JIM MORRISON & HOWARD SMITH (Complete Interview) November 6, 1969 Los Angeles, CA. ***************** ©THE SMITH TAPES & HOWARD SMITH This very entertaining interview again shows the humor of Jim Morrison, giving Howard Smith of the Village Voice [New York] a real hard time by spacing out the time between questions and answers almost in an absurd way. Jim even takes over the role of the interviewer: "Let's talk about something light; let's talk about you, Howard!" He even manages to annoy Smith, who comments on Jim's "disdain for the audience, not feeling directed at me now also; what do you feel now, like the question's aren't worthy enough, or what?" Jim reacts by challenging the poor interviewer to a muscle contest: "You wanna armwrestle, huh? What do you want, man?" The 60-minute interview features some anecdotes and chats about 'Feast of Friends' [shown at the Atlanta Film Festival 1969], 'HWY', the architecture of an Atlanta hotel [elevators like "Victorian rocketships"], the lyrics of 'Hello I love you', wealth, gaining and losing weight ["fat is beautiful"], relations with the other Doors etc. Jim makes fun of almost all the subjects Howard brings up... Also present at the Doors Office [2nd floor] is Kathy Lisciandro, who makes "the best coffee in the world", according to Jim, as well as "an engineer, setting up equipment" [source: Howard Smith tape excerpt*] and several others, who can be heard throughout the interview; among them seem to be Babe Hill and Frank Lisciandro. There's a few examples of nonsense-talk like when Jim asks Howard if he's hungry, "it's lunchtime, you know..." [the interview took place at 11.00 AM (source: Howard Smith tape excerpt*)]. * There's a tiny 1 minute-fragment on tape where Howard Smith comments on the interview afterwards; probably he put this comment on tape for purposes of his own or for an editor of the newspaper he worked for [Village Voice]. ******************************* Howard Smith's comments after the interview: "....On the second floor is this office and in there is his manager, a press agent, those kind of people, you know, at their desks and there was Jim Morrison. It was 11.00 o' clock in the morning and there was an engineer, setting up all the equipment and he had a whole bunch of his comrades coming, sitting around, a lot of voices you'll hear in the background, kinda laughing at his jokes and joining in and everything ... his people, and also something, I think it's on the tape, I think this comes up at a later point, but I want you to keep this in mind: before I went there, I had a feeling that it was going to be a tough interview. I just kinda had a feeling that he and I didn't have the same athatalism, that it was going to be tricky, and I said to Cilla, who was along with me, you know, if things get really difficult with him, I'm gonna suggest that we armwrestle... and then I put it out of my mind, and then you'll hear what happens about that later on in the interview..." ************************************************************** PERSONAL ATTACKS & HARASSING COMMENTS WON'T BE TOLERATED. ************************************************************** Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use & for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Copyrighted materials contained herein belong to their respective copyright holders, I do not claim ownership over any of these videos.

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