Then I’d play around with what he’s saying while also keeping the beat, that was pretty fun. “When The Music’s Over” has this long section where Jim could just do anything, we would just jam. That was always new, kind of different each time.
Well, I mean Light My Fire has a long improvisational jazz section with solos by Ray and Robby. Which songs were your favorite ones to play? I remember from as far back as the PBS special from ’69 that you enjoyed improvising musically while Jim improvised lyrically. You get so high making it, and then you get so sick trying to sell it. Stone Temple Pilots, lead singer Scott Weiland. They reportedly signed a contract dictating that equal say model early in their career. I see a very similar legal situation going on with STP, difference obviously being the frontman that is the source of the problem is still alive. Pretty much, unless there’s a situation where one of the principal guys doesn’t really know how to write songs and asks for everyone else’s share, figuring out how to do that, therefor unfairly splitting out all the fruits of the labor. The unanimous agreement model that the Doors followed, dictating that every member of the band had an equal say in major decisions, do you believe that its a pipe dream in today’s music industry? Making a movie out of it, getting the okay, I think would be hard… but I like it. But I made it clear that it had a note in the last chapter saying to them “you’re my musical brothers”. I said to Ray and Robby, six months before it was published, that the book would be a very hard pill to swallow. Well… I mean, it might be really cool, but getting permission from everyone to do it would be difficult… it probably would be.Īfter reading it, you could tell. What would you think about a potential movie adaptation of it? It blended drama, comedy, and courtroom thriller all in one neat package. Your new book, The Doors: Unhinged, has a very theatrical feel to it. You know, its hard corralling famous musicians together, one night in one city. I see the shows have been delayed, but are there any developments on getting together and performing with Robby Krieger? Is that something that will happen this year? Tribal Jazz is kind of on the shelf right now. Hey John, to start off, will you be taking your solo project, Tribal Jazz, to the east coast after the snow thaws? John had been embroiled in legal turmoil for the better part of the decade with the other surviving members of The Doors in the name of maintaining the integrity of the band’s discography his book The Doors: Unhinged is a great read that recounts all the gritty details in the courtroom with a dash of humor and lots of sage-like insight. On Valentine’s Day, I had the pleasure to speak with John Densmore, legendary drummer of The Door, alongside my father Joe, a lifelong Doors fanatic.
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