Ernest Hemple awesome!

Ernest Hemple that's amazing, Ernest! So cool

Ernest Hemple... Hands down, one of the coolest stories I've ever heard ! Your a lucky man.

Ernest Hemple he looks that way inclined...his voice is amazing

Thats cool stuff

He treated all groups with respect. He never talked down to them or thought he was above them.

You mean they aren't supposed to

Morrison seemed a lot cooler with Clark than some others i saw him being interviewed by

He was a mensch

Good point 👍

Hey, don't say anything like I do. People will hate you... that's if you care.

No lies here

me too...=)

It's extremely underrated

The days are bright and filled with pain, Enclose me in your gentle reign'. Great lyricist!

Brian, yes they really are. Love it.

its the closest thing we will ever have to a time machine

Clark

Amen to that !

Exactly why I don’t pay for cable!

So you're telling me jim isn't intellectual...get out of here

yes i agree but jim had a crazy high iq

Although the Dick Clark interview is very rushed & antiseptic, you see the personalities of the individuals compromising The Doors. The response by Ray as to how he would categorize their music is classic‼️ 🎶🎵🎸🎹⚡️

Just one guitarist

Robbie the soft spoken one* John the lucid one*

absolutely what you just said

He should have answered 'classic rock.'

Boy you hit it dead on the head. Haunting but comforting. Thank you for helping me put what I felt into the precise words.

Take a look at Ren Gill...Skillset 👍🎸❣️👣👁️🫀🐬🐷🥳

​​@@ei5916yeah but it kinda too early for it to call it that. Groups were like in the middle of recording/ making it which it would be called classic rock like in the late 70's early 80's ....hope you get what I'm trying to say🤷🏽‍♂️ 😹😂😹✌🏼

In the top 3

Oh boy, were they ever an act.

I'll drink to that

Even though their answers and attitudes were ridiculous.... "We're on the inside of the music"..... WTH

🤣He didn't know the most influential members of many bands. Only the ones who acted eager to speak with him.

He also relentlessly promoted disco

Hi I Recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' by Robert Nix

Who gives a fuck what dickhead Dick Clark did? These TV networks were retards for not letting music performers who could actually play perform live. What a pathetic joke.

At that age you should be seeking God not a band of junkies satanist like the doors..your soul will go to hell if you don't repent and seek Christ...

@@bootsie6714 Actually I found Christ at age 25 and was taught not to condemn but show love for others. Take Christianity to others with a positive loving message not a hell and damn nation aspect. Jim Morrison's songs and words eventually brought me to Christ. Can you proclaim the same?

@@donnvalkenaar9284 - professing christians or false converts like yourself is the reason why people think GOD is a joke..in Mark 1:15 (Bible NKJV) records the inspired summary of Jesus' message as He began His ministry: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” Repentance and faith go together because if you believe that Jesus is the Lord Who saves (faith), you have a changed mind about your sin. Do you understand that or not!!? You proved to be a false convert by claiming that junkie Jim Morrison brought you to Jesus Christ, that is a lie from the pit of hell because that demon Morrison was blasphemous and obscene towards GOD. The Bible say that we all are sinners and that we all need a savior. Stopped lying selling your fake christianity. Ps., I'm not condemning anyone I'm just telling the truth!!

@@bootsie6714 Live your life as best as you can and don't interfere with others. Christ saves all that come to him no matter their sins.

Morrison was very high in his offices on La Cienega and Santa Monica Blvd. His body guard Babe, was keeping close watch, who was a hells angel. Morrison had his beard and when told I loved his music he said "He's the king, not me," -- calligraphy of Jim's poems on the walls, Elvis Don't be Cruel plays.

Yes he was gorgeous.

The piano in this is just so beautiful! And Jim's voice of course....that piano riff at 1:40 is awesome!

54 yrs.ago ,I was 10,a kid just like the youngsters listening now, thanx to you . Thank you Kenny, you know who you are.🤝

Well done, i also introduce my kids to real music like this.

Yep, at the 8th. St. drive-in theater in Colorado Springs in 1967 in my 67 Cougar XR7. My first 8-track tape played all night long! 🌙 good weed 👌:)

Moim dzieciom też się podobają, są anglojęzyczne, więc słowa też do nich trafiają...Nie biorą narkotyków, Świat dostarcza im wystarczająco dużo wrażeń.

Почему же - Земмфира. Её звучание как раз напоминает Двери..

The seeds nigga

Not yet.

latin rock groups like the bukis sound similar. surely, they were inspired

Love the Doors!

It's in your blood man 😊

@@Mike-vr4lw Doors & the Stones GREAT ROAD TRIP MUSIC!

Still rocking!

64 and feel the same!! Nothing like it today.

Yeah me too. Turned 69 March of 2024

J ai appris a aime ce groupe puisse qu' il représentais pour moi quelle mélodie et harmonie et paroles vraies.

hes in Hell now

​@@mcarlkv53no, he's not! Sorry for disappointing you but, it's quite the opposite!

❤ he is alive in 2024!! Witness protection! 😅

My kid knows when it's lego time to play he says "Alexa, play the doors" : )

Wonds from chicano batman so sad

@@alexags2671 i allways got mellow state of what's going on out there. Already knew.

Great keep it going. My grandkids love Jim and my granddaughters think he is pretty!

lol😊 the doors lyrics always alludes to some form of drug induced state😊- guess needed that to activate their creative genius. ☝️

Watch Scott wetland with the doors. unbelievable

Scott Wetland is very good, but Morrison had a unique & eerie prescence that absolutely cannot be duped.

Your comment is a testament to just how far the public’s taste has been dumbed down since the 60s. Scott was nowhere near Jim’s league. Insulting to Jim to even compare the two.

​@justdyneeIs that gift called a package?😅

@justdynee🤷🏻‍♂️ 😂🤣😭

They're the best

Even with effects the talent doesn't fade. In songs like When the Levee Breaks, the effect they add to Plant's voice later on makes the song better

​​@@king.2597on't mention Plant in the same convo with Morrison. Radio rock isn't in the same league with poetic art. Immigrant song is beyond corny lmao

Lip sync obviously. A poet drug addict. Let’s be real here

Hi I Recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' by Robert Nix

The West is the best

Agree about the music, but those pants? Maybe those were back for 5 minutes in 1994. :)

@@classiclife7204 Yes, even with the pants! Look at other bands from the summer of ‘67. They were wearing shimmering Nehru jackets (Strawberry Alarm Clock as an example) or were dressed like foppish Edwardian dandies - even The Who got into that scene. Many other bands were still wearing matching ‘uniforms’. Any modern band would look cool in what the Doors are wearing here, and throughout their career.

@@mattkaustickomments Fair point, particularly about the Who even going "mystical" and the Zombies wearing matching suits and so on. But I can tell you as a guy who was in 80s/90s bands myself - lose the stripes. Would've never worn those pants. And really we shouldn't overstate the modern-ness of their clothes. They look pretty 60s. Just not AS 60s, LMAO

@@classiclife7204 Thumbing up your own comments ain't cool, kid. And those clothes were what we all wore back then, fashionable or not. All stores carried them, even Sears and JC Penneys...it was the norm. Your kids will comment on what you're wearing now someday.....bank on it.

@@gadsdonflag4289 Nobody's thumbing up their own comments, dummy. Also, reading is fundamental, genius: nobody said they chose their own clothes - they were in style. The sh!itty clothes in the 80s were all I had to choose from, too. Having been in bands in the 80s and 90s means you're in your 40s and 50s; you know this, right? I'm probably older than you, jackass. I was merely disputing the OP's claim that everything about the Doors was magically uploadable for today's taste. It isn't. I was kind and kept it to the pants. I refrained from including the pretentious song lyrics, let alone the fact that the art form of rock music no longer exists except for niche antiquarians.

He was so classic and kind and respectful. What a treasure!!

May 16th, 1967 THE CRYSTAL DREAM!

Lloyd Carlinsky

I was at camp in West Texas, Leakey . At night we could pick up a radio station out of Austin and Light my Fire would send us dancing around the cabin like wild animals. Of course we all pronounced our deep and undying Love for Jim.😊

Yes it was

R.i.P jim

Assassiné a Paris

According to the biography of The Doors by one of their associates Jim was a very difficult person to deal with. He had a serious drinking problem and became very belligerent when he was drunk. He came to many of his concerts so drunk that the venues he was playing said that they would never book The Doors again.

@@barrygreenstein8383 yes his ego was getting a little out of hand that you can see when you watch him off stage! He was probably his own worst enemy and on self destruct, shame because we’ve all missed out on the things he hadn’t written and performed yet!

That was his Jimbo persona.

​@@barrygreenstein8383Barry, not true in the early days, like when this video was filmed. I was at their performance at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, summer of '66. Jim was not drunk and sung beautifully. Jim's drinking affecting their concerts did not happen until later, late '68 or '69.

That maybe was a blessing and a curse, the way it ended up.

Always the poet.

Don’t forget Ray Manzarek aswell, his response was very poetic aswell

"Bullet strikes the helmet's head" You don't hear that kind of literary genius anymore in music.

Couldn't exactly say it was the drugs and sex...

@@tomlynntigard yeah you do lmao you just dont look for it

Marvelous Marv Don’t spoil it man

@@evanowens1346 Jim dies at the end.

LOL

The video and sound are out of sync.

@@randytinsman4803 Did you watch the lip sync portions to both songs? It didn't look that out of sync. Plus, both versions were definitely not live. They were exactly the album versions. It's a well-known fact that most of those shows in the old days had their performers lip sync while they piped in music. They still do it, too. Doesn't anyone remember that Ashley Simpson fiasco? Milli Vanilli?

That's one of their greatest achievements, everything is in balance you can hear everyone's contributions without one person overlooked. Nothing is overwhelming it's all just so perfect.

True , the music shines just as much as the words .

Now you have me very curious. What does it do for you?

Say it, Don't hold back, Flower Child!

He introduced them like a boss. So did Dave Letterman in the 90s. He had some amazing ones like Warren Zevon's final performance ever.

I know,he had cool job.

Their lyrics are very lucid and surrealistic. Their music is timeless!

I love the doors they are pretty unique, but I also listen to today's music you can find other excellent groups The main difference between the doors and the new groups is the commercialization of their sound, the tours, the contracts, the media, the radio Today we live in an Era that's full with new genres and sub-genres

Word

@@ChrisInDaMistWithDaMix - Absolutely totally agree 100%. There this little indie record company I found a few months ago called Human sounds, very very small company, I mean to the point where I would be surprised if they sell any music today, and I could not believe how great some of the bands are on that label. And I'm talking new sounds, new genres I never heard before in my life. It really all comes down to commercialization, the promotion, media, radio none of what these guys get. Here it is....Here's a link to them........humansoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/

Sounds better everytime is playing

Christopher Castillo Well, no one will ever sound like The Doors, even nowadays, but especially in their time. They were ahead of it big time.

That is so true dude!! PLUS, I would have let Ray eat crackers in my bed any day or night.. Phyllis Ortiz

The dude was a genius flat out.

@@phyllisortiz3807 me too!

In 2003 I was calling the radio station klos to win tickets to see an interview of the Doors with radio host Jim Ladd. Turns out that the "living room" that Jim Ladd was referring to was the House of Blues in West Hollywood. I won two tickets and went a few days later. We were sitting in a booth and I looked over and saw Ray Manzarek sitting at the bar drinking a Heineken so I went over and struck up a conversation with him. He was such a beautiful man. So accommodating, gracious, and soft spoken. I was 14 in '67 and the Doors were and always will be my all time sentimental favorite band.

@@mackydog99 Ray was not only a musical genius, but an egoless lover of music. He was, by all accounts, a genuinely good man. RIP, Ray.

Riders on the storm is my favorite doors song. Ms. Harper Stacey.

So lucky to have lived through not only 1 but 2 great eras, the 60s and 70s. Very jealous!

Omg lucky! I grew up in the 90s and early 00s and I still love the Doors!!

They have a youtube channel. Lots of shows and discussions. Even music lessons. As much as I've always wished to live in those days, it's a pretty cool time to be alive, when I can get a music lesson by the man who wrote the music.

never say never

Jealous for you though buddy 😒born in 90s but still feel like i am from that age bcoz they flow though my mind 😁😉🌊

EVA FARIOU I love the square looking kid who likes the crystal ship . Wonder where he is today? lol

@@barbaramacker6861 the what now?

@@barbaramacker6861 Although quite square looking, he was 'experimenting' as it was called. Hopefully he didn't get drafted a month after this show!

BritIronRebel just tell them your gay like Jim did

Yes we did. We never knew what guests would be there at AB filmings but The Doors were monumental. Everyone went nuts. At school Monday, friends flipped to find-out they could have been there. AB was off the radar as something that kids paid much attn to--we could have seen a teeny bopper star, Herman's Hermits, the Fifth Dimension, Johnny Rivers, or somebody huge like Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. But not the top rockers. The year before, I'd been told to let Rudee Vallee sit next to me on the bleachers for a photo--my English teacher was so excited bc the photo was on the 1st page of the LATimes View section--He was a famous crooner and movie star in the 1930s. Starred in the Preston Sturges movie "The Palm Beach Story"--on TCM a lot. But at school, it was considered funny that we did this on our weekends. While being on TV was cool, this was a Sat aft show, not prime time. Sometimes, people laughed at us, called us teenyboppers. We saw Bobby Vee. No one was impressed. We had autographs of Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Merry Go-Round, Hard Times...again, no one was impressed. The Doors were there? Now we were cool! They were a local band, but they were at the pinnacle--respected for their rock & roll, gaining celebrity, everyone had their 1st album and would buy Strange Days. It was THE music at parties. We knew they were going to be huge around the world.

Ray must have one incredibly sharp mind to pull that off.

The Doors used bassist Douglass Lubahn on 3 of their albums

There's bass GUITAR all over their records. and this = performance synched to playback.

midnight rider Any keyboard player that is trained on piano can pull that off.

I tend to disagree, Mr McNasty , but I digress.

Thanks to the roundtable of script / lyric writers he worked for

I cant believe he thought he had a bad singing voice

Carlos Arana hypnotic is a good word for these songs and Jim's voice. I find a lot of them have a mixture of a haunting sound with sort of a carnival sound coming from that electric piano. Completely unique sound still today.

Che voce ipnotica

And sensual.

Got me thinking .......Crystal Ship had a guitar solo ? .......and then I remembered part 2.

Lol

I'd much much much rather listen to Christian music because it's not so g*y.

​@@TheVirginGary "that's not Christian at all" kurt cobain

The Windows are better

Awesome group

Ho dosent

It is literally impossible for someone to be" ahead of their time", it is a meaningless phrase.

@@jaygrannell858 Of their time more accurate

@@jaygrannell858 The implication is 'they were artistically more creative and innovative than their peers.'

Yeah, whenever they could drag Morrison out of a Jim Beam bottle.

@@Celticman197 nothing wrong with him beam ! If You knew what jim was dealing with your comment would not be so harsh..

Многие рок-группы вовремя не погибли..

No way man, it ended exactly when it was supposed to end since the beginning of time that’s when it was supposed to end. Jim Morrison said he wanted to be like a comet, everybody looked up in the sky and went “wow“, then it was gone…

@@christophertiredofbs8514sounds just like Janis Joplin too; sadly both⚡️⭐️💫

@@christophertiredofbs8514 а многие проскочили..

Right on! But hey they are still reincarnating! And can you believe what Ray said? Going within . . . following that reasoning "Lighting the fire" has to do with lighting the spiritual flame within each one of us. And within our spiritual selves we find our energy opposite: female-male , negative-positive. When we go within and awaken the serpent-theSpirit, the kundalini (call it what you will) that enfolds us in an upward spiral with our opposite and we initiate and regenerate! Heard this song in the sixties; but now, with wisdom I would bet bottom dollar that this is what these Doors meant. Now I am pretty sure that two of them were initiates but not Philosophers not Regenerated, which is why we are all here to achieve with each reincarnation . . . until one is incarnated - comes back o help out. Go figure . . .

Timeless !

Except that you missed one thing... They 'are' ground-breaking.

This is so true. Fine art, pure rock and roll

Read the rolling stone article on the Doors written by Marilyn Manson. He explains: "They were odd, not actually part of any scene. The reason the Doors still fit in today is because they never fit in in the first place"

I got to see the Doors when this record broke in LA early '67. No band quite like them before or since.

Jim morrison was the best ! Solo good looking they're songs still blow. My mind I'm a old hipster from carmel calif

Jim Morrison was so unique, but what I love about him the most is his sense of humor and intelligence. The fact that he loved talking about deep topics is very rare today, people just want to be entertained and amused until they fall asleep or pass out while others are bored to death.

Right at least Dick didn't do that.

Well they weren’t playing it live was clearly a sync. With no alternative recording they couldn’t have changed the words.

“Girl we couldn’t get much better” just makes no sense. Jim was right in defying Sullivan’s archaic censorship demands. Funnier still that they agreed to his wishes and basically said fuck it anyway. Good on Clark for seemingly not even thinking about it one way or the other.

@Tony Harris "How do you characterize your music, does it have a name?" Trying to put the Doors' music in a box and label it,,,, never ever do that! Love it when Jim says "The west is the best". He had a lot of good bands on his show, but he was pretty 'straight', square.

Dick would have accepted girl why don’t you bite my wire

Touch Me is my favorite!

Lol. Good observation. No wonder it sounds just like the record.😄

You bet it is a playback

@@ricklopez7151 perhaps his 'foot hit the bass drum pedal" right in time "being he's the drummer,..or maybe not But it's a close one

@@billyidol2115 It's the same recording, but mixed differently, open your ears, idiot.

...though it sounded a little too good given how the stage looks regarding acoustics.

Lucky man !!!

Very nice 😊

How very cool!🎉

Cool!!

Did he write with both hands ??? Best wishes from Durham England

Patrick Warren Ray's organ work made them famous. Jims organ work made them infamous.

@@robbiearroyo2292 the doors worked, full stop.

@@pavanatanaya you so crazy

He is miming though! Must have been a pain in the ass having to mime for TV. You just feel like a plonker doing it- but needs must!

@@DavidAnthonyLee especially when you high as a Georgia pine.. 🤣

It's amazing that he sings on key live (not here), with ZERO vocal training and not being "a musician" per se....

@@jefsch7 He really let the music move him. When he was on, he was unstoppable.

@@Hawken707 Rush

One of the greatest

Ralph wants to say-"Really,Randy? Really? You couldn't just let me have this 1 muthafuckin' moment?!" I got your back,Ralph. 😎

The doors intended their music to last for 100 years, it's close to being 50years I'm pretty sure and I know for a fact it'll last or 50 more years to come and onwards

@@Eclipse52776 Absolutely. True art never dies.

One of the 27ers .....a tragic, wonderful group of singers.... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jqiKfKd_qbuWY6c.html

​@Grilled Cheese Sandwich it's over 50 years but I hear ya. Doors will never die

Sorry to be so blunt and literal, but he is dead and resides either in heaven or hell but wait I took it all so literally sorry his music as it seems is immortal. What a unique sound they made in that psychedelic era. He is definitely a great poet in my eyes.

😂

Very true

“underrated” 🙄 Just stfu

🔥 🥁🤣

That’s the mark of how good he was !!

The POETRY of it all....wow

Out of all the Doors songs, Crystal Ship is my favorite.

@@TheIrishrogue68 mine, as well. Simply incredible!

I agree

The Lizard King could mystically drop into a trance that the audience could share with him.

Diane M Tuttle Danzig?

Scott weiland had some similar sounding songs

This isnt the best version but this is the song i was referring to. He also sang for the doors and did the best job. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qpyeZayAtL6vdYE.html

Ray Manzarek’s voice came close. At a concert in Holland in 1968, while touring with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim Morrison passed out just before the Doors were to perform. So Ray also handled the vocals as well. That performance was available on VHS and later on DVD.

@@erinhand I don't understand

An lsd slight return if this era happened around 1992...

Did Pink Floyd ever do American Bandstand?? Or did the musicians have to be American?? But The Doors and Pink Floyd I think are part of psychedelic rock!! If I’m wrong tell me don’t just say “Man you suck!!! You don’t know anything about music!” I won’t give u a minute of my breath if you’re rude! Plain and simple

You are quite correct!! The greatest era ever in Rock was the 60s and very early 70s.Sadly,it will never be repeated again. Damn how i miss it so!! Today's music? Do they really consider that music??

@@pgh1all1 "Do they really consider that music??" Well yes, sadly for them it is. We had real artists not computer tecs with a sense of rhythm making electronic noises, and squeaky high pitched voices, lol.

Back then, we had great pop, rock, and Motown. We didn't know, at the time, it would morph into electronic garbage in the next century.

True, The Doors are unique and totally original - there’s no obvious predecessor or successor, how did it happen?

well said. Feel the same way, like it was actually real and people experienced it. It seems like another world for now

63 and I do too!

Anch'io ho 62 anni e li ascolto ancora....e quanto ho ballato ...fino allo sfinimento😊

La mente non invecchia😊

I'm not so sure......given that music has gone down hill since the 70's.

I guess I'm just too much the product of my times. I only hear a trace of regret that "she" likes downers and "he" likes uppers. It's like, "Laters, chick!"

It's about getting stoned 🙄

I also think when we compare them to now it's unquestionably "the end"

The greatest edpecislly when played on big Fender Amps or commercial sound systems at high volume

He had a good voice, but I have to go with Justin Hayward.

​@@jamesmcdonald7881🙄

I understand he was really into Sinatra.

I don't think so, The doors sold more than 110 million records so people recognize how unique they all were!!

Overlooked? I hope you’re joking. I don’t even know what you could mean.

I'll go further and say that Jim Morrison is one of the greatest rock singers of all time. He's in my top 5.

Yes and wrote great songs like 'Waiting for the Sun', 'People are Strange', etc.

The music comes through Ray. It's up to us to figure out how he does it.😁

Dick Clark asks Manzarek, "How do you categorize your music? Does it have a name?" Manzarek answers, "Well, it's impossible to put a label on it because of where we are in the music, being on the inside. You're only of the music, and all categories have to come from the outside. So someone else is going to have to say what our music is rather than us, because we are our music." Anyone capable of such a complex and pretentious response should have no trouble playing three instruments at once.

In memory of my daughter with Austin Blane Tomlinson.. her name Raven Rayann Tomlinson..aka stone

Acid insight. Brilliant!

I thought it was a bit wordy. filled with a little BS lol a better answer would have been it's spiritual music

agreed ~

always a dumbass who has to type the lyrics down in comments,,,,,,,like we didnt just hear them say it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,how original

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Professor Time

Professor Time

Donald trump makes my ass want to chew tobacco

Professor Time gee professor can she prove this? How are you? Georgia Lynn 47 and fifth area of the bowtie. Mad on 6.