TDW 1059 - The Doors Morrison Hotel Album Cover Location

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0:22 and we have a little musical history for

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0:26 1970s musical history and album cover a

0:30 fantastic album covered by an iconic

0:32 band with and more or on par with the

0:38 band itself a iconic lead singer by the

0:41 name of Jim Morrison when I was in

0:44 Florida I actually visited the

0:46 birthplace of Jim Morrison you can look

0:48 up that Vlog which I did hundreds and

0:51 hundreds and hundreds of days ago here

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1:04 absolutely free but now to the point of

1:06 this Vlog Rock enroll history a Los

1:10 Angeles California location was the spot

1:14 of the 1970s album cover Morrison Hotel

1:19 by The Doors which a lot of people

1:20 consider to be the most important and

1:23 favorite album by The Doors even though

1:26 it did not actually contain any major

1:28 hits a lot of people can consider that

1:30 to be their personal favorite their

1:32 heartfelt favorite if you will by the

1:35 doors and that iconic photo of the band

1:39 inside the window at the Morrison Hotel

1:42 which became the title of the album was

1:46 actually shot right

2:06 there is the window right there there is

2:06 the window and as you can tell that door

2:10 right there is the actual door to the

2:12 former Morrison Hotel now the album

2:16 cover itself Focus specifically on that

2:19 window but there are a lot of shots you

2:22 can Google online I encourage you to do

2:24 some research and look up Morrison Hotel

2:26 the doors you will see some shots that

2:29 were taken by the photographer that were

2:31 not used as the album cover that are

2:34 actually a little far back away from the

2:36 window itself so you can actually tell

2:39 and you can actually see what it looks

2:41 like today to what it looked like in the

2:43 1970s now the album was actually a

2:47 compilation not really a compilation but

2:49 a recording process from the mid-60s

2:53 until 1969 then they put the album in

2:56 out in 1970 so I have a curious question

2:59 for you guys who want to do some Columbo

3:01 like research what year was the photo

3:04 actually taken that was used on the

3:08 1970s album cover so leave some comments

3:11 down below if you know that little fact

3:13 and figure so we are going to walk up to

3:16 this iconic spot I am standing directly

3:19 in the middle of the road I should get

3:20 out of the road this iconic spot of Rock

3:24 and Roll History the Morrison Hotel and

3:29 look at the these little pigeons up here

3:32 I wonder what those pigeons names

3:34 are is one of them Jim is your name whoa

3:39 is your name Jim named after the iconic

3:43 singer of The Doors one thing that's

3:46 very fascinating to me is you see this

3:48 little awning area right up here now

3:52 match up the pictures that you found

3:54 online of this location and you will

3:57 notice that it still looks the same that

4:01 little awning rectang like circular

4:05 rectangle whatever that little awning

4:07 right there still looks completely the

4:09 same as well as the circle see the

4:11 circle I'm pointing at right here that

4:14 Circle above the awning looks exactly

4:17 the same as well now right here is where

4:20 the photo actually was all the band

4:23 members were right

4:26 there right behind this piece of glass

4:29 which over the years has been broken and

4:31 broken into and destroyed and it's very

4:34 interesting too when you look at the

4:36 photo you will notice some like grates

4:38 that used to be on the ground you can

4:40 see the grates have actually been

4:41 covered over concreted over but you can

4:43 see the little square where the grates

4:46 used to actually sit at one time and

4:48 speaking of sitting Jim Morrison and the

4:50 rest of the doors were right there and

4:54 there's another shot also oh by the way

4:57 also there was a sign here the Morrison

4:59 Hotel Hotel sign was right here and

5:01 there was another Morrison's Hotel sign

5:04 right here and it actually had the

5:06 address the specific address right there

5:09 as well as another photo that was from

5:11 this angle where they were actually

5:13 sitting inside those doors against the

5:16 wall and you can see that all

5:20 this the way it is decorated and carved

5:23 out looks exactly the same so there's

5:26 another shot that was used that was not

5:29 the album that was taken by that same

5:31 photographer where they were sitting in

5:33 here against this wall and the way the

5:36 story goes it's very interesting they

5:38 were looking for a place of to take

5:40 pictures for the album cover and the

5:42 photographer that was with them went

5:44 inside here talked to the person who was

5:47 working at the front desk and said we

5:49 would like to take some photos of the

5:50 doors at the Morrison Hotel because that

5:53 is kind of ironic the fact that the lead

5:55 singer's last name was Morrison so they

5:58 thought it would be very clever to get

5:59 some pictures inside of here well the

6:02 person at the desk said you do not have

6:04 permission to take these photos without

6:06 the manager who is not here his

6:08 permission the person who owned the

6:10 building so the photographer waited till

6:13 that desk clerk went inside the elevator

6:16 and as soon as he went in the elevator

6:18 the band scurried over got behind the

6:21 window underneath where it said Morrison

6:24 Hotel the photographer stood exactly

6:27 where we are standing right now took a

6:30 couple of quick photos without

6:33 permission that's right without

6:35 permission and that became the iconic

6:38 album cover from the doors the 1970

6:42 classic Morrison Hotel and it happened

6:46 right here also there's an alley right

6:48 over here you'll notice on the far away

6:50 shots if you can find that picture

6:52 online there's a there's an alley right

6:55 over there as well as these windows all

6:57 still look the same there's a big window

6:59 small window another big window and

7:02 another interesting thing is this Street

7:04 Lamp how it has these old school dueling

7:08 Street lamps up top that still is

7:11 exactly the same as it was in

7:15 1970 so very cool this is an awesome

7:18 spot I wanted to show you guys a piece

7:20 of Rock and Roll History the Morrison

7:24 Hotel directly behind us that is the

7:27 iconic window and that is the iconic

7:30 door and the iconic awning I need to get

7:32 out of the road before I get mowed down

7:34 and become an iconic piece of roadkill

7:39 yes we do not want that to happen thanks

7:41 for joining me today on this the daily

7:44 woo this fantastic place a piece of

7:47 album

7:48 history very interesting this is

7:50 actually very super exciting dig up that

7:52 old Vlog I did from the birthplace of

7:55 Jim Morrison I actually did a long Vlog

7:57 from the hospital he was born in which

7:59 is actually now an office building and

8:02 the home the home that he actually

8:04 resided at as a small baby and a small

8:07 child in Florida so look that up leave

8:10 some comments down below as well as what

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TDW 1059 - The Doors Morrison Hotel Album Cover Location

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