But buzz about the band soon grew, and more and more people dropped by the London Fog to check out this band with the mesmerizing frontman and a unique psychedelic-meets-blues-rock sound. We made it. Pretty soon the crowds were really there to see us, depending on who the main act was. The memoir focuses mostly on the seven or eight years the Doors were originally together, Krieger also writes of his life before and after those magical, turbulent years.
Chapters on his life as a young man growing up in Pacific Palisades and learning guitar feature early in the book. Even in chapters that deal with hard memories, his addiction, the death of Morrison, the end of the band, Krieger often writes with a wry kind of humor as he looks back on his life. So what if we have one less album?
It was another era. Kamikaze drunk. Of course he would be sober. He was smart. Densmore, 75, is a defiant survivor of the music scene he helped build.
Next month, a documentary about another of his bandmates, the keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who died in , will be released. People certainly thought he was.
It is not usual to spend years in court trying to stop yourself from earning millions of dollars to prove a point about the value of artistic integrity over the pursuit of money. He wrote a book about the case, published in , and donated the profits to the Occupy movement. I guess he was taking painkillers and brown powder, too. I mean, it sounds horrible, but at least you rode the train all the way to the end — you never checked out early.
Densmore grew up in the west LA suburbs. College put him on to jazz, and he worshipped at the altar of Coltrane and Davis. He was 21 when he met Morrison, who was tall, bookish and handsome. The Doors used a secret bass player in the studio — Wrecking Crew session legend and future Bread member Larry Knetchel. The role originally fell to him out of necessity when the band first began to coalesce.
Then we auditioned another bass player and we sounded like the Animals. He quietly hired Larry Knechtel, of the ubiquitous gang of Los Angeles session players known as the Wrecking Crew, to thicken the sound.
The medium had traditionally been used to push films, food, cigarettes and a host of other products, and this was the first time a rock band would appear on one. He was right, giving birth to a whole new field of artist promotion. Rock billboards would soon dot the Strip and beyond. According to Densmore, the extravagance earned the band some good-natured ribbing.
Jim Morrison falsely claimed that his parents were dead in the press bio that accompanied the album. His complex relationship with authoritarian parents precipitated the inner turmoil that characterized his adult life, inspiring both his finest music and his madness. His father, George Stephen Morrison, was a high-ranking career naval officer. On that score, he would be severely disappointed. When he was home, he had little patience for youthful disobedience.
In he witnessed the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Two decades later, aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard aircraft carrier, he commanded American naval forces during the Gulf of Tonkin incident, a military clash that led to a dramatic escalation of the war in Vietnam.
When Elektra approached the Doors to pen press bios for their debut album, Jim took the opportunity to edit his own history. His brother Andy only found out when a classmate showed him the Doors album cover and pointed out his resemblance to the lead singer. I played the album for my parents the day I got it, the day after my friend told me about it.
Dad knows music. He plays piano and clarinet. Dad likes strong melody. He hates electric guitars. He likes the old ballads. Not a thing. Next: Top 10 Doors Songs.
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