@@errorsofmodernism7331 They were considered passe by then and after Miami Jim was treated as having become a self _indulgent Joke by the cool music press like Rolling stone.
Ray was the de facto leader of The Doors. Jim was neither stable enough or possessed interrelation abilities for that role. John Densmore, a mere kid when he joined The Doors, initially looked to Jim as a big brother, but gradually came to resent and scorn Jim's behavior. Robby Krieger, also just a kid when he joined The Doors, had an old soul, and Jim deeply respected him, both as a man and an artist. Morrison tried to be on his best behavior around Robby, with varied success.
Clemente Martinez That rules! I a,so like the one of Jim standing in front of some wood doors and one of them has writing on it that says "I think I know the reason but I can't spell it." That kills me. The 60s were an interesting time here in Southern CA.
Yeah! This was a really interesting video. I certainly enjoyed it and I'm glad you presented it to us, [ Doors Fans]. I figured the Morrison Hotel was a real place. Of course it seemed to work just fine for The Doors. Thanx!!!
What a great moment in our culture history, Love Ray's contribution here. Miss him and Jim, I saw Robby in concert last year and his son sang the songs and he did an AWESOME job.
Jim said the Morrison Hotel looks like a place "to start a religion, or commit murder." Jim was a master of extremes. He gave it all he had to the Doors music, and by age 26 was completely burnt out. He wanted to quit, and even told the band that he felt he was going to have a nervous breakdown. But the band talked him into staying on and make more money. Predictably, it only got worse for the burnt out Jim.
San Anto, I feel bad for Jim. He really did give them his all. I cannot imagine the stress and pressure coming from all directions. Who would not have a nervous breakdown or burnt out?!
When I was a teenager, the Doors were my favorite group. Still are. Retired now but my wife works. Sometimes she comes home and asks me...well what did you do all day. I sometimes say that I drank bourbon with a few cigarettes and listened to some doors songs on youtube. Then its "whats for dinner". well it is porterhouse steak on the grill, salad, asparagus, baked potatoes and baked pears with butter and maple syrup. Other than my liver and lungs its all good.
I bought this DVD and it's a great story. This guy had had a fantastic career photographing multitudes of famous rockers. Great video from beginning to end. It was hard to find but worth it.
The second song Peace Frog is the only one on Morrison Hotel. The first and fourth songs are on Strange Days while the third one is off of the debut album...
You can stand in the cover of "Strange Days" in New York City----Go to the southwest corner of 36th St and 3rd Avenue, and walk west up 36th toward Lexington Ave. Before you go 50 steps, look left and you'll see a gated little alley called Sniffen Court, that's it. A famous 1800s sculptor lived there and you can match all its features to the album cover. It was also the home of crazy Prof. Irwin Corey!
If you go to the corner of La Cienega & Melrose in LA, what's now an Italian restaurant was the Doors office. They kept the bathrooms the same. The men's room is the same room where Jim sang 'LA Woman.'
Been there! WALKED all the way from my apt. on W.114 st. just to see it in person. Any money I had would've gone to rent or food, not a cab there. I was new to the city, and didn't know the subways. Besides the journey was half the fun.
What is so poignant to me is Jim's death so young with the reality all our time is short no matter who long we live. They made amazing music and had great times even after Jim died and Ray and when they are all gone and we are too people will still listen to their music, read Jim's words, and see films like this and life will go on.
The music lives on....it's the only thing that lasts.... People are just visitors... buildings backdrops for a set time....only the music will see the next Century
The building that was once The Hard Rock Cafe is still there. Ray got his directions wrong when he thought it was on 5th and Main. It's actually on 5th and Wall, 3 blocks east. The location is now called The Green Apple Market and is a convenience store for the hobos that hang out on Skid Row. There are other websites that also place it at 5th and Wall. The address above the door is 300. 300 E 5th St is the N/E corner of 5th and Wall. I further verified this by finding a picture of The Hard Rock Cafe taken in 1979 with the city street sign visible showing 300 E 5th St. Main St is the divide through Downtown LA of E and W so on one side of 5th and Main is 100 E 5th and on the other is 100 W 5th.
Raymond Daniel Manzarek, conocido artísticamente como Ray Manzarek (Chicago, EE. UU., 12 de febrero de 1939-Rosenheim, Alemania, 20 de mayo de 2013) fue un músico, cantante, productor, director de cine y escritor estadounidense. Fue cofundador y teclista de la banda de rock The Doors entre 1965 y 1973, y en The Doors of the 21th Century (luego Manzarek - Krieger) desde 2001.
Diltz gets a lot of cred in the music circles, but really...the man belongs in the list of the big names in popular culture. His utilization of photography with it's grainy feel and evenly distribution of color added such a great look to some of the best American music.
Great stuff i used to be in a band that did the doors i did an act the riecarnation of Jim Morrison and trust me on this i was a pretty twisted fella like him even my looks my friends named me Bill Morrison the junk yard rock n roll star
I never knew the Morrison Hotel was located off Hope and Pico in Downtown Los Angeles. I drove by there many times, on my way to Pershing Square park or the Staples Center.
Morrison Hotel / Hard Rock Cafe CD by The Doors is in my collection and it happens to be on my 5 CD changer that is full of only The Doors CDs. The Doors and Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, is all I hear. A teacher once said that I looked like a lizard back in 1971. Maybe I caught Jim's spirit that year '71.
Think about it from the Morrison family perspective. “Has anyone heard from Jim lately?” I think it’s bullshit that he never spoke to his family. There is no way he never called his dad and said, “Hey dad, did you see me on the Ed Sullivan show. Can I get I get $ 50 bucks from ya for rent… just kidding, but seriously, I just paid off your Mortgage.” Every son wants their fathers approval. If it’s true, that he disowned them, then it’s evidence that he was a true narcissist and sociopath.
I think Henry Ditlz may be mistaken on the location of the Hard Rock Cafe. From my understanding the building still exists and is now the Green Apple Market.
Some of the greatest writers and poets in history were depressed if not suicidal, and some of them felt that you needed to be living on the skids, in order to experience true sorrow. Morrison knew this, and his actions in so many areas of his life made that clear. Most likely, he felt that too much fame and success, could suppress his creativity. Clearly, being remembered as a poet, was more important to him, than being remembered as a rock star.
D35611 I've never understood wanting to be remembered anyway, as we won't be here to remember it. It's more an ego thing when we are alive. I've heard it said Jim subscribed to the theory that the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, while in reality it often leads to an early death, or to mental health issues. I like the music of the Doors and Jim had a cool image, but now that I'm a little bit older I can see in general that he was a person without much peace of mind
@MaGuffintop I think it's a local person who use to drink at the dtla original HARD ROCK CAFE... imma be back in LA soon... I'm planning on investigating alot more unknown haunted places including alot of the projects in south central LA, I have some good orb footage on my TH-cam page if you care to check it out....
Para mi.los mejores. Sus rocks sobre todo los lentos con sabores a jazz y blues con una excelencia única de cada uno de ellos más la desgarradora voz de Morrison son irrepetibles. .El sonido tipo bajo tenue que le daba MANZAREK con el teclado fue también único..ÚNICO GRUPO DE PRESTIGIO MUNDIAL QUE NO NECESITO BAJISTA. .UNOS GENIOS..DESDE ELLOS PARA MI TODO LO QUE SON O DESPUÉS ME REPRESENTABA CÓMO ENVASADO Y MUY ENMARCADO. POR ESO PARA MI LEJOS LOS MEJORES. ....
Ojalá alguien sepa leer mi español. .y.lo que digo.lamentó no saber inglés dado que todas las opiniones están en esa lengua..Saludo grande desde Argentina .DOORS.... GENIOS INOLVIDABLES!
I remember driving by the old Morrison Hotel in downtown LA during the 70s when I was in college. It was still there then and I believe it was there during the 80s. In 2011 I moved to Portland, OR and another Morrison Hotel on Morrison Street just East of the Morrison Bridge. As an Uber Driver, I drove up and down Morrison Street a lot in 2015 and kept seeing that window, which looked very similar to the one on the album cover. A few months later, the building changed and the Morrison Hotel was no longer there.
shows you the lack of ego and self importance Manzarek had. he spotted the Morrison Hotel without preconceived notions and said it'll be our album cover. Ray was a one off and dare I say the bonafide intellectual of the band.
I had no idea Morrison hotel was a real place o thought they made it up. My names Jack so if I make an album I’m going to stand in front of a Jack in the Box
Every day i see something new about the Doors on youtube,thanks!!!! Thinking that Jim could still be alive today...immagine how many more great songs; if it weren't for those damm florida cops!!! then remorsefully they pardoned him...5O years later; too fucking late, assholes,he's gone away....from his homeland....tired of waiting for the sun,he broke on through to the other side,and went to paris ,and that's the end.
In my lifetime I can’t think of anyone who loved his band more than Ray Manzarek.
Ray loved the band, the music and the guys that he called his brothers with every fiber of his body!
I would add Paul McCartney
@@jurepotokar9068 Yeah, because of McCartney we have Sgt Peppers, White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be. He was the main driving force.
It wasn't easy being Jim all the time. Dude was legend back then.
Still.....legend!
Actually the Doors were not that popular in 1970. They were more of a fringe band. There is a lot of revisionist history.
@@errorsofmodernism7331 It's untrue.
@@errorsofmodernism7331 the Doors have always been HUGE especially in Los Angeles
@@errorsofmodernism7331 They were considered passe by then and after Miami Jim was treated as having become a self _indulgent Joke by the cool music press like Rolling stone.
RIP Morrison Hotel 😢
After multiple listenings I have to say "Morrison Hotel" is their overall best and definitely one of the best records of 1970...no duds on it.
billybob hoskins oo no! That’s truly a beautiful song...very well done
Peace Frog
@@carolynfreiwald708 great,I also love ship of fools....the lyrics.
And land ho is fantastic
@@jamesmack3314 and The Spy and Maggie M`Gill and of course Roadhouse blues.
Ship of Fools. The GOP
Very cool video... love these fascinating Doors stories, Ray is an amazingly good narrator!
Fair to say Manzarek was the adhesive that kept the band focused and motivated.
Ray was the de facto leader of The Doors.
Jim was neither stable enough or possessed interrelation abilities for that role.
John Densmore, a mere kid when he joined The Doors, initially looked to Jim
as a big brother, but gradually came to resent and scorn Jim's behavior.
Robby Krieger, also just a kid when he joined The Doors, had an old soul,
and Jim deeply respected him, both as a man and an artist.
Morrison tried to be on his best behavior around Robby,
with varied success.
Not fair to Morrison.
yes
@@HelloooThere Jim deliberately fucked things up for years until he tried to kill the band by killing himself. Not fair to the other three! Or to Pam.
@@stratowhore9051 I read somewhere that Pam administered smack for Jim in the bathtub. Might not be true.
Hands down -One of the best albums ever!
The beats and riffs on this album are just killer!
Thankyou Henry for all the great photos!!! Us who love The Doors are very lucky to have these great memories💙📷📽
Classic and original cover that has a certain feeling of being somewhere real and strange... which was exactly what it is
Such a cool band! The Doors will always be my favorite band.
I love every Doors album
I love that innersleve picture of The Doors hanging out at the bar!
Clemente Martinez- Me too!!
Clemente Martinez That rules! I a,so like the one of Jim standing in front of some wood doors and one of them has writing on it that says "I think I know the reason but I can't spell it." That kills me. The 60s were an interesting time here in Southern CA.
I dig it so much, its on my wall. Greets me everyday I come home-
Great BIO; Loved The Doors from day one!
I'm an LA native of 64 years old and I live in one of those Weird Neighborhoods 😁
What a great video. What a great band. Love you Jim
It really feels like he never went away, God Bless You Jim.
" We would drink and smoke pot "
Hope this video stays here until the end, peace.
I bought this documentary. It’s one of the best rock documentaries I have ever seen. Creatively produced.
CHOCLODITE LENSMAN where can I buy it
Ya where?
This is so cool! I love hearing about the shooting of famous album covers, and this video was amazing.
Fantastic tunes!
Yeah!
This was a really interesting video.
I certainly enjoyed it and I'm glad you presented it to us,
[ Doors Fans].
I figured the Morrison Hotel was
a real place.
Of course it seemed to work just fine for The Doors.
Thanx!!!
Me too !
Awesome album with an Awesome album cover.
What a great moment in our culture history, Love Ray's contribution here. Miss him and Jim, I saw Robby in concert last year and his son sang the songs and he did an AWESOME job.
+Dick Pangallo
Robbie shreds. Saw him in New York.
My favourite Doors album!
This is awesome, thank you for sharing.
I love this. Thank you.
Jim said the Morrison Hotel looks like a place "to start a religion, or commit murder." Jim was a master of extremes. He gave it all he had to the Doors music, and by age 26 was completely burnt out. He wanted to quit, and even told the band that he felt he was going to have a nervous breakdown. But the band talked him into staying on and make more money. Predictably, it only got worse for the burnt out Jim.
"A place to plan a murder"
🥺
San Anto, I feel bad for Jim. He really did give them his all. I cannot imagine the stress and pressure coming from all directions. Who would not have a nervous breakdown or burnt out?!
Don't forget he was facing possible jail time.
Oh wow! This is so cool. Thank you for sharing.
Used to walk past Morrison Hotel every week to get to church on Broadway and Olympic!!
When I was a teenager, the Doors were my favorite group. Still are. Retired now but my wife works. Sometimes she comes home and asks me...well what did you do all day. I sometimes say that I drank bourbon with a few cigarettes and listened to some doors songs on youtube. Then its "whats for dinner". well it is porterhouse steak on the grill, salad, asparagus, baked potatoes and baked pears with butter and maple syrup. Other than my liver and lungs its all good.
Michael Jensen this is the cutest comment ever.
Oh yeah nice, VERY NICE!!!
CHEERS!!!
God bless!!!
Ok boomer
@@PurifiedSmith Aw. You learned a new word!
Congratulations generation Tide Pod !
I bought this DVD and it's a great story. This guy had had a fantastic career photographing multitudes of famous rockers. Great video from beginning to end. It was hard to find but worth it.
What DVD is this?
The guy with the bike looks amazed to be getting such a history lesson. Talk about being a fly on the wall. Awesome
Great album. Back to rock and roll basics.
That’s when we had real music and real people
D U D E, you photographed Morrison Hotel?
Legend
Sad Girl Clique legend
Great album, Great group!
Love the ". Doors. "
Very interesting. Seems like ive seen this clip before here or on TV. Wow now i want to see this entire DVD. Thanks for uploading.
Such a shame that in history is not preserved in the us, everything is torn down to replace with some modern building
The second song Peace Frog is the only one on Morrison Hotel. The first and fourth songs are on Strange Days while the third one is off of the debut album...
Ray it’s « OLDER » beautiful Man, greatest than yesterday🤷♀️🎶
You can stand in the cover of "Strange Days" in New York City----Go to the southwest corner of 36th St and 3rd Avenue, and walk west up 36th toward Lexington Ave. Before you go 50 steps, look left and you'll see a gated little alley called Sniffen Court, that's it. A famous 1800s sculptor lived there and you can match all its features to the album cover. It was also the home of crazy Prof. Irwin Corey!
irwin corey loved castro
Thanks, will do!!
If you go to the corner of La Cienega & Melrose in LA, what's now an Italian restaurant was the Doors office. They kept the bathrooms the same. The men's room is the same room where Jim sang 'LA Woman.'
Thanks for that information! I always ask me where were that place. Since i was 10 and my brother brougth that lp for me. 1968. Thanks 37Dionysos
Been there! WALKED all the way from my apt. on W.114 st. just to see it in person.
Any money I had would've gone to rent or food, not a cab there. I was new to the city, and didn't know the subways. Besides the journey was half the fun.
What is so poignant to me is Jim's death so young with the reality all our time is short no matter who long we live. They made amazing music and had great times even after Jim died and Ray and when they are all gone and we are too people will still listen to their music, read Jim's words, and see films like this and life will go on.
The music lives on....it's the only thing that lasts....
People are just visitors... buildings backdrops for a set time....only the music will see the next Century
The doors were a cool rock and roll bands of all time
The building that was once The Hard Rock Cafe is still there. Ray got his directions wrong when he thought it was on 5th and Main. It's actually on 5th and Wall, 3 blocks east. The location is now called The Green Apple Market and is a convenience store for the hobos that hang out on Skid Row. There are other websites that also place it at 5th and Wall. The address above the door is 300. 300 E 5th St is the N/E corner of 5th and Wall. I further verified this by finding a picture of The Hard Rock Cafe taken in 1979 with the city street sign visible showing 300 E 5th St. Main St is the divide through Downtown LA of E and W so on one side of 5th and Main is 100 E 5th and on the other is 100 W 5th.
"This is the kind of place where you can start a religion...Or plan a murder."
- Ray Manzarek quotes Jim Morrison -
Omg, I love you so much! ☺️❤️️
Awesome...great vid!!!!!!
Thank you. Just when I thought I had seen everything there is more!
amazing story thanx 4 the upload!
When ray is explaining driving round weird hoods he means getting the stash for the crew
Legendary.
Love it
Raymond Daniel Manzarek, conocido artísticamente como Ray Manzarek (Chicago, EE. UU., 12 de febrero de 1939-Rosenheim, Alemania, 20 de mayo de 2013) fue un músico, cantante, productor, director de cine y escritor estadounidense. Fue cofundador y teclista de la banda de rock The Doors entre 1965 y 1973, y en The Doors of the 21th Century (luego Manzarek - Krieger) desde 2001.
Diltz gets a lot of cred in the music circles, but really...the man belongs in the list of the big names in popular culture. His utilization of photography with it's grainy feel and evenly distribution of color added such a great look to some of the best American music.
I been there, it feels amazing just being standing where Jimbo once was
Great stuff i used to be in a band that did the doors i did an act the riecarnation of Jim Morrison and trust me on this i was a pretty twisted fella like him even my looks my friends named me Bill Morrison the junk yard rock n roll star
This is beautiful
Thankyou that was fantastic x
Grazie per queste immagini! :) Love
The greatest US band. No Barbies or surfin’ Kens. Real art.
Brilliant
I'm wondering if the Hard Rock Cafe franchise became successful because of its appearance on the back of Morrison Hotel.
The Morrison Hotel burned down in 2024. 💔⚘️
4:59 Jim has his bottle hidden in a paper bag because he doesn't want anyone to know that he's actually drinking chocolate Yoo-Hoo.
This is a great documentary.
I never knew the Morrison Hotel was located off Hope and Pico in Downtown Los Angeles. I drove by there many times, on my way to Pershing Square park or the Staples Center.
Ray was an adorable narrator.
Strange Days, Alabama Song, & When the Music's Over weren't on that album.
Interesting very cool
Saw on the local news here in L.A. yesterday that this place has been restored, showing hundreds of fans in line to check it out...
Morrison Hotel / Hard Rock Cafe CD by The Doors is in my collection and it happens to be on my 5 CD changer that is full of only The Doors CDs. The Doors and Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, is all I hear. A teacher once said that I looked like a lizard back in 1971. Maybe I caught Jim's spirit that year '71.
Get a fooking grip man..
awesome video!!!!!!!!!!!
What a great video.
Think about it from the Morrison family perspective. “Has anyone heard from Jim lately?” I think it’s bullshit that he never spoke to his family. There is no way he never called his dad and said, “Hey dad, did you see me on the Ed Sullivan show. Can I get I get $ 50 bucks from ya for rent… just kidding, but seriously, I just paid off your Mortgage.” Every son wants their fathers approval. If it’s true, that he disowned them, then it’s evidence that he was a true narcissist and sociopath.
I think Henry Ditlz may be mistaken on the location of the Hard Rock Cafe. From my understanding the building still exists and is now the Green Apple Market.
I also heard it's still standing and repurposed.
Correct the landlord is the same since 1980 & it has never been demolished. They were across the street and were mistaken in this video 😊
There would be no Hard Rock Cafe's around today ... without the Doors
Jim Morrison looks depressed in lots of the photos
Some of the greatest writers and poets in history were depressed if not suicidal, and some of them felt that you needed to be living on the skids, in order to experience true sorrow. Morrison knew this, and his actions in so many areas of his life made that clear. Most likely, he felt that too much fame and success, could suppress his creativity. Clearly, being remembered as a poet, was more important to him, than being remembered as a rock star.
D35611 I've never understood wanting to be remembered anyway, as we won't be here to remember it. It's more an ego thing when we are alive. I've heard it said Jim subscribed to the theory that the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, while in reality it often leads to an early death, or to mental health issues. I like the music of the Doors and Jim had a cool image, but now that I'm a little bit older I can see in general that he was a person without much peace of mind
I think the whole thing with Miami was lingering over his head around this time....that could be it.
I THINK HE WAS DEPRESSED BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A DRINK IN HIS HAND.
Is not depression is depth
2:45 look how that oldtimer is looking at Jim hahah
New sub awesome🔥🔥
03:18 behind Jim is a ghostly face..... 👻👻😲
@MaGuffintop we seem to be the only ones....
@MaGuffintop no one else has ever Mentioned it.
@MaGuffintop I think it's a local person who use to drink at the dtla original HARD ROCK CAFE... imma be back in LA soon... I'm planning on investigating alot more unknown haunted places including alot of the projects in south central LA, I have some good orb footage on my TH-cam page if you care to check it out....
That look at 5:46. You see that quite a bit wtih Morrison. What *is* that? What was he looking at or for?
Para mi.los mejores.
Sus rocks sobre todo los lentos con sabores a jazz y blues con una excelencia única de cada uno de ellos más la desgarradora voz de Morrison son irrepetibles. .El sonido tipo bajo tenue que le daba MANZAREK con el teclado fue también único..ÚNICO GRUPO DE PRESTIGIO MUNDIAL QUE NO NECESITO BAJISTA. .UNOS GENIOS..DESDE ELLOS PARA MI TODO LO QUE SON O DESPUÉS ME REPRESENTABA CÓMO ENVASADO Y MUY ENMARCADO. POR ESO PARA MI LEJOS LOS MEJORES. ....
Ojalá alguien sepa leer mi español. .y.lo que digo.lamentó no saber inglés dado que todas las opiniones están en esa lengua..Saludo grande desde Argentina .DOORS.... GENIOS INOLVIDABLES!
Dude!!! I was fucking wondering who did Morrison Hotel! Great photos, bad ass
0.24 Morrison Hotel is thrown over Steppenwolfs debut album. Two all time greatest albums.
I remember driving by the old Morrison Hotel in downtown LA during the 70s when I was in college. It was still there then and I believe it was there during the 80s.
In 2011 I moved to Portland, OR and another Morrison Hotel on Morrison Street just East of the Morrison Bridge. As an Uber Driver, I drove up and down Morrison Street a lot in 2015 and kept seeing that window, which looked very similar to the one on the album cover. A few months later, the building changed and the Morrison Hotel was no longer there.
I don't think 4 musicians could look cooler in pose than on Morrison Hotel.
shows you the lack of ego and self importance Manzarek had. he spotted the Morrison Hotel without preconceived notions and said it'll be our album cover. Ray was a one off and dare I say the bonafide intellectual of the band.
Rooms $2.50. So this was about 50 years ago. A room today let’s say $100. A room in 50 years.....$4000 if rate of inflation is similar. Whoa!
Jim Morrison was a Savage ☮️✌️❤️
Love it xoxo 💋
" Right place' Right Time' in History"
2:27 jim is alive!
Side one was the hard rock cafe and side two was Morrison hotel Ray Get your facts right.
I had no idea Morrison hotel was a real place o thought they made it up. My names Jack so if I make an album I’m going to stand in front of a Jack in the Box
A place where you could start a religion or plan a murder. That’s deep!
Every day i see something new about the Doors on youtube,thanks!!!!
Thinking that Jim could still be alive today...immagine how many more great songs; if it weren't for those damm florida cops!!! then remorsefully they pardoned him...5O years later; too fucking late, assholes,he's gone away....from his homeland....tired of waiting for the sun,he broke on through to the other side,and went to paris ,and that's the end.
My older brother had this documentary about 24-25 years ago
Jim, probably then replied...as long as they serve Jack..
Was Jim ever happy?
No.
No he was a spook.....