The Doors - Bakersfield '70 - Jim Morrison interview

[MATTisAkoala]

meanwhile as i've been watching this, some asshole is making a dubstep version of riders on the storm.

[TangleF50]

"There will never be another one, like you - there will never be another one who can, do the things you do"

[pagan43m]

black eyed peas for example

[Masonaut]

sick beard

[1skullduggery]

chaw, cha waw cho ma mo......

[bamboosa]

The future music generated by machines, including the "musicians" who play them? Was he insane? ummmmmm...Imagine the radio playing all of the Doors bits from all the albums. Stop listening to shit music. Wake up, and stop listening to shit music.

[Bumble8700]

I think people miss the point with Morrison being this and being that if you look at the complexities of the human being no one can pinpoint exactly what he felt or thought , even the Doors themselves, because people reveal only what they want to reveal. It is safe to say he had some deep seeded emotional problems that he controlled with alcohol and drugs. The media machine had their way with him, and still do, and made their money like so many others before and after him. Take it as it comes.

[MyAccount4TrollingU]

FUck ISlam

[74jailbreaker]

fuckn jim morrison guessed it man. He predicted the beginning of what made us dislike the 80's so much.

[JonasVanRetro]

Jimbo is alive!

I really mean it!

Hes a crazy old man living in somewhere on thise planet!

[bobdy9988]

Jim Morrison, fucking legend

One of those guys you just can't take your eyes off

Charisma defined

[bobdy9988]

I love Jim, he's awesome, but you must admit, he was an alcoholic. That takes absolutely nothing away from his greatness. The illness is caused by chemistry in your body. The conscious mind is not to blame. Just wish he's got help in a private clinic, got back to writing poetry and got back to what he looked like in 66' - awesome :) RIP Jim.

[londondog1989]

insightful guy!it's amazing how much the doors music hasn't aged.if they had only came out last year they would kick the ass of 99% of the crap that floats around pretending to be music today!

[RangoDurango]

cant believe Jim set foot in bakersfield!!! how exiting!!

[bobdy9988]

Jim is a legend man, yeah fore sure. But I think Jim believed (like I do also) that everybody has a Jim Morrison in them. If your name is I don't know, Ben Smith, then Benjamin Smith COULD be just as great as Jim I think Jim believed in human potential, and Jim believed that anybody could be as great as he was. Jim loved Nietzsche and Rimbaud, and both those guys digged on human potential. Be WHO YOU ARE man. Jim's Jim, you are you. Like Oscar Wilde said "Be yourself, everyone else is taken"

[godzilla2011able]

I Greatly appreciate Wilde quote being a big JIM fan 4 many years, I used to always tell people, "Just be yourself" .Thanks for completing that sentiment: "everyone else is taken". Also agree w/ you, EACH and EVERY 1 of us has that POTENTIAL TO Live a GREAT Life; keep this in mind when all the haters & nay-sayers say you're life is nothing 'cauSE You're not RICH enough, NOT FAMOUS, don't wear right clothes, drive the wrong car, etc BS - FUCK THEM! it's your life & in the end, you die ALONE!

[bobdy9988]

@godzilla2011able Not at all friend, I'm happy that had meaning for you. So many people are like Jim this, Jim that. What about YOU? You know? I read that Jim's father would berate him constantly, and I speculate that this gave him his own self belief. Everybody should believe in themselves. Everybody should realize their own potential in the wondrous thing that is amazing beyond comprehension but that everybody takes for nothing - existence. :)

[OliverFilo1982]

@CrimsonKing73: It was alcohol, not the drugs, that destroyed and ultimately killed Jim Morrison. He didn't do heroin, pretty much anything else he'd try at least once, but what he did mostly was psychedelics like weed and acid, and later gave'em up for alcohol, which he had been drinking fluently and in increasing amounts ever since high school.So your "do not do drugs"-statement doesn't really apply here... A wasted talent, surely, but because of the "benign" but lethal BOOZE, not drugs!

[AcousticLauson]

The movie made him seem like some sort of lunatic, but this interview shows otherwise, i guess movies are just biased like that. :)

[GothamzJoker]

That ain't no Jim Morrison. I call shenanigans!

[w400501r]

@555julianfairbanks I don't think you should google music. Like him or not is your prerogative but the question "Who is this idiiot? Is he musician?" stinks with ignorance.

[Paneeks1960]

He was clearly intelligent and this short interview says it all. The man was right on the money regarding the future of music.

[CrimsonKing73]

@555julianfairbanks are you nuts yourself? the man was brilliant, but a wasted talent........DO NOT DO DRUGS.....please......pretty please.

[lifestraight]

@OliverFilo1982 To me, alcohol is a drug.

[OliverFilo1982]

@lifestraight That's just semantics, it is a drug to everyone. And one of the worst, if not THE worst. I just brought it up separately to bring forth the fact that it's still the only one legal, even though being among the most dangerous drugs out there. And so, many a musician/artist/writer etc. have ruined their lives with it because the media or the law (usually both) started to hound them 'coz of their illegal (even though sometimes more benign) recreational habits, Morrison being one.

[energeez]

so what will music look like in 2050?

They will set up one big billion watt speaker and play just single notes to millions of people.

[Maybsumdayuwillno]

@energeez With that much energy from the speakers you would die from such SPL levels ( sound pressure levels )

[evanwright360]

uhhhh....uhhhhh....uhhhhhh

[TheMetalMachineMusic]

To be fair space rock and especially kraut rock was doing all that stuff in 1970 anyway, and Kraftwerk were around then too, so really it's not much of a prophecy.

[SimplyRawToby]

I wanted to see this whole fucking interview!!

[rsrecordbreaker]

he looks like charles manson

[xQUEERKIDx]

what a genius. RIP Jim.

[irishelk1]

to me the doors sometimes sound a bit techno,just like the songs the changeling and hello i love you very funky tunes...

[gogglygogol45]

Revolutionary person and visionary. Notice he mentions "electronic devices" not traditional instruments showing how he envisioned a totally modern setup for the Door's future. Too bad it never came to be.

[valhala56]

@gogglygogol45 Maybe when Jim Morrison was talking about revolutionary "electronic devices" he wasn't nessacarily talking about the artists but the players, iPods, computers, digital compact discs. I just watched a documentry on the Doors streamed throught Netflix on the Internet.

[badfish1111]

as far as this whole "seeing the body" thing here's the most likely story after 32 years of reading bout this. Jim was doing Heroin. For all those who think he would never, Pamela was doing it. The two of them in Paris, Jim's addictive nature, so many of his poet idols did Opium. He OD'd. The information is out there. The Authorities were paid off to keep it hush hush. THEY didn't want an international scandal. Nobody would ever think of foul play considering ppl were waiting for the guy to die.

[phuphroo]

@beepollen1 well, jim and his girlfriend were "odd", so their odd behavior that you are describing is quite normal for them.

[steveshort4steven]

amazing

[TheLizardKing1967]

We all are a bunch of fuckin' SLAVES... LOL

[Rainbowshow]

It was already happing.

[TheAnnexGal]

He's sounds quite lucid and intelligent.

[apostolostv]

Of course, Jim the visionary speaking to the emergence of "electronic, spage-age sounds" that would take over music in the seventies and especially the eighties.

[bfgoody]

no she did no such thing.. his friends seen his body.. they got a call from pam saying that jim was dead and they didnt believe it bc they had heard it so many times and he would just show up out of the blue.. they sent their manager over to paris to examine the body and it was the real james douglas morrison aka jim morrison.. no he lays to rest in paris las chaise

[the13er]

Alchohol damages are clearly seen in his moves.

Nowadays I suppose he would look like Joe Cocker.

[cmskid20]

Last year of life we miss u jim

[SmittyBaGitty]

indeed.

[bobthefishmonger]

wow i thought he was dead in '70

(seems like a normal person....I had this idea in my head of a man who Never stopped partying.)

Nice clip.thx

[SmittyBaGitty]

'71 I believe

[lilenyt]

jim mii diioz mii mundi mii todo

[Nightsurf59]

So true....Jim WAS the future.....

[OliverFilo1982]

Jim,as an intelligent man,had intelligent thoughts about the use of machines in music. It is true that the first synthesizers were already invented,and also true that Ray Manzarek played the bass with his organ in live shows (though on records they used studio bass players).

In spite of all that,Jim's thoughts became true to the T!It's one thing to just say "I think machines will be used more in the future", and quite another to describe a rave-scene 30 years in advance!He saw the DJ-era coming.

[guitarkris]

@OliverFilo1982 Well, he didn't use his organ to play bass, he used a Fender Rhodes bass piano.

[locolalo1364]

@OliverFilo1982 I FUCKING LOVE JIM

[jimmyp73]

@OliverFilo1982 they say he had the IQ of a genius

[OliverFilo1982]

@jimmyp73 I say so too. Or, to be more precise, I just say he was a genius, and that I remember reading from someplace that he also had the IQ of one. Can't prove it, though, but don't feel the need either; my experience of the man, his music, poetry and pure vision is enough proof for me.

[ika6667]

@OliverFilo1982 Fuck that, Pink Floyd was already doing it, Jim was probably referring to that sort of music.

[vampyros1]

@ika6667 Agreed! I doubt Morrison would have (predicted or) wanted anything to do with the pathetic pilfering of music the pseudo-musicians of techno partake of.

[krskipp]

@ika6667 not really - in another interview he talks about the same thing and about music becoming "one guy surrounded by machines and tapes and singing or speaking" - search on the "Jim Morrison interview 1970" where he's got the whole band with him. Sounds very much like being a DJ/MC and/or rap music with heavy sampling etc.

[MrDavearama]

@ika6667 suck my dick with that faggot shit that Pink Floyd cranked out.

[mazyrun09]

Jim predicts techno back in 1970 , pretty neat pretty good !

[callofpownd]

@mazyrun09 jim is god what did you expect

[robertowonder]

brilliant as a billion of stars, literature saved him

[jimmah01]

It wasn't that visionary to predict the advent of electronic music.

At the time the Moog synthesizer was well established as a music making device with its ability to create a myriad of sounds and imitate instruments[ the bass sound on The Doors' music was from a keyboard] , so many people were speculating of the possibilities.

As a performer though, no one came close to Jim, except perhaps Elvis with his 1968 return show..that was pure raw talent.

Jim had it in a different style.

[signofthehammer]

see how the great philosophers and artists had many GOOD expiriances with drugs. Nobel prize for discovering DNA structure said before dying that he was under LSD effect when he first saw the double helice structure. People should be tought how to use drugs(not cocaine and other harmful drugs, but rather ancient plants that have been used since humanity was created), because they can have a positive effect on our conciousness and therefore we could discover new astonishing things, like Jim did.

[Eurekatomalt]

well i think there's some truth and bullshit in this, but it's interesting.

[slvrstnthb]

whats true and what bullshit i just want to know lol?

[choperlat]

The problem is the mentality of our society.

[OliverFilo1982]

Cocaine "a hell of alot less deadly than acid"?!? WTF?!?During the history of LSD,NO-ONE has EVER died due to an LSD overdose,whereas cocaine causes OD's resulting in lethal heart failures and aneurysms!Trust ME. Secondly, Jim Morrison, the greatest "rock-poet" of them all, died at age 27 because he ravaged his body with ALCOHOL for years.Sure he dabbled with drugs,everyone did in 1960's-70's,but it was the booze that really fucked up his health, nevermind what the cause of his death was.

[slvrstnthb]

well if alcohol's the case then our whole college society in asu is fucked lol.

[phuphroo]

@slvrstnthb alcohol in moderate amounts are ok, but drinking enough to get drunk is bad, doing it every day is really bad.

[slvrstnthb]

@phuphroo the thing is moderation is not what people at asu even think of. people drink everyday lol.

[reforest4fertility]

@phuphroo alcohol even in moderate amounts opens the flood gates of the bladder into diuresis which is heavy diminishing returns on the small amount drunk, a major cause of dehydration. Hydration levels determine more healthwise than we tend to care to ackowledge

[phuphroo]

@reforest4fertility well maybe moderate amount once a week? would that do any lasting damage?

[reforest4fertility]

@phuphroo probably not if you play catch up, and acknowledge the reasons why staying hydrated is so important. that will give further motivation. also, drinkin water B4 drinkin alcohol practically drowns out the negative effect--that of hangover, anyway. I've drank kombucha mushroom tea, which is very lightly alcoholized & had no such problem. the like 1/3 of a beer i had recently, which compelled me 2 write this, was 8%. I just know beer, 4 e.g., doesn't have 2 B high alc 2 B highly nutritious

[reforest4fertility]

@phuphroo I believe it just leaves you chasing after hydration, replacing lost beneficial bacteria, and having to make radical dietary changes to maintain health for life's long run. Not really worth the benefits. Except in the very small amounts in medicinal herbal tinctures, where the bit of alcohol helps in the delivery of the medicinal qualities into the circulatory system

[grovelhog]

You re damn right,cocaine and booze is a

fatal and often deadly mixture! I ve seen a friend turning from an intelligent person into a total wreck within a short period of time by using blow n booze.He was doing all right all those years before when we smoked weed and dropped a lot of acid.

Alcohol is the most serious drug out there!!!

[southperth22]

very true words friend

[JaymzkgSerbia]

Man, music would be a lot different now if he was alive! But I just can not imagine him as an old guy, like Ray and Robby, it just would not be Jim Morrison the greatest philosopher of modern time!

[TheLizardKing1967]

Jimbo predicts Disco. Very Interesting. He was way ahead of his time, ya dig.

[zimonslot]

yeah dude, in another interview he says: I can see people behind computers, making music' He's basically saying: I see DJ's. Right on the spot!

[GentlemanVillain]

amazing! . I've always thought that Morrison would have been right at home in Trip Hop or something like that

[Manfromperu]

yeah totally nailed that one ....he saw the prodigy! machines and electronic devices....awesome!!!

[bfdneal]

"electronic music"?!..good vision, he was dead on

[misshair]

hell yea

he was such a gift

taken far too soon..:(

[geoffwode1]

Why was he dead on?

Any idiot could see that the advance of digital technology would mean it would be integrated into music...