The Doors: Robby Krieger and John Densmore | Broken Record (Hosted by Rick Rubin) 

This interview is pure gold. A flawless victory. Thank you, Rick !!! 🖤

When was this interview? Great stuff - thanks!

Delighted with the interview, legendary, brilliant !!

And water is wet.

My favorite is Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine

Strange Days is my personal favorite but honestly....I love their whole catalog

@@warborn_inc. I'm with you in that one👍👍👍

Waiting for the Sun is my no.1.

How can Jim Die when He is Immortal?

Epically produced by other people. These were the original talentless boy bands.

@@brerabbit4233 You need mental help.

Nice to see some truth posted! The Doors forever never be another band like this!

@@nathanwright2721 There never will be 'popular-music' in general like what we experienced in the 60's...

Wow, great point!!!!

They were operating in the bardo

Awesome observation

They always said their playing together was as if all 4 had a psychic connection

That’s how me and my friend of 11 years are in our band. We just communicate and mesh with each other.

John is a technical drummer. I think he went mostly straight. Maybe he should have puffed on Jim's Acupulco.

Plus he played the best press roll since Art Blakey

Yes, a jazz drummer who found his way into an incredible trio + shaman = Bam.

Because he was jealous of Jim at every point. A drummer can be replaced.

@@lgoler mitch Mitchell says hi

I've always liked that the Doors could make great music in many different styles...

Agreed. Along with Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Beach Boys, The Grateful Dead, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, and The Allman Brothers, I'd say The Door's is one of America's best bands of all time, and to me probably the most unique.

Good comment. When all is said and done, The Doors may well be the most important, and best American band.

You gotta throw CCR into the mid too.

@@tdunph4250 great call, they definitely deserve to be in that category too.

He's not only one of the greatest guitar players ever! But also one of the greatest songwriters ever! He wrote some of the best and most important Doors hits -- most important being, "Light My Fire" -- which was the first song he ever wrote in his life that turned out to become Doors first #1 hit.

@Shapur Sasan You're correct! How could I forget that? This man is a living icon. Robby Krieger wrote about half of The DOORS songs in their catalog. I will have to edit my comment. When I first met him as a client at my job, I wasn't a Doors fan, and therefore I didn't know who he was. Although, of course, I had heard of the band. I guess because I'm a connoisseur of fine music, and he, being who he is, we started talking about music. I told him that my favorite instrument to listen to was the electric guitar. He told me that he was also a guitar player and had a "little band" out here in LA. I asked him what was the name of his band. He said:" The DOORS." I replied:" Oh shit! You're large dude!" He was so humble about it. This was 1992. I told him that I was a bluesman. He recommended LA WOMAN. He also invited me to a gig at the Club Lingerie in Hollywood that weekend. This cat blew my fuckin mind on guitar! I was shocked, at how funky he was. We exchanged numbers before the gig when I hung out with him, and his wife Lynn backstage. We've been friends ever since. And I also really dug LA WOMAN. Especially the songs:cars hiss by my window and The WASP (Robby throws down on one of the baddest guitar solos in recorded history on that joint!) I became a serious student of their work after the release of the Doors 1997 box set. When I first told Robby back in 1992, that I wasn't a Doors fan, he said "thats alright." He said it with such humility, considering his success. Today, I'm a historian of their art. I'm also a huge fan of their music and philosophies. Robby Krieger turned me on to the DOORS. It was his humility, love, and respect, that made me a Doors fan for life.

I saw him play a few years back in NYC, at a place called The Winery. Great show. Robbie has his own sound, not your typical rock cliche player, running the same five notes up and down the fretboard.

I agree about his playing. So much variety. And so unique!

I had the pleasure to see Robbie and Ray play a show about a year before Ray passed. Ray must have know he was sick but none of us did. Robbie was so good. That whole band was great...

True underrated drummer. To bad he had to be a pain to Robby and Ray when they tried to revive the Doors in the early 2000s

Agreed, I feel like his importance to the band is often overlooked. His book Riders On The Storm is an excellent account of the band and their career if you haven't read it.

@@sterlingcooper3978 I think he had good reasons to do so. Honestly, if anything they should have done a tour in Storytellers format like they did on VH1, play the hits with one singer from that show that would have went on the road with them and have crowd q & a and stories between the songs.

@@letsplayclassicgames5024 Densmore was asked to be the drummer on the tour but declined. I think he would have objected to a story tellers setting as well with a substitute lead singer. Good guy I'm sure just to idealistic. I'd pay to hear Robby and John with fill ins at keyboard and vocals..wouldn't you?

I agree and its interesting because in my opinion the Doors are most recognized by Jim and Ray ....both had big personalities and their roles domianted the msuic....so to have the 2 players who in my opinion were the true secret weapons of the Doors music here telling stories and both have really sharp memories for guys pushing 80 (no offense meant) its great. These 2 are hands down 2 of the most under appreciated players to come out of that era of music. Really great to hear them talking etc. cheers

Sometimes I just wish this show was something we could also watch and not just listen to it just would be lovely to see these people's faces and their interactions

What specifically do you think he was hoping for?

@@ToadstoolShadowhi I’d like to insert my two cents; Maybe just radical change, a fresh breath at life, a new perspective. We’ve been at each others throats since that era (I’m 25, feel free to correct me) and it seems like we’ve hit a standstill and we’re not really fighting or radicalizing for genuine change. We’re so numbed out by social media, insecurities, the same old music, conformity, not standing true to what we believe, and overall a mass movement of unconsciousness. But I stay hopeful, I’m trying to change for the better, and if we’re a collective, I’d imagine so is everyone else. Would like to hear from anyone else!

It was called the early 90s.

@@TheChinchillaArmy It ain't gonna happen. People are way to divided.

@@mcnowski Exactely!

Agreed

More stories pls

The West is the best.

@@JD-ir5fj Take a ride out West....Live it two times in your mind. A double layered reality called Life.

@@lorenheard2561 ride the Blue Bus?

I guess it helped that last year I think he released his biography. I think I saw that he was working on that in interview 15y ago!

memory is more a construction something the brain does anew each time a memory is created- whether they are accurate or not is another question - more often just a compelling story we tell.

Robbie’s memory .. yeah, particularly given the amount of chemicals involved ..

I talked to Krueger at Hughs Market in about 2014 and mentioned the first time I saw them was at the Valley Music Theater and he remembered the Rainy Daze went on before them..

So underrated that someone like me decades after that broke up has heard of him. Small time you know?

Don please share more. So jealous of all the ppl who got to live in those times

Yeah I totally agree I would love to hear a lot more and would not get bored at all no matter how detail-oriented it might be I think it would be wonderful . 1966 I was only 8 years old . But I do remember my neighbors older brother coming home from Vietnam and playing Light My Fire on his stereo and we were so blown away and loved it ... just after that it was all over the radio . ... Great memories ... it was great growing up with so much wonderful music in the 60s and 70s

Do you remember which night It's a Beautiful Day played at the Whisky in 1966 or 1967?

Omg!

@@sr2291 If your commenting about the band, they formed in late 1967 and were from San Francisco and played their first important gigs in Seattle then San Francisco around early 1968, then the Whiskey in May 16-19th 1968 and met Lou Adler! Have you heard of The Flock, based in Chicago, they also had an excellent violinist Jerry Goodman, both bands were great. I saw both of them in 1970, they played at the Bath Music festival along with Led Zeppelin etc, saw the Flock at the Royal Albert Hall, my friend was a violin player and we met the band backstage!

3 musicians and a poet, like no other. They always continue to take me to new places.

Great analogy. No one could have replaced any of band. It was a cosmic thing. I think Ray was the glue. He was the one who drove Jim. As a irish guy born 80 miles from him. 17 yrs later. I was a hard heavey drinker since 18. Plus all the drugs in the 80s. Lsd. Blow. Gin. Vodka. Tequila. I am now 59. Still a party 2 nights a week. So the fact that he died from 6 years of abuse is not what i think. He OD. Or he fake his death. Only he would fake his end. He was sick of pop stardom. Facing prison term. MR. MOJO RISON.?

I agree. Great group made of great individuals.

Only followed the mighty Beatles by 2 years & were attempting more experimental sounds/styles than fab 4. The British invasion of Beatles, Stones & Who in that period would overshadow the Doors that led to them getting less publicity/exposure.

I agree for being 2 guys getting on in years...they both have great memories. Im 50 and I swear my memory isnt half as sharp. I could be wrong but it was my understanding that the rift was never between Robbie and John...it was Ray and John who had a very difficult relationship which is why John wasn't involved in the reunited Doors with Ian Astbury or any later versions of the band with Robbie and Ray.

The Truth! All my anxiety is gone. So cool and relaxing.

True but I do wish that some of these were visual also and we could see the people talking and interacting and laughing and whatnot

Ya agreed, i found it fascinating the comparison jim to sinatra. I often remember thinking this myself when i first found them but never dare mention it .. guess i was too cool back then to admit i even knew who sinatra was lol.. But alot of great points made throughout this interview

7&7 ,what a rocking record. Specially in mono

The Ramone's and The Damned's Love covers are excellent!

The Nile Song by Pink Floyd could even be considered early metal

Straight up

Robbie wrote the hits

What a brilliant comment and so spot on in my opinion. I've thought very similarly through many years of listening to them. Listening to live gigs it's uncanny how Robby could anticipate what Jim was going to do and be right there to answer him! They had a deep musical and even psychic connection. I think that partly came from their writing together in those early days. And just mutual artistic admiration.

All 3 were grounded compared to Lizard King. Perhaps the TM helped him & John & both hailing from laid-back SoCal.

@@strangersname thanks! I only just saw your comment

The best psychedelic album from '67 by any American rock band(Doors self-titled a close second; best group debut of all time!)

Robby's book was probably the most objective of the Doors books. Good read it's written in Robby's voice.

Right Sterling! His honesty and humility were refreshing. Robby so likable.

I met Chuck Berry at LAX airport he was sitting at a table by himself i asked if I could sit down he said yes and we had a couple of drinks & shot the shit until the plane boarded he was in first class i said thanks and that was it I'll always remember it .

Are used to take guitar lessons from Rick Moors, who played bass for Robby Krieger’s band. I would ask how to play LA Woman, Light My Fire, Love Me Two Times… and Rick would go ask would go ask Robbie how to play them and relay the song back to me… I was one LUCKY and blessed scrappy 16- year old! Robbie has an incredible range of styles. Thank you Robbie! You’re the best.

@@juniorjohnson5961 so what was he like? I'm the same way. I don't mind approaching "celebs". Some ppl act like they're too cool to approach a celeb.

So did you talk about Jim??

@@trawlins396 He was cool asked me where I'm from what was I doing out there just normal stuff nice guy.

ya think?

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