiPoDeD 1 year ago
This is Jim ??
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trouble53603 1 year ago
JIm always said everything he sang was just him imitating Frank Sinatra. Not talking about what Jim wrote, only his singing style. He said he based all of his singing 100% on Sinatra.
JamesTKirkCobain 1 year ago
@JamesTKirkCobain
thats bullshit, he did love sinatra, but he didnt imitate him.
MrVikingpirate 1 year ago
like most souls that are too deep for our shallow world he found his escape in getting high
housetrancformer 1 year ago
I do understand beyond his drunkness...I really do.
MrJdmojo 1 year ago
The best version of this song. It makes me keep guessing what was Jim feeling...So emotional and deep. Awesome!!!
mindincrap 1 year ago 2
i love the song but this version suck man
hackk37 1 year ago
Oh, and MadHandsome, ... Jim has more in common sound wise with Elvis than with Frank Sinatra. :)
Zhawq 1 year ago
MadHandsome ... Everybody's a copycat then. It's just not possible to not do something that others do, especially not in terms of singing in a microphone. One of the things that makes you unique is how you incorporate the bits and pieces you take from others and make them your own.
Zhawq 1 year ago
It sounds like he's struggling to keep track of the band. And if that's correct, he's doing a good job too. It's obviously an early thing, and it may even be their first live on that stage (could explain the volume issues as well). - I love it! Thx for posting!
Zhawq 1 year ago
Sinatra reportedly, thought Jim was a bit of a copycat. He does enunciate like Sinatra famously did, I mean, you CAN understand every word Jim says, and he was sex symbol, making the girls swoon like Frank had. I bet Jim would have loved to know that both Sinatra and Elvis were paying attention!
When Jim was really hot, he was hotter than Elvis and Sinatra combined.
MadHandsome 1 year ago
We'll meet again...
TheBluntedKid 1 year ago
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Man this song is beautiful. I bought a bootleg Doors record in the early 90's and this was on it. This is the definitive version of this song. The best ending, 'I'll drop a line'. I agree but I say it's the GREATEST version!
sanQ 1 year ago
He could carry a song. If he had not destructed, he could have been a Sinatra...
FelixAtrox 1 year ago 2
@FelixAtrox my opinion=frank got nothin on jim
gameshooter21 1 year ago 2
@gameshooter21 Well, I am not too big on Frank's singing myself, tho, I like his acting. I just meant in that style. I think Jim would have brought it to a new level.
FelixAtrox 1 year ago
I was at this concert - he sang at night - all you really see was his hands holding the mic - great hands.. The Doors.. highpoint. Escorted in from the airport by the Vagabonds - I wonder if there is a video of that somewhere - sight to see :-)
111abf111 1 year ago
@111abf111 splendid but what r the 'Vagabonds'???
vinobody 1 year ago
@vinobody Vagabonds Another Ontario-based motorcycle gang that was more or less absorbed by the Hells Angels when it expanded into Ontario in 2000-2001.
from CBC archives 2009.
111abf111 1 year ago
LOL
XD
0o0greenboy0o0 1 year ago
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When i was a teenager i used to have all The Doors records. Looking back now i think they were a lame band compared to so many other good ones from the 60s era. They didn't seem to have any soul and the records seem kind of cold to me now.
Just my own opinion)
Freakster1970 1 year ago
@Freakster1970 You make me really sad sir, REALLY SAD.
Pyro1914 1 year ago
@Pyro1914 With just a few little words ? Okay The Doors were the greatest band ever in the history of the world!!! happy now? Now i'm sad i lied . (
Freakster1970 1 year ago
@Freakster1970 How can you say they didn't have any soul? These guys were all about the music and poetry. You can feel Jim's pain through his voice.
iggypoprhcp 1 year ago
bad version idiot ,
abi90210 1 year ago
another kis....
relucertolla 1 year ago
ITis CRYstaLL-CLEAR: MorriSSon is THe Man !!!
61vanilla 1 year ago
I wish people can understand beyond his drunkness. Which was his great desire. He was like a black sheep sometimes even for his own band members and family. Jim was a genious and a very sensitive misunderstood person. A soul that came to this World a little bit out of time trying to fulfill a dream to be a poet and an artist. And is in that way he wants to be remembered.
crystalship42 1 year ago 108
@crystalship42 A true Soul seeker...Genius beyond comparison.
cceciljr 1 year ago 2
@cceciljr 100% right.
crystalship42 1 year ago
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@crystalship42 A true Soul seeker...Genius beyond comparison.
cceciljr 1 year ago
@crystalship42 Why do people act like they know other people who they never met? Jim and the rest of the Doors made great music, but stop acting like you were inside his head his whole life. You are so much like the people who watch E to know every detail about Brittany spears life so they can claim to know everything about them; it truly is pathetic.
Lateralus8808 1 year ago
@Lateralus8808 With all respect my friend. How do you know about my personal experiences with Jim or The Doors? How do you know what I know? And I don't F***** care about entertaintment or what kind of underwear Britt B*** was wearing last nite. Let me tell U young man....
crystalship42 1 year ago
@Lateralus8808 I grew up listening The Doors 30 years ago. Who really knows The Doors understand what I'm saying. U GOT I.!! Jim wants from us to get into his head.To understand the message for wich he lived. We don't need E! or whatever. We read, study, hear and live. His poetry,mysticism and philosophy is a continous search of yourself in order to live in a higher consciousness seeking freedom. No superficial canned media for a superficial generation. Don' hate. Is for U too.
crystalship42 1 year ago 2
@Lateralus8808 I actually think we are the exact opposite of the people on E. We dont sell our minds to the megapixels, like those in tune with pop culture do. We do think the same way as him. and since you made an assumption, i'm going to assume your gay. That's how pathetic an assumption you made
noobpowner901 1 year ago
@noobpowner901 Yes, it makes so much sense that I'd be homosexual for that statement. What I was saying is I don't think I know Jim Morrison personally because I've listened to his music. Maybe you're gay for being so obsessed with him you actually think you know what he's thinking from listening to his music aloneor you're an equallly pathetic woman. Unless you knew him personally, I doubt you know exactly how he felt since lyrics can be taken many different ways.
Lateralus8808 1 year ago
@Lateralus8808 Thats why i said it was an assumption, making it equally as senseless as your assumption. I really dont want to start a youtube fight on assuming someones gay, thats pretty stupid, especially on such peaceful a song. Anyways, Im not talking the tangible lyrics you look at on paper. Im talking about the emotions that inspired Jim To write the song. You must unplug your eye's from black screens and meditate, just listen, read about Jim, listen some more, and you may have a dream
noobpowner901 1 year ago
@noobpowner901 You don't want to start a fight on youtube on assuming someone's gay? Do you even remember your first post when you assumed I was gay? I have to unplug from the real world of technology and plug into a spritiual and emotional world? So you're saying I'm not emotional or spiritual. Again, you're acting like you know somebody from something you heard/read.
Lateralus8808 1 year ago
@Lateralus8808 How would you conclude my personallity by assuming im acting?
noobpowner901 1 year ago
@Lateralus8808 I dont know everything about Jim and neither does he. again, your comments are proving that you have to unplug your eyes from the real world of technology and plug into the emotional, spiritual world of connecting with a person
noobpowner901 1 year ago
@noobpowner901 You don't know how Jim felt personally; you may think you do because a song touches you, but those are your emotions reacting, not Jim's. I'm sure people that look at paintings don't feel or think the same things the artist was feeling/thinking. That's why art is great.
Lateralus8808 1 year ago
@Lateralus8808 you really have alot to tell me. I applaud your desire to enlighten me through youtube. But, you dont know how I feel personally, so how can you determine how I feel?
noobpowner901 1 year ago
@crystalship42
I just saw a brilliant Doors documentary a few nights ago on tv narrated by Johnny Depp. This song is one of my favorites. I still can't shake alot of the feelings the show brought up. I've lived thru the 60's and your words sum up so much of my thoughts today about Jim. He's so much more than his indulgences or weaknesses. They are irrevelant to what remains: his enduring beauty as a poet and a man ahead of his times. I have so much compassion for him.
peggyjonni 1 year ago
@peggyjonni Thanks...Sounds interesting...If is posible U can get more information? And I really like Johnny Depp too.
crystalship42 1 year ago
@crystalship42 I understand why it's hard for people to look past his drunkeness for obviouse reasons. But at the same time it's still hard to to overlook his obvious talent.
llamasarus1 1 year ago
@llamasarus1 I understand....I really do. Need to go far from what your eyes can reach when you're searching the soul. But it happened before in other great people lives as easy and familiar to mention: Edgar Allan Poe or Arthur Rimbaud between others...
crystalship42 1 year ago
@crystalship42 wow...I think you need to take it easy
whipchops 1 year ago
@whipchops Hehe...Thanks. But I never take the easy ones...
crystalship42 1 year ago
@crystalship42 He was gifted with mny gifts, including thr understanding of the "other" world, or the part of the world thai is hidden, like the blood and vessels and organs of the universe.
If he would developed in aculture with the appropiat structires and knowledge he might be a great healer and shaman.... but anyways,even in his darl silene light he epresed his gifts masterfully, sublimely in his songs. withput desestimation of Manzrek and Kriegoer, and also Densmore.
Quetzalcuetlachtli 1 year ago
@Quetzalcuetlachtli They were, and are, something unique in hisotory, special, bringers of bot sacred and profane hierophany. James was a hyerofant, in the sense of a somewhat both tragic nd grceful Silene. Krieger are manzarek are endonated people also... Desnmore, very talented, but lacks i think that sacred hyerophantics gifts,but the four mde something beautiful, illumination and darkness. Hyerophants
Quetzalcuetlachtli 1 year ago
@Quetzalcuetlachtli I understand. Realy I do. Is a call for us to discover who we are behind this skin. Is just a thin glass what divides the "other" world from ours. Just a thin glass. And we can look through it and see in an imperfect way, like a "fun house" effect. But is there. Thanks for your beautiful comments. Thanks.
crystalship42 1 year ago
@crystalship42 Genius eh... If you’re going to call somebody that you should at least be able to spell the word. With that said, the guy was a sub-mediocre singer and a real nasty drunk. He was no smarter than Cobain. That guy was so smart he blew his fucking head off with a shotgun…. GENIUS!
bohs1984 1 year ago
@bohs1984 “BEING A DRUNK IS A GOOD DISGUISE. I DRINK SO I CAN TALK TO ASSHOLES. THIS INCLUDES ME.”Yeah! His best words are written. But I don't know if U can read and understand poetry. If U think UR smarter because U spect to live longer don't feel like "blowing your fucking head off" as U said. Better start doing something with it than pointing other people. We all have some of angels and demons. The message is: If U decide to be an asshole, be a good one.
crystalship42 1 year ago
@crystalship42 "I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me- ever." jdm
crystalship42 1 year ago
@crystalship42 amen
GOORVY 1 year ago
@crystalship42 YES HE WAS A LITTLE BIT SATANIST ON MY OPINION HIS DARKNESS CREATED THE ARTIST AND KILL THE MAN IN HIS SPIRIT....(SORRY 4 MY ENGLISH)
GNEGNODINHO 1 year ago
@GNEGNODIN Jim was not afraid to die. His spirit was overwhelmed, and his vessel too weak to sustain for too long. Now that the vessel is broken, those who can find LIGHT trough his DARKNESS will see that the message is not in the weakness of the vessel, is in it content. I respect your point, but can be superficial to judge based on preconceived ideas of what is wright or wrong. It can be a better message for humanity if Good & Evil kiss each other and make peace. Through art is be possible.
crystalship42 1 year ago
@GNEGNODINHO
True thats why he wore a cross and other band members considered him as a celtic christian. But I am sure that most likely you, yourself are a “christian” thus giving carte blanch on the passing judgment spiel. Look at it like this Jim was a person just like you and me, the differance was he had a talent for writing. He was an alcoholic, however in those years they didn’t know what an alcoholic was, and thats what killed him.
williamiwu 1 year ago
@crystalship42
what you might not uderstand is that he came at the perfect time, we were the ones "who came a little bit out of time". yes, remember his words, that's what he wants...
itwouldbeuntrue 1 year ago
@itwouldbeuntrue Yes. Is a common phrase used, for people that comes with a higher level of intuition to understand human and spiritual sides than the rest of society.He came on time, but his message of caos and revolution, not easy to digest for his generation hurts by war, racism and political corruption. Was not completely understood. But yes, in someway, always the mass will be slower to understand and asimilate, because it's complexity. All depend which side we looks.
crystalship42 1 year ago
@crystalship42 How do you know these things?
jgraz42 1 year ago
@jgraz42 Maybe my intuition or perception of things. Some just common sense. Or posibly I think too much. I don't like superficialities. U can learn more of what U can find beyond letters, words and gestures.I write some poetry,short stories...I know what is to be in the crowd without leaving my desert. But is just my way I mean. Everyone have their ways to look and understand things...
crystalship42 1 year ago
@crystalship42 Great comment!
rocknrollforever10 1 year ago
@crystalship42 I understand his drunkenness and GENIUS. I grew up with him as my mentor. Good or bad. He was right in his time, the time was not right for him. We are all sensitive and misunderstood if we are viewing this video. He is not a martyr, however. A drunken poet with the soul of a man.
strummer77clash 11 months ago 31
@strummer77clash As I said. His generation was not prepared for this kind of soul. Time,(meaning everything that uncluded his generation including ours).A soul can't fix anywhere "(FEELS LIKE NOT QUITE AT HOME). I agree with U. He was not a martyr. Circumstances can make U one. He lived searching the unknown and he died for it. He knew that would be the price.Too high? Can't judge. For me he is a Soul, a Man, a Poet, and a Drunk.
crystalship42 11 months ago
@strummer77clash yes,i agree.
green66vw 7 months ago
@strummer77clash The "time" ??? was not right? What ??? When else but the fucken sixties could he have gotten away with all his crap. I know, I was there..........
Aldebaron9 3 months ago 4
@Aldebaron9 Youre so right , I though the same thing!
icabodcranium 2 months ago
@Aldebaron9 You are absolutely right. There was no other time for him and apparently this is not his time, either. I like to think that the music industry would embrace something like The Doors now, but they were too impulsive and under produced then. Imagine what would happen to them today? Nothing. Sad but true. I like to think the music industry will come to their senses and revisit those qualities, but it's not going to happen. I am happy that you were there to enjoy the ride.
strummer77clash 2 months ago
@strummer77clash "He was right in his time, the time was not right for him". Brilliant.
Talulah6 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Doors
@strummer77clash That was groovy man... can you please remind me how to spell phart? Because it is backing up inside of me and if I dont remember how to spell it, all the pharts will eventually build up so much until I burst...oh my lordy, I certainly don't want to burst....
GDEasley 1 month ago
@crystalship42 I wish people would become more literate from Morrison's influence. Or learn to use spellchecker. I wish people can understand beyond his drunkenness. Which was his great desire. He was like a black sheep sometimes even for his own band members and family. Jim was a genius and a very sensitive misunderstood person. A soul that came to this World a little bit out of time trying to fulfill a dream to be a poet and an artist. And is in that way he wants to be remembered.
PepperWhite62 11 months ago
@PepperWhite62 Mr. Spellcheker. Sorry. Mr. PepperWhite62?. IS POSSIBLE I WAS DRUNK. And it is possible if you ask Jim Morrison if he cares it is possible he will answer F***** You. Too strong for your literacy?. Is ok, you got people attention. Relax. Is my second language. I saw you around correcting people in YOUTUBE. And I don't care. I express what I feel in the way I want. And all people here express themselves in the way they want. Arrogance makes people stupid.. Go back into the context.
crystalship42 11 months ago
@crystalship42 We are sharing with all kind of people from different cultures, backgrounds and languages. Literates, Illiterate people. Who cares? Is how and what we feel what matters. You made a stupidity getting personal. I will never get personal with someone just because how they're express themselves. If you can't have tolerance for other people limitations, you're a person with the worst limitation. You are in the wrong place. Sorry.
crystalship42 11 months ago
Is this a live version? I've never heard this one, only the one off the album. Very cool Thanks for posting.
Tierian 1 year ago 18
@Tierian -no he died years ago - i think in 1997 or 1998
007tron 1 year ago
@007tron 1971
bunchabullsheet 1 year ago
@bunchabullsheet no it was late 90s - its not 1971 i met him few times in early 90s he was nice guy
007tron 1 year ago
@007tron James Douglas "Jim" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971). No you didn't.
SpryPunk 1 year ago
@SpryPunk - i did - i got some picturesof me and him together somewhere - he was nice guy but when he come round he end up staying whole night dancing and turning up music to loud - i used to say no jim no jim
007tron 1 year ago
@Tierian
yes it is, read the description can often help ;)
Dotafication 1 year ago
On The Doors last record (with JM) I was stunned by how strong his voice was. I thought he was on his last leg, but who knows how many more songs he had in him? Rideres on the Storm is on his last record, and that's one of his best, so, who knows what we lost.
tomeeeee1 1 year ago
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childOfGod041 1 year ago
We're all children of god, childOfGod41, and should treat each other as we'd like to be treated, with utmost respect. That being said, with all due respect, FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING SUCK (AS WELL AS YOUR EAR FOR MELODY). and yes the LIz King was more than often drunk or high as a kite, BUT EVEN WHILE ON THE BRINK OF DEATH DUE TO DRUG TOXICITY HE BORE MORE INTELLECT, ELOQUENCE, AND FAR MORE TALENT IN THE TIP OF HIS SCALY TALE THAN YOU'LL EVER HAVE OR EVER KNOW.
Skatecritic 1 year ago 4
this sound more eerie, not in a bad way but you can tell that he was going through alot of sorrow.....when did this come out?
TheCuriousgeorge90 1 year ago
its not that bad really...its good to hear something different i guess
TheCuriousgeorge90 1 year ago
I dunno, i don't think this version is particulary great ,it's very distincive alright but mostly due to the way it was recorded as opposed to way it's performed.
kilo1981 1 year ago
@kilo1981 Nah you don't get it. It is both. Listen to the way he sings the very last line, it's with more passion than the original. It's a better version with sorrow in it, more passion and feeling.
sanQ 1 year ago
FILLED WITH PAIN.
moccasin11 1 year ago 4
I think Jim was filled with Pain.
he was a shaman
BladeRunner25463c 1 year ago 2
We'll meet again...Great!
yaggus 1 year ago 4
i agree, too drunk and/or stoned imo... nevertheless, heart ripping
Electroelectro 1 year ago 3
Deliver me from reasons why Youd rather cry, Id rather fly
adsicks 2 years ago 3
yeah really ive been skipping over this version but uh this is a great version i love the clapping and chearing at the end you can really tell this is early morrison fucking great dude timeless
thecrystalshiplsd 2 years ago
Wonderful..
apinheiro 2 years ago 2
yes it is beautiful!
Eliansmirror 2 years ago 3
if you happen to love the doors , this is wonderful
tomosoos 2 years ago
The band did an excellent version of Crystal Ship at the 1968 concert at Sam Houston Coliseum in Texas. Can still remember the stage being bathed in only blue light while Jim sang it. Great band. Great poet.
sirsarkis 2 years ago 5
too drunk to sing
cwmayer 2 years ago
@cwmayer You don't know what you are talking about. He sings great here. Are you deaf?
sanQ 1 year ago
et merde mon daily post de jimboetfred ça va passer ça j'espere
jimboetfred 2 years ago
c'es ds le désordre mais bon vs etes intelligents donc no probleme
jimboetfred 2 years ago
bcp de rareté et de travaux alors revené avant de me traiter d'arrogant et autre vous comprendrai peut etre mieux pk je me permet de dire ça (je ne parle pas sans savoir les gars faites en autant
jimboetfred 2 years ago
non effectivement ce n'es pas la voie de jim (je me procure le live 69 et si je me trompe je ferai mon méa culpa)
jimboetfred 2 years ago
... to jimboetfred
bilbitt 2 years ago
this isnt jim morrison, its glen danzig
jfkq 2 years ago
1:53 is that a man or a woman ..or both standing next to Jim?
Snotra 2 years ago
@Snotra
It's a man with long hair
jayarownd 2 years ago
its a man and a famous one that is: Screaming Lord Sutch, the definition of the word Lunatic!
vodenian 2 years ago
This is a great version of this song. It is not just a song this version is telling a story!!!!
nlover1 2 years ago
Let Jim recast in peace, please.
cozmicfolkfan 2 years ago 2
fake and fuck the person do that shit !!
putain il imite morisson sans le préciser connard
jimboetfred 2 years ago
@jimboetfred comment ne reconnais tu pas la voix de Jim?"???????
arrete tes insultes !!! quelle arrogance !!!
va te faire deboucher les oreilles!!!
josepolo950 2 years ago
c'est jim morrison a toronto 1969!
... so please don't shot shit man if you don't know jim's voice
bilbitt 2 years ago
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scartiloffista 2 years ago
You have to ask yourself why is it most people who post on Doors youtube videos don't seem to want to find out who murdered Jim Morrison and why? For more information about this, go to
erichufschmid(dot)net and enter, "The
Strange Death of Jim Morrison." If someone killed you, would you want to
be remembered as a lead singer of a band and a poet, or would you want the police to find out who murdered you and
the guilty people be brought to justice?
starfiref94c 2 years ago
yeah c'mon i'd rather fly,
99strange 2 years ago