Jim Morrison & Tony Thomas 1970 Interview
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- Tony Thomas from the CBC interviews Jim Morrison
Los Angeles, California
May 27, 1970
Photo credits: ©Frank Lisciandro
In May 1970, while awaiting the Simon & Schuster publication of The Lords & The New Creatures, and attracted by the chance to talk intelligently about something other than the music scene, Jim Morrison agreed to a "literary" interview with Tony Thomas of the
Canadian Broadcasting Company. The interview took place at The Doors office in Los Angeles on May 27, 1970 and was partially aired on radio in Canada, but was never published.
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Jim is actually wrong regarding Sexual repression going hand in hand with Totalitarianism - the Eastern Block and life behind the Soviet Iron Curtain was proved to be just the opposite of that. In the Soviet states, sexual freedom was in point of fact the opiate of the masses - it was the great leveller. In contrast to the West, the Eastern Block nations enjoyed great openess and freedom in regards to sexuality - this has been noted and documented by those who lived behind the Iron Curtain. Of course Jim was probably not aware of this in 1970 ... but still.
The Velo In The Vale I took my time to think about what you said and it seemed interesting to argue about your statement and personal point of view about Morrison's statement regarding "the repression of sexual energy as the grandest tool of a totalitarian system". I think that he refers in general terms and not to a specific regime.
Besides the Eastern Block countries during the Cold War, I could cite China, Germany, Spain, Italy, Argentina among many others historical examples.
To understand this phenomenon that transmits an enthusiastic adhesion to totalitarian ideologies, are employed sociological analysis and psychological categories . They are seen as conclusive factors "the psychic impoverishment" and "the social resentment" of a small middle class in crisis of identity, crushed by the double weight of the power of the great middle class, on one side, and of the industrial proletariat from the other (see ©Lasswell 1935); it is held responsible a sexual repression that produces weak and impotent personality (see Reich ©1933); one are individualized "authoritarian syndrome", prepared by a family structure, that of the typical German family, soaked of servility and authoritarianism (see ©Horkheimer and others 1936) and we call into question the escape from the unbearable weight of a lived liberty as dissolution of any tie (see ©Fromm 1942).
Close to this, an approach also consolidates that some totalitarian ideologies seek the intellectual roots, departing from the presupposition that totalitarianism brings to the open many ghosts that our western culture, especially in the modernity, has produced. Totalitarian ideology can be seen as that 'revolution', through the destruction of all the norms and the traditional values, hands the modern nihilism to conclusion (see ©Rauschning 1938); or, moreover, is interpreted as the 'the here and now' drift of the progressive forgetfulness of the transcendence (see ©Voegelin 1938) or, still, as the ghost, finally become real, that has wandered in the western world from when the socialism and its many disguises have begun to suffocate the principles of the liberty, survived only thanks to the economic liberty (see ©Hayek 1944). In short, all the structural elements of the 'totalitarian constellation' are now object of investigation (sexual repression too). What still misses is an analysis that knows how to put them in connection among them in a great conceptual synthesis.
In conclusion, Morrison, with just a few lines, opens, as usual, an entire sociological theme to talk about. I think he liked Orwell 1984 very much ("the instinct is a sin since sexual energy must be converted into the strength of the Party")
Jim's statement is not quite right either way - whether general or specific. We need not resort to academic gymnastics with footnotes to view History plainly for what it is ... and has been. Perhaps Jim means Religion when he uses the term "Totalitarian"? We can only speculate. In point of fact, Historically speaking, Religion has had more to do with "sexual repression" in Culture and Society than any Political movement we can point to in the last 2000 years. There was no Sexual repression in Hitlers Germany - not within the scope of ethnic Germans - quite the opposite. Germans were encouraged to breed and procreate, this is known. Communist Russia and Mao's China has no such repression in regard to sexual expression or liberty - not until the 1 Child Policy in China was realized - and even then, this was not a repression of sexuality itself but rather a restriction on progeny. The facts are, where Religion is present, this is usually where Sexual Repression has been found most prevalent ... Totalitarianism has little to do with it.
How refreshing, to see a rational and logical debate in the comments of a YT video. I thought I was alone, running these dialogues through my own mind. Searching for peers, in intellectually bankrupt and corrupt societies, finds me lost in world of agoraphobic, uber eats, " Hey just leave it at the door, it's paid for" lifestyle of the not so rich and not so famous. So about this sexual repression! Cheers!
What type of deep, profound mind would most people have who consumed as much alcohol 24/7 as Jim did? Imagine the unfathomable genius he would have become had he gone straight edge. He predicted the future of music (solo artists sitting alone in a room with machines) Even people with lucid minds have a few bad theories. Unless Jim said something offensive, which I've yet to hear, I think it's absurd to pick apart one statement he made. You're just not going to come out ahead of Jim Morrison... he was the real deal and the whole package... even as an alcoholic.
Think he's talking about this conservative country we live in. The good ole usa
Jim felt bored by listening to radio in 1970. I'm glad he doesn't know what it feels in 2020.
You nailed it
That was hard for me to believe cause there were some damn good songs on the radio in 1970
@@jaredcraver3898 True, but i think his point was that the kids at first didn't think it was all really THAT great until they started to hear certain music over and over, being "programmed" in a way...and nowadays all you hear is how great 70's music was mainly because of having free access(via TH-cam) to listen whenever or however often we so choose, so the "influence" of it is that much stronger.
Jim was digging jazz and 'blue's cats'. Listening to his last album, L.A. Woman, bears this out. It's awesome.
Yes, today he’d have to listen riders on the storm and LA women all day...KLOS...
A sober and coherent Jim Morrison was a fascinating creature.
For real. He's always presented to us as an incoherent, if magnificent mess, the brightly-burning star with a short lifespan, the mad Romantic. He doesn't sound like that here, does he?
How do you know he was sober here?
Pretentious who loves hearing himself talk, really just says a lot of nothing
@@ShinyFlakesShinyFlakes I don't think he was pretentious at all. More like the opposite. True he was a contradictious person, yet deeply intelligent and very active in reading and writing poetry. I think he had a lot to say to the world. Kind of a stranger of a soul in his own era.
@@innertiger when I was young and by young I mean like 15 I thought he had a lot to say too. As I’ve gotten older, the more I listen to his rants and his poetry the more I realize he really just liked the sound of his own voice - hence the reason I called him pretentious. Most of what he says is meaningless drivel.
The more I learn about Jim Morrison the more i can see he was so ahead of his time. The interview feels like it was done recently and not over 50 years ago.
How can people be surprised he was intellectual? He wrote poetry.. practically made entire songs with acapella alone. One of the best songwriters of all time.
Many people are amazed that addicts are intellectual for some reason. Their knowledge of things can sadly give them more disposition for dependency on something whatever it may be for some reason when it tends to be nothing but an ouroboros
@Generic Name why the hell did you comment that in all caps?
@Generic Name did that happen when the music’s over?
@Generic Name haha the worst thing you've probably gotten was a haircut. Just get your kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames
Fully Agree
I had no idea he was like this. He was a staggeringly introspective man. He talks as if he's in the 21st century. He understood the power and source of the post WWII baby boomers. He predicted the onslaught of mechanized social media. He correctly understood the hippy life style as a middle class phenomenon of people who essentially didn't have to work. He had his demons, but Jim Morrison was clearly not the typical "Rock Star."
Well put!
He was more than meets the eye and is now the character Rush Limbaugh.
@@Jennifer-ql1iq . you're gonna look back years later and find out how fucking stupid your comment was.
Pete Zereeah most commentators said the exact same thing ten years earlier regarding the Beatniks. It’s just common sense that in a consumer society, social trends will depend on society’s ability to consume them, ie who can afford to buy into the trend. Look now at climate change and you will notice that it is mostly a high class/middle class trend because they can afford to buy into it. A poor person today isn’t going to buy a $100 renewable lightbulb just as the poor person on the 1960s didn’t buy a $100 pair of jeans from India.
You Just Hitted on the Head Brother
'We are the victims of media.' Jim Morrison was so ahead of time. Almost a forecaster of time.
Television, children fed!
Prophet.
The sky wasn't a limit to this dude's i.q. Holy crap. That last sentence...
reasonably astute observer not a propht...common now
It is becuase he read so much
Oliver Stone did an injustice with his movie. Many people won’t know about this side of Jim Morrison .
Somebody should make a remake of the 1991 movie
And that's why he mentioned how we are just driven by the media
Totally agree
This is irrefutable proof that the "drunk rockstar" persona, was just that, a persona. When in reality, Jim was a remarkably intelligent person. He's a huge inspiration to me philosophically. An absolutely genius soul.
Fact is you can be intelligent and still drink alot and use drugs.
Most “drunk rock stars” are very intelligent, creative and sensitive souls, the alcohol, drugs and magic are just an extension of the flames in their minds and souls.
Well more often than not when entering on stage there’s lot of nerves, knowing this lots of stars get drunk/high to ease that feeling, which is why that persona gets created
I think that's why Ray was so pissed at Stone's portrayal of Jim in the movie.
It’s not a persona, he was a drunk and a drug addict who had moments of deep thought and introspection. It’s really not that complicated.
History portrays him as a drunk rock star.
He was a deeply connected Poet.
Hes drunk mad genius
He was connected alright- to the CIA.
Truth
@@tinfoilmagnolia5457 only in the sense that they, and the f.b.i., had a file on him.
he was both
3:05 "life is becoming more computerized..."
You have no idea.
This is just crazy
Wow... that’s crazy.
+Catalina F. Luke your face intigues me..i know its an old post but all the same thank you for that #stunner
its a man dressed as a woman
+WESSERPARAQUAT nah,you're just a bit gay buddy..you'll get over it though we all go through a jim phase😉
I love how he speaks slowly and eloquently, he chooses his words carefully, as opposed to conversing fast and carelessly. I love the english language.
I dont😊
Excellent interviewer in every way. Non-aggressive, soft spoken, did his homework, asks great questions, highly intelligent, never interrupts, good listener.
I had the same feelings even with some years as a journalist.
you're right 100%
I agree. His questions opened Jim up.
People in the 1970s, including the supposed 'rogues' dressed tidier and spoke more intelligibly than a modern casual. Then again, it's all those social rebels that have cultivated our new carefree liberty on open stupidity.
-What are you watching?
-A Jim Morrison Interview.
-What's he talking about?
-Oh,nothing,you know like... the TRUTH !
Most accurate comment.
Not even Morrison could predict the horrors of the Kardashians.
+shilohwillcome haaaaahaaaa
He predicted Prince too
Did too: "A lot of people like Mozart were prodigies; they were writing brilliant works at very young ages," he said, musing on the future of music. "That's probably what's going to happen: some brilliant kid will come along and be popular. I can see a lone artist with a lot of tapes and electrical ... like an extension of the Moog synthesizer - a keyboard with the complexity and richness of a whole orchestra, y'know? There's somebody out there, working in a basement, just inventing a whole new musical form."
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-jim-morrison-predicted-edm-to-rolling-stone-in-1969-20160322#ixzz4AK9ZVe4G
God bless
Jim Morrison is beautiful
Jim has the most relaxing and comforting voice. ❤️
and not drunk at all
@@shangrila73eldorado
& if drunk, he was the most eloquent drunk i ever heard speak.
nothing special about that@@nadaloiterton6737
I know. Doesn't it just make you feel like everything's OK? Nothing's a crisis anymore.
he has a very nice opiate voice. he's probably on pain pills here
Morrison basically prophetized social media and their influencers, the power of computers, virtual reality and political activists which include athletes like Lebron all within 30 minutes. Remarkable.
What good has Lebron done?
He is a Freemason.
He did not predict computers, he was just repeating what scientists of the time where saying, and everyone else.
@@bumface1810 Yes, the interviewer did lead him in the direction. The interview was mostly Jim expanding on the ideas of the interviewer.
So their were no political activists before LeBron, lol? You didn't have to be a visionary to see computers were becoming more important or that we becoming more mechanized as Jim put it
its scary what he did, in 1970,,,,I have chills right now.....how did Jim know?
It's a shame that so much focus on Jim Morrison has been on the excesses and outrageous "rock star" elements rather than the fact that this guy was an incredibly intelligent, forward thinking and eloquent speaker.
Well, Morrison wasn't a role model but reducing him and his life to that of a selfish, bloated suicidal addict says more about your limited life experience and appreciation for its numerous, oft unsuspected challenges, than about him and his accomplishments...There is a very fine line between life and death in general and balance and excess, in particular. I wish you all the best and hope you lead a simple existence, unencumbered by challenges many of us face and are sometimes unable to overcome...
Morrison would have recognized the revolutionary tool that the internet is, the powerful beauty of the human-connectivity that it offers up. He would have screamed WAKE UP and use it to your benefit, use it before it uses you up. There's no time to lose.... Something along those lines. He talks about music events as large gatherings of people who are like-minded and the power of performers to open minds and influence audiences into thinking about what they want to change.... the course of their own lives, politics, etc. The internet multiplies that immeasurably and it would be something that would thrill his mind and be a brilliant, hopeful sign for the people. Of course the very dark side would be fodder for many more poems from Jim Morrison. As for his legend of excess etc, through the online access to the Doors concerts, interview archives etc we can now recognize his depth of intelligence and concern for individuals and humanity, his urgent message to claim our freedom and voices. I hope Doors fans turn everyone on to this timeless philosopher/poet. It certainly cannot hurt to try, plus the music is cool and beautiful and who can argue with that?
His IQ was quite high, 149 I believe. It's not uncommon for the highly intelligent to become self loathing and self-destructed when surrounded by whom they consider to be idiots (Society as a whole). It's why many intellectuals have a smoking habit, are drinkers, etc.
Jim did not "kill himself" -- he was tired of being an alcoholic and wanted to change. You think he liked being sick and tired and gaining more and more weight from drinking? Unfortunately there were no rehabs back then and he used heroin as a way of getting off of alcohol (takes away cravings for liquor) and he did too much that one night. (He snorted it, not injected, so it must have been a potent batch)
@Roger Peet Jim never shot heroin, he snorted it that night.I dont think one can say he was selfish either he was a very generous guy with his money.I think his downfall was pressure ultimately and after he knew he'd be in prison he just decided to up the excess- thats not selfish - thats fear.
"You're 26, you're young to me"..."Yeah but I'm over the hill". That was deeper than even Jim may have realized.
roger peet Or it means he's 26 and is getting older and not really able to relate with teenagers and young adults as well as he used too
@@MyEnemy We all have off days.
@@MyEnemy Robert Crumb was a self indulgent pervert. Maybe Jim didn't feel the need to connect with him on an intellectual level.
@@96wordpass He was probably strung-out and depressed. He died not long after.
Zaratustra, from Nietzsche. Very reflexive, but its a lonely place to be.
I never liked the way Jim was portrayed in pop culture. I know the drugs and alcohol were a big part of who he was, but there was so much more as seen in this interview. Intelligent, well-spoken, talented guy.
Man, he had such a smooth voice. The Electric Poet.
Velvet Voice
I'm pleased to find it out.
Only two people's voices ever truly turned me on. One is a guy with whom I almost had a real relationship, who also loved The Doors, and the second is Jim Morrison. Rich, masculine, but also with enough softness in it. I don't know how to explain it better.
'Rock star' seems only to have been Morrison' day job. At his core, a philosopher and poet.
Exactly!
One must pay the bills.
Yeah he was a drunken poet with a backup band.
@@AnnaLVajda Yeah, yeah, genius comment if you say so! It's so easy to pigeonhole people, isn't it, especially when you make yourself judge and jury?!
Amen🙏
An excellent interviewer! Not one time did he interrupt Jim. Intelligent questions, that showed actual interests in Jim the person and not the performer. Was nice to hear Jim in a coherent sober way.
Because back then most interviewers had respect and today they are more into what they have to say themselves more so than who they interview.
Couldn’t agree more, such a great interview
@@mikedouglas9863 That was the norm for the CBC
Great observation, Bob!
Agreed. Great interviewer.
Jim was a highly sensitive poet who couldnt have lived any longer than he did in this insane world. He came here to speak his message and then move on without having to deal with old age. A true prophet. Rest in Peace Jim!
Amazing to hear a 26 year old talk like this! He sounds 50 years old!
I knew He was Intelegent, but I had no idea how far ahead of his time he was!
guitarjohn707 *intelligent
Intelegent. Nice
"Women have less need to reestablish a connection towards life because they are life." Profound.
Jim Morrison was the real deal all the way through. No posing, bullshit, etc. He saw it all 50 years ago. His greatness wasn’t fully appreciated then or now.
He was a thinker and his thinking was beautiful. Observation of life was his specialty. Beautiful man he is.
Everything he saying is so relevant in 2020.
Amen except the political activists are all leftist pieces of crap.
I was thinking the same thing! Just everything today is EXPONETIAL!
Even more so in 2021!
@Gilbert Gonzales You sound like you have a jealousy problem. First you say he can't sing, now you claim a person has to be only Jesus to speak any truth. Thus, by your own logic you must be a devil, a jealous one at that. Lol at you 🤭
Incredibly perceptive. People would now struggle to keep up with him intellectually.
His voice, calms me
Larissa Vitoria yes, me too!
Have you ever listened to the album An American Prayer? Jim had recorded readings of his poetry and after his death, the Doors recorded music to the readings. They are mostly about growing up in America in the 60's but it's different than their other albums.
@@brianyoung3 America Prayer is a must, I love it. He was a poet as well as a rock star.
Me too😀
Wet knickers detected..
I enjoy the fact that the interviewer asks very pertinent and profound questions; and not just ask him about the latest hits and his reputation for drinking and using drugs, etc. He treats Jim with respect and seems to actually enjoy hearing the responses and gives him the time to complete his thoughts and not interrupt him like all modern interviewers seem to do.
Jim was a philosopher and a spiritualist! Wow, what a deep human being he was! Unfortunately, he wasn't understood at that time. He was very wise and ahead of his time.
This interview is a great opportunity to know him just a little bit as a human.
He was a prodigy
You can't watch this without being amazed at his intelligence. amazing guy
Absolutely, wow ♥️
Danidelaspampas it is awesome ❤️! How old are you we look about the same age. Seems cool to see someone my age into this type of stuff 😂😂
@@lsunationalchamps08 Wanting to be surrounded by truth seekers? Listening to them seems to activate my own thoughts. How old are you by the way? Hehe you know you are not supposed to ask a lady her age 😎 I'm 41. What other people do you find inspiring?
Danidelaspampas 🤦🏻♂️ yeah sorry my mama taught me better than to ask a lady her age 😂😂. I thought we were around the same age lol you don’t look 41 at all in your picture. I’m 27.. you look really beautiful
@@lsunationalchamps08 well I'm glad you find me pleasing to look at 😊 and your mama taught you right 🤭
Where are you from?
You still haven't answered about what other people you find inspiring
There is a complete lack of pretension in his voice and thoughts. His deliberate cadence is proof that he is earnest, sincere and desiring of finding his true knowledge/perception of life. This is real intellectualism. It's like breathing to him. It's natural. Natural in how he is always updating his thoughts. So he doesn't project dogma either. He sees the context of life and why things may be happening. I'm not sure you can teach anyone to think like this very easily. Forget writing songs. It's more the willingness to ponder life and see it clearly in your head.
It's too bad Oliver Stone decided all we wanted to see was a train wreck.
I think when we make someone like Jim Morrison into a star we forget the mind that it takes to write a real song. It's not easy. And even if the song is not as deep as you'd like, it is so much more sophisticated than 99% of the world can create. And when you hear him speak such as this then you realize there is a real mind behind the art that is technical in it's approach to life in some ways and because of this he is an art scientist.
Mark Lecuona Well said..I agree wholeheartedly.
Mark Lecuona to be curious my friend!..be curious of EVERYTHING!.
Everything today is a imitation of something or someone but he is not . Very refreshing. I think people today think it's not politically correct to be serious about anything. That life is a joke. But it's more interesting to be serious than to try to find humor in too many ways.
Mark Lecuona I need to read your comment after listening to this interview.
Hello two years into the future and I just read what you wrote. You may be in the same genius realm as Morrison. I think you understand the best of Jim and that makes you just as aware. Well done sir.
He spoke far more clearly and articulately than a huge swath of society is capable of doing, presently (not a single, 'like' or f-bomb, that I heard). Further, to hear Jim Morrison -- in 1970 -- talk about everything getting more and more computerized is eerily prophetic.
Amazing. RIP Jim. This is a rock star??? His stage performances broke boundaries obviously, but it's amazing hearing this 25 or 26 year old kid talk like this in this interview. Like some ancient philosopher. What an amazing artist.
He had an IQ of 140 so be not surprised to hear a conversation like this from him.
He was a poet
Might be the only 26 year old who insights I would sit and listen to for an hour.
His analisys about the hippie culture and mass media was incredible. He was probaly the most inteligent rock star, not musical but philosophic
Good lord. This guy saw Social Media as the future before the internet was even invented.
Actually Jim was trying to be polite - he knew people were going to get dumber and dumber....
Jaime Tumbas unbelievable isn’t it?
Inessa armand That line from The Soft Parade “and it’s getting harder to describe sailors to the underfed”!
Jaime Tumbas way before
"The way to power in the future belongs to those who can gather a high number of people in one place."
Leon Barnard, who was the Doors press agent, said in an interview that this was by far Jim's favorite interview. Barnard went along with Jim to most of his interviews and said that when Thomas asked about Jim's poetry book at the beginning, Jim absolutely lit up. He was sick of just talking about the Doors in every interview he did and wanted to be taken seriously as a poet.
I'm very happy that I got to read your comment 💙 thanks for the information😜🔥
Acording to Patrícia Morrison the Doors film is full of shit and errors. And acording to Densmore Jims were a bit agressive about life and women.
aww
usually people become alcoholics because theyre frustrated about something..they want to do or be....it must have been this
@@connynielson8686 That's incredibly vague and simplistic
Jim Morrison was probably the most misunderstood muscian . I always heard he was very intelligent and this interview shows that.
He was dead on about power being in the hands of so few where people are distracted by movies and controlled medias and he had the foresight to see people missing out on the real world going on right in front of them ...he was ahead of his time and prophetic and a genius word man ....i miss his kind
He really did see through the BS factors in our society. Very perceptive mind...so sad he fell to drugs and alcohol.
We would almost think this interview was from the 90s or 00s
Visionary
Craziest thing is that every single thing he's saying is still true today, but worse in terms of media and humans as spectators.
Goody Weaver you are right. It is remarkable how much of what he predicts in this interview has actually become the truth. Still nowadays.
I feel that on the internet nobody can comment on videos without being negative and the internet law seems to be: negative=critical=intellectual. I don't agree on that
now more than ever. bashing Trump every day is entertainment for the masses. great distraction for the powers that be. Trump is not powerful at all, just a figurehead like all Presidents.
Goody Weaver the news has become entertainment... a spectator sport
What, that half the population are under 18 years of age?
Goody Weaver not worse at all...the yellow journalism and "tragedy as spectator sport" was much worse in the 19th century and early 20th
Jim Morrison is an exceptional force, a force that is still with us almost fifty years after he passed from his physical body. Jim's intellect, his poetry, his philosophy, his lyrics, his wisdom, his foresight, and his music with The Doors lives on, forever and ever. Jim has a way of communicating his message like no one else. I thank him for communicating with me.
He Washington.not.a slave
"The cleavage of men into actor and spectators is the central fact of our time". "The spectator is a dying animal". 8:21 "the spectacle of millions and millions of people sitting in movie theatres and in front of television sets every night watching a second or third-hand reproduction of reality going on, when the real world is right there in their living room, or right outside in the street, or down the block somewhere. I think it's a tool to somnambulize or hypnotize people into a kind of waking sleep". We are being programmed by the media. I couldn't agree more ❤ Jim was such a insightful soul 😜😍🔥I love his poems, Jim is such an inspiration!💙
So profound what he said here. Thanks for posting!
He had amazing insight!
Well why dont you go dig him up?
right.
He was literally making your highlighted quote as I was reading it in unison....weird
Jim Morrison is one of my most influential intellectual thinkers to this day.
I agree.
hedonic treadmill exposed . . program a people without them knowing! Unplug or at least learn something . .
@Jimbo Morrison they had rehabs....
"Programmed by the radio" Jim would vomit listening to the radio today. Man...
Grant Barnes The programming extended to all media and aspects of culture. We know more now just how pervasive that programming was. The CIA used drugs, such as LSD, the music and satanism to exert control over the masses. Through MK Ultra mind control, many of our top stars were mind control victims. Many others were CIA operatives and/or satanists, such John Perry Barlow (Grateful Dead) and John Phillips from the Mamas and Papas.
I think he would find our time extremely interesting. Jim was fascinated by chaos. He would also have had a hell of a ball fucking with people via social media/TH-cam. If you're self-actualized, this is the most fantastic time ever.
I could easily imagine him taking over scientology and turning it into a Dyanisan cult. Or maybe just beating Joel Osteen with a belt during his live broadcast.
Bet your bottom dollar
Jim vomited a lot.
Yea, he would smash! the tv.. and throw it in the trash.
He really talks like a professor. I can only imagine what he would have become if he lived longer.
No wonder. IQ of 140 is rewarding.
I love how everyone here is such a fan of Jim Morrison ❤️❤️
Hard to believe he was only 26 when he did this interview. Way ahead of his time and incredibly coherent and intelligent for a rock star that was supposedly always wasted and drunk.
Mark Haines
Too bad a lot of people don't know he wasn't drunk or high all the time. Read Frank Lisciandros book called Friend's Gathered Together.
26 was 40 back then.
That was one of my first thoughts until I listened to the whole interview also.
Still as relevant today as he was in 1970. Wise beyond his years.
Agree
agreed
so scary sober maybe thats why he needed addiction and self destruction to cope with all this reallity. Fab guy
Such an intelligent young man...sounded way older than 26 years and ahead of his time!!
Yes im 27 and still a kid. 😢
"The new heroes will be computer experts... people that have an understanding and intellectual awareness and knowledge of how things run." This blew me away. Its a flat out prediction of Gates, Jobs, Bezos, etc. Stunningly insightful guy.
He was such a fascinating, intelligent guy. Its genuinely interesting to listen to him talk. Such a shame he died so young.
He had to leave, he needed to experience the death to grow again, remember he’s not gone….ever.
@@RoxUniverse really where is he then?
@@martinhyizna3299 he would have rejoined the Spirit Pool as pure Energy, will have his life review and then decide to reincarnate either on Earth or another planet if necessary…..
@@RoxUniverse Really? Why have scientists not been able to detect this "pure Energy" when people die?
It's creepy how spot on his words are for today.
In just a few months, Jim will have been dead for 50 years, yet here we are listening to his voice. How many among us will be remembered 50 years after our death? Not many. Jim will be remembered not just 50 years from now, but 150 years from now and almost certainly longer, barring any cosmic destruction of our digital media.
I’m 58 and I read all books I could get my hands on about Jim starting back when I was 19. Always knew Jim was an intelligent person. But that doesn’t sell books or movies.
Dont forget records re analogue :)
That is just crazy gone 50 years. I am 56 and just so fascinated with Jim.
"cosmic destruction of our digital media." No need for cosmic destruction, simply the continuous obsolescence and natural degradation of the media that we record things on is enough to destroy huge amounts of information. Just listen to how muddy the sound was on that interview. Look at any old video from the VHS days and see how blurry it is.
I could listen to interviews like this forever. He hasn’t talked about the Doors much at all. Just very interesting other things.
I can’t believe he was only 26 during this interview. He had such a unique perspective and a wiseness about his approach that takes me off guard.
I am native American, Seneca Iroquois, i think jim was a shaman in a different life. He possesses in his aura alot of shamanism in my opinion i believe he just wanted to be, be in the now, be free to express in his own way. Its a sad thing that one cannot just be.
Jim mentioned before how when his family drove from Florida to Calif when he was young that they passed a bus that had overturned full of natives and that when he looked into the eyes of an old man who was badly injured that his spirit flew into his and became part of him. idk how much truth there is to it but he also said that he saw himself as a shaman when he performed on stage.
There was Seneca people that once lived around my area there is a place called Seneca caverns or smoke hole caverns it got it's name because the native people would smoke there meat there it's in West Virginia
He was a shaman. He still is.
@@regularguys6858 Thanks4telling
I think you are right.
I love hearing Jim talk. Beautiful voice.
If I had a chance to go back in time to meet someone, I would want to meet Jim and have an amazing conversation.
How much of the future is brought up in this interview. Jim was a very intellectual human being. RIP
And the hippies are now shitting on civilization and prescribing a life for you that they'd never live in themselves.
It was inevitable that leftist would destroy the world
This man was no dummy. Very eloquent in his speaking.
Many people don't realize that Jim was a college grad, with a Bachelors in film/theater. He drew upon that alot in his writing, along with his passion for reading poetry. He was definitely not your typical rock guy.....
Rock Star by chance...
+rutazzurra .........and poet, at heart!!!!!!
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No. He and Ray graduated from UCLA.
I have and I just double checked. He DID graduate.
Ive listened to this 100 times. I almost have it 100% memorized
Why have i never heard this before? Totally fascinating listening to Jim Morrison talking, but also extremely sad, simultaneously.
The more I read about, the more I look into, and the more I learn about Jim Morrison, all leads me to one conclusion . . . Morrison was a genius.
He describes the phenomena Face Book and social media more than once..........waking sleep......connectors assembling masses in one spot....He was a visionary no doubt about it.
Jim knew in 1970. WAKE UP WORLD!!!!
If I didn't know that this was an interview for JM , from the 1970's, I would bet that this was recorded in recent years. Very prophetic indeed.
When I tell people Jim Morrison is my hero, they always ask, "Why?" in kind of a snide way. Those people need to listen to this interview.
Professor Polymath
This interview needs to be brought to the Media. So, people can wake up. Some people are brainwashed.
It's a sad reality.
That goddamn movie about the Doors made Jim look like he was just a wild, troublemaking drunk and didn't pay homage to all the wonderful he was.
he spent most of his life high and drunk and drinked himself to an early death and you write, in a *snide* way, why people would question your choice for hero?
And you wonder why people don't trust the media or the cabal known as Hollywood.anylonger. Sarc. Jim Morrison was brilliant, As this interview proves.
If you liked the movie read the book "noone here gets out alive" waaay better then the movie
I really give Tony Thomas a lot of credit for not talking down to Jim as most of the older journalist's did back then, he understood that Jim was very smart and was actually interested in what he had to say!
I realize you made this comment 2 years ago, but I believe he would have found it impossible to patronize or condescend to so powerful and thoughtfully cadent and eloquent an intellect as Jim Morrison. You are exactly right, imo, the interviewer is astute enough to ascertain almost immediately that it would be HE that appeared ignorant and superficial (as you allude there do exist some interviews with Jim where this occurs and yet he remains polite and congenial while disarming the interviewer). Jim had an undeniably overwhelming intellectual presence and charisma when he chose to unleash it or that is to be his actualized self. But also, how many can have appreciated, apprehended his grasp of complex ideas and their trajectory in real time? For example at around 9:19 he is essentially telling us about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. That isnt some mystical power, that is the very essence of genius. He was a friggin genius.
Cause he's Canadian
The CBC archives have a lot of great interviews and appearances from many of the icons of the 60’s and 70’s. Hunter S Thompson’s appearances on the CBC are worth a watch. TH-cam has a lot of their archives available.
@Richard Milliken it's true
YOU NAILED IT! This is the best J Morrison audio interview I've ever heard. The dialogue is both interesting yet entertaining. This a conversation between two THINKING men who were both afraid, yet curious, about the future. LL
"I just lament the fact that so many people are content with living a very quiet, well mannered, orderly life when so many obvious injustices are going on, and they just seem to ignore it somehow or not care at all....just let it happen, without ever becoming involved...I think that's sad."
Amazing how accurate Jim was regarding computers, tribalization, mass media, etc in this interview. Right on point......
I like the interviewer. Thoughtful questions with a real genuineness and lack of superficiality. Great job.
Yeah, he was very open and almost wanting council from Jim on his worries
The interviewer actually has more to say than Jim. He basically sounds tired and ready to die.
When CBC actually had credibility. Not today that's for sure. Our news media has become political theatre.
Jim was way more sophisticated, thoughtful, intelligent and way more sober than most people give him credit for...
I would put it this way: Jim was way more sophisticated, thoughtful and intelligent than most people give him credit for when he was sober.
Right? I was a huge Doors fan in high school. I read numerous books about the group and Jim. The depth and introspection in this interview is wonderful. All the books I read focused on his "dysfunction". This is really lovely to hear.
Highly intelligent, I believe he was painted that way to discredit the truths he would say.
Absolutely.
@@diamonddog13 Thats why Jim John Lennon MJ and many others were disposed off, they were a big influence & threat to those controlling us and the world.
Well spoken man. He thinks of what he's going to say before he says it so he stays on point. His education shows. And he uses no profanity. This interview is a great peer into his heart. Many interesting things to ponder.
Wow, he was already turned onto the fact that machines/technology numb people into oblivion and/or sleeping wake state. He was ahead of his time and in a way a prophet. Thanks for posting! Amazing!
He totally nailed that one. Can you imagine what he’d be thinking at a 2022 Doors’ concert where every single person is worried more another getting the perfect iPhone shot instead of actually taking in the moment.
@@rgfreese seems likely that he like everyone else today would have been transformed along the way by technology as well and therefore would have gone along with it without questioning it one bit.
Yeh, I think you look at someone like Dylan, or Lennon... interviewed. They almost play a role. Never really come across as themselves esp Dylan... Morrison does, wich is weird, because he knew more than most about creating a myth, what's amazing is he could still be this grounded.
@@dr.justinspiehs I highly doubt that. Transformed? Yes. Question if? No, I’d bet that he would have.
@@rgfreese Kind of indicative if a highly reflective and captivated human race? I don’t think that’s anything to be afraid of.
Morrison could see into the future, amazing.
per forza era uno sciamano!
Yes, computers and mechanization is what he said. Spot on.
@@jamiehammond7401 Yea, and no internet yet..
@@jamiehammond7401 more intelligent with each generation? Intellectuals as our heroes? Seems like the opposite
He worked for the ones that create and control future
This is really a priceless interview.
Timeless in many ways as well
It really is
@Mark Levy I was born in Canada, but grew up in the states my entire life, until I lived there a bit as an adult, and still got the main US channels, so I'd compare, ....their media is intellectually miles beyond the US..they explore other subjects than simply the state of the US every single minute..its kind of weird watching every US news show and politician and Trump say the US is the greatest country in the world, when you're in a different one. I wondered what they thought watching those channels or just Canadian coverage of the US.....Id go outside thinking can they tell I'm American? They did when I talked cause I don't have have the Canadian accent..they'd say you're American! And that was it..
I know excerpts and paraphrases from these interviews from years of reading books about the Doors before internet, so wild to get to HEAR them, never imagined this would be possible. I try not to take the greatness of the internet for granted. I heard Pam's voice in another interview on YT earlier, so cool, very little footage of her so it's always been hard to get a feel for how she was.
Respect for Tony here. He furnished a sober and serious dialogue and brought real insight which Jim clearly responded to.
It's amazing to hear him speak about theories that ended up being developed decades later by Strauss and Howe (in their generational theory) as well as Ted Kaczynski on industrialization and computerization. Jim was certainly ahead of his time.
James Morrison is my teacher. I learn every day, listening to Him, a lot of philosophy, poetry and wisdom. Jim was a real thinker.
He’s gone. It’s very sad. I hope he made peace with God through Jesus Christ. He was given tremendous talent and intellect. 💔
@@angeliajanina6017 well, being that he was jacked up on China White heroin thanks to his junkie girlfriend, the only thing he made peace with was a warm bath, a pan to puke in, and a slow opiate fading sleep into oblivion. God only knows, not you.
@@reesezpeasuz1506 it’s true, only God knows, I can only hope the best for him and every other person. It’s a very sad story, and while we may admire his God-given talents, we should not idolize these types of people. I hope he made peace with God because I believe we are able to do so through Jesus, even up until our last breath. God is that merciful and that good.
You should check out the Word of God.
@@reesezpeasuz1506 wtf are you talking about? A fatal overdose of opiates would be quick and painless. Anyone who has done and taken opiates seriously knows this. Stop trying to make things sound so bad. Death did not scare Jim.
At the age of 16, he was already reading Neitzche, Blake, and Rimbaud. His eloquence comes as no surprise to me.
Yeah, the same books all high school students are exposed to🙄🙄
@@Datanditto not anymore I would think?
@@ReadRichardBrautigan what does ‘now’ matter? The point is ALL students back then were exposed to theses characters. Folks make it sound like he was so enlightened seeking great truth and knowledge to spew terrible poetry and mediocre rock lyrics on us little peons.
@@Datanditto Mediocre rock lyrcis? what are some of the lyrcis that you think are not mediocre? What's your definition of mediocre?
@@biezom5042 aaa
His lyrics are great - Im just goofin on the ole buffoon.
Was he not a rock n roll clown?
A visionary
Jim was highly intellectual..
Years ahead of his time! He perceives life through a Sociological perspective. A true genius for at such a young age. Jim was truly one-of-a kind!
They should teach the subject MORRISON in school
Already done. In 1991 I had a course of modern american literature in which he was contemplated.
Where, rutazzurra?
+Daisy Jane Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Italy.
Viva Napoli!
No man has taught me more; and still learning.
"We are the victims of media" :(
So very true. Becomes more true everyday it seems.
"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind." one of his quotes thats only gotten more true to this day
Brilliant and though-provoking interview with a legend.
He has a very calming voice..Very much at 26, way before his time. Super intelligent.
At 26 he’s got to the smartest guy I’ve listened to that had it figured out. People that thought he was just a drunk dumb hippie had no clue. Ask a 26 year old person any of these questions and they would have to google it first.
You can ask me haha
😂😂 So True
I've never thought of Jim Morrison as a "hippie." People seem to think he was some kind of psychedelic Pied Piper on par with, say, Jerry Garcia or Grace Slick. I think he felt that the whole "flower power" bit was wrong headed and superficial. (I don't.) Morrison was in a pretty dark head space a lot of the time as well- the mid '60s acid wave on the West Coast was a supremely optimistic undertaking. Although he did his share of acid and all that I think he felt quite apart from the movement that grew up out of it.
And yeah most 26 year olds nowadays want instantaneous this, instantaneous that. Deep abstract thought is not on the menu for a lot of kids.
I could listen to Jim speak for hours. I just love his calming voice. So relaxing and each word that exits his mouth are so intelligent.
I agree. I feel the same way listening to William s Burroughs.
TheZombiefiedNation I completely agree. I mean, you can close your eyes and imagine yourself in the same room with him.
+TheZombiefiedNation I understand what you're saying, but for me it's just so laborious to listen to him. The way he speaks so slowly and has so many pauses between sentences is a little frustrating.
+Christopher Walker maybe you are an impatient person,.....could this be the case....
TheZombiefiedNation " so intelligent" said the man with a spongebob picture ahha..no offense, you are totally right .
just wanted to make that joke xD
"A new generation every year". A sage observation of what the 1960's were like. Morrison was smart, wise, eloquent and insightful. We were so lucky to have him.
He's very thoughtful in his reponses..pauses, weighing his words...quite deeply introspective and very intelligent. He is soft spoken..very calming to listen to, and was right about many things as far as the future. It's really nice to see this side of Jim Morrison, other than the drunken, crazy side that is usually portrayed in movies or literature.
The stupid Oliver Stone film is a joke JIm is drunk for 2 hours........Oliver is an idiot...
Morrison's words could easily be applied to 2016: student revolt, the rise of technology, and decadent consumer culture.
right haha
faridjabba It's here now in 2018 with the #NeverAgain, March for Our Lives, student-led movement. Remember those lines from "Five to One," They've got the guns, but we got the numbers, gonna win, yeah, we're takin' over!" Jim was right on the money about student-led revolt.
student revolt?
@@kristil.9854 What planet are you from? Twitter is not real, not a revolution. Read some history.
@@LoyalOpposition Well, hello! Interesting moniker you've got there. So, who are you 'loyal' to and what are you in 'opposition' against?
What I really like about this particular interview is that it's almost like you're in the room with him, having a regular, casual conversation. Just judging from this interview, he seemed like a very humble and laid back guy, no pretense or arrogance, especially when you consider how idolized and popular he was/is. Not to mention very intelligent and well spoken.
Zach Haywood I agree with you, I always feel that way when I watch to his interviews
He fulfilled his purpose of existence in a very short time. He pushed the boundaries, he spoke openly what every ordinary man thought, without hesitation. What have we achieved? Think about it
Jim is so right about how our destinies are controlled while others are living a quiet ignorant life.
I needed to hear this today. Thank you for the upload.🙏🏽
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I sent that to say , I happy your still listening to intelligent stuff. No more, no less
Such an erudite and thoughtful man, his insights are still fresh and interesting. If you didn't live during the '60s, it is difficult to appreciate how ahead of his time he was, and still is.
tigerlille wonder if he and brian wilson ever 'conversed' talk about two thriving minds.........
tigerlille Very articulate person. But the dude is 26 and "doesn't know very many young people", how old did he think he was?
malcorub You can feel very old when you are in your mid twenties.
I'm 23, and I look back on my childhood and I think of all the memories, only to realize those times, that innocence is all gone.
More significantly, think of how fast the world was changing for Jim. To look back upon his past, he must have felt a huge rift between his past and current selves.
That's why he may have felt old
degree7 stop with the "over 30" bullshit. Jesus it's right beside the 20s. There's not a HUGE difference people make it out to be
malcorub he's probably referring more to teens. At 26 you don't know many teenagers, and shouldn't be hanging around them anyway. There's a world of difference between 16 and 26, or 19 and 26. Hell there's even a difference between 21 and 26
His spirit saved me from drowning. I could see him in the clouds, I kept hearing horse latitudes, while swimming into shore a mile out in windy 40 some degree weather. I was in my 40's. then.
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damn...that's a cool story. I jumped out of a boat at least a mile from shore drunk, I didn't have Jim with me though.
Beautiful poem you wrote here! I hope you are doing fine 💙
@@elizav3631 Just with the spirits.
@@agustinamansur5665 he’s dead . He’s not fine .
"You have to entertain these concepts, that life could endure without all the struggle."