And the movie really is what?

Every vamp to the interest in the doors.

But you remember even in the eights of a minute.

Drugs versus spirituality.

In the sixties, drugs were spirituality.

I'm surprised did anyone call you to join their band?

No.

I mean, you wrote a lot of big songs.

You think somebody would call you.

I think people were kind of scared maybe maybe, you know, scared of you. LA can make you crazy. Has LA made you crazy, Robbie? No. He's still dead, right? I grew up here. Yeah, right. So. OK, let's start here. OK. New album. Right. Robbie Krieger and the Soul Savages. Yeah. Now, it's all instrumental. Yeah. Are you, is it like a book or tea in the MGs? Are you trying to bring back kind of the instrumental? Yeah, that's my hope is to have an instrumental hip in like Booker team. Yeah. In fact, my... That's so many great. Was it so, so hugger? It was green onions. Hip hugger. Hip huggers, thank you. Green onions. Did you like that music? Do you like stacks? Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, and that's not what I'm trying to do, but I'm just saying in general to have a Yeah, no, I'm not saying it sounds like yeah to bring back there. Yeah, the instrumental hit type of deal, you know It's fun And of course I read this book when it came out so it's great to talk to you about some of the stuff in the book. Mm-hmm. I really enjoyed this book a lot. We'll talk about that. Okay. So let's start with the soul savages thing. Okay. I saw a funny thing where you said, Robbie Krieger in the soul savages is a stupid name. But then I also saw where you said the doors was a stupid name too. Exactly. And so what should the soul savages be called?

And so was the butt spanned.

Right. You ever heard about the butt spanned? Oh, I think I read about it in this wonderful book of music. Yeah. What would I rather have come up? Yeah. That was the one we picked. Right. You know, Marco is great at names. So he made up about 100 names.

Okay. And we whittled it down.

Was it a democratic vote?

Yeah.

What is shit? and it's great at names. So he made up about 100 names. Okay. And we whittled it down from... Was it a Democratic vote? Yeah. But it shouldn't be because it's called Robbie Krieger first, you see. I know. I didn't want you to hold a rank. Well, I really didn't want it to be Robbie Krieg. Yeah, I wanted to be more like a real group type thing. But, you know, they, oh well, you get more airplay or something. Right. You know people love the doors and all that, but then they're going to think it's going to sound like the doors. Yeah. So I thought your guitar playing, I sounded great. Great Tom. Oh, thanks. Are you playing an SG or still playing the SG? I remember I I've seen a bunch of the videos that you posted. Did you that your original got lost right or some He stole it right? Yes stolen. It has in service. I'm sure you've seen some of those things where people are finding yeah, Paul McCartney's guitar and yeah, I can't believe somebody hasn't found your SG. I know. I think it must be just sitting somewhere in an attic. You probably don't know the story, but somebody stole my guitar from a gig in Detroit in 1992 and it was gone for 27 years and I got it back. Really? Somebody showed up with it. How did you get it back? This gentleman contacted me and said, I think I have your guitar.

And I'd heard this before. So I was very skeptical. And he sent obviously new digital photos of my guitar. And there were certain markings that only I would recognize. And I knew right away it was my guitar. And I thought, this just can't be. And the story I was told was somebody bought it at a garage sale and it was hung on somebody's wall. and eventually they came into the basement and they saw it and they said that's Billy

Corgan's missing guitar and I don't really believe the story but all I know is I got my guitar back well kind of was it uh 70s strat had a very distinctive sound you know when you have a guitar like that guitar was your guitar right and you know like that thing had a certain cut this way and it sounded good and this key So when you lose that and you go looking for the other guitar and it never quite gets the same thing. It's such a painful. Luckily my guitar wasn't that great. I mean, it was just a sound like any other, it wasn't even an S-G. It was a was a... Let's Paul Jr. Yeah, a special Jr. I think. Yeah, had the black pickups, you know. And, you know, I did the first two albums with that guitar. Okay. So it sounded pretty good. Yeah. But when somebody saw it, I was kind of happy because I, oh boy, I can get

something else now. Well, I hope they find it. I would buy the guitar if it was a little bit. Yeah, we thought we found it a couple of months ago, but it turned out it was not it. Right. Now I've got a guy, my friend Jerry, and he's using those tuning forks or whatever they call them. You're dousing rods? Dousing rods. And he claims that it's here in LA somewhere. Wow. So we're still looking. Okay. So if the doors was a stupid name, what would have been a better name? A better name than the doors. Ah, that's a good question. I don't know. Right. There was, was the name Jim's idea or was it somebody else? Yeah, it was Jim's idea. Do you guys have a vote on that one? No, in fact, they had named it before I was even in the bank. Oh, okay. So I had not... I didn't know that part. Yeah. Yep. I was the last one to be inducted into the bank. Sure. So, fun fact. I was with Linda Ramon, who was Johnny Ramon's widow of the Ramones. And she said, you're the only person the Ramones ever invited on stage. Ever. Really? Yeah. Wow. The only person who played with the Ramones that wasn't in the Ramones ever. She showed me the clip of you guys playing a Dora's song. Take it as it comes, I think. Yeah, that's right. Wow. And that was so weird weird because nobody ever plays that song. Yeah as you know when you go up and let's do a door somewhere. A Roadhouse blues. Yeah it's always I like my fire roadhouse blues. Let me two times but that was crazy. I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah. Got your punk Bonafiti's there. Mm-hmm.

So this is a strange way to jump into this, but I'm fascinated because obviously, you know, doors mythology is, you have the movie, you have the book, you know, and what I loved about your book holding up again, is and you say it very early in the book, I'm just gonna tell the story as I experienced it. Like I'm really not into the whole mythological part

of this whole thing.

I'm just gonna talk about the person that I knew

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