{"id":139,"date":"2022-01-27T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2022\/2022\/01\/27\/robby-krieger-book-opens-new-doors-on-the-lizard-king-and-his-legendary-band\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:25:00","slug":"robby-krieger-book-opens-new-doors-on-the-lizard-king-and-his-legendary-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2022\/2022\/01\/27\/robby-krieger-book-opens-new-doors-on-the-lizard-king-and-his-legendary-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Robby Krieger\u2019s Book Opens New Doors on the Lizard King and his Legendary Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Robby Krieger was far more than a simple guitarist for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thedoors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Doors<\/a>. For all the acclaim laid upon Jim Morrison as rock\u2019s poet laureate, it was Krieger who almost singlehandedly wrote the music\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0words for some of their biggest hits including \u201cLove Me Two Times\u201d and the career-launching \u201cLight My Fire.\u201d A master of restraint in this playing, the reserved Krieger has likewise held his tongue for five decades on providing his take on his mythic band. Now this and much more is contained in a new book, one as sprawling and emotionally topsy turvy as their classic Oedipal-themed tune \u201cThe End\u201d \u2013\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Set-Night-Fire-Living-Playing\/dp\/0316243345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with The Doors (Little Brown).<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Krieger_SetTheNightOnFire_HC-768x1191.jpg\" alt=\"robby krieger\" class=\"wp-image-401143\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No band is as shrouded in murky mythology as The Doors. First off, is Jim Morrison&nbsp;<em>really<\/em>&nbsp;dead?&nbsp; Did he pass peacefully in a warm bath in his Paris apartment or was it an O.D. courtesy of a European Count\/heroin dealer in a nightclub toilet?&nbsp; Did he really expose himself on that stage in Miami or double-cross Ed Sullivan when he sang the word \u201chigher\u201d during their appearance on America\u2019s top TV show?&nbsp; Did he have a secret wedding to a Wiccan witch?&nbsp; Was he an insatiable sexual satyr or just an impotent poser?&nbsp; With earlier books by band intimates like keyboardist Ray Manzarek,&nbsp; drummer John Densmore and teenage gopher-turned-manager Danny Sugerman and filmmaker Oliver Stone\u2019s fantastical take, the legends are many and still multiplying. They are thick, twisted and juicy, but not always very factual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Doors - Light My Fire - Ed Sullivan Show 1967\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EqcMAz7xQ5g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Doors themselves are not the whole story covered here. Krieger\u2019s comprehensive autobiography also provides many dramatic facts about his budding juvenile delinquency and teenage drug bust, his musical apprenticeship as a flamenco guitarist before his immersion in blues as well as his post-Doors decades, including his lengthy struggles with heroin addiction and cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Krieger\u2019s story jumps around in time and is all the better for it.&nbsp; Unlike Morrison who disowned his family, Krieger\u2019s parents were supportive of his musical aspirations.&nbsp; They bought him his first guitars, carted his early bands to gigs and bailed him out of teenage run-ins with the law (vandalism and that drug bust).&nbsp; Importantly, they also provided a room where the fledgling Doors could write music and practice in their early days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Robby-K-credit-Jill-Jarrett-768x1003-1.jpg\" alt=\"robby krieger\" class=\"wp-image-401141\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naturally, this book has a lot of Morrison. But unlike drummer John Densmore\u2019s sometimes bitter tome, Krieger\u2019s is largely sympathetic in its portrayal of the Lizard King. Morrison is given credit for never departing the band for a solo career when it was suggested by early management \u2013 a duo he insisted be fired for the transgression. He was also the member who suggested a four-way split on publishing, one that insured they and their descendants would remain very rich men. Jim is applauded for his lyric and conceptual contributions, stage craft and his voice, which was completely unimpressive at first to the guitarist.&nbsp; Of course, there is much said here about his lunacy, obstinacy and decent into addiction.&nbsp; There is his love of walking on window ledges, his massive consumption of LSD and alcohol, his predilection for missing shows and even his unexpected delight in getting an STD!&nbsp; In his skewered logic, Morrison thought it might make him feel closer to the disease-ridden 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century French poets he so loved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is much here about Krieger and his band\u2019s music making \u2013 an album-by-album critique of how they wrote, arranged and recorded these classics.&nbsp; But it is Krieger\u2019s musical development \u2013 his early exploration of flamenco guitar and then the works of John Coltrane and <a href=\"https:\/\/nysmusic.com\/site\/2020\/01\/18\/life-of-ravi-shankar-to-be-celebrated-in-centennial-series\/\">Ravi Shankar<\/a> \u2013 that provides insight into what makes him such a distinctive musician.&nbsp; While Krieger could swing the barroom blues cliches with best of them (see the&nbsp;<em>L.A. Woman<\/em>&nbsp;album), the sounds he brought to The Doors were wholly unique in the rock of his era \u2013 flavored with the Spanish, modal and raga airs purveyed by his above inspirations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Doors - Touch Me (Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Performa\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dtf_UOucdnA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Krieger is self-depreciating when he recalls the criticisms laid on him for having \u201cthe worst hair in rock and roll.\u201d&nbsp; He also straightens out the mystery behind the black eye he displayed uncovered during an appearance on \u201cThe Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.\u201d&nbsp; There are also funny takes of some the oddball hangers-on to the band.&nbsp; These included Cigar Pain.&nbsp; This was a guy who would sing through the air conditioning vent at their rehearsal studio\/office, somehow who purportedly put out a cigar on his vocal chords to sound more like Jim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The guitarist provides his views on the mystery behind Morrison\u2019s death and why it perpetuates (hint: it was likely his more promo-minded bandmate Manzarek who kept it alive).&nbsp; The band did continue on for a while as a three-piece with little success.&nbsp; Robby reveals that they considered offering the lead singer role to Joe Cocker and Paul Rodgers, and not Iggy Pop as is often referenced, before calling it quits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nysmusic.com\/site\/2015\/04\/13\/robby-krieger-celebrates-50-years-of-the-doors-at-the-egg\/\">Krieger\u2019s <\/a>post-Doors life has been filled with more music and some real personal challenges.&nbsp; Immediately after The Doors, he was a part of the poorly named The Butts Band before heading into a more jazzy, eclectic direction in his solo work and periodic reunions with Manzarek as \u201cThe Doors for the 21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;Century.\u201d&nbsp; He pulls no punches on his decade-plus additions to heroin and cocaine and his cancer battle.&nbsp; Fun fact for the TMZ set? It was a distant cousin of the famed Kardashians who taught Robby and his wife Lynn to shoot up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robby Krieger - Chunga&#039;s Revenge (The Ritual Begins At Sundown) 2020\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VqoBlM8UDOQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Truth be told, The Doors were never one of my favorite bands.&nbsp; Sometimes I truly love them, sometimes I don\u2019t (mostly when Manzarek\u2019s Vox Continental Combo organ gets super cheesy and Jim\u2019s prose veers into high school bad).&nbsp; But Krieger\u2019s book made me listen with new ears to many of their tunes, especially the lesser-known ones.&nbsp; And better than any book before it, it provides a largely hype-free and believable view of a band whose music and myth shines on brightly for many generations of music lovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robby Krieger was far more than a simple guitarist for\u00a0The Doors. 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