carter In the summer of 1965, a chance meeting on Venice Beach between a young poet, Jim Morrison, and keyboardist Ray Manzarek sparked the creation of a band that would forever change music and culture. With Robby Krieger on guitar and John Densmore on drums, The Doors were born.
The Doors will turn 60 next year — something drummer John Densmore says the kids who formed the legendary rock group in Los Angeles could never have imagined. “When I was a kid, 60 years old seemed like, ‘Well, you’ll be dead any minute,’” Densmore tells Billboard with a laugh. “And here we are.” To …
We cannot wait for Record Store Day 2022, the party that’s become the Largest Single Day Music Event in The World. In celebration of the 15th annual celebration, we are thrilled to announce the L.A. Woman Sessions, which is being released as a limited-edition 4-LP set on April 23rd. On a slate chalk board, Jim …
During the period in late 1970 and early ’71 when Jim Morrison and his bandmates in the Doors were recording their sixth and final studio album, “L.A. Woman,” at their West Hollywood rehearsal space, the singer was drowning in a booze-fueled bender: drunk nearly every night but sober by morning and ambling across Santa Monica …
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CBS Mornings WHAT TO WATCH is helping Robby Krieger hunt down his iconic red Gibson SG Special, a crucial piece of early Doors history. Check out this segment discussing the missing guitar.
Set the Night on Fire is always warm, often funny, and frequently revelatory, as Krieger reframes crucial moments in the group’s story and opens up about his own battles with addiction and cancer When legend becomes fact, the old saying goes, print the legend. That’s certainly the case when considering The Doors. Few bands in …
Legend has it that when Jim Morrison was told not to sing “higher” in “Light My Fire,” disaster ensued. The guitarist remembers it differently Fifty years after Jim Morrison’s mysterious death in Paris, enough books on the Doors have been published to fill several shelves at your local bookstore. John Densmore and the late Ray …
On November 4th, 2021, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Doors final studio album L.A. WOMAN (1971), “The Doors: Live At The Bowl ’68 Special Edition” will transform movie theaters into concert venues, giving Doors fans around the world the closest experience to being there live alongside Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek …
Outtake will feature on upcoming L.A. Woman reissue John Densmore vividly remembers the words longtime Doors producer Paul A. Rothchild used to describe “Riders on the Storm”: “cocktail music.” “When he heard it, it was in an early rehearsal and it hadn’t evolved into what it became,” the drummer says of the dramatic track, a …