The Doors Soul Kitchen Live at Matrix "San Francisco" 1967

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

Pro tip: Robbie Krieger is the most underrated guitarist in all of classic rock.

[@fnathan0]

Captain Freedom I agree with that, sir.

[@budspencerjr2574]

Damn right, my friend...

[@CoorsBudMiller74]

The sad part is everyone including Jim were underrated. I mean sure Jim gets all the Credit for the doors, but without Ray, Robbie and John the doors wouldn’t of come close to there success... Jim would of been the first to say that too and that’s why Jim wouldn’t have ever tried to leave the doors for a solo career... ✌️

[@philo240]

True, underrated esp. compared to the Beatles & the like but there was some similarity between them when both bands' high profile members left their respective groups, influenced heavily by their GF's.

[@benmccann2180]

well dancing is fun, guitars rock but what do you want from music? To be put in a trance and learn form a preacher - satisfaction

[@henryandlindapazos9465]

Jim’s gift to music is his primal scream. No other singer can belt out those phrases at the TOP of his lungs (in tune, I might add), like “Let me SLEEP all night in your Soul Kitchen”! Listen to any Doors song. He reels you in softly, then SCREAMS out phrases like “Try to set the night on FFFFIIIIIIEEERRRR, yeah” or “Breakfast where the news is read”! Magic.

[@strangersname]

Excellent point. The power of his vocal exclamations were like no other singer. And he REALLY *meant* it.

[@KevinPalmer-lr2qv]

Yes, always loved Jim's way of letting go in a moment, from smooth crooning to an almost manic (in the best way) explosion of passion! Great stuff, can't think of anyone who comes close to that.

[@danclark3377]

Robert Plant. The bést. Ann wilson

[@cobirogers]

Love jim, but Layne's got him beat.

[@danclark3377]

Robert Plant

[@tamazichikhladze4544]

I listen The Doors evryday

[@stevewonderr]

Hard to believe this GREAT Song and version is 50 YEARS OLD this year!!!

[@ianappleton8507]

Feels like only 27 😉

[@michaelserby7697]

@@ianappleton8507 times two = old 🖤

[@Head318Hunter]

The band was very much ahead of their time.

[@mindofmatter071]

Now 55 yrs old! Update!!!

[@anthonyrichard8001]

ITS STANDN. STILL. ME2...

[@kaecake9575]

This is the first pop. John Densmore said most of his tunes come from salsa and Hispanic percussion. Ray Manzarek had a sound only described as wizardry. Jim Morrison is a mythical creature with skills of timeless illusions. Robby Krieger is just an underrated angel.

[@lemurianchick]

Huh? First pop? Not. And this is ROCK. 🤦‍♀️

[@missmama3900]

This doenst have a category.. its simply amazing and transcendental

[@Gas2311]

this is not the first pop. haha What are you smoking mate?

[@whitesabbath6581]

R.I.P. Jim Morrison (1943-1971) R.I.P. Ray Manzarek (1939-2013)

[@mariossupernaut4166]

I will listen to The Doors until they bury my fckin body

[@liamduffy2635]

100% Baby!!!

[@szqsk8]

Marios Supernaut I want Doors music playing as they are lowering my effin body into the ground! Twentieth Century Fox is my choice.

[@Alex_Penjamin]

queue feast of friends ✌️

[@theshaman256]

This is the one right here

[@blayneb7290]

@@szqsk8 The Changeling for me!

[@ghostdog7575]

What happens at 2:38 is the most epic stage win ever!

[@endahynes9056]

238 that was amazing

[@bamadeadhead]

ghostdog7575 👍🏼😎👍🏼 camera man was amazed too

[@literallyunderrated]

Unbelievable 😂😂😂

[@mikefox1591]

Proof that he wasn't always wasted on stage.

[@jonnygranville281]

If only he woulda caught a pair of panties around his neck id be more impressed... But it'd have to be some damn big panties.....nevermind 😅🤣🤣🤣

[@thecookiechannel7083]

Densmore shines on drums and Ray is a minimalist genius!

[@derekemrie2987]

Just one of the coolest "perk organ" sounds in the last 56 years...Ray always called it the "Cheesy California Organ", the Vox Continental (oh, what would one be worth today). Always loved Ray's chops!

[@johnmillercpainc]

This Doors music that was recorded Live at the Matrix was one of their best live recordings because the sound quality is excellent! In addition, they did a great job with Soul Kitchen!

[@CoorsBudMiller74]

johnmillercpainc exactly and they were trying hard including Mr. Jim Morrison

[@drampaman9370]

And you sir have a real talent for nailing down what we just witnessed. Without that bold linear comparison I don’t think I would have ever been able to iron out the wrinkles of my complex enjoyment. Except I guess, from just enjoying the jam in the first place.

[@davevrox3023]

8-23. ❤

[@miguelel3308]

Pppoppo

[@jbbj9720]

@@drampaman9370 wow...what a condesending fucking nonsense and clap trap to make yourself feel better...good job

[@ferreirafduc]

Listening to great music makes me feel so alive

[@szqsk8]

Best front man ever! I love how he taunts the audience, his jumping around on stage, throwing himself to the stage floor, etc., whipping the crowd up into a frenzy. Nobody better.

[@adrienneahern181]

Greatest rock and roll band

[@OgBlCkFooT]

Mick jagger would have something to say about this

[@SA-zf9ds]

@@OgBlCkFooTAgreed! Although I do love Jim Morrison!

[@rosemma34]

complete brat

[@SA-zf9ds]

@@OgBlCkFooT He sure would! And rightfully so, still going strong at almost 81 and Jim dead at 27. But…my two favorites for all time, most sexy and charismatic.

[@quicksilva155]

What's not to like about this song? way ahead of it's time. RIP Ray. you rocked.

[@aurelienyonrac]

Thank you

[@Nomadmandolin]

This is EARLY, great stuff. Ray is great and Robbies guitar is great! This song exemplifies The Doors.

[@MrHuarache007]

What about john? Don't forget him.

[@louiecolon9494]

Memories of my junior high school days..still listening 50+yrs later. Feb 2020

[@Rrgr5]

Soul Kitchen is a tribute to a soul food restaurant Jim Morrison ate at on Venice Beach called Olivia's.

[@impronta]

Well, a tribute to women's sex, in truth

[@giuseppedemuru8400]

Thenx

[@markfissel1143]

Perhaps recorded at the Matrix (small club in SF) but the opening visual was a performance at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose (CA), over which the song is dubbed of course.

[@samuelarroyo4084]

Amazing

[@spaghettismith8343]

Jim Morrison at the county fair .....oh to have been there I was born '67

[@gerardobarrera5507]

I will just love the doors until the last day o lf my life

[@Ijs53]

gerardo barrera the music is your only friend... until the end

[@mattmccarthy4530]

You will love them in the afterlife too. Break on thru...

[@Mapleleaflearning]

Hey Ray, say hi to Jimmy for me :)

[@tamararl4105]

uno de mis mejores viajes lsd a sido con este rolon rock the amo douglas hoy y siempre

[@henryandlindapazos9465]

“You could say it's an accident that I was ideally suited for the work I am doing. It's the feeling of a bow string being pulled back for 23 years and suddenly being let go.” ... Jim Morrison

[@ayeayecaptain26]

I wish I could have been here for this sf needs a cultural revival!

[@driftaway3896]

Nicki Mckay Yea seriously..Downtown is full of junkies and methheads now...It breaks my heart :(

[@johnd7810]

Wow your beautiful! 😌

[@spaghettismith8343]

That trippy lil blippy organ note so catchy and crazy Jim ❤️ i was born in 67

[@johnfistikis9578]

2:38 epic...for that time..pur energy..best. Band ever...

[@nathalier.9082]

Still epic today :D

[@johnd.evanscfa454]

I had a bootleg version of Live at the Matrix I bought in the mid-70s. But the sound quality was not good on that vinyl. But the quality of this recording is very good. With today's technology and finding of original tapes, music on UTube is often better than when it was first released. Been about 40 years since I last heard this version.

[@danclark3377]

Not many bootlegs we're of good quality. I've got a Jethro Tull one that's not bad. Def some bad ones

[@ritachain]

Great lyrics, meaning...thank you for posting.

[@arymniak1]

wild that music caused this much craziness back in 1967 - love this tune

[@anthonyrichard8001]

WE CRANKT IT IN FIELDS...

[@daviddelgado18]

I've read that they "the band members + some friends" used to go to a restaurant where it was open 24/7 the food was lovely and the place itself was very warm, cosy you know.. and they refer to this place as the soul kitchen.

[@MarcWilliams-v9w]

The Matrix was a roller rink opened for music by Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane, and lasted a year or two. This appears to be outside, rather than in a roller rink.

[@davejohnson-yi2rk]

The Doors were the first American group, which wasn't pieced together from some previous "super group" to have a #1 hit single on their very 1st record. The 1st to stay on the top 20 for SIX MONTHS! The first American group to earn a platinum album. ALL heir studio albums went gold. There was nothing like them before, and nothing like them since. Q: Who did they sound like? A: Nobody! The Doors sounded like "The Doors". They were American Originals! So.... is everybody in?!

[@aldolsd8303]

the doors = the masters of the perception,,

[@Ariovistus1]

Jim Morrison equals Awesome! The Doors my all time Favorite American band! Thanks for posting!

[@danclark3377]

Excellent

[@jehugo66]

I was ONE then. Now I’m 57. Wow!

[@juliendurden298]

J'adore Jim Morrison depuis 1995 je suis un fan

[@pygmy358]

I never really cared for this song till i heard this live version

[@lesg24]

It looks like a pretty wild time.

[@bluewendigo672]

Les Ger it was

[@MykeandDebbi]

1st time I saw a vid with so many hits & zero dislikes / thumbs down. Doors & Morrison truely were special !

[@NZ_Man]

No one held an audience like Morrison that's for sure🙂

[@sorelsuareztube]

I wanna make a party and listen to this song over and over all night

[@viajeraa5000]

learn to forget, learn to forget ...

[@johnmillercpainc]

EXCELLENT song by The Doors!--One of their best!

[@markwilkerson5848]

A truly great song. Far beyond my capabilities to boil down which of their songs are among their best. I suppose that's because I've never heard any Doors music that wasn't essentially excellent. I feel like that about others, too, especially Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. Those artists and the Doors are, to me, on a whole 'nuther level. Their music sounds as good to me today and is just as relevant as it was the first time I ever heard it.

[@L1nuxero]

Jim is praying for us...

[@HandsOfSweed]

RIP, Ray. 😭

[@steinguy70]

You gotta LOVE the 2:40 mark. Pretty Good . . . Pretty Neat

[@emanuelemazzucotelli1272]

learn to forget

[@blayneb7290]

Robbie's guitar rhythm riff behind the verses was meant to replicate a James Brown band horn section (soul right?). Think he did an awesome job!

[@MaxPowerEveryHour]

The singing at the end is awesome.

[@PipinhoSnow]

THe best band ever!

[@davidrboland]

Although the song is credited to the whole band I saw a Sky UK documentary about the making of the album & the surviving members/producers etc said that Morrison mainly wrote it - i.e. the tune as well as the lyrics. Apparently he wrote a lot of their tunes, even though he couldn't play any instrument.

[@carloslarios2180]

Light another cigarrette, learn to forget 🚬

[@davevrox3023]

❤ remastered tapes finally. 8-3-23 😊

[@rangepuppies]

Hilarious footage of Jim running to hide under the stage... brilliant performance this take.

[@Nikele1967]

Concert the year I was born, posted on the day I was born, 2011! Great video!

[@jnewman715]

This concert is from 44 years prior, yet to this day no one has ever written subliminal lyrics nor has a band been able to play improv around a singer who arrived either straight, drunk, tripping or on heroin and tranquilizers as the Doors. Grace Slick singer for Jefferson Airplane was amazed at the versatility of the band, yet after Jim's death the band's music it produced wasn't the high quality it had been. Many one hit wonders are out there, but no one has loved all the songs of this group like that of the Doors, generation after generation because of their free spirited sound. try listening to "end of the night" and "Indian summer"

[@philo240]

Truly on point as many other bands would have disbanded at some point but somehow the other 3 didn't allow their own egos to disrupt the flow during that creative time period & realizing he was the nucleus, evolved to become one of the best improvising bands on the planet so that's a testament to those 3 Doors members.

[@sergioorozcovillanueva3957]

Love they Doors

[@jasonsphinx8461]

Everyone says "hi!" Be seeing you...

[@jorgealcay882]

Adelantado a su era 🔥

[@spaghettismith8343]

That keyboard is so groovy this whole song is so damn groovy

[@christopherconlan3205]

evidently I sang this song at karoke the other night! I think I might have broke something starting with my back! Three people on all sides of town said "Fucking Soul Kitchen Chris" -- even at the grocery store!

[@spiritoflights]

I would say as a casual observer that in this footage they are performing "unknown soldier" although I could be wrong but who is to really know with all the editing that people do I know not why attention maybe disillusionment most probably .This recording is at the matrix as far as we are to know from what we are feed in exchange for money.

[@cooldude1547]

Genius all of them

[@DanielGofenko]

Best LOL Doors Morrison Band LOL never forgotten forever forget 🎉🎉🎉 Never LOL dies

[@ecjr77]

f****ing cool

[@laughmanamandan]

amazing especially 2:20-3:40 or so. RIP Ray Manzarek.

[@melanyyarenygarciasoto2590]

Love john you

[@ChristianRodriguez-jy3wj]

Sofi Lopez garcia back off John is mine.

[@mattmccarthy4530]

This is alot better fidelity than I've heard before. Sounds like a later version.

[@stacydarren4712]

Wish you were here.... 💕

[@alfonsopacheco6464]

great!

[@barthelemyferreri9043]

The doors👍😘 ❤😇

[@frederickmiles327]

I always felt this is the greatest doors song. It just explodes on the millenial streets of San Jose, Hawthorne, Quincy the Bronx . Too fast for the band to think there doing it auto and barely hanging on.

[@charlieamabile1360]

I love this song.

[@cbastianrodriguez8785]

Jim is a 👽 the best 👍⭐💕👌🤘💣💥

[@damondavis6221]

Best video 🏆

[@davidhuerta5691]

Lo mejor de lo mejor

[@davejohnson-yi2rk]

Obviously this outdoor concert is NOT the Matrix, but some early 8mm footage, some of the last known footage of the great band playing at an outdoor venue.

[@alfonsopacheco6464]

había visto algunas fotos del primer concierto pero no en video, me recuerda al Hollywood bowl.

[@cavedoug4697]

long live the Lizard king.

[@dimascruzguzman45]

like the doors

[@barthelemiferrerie647]

The Doors ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@terasasanders8155]

Great Soft !!! Like me still 1 place for me to go.....

[@carloslarios2180]

Good audio! This sounds great

[@markdelcheccolo9191]

The footage and song don't match but still I love to watch Jim Morrison look like he's having a meltdown. Jim Morrison was definitely 1 of a kind 😎

[@tomlanning9512]

OUT OF SIGHT AND OUT OF MIND I MEAN FAROUT OF MIND AND SPACE AND ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!

[@Sparkes669]

Genius.

[@Jubilo1]

Doors belong indoors.

[@donovanjimenezchavez4987]

ME VUELVE L O K O THE DOORS

[@josegutierrezandersstevens9536]

Que video tan chingon, arriba los doors....

[@emanuelemazzucotelli1272]

into your soul kitchen.... wow no surprise

[@outlaw210superstar2]

the doors r 🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎹

[@doomgloom8414]

YEAH!❗✔

[@sacluvsBM]

Almost none of this footage is at the Matrix. Also Jim was not a full blown drunk in '67. That falling down and having mini seizures was a part of the act. I saw them play second to the Seeds in October '66 and he fell down then as well.

[@charlax7]

they did this without morrison once to my way of thinking the musick is the best eye like the song it was the best doors song ever

[@leon12393]

como uan cancion puede cabiarte todo en la puta vida los mejores the doooooooooooooors

[@MichaelBingen57]

rain in spain falls mILY ON THE PLAILN

[@InGodsMind]

Quality Footage. From the first step of the foot.

[@pacnwcomre1]

"Learn to forget....."..…….The ultimate irony of civilization mixed with Nietzsche's "Bright Midnight" and what lies beyond. The live version in New York (from "Absolutely Live") is a better recording and both Manzarek and Krieger produce outstanding solos in that song (they're better than the original recording).

[@jackmeoff7099]

0:52 someone threw a rock right at jims pants bulge for doing that spaz dance lmao..

[@Selena8461]

JACK MEOFF FUCK I'm laughing so hard at that

[@Nomadmandolin]

LEARN to forget...

[@jozepledoleda]

Ray Manzarek is No1!