Member Since: 21/02/2008
Band Website: www.thedoors.com
Band Members: Jim Morrison
Ray Manzarek
Robbie Krieger
John Densmore
Influences: Friedrich Nietzsche, Van Gogh, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, William Blake, Brendan Behan, Poe, Byron, Dylan Thomas….the mad ones, the doomed ones, the writers, poets, painters, the artists stubbornly resistant to authority and insistent on being loyal to their true nature, at any cost – this was the lineage with whom Jim Morrison most passionately identified, and it was to their standard he aspired. To be a poet, to be an artist meant having a vision and the courage to see that vision through.
Morrison as an artist understood symbols and their relationships in the context of the American culture and how he expressed them became the hallmark of The Doors’ legacy.
The Doors meshed their musical expressions to Morrison’s poetic imagery and themes.
Record Label: Elektra Records
Type of Label: Major