The doors did a concert at my high school in the San Fernando valley in LA county. in our gymnasium. It was right before they became very popular. I sat on the bleachers that were just a few feet from where Jim stood. In the middle of the concert, Jim got down on the floor and started rolling around as he sang and many of the high school audience were booing Jim, but I was loving it!! I guess the principal who was there watching the concert didn't like Jim doing that and within about 10 minutes the police arrived and as Jim laid there "very passively" on the floor, they literally "dragged him" away, he never fought back, just laid there, as many booed him and the concert ended and we were all told to "leave the gymnasium".. Many that knew me in high school knew I loved Jim and the doors and right after they dragged Jim away and concert ended they ALL told me "I had horrible musical taste, that I was so weird to like them that Jim and the doors were "disgusting and would "Never amount to anything", yeah right???lol There were two girls n my "very small gym class" who knew Jim Morrison and the doors, right before their first album came out, they hung out with them at Venice Beach. So to try to make a long story short our teacher was very laid back and cool, she let us 'work out" to the doors first album. The doors had given their album to these girls BEFORE it was released, about 6 months before it came out and "light my fire" became a hit on the radio. So all of us in my gym class were listening to their album months before it officially was released. When the album and "Light my fire" were officially released on the radio, that's when the doors came to our school and did the concert in our gymnasium. .These two girls in my gym class were "the tough ones" and very protective of me, as I got bullied, very shy, but I had a huge crush on Jim already and they managed to have Jim be introduced to me an hour before the concert, as they told him I had drawn a portrait of him (I'm an artist and do portraits) and they had told him I had a crush on him, it was weird as when they introduced Jim to me, he seemed to know about the portrait and that I was an artist and very shy,. When they told him my name and introduced him to me, Jim kind of "bowed" said my name and "so nice to meet you, I've heard a lot about you", he, took my hand and kissed it and was such a sweet gentlemen my heart fluttered and I just about melted. Suddenly there was just Jim and I standing there and we started talking about poetry and art..and when that happened I was comfortable with the great conversation, he was incredibly "well versed" and very very intelligent young man, we talked for over 10 minutes and I have never forgotten those "special moments'. Remember this is "right before" the doors became famous and a few months later most that knew me in high school, my friends and my two sisters ALL TOOK IT BACK that the doors would "never amount to anything". So just know that "Jim laying on the floor and rolling around while he sings was "nothing new for him"...
@debsandz
Ай бұрын
I love this! Thanks for sharing!
@Rhiannon011
Ай бұрын
Thanks, sorry it was so long, but these are "memories" I shall always "Cherish" and never ever forget them.
@debsandz
Ай бұрын
@@Rhiannon011 Understandably so!!! ...and it's great to hear Jim acted so kind towards you!
@snakeinthegrass7443
Ай бұрын
Peace Frog is a cool, funky jam from the Doors
@debsandz
Ай бұрын
Love Peace Frog especially when followed by Blue Sunday
@rubroken
Ай бұрын
Gloria, the first song most garage bands learned to do, back in the 60's
@BClarke
Ай бұрын
So so good. 2:50 I always loved when Jim starts the mock small talk before he and Gloria move on to…other things.
@user-bh5jv8hi3b
Ай бұрын
Jim was 1 of a kind . He definitely added a lot of chapters , that hadn't previously existed , to the "How To Be a Wild Front Man for a Rock Band ." 🙂 I Thought I mention this too as you seem to be a fan of Jim's . A Great summer read would be the Biography "No One Here Gets Out Alive" by Danny Sugerman , not sure of that last name but I've read the book several times because it's just as I said , Great "summer read" .
@loamrider3086
Ай бұрын
The live in NY version from The Doors box set has a pretty wild version of Gloria that's pretty amazing.
@alibabaghanoujtv
Ай бұрын
If you need more Them, you gotta do "Baby Please Don't Go". I'm pretty sure it's a standard blues number, but Van Morrison sings the hey now out of it.
@masabuu88
Ай бұрын
Jim Morrison sings Van Morrison!
@debsandz
Ай бұрын
Like how you coordinated your wardrobe with this reaction!
@ShawnSalvadori
Ай бұрын
😁 All by chance really!
@hog7203
Ай бұрын
Now you have to check out the John Lee Hooker/Van Morrison duet version of this song. It's 100% perfection. Of course when those two get together it's always fire. Their cover of the song "Serves Me Right to Suffer" will blow you away.
@kathyrizzi8754
Ай бұрын
I liked Jim Morrison, a lot of us did, except the police. LoL! Jim was a little crazy, but his music & voice was great!👍👏👏👏😂😂♥️
@jonathanmurphy3141
Ай бұрын
The vinyl "live" album which first featured this song came out when I was a teen - this is a studio version, yet, and extra "Not album" from the Sixties. Awesome!
@jodyjackson5475
Ай бұрын
Never heard this before wow!😮
@Sactown5472
Ай бұрын
You have to do Van Morrisons version of this song when he was with the band Them. Tom Petty did a live version of this on his Filmore West album, now he really puts a fun twist on it love it check it out.
@mikefetterman6782
Ай бұрын
Mick Jagger started the whole 'FRONTMAN' thing, and Morrison took it really dark. He disappeared into his "character".
@markgallemore8856
Ай бұрын
Them the song is called Here Comes the Night Van Morrison singing
@YeungSze
Ай бұрын
Patti Smith is definitely a name must be checked, and one performance perhaps you will be interested: When Bob Dylan won Nobel Literature Prize in 2016, he did not show up in the award ceremony, and it was Patti Smith who was chosen by the Nobel Committee to perform "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" in the ceremony, and she stumbled during it but still got a loud applause!
@rexrobertson2219
Ай бұрын
there is a longer version ~7 minutes that is even raunchier. check it out.
@brandonjones1349
Ай бұрын
Great pik brother ☘️🇺🇲
@boris53703
Ай бұрын
Must do Patti Smith Group, Gloria!!!,, the album version!!
@YeungSze
Ай бұрын
Yeah, the first line of lyrics that Patti Smith adds must shock you!
@subwaygoddess1
Ай бұрын
I agree! Patti Smith's Gloria is AWESOME!!!
@copperhopperwarren4788
Ай бұрын
🌟YES🌟 please?🎉
@dianamcmullin5231
Ай бұрын
Van's band was indeed Them
@beverlybrown2673
Ай бұрын
Jim was high as a kite, and so was most of the audience.
@brenthenderson3983
Ай бұрын
Why is it so short? Supposed to be much, much longer...
@tedsmith4385
Ай бұрын
It’s the censored version as the other version is called the dirty version. You can find it on KZitem
@teresa3778
29 күн бұрын
You want to really hear a wild Doors album...check out Soft Parade.
@BlackRoseImmortal
12 күн бұрын
Ahh this was the clean version, LOL
@bigbow62
Ай бұрын
If you want raunchy, then you want the "dirty version" of this song ! It's a must for any Doors 😉🎙fan. ( Make sure there are no youngsters in the room.... it will even embarrass most adults 😊 )
@user-gu1zb6cw6t
Ай бұрын
The early Stones really knew how to draw a police presence 😅
@joelliebler5690
Ай бұрын
Jim always comes with the Doors own style!Now try the best cover by PSG The Patti Smith Group!
@AlekGrigorian
Ай бұрын
We'll see if this is the dirty version
@DomoWiggly
Ай бұрын
Cmon man, there are two versions of this same song longer than this one! I’m not sure why this is so trimmed down. I’d give it another try with the “dirty version”
@vincentvancraig
24 күн бұрын
There are so many doors vids out there, & have been for decades , that take one of the relatively few full concerts where theres footage of them & edits it to look like theyre singing another song....i hate it....i hate it because when i was a kid watching these vids in the early 90's it totally tricked & bamboozled me....its just 80's style stuff i guess....that kind of editing became cheaper than it ever had been & they really went to town with it with the doors stuff....the "roadhouse blues" video is the same way & another example of this deceptive editing.....there is lots of doors live audio out there but not a whole lot of live footage (compared to other bands) for whatever reason, so, it gets recycled a lot into multiple vids...its just a decades old pet peeve of mine.
@mattjohn4731
Ай бұрын
Yeah Patti Smith is a legend. She's a pioneer. Also she covered Smells Like Teen Spirit very movingly
@ridemfast7625
18 күн бұрын
Their is a much better long version worth checking out. "wrap your hair around my skin... " hahaha
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