DOORS THE GATEWAY BETWEEN WHAT WAS AND WHAT WILL BE
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They called themselves The Doors, as in the title of the book "The Doors of Perception", by Aldous Huxley. The group was formed by UCLA college buddies Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek. Manzarek played piano, keyboards, and the organ. He had a love for the Blues and a strong appreciation for Jazz music. After Robby Krieger and John Densmore were added to the line up playing guitar and drums respectively, they still lacked a bass player. The solution arrived from a technique Manzarek had learned from earlier boogie-woogie piano players, the left hand would play all the bass parts with the right hand playing the melody. With the aid of a Fender Rhodes keyboard bass atop his Vox Continental, Manzarek doubled as the group's bass player. Kriger and Densmore were both also skilled in Blues, Rock and Jazz. The Doors were known for their unique style of rebellious, psychedelic rock. Their songs were poetry that written by Jim Morrison, set to music usually by Manzarek...