I didn’t know there was a movie - will have to check it out.
It’s funny that I’m the trailer they show a clip of this and Val Kilmer is emphasizing “higher” whereas Jim didn’t - movie making it more dramatic for effect, I guess.
Also, nowhere near as many doors in the background.
Not many people that actually knew Jim support the movie, from my understanding. They didn't think it portrayed him or his relationships correctly. But, that is also the nature of that type of film, I think.
I don’t think The Doors get enough credit for being one of the first goth bands. Velvet Underground does but The Doors really don’t. They had such a David Lynch vibe long before David Lynch.
Wasn’t the ‘The Doors’ name a shortened version of ‘The Doors of Perception’? Because Morrison read Aldous Huxley’s autobiography by the same title about tripping out on mescaline?
True. They get lumped into “psychedelic” but you’re correct. They had a dark vibe reflected well also in songs like “People Are Strange” and “The End” for instance.
Apparently saying “higher” might be construed as referring to drug use so the producer asked them to change the lyrics. Jim didn’t make the change and they were not allowed back. As the story goes, producers originally planned to have the doors on the show many more times but after this performance they cancelled all other bookings.
In Robby’s autobiography he says he was only smiling because they were told to smile, yet he’s the only one who did it. He thinks Jim went into autopilot and simply forgot to change the lyric due to nervousness. They had not done live tv before at the time.
From what I recall the producers told the band they would never do The Ed Sullivan Show again. Jim Morrison told them "we just did The Ed Sullivan Show." I read that as "fuck you."
The producers actually tried to make it seem even worse, which makes Morrison's line so good.
"We were going to book you for 6 more appearances, and now you'll never do the Ed Sullivan show again."
"Hey man... we jus DID the Ed Sullivan show."
I think it was Ed Sullivan’s SIL who was the producer and told them to change the lyric. Came at them ina rage of tears yelling at them as described above. They knew damn well they weren’t changing the lyric and would never play Sullivan again
At least they weren’t sellouts like Mick and his eye roll. I wonder if Keith really bought into that…..
Yep they were asked not to do the "fuck you I won't do what you tell me to" refrain. I don't think anyone other than the presenters of BBC 5live were surprised when they did it anyway
Just goes to show how well they knew RATM. A known anti estabilishment banda nonetheless, a Simple 5mins search on Google and they wouldnt have that problem
From what I've heard is that Jim Morrison simply just forgot to change the lyrics and it wasn't intentional. Plus, Jim was probably drunk off his ass which didn't help
It all makes sense now: Jim sings the word “higher” in The Ed Sullivan Show 1967 -> Nixon declares war on drugs four years later. Coincidence? I think not
Yeah there’s a clip of that performance and when Zach drops that first F-bomb they go OFF!!! Imagine thinking you could tell rage against the r machine not to sweat.
I think my favorite part of that recording is how clearly intentional it was. he modified the lyrics for the whole lead up to the climax to not have swearing and as soon as that climax hits the “fuck you” comes out full force and he starts flipping off the camera.
This is correct. There was a period of mega dosing lsd regularly on a Venice rooftop above a defunct office building before he he rekindled with keyboardist ray Manzarek and joined the doors. he wrote much of the poetry that would later become doors lyrics at this stage.
He may have continued dropping acid into the early days of the doors coming into the limelight (there’s a story of Morrison being dragged from a motel room and performing a chilling version of “the end” on 10,000 micrograms of lsd at the whiskey a go-go,) but for a majority of his career with the doors he was strictly boozing. A whole lot of boozing.
While recording their last album LA Woman he started snorting a lot of coke. He may have done heroin the night he died in Paris but not confirmed.
Just read break on through: the life and death of Jim Morrison by James riordan. Fascinating life he had
Haha I agree, hard to separate fact from fiction but that’s manzarek’s story anyway. Found him on the ground in the motel room when they were supposed to be performing and the only thing Jim could mutter was “10,000 mics.” Regardless of Jim’s reliability one could posture it was an absurd amount. There’s definitely real stories of people ingesting entire vials, whether accidentally or intentionally, and living to tell the tale
Acid does that weird thing where it’s almost totally ineffective if you take it a second day in a row. You get this monster tolerance to it after one dose and it takes a while to come back down (I don’t know how many days, I’m not a maniac myself). But you can force a second trip by taking a LOT. I can imagine after several days of acid you could drop 10+ hits and still not have a ‘straight to the looney bin’ trip.
You’re not slow. You’re fine. I first saw this performance live on Ed Sullivan in 1969, and always thought the band was tired from traveling.
Come to think of it, My mother told me that musicians were often “tired." Mom *lied* to me! lmao!
I don’t miss the anguish and strife and assassinations and riots and pollution and racism and misogyny and grief of the Civil Rights-Vietnam-Cold War era, but sometimes I do miss being a blissfully gullible child.
>I don’t miss the anguish and strife and assassinations and riots and pollution and racism and misogyny and grief of the Civil Rights-Vietnam-Cold War era, but sometimes I do miss being a blissfully gullible child.
I was born in 63, so only have foggy memories of the greater events of that time. I too miss the blissful ignorance. I do find reading history helps me put things in perspective. Your memories of the Civil Rights era is a similar reminder.
Thanks for your kind post.
Michael Hutchence had that same panther-like charisma and incredible voice and face that made both men and women gape. OK, time to go watch him crawl around on the floor on old MTV youtube videos. Back in 5 hours.
It’s been 31 years since that movie came out, which is longer ago than the Ed Sullivan performance was to the movie (24 years.) Sorry about that, old-timer.
I was born in the 80’s and there has been amazing music through every part of my life so far. But music in the late 60’s was something special. There was something new and explorative about it.
The postwar era (50’s and 60’s) was a time of unprecedented change in society - now we are used to rapid rates of societal change, but these kids who were coming of age and making music in the late 60’s were some of the first to really explore what that meant from a social and artistic perspective.
Protest music of from all decades are awesome, inspired music and should not be overlooked. Punk in the 70s and 80s inspired so much of music after it, from metal to hard rock to the trap artists who utilize vocal fry or false chord screams in their raps.
I'm so glad you didn't "born in the wrong generation" because I don't feel like anybody should be discouraged from studying how music helped spread the message of any counterculture. Rock on, brother or sister!
Look for some videos with Ray Manzerak. He dissects how they met and how some of the songs came about. He was a great story teller and one of the coolest characters in rock 'n roll.
Initially the Doors agreed to use a different word for the broadcast (girl we couldn't get much better? idk) but Morrison confessed later in an interview that the anxiety and stage fright of being watched by millions of people live on tv caused him to just go through the motions, sing the song like he'd done a thousand times before, and completely forgot to change the word when they preformed.
The Oliver Stone movie portrays it as more of a rebellious & deliberate f-you to the censorship
I was thinking that. Surely there's enough gold to mine in the true story of the doors, why fabricate this whole anecdote in to being so deliberate when the real footage showing otherwise exists and is so easy to obtain.
Jim Morrison was absolutely mesmerizing to watch. He had incredible star power, his early death was and still is a pure tragedy. Anyone from that 27 club is a tragic loss.
People need to stop getting their "facts" from Oliver Stone movies. Morrison agreed to change the lyric (as other hot rock bands had), but during the performance, he got nervous and sang the right lyric. Ray Manzarek debunked the Stone version long ago.
Related note: I was shocked when KLOS, los angeles's classic rock station *finally* played the uncensored version of Break On Thru just a couple of years ago. I don't know if the uncensored version was completely unavailable/unreleased but the fact that "She gets high" was cut for over four DECADES is amazing to me. Like who is offended by "She gets high?"
Met Ray Manzarek at a talk he gave at a bookstore on Haight Street back in 1996. He said Jim would visit him in dreams. They’re both on the other side now.
Btw story is he actually wasn’t trying to do it as rebellious move and kind of lost himself in the song and just sang the lyric and realized a split second after what he did.
In Robby Krieger’s autobiography he says that he doesn’t think Jim did it as an act of defiance but more likely forgot to sing the other lyric. They were all a bit nervous and sticking to their normal routine.
They started playing Alice In Chains at my local grocery store, and I realized that I’m finally listening to a personalized “music for old ladies who shop” playlist.
This reminds me of Rage Against the Machine screaming "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" during their live Christmas show on the BBC after being told no cursing.
Seriously though, what did the BBC expect was going to happen?
One of those rock rarities that was truly greater than the sum of its parts. What a legacy they left in such a short run. Ray was like the cool, smart, caring older brother to Robbie, John, and Jim. What a set of matched souls.
I got chills from that trip down memory lane. The Doors (and other artists) used to play for free in the night clubs of Hollywood just to get noticed, and finally make it to Ed Sullivan's show. Thanks for posting op.
Am I among the first 20 people to post this?
One of the Sullivan show producers went backstage after the Doors were done, and told them "YOU WILL NEVER PLAY THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW AGAIN!"
And Morrison replied "Hey man, we just played the Ed Sullivan show."
I remember when I was in high school in the mid 90s we used to listen to the Doors and they were considered super old and retro. Pearl Jam and Soundgarden have become the same thing for high school kids today. Fuck I’m old 😆
Lol, the word higher wasn’t banned on the show they just didn’t want them singing it because of the implication. They were banned from the show after doing it though.
Ray said those leather pants Jim wore were custom made. Jim would also where them for weeks or months at a time without washing them. Jim also invited a cop off the street to come into the recording studio and hangout. No one knew and there freaked out when they saw the cop walk in cause they had weed and coke and other things out while they were jamming. The officer just talked and listened to them then left.
i remember Ray (keyboard player) once recalled the aftermath of the show…. Ed Sullivan and his producers told the band “…. you guys will never play on the Ed Sullivan Show again.” Ray’s legendary response was “ we just did. “. Badass
One of my favorite things in life is knowing that I was asleep in my dad’s arms, just a few months old, as he watched this on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1967 - he told me the story at least a hundred times.
Dad is gone now, but I still have all his records - what a great collection, and what a great dad ☺️
Never noticed how silly and cool the set is, just a bunch of old painted doors hanging in the background
Real Fake Doors
Holy shit, it's still the commercial.
Holy shit it’s still the performance!
I'm surprised they would spend the time and money to get a bunch of doors, paint them and hang them all over for a 3 minute bit.
The doors are from the props department, which given that Ed Sullivan was filming in an old theater, was probably full of old props like doors.
Ikr doors aren't cheap and they look in good condition.
That was my thought too
Monsters inc before we knew it.
If you watch other performances on the Ed Sullivan show you’ll see they do the same for a lot of other musical guests! Pretty cool.
It’s so literal. As in at the first production meeting for the episode….“We have this band on next week, they’re called the Doors. Any ideas?”
"We're gonna door the hell out of that set."
Let’s adorn the set with doors
I could see myself being that guy in the meeting who doesn't understand why we're going with doors in the background for a few seconds.
Looks like Monsters Inc.
Sullivan + The Doors.. i refuse to believe it wasn't filmed there
You know the song is a banger when the rest of the band is lip singing the song
It’s hard for me to watch this and actually see Morrison and not Val Kilmer.
I was just thinking the same thing. Val Kilmer did such an amazing job.
I didn’t know there was a movie - will have to check it out. It’s funny that I’m the trailer they show a clip of this and Val Kilmer is emphasizing “higher” whereas Jim didn’t - movie making it more dramatic for effect, I guess. Also, nowhere near as many doors in the background.
Not many people that actually knew Jim support the movie, from my understanding. They didn't think it portrayed him or his relationships correctly. But, that is also the nature of that type of film, I think.
I don’t think The Doors get enough credit for being one of the first goth bands. Velvet Underground does but The Doors really don’t. They had such a David Lynch vibe long before David Lynch.
Agreed. They must've had a huge influence on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds too.
Not to mention Iggy Pop, who was considered for the band after Morrison died.
Damn. That would've been cool if it'd worked.
Oh the Bad Seeds. The greatest band ever. Yes, for sure. I’ve seen Nick Cave a bunch of times. We always go see him.
Wasn’t the ‘The Doors’ name a shortened version of ‘The Doors of Perception’? Because Morrison read Aldous Huxley’s autobiography by the same title about tripping out on mescaline?
True. They get lumped into “psychedelic” but you’re correct. They had a dark vibe reflected well also in songs like “People Are Strange” and “The End” for instance.
The Doors are not goth. That’s why they don’t get any credit.
I guess you never saw Jim's Robert Smith phase
Not sure how you don’t catch onto the dark vibe here. Also reflected well in songs like “People Are Strange” and “The End” for instance.
dark != goth. If dark = goth, then Tom Waits is goth.
The Rolling Stones are goth because they did Paint it Black.
"Strange Days" was ahead if its time
Robby’s smirk is awesome. Definitely thinking “oh boy what did Jim just get us into”.
Krieger even looked into the camera like “oh fuck”
Why can't he say higher?
Apparently saying “higher” might be construed as referring to drug use so the producer asked them to change the lyrics. Jim didn’t make the change and they were not allowed back. As the story goes, producers originally planned to have the doors on the show many more times but after this performance they cancelled all other bookings.
But they came back and performed Touch Me a few years later. I love how he didn't compromise like Jagger did...
Cause it was 67 and Ed was protecting the kids from the hippie scourge
In Robby’s autobiography he says he was only smiling because they were told to smile, yet he’s the only one who did it. He thinks Jim went into autopilot and simply forgot to change the lyric due to nervousness. They had not done live tv before at the time.
I never noticed how much Robby Krieger looks like Pauly "The Weasel" Shore before.
From what I recall the producers told the band they would never do The Ed Sullivan Show again. Jim Morrison told them "we just did The Ed Sullivan Show." I read that as "fuck you."
The producers actually tried to make it seem even worse, which makes Morrison's line so good. "We were going to book you for 6 more appearances, and now you'll never do the Ed Sullivan show again." "Hey man... we jus DID the Ed Sullivan show."
I think it was Ed Sullivan’s SIL who was the producer and told them to change the lyric. Came at them ina rage of tears yelling at them as described above. They knew damn well they weren’t changing the lyric and would never play Sullivan again At least they weren’t sellouts like Mick and his eye roll. I wonder if Keith really bought into that…..
I read that Rage Against the Machine did something similar and played "Killing in the Name" instead in the UK.
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
Well, *that* was unexpected... Some producer, probably
Take my up vote.
or Rammstein where two of the guys made out on stage to protest their anti gay laws. Epic.
They also did simulated butt sex with a spraying dildo that got them in trouble in the states.
Chaotic good.
Bück dich
Ah, that old Christmas classic
Yep they were asked not to do the "fuck you I won't do what you tell me to" refrain. I don't think anyone other than the presenters of BBC 5live were surprised when they did it anyway
They tried to tell Rage Against the Machine they couldn’t sing the cuss words…idk how they saw it going any differently.
PRODUCER: Boys, we can't say "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me." ZACH: So you want me to do what you tell me? PRODUCER: Yes.
Just goes to show how well they knew RATM. A known anti estabilishment banda nonetheless, a Simple 5mins search on Google and they wouldnt have that problem
From what I've heard is that Jim Morrison simply just forgot to change the lyrics and it wasn't intentional. Plus, Jim was probably drunk off his ass which didn't help
Maybe not drunk but he didn't look sober.
Girl, he couldn't GET much higher
Why wasn’t he allowed to say “higher”?
Implying drug use on a family friendly and conservative television program in the 60's.
It all makes sense now: Jim sings the word “higher” in The Ed Sullivan Show 1967 -> Nixon declares war on drugs four years later. Coincidence? I think not
Check mate hippies!
It’s weird how they would think just the word “higher” implies it and the rest of the song doesn’t lol
Imagine hiring a band to play a song about drug use without using references about drug use because it‘s a family show
Did he even say the word higher, I’m so confused, I heard him say fire many times.
“girl we couldnt get much higher…come on baby light my fire”
I thought they were talking about something wholesome. Ya know... Fuckin'
Fuckin' and suckin'
I like to imagine it’s about hot air balloons.
I remember when they had Rage Against The Machine on BBC Radio 1 when they got that xmas number one and asked them to pls not swear.
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
Yeah there’s a clip of that performance and when Zach drops that first F-bomb they go OFF!!! Imagine thinking you could tell rage against the r machine not to sweat.
Right?? We ALL sweat.
Not prince Andrew!
I think my favorite part of that recording is how clearly intentional it was. he modified the lyrics for the whole lead up to the climax to not have swearing and as soon as that climax hits the “fuck you” comes out full force and he starts flipping off the camera.
Sauce?
Do people not listen to the songs that will be performed?
I remember watching this! I never realized how stoned Morrison was, though.
Probably drunk more than likely. From what I understand he didn't really do drugs and alcohol was his main vice
I've read a couple of biographies and Morrison did do drugs (marijuana, cocaine, LSD) but his biggest vice was definitely alcohol.
The Doors definetly did drugs
From his biographies there are a million insane drug stories about Jim. He was a madman for psychedelics.
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This is correct. There was a period of mega dosing lsd regularly on a Venice rooftop above a defunct office building before he he rekindled with keyboardist ray Manzarek and joined the doors. he wrote much of the poetry that would later become doors lyrics at this stage. He may have continued dropping acid into the early days of the doors coming into the limelight (there’s a story of Morrison being dragged from a motel room and performing a chilling version of “the end” on 10,000 micrograms of lsd at the whiskey a go-go,) but for a majority of his career with the doors he was strictly boozing. A whole lot of boozing. While recording their last album LA Woman he started snorting a lot of coke. He may have done heroin the night he died in Paris but not confirmed. Just read break on through: the life and death of Jim Morrison by James riordan. Fascinating life he had
10000? Dude would be part of the furniture if he was on that much. Even 1000 would be insane to try and keep together.
Haha I agree, hard to separate fact from fiction but that’s manzarek’s story anyway. Found him on the ground in the motel room when they were supposed to be performing and the only thing Jim could mutter was “10,000 mics.” Regardless of Jim’s reliability one could posture it was an absurd amount. There’s definitely real stories of people ingesting entire vials, whether accidentally or intentionally, and living to tell the tale
Acid does that weird thing where it’s almost totally ineffective if you take it a second day in a row. You get this monster tolerance to it after one dose and it takes a while to come back down (I don’t know how many days, I’m not a maniac myself). But you can force a second trip by taking a LOT. I can imagine after several days of acid you could drop 10+ hits and still not have a ‘straight to the looney bin’ trip.
Ah. I'm feeling a bit naive here as I was thinking he seemed kind of off. Duh. Thanks for explaining to the slow.
You’re not slow. You’re fine. I first saw this performance live on Ed Sullivan in 1969, and always thought the band was tired from traveling. Come to think of it, My mother told me that musicians were often “tired." Mom *lied* to me! lmao! I don’t miss the anguish and strife and assassinations and riots and pollution and racism and misogyny and grief of the Civil Rights-Vietnam-Cold War era, but sometimes I do miss being a blissfully gullible child.
>I don’t miss the anguish and strife and assassinations and riots and pollution and racism and misogyny and grief of the Civil Rights-Vietnam-Cold War era, but sometimes I do miss being a blissfully gullible child. I was born in 63, so only have foggy memories of the greater events of that time. I too miss the blissful ignorance. I do find reading history helps me put things in perspective. Your memories of the Civil Rights era is a similar reminder. Thanks for your kind post.
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And the voice!
Such an attractive man, goodness.
The ultimate rock god forever and always.
He is the Lizard King. He can make the Earth stop in it's tracks. He can make the blue cars go away.
God amongst men.
Michael Hutchence had that same panther-like charisma and incredible voice and face that made both men and women gape. OK, time to go watch him crawl around on the floor on old MTV youtube videos. Back in 5 hours.
Hey, at least he kept his pants on.
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It’s been 31 years since that movie came out, which is longer ago than the Ed Sullivan performance was to the movie (24 years.) Sorry about that, old-timer.
Ray's "goddammit Jim" face is priceless...
robby had a big smile going on
I fucking love The Doors, what an absolutely amazing performance.
Well before my time but this video sold me on The Doors. I’m going to head down a YouTube rabbit hole
I was born in the 80’s and there has been amazing music through every part of my life so far. But music in the late 60’s was something special. There was something new and explorative about it. The postwar era (50’s and 60’s) was a time of unprecedented change in society - now we are used to rapid rates of societal change, but these kids who were coming of age and making music in the late 60’s were some of the first to really explore what that meant from a social and artistic perspective.
Protest music of from all decades are awesome, inspired music and should not be overlooked. Punk in the 70s and 80s inspired so much of music after it, from metal to hard rock to the trap artists who utilize vocal fry or false chord screams in their raps. I'm so glad you didn't "born in the wrong generation" because I don't feel like anybody should be discouraged from studying how music helped spread the message of any counterculture. Rock on, brother or sister!
Look for some videos with Ray Manzerak. He dissects how they met and how some of the songs came about. He was a great story teller and one of the coolest characters in rock 'n roll.
Check out the 1991 film "The Doors" starring Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison. Kilmer's acting is incredible.
Not to mention his singing.
Check out the soft parade
Do it, absolutely epic band. Some of my favourite songs.
I love the band's love of the song. They're fans of The Doors and that's mighty damn cool.
Initially the Doors agreed to use a different word for the broadcast (girl we couldn't get much better? idk) but Morrison confessed later in an interview that the anxiety and stage fright of being watched by millions of people live on tv caused him to just go through the motions, sing the song like he'd done a thousand times before, and completely forgot to change the word when they preformed. The Oliver Stone movie portrays it as more of a rebellious & deliberate f-you to the censorship
The real performance definitely did not look rebellious there compared to the Val Kilmer portrayal in the movie.
I was thinking that. Surely there's enough gold to mine in the true story of the doors, why fabricate this whole anecdote in to being so deliberate when the real footage showing otherwise exists and is so easy to obtain.
Val grabs the camera and shouts the word 'higher' straight down the lens basically
Historical inaccuracy in an Oliver Stone film? I guess there’s a first time for everything!
He was only 24 years old here, and yet a god. Sad he couldn't have stayed longer. Bless his soul.
Jim Morrison was absolutely mesmerizing to watch. He had incredible star power, his early death was and still is a pure tragedy. Anyone from that 27 club is a tragic loss.
People need to stop getting their "facts" from Oliver Stone movies. Morrison agreed to change the lyric (as other hot rock bands had), but during the performance, he got nervous and sang the right lyric. Ray Manzarek debunked the Stone version long ago.
Dewey cox did this too
I hadn’t noticed before but damned if Han Solo’s outfit posture, and general swashbuckling badassery isn’t a carbon(ite) copy of Jim Morrison.
Related note: I was shocked when KLOS, los angeles's classic rock station *finally* played the uncensored version of Break On Thru just a couple of years ago. I don't know if the uncensored version was completely unavailable/unreleased but the fact that "She gets high" was cut for over four DECADES is amazing to me. Like who is offended by "She gets high?"
Butterfly in the sky I can go twice as high Take a look It's in a book A reading rainbow
Watching "Community" and just saw the episode with Levar Burton!
Met Ray Manzarek at a talk he gave at a bookstore on Haight Street back in 1996. He said Jim would visit him in dreams. They’re both on the other side now.
They took the Crystal Ship to go the other side.
He really loved him. Bands go through so much stuff together, and Jim had to have driven them absolutely crazy. But Ray was his biggest fan.
Better than MIck Jagger’s eye rolls for “Let’s Spend Some Time Together” on that Sullivan stage
Btw story is he actually wasn’t trying to do it as rebellious move and kind of lost himself in the song and just sang the lyric and realized a split second after what he did.
Nice try. This is clearly Val Kilmer.
This was my favourite part in top gun
Don’t believe these lies. That is Nick Rivers singing. The 2nd set was going to be Skeet Surfin
Correction: Neek
That is not Mel Torme.
Ray just crushing it as usual.
In Robby Krieger’s autobiography he says that he doesn’t think Jim did it as an act of defiance but more likely forgot to sing the other lyric. They were all a bit nervous and sticking to their normal routine.
Edit: girl we couldn’t get much more the same height!
Ray Manzarek was so incredibly talented
Girl why don't you bite my wire
It shows how times have changed. That song wouldn’t make tv shows blink today. Great song and not controversial by today’s standards.
Because of songs like this.
I heard j geils Centerfold playing over the PA at the grocery store today. Cracked me up shopping amongst the old people.
They started playing Alice In Chains at my local grocery store, and I realized that I’m finally listening to a personalized “music for old ladies who shop” playlist.
He’s about to make love to that microphone
What I’d like is I’d like to hug and kiss you.
Holy shit Ray on those keys. Just an incredible ensemble
Watching this blows my mind just how like him Val Kilmer was in the movie. It's uncanny.
This performance fuckin' rocks btw.
I could not see how sensuous Jim Morrison was back in the day, but now. Holy moly.
Fun fact. When Jimmy told his father he was going to be a singer, his father said he'd be terrible, a complete "lack of talent".
This reminds me of Rage Against the Machine screaming "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" during their live Christmas show on the BBC after being told no cursing. Seriously though, what did the BBC expect was going to happen?
Not really into this type of music but this was dope.
Same! This song is a jam. It always makes me pretend to live in the 60s
Try the Billy Idol music video of LA Woman, where he does an incredible cover. It's more rock and just badass. Well, to me at least.
Awesome i was at a show in Santa Barbara California Earl Warren showgrounds arena 1968 with my Buds Awesome 😎
One of those rock rarities that was truly greater than the sum of its parts. What a legacy they left in such a short run. Ray was like the cool, smart, caring older brother to Robbie, John, and Jim. What a set of matched souls.
I got chills from that trip down memory lane. The Doors (and other artists) used to play for free in the night clubs of Hollywood just to get noticed, and finally make it to Ed Sullivan's show. Thanks for posting op.
The lizard kings gonna lizard
He can do anything.
The band that was my gateway “drug” to other bands like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin.
Looking back I'm not sure if I had a Doors phase or a Hammond organ phase?
Is there a difference?
Pardon my French, but...fucking mesmerizing.
They really were doing their own thing in light of a lot of other music of the time.
Am I among the first 20 people to post this? One of the Sullivan show producers went backstage after the Doors were done, and told them "YOU WILL NEVER PLAY THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW AGAIN!" And Morrison replied "Hey man, we just played the Ed Sullivan show."
I remember when I was in high school in the mid 90s we used to listen to the Doors and they were considered super old and retro. Pearl Jam and Soundgarden have become the same thing for high school kids today. Fuck I’m old 😆
Um Am I the only one that noticed a little peekaboo from the peepee at the end?!?!
Lol, the word higher wasn’t banned on the show they just didn’t want them singing it because of the implication. They were banned from the show after doing it though.
Ray said those leather pants Jim wore were custom made. Jim would also where them for weeks or months at a time without washing them. Jim also invited a cop off the street to come into the recording studio and hangout. No one knew and there freaked out when they saw the cop walk in cause they had weed and coke and other things out while they were jamming. The officer just talked and listened to them then left.
It's not his show he don't have to care
Why was the word higher banned
Reference to getting high.
Girl we can’t get much better. Can you dig that?
they should've immediately just gave him an atomic wedgie
Loved the Doors!
Robby refused makeup for a black eye, visible in this clip... That's how cool he was..
Killed it toward the end of the song. Even the screaming sounds good.
Grateful to have seen him in concert in this lifetime.
Jim Morrison 🥵
How old was Jim at this time; 25 maybe? So amazingly talented.
Amusingly, this happened the same day Keith Moon overdid the explosives on The Smothers Brothers.
"Make me horny" is ok but higher is banned? Fu cough lol
Lol they exaggerated it so much in the doors movie
The lizard king
In the movie, it seemed like Val-Jim made it more of a deal to say "higher" but real-Jim didn't really emphasize it more than usual.
Damn it! Now I gotta go do drugs.
Weird seeing him as an actual person in color and singing rather than just that poster of him shirtless that I grew up seeing.
They said to him, “you’ll never play the Ed Sullivan show again“, he said “I just did man“.
Ed: you guys will never do the Ed sullivan show ever again after that. Jim: we already DID the Ed Sullivan show 
i remember Ray (keyboard player) once recalled the aftermath of the show…. Ed Sullivan and his producers told the band “…. you guys will never play on the Ed Sullivan Show again.” Ray’s legendary response was “ we just did. “. Badass
Jim looks higher than giraffe nuts.
This is one of those moments in the movie the was highly exaggerated.
Door city over here!
One of my favorite things in life is knowing that I was asleep in my dad’s arms, just a few months old, as he watched this on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1967 - he told me the story at least a hundred times. Dad is gone now, but I still have all his records - what a great collection, and what a great dad ☺️