This 1971 Doors Classic Reveals Jim Morrison’s Distress From Conviction Before His Death

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  • This 1971 Doors Classic Reveals Jim Morrison’s Distress From Conviction Before His Death. On October 30, 1970 Jim Morrison sat in a Miami courtroom waiting to hear his sentencing for indecent exposure and open profanity. His defense files a motion for a new trial- they are denied. The judge enters the courtroom and begins to lecture Morrison on his responsibilities as a citizen and an entertainer. The prosecution goes through a list of Morrison’s prior run-ins dating back to his 1963 Florida State University arrest when he was a student at age 19. The Judge then announces his sentence of six months in jail and a $500 fine for Indecent Exposure and a sixty day sentence for Open Profanity. He remains free on a $50,000 bond pending his appeal.
    From Jim Morrison’s distress a paradox emerges that develops into a timeless Doors classic that will become his swan song.
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  • @cjdingojames3715
    @cjdingojames3715 19 дней назад +17

    He never 'whipped-it-out' I was there Miami '69

    • @IsmJism
      @IsmJism 19 дней назад +5

      WOW - What an honor

    • @desertrose1226
      @desertrose1226 10 дней назад +3

      How awful to be accused of something you didn’t do and in those times things were a lot stricter.

  • @BeFearless_.1
    @BeFearless_.1 15 дней назад +9

    An empathetic intellectual, light years ahead of his peers!

  • @glennabate1708
    @glennabate1708 14 дней назад +8

    One of the most visited spots in Paris and it’s not like Paris doesn’t have much to see.

  • @davidellis5141
    @davidellis5141 22 дня назад +25

    The eerie Riders On The Storm was fittingly the last song Jim Morrison recorded with The Doors 🚪.

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  22 дня назад +5

      I agree..Eerily fitting!

    • @desertrose1226
      @desertrose1226 10 дней назад +1

      .. and the basis for one of the scariest horror movies of the 80s. The Hitcher, starring Rutger Hauer and Thomas Howell.

  • @waldoparsnip1025
    @waldoparsnip1025 16 дней назад +10

    Densmore said Jim never pulled it out , and a reporter asked him , " How do you know , you were way back there on the drums ? " And John said ," Because somebody would have tripped over it ! "

    • @Webedunn
      @Webedunn 7 дней назад +3

      So Jim was good looking, talented, famous, rich and well hung? He drew a natural Royal Strait flush!

    • @waldoparsnip1025
      @waldoparsnip1025 7 дней назад

      @@Webedunn And , the most important thing , according to Jim , a poet !....... ' The future's uncertain , and the end is always near ...." Roadhouse Blues " , but , you've inspired me Webedunn, and I'm from that era and as a tribute to vets , I'm playing " Unknown Soldier "have a good one .

    • @Webedunn
      @Webedunn 5 дней назад +1

      @@waldoparsnip1025 I’m just a bit behind you but in the early 80’s we were HUGE Doors fans. Jim left us far too early…

    • @waldoparsnip1025
      @waldoparsnip1025 5 дней назад

      @@Webedunn Hey , never too late ! Now you're a fan for life I'm sure ! I was 16 in '69 , so , that's my excuse ! Ha! I remember where I was when we heard the news , devastating ! I worked with younger guys who weren't " hip " to the Doors but it didn't take them long hanging with me . I always would tell them , " Jim's still alive living in the south of France "Have a good one , oh yeah , if you're not familiar , play " Unknown Soldier " for our brave veterans who gave it all for us .Enjoy .

  • @Audfile
    @Audfile 14 дней назад +7

    Talking about the coming dehumanizing of the computer age and those computers could only spell out your name on a dot matrix printer. Incredibly prescient.

  • @Jay-n262
    @Jay-n262 22 дня назад +25

    Riders on the Storm and Not to Touch the Earth are probably my 2 favorite Doors songs.

  • @JesseNothing33
    @JesseNothing33 21 день назад +21

    I adore listening to Jim speak about his ideas on life and society and anything, really.

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  21 день назад +6

      Me too! Such an insightful and thoughtful man

    • @keeplaughing8181
      @keeplaughing8181 18 дней назад +1

      lol men do not.adore, especially other men🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @unionjackie.thealisterschoice
      @unionjackie.thealisterschoice 8 дней назад

      Yes, he has a nice voice... funny you have a picture of Mr Morrissey , as one the funniest interviews is one , where Mr Marr and Mr Morrissey are being interviewed and Mr Morrissey says something .like nobody cares about The Doors now (obviously on the wind up ), and Mr Marr looks to the camera like "here we go "
      In a way, the Doors were the first the poet singer pop/rock bands which later Echo and The Bunnymen and to a degree Smiths would follow

  • @chriswatts9019
    @chriswatts9019 20 дней назад +11

    This is a gem of a video on Jim! His intellect and addiction, the artist touture.

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  20 дней назад

      Thank you so much 🙏 appreciate the positive feedback

  • @JimBaldwin-te8eq
    @JimBaldwin-te8eq 18 дней назад +11

    The Doors are the best

  • @lorewilhelm9182
    @lorewilhelm9182 19 дней назад +11

    Such a unique rock band and I've always loved them. I thought about Jim and the band when I'd be at Venice beach in my youth.

  • @Monster_Mover_Stocks
    @Monster_Mover_Stocks 21 день назад +39

    Morrison was a real life Jekyll and Hyde character when alcohol was involved. Had he not succumbed to alcoholism, he could have succeeded in about any occupation that interested him due to his high intellect. I could envision him teaching psychology, sociology, English literature, poetry, or philosophy at the university level. Of course we'll never know what could have been.

    • @djshad1885
      @djshad1885 20 дней назад

      He was Mkultrad as a child by his high brass military cult father.

    • @nicolaesandi6937
      @nicolaesandi6937 15 дней назад

      Da, JEMS DOUGLAS ALIAS JIM MORRISON A FOST UN FENOMEN AL MUZICII VERITABILE ROCK PSIHEDELIC, UN SHOW-MAN CARISMATIC, POET, AȘADAR UN BOEM INCURABIL!!❤🎉D-ZEU să-l odihnească în pace și liniște pe acest băiat minunat JIM MORRISON ✌️🤏🤞🖕👊✊️🙏🙏

    • @AlanThomas-hp3fn
      @AlanThomas-hp3fn 15 дней назад +2

      No he would not have succeeded at anything in the end except his own eternal demise. He started out listening to the bad philosophers, the false Prophets of human Self defication. So many souls, those bad philosophers, have dragged into hell with them.

    • @SamRose-ds1ff
      @SamRose-ds1ff 14 дней назад +2

      I would argue that when it came to Jim Morrison, nothing was as it seemed.

    • @desertrose1226
      @desertrose1226 10 дней назад

      @@SamRose-ds1ffI think he was just a walking contradiction. Such a fascinating person to read about.

  • @seriouslyyoujest1771
    @seriouslyyoujest1771 14 дней назад +4

    Everyone should listen to the Morrison interviews on RUclips, where he talks about, is conviction, and trial. He’s quite intelligent, and interesting to talk to. Pam was a heroin addict. It’s possible that a drunk, and overweight Jim Morrison snorted some heroin thinking it was cocaine, or very drunk, decided to try it at the nightclub and died on the toilet. Then moved to his bathroom at his apartment. Lots of theories, and no autopsy ensures you’ll never know.

  • @DanielTrujillo-ij5ie
    @DanielTrujillo-ij5ie 20 дней назад +12

    😊Hello friends from México 🇲🇽 City! The doors my favorite rock band!

  • @SeltaebEht
    @SeltaebEht 13 дней назад +4

    0:50 i think people do not realize that $50k in the 70s is the equivalent of almost half million dollars in todays money adjusted for inflation.
    That's a lot !!!!!

  • @LucyLennon20
    @LucyLennon20 17 дней назад +5

    I thought i knew all there is to know about Jim Morrison and The Doors. Thank You for this enlightening video, Freewheelin'

  • @nickrice7535
    @nickrice7535 21 день назад +9

    Amazing interview.
    Love ya Jim 💙

  • @davidrowbottom9234
    @davidrowbottom9234 17 дней назад +7

    Loved him and love him now he was a great guy amusing and a great entertainer and rock star poet with the band the doors xxxx

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  17 дней назад

      💯

    • @user-jj2ud4nf1v
      @user-jj2ud4nf1v 15 дней назад

      He was awesome 😎😎😎💯😎😎😎 and always had his eyes 👀👁️👁️👀 closed and so sexy 💋🌹🌹💜💜❤️💜🙏🏼❤️❤️💜💜💜❤️❤️

  • @myles.oreilly.4683
    @myles.oreilly.4683 20 дней назад +7

    Listening to the late Jim Morrison It's like travelling back in Time Wonderful video Rest in peace Jim 🙏 🇮🇪 🇺🇲

  • @toniconnor6380
    @toniconnor6380 16 дней назад +6

    Jim was fantastic❤🎉

  • @BrettHue-pz4fb
    @BrettHue-pz4fb 12 дней назад +4

    Could've? Heck, he was as successful as a man can be in the entertainment business! He died an early death, but the real circumstances he killed himself for, were so nightmarish that I can all but guarantee 99 out of 100 would have done the same, and yes, it's is a true shame, but you people with your 'soapbox standing' little judgemental remarks need to just give it a rest! So Yaa, he died early ..that is correct sir, but he accomplished more than you have, and easily more than you could in a hundred lifetimes so ...another correct statement sir

    • @DJBOOTS378
      @DJBOOTS378 6 дней назад

      Right on I agree with you 100% there man

  • @Etheldreda-
    @Etheldreda- 6 дней назад +1

    It’s Mindblowing to think about how Jim was only in his early to mid twenties here

  • @RoyGNH
    @RoyGNH 20 дней назад +5

    He could not have been more spot on about how only the middle class had the ability to voice their concerns to the country. Essentially that group historically had the resources to do so. Now the system seems to be working very hard at dismantling that middle class, in efforts to eliminate that capability as a means to more easily control the masses. If he could see the direction things have been going over the last several years, he would agree 100% I’m sure. RIP Jim.

  • @michaelmamp9096
    @michaelmamp9096 19 дней назад +6

    We thought we knew it all...great time...but you have to live to maturity to know what life is really about!

  • @ericcrawford3453
    @ericcrawford3453 21 день назад +11

    Maybe the best American band ever, the Beach Boys are right up there to.

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  21 день назад +3

      💯 and a sound that no one else has been able to replicate

    • @ericcrawford3453
      @ericcrawford3453 21 день назад +4

      @@freewheelingideas Absolutely nobody sounds like the Doors! Robbie Krieger is still making good music as well. Thanks

    • @DJBOOTS378
      @DJBOOTS378 6 дней назад +1

      No maybes about it

  • @paulyparker8217
    @paulyparker8217 19 дней назад +11

    Wow, Man, that was amazing to listen to. Prophetic in these times. That was just great. Already a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Doors but the the explained timeline is a great standpoint. I always thought Jim was railroaded in Dade County and I have a different take on his mindset now. Super informative and appreciated.

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  19 дней назад +2

      Thank you so very much for that positive feedback 🙏 greatly appreciate your insights

    • @jackiepowell7513
      @jackiepowell7513 14 дней назад

      Prescient not ptophetic?

  • @mr.g1758
    @mr.g1758 17 дней назад +7

    Alice Cooper told a story once that they were riding in a convertible sitting up on the top of the back seat/trunk. Jim suddenly stood up and jumped out going 30MPH. Broke his arm and performed that night somewhere.

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  17 дней назад +3

      Wow really? That’s crazy!

    • @slimedog
      @slimedog 13 дней назад +1

      Alice, who knew Jim quite well, has said he wasn't surprised with Morrison's demise but that he made it as far as 27!

    • @desertrose1226
      @desertrose1226 10 дней назад

      George Michael did some similar crazy shit a while back.. lol

    • @DJBOOTS378
      @DJBOOTS378 6 дней назад

      I heard that he had broken some bones in his life but never went to the hospital for them.IAlways wondered how it happened.

  • @IsmJism
    @IsmJism 19 дней назад +10

    Always fascinating to hear any tidbit of lessons related to The Doors - This was a very learned clip - Damn, they don't make em like Jim anymore; GENIUS to the max

  • @lj90256
    @lj90256 20 дней назад +12

    Pam and Jim led separate lives in France. That’s what they said in Paris. He died alone in that Club. He became extremely depressed and spent a lot of time alone, after a holiday in Africa with Pam. Pam spent a lot of time with her French boyfriend/freinds. She’d turn up to Jim for money, then disappear again. She was probably alerted that Jim had collapsed in the Club and took some friends to carry him to the flat. He was already dead. I think he just gave up because of the trial and not being able to go back home to go on tour and realising that he was flogging a dead horse with a relationship with Pam. In Paris he had plenty of time to think and back down to reality. That’s when he realised….but then people insist on making a fairytale out of Jim and Pam!

    • @desertrose1226
      @desertrose1226 10 дней назад +1

      Seems to me their relationship was far from it, more troubled than anything - they both had serious problems. Alcohol and drug dependency does not bode well for a satisfying relationship.

  • @aminahmed2220
    @aminahmed2220 21 день назад +5

    What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also happy mother's day ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @peterm1826
    @peterm1826 21 день назад +8

    He was Highly intelligent.
    Extremely well read.

  • @Lessontobe
    @Lessontobe 16 дней назад +2

    I wish you the best of luck with this channel as well as your others. You know almost as much as I do about 1960's and 1970's rock music.

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  16 дней назад

      Thank you 🙏 I appreciate that! I only have this one at the moment.

    • @Lessontobe
      @Lessontobe 16 дней назад

      @@freewheelingideas I am sure you will do very well. Your videos are top quality!

  • @37Dionysos
    @37Dionysos 21 день назад +5

    Thank You! Particularly good on JM's weaving in ideas from Nietzsche and Heidegger

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  21 день назад +2

      You’re very welcome 🙏 thank you for the positive feedback!!

  • @pamelamorgan7354
    @pamelamorgan7354 День назад

    “The Doors” is the one group I’d like to go back in time to hear! Sad that his life ended too soon.

  • @LoyalOpposition
    @LoyalOpposition 19 дней назад +6

    look up Jim Morrison Mort Sahl interview

  • @IrishGigs
    @IrishGigs 21 день назад +6

    What a genius. All that criticism from the hypocritical morality police.His behavior would look mild in today’s world.

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  21 день назад +2

      💯 He was made an example of because of his status.

  • @olvinyldude
    @olvinyldude 15 дней назад +2

    "Riders On The Storm" has been adopted by our News Tornado Chasers here... Fitting ( Jim Lives ON...forever

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  14 дней назад +1

      That’s kinda awesome!

    • @olvinyldude
      @olvinyldude 14 дней назад

      @@freewheelingideas Yes, great way to pay homage & keep the Doors going!

  • @jackiepowell7513
    @jackiepowell7513 14 дней назад +3

    Sadly nihilism was steeped in Nietschze and Heideger.

  • @user-te3jc3sl7r
    @user-te3jc3sl7r 10 дней назад +2

    Uncut magazine featured an article a couple of years ago where Densmore said he and the other two Doors traveled to London in 1973 to recruit a replacement for Morrison and that person believe it or not was Paul McCartney! Don't think they got to see him.

    • @DJBOOTS378
      @DJBOOTS378 6 дней назад

      And Iggy pop and Alice Cooper

  • @johncampbell1152
    @johncampbell1152 21 день назад +4

    @Freewheeling First, let me thank you for this really welcome video. Your production values are superb, as is your choice of photographs and your quite amazing narration of this difficult, often painful-to-hear life of the genius JDM. With the greatest of respect for you, may I please disagree with some of your facts as well as a number of your cross-references, in particular the allusions to certain literary and philosophic works by Nietzsche, Camus, Heidegger, and Dostoevsky-all of which I’ve taught on the doctoral level. It’s problematic to cite these authors out of context, as each of them grew, from one book to the next, and often rejected in their later publications what they had argued in earlier books. Of course, we all change and, hopefully, improve with time or shed beliefs that no longer represent what we feel. In Morrison’s case, the huge optimism he has for the future of his generation, during the Summer of Love (1967), morphed, by late 1969, into a bitter disappointment that much of his generation had already joined the Establishment. You make no mention of the creative writers (esp. the French Symbolist poets) who influenced Jim’s style-in both his poetry and his lyrics-or how they affected his vision. Ok, true, one can’t include everything in a 20-minute video, especially one as enjoyable as yours-which truly delighted me-and I’m not about to quibble about a few factual mistakes. They don’t materially alter your video. It’s mostly the use of cultural documents-the books-to which I take exception, but I’m happy to have you reject everything I’ve written here, since I admire very much what you have created. (Please pardon typos.)

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  21 день назад +2

      Thanks for your positive feedback and constructive criticism. The literary influences cited were specific to lyrics in Riders and the parallels in Jim’s story and the characters in the stories. I look forward to your insights on future videos! Cheers

  • @ganymeade5151
    @ganymeade5151 21 день назад +4

    So many can identify with Morrison's conflicts. That is why he was so popular. He also had a great voice. He was a tortured artist.

  • @abelincoln6785
    @abelincoln6785 21 день назад +8

    Bi Polar means wild man. He was sick his entire life. Today he would be medicated and still alive.

    • @JesseNothing33
      @JesseNothing33 21 день назад +4

      The thought of a medicated Jim doesn't make me feel happy.

    • @patriciafix6626
      @patriciafix6626 15 дней назад +1

      @abelincoln6785 What makes you think Jim would voluntarily take his psych medication on a consistent basis? Oh I agree with you, don't get me wrong . . . I think you are correct.
      But Jim was so undisciplined and self-destructive, getting him to go to a doctor or psychiatrist would have been like pulling teeth. It was a different time then. Different American culture. Everyone was obsessed with getting high and music.
      Today, he would have to be court ordered to take the meds and hopefully sent to have a conversation with Dr. Drew Pinsky.
      Someone to talk some sense into him.

    • @DJBOOTS378
      @DJBOOTS378 6 дней назад

      Was he actually diagnosed bipolar?I’ve never heard that.I don’t buy into any of this…sorry

  • @jameshansen8931
    @jameshansen8931 21 день назад +6

    “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” - Oscar Wilde (Jim lived it out)

    • @TheNewOriginals450
      @TheNewOriginals450 21 день назад +4

      Actually that's William Blake, who coined the term "When *the doors* of perception are cleansed, man will see the universe as it really is, infinite" . It's where they got the name of the band from .

    • @butters395
      @butters395 21 день назад +1

      but he didn't 'live' it out.....he died 😒

    • @TomWilson-jp3tl
      @TomWilson-jp3tl 21 день назад

      Not quite….The quote was expressed by Blake,

    • @jameshansen8931
      @jameshansen8931 21 день назад +1

      @@TheNewOriginals450 that’s right thank you

  • @MustangBoss1973
    @MustangBoss1973 12 дней назад +2

    WOW, the future the become mechanised computerised, a true fortune teller too.

  • @NineInchTyrone
    @NineInchTyrone 15 дней назад +2

    Let your children is hardly cheerful or life affirming in the context of the song. It is chilling and depressing. Let you children play while a deviant is roaming around ?

    • @desertrose1226
      @desertrose1226 10 дней назад

      Wonder if ol Charlie inspired this song?!

  • @korvne30
    @korvne30 21 день назад +4

    He was posthumously exhonorated

  • @Inspector-71
    @Inspector-71 10 дней назад

    The best song on LA Woman

  • @MrSomethingElse
    @MrSomethingElse 22 дня назад +4

    Bro its almost too heavy to watch the whole clip, I know this story well, it hurts to hear it told, thanks for bumming me out but into this world we're thrown I guess cuz... a world without Jim, you breaking my heart kid! I'd forgotten this wound.... Gonna get some LA Woman time, roll a J and cry for a while, nothing but love, thanks man

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  21 день назад +5

      Sorry to bum you out! A lot of younger people don’t these stories so trying to keep Jim’s music alive. ✌️

    • @MrSomethingElse
      @MrSomethingElse 21 день назад +1

      @@freewheelingideas well told dude, i'm crying my eyes out, needed me some Jim Time cuz.... you have my thanks

  • @michellec1215
    @michellec1215 21 день назад +3

    @bobbygoodman2875 what you’re missing is that the doors were unique, not another cookie cutter band that predominated those times. Jim had a great voice, was charismatic and was an amazing poet and songwriter. He like most talented people/artists have sensitivities and views on life the average person doesn’t get that morph into drug/alcohol issues as a coping mechanism. He was a classic artist/poet like many others who had these issues and didn’t ever profess to be a musician but was a lyricist songwriter. You can’t deny the talent and success of this combination . Besides you really don’t know what happened in Paris to cause his death, nobody ever will now.

  • @tedtimothy9074
    @tedtimothy9074 7 дней назад

    I read he was very shy. At first, he would sing his songs from a spot off stage

  • @juanrobertonavarroarellano1215
    @juanrobertonavarroarellano1215 21 день назад +4

    The drawings were made by Morrison?

    • @johncampbell1152
      @johncampbell1152 21 день назад +2

      Jim was a talented artist. Have you seen his watercolors from the mid-to-late 1950s? I wish we could upload images here on YT because I would send you some of his art and you would likely be astonished by its brilliance. Your question is a good one and I was happy to see it here.

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  21 день назад

      Those are from the court room illustrator

  • @maureendrozda9960
    @maureendrozda9960 19 дней назад +2

    MKUltra...????😳

  • @marclayne9261
    @marclayne9261 13 дней назад +3

    JDM.......20th Century Prophet....

  • @edwardcapobianco2975
    @edwardcapobianco2975 2 дня назад

    Pam killed him with powerful heroin. Jim was dabbling in it due to Pam’s addiction. The heroin in France comes straight from Marseilles and the Corsican mob. Same stuff from The French connection bust that disappeared from a NY City evidence locker and had been replaced with corn starch and flour. Corrupt cops sold it back to NY mob , I believe the Luchesse family. Jim’s soul mate and true love was college sweetheart Mary Werbelow from Clearwater Florida. She left him in late 65 or early 66. All his songs are about her, The Crystal Ship, The End, Soul Kitchen, many more . 100% fact and heroin overdose killed him, that’s why he was placed in the bathtub. They tried to revive him when they should have called the paramedics. Back then there was no Good Samaritan law to protect drug user and encourage them to call ambulance when a fellow user ODs . So out of fear and self preservation they waited to long and this genius of a man died so tragically and unnecessarily!

  • @williamsutton7135
    @williamsutton7135 18 дней назад +2

    I loved the doors and was a High School senior when I first heard the song Light My Fire driving home. I just sat in my car and said to myself Wow!at the last fast drum roll and cymbal crash. I also liked the long organ solo and beautiful guitar solo in the middle.I saw the Doors 3 times and walked out 2 times... because Morrison was just rambling poetry for like 20 minutes,so I left. I was into music,not poetry. I dont think Morrison understood that!

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  18 дней назад

      Incredible! Yea I totally get that, not exactly there for poetry.

    • @williamsutton7135
      @williamsutton7135 16 дней назад

      Me niether. So boring. He was already drunk asking the audience for a drink. He would really ruin the concerts with all his silly drunken nonsense. I hear he was a real lost alcoholic a-hole. The other students in my homeroom at school didnt like the concert they went to. Im embarrassed that I worshipped him so much back then. Im a drummer and wanted to see the drummer John play. The musicians were so good. He was a poet first, not really a musician. Thanks. I can even try and play a lot of their material. Very good like jazz rock, bluesy sometimes. Love ya!

  • @Robert-tj3qq
    @Robert-tj3qq 21 день назад +4

    During the interview,they are discussing Computer's, did i miss something ? computing wasn't thrown on the Masses till mid to late 80's

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  21 день назад +2

      Well Jim is referring to mechanization and seems unfamiliar with the term but the word computerized that the interviewer uses may have been broadly referring to emerging technology used at the time.

    • @Robert-tj3qq
      @Robert-tj3qq 21 день назад +2

      @@freewheelingideas my thoughts as well and nasa/moon landing (69) and the wizard of oz 🌞

  • @JosephMiller-hu7bq
    @JosephMiller-hu7bq 15 дней назад +2

    Jim & Elvis both hated their fame they just wanted to perfom their music so did they fake their death no , but if one day if 1 of them shows up say with a new group or from a hiding spot they put out music on U-TUBE

  • @Kw1161
    @Kw1161 9 дней назад

    I wonder how his dad was a U.S. Navy rear Admiral had to do with Jim’s drinking and personality?
    Have a great day!

  • @johnwright291
    @johnwright291 21 день назад +2

    Interesting

  • @dubbatrubba1759
    @dubbatrubba1759 10 дней назад

    Interesting guy. Like they said about Jimi Hendrix on dying so young, “he had a little too much current running through him”. I think Jim would have been horrified to learn how much his ex-bandmates benefitted financially off of his image for decades after he died. Fans have worshipped him like he is a God, when in fact he was just another human being that pooped and blew snot out of his nose like the rest of us.

    • @DJBOOTS378
      @DJBOOTS378 6 дней назад

      First of all Morrison never was worried about money it wasn’t a factor. sure some fans worship him like he’s a god but look at the influence he had on people then and even now.The guy accomplish so Much in such a short amount of time✌️

  • @butters395
    @butters395 21 день назад +3

    at least he was smart enough to realize that france didn't have an extradition treaty so.....he didn't have to come back here....ever ! 😉👍

  • @rufuswilliamson1722
    @rufuswilliamson1722 21 день назад +3

    Young people protesting is no surprise... they are in the process of 'learning'... they are exposed to new ideas. Their elders are concerned with paying bills, working shorter hours, tax breaks... issues far beyond Peace, Justice and happiness. The 'Cycle' goes on... from generation to generation. You'll see.

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  21 день назад +1

      We’re in the midst of a repeat now. Eerie

    • @PeterHuebner
      @PeterHuebner 21 день назад

      GESCHICHTE WIEDERHOLT SICH IMMER WIEDER,AUCH HEUTE DA PROTESTIEREN JUNGE MENSCHEN FÜR UMWELT,FRIEDEN,GERECHTES LEBEN WIE DAMALS!!DIE DOORS UND JIM MORRISON PASSTEN IN DIE 60ER,ER WAR EIN REBELL UND ES ENDETE LEIDER TRAGISCH,RIP. JIM AND RAY❤❤ROBBIE AND JOHN❤❤.

  • @lorenecarden6312
    @lorenecarden6312 21 день назад +5

    Genius, poet etc. however, he was just another 60s punk thinking his thoughts were so much deeper than the rest of the population. Such a waste

    • @bobbygoodman2875
      @bobbygoodman2875 20 дней назад +2

      EXACTLY. The band played played almost embarrassingly simple music and Jimbo, with no range, sung very simple lyrics. Fans like to fancy themselves as intelectuals so they take his ambiguous lines and conjure up mystical meanings to rationalise his "greatness". 'Ol Jimmy had had one note and then he would scream. Compare his vocals, lyrics/message and songs with those of his contemporaries, such as: Deep Purple, Yardbirds, Led Zepplen, Who, CSN&Y, CCR, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Steppenwolf...and the list goes on. If I can't fall asleep, I'll listen to the Doors

  • @TomWilson-jp3tl
    @TomWilson-jp3tl 21 день назад +2

    I can’t help to view JM Aas highly overrated and he. diluted any talent that he had with drink and drugs. He was abusive and I doubt he would strike anyone’s attention if he was an average or ugly man. “The End” is an exception and exhibits the talent of the group which was mostly informed by Densmore and Krieger, the drummer and guitarist, respectively. Manzarek always irritated me with the self important attitude he projected and pedantic stance. JM blew it and that’s a real shame.

    • @DJBOOTS378
      @DJBOOTS378 6 дней назад

      Something must interest you about him.The large solid doors fan base would disagree with you.But everyone is entitled to their own opinion✌️

    • @TomWilson-jp3tl
      @TomWilson-jp3tl 6 дней назад

      @@DJBOOTS378 Yes. As you can read, I think “ The End” is a powerful composition, propelled by the Densmore’s and Krieger’s agile musicianship and JM wrote some powerful lyrics while creating a stage persona that was way beyond anything of the day. The problem was, with drink and drugs, he became more of a spectacle and descended into abusive ness (“ You’re all slaves!” of which he announced to a crowd on the east coast. I think some confrontation can be a useful on stage technique, but this and other pompous statements did him no favors and begs the question,, ‘ and aren’t you a slave to your vices (drink, drugs and hyper sexual behavior?) That is, unless he had dug into every audience member’s medical files….! In my view, the most that can be said of him is that he had all the makings of a cultural hero, he inspired Iggy, Patti and Nico (to name a few) and developed a theatrical persona and act to a higher level that, perhaps, has still yet to be topped.

  • @drummersagainstitk
    @drummersagainstitk 18 дней назад +4

    Alcoholism was his downfall. He was a complete drunk.Everything else fall into line after that.

  • @scronx
    @scronx 3 дня назад

    You've got another masterpiece here, though Morrison makes an extremely poor icon, hero, prophet or role model -- exactly the things he is to millions of people today. There is a great gulf fixed between his degenerate behavior and the perspicuous interview with which you close -- rare for its time. Père Lachaise? I'd rather visit César Franck's statue in front of Sainte-Clotilde.
    The hippie movement was shaped by the central planners the balladeers denounced. Gee, why didn't those counterculture stars get drafted?
    I was "there" at the time, I grew up with rock from Elvis to its last hurrah the 1980s. 1960s-70s fun and excitement was more than outweighed by the frightening jettisoning of normalcy and responsibility. "The summer of love was followed by the autumn of gonorrhea". The nightmare continues with pinstriped hippies running things by the more fatally childish notions of that era, incessantly bleated throughout the media-government complex now as then.
    As with so many acts of the period I love the Doors' good stuff in spite of their degenerate stuff. Classic rock topics call for keeping a grip on at all times. Stronger than dirt, man!

  • @josequintero4770
    @josequintero4770 18 дней назад +3

    I'm sure all that sex didn't have anything to do with his depression.

    • @desertrose1226
      @desertrose1226 10 дней назад

      It probably did. He probably picked up all kinds of stuff.

  • @paulgibbons2320
    @paulgibbons2320 21 день назад +2

    We are not all designed to fit into this sxxt show.

  • @briancorbin5542
    @briancorbin5542 21 день назад +5

    I still think that Jim faked his death to avoid prison they would of eaten him alive in there.

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  21 день назад +2

      Lots of people agree with you

    • @johncampbell1152
      @johncampbell1152 21 день назад +4

      @@freewheelingideasWe have the clownish Danny Sugerman to thank for this absurd myth.

    • @surfrunnerd8457
      @surfrunnerd8457 20 дней назад +3

      Ray Manzarak commented when he visited Paris that the grave was too short.

    • @waldoparsnip1025
      @waldoparsnip1025 16 дней назад +1

      ' Still alive in the south of France ...

  • @scallopohare9431
    @scallopohare9431 21 день назад +4

    He traded on shock, and it went sideways. By that time, there was nowhere further to go. He was so overrated.

    • @termsofusepolice
      @termsofusepolice 21 день назад +4

      The albums speak for themselves. And they are far from "shocking". The Doors had a sound unlike any other band of any era. And Jim had arguably the greatest baritone voice in rock history. You just hated his off stage lifestyle choices and so seek to trash his art.

  • @Walk-on-Wildcat
    @Walk-on-Wildcat 13 дней назад +2

    Donald Trump!🤣

  • @jackiepowell7513
    @jackiepowell7513 14 дней назад +2

    Camus another existential meaningless philosopher. Not unlike marxism being ubiquitous in universities circa 2024.

  • @terenceboris851
    @terenceboris851 22 дня назад +6

    well done. the pressure Jim had adopted is hard to imagine.

    • @freewheelingideas
      @freewheelingideas  22 дня назад +3

      Thank you!🙏 it dehumanizes to turn them into a profit making machine. No wonder most of them lose their mind.

    • @terenceboris851
      @terenceboris851 22 дня назад +2

      @@freewheelingideas that’s true. talent by itself doesn’t contain self-care. Self-care is something separate that needs to be cultivated alongside talent.

  • @bobbygoodman2875
    @bobbygoodman2875 21 день назад +5

    This guy was the most over rated musician in the history of music. The songs CAN be interpretted any way you want but they were simple. Thus guy was self centred and a narcisist with only an adequate voice with no range. HIS dad was right. If he was ugly, we wouldn't be talking about him today. To suggest this Band was the best American Band ever, is heresy. There are MANY, just from that era, that blow them away by any measure. CSN&Y, Steppenwolf, Birds, CCR and nany more. Uriah Heep had songs with better words, song by a singer with a voice that rivals the very best...ever and musicians who could PLAY. Morrison went to Paris and what did he do? He got drunk everday, became obese as hell and OD'd. His story is not one of a hero or a genius. He was just another addict who joined the "celebrated" 27 Club.

    • @cespo77
      @cespo77 21 день назад +2

      Of course this is just your opinion. Regarding him being fat, Morrison weighed 150 pounds at around 5'10 in Paris. How is that fat?

    • @bobbygoodman2875
      @bobbygoodman2875 21 день назад +2

      @@cespo77 Of course it's my opinion but as to his weight, he gained over 50lbs drinking himself into a drunken stuper everyday. That, is not my opinion. This information comes from those who carried him from the bar where he OD'd, took him home and put him in the bath tub before calling the authorities. This arrogant fool was vulgar, crude, angry, treated his girlfriend horribly, was in trouble with the law MULTIPLE times. As I have said, if he wasn't possessed with great looks, we may not have heard about The Doors. Fir a xo called "writer" his songs were very simple but cague enough such that critics could interpret tge lines go mean anything they wanted, then call it brilliant. They did this because they knew he was bright and a voracious reader...but as a writer...he couldn't hold a candle to a multitude if his contemporaries. That is my opinion.

    • @cespo77
      @cespo77 21 день назад +2

      @@bobbygoodman2875 Morrison was never fat. His face might have appeared bloated and had a little bit of a belly, but was still slim. Look at photos when he was in Paris he was not at all fat. When he first started with the Doors he weighed 135 pounds ( which is very gaunt) and by 1970 he weighed 150 -160 pounds. For 5'10 that is not fat. Again, that is your opinion. For me, the Doors were one of the greatest bands to come out of the 1960's. They were ahead of their time. Most rock songs are simple. It is the idea that makes it genius. His voice was great and on recordings sounded like a crooner. Most rock bands at the time were heavily into drugs. That was the scene. If he had lived, maybe he would have matured and grown out of it just like many of the rock legends who survived that period.

    • @bobbygoodman2875
      @bobbygoodman2875 21 день назад +1

      @@cespo77 Google Morrison's weight gain in Paris. The first story is by CBS and it says he gained so much weight, he was unrecognizable. His friends said he was 50 pounds heavier and that would qualify as obese on his 5-10, 150 body. He earned the weight legitimately, drinking heavily EVERYDAY at Rock 'n Roll Circus on the West Bank. Music is very personal but some of it is not. The Doors music was dominated by the organ and who are the celebrated musicians that played baseball, lead guitar and beat the skins? The thing is, they didn't have be great, the music was so simple. You and millions of there love that and that's great, but compare their lead vocal (singular), lyrics/composition and musicianship with others of that period: Led Zepplen, The Who, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Yardbirds, Cream, CSN&Y, CCR, Byrds and I can go on. I what way might tDoors have been ahead of their time? To me, it was a return to the very early and simpler R & period with nothing special but the orgnan. There was no range in Morisson's voice, no harmonies, nothing great about the drums or guitar. As for drug abuse, he was a user himself AND a sloppy drunk. He dried from an overdose!!! IF I want to go to sleep, I'll listen go the Doors.

    • @DJBOOTS378
      @DJBOOTS378 6 дней назад

      @@bobbygoodman2875Your statement is full of what ifs and false statements ✌️

  • @tr7938
    @tr7938 22 дня назад +2

    No sympathy for a loser.

    • @Jay-n262
      @Jay-n262 22 дня назад +13

      So you don't have any sympathy for yourself, that's great!

    • @Penetrate-the-evening
      @Penetrate-the-evening 21 день назад +1

      A loser ,and yet hear you are watching a video about him

    • @jeffjohnston1961
      @jeffjohnston1961 19 дней назад +3

      What about the devil

    • @thomasgregorovich7976
      @thomasgregorovich7976 16 дней назад +2

      Oh be nice! Have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste..

  • @randyhertzberg7549
    @randyhertzberg7549 21 день назад +4

    Have you ever felt like you are a puzzle piece thrown in the wrong box ....?