They came together 60 years ago in Venice, California: Jim Morrison, a poet in leather pants, backed by Ray Manzarek on keys, Robby Krieger on guitar, and John Densmore on drums. The Doors soon got ...

The Doors were more than just another band. That's something that comes through time and time again as you listen to their music today. "It's the drumming, man," John Densmore jokes near the end of a ...

From their remarkably short tenure with frontman and vocalist Jim Morrison, The Doors accomplished more in four years than many bands have in four decades. Before his death in 1971, Jim Morrison ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. John Densmore, the legendary drummer for the Doors, recalls coming ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the formation of The Doors, and the band recently launched a yearlong celebration in commemoration of the milestone. Both John and Robby marveled at the ...

If you joined a band when you were 19, would you still be talking about it 60 years later? Most people would not. But this is Robby Krieger we're talking about, guitarist for the groundbreaking Los ...

Densmore and Krieger, like McCartney and Starr, make new music a priority, even when that means intertwining the music of the Doors through the lens of fresh material. “I play Doors stuff live – I’m ...

Sometimes, glaring similarities between two songs will hide in plain sight from a songwriter, as was the case for guitarist Ace Frehley when he pulled a “note for note” solo from the Doors to write ...

There are film snippets of the Doors two concerts in Asbury Park online. Asbury Park Press music writer Joan Pikula covered both shows at Convention Hall. The Doors rocked Asbury Park in the summer of ...