I think I was a special kind of rock fan because I actually did go to rock concerts to hear the music. I was not a screamer. I was a serious listener of music. The only thing that I didn’t like about seeing The Doors was that they attracted a lot people that could be incited into doing just about anything. The fans were a little wild, and sometimes I would get kicked and stepped on if I got too close to the stage.

I really liked watching Ray Manzarek play his keyboards. The Doors did not have a bass player when they played live, so Ray would play a bass keyboard with his left hand and the organ with his right hand. I would watch his head move left to right keeping time. This guy was unbelievable.

Robby Kreiger sometimes played a beautiful Flamenco style on his guitar. I don’t know how many people may know this, but the lyrics of “Light My Fire” were written by Robby Kreiger. Jim wrote some of the second verse, and Ray came up with the organ intro.

When The Doors performed “Light My Fire” on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1967, the producers asked Jim to change the line, “Girl, we couldn’t get much higher” for the show. Jim said he would, but sung it the original way anyway. Afterwards, he told Ed Sullivan that he was nervous and simply forgot to change the line. This didn’t fly, and The Doors were never invited back.

The drumming of John Densmore was very complicated because Jim Morrison did a lot of improvisation in the middle of songs. John would use the drums to somehow accent Jim’s lyrics as he would go along. This must have been very complicated even with hours of rehearsal.

I would say that The Doors were basically a blues band which gave Jim Morrison a platform from which he could sing the blues, recite poetry, or do a lyrical improvisation. They were very good at taking an old blues song like Willie Dixon’s, “Back Door Man”, and adding their own original talent in it. They did that like they had been doing it for 60 years already, but there was plenty of original music that really showed off their talent without a doubt. They were truly an unforgetable band.