Riders on the Storm
My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors
The Doors' drummer on the six years he spent in the band, written while still trying to make sense of them.
The Doors’ drummer on the six years from 1965 to Jim Morrison’s death in 1971: the rehearsals, the recordings, the arrests, and his own unresolved feelings about the man at the front. Written as a working musician’s account rather than a rock biography.
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Greil Marcus
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.
Interview · December 2011
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