THE DOORS

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THE DOORS

• Riders On The Storm
• By John Densmore
• By Jake Stohl

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Table of Contents

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Early Years of John Densmore
• The Doors Are Born 1964
• 1965-68
• 1965-68 continued
• 1969
• 1970
• 1973 Jim Dies And
• The DOORS With Him
• Some pictures I Didnt Get
• To Show

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Early Years of John Densmore

• He always loved music even at an early age.
• Family was catholic and always went to church.
• Was the Bass Drummer of the 8th Grade orchestra.
• He then was in the marching band of his high
  school.
• Playing as a first snare drummer he got a good
  sense of beat.
• He bounced around on several small garage bands
  in High School.

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The Doors Are Born1964

• These are the early years of the band.
• John met up with Ray Manzarek in High School and
  they were in a few bands together.
• Well they really stunk so they wanted to hook up
  with an old guitarist that they new named Robby
  Kreiger.
• They met with his band and practiced a little,
  and in the back of the garage where they were was
  Jim Morrison.

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1965-68

• The Doors didnt really have the name yet that
  came in late 1965.
• They started practicing more and more to get
  better and taking small gigs until they got a
  good solid one at The Whiskey Bar.
• The name came to Jim one day and just threw it
  out into the air, he got it from Huxley Books The
  Doors Of Perception.
• They liked it so there name became The Doors.
• The war in Vietnam had started, and the draft was
  out. And one by one they skipped the draft and
  got to stay and play music.

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1695-68 continued

• They kept playing at The Whiskey Bar, and kept
  sending tapes to record companies until Columbia
  Records signed them on.
• They flew to New York for there first
  professional gig.
• They started to go on tour over America.
• They ended up back in L.A. for there first record
  recording.
• And during this time they were all getting wasted
  on ACID.
• By the end of 68, Ray and John studied new
  instruments.

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1969

• This was the Doors in there prime.
• In the beginning of 1969 the biggest gig the had
  ever done was about to take place. At Madison
  Square Garden.
• At this time in there career they could do no
  wrong they were that famous.
• They toured clear through 69.
• Jim was starting to get restless and bored a lot,
  taking more and more drugs.
• And John and his girlfriend pregnant by late 69.
• In August The Doors went to Woodstock, they
  rocked the place.

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1970

• The DOORS were still at an all time high.
• In October of 1970, John and Julia exchanged
  wedding rings.
• By this time the had made five albums.
• Jim went back to Miami of that year and was
  sentenced on three counts of indecent exposure.
• The judge knocked his sentence down to a 500
  fine.
• Jim was getting more and more restless, he now
  was even scolding the audience for no reason.
• John said that he was a tormented soul taking it
  out on his fans.
• Jim was really bad, he was feeling down, really
  down.

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1973Jim Dies And The DOORS With Him

• A few years after Woodstock and Madison Square
  Garden, Jim was found dead in a motel bathtub.
• The doctor had said it was because of heart
  failure, it might have been because all the
  pressure of fame got to him.
• After that the rest of The DOORS wrote and
  produced but it wasnt the same with out Jim.
• Eventually they broke up.
• But to this day you can ask anyone The DOORS will
  live on forever.

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Some Pictures I Didnt Get To Show

• This is Jim.
• This is
  Ray with his guitar.

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• Here is Robby in his
  usual state.
• And last John
  Densmore the drummer of The
  Doors.