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“I am pleased that we could ruin your life,” says John Densmore and laughs at the computer camera. For him, there is nothing new that people tell him that The Doors is part of her life’s soundtrack – but he still seems to be happy about it. In the background you can see his drums, many books, framed photos and two street signs: “Morrison Street” and “Densmore Avenue”. The drummer turns 81 in December, you don’t see that. As a teenager, says Densmore, he thought, at 60 you soon die. And now he is sitting here to remember how The Doors found himself 60 years ago. “It’s Strange,” he says, sighing a bit. But actually he likes to remember the short, wild time with Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger. They reached six large albums from 1967 to 1971, they became world famous and at least their singer was also notorious. Then Jim Morrison died on July 3, 1971 – and since then the Doorserbe has been managed by the bereaved, sometimes more, sometimes less peaceful …
This is how the cover story begins in the September edition of the Rolling Stone. Birgit Fuß walks with John Densmore through the history of the doors – with Schlenkern towards mythology, politics and future.
The doors founded themselves 60 years ago – and blew up genres and borders
In summer 60 years ago, Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek met at Venice Beach. With John Densmore and Robby Krieger, they founded a rock band that blew up genres and borders. In six wild years, The Doors created a legacy that continues to have an effect today.
The drummer tells of the recordings to the six studio albums and which songs mean a lot to him. One of them is also included in the Rolling Stone as an exclusive vinyl single: “Riders on the Storm”, paired with “The Ghost Song”, a piece of “American Prayer”. The interview is also about that, that John Densmore As a clever person as strong people shows – and he also has humor: “I like to make the joke: ‘Light My Fire’ was 26 weeks number one, and since then it has only been going downhill.”
Densmore defends the sixties and looks confidently into the future
Densmore knows how good his band was, but he also holds big pieces on the entire movement of the 1960s: “It annoys me very much when people say that the sixties have failed. Civil rights, peace, feminism: the seeds for all of this was laid at the time. Maybe it takes a hundred years until it comes to its full bloom. The watering can and helps!
By the way, Densmore explains why, despite Trump, he is confident what plans he has for the future-and why he believes, unlike a few years ago, the “Kamikaze drinker” Jim Morrison might have survived if one had helped him in time.
And David Brewis, singer of the British indie rock band Field Music, reports why he has now founded a Doors cover called the fire Doors and is not ashamed of it.
The Doors: For the first time to four on the cover of the Rolling Stone
Most of the time – as with almost all bands – the pretenders of the singers are in the foreground, but Densmore emphasizes the uniqueness of the quartet: “We were like a Gumbo, a crazy stew from everything that tasted astonishingly good.” Fittingly, all four doors can therefore be seen on the cover for the first time, not just Jim Morrison.
The whole story of the Doors Plus the world explorers Vinyl single “Riders on the Storm / The Ghost Song”-only in the Rolling Stone. The September edition will be available from August 29, wherever there are magazines. Or simply order at [email protected].