The Doors

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Interesting question and has been posed before on All Experts.

The Doors themselves were influenced mostly by blues artists such as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Muddy Waters etc. Jim Morrison (lot of people don't realize this) was a very big fan and was himself influenced by the "Crooners" Perry Como, Dean Martin and Sinatra.

The Doors were a unique alternative band like nothing that came before or has come since.

I don't think they really inspired anyone in the 60's because they became big towards the end of that decade. The 1970's however quite a few artists were inspired/influenced by Doors music, to name a couple Blue Oyster Cult, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Iggy Pop.

I have been fortunate in my illustrious radio career over the years to have interviewed a lot of music artists and get right into where and what made them, a number have stated The Doors had an impact in some way over their music direction.

Examples. Ed Kowalczyk the lead singer of the band Live, when I interviewed him he stated that his lyric writing was in his own style that is, inspired by Morrison to a degree. Ian Astbury the lead singer of The Cult is shaped a lot by The Doors and in particular Morrison, their respective personalities are not dissimilar it seems. Astbury you may recall was chosen by Manzarek and Krieger to front Doors of the 21st Century because of his similarities vocally and mannerisms that were like that of Jim. I interviewed Eddy Vedder from Pearl Jam and even he conceded that PJ in their early days of starting out were Doors influenced. I spoke with Michael Stipe a couple of times and REM certainly followed that deep musical meaning on the trail of The Doors, Richard Ashcroft is another one, the list my friend goes on.

I would say this to you firstly before I sum up. I myself have sung in a couple of fairly successful bands one of which (The End) was a Doors tribute band and we did extremely well in Melbourne and Sydney in the 80's "nailing" Doors songs right to the tee, but we copied The Doors and not so much influenced by them. I went onto my second band (COLD) and wrote my original material and I can say I never tried to write a song like The Doors/Morrison apart from one, The Tunnel which was inspired a bit by them. So there is a first hand example, but keep in mind this. For every talented band or artist out there who makes it big there are a thousand or more of equal talent that never either get there, or never really want to. As to how many of those guys are influenced by The Doors is anyone's guess.

The Doors sell approximately 1 million units annually and up until last year approximately 78 million CD's and DVD's to date. I am in my mid 40's and was just a child when The Doors were around, the generation who were there are of the Vietnam war era and most in their late 50's or early 60's by now. They may have purchased a small amount of those record sales so who bought the rest?? The young generation(s) since the "Baby Boom" era right up to today's budding musicians still in High School that's who!

Yes. The Doors have influenced artists from the 1970's right through to 2009 and I daresay will continue to do so for a long time to come.

The Doors have sold over 100 million albums worldwide since their formation in 1965. Their iconic self-titled debut album, along with other hits like "L.A. Woman" and "Strange Days," contributed significantly to their commercial success. The band's enduring popularity continues to drive album sales, reflecting their lasting impact on rock music.

they are all rock bands from the sixties and seventies and all were invited to woodstock, they all went except the doors

Peace Frog. They are from Venice California. The Doors to a tee.

Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek are...they even perform still sometimes

Well...The Doors influenced rock cause their songs belong to psichidelic rock.That means the rock that actually makes you travel in another world...

Light my Fire.

Ray Manzarek

150 songs is the amount of songs they have released

The Doors formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California.

"Celebration Of The Lizard" is the longest I know, at 17:02.

The End

ray manzarek , it's a little known fact that he played all the bass lines as well on the keyboard because the Doors never had a Bass guitarist.------ you forgot to tell that he only played bass live they were hiring studio bass players for the recordings of there albums

Ray Manzarak. He was a few years older than anyone else in the band.

Because they were a bridge to a new kind of music. The Doors also chose their name as in Huxley's book ones perception of reality can be altered by in some cases drugs which though not endorsed by the Doors, were part of their music. In other words their music had the ability to be heard from an entirely different perspective.

Jim Morrison- the God of Music

Jim Morrison- Vocalist, Songwriter Ray Manzarek- Keyboardist Robby Krieger- Guitarist John Densmore- Drummer

When they were still performing MANY years ago, it was Jim Morrison.

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Jim Morrison

robby krieger

ray manzarek

john densmore

No one in particular inspired the Doors. Jim Morrison was the central point of the band and he was very much a loner and a poet and befriended such poets as Beat Poet Michael McClure. With Morrison's good looks and outrageous antics on stage he needed the band and the band needed him. Jim Morrison did not have that great a voice so the band played loud, but the band needed Jim Morrison's poetry in helping to write many of the songs he sang. Morrison named the bank from William Blake via Aldous Huxley's book on mescaline, The Doors of Deception. When Jim Morrison was very young (13 years old) he saw a terrible vehicle accident where several Indians were killed, bodies spread on the road and off to the side of the desert and he became very facinated with this. From that time on he felt this was an omen of things to come and, even predicted he would die young. Whether this was truly an omen or Jim Morrison's love for drugs is unknown. After Jim Morrison's death the band went on and tried to hire Iggy Pop, but the plan fell through. Still, they managed to score some popular songs and actually did better than when Jim Morrison was alive. Die hard fans keep Jim Morrison's memory alive and to this day he fits into the more modern type of music and is an icon.

The four(4)members of the rock group The Doors are: Jim Morrison,John Densmore,Robby Krieger,and Ray Manzarak.

the doors band is a band from the 60`s Jim Morrison is the lead singer of the band for example they sang (Light my fire)

Janis Joplin was a hippie, and being a product of her time, experimented with all kind of drugs. She was known for taking drugs such as marijuana, LSD, and opiates. At the end of her life, Joplin was addicted to heroin and her death was caused by an overdose of it.