The Diverse Beginnings For The Doors’ Members

A highly unified collective is present and jamming on Doors vinyl records, and it might seem that the constituents grew up together. The members, however, hailed from different areas of the U.S. and had different individual histories.

Frontman Jim Morrison, whose very appellation often brings to mind the city of L.A., was not in fact born there, but on the Atlantic coast of the nation, in Melbourne, Florida. His family, as a result of his father’s service in the Navy, was extremely itinerant, and in his adolescence, he became interested by literature and poetry, a passion which he still had in his adult years and time as a lyricist.

Keyboard player Ray Manzarek was a Midwest product, hailing from Chicago. He gave a shot to U.C.L.A.’s law school, then their cinema school, and then let the thoughts of postgraduate studies go. Music, it turned out, was his real calling, with the boogie pianists he had enjoyed in his youth acting as an inspiration for him to perform himself.

Drummer John Densmore hailed from the far northeastern corner of New England, to be exact Maine. He was educated primarily in a jazz style of music, had been fascinated for some time by Eastern mysticism, and was very environmentally conscious for most of his life.

Guitar man Robby Krieger was indeed born in Los Angeles itself. He surfed constantly all through his adolescence, and had started to play songs at 10 years old when he gave the trumpet a shot. He then moved on to blues piano, then to several styles on guitar before discovering that rock guitar was his prime choice.

The men in The Doors, even in view of their separate personal histories, were the same as each other in some ways. All four had found out about things well outside the spectrum of ordinary American life, and could be viewed as worldly to some extent. Manzarek had wished to make jobs out of several very different areas of study. Krieger had explored a variety of musical types and found a different perception of the world from the waves he cruised. Densmore came to know the spiritual dominion and elements of pre-technological existence with his interest in mysticism and mother nature, respectively. Morrison’s interest in writing, in particular philosophical pieces, caused him to question existence and hunt for its elementary truths. The band was able to form and produce incredible music on vinyl records precisely because they grasped each other’s proverbial wanderlust. Thus, it is no surprise that they showed the unity so evident in their cuts; they were all, at the end of the day, kindred spirits.