This gives me a greater sense of who Jim was than anything else I've seen or heard. The occasional rudeness of the interviewer--insulting comments and annoying questions--and Jim's ability to shrug it off or deflect it with a humorous response was especially interesting. I'd had the impression Jim went somewhat crazy and drank too much and became violent and rude himself at times. It seems his fame and music attracted so much unpleasant attention that he ultimately struck back and became rather harsh himself. Famous, popular artists and entertainers have a rough life; everyone taking shots at them. It's particularly tough for young people who don't have a perspective that allows them to cope with it constructively. It's nice to see this friendly, open side of Jim's personality. Makes me want to listen to my Doors albums again.
Me too! I had never noticed the similarity between those songs. So many songs use similar chord progressions--especially in "popular" music--that I think some of these accusations are wrong. In this case, I think these songs are sufficiently different that calling one of them a ripoff is a mistake. They're both good songs. I suspect "Hello I Love You" came into the minds of the musicians without any thought of "You Really Got Me."
Jim was a very compassioned person. He really was a good reader of people. Thats why he could handle these people but ultimately it was what would bring him down too. Because he feel too much, he felt everyones energy. He was an emphath who could not figure out how to exist in this world
Morrison was so on about how they were hated at the time but eventually that would change and people would revere them as time went on and realized that you cant really have better songs or be more memorable than the Doors. That's pretty brilliant
I like Jim a lot. Sure he was a hard guy to figure out but he was ultimately a polite, kind guy who let the drink take him. He wasn't entirely to blame, and he's forever a legend. I regard him as highly as all my Greek legends. Times have changed, for the worse I fear.
if you have ever read about this interview it started off at the doors office and then moved on to a number of jim's favorite bars. so if you listen to the progression of this interview you can almost hear the alcohol working through jimbo's veins.
Regardless of the so-called turmoil of those decades...it was a kinder,gentler time compared to the rude America we live in now.I stand by that,I do. And we had Jim Morrison.
I was never around Morrison so I can't say what he was like normally in private, but in every interview I've listened to with him, he seems like a cool laid back guy with nice manners and good conversation. The Oliver Stone flick made him look like a complete out of control prick. A guy you wouldn't want to be around for five minutes.
if you read the description it says This is more of a conversation with a friend than a interview. i think its healthy and good for friends to be able to be honest and criticize each other in a productive or just in an opinion way. id rather a friend tell me what they dont like about something than to just tell me how wonderful i am.
If this interviewer did not recognise that " Hello, I Love You " was a Doors song after the first bar ... He knew nothing about music, instrumentation...SOUNDS!... At 4:20 by the way. Jim is very mellow considering the insult the guy provided the Doors in his preamble to the question.
Jim was right about "Hello I Love You", those are great lyrics! Yes, it's a poppy arrangement, it's the hook in the album to draw you into the void! That song was on the original demo.
I wonder if many Doors fans realize that a rapper TechN9ne was majorly influenced by the band and has even done a song on his newest album with the remaining band members, or all of them in spirit if you dig...
i like the spoken word "Hello, I love you..." by Jim as he is kind of defending himself against the interviewer's accusation of commercialization by the Doors...and then admitting how he's stopped writing BUT that he'll get back to it in the future, but sadly, there wasn't going to be one for him...
@markjlombardo This is one of the best interviews I've heard. Why? The interviewer, for the most part, kept his mouth shut and let Jim say what he wanted to say.
In a way he thrived on the storm he created until it engulfed him. He really was a shooting star not meant for a long life or to grow old. Also unfortunately, his GF was a heroin addict who I feel was duplicit in his demise. She joined the 27 Club 3 years later & was said she died of guilt. 😪
@@betaboog not necessarily, but a criminal would be the liar showing their tell. It could also be showing you're annoyed or tired or interested or thoughtful....
hello i love you...is one of my favorites. idk what the interviewer is getting at. alot of their great songs...i thought the same thing on the first listen...which was..didnt expect that from the doors. not in a negative way tho. whiskey bar? totally saw that one coming. not. but i love it
@McFirefly2 ooh!! okay!:) I was wondering because I'm reading Jim Morrisson's biography!:) The bestselling one!:P And this may sound weird but I REALLY admire your way of thinking because it sounds really intellectual!!:)
Damn good interviewer. And yes, I am a fan of Morrison. I bet most people here villifying Howard Smith would make lousy interviewers and write boring articles.
Dude wrote on six albums. Wrote several poetry books and made movies. I doubt all he did was drink and do drugs. Not saying that he didnt do those things. But he was very productive
The eroding middle class comment that Jim Morrison made blows me away...the man was into the future...so forty years later..look at what we have....it is all by design..it did not just happen.I am of the opinion that Jim Morrison knew about The Bilderberg Group ions before Estulin's research.New Yorkers and other job seekers are bound to be competitive...and I daresay it will get worse.
@kippb1982 havent known, but funny that in the beginning of it , I heard him stopping to answer because he was drinking something...firt thing I thought.......middle of the day, jim is drinking beer^^
joe123090 actually yes Joel. Bipolar: or back then referred to as manic depression is also an inherited trait.. My Mom passed away or I never would’ve went searching. I’m adopted, I did my DNA, I’m a match I’m also bipolar, had an alcohol problem very poetic, if you saw me when I wasn’t overweight like now, or maybe I resemble him more now, idk but I was a product from his College days. Sometimes I’ve got so many projects going at once the. I get completely bored out of my mind. ( it drives my family nuts ) Jim was an extremely smart man.. I’m about ready to call Ms Patricia Kennealy out! I’m sick how she just added Jim’s name to sell books cause she couldn’t cut it!! The bitch actually set up a gofundme Page! Listening to him just makes me cry. According to my biological mom he never knew about me..
@markjlombardo yea for real how can he hate on hell i love you i dont see what the interviewer is complaining about i like all the doors albums their aint a bad one out there
As tough as the Irish are...we are "open" and self destructive as a race.Come to Dublin or any locale in Eire and you will see normal,everyday lads and ladies "falling down drunk"...it is sad to see.Lizards such as this guy get off on Jim's vulnerability.I am just a huge fan and lived in Southern California when I was young and "The Doors" were.
Morrison reminds of John Hogue. I do not like listening to Morrison and Hogue too often because they have brilliant ideas and talk , but no solutions. Fate and God, had a different plan for Jim Morrison. I'd like to believe he would have used his money to help the poor people like the Grateful Dead did.
Man, what a dumb interview! Listen to that last LP they did! That was deep and rockin'! They didn't go POP! They were creating a combo of Jazz, Rock n Roll and Blues. They experimented...
Love Jim's voice he could read the phone book and make it interesting.
Nah he couldn’t
This gives me a greater sense of who Jim was than anything else I've seen or heard. The occasional rudeness of the interviewer--insulting comments and annoying questions--and Jim's ability to shrug it off or deflect it with a humorous response was especially interesting. I'd had the impression Jim went somewhat crazy and drank too much and became violent and rude himself at times. It seems his fame and music attracted so much unpleasant attention that he ultimately struck back and became rather harsh himself. Famous, popular artists and entertainers have a rough life; everyone taking shots at them. It's particularly tough for young people who don't have a perspective that allows them to cope with it constructively. It's nice to see this friendly, open side of Jim's personality. Makes me want to listen to my Doors albums again.
i like your comments and i agree 100 percent. :) Jim seems very reflective and patient in his comments. Good stuff.
Me too! I had never noticed the similarity between those songs. So many songs use similar chord progressions--especially in "popular" music--that I think some of these accusations are wrong. In this case, I think these songs are sufficiently different that calling one of them a ripoff is a mistake. They're both good songs. I suspect "Hello I Love You" came into the minds of the musicians without any thought of "You Really Got Me."
Jim was a very compassioned person. He really was a good reader of people. Thats why he could handle these people but ultimately it was what would bring him down too. Because he feel too much, he felt everyones energy. He was an emphath who could not figure out how to exist in this world
I love how Jim pauses and thinks before he answers most of the questions.
Morrison was so on about how they were hated at the time but eventually that would change and people would revere them as time went on and realized that you cant really have better songs or be more memorable than the Doors. That's pretty brilliant
Wasn't it though? Jim the Gentleman. The Intellectual.
"Life got so interesting, I didn't need (to read) anymore". That is a fascinating statement. He packed a lot of life in 27 years and burned out early.
Jim takes criticism so great, spins right back around and shoves it down your throat with elegance in his voice.
the DOORS are the greatest band of all time! I've listened to them for over. 45 yrs. They seem to get better every decade.
Robert Messner
Ti's tru
GOD GIVE US BACK JIM MORRISON IN RETURN WILL GIVE U LADY GAGA !!!!!!!
its strange that he predicted in the years to come that society would love and embrace the Doors: 43 years later and counting.
i could listen to this everyday and not get sick of it one bit ! .. there is something about the way he is talking ... it makes me happy :)
Morrison sounds genuinely positive and carefree.
@4:28 "Yep we're just full of surprises Howard". What a perfect response to the interviewers question/statement.
I like Jim a lot. Sure he was a hard guy to figure out but he was ultimately a polite, kind guy who let the drink take him. He wasn't entirely to blame, and he's forever a legend. I regard him as highly as all my Greek legends. Times have changed, for the worse I fear.
We desperately need Jim back.....
if you have ever read about this interview it started off at the doors office and then moved on to a number of jim's favorite bars. so if you listen to the progression of this interview you can almost hear the alcohol working through jimbo's veins.
Jim...is art!
Morrison: actually thought before he spoke.
Just when he thought he knew the answer, Jim changed the question.
Regardless of the so-called turmoil of those decades...it was a kinder,gentler time
compared to the rude America we live in now.I stand by that,I do.
And we had Jim Morrison.
hey at least Howard lets the man speak
yes.Ben Fong Torres from Rolling Stone Mag was so rude to Jim...this is a much better interview.
I wish Jim had gotten the chance to direct films.
I want to try Kathy's coffee
I was never around Morrison so I can't say what he was like normally in private, but in every interview I've listened to with him, he seems like a cool laid back guy with nice manners and good conversation. The Oliver Stone flick made him look like a complete out of control prick. A guy you wouldn't want to be around for five minutes.
Belated thanks for this. It means much to me.
if you read the description it says This is more of a conversation with a friend than a interview. i think its healthy and good for friends to be able to be honest and criticize each other in a productive or just in an opinion way. id rather a friend tell me what they dont like about something than to just tell me how wonderful i am.
If this interviewer did not recognise that " Hello, I Love You " was a Doors song after the first bar ... He knew nothing about music, instrumentation...SOUNDS!... At 4:20 by the way. Jim is very mellow considering the insult the guy provided the Doors in his preamble to the question.
@markjlombardo yea wtf is this guy talking about "Hello, I love you" is 100% the doors and 100% jim morrison. im surprise this interview continued.
Jim was right about "Hello I Love You", those are great lyrics! Yes, it's a poppy arrangement, it's the hook in the album to draw you into the void! That song was on the original demo.
I would give you more than a big kiss if I was sitting there. to you Jim Morrison.
Jim has this masterful way of controlling that horrible interviewer and the guy doesn't even know it. Brilliant.
everyone has a little jim in them....
jim was gorgeous and a very bright guy
This journalist is a bitter, sad cat...Morrison is wise beyond his years here....
Brilliant!
JM, poet, artist...roman candle; how many stars have faded in the night sky long before we realized they were even there?
Hello i love u ..was a genuine version of what the beatles style blends... commercial w deep lyrics
I wonder if many Doors fans realize that a rapper TechN9ne was majorly influenced by the band and has even done a song on his newest album with the remaining band members, or all of them in spirit if you dig...
i like the interviewer and i wish we had more interviews like this but these days artists are not respected. its sad...
“Jim Morrison, the god of rock....And c...!”
great interview
Morrison seems to be totally honest...no more than that..I daresay.
i think jim was very comfortable here.
i like the spoken word "Hello, I love you..." by Jim as he is kind of defending himself against the interviewer's accusation of commercialization by the Doors...and then admitting how he's stopped writing BUT that he'll get back to it in the future, but sadly, there wasn't going to be one for him...
jim didnt bail he wasnt a runner he was silenced dude
This interviewer should have been interviewing Bob Dylan about why he stopped writing inciteful poetry and started making singles, ie, Lay Lady Lay.
@markjlombardo This is one of the best interviews I've heard. Why? The interviewer, for the most part, kept his mouth shut and let Jim say what he wanted to say.
The interviewer was a hipster square.
you are awesome Jim Morrison of the doors. Someone's always got a b**** about something.
Fr tho
8:28 interestingly that sounds very a lot like a movie that came out much after this interview called The Hitcher
Jim Morrison ...I have been a big fan since Whisky A-Go-Go 1966......Who is/was this Howard guy?
Pretty sure it's Danny Thomas' son and Marlo Thomas' brother.
Morrison sounds bored/exasperated with the interviewer.
In fact they were friends just hanging out in a conversation.
He sounded pretty annoyed with Howard’s question when he asked for the coffee lol
In a way he thrived on the storm he created until it engulfed him. He really was a shooting star not meant for a long life or to grow old. Also unfortunately, his GF was a heroin addict who I feel was duplicit in his demise. She joined the 27 Club 3 years later & was said she died of guilt. 😪
The Doors later stuff was a little more comercial sounding but it was still great lyrically and musically.
Jim wasn't pretentious, just the opposite. Maybe a little but sometimes, but serious isn't pretentious.
does anybody else think the other guy sounds like allen harper from two and a half men
At 1:18 Jim NAILS it. It all came true.
The interviewer is actually very good. He's pushing Jim.
Jim has a tell: a deep inhale and exhale
he was only 27
whats a tell
@@betaboog A tell is when someone gives themselves away. The FBI would say a tell is when you do something that shows your lie.
@@DioneCampbell so he's lying when he inhale exhales?
@@betaboog not necessarily, but a criminal would be the liar showing their tell. It could also be showing you're annoyed or tired or interested or thoughtful....
I Think your Right.
Aw thanks :)
yea hello is pretty different pretty poppy for doors musically but lyrics are pure jim
hello i love you...is one of my favorites. idk what the interviewer is getting at. alot of their great songs...i thought the same thing on the first listen...which was..didnt expect that from the doors. not in a negative way tho. whiskey bar? totally saw that one coming. not. but i love it
He didn't pass away! He bailed from a prison sentence!'
I would hope!! We need a time machine to go back to the 60s to see Jim and the Doors all alive and performing that would be epic!!
HWY was and is a beautiful film.
@McFirefly2 ooh!! okay!:) I was wondering because I'm reading Jim Morrisson's biography!:) The bestselling one!:P And this may sound weird but I REALLY admire your way of thinking because it sounds really intellectual!!:)
Interesting where he references the film and the story of it...
Symbolic you might say...
Jim Morrison and nick drake look a lot like each other
Damn good interviewer. And yes, I am a fan of Morrison. I bet most people here villifying Howard Smith would make lousy interviewers and write boring articles.
It seems the Doors based their early style from the first album by The Seeds
Dude wrote on six albums. Wrote several poetry books and made movies. I doubt all he did was drink and do drugs. Not saying that he didnt do those things. But he was very productive
How does that pic of him in the car have a reflection of himself from the future?
i seen that 2
Drugs.......Suck....
hes the most ellusive character!!!
The eroding middle class comment that Jim Morrison made blows me away...the man was into the future...so forty years later..look at what we have....it is all by design..it did not just happen.I am of the opinion that Jim Morrison knew about The Bilderberg Group
ions before Estulin's research.New Yorkers and other job seekers are bound to be competitive...and I daresay it will get worse.
Are you completely colorblind or do you only think in black and whites?
:)
riders on the storm
@markjlombardo is that so?? i think he sounds pretty sincere
@kitasenju2 He passed away in the early 1970's
@markjlombardo i like the way Jim handled it also! fucking journalists!
It seems like hardly any one realised Howard and Jim wer friends having a general conversation for the recording.
I'm not sure but i think that this is the tone he takes to fool people rather he's serious or being sarcastic. That confusing tone.
@kippb1982
havent known, but funny that in the beginning of it
, I heard him stopping to answer because he was drinking something...firt thing I thought.......middle of the day, jim is drinking beer^^
I think Jim watched Easy Rider too many times 🏍
at 3:03
Jim Morrison isn’t dead god wanted music lessons
what is wrong with this interveiwer..like he's bored orput off or came in with an attitude...
6:13 "cycles of non productiveness and periods of intense creativity" im no psychiatrist but doesnt that sound some what like bipolar disorder
joe123090 actually yes Joel. Bipolar: or back then referred to as manic depression is also an inherited trait.. My Mom passed away or I never would’ve went searching. I’m adopted, I did my DNA, I’m a match I’m also bipolar, had an alcohol problem very poetic, if you saw me when I wasn’t overweight like now, or maybe I resemble him more now, idk but I was a product from his College days. Sometimes I’ve got so many projects going at once the. I get completely bored out of my mind. ( it drives my family nuts ) Jim was an extremely smart man.. I’m about ready to call Ms Patricia Kennealy out! I’m sick how she just added Jim’s name to sell books cause she couldn’t cut it!! The bitch actually set up a gofundme Page! Listening to him just makes me cry. According to my biological mom he never knew about me..
Josslyne Weiss are you implying Jim Morrison was your biological father?
John Lamer
YES SHE LIKES PEOPLE TO THINK SHE'S HIS ILLIGITAMENT DAUGHTER...AND I'M HIS SISTER....😜..
@rfwagnerjr : quite right yeah !
@markjlombardo:You an interesting name,especially the combination of it.
Well, Jim, are you God?
Aw they hurt jims feelings!! bastards!
@markjlombardo yea for real how can he hate on hell i love you i dont see what the interviewer is complaining about i like all the doors albums their aint a bad one out there
As tough as the Irish are...we are "open" and self destructive as a race.Come to Dublin or any locale in Eire and you will see normal,everyday lads and ladies "falling down drunk"...it is sad to see.Lizards such as this guy get off on Jim's vulnerability.I am just a huge fan and lived in Southern California when I was young and "The Doors" were.
Morrison reminds of John Hogue. I do not like listening to Morrison and Hogue too often because they have brilliant ideas and talk , but no solutions. Fate and God, had a different plan for Jim Morrison. I'd like to believe he would have used his money to help the poor people like the Grateful Dead did.
won't you tell me your name?*
Man walks out from the mountains and travels into Los angles and that's where it ends? Help I'd watch it.
What if I told you, I'm the new Morrison. Do your deduction, the game is on (:(:(:(:(:
Fucc no
well ok nothing wrong with you stating your opinion. in the end its no big deal :)
wow.....every comment looks like a paragraph!lol!XD
m'dear
Man, what a dumb interview! Listen to that last LP they did! That was deep and rockin'! They didn't go POP! They were creating a combo of Jazz, Rock n Roll and Blues. They experimented...