Riders on the Storm
by John Densmore
John Densmore was a drummer for The Doors. What I love about this book is that it is somebody struggling to make sense of what he was doing
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“John Densmore was a drummer for The Doors, a band from Los Angeles of enormous depth and popularity in the late sixties. Their music has never been off the radio in 40 years. You may hear more Doors on the radio today than 20 or even 40 years ago. The staying power of their music is quite remarkable. John Densmore was writing about his few years in the band from ’65 until ’71 when Jim Morrison died. What I love about this book is that it’s so confused. It is somebody struggling to make sense of what he was doing, of what was going on around him, of the people he was working with. It’s that sense of struggle that I find captivating.” Read more...
Greil Marcus, Musicians, Music Critics & Scholar
