In this week’s Flashback, Jim Morrison and the Doors visit the set of PBS’ Critique in early 1969 before the release of their fourth album, The Soft Parade. Morrison, looking a lot like Joaquin Phoenix with a slow-burning cigar clenched between his fingers, talks about his poetry, how rock & roll is dead and the future of music. “I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes and electronics set up, singing or speaking while using machines,” Morrison eerily hypothesized even before the Woodstock festival, prognosticating a future filled with 808s, Pro-Tools and Auto-Tune. What the group doesn’t talk about in the interview, however, is why they were on the show in the first place: Just one month before Critique, Morrison was accused of exposing his little “Mr. Mojo Risin’” during a concert in Miami, putting the brakes on their promotional tour for Soft Parade.

Bonus Flashback: A clean-shaven Morrison stars in a Florida State University promotional video while a film student in 1964.