Jim Morrison saying “higher” after explicitly getting told not to, because it was banned on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1967
Jim Morrison saying “higher” after explicitly getting told not to, because it was banned on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1967 from OldSchoolCool
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You know the song is a banger when the rest of the band is lip singing the song
I fucking love The Doors, what an absolutely amazing performance.
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.”
Hey, at least he kept his pants on.
Better than MIck Jagger’s eye rolls for “Let’s Spend Some Time Together” on that Sullivan stage
I love the band’s love of the song. They’re fans of The Doors and that’s mighty damn cool.
Well before my time but this video sold me on The Doors. I’m going to head down a YouTube rabbit hole
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.
Robby’s smirk is awesome. Definitely thinking “oh boy what did Jim just get us into”.
Nice try. This is clearly Val Kilmer.
It’s not his show he don’t have to care
It shows how times have changed. That song wouldn’t make tv shows blink today. Great song and not controversial by today’s standards.
God damn was Jim hot as all hell lol
Thanks for sharing 🥰🥰🥰
Why wasn’t he allowed to say “higher”?
I remember watching this! I never realized how stoned Morrison was, though.
Ray’s “goddammit Jim” face is priceless…
Dewey cox did this too
Never noticed how silly and cool the set is, just a bunch of old painted doors hanging in the background
Not really into this type of music but this was dope.
Butterfly in the sky
I can go twice as high
Take a look
It’s in a book
A reading rainbow
Edit: girl we couldn’t get much more the same height!
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.
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
He’s about to make love to that microphone
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.
Ray just crushing it as usual.
He was only 24 years old here, and yet a god. Sad he couldn’t have stayed longer. Bless his soul.
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.
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.
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.
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?”
Ray Manzarek was so incredibly talented
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.
Girl why don’t you bite my wire
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.
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.