Doors Light My Fire live vocal

[mnpd007]

Densmore talks about the meltdown in his book, Riders on the Storm. Everyone knew Morrison seemed down before the performance, and noticed his lackluster peformance during the song. On the last verse Morrison weirded out and walked into a prop; a fence made of rope, fell and got all tangled. The band never asked Morrison what the hell happened, and Morrison never said, so take your pick. My take is that Morrison had severe mental issues compounded by his drug and booze problems.

[usedMTVpromos]

@mnpd007 Yes, that was my initial impression in 1967 when I saw the debut on TV of this performance. I thought he (Jim Morrison) had gone crazy in front of the cameras. The idea of it being fueled by drugs and/or booze didn't occur to my 14 year old mind.

[usedMTVpromos]

Sorry I've been in deep space for 2 Light years. My Fire is back on for all the Lizard Kings and Queens, princes and poppers. All backlogged comments finally posted. The Lizard Pawn is back!

[MotownMoJo64]

In the book by Greg Shaw "The Doors On The Road", this was a rope prop that Jim had inadvertently had caught himself in..he was pissed off at the fact of being on live TV trying to untangle himself and towards the end of the clip they fade in due to his tirade of cussing..

[SOyouTHINKurFUNNY]

6 people light his fire

[josephbob27]

doors fans check out my channel I sound very identical to Jim !!

[MsHighway51]

Jim was a creative genius - he never gave a boring performance! The wires on stage were probably stage props and Jim used them very creatively, God Bless him :-)

[usedMTVpromos]

@MsHighway51 and very carefully... Careful with that wire Jim... zzzzZAP!

[MsHighway51]

Jim was a creative genius - he never gave a boring performance. Those wires were probably part of the stage props and Jim used them creatively, God Bless him :-)

[marguslagle]

Funny fact that Krieger wrote the song just as an additional piece to complete the album.

[georgewashington33]

000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000 from jim

[Kroeger055]

it looks like he lost voice at 2:25....

[TheGoodCasino]

why is it all wavy gravy?

[rosemarydragon]

That movement stuff has made me feel sick. I love Jim but do I have to feel like he did, as well as hear him and then puke to make it an all round tribute!

[ternalator]

i would sell everything i own, give up both my balls and make a deal with the devil to look and sound like jim. his voice is so amazing.

[usedMTVpromos]

@ternalator DONE DEAL! Ha ha ha

[99strange]

20 stars!

[residentevil5merce]

VERY GOOD

[facecheek]

wtf why...would and how could those be elect wires? If he did jump into elect wires they would come out of their sockets or snap

he looked mellow high anyway, not crazed high

[usedMTVpromos]

@facecheek

I think now, that it was a special effect of it's time... it blew my mind when I saw it when it first aired... but, yeah, compared to what they do now, it's almost mellow as you say...,

[mechanicjoe]

@facecheek he was high on drugs he attacks people that why the wires were theyer

[avpavel]

this is a rare one, don't see it make the rounds like Hollywood Bowl and other performances, dig Jimbos upsurge on the last chorus lol the American Poet baby

[cftb1]

Mummy says this is one of my five a day.

:D

[junkboxxxxxx]

In the days before computers, the wavy video was effected by stretching Saran wrap in front of the camera lens and cascading vegetable oil down it.

[shelly10538]

That wasn't electrical wires, I am pretty sure that was some kind of effect for the show. It's obviously staged, unless the the electricians on the show were mentally retarded.

[1999cfrank]

Love the doors 4 thumbs up the lizard king still lives in his music.

[billace90]

Like they used to say then: So groovy man.....Far out! It even had psychedelic effects and all. Thanks for posting. Another baby boomers delight!

[billace90]

FAR OUT!!!!!

[billace90]

Groovy......with psychedelic effects and everything........yeah, dig that man.........

[noobpowner901]

your comments on the description really irritate me

[usedMTVpromos]

@noobpowner901 - you got any better ones, share 'em with the whole class!

[Sundownr]

Awesome!

Three Thumbs up!

Thanks for posting this!

Sun

[mechanicjoe]

Good video!! Good quality!! Awesome singing!!!!!!!

[MontgomeryShrapp]

HI! THIS IS MONTGOMERY SHRAPP! CHECK OUT OUR SONG "JIM" (DEDICATED TO JIM MORRISON AND THE DOORS)! ALL BEST

[mechanicjoe]

Thanks for posting this video!! I love it!

[prodemdss]

I am telling you guys, HEROIN......still love him, forever, we lost a lot of incredible performers to drugs in the day.....

[MrCiaran31]

XD Awesome! Song never ceases to get my going...check out my cover if you aren't too busy guys :-) :-)

[pewing7]

Why Don't They Talk About The Doors On TV? I Don't Even Hear Them On The Radio Let's Keep The Doors Spirit Alive!

[Falconerx69]

The four people who voted no to this can buy a box...to stand up on and lick my nuts.

[TheTITZE]

boaaaaa morrison is a god jim forever

[tristantupaz]

This song will continue to live from generations to generations to come. Jim Morrisson and the Doors will live forever!

[Aliendear]

Jim Morrison was on fire.

[christian420mafu]

the video's on acid

[TheLizardKing1967]

December 1967

[oniallain1965]

My Goodness Gracious everyone run down to the local Liquor Store on Sunset Strip or anywhere in the United States and the rest of the World...Dan O'Niallain, Grafton, Ma.

[The1superbeatlefreak]

GROOVY

[GreatGianpi85]

S P E T T A C O L O.... Grande Jim Morrison :D

[dualityofman999]

Morrison always sang the songs differently with each performance. He went with the flow of his emotions or feeling at the time. He was happy because of how free he allowed himself to be. He never tolerated the trappings of a conformist society which he felt destroyed the creative spirit within us all.

[KawadaFan]

10 stars!

[fogdog60]

anything would get boring after having to perform it a bijiilion times, i cant blame the lizard king, but i guess thats the price of fame

[bucketfred]

i think morrison was on no telling what kind of drugs probably the majority of the time, i hope not the majority of the time, but surely a good deal of time,.it's obvious that shit caught up to him, and i believe those drugs in combination of alcohol is what did him in, i suppose the other band members didn't do the shit that he did, or not as intensely and hard, and often,..he's an inspiration to me, but not the drugs, alchohol, etc. - he passed the torch to bono of u2, they being without drugs

[EVAN1963]

Its not electric cables its a 60`s style prop thats all.

[Titz3]

der absolute hammmmmmmmmmmer einfach geil jim forever

[Wonka275]

It's funny to look at Ray and see his G101 organ but the overdubbed music is the Vox Connie organ. I dunno I guess it's funny because I play keys.... :D lol

[ianzar1983]

jims fuckn electric the greatest frontman of all time.......

[alfredo94pineda]

jim was so sexy he was a musir

[04116404]

kinda like the doors were ahead of the 60s,,,,very diferent than the another groups from that era,,,,

[lacretta82]

lol-risethelightning- you are so right! he was not a poser, who the fuck did he copy? please tell me tobaccoandboys? beause jim and the doors were about as unique as it got back in those days, he was a magician a master of performance, that was part of the deal.Dramaic effect......is what theater is about..........duh.....lol:)

[shadowbeliefisme]

Fact: Morrison was so far ahead of the times then that I wonder if we have even touched the surface now of where he was at then His readings from Rimbaud and Nietzhie are what influenced him in a Negative way and ultimately destroyed him along with the fact he a Practicing alcoholic , ILL never get over him ever it was a total waste him dying  the way he did

[Jopi182]

@shadowbeliefisme Nietzsche ?

[Nayama69]

@shadowbeliefisme, have u actually read Artur Rimbaud or Nietzhie? Both are very inspiring if u are a phylosophy or poetry loving person. Lets not blame the inspiration for our own weaknesses and choices. We Do make our choices on our own, it is entirely our responsibility how we interprete what we read or hear and how we digest and use it.

[PopCultureSucks]

@shadowbeliefisme a waste would have been Morrison working a typical 9-5 white collar job like what many people assumed he would. Morrison did what he wanted to and he paid the price for it, but he left some great music and poetry for us all to ponder and enjoy. I think he did pretty damn well for himself considering he died at only 27.

[underthebridge246]

@shadowbeliefisme

I would have to disagree and say that people like Rimbaud and Nietzche did not influence him a negative way but shaped him to be the person that he was. He was way ahead of his time because he took those influences and used them to shape his own views and his own self.

[DuNx24]

he was on acid!

[rondoliomercutio]

@DuNx24 random....

[subarufreak555]

man i love this song i must listen to it at least five times a day

[MrWerewolf1000]

I listen to it probably TEN times a day!

[lordhelmit3]

@MrWerewolf1000 then youre the "fan" morrison would have hated.

[LabiaLicker1]

@MrWerewolf1000 I sing it at least twice a day! (got a vid of me singing it here)!

[lordhelmit3]

@subarufreak555 if so, youre the kind of "fan" morrison hated.

[jimtorres27]

Jim Morrison is the Best of the Best...i love him!

[Aliendear]

@jimtorres27 jim morrison was so special.

[nickjacket]

TininSky - yes you did watch this previously.

After Jim gets tangled in the set, Winters cuts to commercial.

[nickjacket]

Yes TininSky you did watch this in a previous life. After Jim tangles with the stage props at the end of this song, Winters cuts to commercial.

[TheLizardKing1967]

This song brings back alot of memories. I know, I sang it. WAKE UP !!!!!!!!!

[TheGrownUpAdult]

The Lizard King is back!

[tobaccoandboys]

Morrison was a big poser. He did many things for dramatic effect. I still love his music, but there was that other side of him that was not so appealing.

[risethelightning]

you think he gives a shit what you think, he does what he wants, and thats the way to do things, the way you want them, he is not a poser, that term came out in the 80s how can he be a poser

[DarkprinceCs]

the term poser was created in the 80's so before the 80's it didnt exist.?? Wtf.???

Anyway.....

Awesome man with a shitload of charisma.

[mazyrun09]

Lots of people think Morrison loved himself .....better than hating yourself though !!!

[lindensteinc]

@tobaccoandboys you crazy cocksucker! in fact Jim inded up hating fame! people looked at him as more of a rock star then a poet and he didnt like that! you must be one of those fuckers who watches oliver stones piece of shit movie "The Doors" and says stupid shit against Jim, well... that movie IS VERY UNTRUE! and oliver stone sucks cock! The Doors changed my life and so many others! but then a stupid fucker like oliver stone comes along and makes Jim look like a "poser"!

[BlakjakKalyko]

@tobaccoandboys dramatic effect means...oh wait. thats every good rockstar in history since 1954. you're posing.

[TininSkywithDiamonds]

this is the best song eveeer !!

I hope I watched them in my past life :P

[Esquape]

do it baby

[sunchild90]

what version is it where jim isnt supposed to sing "much HIGHER" but he does anyways?

[mitjazz]

that was  the sullivan show sept 67 - this was the jonathan winters show dec 67

[petoysis]

this song is very classic i lake

[ricardopaezmartinez]

Terriffic.....One of the best videos I´ve ever seen.

[Inglewolf]

I was born in '67, had two teenage brothers when I was born and in '75 got into their record collections and discovered their first album. Immediately became a fan.

In '79 first saw the doors 'live', this clip that appeared in ABC documentary "The first 25 years of Rock'N'Roll". I remember the narrative: "One of the most daring bands of the sixties, the Doors, led by Jim Morrison".

Nearly 30 years later I FINALLY catch the same clip on YouTube. No Doors videotape or DVD ever had it!

[kopaygorod]

wow , no sabia de este video

[Beatles4ever63]

BOY! do i love this song! JIM MORRISON IS SOO CUTE! "C'mon, Jim, Light My Fire!" i could listen to this song over and over and over and over again! GREAT SONG FROM A GREAT BAND!

RIP: Jim Morrison (1943-1971)

[sjmmrcrdd]

He toned it down because his voice began to crack (probibly from drinking the night before) No indifference to the song here as it was the 1st television airing of the song. The band members are not actually playing...Jim is singing along to the instrumentals of the radio version...band members are play'sincing!

[noahch]

what concert is this from?

[usedMTVpromos]

multiple choice answer (1 of the following 4 is correct):

1. Miami Pop Festival 5/18/1968

2. Isle of Wight Festival 8/29/1970

3. Shebang - New Years 1967

4. Jonathan Winters Show 12/27/1967

[noahch]

haha sorry after i posted the comment i looked at the description and i was like oh haha im stupid.

[usedMTVpromos]

hey noahch, you're a good sport.

just for the record, The Doors played all but 1 of the 4 choices...

a no-prize to whomever correctly guesses which one they didn't perform at!

[noahch]

shebang.

[Wonka275]

miami pop festival is the only one the never did.

[usedMTVpromos]

Wonka wins the no-prize!

Correct answer!

[Wonka275]

Woo!!!! Yeah!.....

[fwebd]

option 4

[GmManze]

@usedMTVpromos Jonathan Winters Show!!

[sco40]

the voice was beautiful in that

[dvinedzine]

1:50, sigh....

[reznorfan15]

awesome! wonder why he toned down the vocal at the end?

[usedMTVpromos]

Maybe Jim was tired of hassles over the lyrics.

Notice how he tones down the vocal (at 2:23) right after "girl, we couldn't get much higher".

Only weeks before, a really big show's producers told Morrison to write a new lyric for that line, and he refused.

Maybe he was sick of doing the song by late '67, unable to hide his indifference.

Yet in 1968 he threatened to smash a Buick with a sledgehammer on a TV show if a commercial using the song aired... "Come on, Buick, light my fire"

[TonyDetelder]

Actually he didn't refuse. He agreed with them and then used the line anyway

[kneejerker]

You got the Sullivan story wrong -- he "agreed" to the producer's demand then sang it his way anyways.

[MLMusicBox]

Probably simply a sore throat or laryngitis. He also avoided the high notes on the last verse of 'Moonlight Drive' on this show.

[chucknchar]

I think your right, larygitis

[MacedonWarrior]

come on babe ,,,light my fire...

[jpmorrison71]

I had read about this but never seen it before-thanks so much for uploading this!

[Beatles4ever63]

thankd for posting i love this song!!

[luisemilio4485]

esse video é meio loko vo6 não axam??

[Bigbobpsychokiller]

First time i see it too!Awesome!!!!!!!!

[bru222]

perfeito... foda, light my fire!!!!

[thedoorsceara]

Perfect!!!!!!! Jim is alive!

[doorsman71]

he falls at the end of LMF and moonlight drive ? 2 times ? that's crazy ?

[thedoorsceara]

PERFECTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

[xxastro]

Trimar was a drug I believe that Jim got from one of his girlyfriends

[kewassg]

shit this is the first time i see this video its pretty good morrison like always leave his life on the stage

[Beatles4ever63]

I'M OBSESSED WITH JIM MORRISON!!!!!!

[mosoul65]

Very dramatic personal memory of the 60's K! Read Pam Des Barres' "I'm with the Band" for weird take on "Trimar", a drug?

[usedMTVpromos]

Trimar? We found many under-the-counter remedies for curricular overload in books written off by the PTA.

Hunter Thompson (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas) infused "andrenichrome" with exaggerated effects.

Abbie Hoffman (Revolution for the Hell of It)

hyped banana, Reddi-Whip and aspirin.

inhalation; only morning glory seeds altered my perception: heightened ability to focus, resulting in startling visual clarity causing arachnophobic dread, we fled the park - the 5:00 rush hour was worse yet!

[RevrendJohnson]

Can't beat a live vocal. Very cool. Lesson learned what the rock life style can do to a person later on.......