I was at the Jefferson Airplane/Doors concert at the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm in London. An unforgettable experience. Jefferson Airplane had an incredible light-show during their set. I went with my brother. Both of us were into Jefferson Airplane and the Doors long before this concert and we weren't disappointed by the performances. Grace Slick and Jim Morrison were two of the best ever rock vocalists.

It is funny to reflect on how so much of the journalist's sound and fury from the time has become the dust of history and now only the achievements of these bands survives.

Jim Morrison was truly one of a kind. The unpredictable wild man of rock, but a hell of a performer once he hit that stage.

When John Tobler interviewed Morrison at the Isle of Wight two years later, he still considered the shows at the Roundhouse as one of The Doors' best performances. He liked the Granada documentary as well.

Love the Doors, my favorite band when I was a teenager

I remember feeling traumatized when Jim Morrison died. American rock stars were dropping like flies for a while there.

"The Jeffersons " , lol. George and Wheezie couldn't hear each other sing, or Lionel playing his guitar. Tho, the crowd singing "Movin' on Up" acapella brought a tear to everyone's eye.

Love the Airplane.. Especially After Bathing at Baxters and Crown. Superb albums.

In one of my first jobs after college, I worked with a guy who had gone to high school with Jim Morrison. He recalled Morrison as a "troublemaker" for having, in the eyes of the school administration, and many students, "radical and probably Communist ideas." At issue was an essay Morrison had written. In it, he argued that homosexuals and heterosexuals should be treated the same, since sexuality and love had many variations. The teacher was scandalized. And Morrison was suspended. When he returned, he wrote an essay in favor of racial equality. This was in 1959-60 in Virginia. Morrison was almost kicked out of the school.

Never ceases to amaze me how so much work goes into your videos, again, amazing footage along with your narration.

This is a great commentary on their European tour. Thank you for this insight.

I enjoyed the presentation about Jefferson Airplane and The Doors. I saw the similarity between the Kinks and their latest single but it has a great beat. Jefferson Airplane has an album that is my favorite, "Surrealistic Pillow".

I love this channel! Never stop making videos man

This channel rocks.

Would have been amazing to 👀 The Airplane ✈️ & The Doors 🚪 on the same bill.

Good documentary about a not so often talked about event. 😎 Cool mentions of Fever Tree (underrated group) and Love of course.

A friend of Morrison has commented on a Laura Nyro KZfaq track that she was Jim's favourite singer. At Monterey 1967 Nyro performed in between The Byrds and Jefferson Airplane backed by the Wrecking Crew, aged 19.

Hey, just new to your channel, really excited about it. Facts about the bands, no sides taken. Keep the great work. Cheers from Rio, Brazil.

FN amazing KZfaq channel always brilliantly produced. Excellent rock n’ roll history 🙏

“An hour and a half is too long for anybody” Mick Jagger. Back in the day sets were pretty short. Laughable now because Jagger and every other rockstar changed their tune, but we’re glad of it.

Awesome to see a Doors video on the channel. The Mick Jagger comparisons are interesting, I've never heard that connection before personally, nor had that crossed my mind in all the footage of Morrison I've watched

Finally Jefferson airplane! 😃

I saw both groups on this tour. Saw the Doors at the Roundhouse with Jefferson Airplane. Also saw Jefferson Airplane on Hampstead Heath. Loved Both!! ❤️

Wild that The Doors had trouble getting any sort of traction on the charts, yet a cover of their song (done quite differently) was much more successful on that same chart.

That Doors concert at the Roundhouse was AMAZING

I love your videos, keep it up

Enjoyed the Doors-ish background music which I'm assuming was all yours.👍😃👍Great video.

Jim read that article and he made his next songs vitriolic and staggering - but they're all masterpieces to me. It is funny that 'Hello I Love You' is so similar to 'All Day and All of the Night' - I never noticed that before. They've both stood the test of time and are considered to be quintessential rock.

What a combo arriving then. Both leaders in music in their own way. I'd not like to say which was the better band. There's a Rizla between them. Jagger? Jealous.

Jim Morrison was also quoted once as saying the Jefferson airplane was the most boring band he'd ever heard. I must say I agree.

This is a great site... thank you to the people behind it...

I've always heard that Morrison had his ups and downs when it came to performances and it sounds as if the audiences might not have gotten the best of him this time around. But I can't imagine anyone calling the Doors unoriginal; they sounded like no other band from the start and even their last big album was like nothing else on the radio. Even with whatever similarities it had to "All Day, And All of the Night", "Hello I love you." had a unique sound, especially for 1968, despite them calling it their one sacrificial, radio-friendly, "bubblegum" track. The only times I disliked their music were when Morrison tried to get too bluesy, as in "Road House Blues" and the bridge of "LA Woman". Those were the only tracks on which I considered his singing anything less than perfect.

Very interesting mini-documentary about Jefferson Airplane and The Doors. 👍

The Doors were magical! Loved them ever since I was a kid. It's fascinating how harsh the critics were back then. Really enjoy these snapshots of rock history!

Just for a second there I thought you had film of Hello I Love You on TOTP! 😯

Was there for The Doors at The lsle Of Wight 1970. To be honest you couldn’t see much , because as far as l can remember they performed on a barely illuminated stage.. Apparently , they were not keen on giving permission to be filmed, so they had minimal stage lights on.. Perhaps they always performed on a dimly lit stage? Very atmospheric though!

Great vid we need more Doors

Epic presentation. I did have to check that "Tony Wilson" wasn't the Factory Records guy.

The British press was harsh and opinionated towards everyone, I never realized the Kinks and Doors debacle,I think the press put too much personal opinion in those articles, I'm sure a lot of the fans didn't feel the same..

I never knew they played in the UK, other than the isle of wright fest. Thanks for the video!

As always, interesting to hear the UK side on the music of my American youth. I felt/feel the same about the Doors as those who found Morrison pretentious and pompous, though I liked them okay at the time. But they were so huge here in the US. I'm with David Crosby's take, and we really forgot about them in the U.S. until movie soundtracks and a movie about them revived interest permanently. Never had heard the comparisons to Jagger, or to the Kinks song - and I was a big fan of the early Kinks. I can hear the similarity now, but it didn't seem obvious then. The quote from Morrison about the one show was really sweet. And I was the only big JA fan I knew in 1968 and beyond. They had the 2 hit singles in the US in 1967 and then there were enough of us buying the albums to keep them going, I guess. Never got to see them in person, but from the live recordings I've heard, I can understand those who didn't love them in concert. Though when I saw Hot Tuna a few years later, at least Jack and Jorma contributed to a really professional set.

What's funny is the kinks sued the doors for ripping off "All Day and All of the Night" when they themselves ripped off Howlin' Wolf's " Smokestack Lightning" Edit: The Kinks used Smokestack for "Last of the Steam Powered Trains"

Contrast these west coast bands reception in UK to Creams reception at the Fillmore in San Francisco the year before. Cream held everyone in awe, incl the other bands playing there.

This was really interesting. Had no idea this pairing ever existed and it's true it could never happen in America cause those two are BIG headliners. Never saw The Doors live but did dig their early albums. The Airplane I saw many times in their heyday and twice Jack Casady took me in with him at the entrance to the Fillmore East when we poor kids were bumming for spare tickets. The Airplane is a very important group historically. Their first album, Takes Off, with original singer Signe Anderson, is a terrific folk rock LP. Then Grace took over singing and they dropped Surrealistic Pillow. It was a game changer. The album, released one year after Takes Off in September 1967, was a monster hit, peaking at #3 on the Billboard top 200 chart and staying on the chart over a year. It also yielded two top 10 singles. Somebody To Love reached #5 and White Rabbit #8. This marked the first time ever one of the hippie bands had a nationwide hit. And the floodgates were about to open. BTW I wonder how many readers here know what a Jefferson Airplane, in the hippie culture, is.

excellent

RE: The Doors "The band appeared on Top Of The Pops to promote their new single 'All Day And All Of The Night' ".

9:09 - " Journalist " Tony Wilson would found 🏭 Records & ✍️ Joy Division ➗️.

Bloody critic’s , I think they expected the Doors to play exactly as the album’s 😵‍💫

Bizarre how one contributor said the Doors were “unoriginal?” There is literally no band that sounds like the Doors-from the first notes of virtually any of their songs, you know exactly who it is.

Excellent

At first I was insulted by the apparent anti American bias of the critics, but then I remembered how viciously Pink Floyd was attacked by probably the same assholes, in another video of this wonderful channel. The just don't like creativity... Lol, the Doors are criticised for having a prepared stage act, then the Airplane (the Jeffersons ) for not.

Nice one 👍🏻.

Gee, what a great time this was. I still think Jefferson Airplane were the best group to come out of America.

Holy shit...comments from people who were there. I was too one month into being 14 with my 12 year old sister. There were so many police and loads of Americans. We were told not to go out as we would never get back in. Jerry Rubin (Yippie founder) was there with his posse. I was right by the stage and went berserk to the music. It was hilarious seeing a naked conga line. Grace was gorgeous. Check out 'The Doors are Open' on youtube.

The future postpunk manager Tony Wilson was a big Doors fan, I see.

Seems like the audience 'got' both groups, but most critics didnt. I never thought I'd hear someone complain about the Doors playing an hour and a half! You can't really compare Morrison and Jagger, Morrison was or thought he was an intellectual. Jagger was much more of an extrovert, definitely 'greasier ' than Jim. Ironic that Jim didn't like the Kinks cover that made the Doors famous!😁

Miss Ewe watched this episode 👍😊😎🔥

guy~unusual done~all the best.

I was at the Isle of Wight festival in 1968 I was blown away with J.A. Absolutely brilliant.i. Was a soul and Ska boy but this really turned me on to J.A and other music loved it . I think it cost £1:10 shillings (1:50 now) . Loved it.

Tmk the Airplane had another concert that year with Arthur Brown on the Isle of Wight which as far as I know didn't count as an IOW festival.

good show

In his heyday Jim Morrison was by far more charismatic than Mick jagger in my opinion. It's just that Jim Morrison threw it all away and Jagger prevailed as the rock star who outlived all the male sex symbol rock gods. If Morrison had cleaned his act up and gotten himself together him and the doors would have been around a lot longer and be true competitors to the Stones but history showed that was never meant to be. Morrison may have lived an extremely short life but his contributions to contemporary music are immense.The Doors music will always be popular and the legacy of James Douglas Morrison forever lives on.

That Granada tv show is great! Where was Densmore at that Roundhouse ?

The 2nd photo near the end is The Albert Hall, not The Roundhouse.

The Doors on top of the pops wow that blows my mind.

A bit of irony that in their early days British folk rock icons Fairport Convention sounded very similar to Jefferson Airplane. At least they got it.

You can see the Doors performance at the Roundhouse in the film the Doors are Open - listen to the applause and you can tell they went over rather well. One of my favorite shows. Best live version of When the Music‘s over. The comparison with Jagger has always baffled me. The best that can be said is that they are both vaguely dark. But Jagger has nothing to compare with the raw emotional power of Morrison screaming, “Save us, Jesus!“ against that chaotic wall of sound.

Funny to see at 5:17, a shot of Chalk Farm Roundhouse the actual venue followed at 5:23 and mistakenly by a shot of The Royal Albert Hall. A bit sloppy i'nit?

there is band that appears in the line-up of that 1st Isle of Whigt festival called The Smile....could be the one that turned out to became Queen?

Fantastic vid!. The Doors side has been covered but not the Airplane in most accounts. Loved to read the Brit reaction. Very strange. The footage of those shows depicts THE DOORS at their peak yet the critics were unimpressed. Methinks their is a bit of Brit chauvinism going on here.

All theatre, prefabricated in Laural canyon. Love both bands though, I even like the Mickey Thomas version (up until they dropped the Jefferson anyway) Love all the Doors albums aside from the non Jim ones. I didn't like his later conservative radio work though. Also this channel is so high quality, love it.

Interesting opinions on that tour. Back then I probably listened to the Airplane more than the Doors, but that's totally not true now. Haven't actively listened to the Airplane (/Starship) in a decade but still go on occasional jags of listening to the Doors.

Ruth Donnelly best review ever. May not agree but damn that was a great write up.

It sounds as if there was a wee bit of jingoism flying around in the UK music press at this time, a looking down the nose at anything that wasn't British.

"The Jeffersons"? That was a TV show. We would call Grace & Co. "The Airplane".

that last reviewer was hilarious! threshing machine! ha! lumbering! genius...

Of all the places you most expect Jim Morrison to collapse, it would have to be Amsterdam.

Of course, it had to end with Jim passing out on stage

This was really fascinating. I read years ago when Mick Jagger was asked about this "American Mick Jagger" his reply was "boring." As personalities Jagger and Morrison were day and night. Morrison hated being a rock star and destroyed himself. Jagger is pushing 80 and still going strong and seems to be suited to the limelight. Jagger was much better (and still is) in self-preservation.

There was alleged to be a tryst between Grace and Jim. This would seem like a time and place when it could have happened.

TRES Cool

This is hilarious, the English media hate great things when they aren't English, just because the doors are legendary and Jim Morrison literally like a God. seems like alot of jealousy on the English side, I'm a manc and none of my favourite musicians are English. The English media hate everything that isn't English, I can think of several examples where legendary bands from North America, Australia and Europe are penalised and bullied literally because they are something and they aren't a Brit. how ugly that one of most of my favourite life long idols got such bad treatment when visiting my home country

They could have also written about Morrisons admiral father and his key role in the escalation of the Vietnam war.

Coach or Bus ? Which is it ? Or is it both ?

The Doors have "paltry lyrics"--? What? Maybe she got it wrong and saw The Dores at some pub ...

Music and bands sometimes have to age like a fine wine. I think The Doors probably worked better as a studio band as the music is intimate sounding, and probably would have worked better on a stereo in somebody's living room rather than in a cavernous hall.

Interesting historical record

Sounds like the British music critics of the time had a nasty case of "group think". I can imagine them all getting together after a show clucking on about the two band's shows. The West Coast music wave of that era had it's own vibe, clearly not in sync with British bands of the day. Morrison was as different from Jagger as Jagger was to James Brown... all great in their on way.

Wasn't expecting Tony fucking Wilson

It seems to me they didn't put the right birthdays of Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger. Krieger was born in January 8, and they wrote August 1. And Manzarek was born in February 12, and if i see it well, they wrote he's born in December.

the press was obviously Mick - Jagger - centered back then

I guessing people went to Airplane to see if Grace would "flash" the audience. How could a UK audience get Morrison? They wouldn't know which Jim would show up.

I suppose the Royal Albert Hall is at least round 🙂

Im a bit mystified why they are comparing Jim Morrison to Mick Jagger so much. I wasn't ever able to see the Doors live, but I have seen the Stones. Anyway, perhaps its just based on what the music scene was at the time. The Rolling Stones were so big in England at that point that it made sense, I guess, to compare everyone and anything musical to them. In retrospect I think a lot of these Journalists might see it differently.

Who remembers the critics?.....no one............

It's a shame about all of the drugs, and the fact that I can't get any of them.

John Peel criticizing The Doors ! 6:30

An time capsule.

Start here to watch the Doors doc from that tour - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/frWZfrylyL2xcnU.html

Ever since that Oliver Stone film i find The Doors becoming more ridiculed by recent music critics and Morrison seen as a sixth form bad poet etc.Something called Blender had The End as one of the worst songs of all time.I stand by them,especially the first two and last two albums a wonderful blend of bues and psychedelia,topped off with Morrison's crooning baritone.