Help Robby Krieger Find His Iconic Red Gibson SG!
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.
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Doors Guitarist Robby Krieger Gets to the Truth of Rock’s Most Mythologized Band with New Memoir
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 …
Robby Krieger Debunks Mythology Behind the Doors’ Notorious ‘Sullivan’ Performance
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 …
The Doors: Live At The Bowl ’68 Special Edition
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 …
ROLLING STONE: Hear the Doors’ Long-Forgotten, Raw-Sounding ‘Riders on the Storm’ Demo
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 …
CBS Sunday Morning: Collecting the Words Of Jim Morrison
When the lead singer of The Doors, Jim Morrison, died in 1971 at age 27, he left behind boxes filled with poetry, journals, and handwritten lyrics of what would become some of the era’s most memorable songs. His sister, Anne Morrison Chewning, has now compiled material from his archive into a new book, “The Collected …
BILLBOARD: The Doors Guitarist Robby Krieger Readies First-Ever Memoir
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors arrives October 12th The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger will publish his first-ever memoir, Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors, this October. The book, written with Jeff Alulis, tells Krieger’s story in a series of vignettes, …
BILLBOARD: New Jim Morrison Documentary Coming From Jam, Inc. and Gunpowder & Sky: Exclusive
Doors frontman Jim Morrison will be the subject of a new feature-length documentary that will focus on the totality of his artistry. “Jim Morrison has been known as the leather trousers-clad Dionysian rock star, the Greek god handsome, amazing singer, shaman and performer. But Jim was a polymath. Jim was a poet and a writer …
A Guide to the Labyrinth
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison As a poet, writer, singer-songwriter, filmmaker and frontman to The Doors, Jim Morrison’s body of work forms one of the twentieth century’s greatest artistic legacies. Before his passing, Morrison proposed how this work might be published on a leaf of paper entitled ‘Plan for Book’. Now, with the Estate …
ROLLING STONE ARTICLE: Massive New Collection of Jim Morrison Writings to See Release in June
‘The Collected Works of Jim Morrison’ will feature unrecorded lyrics, excerpts from handwritten notebooks, a film treatment, and more from the late Doors frontman At some point before his death in July 1971, Jim Morrison handwrote a list, titled “Plan for Book,” that laid out his thoughts on a collection of his poetry, lyrics, and …