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50+ years after the passing of Jim Morrison, John Densmore of The Doors continues to honour the wishes of his bandmate when it comes to the commercialism of the music of The Doors. John discusses that journey and many other fascinating memories of the legacy of The Doors.

• Meet Mr Blue Hair
• A moment with John Coltrane & Elvin Jones
• Not selling out the Doors legacy
• Defending the wishes of Jim Morrison
• Visiting Jim Morrison’s grave
• Was there a funeral for Jim?
• Being aware of the “Jim is Alive” rumours
• Evolving perspective of substance abuse
• Last conversation with Jim and his state
• All Doors except Jim participated in mixdowns
• Jim’s behaviour in the studio
• John’s impression of punk early on
• Did Jim dabble in hard drugs?
• How much of LA Woman was played live?
• Multiple live Doors shows being made available
• The live performance that best represents The Doors at their peak
• Memories and recordings of the final Doors show
• Recording of Jimbo and Jimi Hendrix
• John’s upcoming projects with Chuck D and Adam Holzman
• Memories of the original Doors demo acetates
• Signing to Columbia – appearing on the “drop list”
• Arrangements for Doors music after John passes
• Involvement with Jim’s family after his passing
• The journey of Jim’s father
• John’s comparison of political environment then and now
• Did John get negative PR from the trial?
• The story of the Buick commercial
• What circumstance or situation would John consider approving Doors music to be made available commercially?
• John was uncomfortable being the centrepiece of the band?
• Bands reforming and touring in the modern era
• Jim’s relationship with money
• After Jim passes, was there any closure?
• Names that were floated as potential replacements for Jim
• Is John comfortable with The Doors music so closely associated with Vietnam?
• Preparing for a potential draft and conflict
• We need to find moments and try to be grateful when you can
• Interview wrap up

The book "The Doors Unhinged" available here.

Extended, Commercial-Free & High Resolution version of this podcast is available at: www.Patreon.com/VinylGuide

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50+ years after the passing of Jim Morrison, John Densmore of The Doors continues to honour the wishes of his bandmate when it comes to the commercialism of the music of The Doors. John discusses that journey and many other fascinating memories of the legacy of The Doors.

• Meet Mr Blue Hair
• A moment with John Coltrane & Elvin Jones
• Not selling out the Doors legacy
• Defending the wishes of Jim Morrison
• Visiting Jim Morrison’s grave
• Was there a funeral for Jim?
• Being aware of the “Jim is Alive” rumours
• Evolving perspective of substance abuse
• Last conversation with Jim and his state
• All Doors except Jim participated in mixdowns
• Jim’s behaviour in the studio
• John’s impression of punk early on
• Did Jim dabble in hard drugs?
• How much of LA Woman was played live?
• Multiple live Doors shows being made available
• The live performance that best represents The Doors at their peak
• Memories and recordings of the final Doors show
• Recording of Jimbo and Jimi Hendrix
• John’s upcoming projects with Chuck D and Adam Holzman
• Memories of the original Doors demo acetates
• Signing to Columbia – appearing on the “drop list”
• Arrangements for Doors music after John passes
• Involvement with Jim’s family after his passing
• The journey of Jim’s father
• John’s comparison of political environment then and now
• Did John get negative PR from the trial?
• The story of the Buick commercial
• What circumstance or situation would John consider approving Doors music to be made available commercially?
• John was uncomfortable being the centrepiece of the band?
• Bands reforming and touring in the modern era
• Jim’s relationship with money
• After Jim passes, was there any closure?
• Names that were floated as potential replacements for Jim
• Is John comfortable with The Doors music so closely associated with Vietnam?
• Preparing for a potential draft and conflict
• We need to find moments and try to be grateful when you can
• Interview wrap up

The book "The Doors Unhinged" available here.

Extended, Commercial-Free & High Resolution version of this podcast is available at: www.Patreon.com/VinylGuide

Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/2Y6ORU0
Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/36qhlc8

Robby Krieger On Live At The Matrix 1967: The Original Masters

The Doors were a few months away from stardom in March 1967 when they played five sparsely attended shows at a small club in San Francisco called The Matrix. These uninhibited performances would have been fleeting if not for Peter Abram, who co-owned  the pizza parlor-turned-nightclub with Jefferson Airplane founder Marty Balin. An avid recordist, Abram taped concerts at The Matrix regularly and his recordings of The Doors, made between March 7-11, 1967, spawned one of the band’s most storied bootlegs.  At long last, all known Matrix recordings, sourced entirely from Abram’s original master recordings, will be released on September 8.

Bootlegs of The Matrix shows have circulated among fans for years and were popular despite the poor audio quality of most copies. The sound began improving in 1997 when the first two songs from The Matrix shows were officially released on The Doors: Box Set. Even more performances followed in 2008 on Live at the Matrix 1967; regrettably, it was discovered soon after that all the recordings were sourced from third-generation tapes, not the originals. 

Today, Abram’s original recordings have been remastered by Bruce Botnick, The Doors’ longtime engineer/mixer, for official release. The vinyl version of LIVE AT THE MATRIX 1967: THE ORIGINAL MASTERS includes all 37 songs from the shows sourced from the master tapes. Except for 15 songs released in 2017 and 2018 as Record Store Day exclusives, most of the newly upgraded live recordings are making their debut in the collection, including eight that have never been featured on any of the previous Matrix releases.

It’s easy to understand the enduring appeal of these vintage performances by Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore. Recorded only a few months before “Light My Fire” propelled the band to worldwide success, the tapes capture The Doors playing a wide range of songs, including several from their self-titled debut, like “Break On Through,” “Soul Kitchen,” and “The End.” They also performed half the songs destined for the group’s soon-to-be-recorded second album, Strange Days, including early performances of “Moonlight Drive” and “People Are Strange.” 15 Sets of music over five nights at The Matrix gave the band time to indulge its love of the blues with extended covers of “I’m A King Bee” and “Crawling King Snake.” The Doors even delivered an instrumental version of “Summertime.”

These special moments all contribute to making Live at The Matrix, 1967all the more fascinating and important, as it showcases The Doors as the nascent struggling young band they were. Let’s get deeper inside this box set’s music, shall we?

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Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.

Legendary Guitarist and founding member of the iconic Rock Band The Doors,  ROBBY KRIEGER Talks about  his latest group  "Krieger And The Soul Savages" and the legendary Jazz Club The Baked Potato and The Whisky A Go Go. Guests include Robby's pianist with The Soul Savages Ed Roth and legendary Trumpeter Sal Marquez who was part of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, Woody Herman Orchestra, Buddy Rich Big Band and The Tonight Show Band with Leader Branford Marsalis.
This interview includes some outtakes not heard on the Radio broadcast.

The musical group Krieger & The Soul Savages play a unique blend of melodic, psychedelic rock and soul; with plenty of soul.  The band is comprised of guitarist Robby Krieger of the Doors; bassist Kevin Brandon (Aretha Franklin,Michael Jackson, Beyonce); Keyboardist Ed Roth (Brothers Johnson, Joe Walsh, Annie Lennox); and drummer Franklin Vanderbilt (Lenny Kravitz, Chaka Khan, and Stevie Wonder). A lot of the music will come from an upcoming album to be released this summer, as well as some surprise twists of songs you know, and a few Doors songs that you might recognize.


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Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.

Maggie and Robby sit down and revisit his 2021 Memoir, Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With The Doors Now Available In Paperback and play a few clips from the audiobook.
In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," opens up about his band's meteoric career, his own darkest moments, and the most famous black eye in rock 'n' roll.

​Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after fifty years, The Doors' notoriously quiet guitarist is finally breaking his silence to set the record straight. 

Through a series of vignettes, Robby Krieger takes readers back to where it all happened: the pawn shop where he bought his first guitar; the jail cell he was tossed into after a teenage drug bust; his parents' living room where his first songwriting sessions with Jim Morrison took place; the empty bars and backyard parties where The Doors played their first awkward gigs; the studios where their iconic songs were recorded; and the many concert venues that erupted into historic riots. Set the Night on Fire is packed with never-before-told stories from The Doors' most vital years, and offers a fresh perspective on the most infamous moments of the band's career. 

Krieger also goes into heartbreaking detail about his life's most difficult struggles, ranging from drug addiction to cancer, but he balances out the sorrow with humorous anecdotes about run-ins with unstable fans, famous musicians, and one really angry monk.  Set the Night on Fire is at once an insightful time capsule of the '60s counterculture, a moving reflection on what it means to find oneself as a musician, and a touching tale of a life lived non-traditionally. It's not only a must-read for Doors fans, but an essential volume of American pop culture history.

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This episode is from an archive from the KPFK program Profiles adapted for podcast.

Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.

Today on part two of the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking actor/musician/SAG-AFTRA VP David Jolliffe about the relatives of the lifestyles of the rich and famous. No really. David ran in some amazing circles – from Alice Cooper and The Hollywood Vampires to Rosemary Clooney, we get a deep dive into Hollywood that needs to be told. The son of actress Glorya Lord and television executive Richard Jolliffe, we hear some intense stories about everyone from pals Miguel Ferrer and Billy Mumy,

We get intimate stories about George Clooney, Bruce Dern, Kent McCord and the Indianapolis 500, what it’s was like doing voices for animation in the 1970s vs. today, Billy Mumy and more about the importance and the value of SAG/AFTRA. And the importance of the Rarified Heir Podcast as well. So sit back, take a listen and remember, it’s Joe, not Jose to you Mr. Mills.

L.A. WOMAN: 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION includes the original album newly remastered by The Doors’ longtime engineer and mixer Bruce Botnick, two bonus discs of unreleased studio outtakes, and the stereo mix of the original album on 180-gram virgin vinyl. 

For this new collection, the original album has been expanded with more than two hours of unreleased recordings taken from the sessions for L.A. Woman, allowing the listener to experience the progression of each song as it developed in the studio. An early demo for “Hyacinth House” recorded at Robby Krieger’s home studio in 1969 is also included.  

The outtakes feature Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Ray Manzarek working in the studio with two additional musicians. The first was rhythm guitarist Marc Benno, who worked with Leon Russell in The Asylum Choir. The other was bassist Jerry Scheff, who was a member of Elvis Presley’s TCB band.

Among the outtakes of album tracks, you can also hear the band joyously ripping through the kinds of classic blues songs that Morrison once described as “original blues.” There are great takes of Junior Parker’s “Mystery Train,” John Lee Hooker’s “Crawling King Snake,” Big Joe Williams’ “Baby Please Don’t Go,” and “Get Out Of My Life Woman,” Lee Dorsey’s funky 1966 classic, written by his producer Allen Toussaint.

In the collection’s extensive liner notes, veteran rock journalist David Fricke explores the whirlwind making of the album, which would be the last with Morrison, who died in Paris a few months after its release. “Morrison may never have come back to The Doors,” he writes. “But with his death, L.A. Woman became rebirth, achievement, and finale, all at once. It’s the blues too – original blues, as Morrison promised. Fifty years later, there is still nothing like it.”

This episode is from an archive from the KPFK program Profiles adapted for podcast.

Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.

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Robby  Krieger discusses his first ever book, Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors with Maggie LePique with great candor, humour and detail. 

In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” opens up about his band’s meteoric career, his own darkest moments, and the most famous black eye in rock ‘n’ roll.

Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after fifty years, The Doors’ notoriously quiet guitarist is finally breaking his silence to set the record straight.

Through a series of vignettes, Robby Krieger takes readers back to where it all happened: the pawn shop where he bought his first guitar; the jail cell he was tossed into after a teenage drug bust; his parents’ living room where his first songwriting sessions with Jim Morrison took place; the empty bars and backyard parties where The Doors played their first awkward gigs; the studios where their iconic songs were recorded; and the many concert venues that erupted into historic riots. SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE is packed with never-before-told stories from The Doors’ most vital years, and offers a fresh perspective on the most infamous moments of the band’s career.

Krieger also goes into heartbreaking detail about his life’s most difficult struggles, ranging from drug addiction to cancer, but he balances out the sorrow with humorous anecdotes about run-ins with unstable fans, famous musicians, and one really angry monk. SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE is at once an insightful time capsule of the ‘60s counterculture, a moving reflection on what it means to find oneself as a musician, and a touching tale of a life lived non-traditionally. It’s not only a must-read for Doors fans, but an essential volume of American pop culture history.

“Doors guitarist Krieger riffs melodiously through the discordant and harmonious measures of his life and times with the band in this galloping, episodic debut…His most insightful moments come in his reflections on songwriting, ‘a constant reminder that music is infinite.’ Krieger’s engrossing stories are sure to be relished by fans.” ―Publishers Weekly

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This episode is from an archive from the KPFK program Profiles adapted for podcast. 

Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.