What do we need today? Age wisdom. John Densmore, on drums in “The Doors”, about vaccine opponents, Jim Morrison and the connection between addiction and creativity.
It’s not just the eccentric singer Jim Morrison that makes the California rock band The Doors Even 50 years after the end of her short career, there is still material for debate and reassessment. Songs like “Light My Fire” or “The End”, as special alloys of blues, jazz, hippie-pop and poetry reading, have kept their stylistic secret to this day. Only recently, a one-time screening of a 1968 Doors film worldwide, dated on the same day, caused the halls to be sold out. For the anniversary of their last album “LA Woman”, a box with newly discovered studio recordings has now been released, and drummer John Densmore, 77, has presented the book “Music Lovers” (Hannibal Verlag, 208 pages, 20 euros), in which he talks about his Friendships with artists such as Bob Marley, Lou Reed, Patti Smith and Janis Joplin are told. A conversation about mental health and intellectual property.