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So what do I think of when I think of
Jim Morrison like we've said before it's not just his singing what, you know
singing, what about his singing makes him great,
it's what about him makes him great or memorable or what made him a legend in
this case and a few things for me. The first
thing is we go through some songs of course like "Light My Fire" and I'm gonna
play some excerpts from that but I would think of him as kind of
being really mysterious you know, druggy, you know very
psychedelic, kinda like my shirt. I think of
tragedy you know, dying early a lot of those guys you know
overdosed and died early from Hendricks on down I mean Janis Joplin you name it
you know those guys are really strung out and that also added to his
artistry and took away from his artistry right.
I think him as being kind of like an original,
pop crooner right cause his, his vocal style was very crooner-esque you know,
think of kind of Sinatra but in a, in a rock pop sort of way right,
kind of interesting. Innovative, very innovative songs and
innovative songwriting, trend setting for sure.
Very handsome guy you know he was very much looked up to by a lot of women
guys too but definitely a you know whoo swooner, swooner and a grooner. I think
of his being an influencer, he influenced a lot of people for a lot
of generations, it's amazing. To this day people still love Jim
Morrison. I think of him as being timeless, you know he had a timeless look
about him, a timeless sound about him. I think of being the epitome, kind
of of the 60s, 70s, late 60s early 70s again very dark and kind of creepy
you know if you really think about it. He had some kind of creepy was it the
Ghost Diaries or I forget the, I forget the, you know some, it's been a
long time since I looked at that music but very unsettling you know unsettling,
"Writers In The Storm". I remember as a kid hearing that song I was like
oh that's kind of creepy I don't even know it was like a spirit about it that
made it kind of weird "Light My Fire" of course you know is one
of the songs we got "Writers In The Storm" i just mentioned,
"Love Her Madly" you know just kind of a happy (sings)
right.
So definitely some timeless, classic pieces. If I miss some you know, please
put them in the comment sections that were songs you resonated with but let's
just play this here for a minute, we'll make some comments along the way
and this is "Light My Fire" so here we go.
See all the psychedelia right.
Feels like you're underwater.
Kind of serious.
Cool now the other thing too is you know it wasn't about how incredible
his voice was, or he didn't really have any range, he was more of a
bare tone right or is a baritone and you know
he had a sexiness to his voice and he had a lot of confidence in the sound so
you got the feeling that you know he was just, he didn't care what you thought
he was going to sing right, That's sort of the impression that i get,
Here we go.
You got the James Bond dancers in the background.
Good pitch.
Very druggy.
Now again, this agaiin was like the epitome
of this era, I don't care if it was The Mamas and the Papas, I don't care if was Jefferson
Starship or Jefferson Airplane excuse me at the time you know whatever, that
whole era had this kind of whole vibe going on like 60s and 60s boogaloo you
know just very, very psychedelic, very interesting,
hairstyles.
I grew up in the 70s so this is you know a little
older for me because it was older late 60s and I you know,
born, I was born in 63.
Now if you look at his eyes, he's just kind of,
just (sings)
right he's got that kind of like whoa dude kinda
look on his face.
Now for you music enthusiasts there, guitar players, keyboard players, whatnot,
some of those arrangements were pretty complicated, some of those chord
structures were pretty interesting, they weren't typical, like go back through
and figure some of those songs out and they weren't just you know,
E, (sounds), D (sounds), A right. No there's some really interesting
composition there so kudos to them for that because very creative.
It's live.
Sounds like he lost his voice a little there.
Just kind of go into something else.
But that was also, that was also something that was interesting about that era and
I'm not in any way advocating drugs or you know promoting that in any way
but you know there was a thing where they could go off onto these tangents
and you know they could do these impromptu jam session kind of things and
even him singing different vocal lines and stuff,
very unlike today. I mean they were, you know they're just again, just being very
you know vamping on something and just
moving on to different things, being creative
and there was a lot to be said for that because i don't care if it was Led
Zeppelin, seeing The Who, seeing a lot of bands
back then where they would just kind of take you
on a journey, like on this musical journey
and it was interesting because like every night was different and every
night they would do something different. I think that's pretty stinking awesome
so and again drugs played a huge role in that and it cost them
their life but so tell me what you guys think of when you think of
Jim Morrison, please put it in the comments section. What did i miss, what,
what comes to mind when you first think of them, what do you think of the band
as a whole and most of us I'm doing this by request so please put in the
comments section who you'd like to hear me cover, that'd
be great and definitely check out my next video.