The Doors - What if Jim was alive today Q&A 3/4

The Doors - What if Jim was alive today Q&A 3/4
The Doors band members talk about what it would be if Jim was alive and the connection they all shared at the L.A Woman movie premiere.
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[@lorenzoquintero132]

Smart people like the doors

[@joeschmoe6802]

Old farts like the Doors.

[@travisk4215]

Word

[@techtipsuk]

Correct

[@techtipsuk]

@@joeschmoe6802 we all become old

[@joeschmoe6802]

@@techtipsuk Yes, eventually, but it's the group that is old, now, that likes them.

[@mirc8348]

Say what y'all want, Ray is my favourite. I love his enthusiasm

[@mrsixiesrock2274]

+Mir C yall

[@nakedmrburns8940]

He's mine too, beautiful personality with wicked-sick glasses and magic fingers

[@thenewyorkpauls]

Ray was a lifelong happy hippy. And he even has a hand in punk rock lore. He’s one of the coolest people who ever lived, even just at face value without getting a sense of his infectious enthusiasm for life and art.

[@lance8080]

Mir C Ray was just trying to keep the gravy train going for all these decades.

[@TheIrishrogue68]

Lance Rexington Hy. Yep I think you may be right about this....Ray was a business/Econ major in college and always seemed to be a bit more commercially minded than the rest of the doors. And he often helped fuel the rumors floating around Jim's death, leaving open the possibility that he faked it, thereby ensuring continued media and fan interest in the band.

[@awconti]

I think Jim would have hated social media. Just from listening to his interviews from when he was alive, he was always against media and the belief that people lived their lives doing what society thought they should do. I think he literally had mentioned that he thought it was sad and that people should stop and live and not stay behind a television or fall prey to being programmed by society.

[@TheJohnnyCotts]

@Robert Jameson I used to say social media is living proof some people have too much time on their hands.

[@dashriprock5720]

I've seen those interviews and agree

[@hushed4085]

he would probably use it to influence younger people he always wanted them to know that they were the future

[@kentclark6420]

Yet aren't we all being hypocrites? What are we watching right now? Is looking at the media or TV really any different than going to a live concert? It's all relative. That's not to say that it's hard to beat the live experience. I do prefer a live performance.

[@TheTwistedMystic]

Yet he was a film student.

[@joshmartimez2235]

I was glad to get to see the surviving members of The Doors play live at The House of Blues in Dallas back in 2010. RIP Ray...

[@commentcrow2]

Robby's right. We listen to The Beatles because it's always there. We enjoy it. When we actually discover The Doors and their music, we fall in love (or maybe lust) with it.

[@RL-ww5ev]

the Beatles are always there because they're the greatest

[@etnerd4885]

@@RL-ww5ev they were literally the first band to do it all .....

[@johnstorton]

Beatles, Stones, Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf, the whole British invasion... it was all great. Really great. But it wasn't until The Doors came along that I actually FELT music on a really deep level. My life wouldn't have been quite as full without The Doors.

[@PiMpiNx187]

i love how rays voice hasnt changed EVER rest peacefully friend

[@franklindelanoroosevelt9177]

You’re right Robby, you’re not like the Beatles or the stones, YOU’RE BETTER

[@justinchurchey8915]

Oh yea, both beatles and stones suck, Doors rule!

[@j.j.4150]

@@justinchurchey8915 Says the guy with the Kiss pfp🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cheahweiren7638]

@@justinchurchey8915 no

[@justinchurchey8915]

@@cheahweiren7638 yes

[@cheahweiren7638]

@@justinchurchey8915 gimme one reason doors is better than beatles

[@Alex_Penjamin]

Bless you Ray Manzarek. Had a bummer day and his tiny ear buds bit got me laughin. RIP Ray thanks for having such a great attitude and personality. It’s truly uplifting and inspirational

[@michaelsix9684]

Ray was so cool, smart, and wonderful to listen to

[@robert.m4676]

The Doors have the it factor! Four different guys at the right place and the right time! Each member brought a unique skill set that just blended into a wild ride!

[@samslick9000]

Chemistry that can't be predicted or replicated

[@thelizardking9382]

The Doors were totally unique.

[@spitdeth]

Woah! Jim says, "stoned" at exactly 4:20 :D

[@senfmutvonwegen5449]

i truly love your red eye for detail, ray would be proud of you buddy

[@bobjones9600]

They were in film production. Who edited this clip? Think they want public credit for their craft. Or craftiness?

[@aarongoldstein8472]

friggin right baby

[@LearnerChess]

Robert Plant made a reference to "Out here in the perimeter there are no stars" as being great lyrics. Myself, I'm awestruck by four words that sum up the human condiction far better than TS Eliot's “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” (Ten words). Jim Morrison, "No safety or surprise." Poetic brilliance. There is no safety from death, nor should it come as any surprise when it occurs.

[@staceyg903]

Beautiful ❤️

[@Jerseygirl1999]

Source?

[@greenleef7770]

" smart people like the doors" amazing But also very true

[@andrewmcgregor9691]

Jim was crazy for the great love that God has to offer, I pray that he finally found that love. God bless all ♥️✌️

[@אהרוןאשכנזי-ס5מ]

The best rock band ever

[@tammybrasfield5461]

So much love✨thank you for sharing this. Perfect☀️

[@szqsk8]

The Doors paved the way for the punk rock groups to follow. Jim was the original bad boy.

[@modifiedcontent]

Not so much punk, but definately precursor of new wave, post-punk, etc.

[@doorswhofan]

Agreed: The Doors, the Who, MC5, and a few others were "proto-punk," or the precursors of punk. Iggy & the Stooges -- influenced by Morrison, and even on Elektra for their first two albums -- were the first to actually *be* punk. They stood out like sore thumbs, in fact, in the musical and cultural landscape of 1969-1970.

[@coreytoomey7579]

Punk? Hell, they paved the way for heavy metal.

[@szqsk8]

@@coreytoomey7579. Agreed. And 50 years later The Doors music is still relevant. It shows how ahead of the time they were. Sadly I was too young to have enjoyed The Doors in their prime.

[@canarsie56]

I will never stop listening to every Doors album over and over-great times great music

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

i owe a LOT of my drumming style to John. having done most of my learning on hand percussion like congas djembes and bongos (usually simultaneously, ) and discovering the doors, their whole rhythm section was just made for me to explore playing well in pure comfort.

[@GuidoCampiglio]

try to wake up every morning thinking you are the author of 'light my fire'....that is robbie krieger,..one of the best guitarist in the world!

[@TranzparentMethods]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! He was one of the best, unfortunately he was overshadowed in the media. Robby, Ray and John were great musicians that were unfairly overlooked in the media. The media just wanted to see Jim as the Doors. The Doors were one of the best bands in history musically. They accompanied one of the most outspoken front men of all time.

[@ceciliawells1099]

Only Jim Morrison could make it famous.voice and looks..then the rest of guys..

[@jamiej.tilleyphotographyar5177]

And it was his very first song he wrote! I’ve written dozens of songs, and they don’t come close...

[@brianwalsh1401]

@@ceciliawells1099 Jim needed the rest of the doors and they needed him. It was a symbiotic relationship that created the whole was greater than it's parts but obviously he was the greatest part. It didn't seem like Morrison gave a cr@p though. He seemed he could take it or leave it but maybe that was the booze. I don't think Morrison could've made it without them. If he hadn't died in Paris would he have eventually just drunk himself to death? Who knows.

[@diamonddog13]

@@jamiej.tilleyphotographyar5177 But the song would not be anything without the input of the other three - Ray's intro, John's Latin beat, and Jim's second verse. (Several of Robby's best known songs only have one verse and a chorus and required the rest of the band to fill things out.)

[@Earthtime3978]

The ending words by Robbie sum up Jim's life and death.

[@donnaking3344]

A thing of the 60’s that carried over with curiosity into the future. The Doors were able to do that.

[@andredmtr]

R.I.P Ray :(

[@fbellod86]

when you're stoned, in you're out there of the perimeter, you are immaculate ....

[@antjmi]

Love Ray and a Robby....cool as fuck

[@dfox9914]

Timeless, nameless, eternity THE DOORS.

[@maheshmayanglambam9483]

Ray definitely made a point...it's not about being God or the Messiah, it's all about being the seeker...being on the journey. Forever The Doors

[@jessicac.j]

Omg I embarrassed my mom so bad when she took me to see the Robbie Krieger band. Lol.

[@scottharrison3391]

JIm was the greatest rock lyricst ever. Ray was the foundation of the Doors, and biggest cheerleader.

[@thelordofdarkness141]

Jim was never supposed to grow old

[@jokermann01]

He was supposed to live for a lot more than 27 years, that's for damn sure!

[@ronherrera8327]

Jim Morrison is frozen in time like Hendrix. I honestly believe he had a death wish. Listen to his lyrics.

[@s.baumard8161]

@@ronherrera8327 maybe not a death wish but he wasn't feared by death

[@girlfullofsorrow]

he will stay young forever

[@hunterofliars9600]

The Beatles and the Doors were at a level that the Stones never reached. The Doors were not an underground band. The Doors were an elite band in the rock and roll world. No one like them!!! I Q'ed outside a record shop in north London in 1968 ALL NIGHT and that was the only way I could manage to get my hands on the "Waiting For The Sun" album !!

[@brianwalsh1401]

Can't we appreciate them all. They were all great groups whose music many millions of people enjoy to this day.

[@austinskaggs4184]

The doors weren’t at the level of the beatles. Not even close, in fact. It’s unfair and just not logical to compare the two.

[@Icarusvampire]

Sorry, but The Doors weren't ever at the level of The Stones or The Beatles and I am a Doors fan! The Beatles, Stones and Zeppelin are the top 3 bands in the entire world ever!!!!!!! Even if Morrison didn't die in 1971 and The Doors made another 5 albums, they would never be as big or at the level of those bands!

[@hunterofliars9600]

@@Icarusvampire The Stones were an overrated band. Don't put them alongside of the genius of the Beatles ever

[@Icarusvampire]

@@hunterofliars9600 - Overrated? The Stones are still rolling and the Beatles have been broken up since 1970! The Stones have tons of hits!

[@joeschmoe6802]

Earbuds.... right on, Ray ! That's what I like: laboring over making tracks, mixing and mastering, and then having some knit-wit listen to, and judge your recording by listening to it though earbuds.

[@breando1]

I don't think Jim could stand todays world, its turned into the nightmare he was trying wake people out of..."you're all a bunch of slaves!"

[@bobbiehudson4338]

Thank you Ray for him 😊

[@thekidsavage23]

i love you all ray the most and jim

[@lorenzoquintero132]

If you're interested in finding out what existence is all about I highly recommend LSD

[@kevinaranda5698]

@An Oasis Can Weed and Lsd are two completely different tools.

[@kevinaranda5698]

@@robertrusnak620 Did ray and the rest of the bandmates end up the same way? It's all about responsibility. Coffee is an addiction too.

[@richardmcginnis5344]

i agree with ray, tripping is the best way to find new friends and places

[@bobbiehudson4338]

Wow Ray 💕 Wow Rob 😻 For y'all's age you've done well I saw your performance recently put on KZbin with the "New Jim" sounds like him but there will never be another Jim :( !!!!!!!

[@GuitarMistress1]

haha I love Ray's description of earbuds. So true! X-)

[@peterbellini6102]

The Soft Parade is by the most deliriously jazzed-out rock band ever... "Absolutely Live" is a top 5 live album from a group where the organist plays bass with his other hand!

[@gregcraig2407]

Ray was amazed at setting the tone

[@Gentamoru]

Well i really hope Jim and Ray found "something more"

[@Keepcalmandbangscrew]

Jim would be more SUCCESSIVE!!!!!! The doors would be the best band ever!!!!!! Jim Morrison!!!!!!!! My favorite singer :)

[@musicisbrilliant]

I HAAAAAATE EARBUDS too!!!! Love Ray and Robby forever!!!!

[@stuarthancock5471]

THE DOORS - JAMES DOUGLAS MORRISON- Performer. Showman. Poet. & the Best Rock Frontman f--king ever. LEGENDS NEVER DIE. I SPOKE WITH JIM & ELVIS LAST NIGHT :)

[@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488]

I love jim but I would argue that Diamond Dave Lee Roth is the best frontman (during his prime of course..) Jim often couldn't even sing he was so wasted. Jim was over rated as a stage performer.

[@cnewman99]

Weirdest thing, Texas Radio and The Big Beat just came on the radio as I was watching this. I've never heard that on the radio before. Then it came on in the video!

[@chrave1956]

You saw Jesus !

[@Monster_Mover_Stocks]

I also agree with your comments. I read his book "Light My Fire" and found it to be the worst book on The Doors that I've ever read. I really liked John Denmore's book the best. I can't wait for Mr. Krieger's book to come out. I wish Jim's friend Babe Hill would write a book, but apparently he's living down in a silver mining town in old Mexico now.

[@Mylo12321]

The Verbally Abusive Clown what! Light my fire was a good book. Made me miss JM and I didn’t even know him. Such a sentimental book. I wasn’t a fan of Johns book.

[@doorswhofan]

Robbie claims in his book that what Ray wrote in LIGHT MY FIRE was almost totally pure bullshit. More like a novel than a memoir. Likewise, he recounts how Bill Siddons would often visit Danny Sugerman's (who added a lot of his own bullshit to NO ONE HERE GETS OUT ALIVE) house in the late 70s, and find Ray behind the typewriter doctoring the manuscript. Jerry Hopkins tried marketing the book as early as 1976 with no takers. It only got published in 1980 after Danny and Ray filled it with piles of pure horseshit that made it sell. Amazing enough story without all the embellishment, but publishers in the late 70s evidently didn't think so.

[@ivanschumacher4728]

The Doors were bad ass!

[@travisk4215]

Jim is alive, we just had coffee

[@chrave1956]

With Elvis.

[@doorswhofan]

Were that so, more like whiskey.

[@emmymorrison9365]

well said :)

[@loriodell1688]

You rock Jim.

[@GUAXIMAN]

LSD helps u to expand conciousness, well even today that statement remains correct. Find out for urself if u care, now if only every single person, no matter their differences between each other, could experience that, could understand a bit more further, man what a great place to live in this would be

[@marisaelenenadiejamusiccom3974]

It was magic. Something that was in the stars.

[@thebetbetunderground9548]

"he wanted to experience it too early..."

[@bretmaverick4993]

❤❤❤❤

[@jonanthony1957]

At 13 I would listen to the doors to go to sleep. An it was totally different than anything I ever heard.

[@jackholmes6877]

9 years ago, social media was something different than what it is today

[@bryanr.2649]

No doubt..

[@STANGm06deGT]

I guess I'm smart then....LOVE THE DOORS !!!

[@jeaniechowdhury6739]

Love em!!

[@stanbutler90]

Agreed. I never met the man, who was always looking ahead. But he might have been familiar with the subjunctive mood.

[@billg7205]

Video preview screen: Ray: I think I gonna bub Rob's head

[@auntdonut35]

yeah the doors number 1 jim very special all of them but jim wouldnt like the social media at all because he didnt like the media at all i know john densmore isnt speaking to robby or ray as of now too me 1 of the greatest bands ever and i really love how ray always says pam courson was his main love he adored her she him too they had a crazy romance but they were soulmates i know lots of ppl who have the same type of love they do its sad they both died so young rip jim and pam

[@sybillenova1465]

Ray Manzarek was disappeared in a little town in Bavaria :PRIEN am CHIEMSEE (near the castle HERRENCHIEMSEE)..same town where my father was disappeared in 2008 due to medical malpractice in a senior residence....

[@tomoday4450]

Excellent

[@MauricioTorres-dr5hg]

If Morrison was alive. He was the guy more wise in the world

[@tcrane8630]

Jim was the voice / identity of the Doors and Robbie wrote the best and biggest tunes. Densmore and Manzarek kept trying to be relevant... Krieger is so underrated and Manzarek has.to stop quoting lyrics like he wrote them. Why speak for Morrison? He pretty much said everything he wanted to up to his death.. Enjoy his work..

[@jesseflintstone3053]

Manzarek's pretty whacky, huh? Helluva keyboardist, tho. :)

[@DQ-su6qf]

To say lsd is safer than alcohol is foolish…I went through the 60’s in Los Angeles and more than one of my friends lives were pretty much destroyed as a result of lsd..

[@husseymangtv]

look at the young audience... thats crazy!

[@ignisnatura1067]

RIP Raymond D. Manzarek.

[@virus6003]

Bendiciones hermanos 🙏😇

[@bobbiehudson4338]

The lyrics and the songs are fucking amazing admit it LoL

[@bobbiehudson4338]

Where's his sunglasses 😎 Wear them, and wear them AGAIN!

[@JACKHASAIDS]

They say the best die young and of course Morrison was a very deep individual who had a huge influence over the youth.one thing I like about Jim is he was an off the wall guy who was a threat to the establishment.Todays performers all have a nice squeaky clean image

[@intelligenceservices]

Jim had talent on loan from God, he had more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, and I'll be a Jim Morrison Ditto-Head for life.

[@MauricioTorres-dr5hg]

More than everyone

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Robert Alan Krieger (Los Ángeles, California; 8 de enero de 1946) es un guitarrista de Rock and roll y compositor estadounidense. En la banda The Doors actuó como guitarrista y escribió algunas de las canciones más famosas, como Light my fire, Love Me Two Times, Touch Me, Peace Frog y Love Her Madly. En 2011 la revista Rolling Stone lo puso en el número 76 en su lista de los 100 mejores guitarristas de todos los tiempos.

[@Mylo12321]

They kept interrupting each other 😂

[@The13Guevara]

I miss my brother's 🦎👑 we are one

[@MrDeterioration]

If alive today, Morrison would despise Facebook and Twitter. Who are you kidding, Robbie?

[@GuidoCampiglio]

but u are the best!!! better than anyone!!

[@loriodell1507]

All the questions lean to Jim. Wonder how the rest of the band feels about that.

[@te_ure_nui]

I think Jim would be find big tech pretty groovy and he’d see it as progressiveness he always talked about the future an where things were heading with lots of wisdom an insight, weather or not he’d participate in having his actual own accounts? I think he’d find it disturbing an think people are out of their minds what the hell are they thinking

[@joeschmoe6802]

Why did Ray consider it Robbie's job to write songs for the Doors? Why didn't Ray write songs for the Doors? Did Ray and/or the others think that Ray wasn't up to writing songs for the Doors? He certainly was a good keyboard player, and a good pitchman.

[@mws755]

Doors and Deep Purple are both underground . Neither gets played on the radio enough accept for a few songs

[@KWCDesigns]

Its not their fault... Its only because they were overplayed a little on the radio stations, or because our generation sucks and grew out of the talented music style. In reality, each generation gets the music it deserves.

[@sterlingcooper3978]

Jim would like social media? Criticized by unknown people...doubtful Jim would have liked this, or anyone else

[@simon0802]

Looking at the audience these guys look under 30 as opposed to over 60. The Doors rock!!!

[@pteropodaros76]

Who said what Jim Morrison is not alive?

[@bobbiehudson4338]

Oh look an educated heated debate 😉

[@mcnowski]

LSD is an amazing tool for self transformation, the only thing Ray may be hurting is your perspective.

[@bluesborn]

The thumbnail looks like Ray is mussing up Robby's hair.

[@ozzybud139]

3:27 We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.- Nikola Tesla

[@orikionduffy5208]

yay i am smart ! :D

[@davidmays229]

can being clean and sober also lend itself to being immaculate ?

[@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488]

No.

[@theloner6063]

Smart people like The Doors, Wishbone Ash, Ten Years After, Golden Earring, Procol Harum, Magnum, Allman Brothers Band, Camel.....

[@philzolth4710]

Jim is still alive at least he was when i met him in 1998, hi Jim

[@christine479]

❓️ 1998? Nope, not Morrison.

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Jim would be beyond all of these guys. He would find Ray as being a wind bag!

[@8Mulligan8]

Guys what are you talking about ? It's 1967

[@sudanmagar08]

Doors know the what music makes makes life I will be like him in some way and that's true only smart people listen to doors but jim is alive you know in my soul and it's hard for me that I am not connecting with him

[@JLizard]

Who is Bill Loyer?