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🗓️ 5 July 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Today we have a fun follow-up to last week’s episode with Johnny Echols from the band Love. This week we’ll hear Rick interview the last two living members of The Doors—guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore—about coming up in the LA rock scene alongside the band Love, who The Doors idolized and then later eclipsed.
The Doors formed in 1965 and burned white-hot, releasing six albums in five years, until the death of their larger than life lead singer, Jim Morrison. In their brief time as a band, The Doors quickly became one of the biggest acts of the late 60s. Their anti flower-power appeal was accentuated by Jim Morrison’s heavy, brooding lyrics, and keyboardist Ray Manzarek’s frenzied organ licks.
On today’s episode Rick Rubin talks to Robby Krieger and John Densmore about their tumultuous history with Jim Morrison—who John refers to as a “Kamikaze drunk.” Both Robbie and John recall LSD-fueled stories from their early gigs with The Doors. And the role Acapulco Gold played in Jim Morrison’s songwriting process.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, today we have a fun follow up to last week's episode with Johnny Eccles |
| 0:16.4 | from the band Love. |
| 0:18.3 | This week we'll hear Rick interview the last two living members of the doors, guitarist |
| 0:23.0 | Robbie Krieger and drummer John Denzmour. |
| 0:26.3 | Coming up in the LA rock scene alongside Love, who the doors idolized and then later eclipsed. |
| 0:33.0 | The doors formed in 1965 and burned white hot until the death of their larger than life-lead |
| 0:38.0 | singer Jim Morrison. |
| 0:39.8 | The released six albums in only five years. |
| 0:43.2 | And then that brief time as a band, the doors quickly became one of the biggest acts of |
| 0:47.3 | the 60s. |
| 0:48.7 | Their anti-flower power appeal was accentuated by Jim Morrison's brooding lyrics and Keyboardist |
| 0:54.0 | Raymond Zerick's frenzied organ lyrics. |
| 0:57.1 | On today's episode, Rick Rubin talks to Robbie Krieger and John Denzmour about their |
| 1:01.0 | tumultuous history with Jim Morrison, who John refers to as a kamikaze drunk. |
| 1:07.0 | Both Robbie and John recall LSD fueled stories from their early gigs with the doors and |
| 1:11.6 | the role Acapulco Gold played in Jim Morrison's songwriting process. |
| 1:18.8 | This is Broken Record. |
| 1:20.5 | I don't know it's for the digital age, I'm just an image. |
| 1:24.2 | Here's Rick Rubin with Doors guitarist, Robbie Krieger and drummer John Denzmour. |
| 1:28.6 | Well, thank you so much for doing this. |
| 1:31.0 | I thought it would be interesting to talk about the album Love Forever Changes because |
| 1:36.4 | I love that album and it seems unusual. |
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