The Doors, Robby Krieger talks about His Gear, Songwriting & Recording
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2020
- In this video we go inside Robby Krieger's home studio in the Beverly Hills and learn about how he first got interested in music, how he and Jim Morrison came up with so many hit songs and much more. Robbie even shows us his favorite guitars.
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Kudos to Robbies Dad for supporting his interest in music..we never forget what our folks do for us..
My parents have supported my pursuit of the guitar and bass for the last fifteen years. As I approach thirty years of age, I can only marvel at how many great things have come of that original choice between a bass guitar or a set of drums. I recently bought a drum kit that sat at the local shop since the first time I set foot inside, so hopefully in another fifteen years I’ll have at least a few good moments for the books from behind the kit.
Saw them Nov. 6th, 1968 Minneapolis Convention Center, I was 16 & a big fan. It was a night I'll never forget. Morrison was really on his game & the band sounded huge. Jim pulled out a smoke & shouted out "Hey, anybody got a lite? I'd say the match books & lighters rained down on the stage for about 30 secs. He said 'OK OK. I got it' . Loud cheers from the crowd. Fun nite.
1968 would have probably been the best year to see them live... while Jim was still interested in performing.
My dad saw them at a high school when he was in the Navy / LA . 66,67 I’m not sure. But he’s told me the story 1k Times . He knows I love all The Doors lps /music.
Dam that’s a cool story
What a great memory!! You’re so lucky you saw them live!
Nice! I’m pretty sure a bootleg of that show is available on UA-cam.
One of the most underrated guitarists EVER!! Brilliant finger man
There it is. The dumbest comment available on UA-cam.
@@TempoDrift1480 agreed.
P.S.
If you think someone is under rated, they definitely are not.
I am but robbie is awesome.
@@TempoDrift1480 Such a lame expression, isn't it?
Favorite band of all time. Robbie coolest guitar man ever.
One of my favorite players ever. He did his own thing, developed a unique sound, and really helped carry The Doors into history. This is not to discount the other members, but what I'm saying is that Robby Krieger made more of a mark on music as a guitarist than most guitarists could ever dream. And I love the tone of the Gibson SG, one of my favorite guitars ever. Robby has always played it like an ace.
Nice interview! Robbie was always a bit of a mysterious guitar player to me. He did things unlike anyone else. I have a lot of respect and admiration for his work.
Thanks for talking to him. 🙏
Nobody else sounds like him. Robby, like the other members of The Doors, opened up new territory. They did their own thing. They just sort of happened. Creative chemistry like this just doesn't happen. They literally crammed a whole universe into the six years they were together as a band, and their music lives on forever.
I suspect his guitar playing was unique due to the large amounts of LSD they were doing...during recordings as well as live gigs.
@@larryhudspeth4072 I think his playing technique developed long before the drug use.
@@wiseguy9202 Yes, I suspect youre correct..he was good guitarist before joining the Doors. I know musicians who could really focus and play well on acid...others who could not play at all while tripping. He was one who could play incredibly well while tripping...and remembered some of it!
@@larryhudspeth4072 I just remember the interview with Robby stating he was taking classical guitar lessons long before the Doors came into existence. Which shows on the albums since he rarely picks notes with a plectrum.
Robby is such a humble and great guy! I am a 59 year old lady who will always love The Doors!
Such a unique band whose music will always live on! Jim and Ray are missed! I'm sure they are
together in heaven having a great old time!
Thanks for your thoughts Kim... Joe
I saw Robby and his band a few years ago near Cincinnati at the Sharonville Convention Center. He played all of the Doors hits, spent time introducing each song and talking to the audience. I was seated about 10 feet from the stage and it was a fabulous show.
Good interviewer. Did his homework, is hip, asks the right questions, knows guitars, laid back, soft spoken, doesn't interrupt.
Thanks J.B…… Best, Joe
Robbie wrote the hits, more of them than I knew! The well is deep.
And his first song he'd written for the first band he joined? Light My Fire. Not bad for a "beginner"!
@@Stephanjnj wow!!!
A great songwriter for sure
. . . don’t you lover madly, even!
Absolutely agree - Robbie’s well flows from way deep inside the ancestral pool of creation - a Dom of the highest order
A very unique style of guitar playing. His ideas fit every song perfectly. The doors were very different in every way from the rest of the bands of that era. They were one of my favorite bands.
Robbie a sincere thank you. Used to ride around listening to your music on a 8 track in the car. I love that you are showing guitar players your videos. God bless you. David Vernon
Just this afternoon I heard a Doors song on the car radio (SiriusXM),
said to my wife how well their music held up for more than 50 years & how it was so timeless!
Thanks Joe, another great one!
could listen to this guy for hours offered the host to feel the neck of his guitar what a gentleman
Best band ever...will always remember leaning against the jukebox at the Snack Shack listening to every note and word of all the Doors songs and playing them over and over. Just still in love with all four after all these years. Thank you for the thrills. ♥
Legend! I'm always surprised how they never mention how Robbie was pretty much the first rock and roll guitarist to integrate slide. Influencing Jimmy Page and others. Robbie is such an amazing slide guitarist
Love Robbie but come on, Brian Jones of the Stones was playing slide years before the Doors even got together.
@@hammer44head What about Duane Allman who died three months after Jim ?
@@derhandtrommler - Duane was a great slide player but Greg said Duane didnt start playin slide till around 67 after Greg gave him that Taj Mahal album with Jesse Ed Davis or Ry Cooder playing on it, Statesboro Blues is the song that blew Duane away. Later the Allman Bros would play their version of Statesboro.
@@hammer44head I like your knowledge about the ABB. I'm a big fan. Been to the Big House in Macon and visited Gregg, Duane and Berry's graves.Saw where they used to smoke weed and drink wine next to Elizabeth Reed's grave.
@@derhandtrommler - loved the Allmans they were just fantastic musicians. One of my favorite bands.
I have loved Robbies work since I first heard the Doors in the 1960's on my GE Clock radio
Thanks for watching Alfred... Merry Christmas...Joe
I was fortunate to see the Doors live in one of their last shows. Robby is an awesome guitarist/song writer.
Hi Ronnie... yes he is a great guitarist and songwriter along with being a really good person... Thanks for sharing your thoughts... Joe
Such a cool guy and a massive influence to so many guitarists. Could sit here and listen to Robbie all night.
Best channel on the tube.
Thanks Joe🎸🎶🥁😎🍻
Damn right thanks for Robbie's Dad! Robbie you and John Densmore are one awesome combination. Every member of the Doors was a legend, (two of you still are) and the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. For some people it's the gasoline scene in "Apocalypse Now". For me it was the rain that amazing quiet persistent base line and the tinkling piano and then the thunder. Life would never be the same. Thanks for your presentation, thanks to the rest of the band and thanks (I say age 59) for being iconic, super-stylish and awesome in every way. You will always be massive in England!
Napalm!
@@suemurphy4957 Indeed!
This is great. The Doors were the soundtrack of my high-school years. My band covered "Hello, I Love You", because it was the easiest one to play. I never realized it, but "hypnotic" is an appropriate word to describe them.
Thanks for watching Mike...Joe
Thank you. The Doors are still my favorite band. 100 years from now we will still be hearing about The Doors. Ray was a genius playing bass and piano/ keyboards. Well maybe not us but people will still be talking about the Doors. That Black Beauty is a beauty. Rare.
Yeah, wasn't that Les Paul Custom the one they called "The Fretless Wonder"? The one Robby has looks like it has a mini humbucker in the rhythm position. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. Will roll back the video and check.
Yo someone give him his guitar back
i second on that one
The guys dead look how old Robbie is lol
And he could offer more than double...
There’s a SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL FOR PEOPLE WHO STEAL A MANS TOOLS -
@@VIRGONOMICS Thieves are as bad as other criminals.
@@VIRGONOMICS Agreed.
Robbie, I am sure you heard this before, but you and the Doors have changed the way I appreciate music. Thank you!
These guys rocked our generation and still are.
He's so darn understated and humble. But I sense a wild ass at heart.
Wow, such an insightful interview without the obvious questions. Circumstances can sometimes play a big role in creating unique masterpieces.
Great interview!
Joe does good interviews because instead of thinking what his next question is, he actually listens to the person's answer.
Never knew Lonnie Mack played Bass on Roadhouse Blues that's a powerhouse tune forever etched in Rock recording history.
Robby- humble, underrated and inspirational. Thank you for all the great music and stories throughout the years. Class act. Working with the Lizard king couldn’t have been an easy gig, and your creative ideas have inspired generations. Thank you!
You gotta love Robbie. Such a humble down to earth guy. Can you imagine making all that great music with densmore and manzarek not to mention morrison. Having movies made about you and your bandmates . how can you remain so humble. Thanks Robbie you rock.
Hi Wilson... yes... I think Robby was always very laid back... Still married to the same lady... lives in their same house... just down to earth guy.... Thanks for watching... Joe
Love Robbie and I loved Ray too. They really were a great band.
Great interview robby is a great song writter, the doors are a phenomenal band so in tune with each other musically, the first band i ever got into, always have been always will be my favourite band unbeatable in my opinion
Robbys style is sooo cool he has his own thing, Flamenco, Blues, Jazz, Slide, and the psychedelia I just love him my favourute guitarist and a very gifted songwriter. Criminally underated. His guitar that got stolen should be returned to him, there must be some very bad and nasty karma unleashed for the thieves of musical instruments.
Hi Robert... yes Robby is great... I too wish he could have his guitar back again. Thanks for watching... Joe
@@MusiciansHallofFameMuseum my pleasure, thaks again and keep up the great work. I hope his stolen guitar finds it's way home to him.
The tone on Roadhouse Blues live @ MSG 1970 is fiiiithly.
The moment when Robby tells about the "Light my fire" and you see clearly that water gets in Joe´s eyes. Great moment. Thank you so much about this interview.!
Indeed.... this interview touches sacred material.... moving! Love Joe as a thoughtful interviewer. Robby is so generous with his details... Thank you for letting us inside the magical history.
Brilliant musician. Lots of love to you, sir.
Thanks for watching Emerald.... Joe
I wonder if anyone in Nashville or anywhere else would give LIGHT MY FIRE a second look today, and I wonder how many amazing songs are never heard or rejected. Might not be able to sleep tonight. Great interview, Joe, must be the only or one of the only flamenco or flamenco-inspired guitarists that made Rick history. Super interesting and part of our lives.
You’re so right Roger. Many great songs were over looked for years before someone recorded them or released them to radio. It’s worse today without A and B sided singles being sent to radio. The DJ’s don’t have the power to flip a B side and get the public’s reaction. Many hits were found that way. Thanks again for watching...Joe
Always love to listen to such great musicians like Robby Krieger telling how they created their music with such original bands like the doors. I listened to another interview with Robby, awhile back. I can't remember the name of the interviewer, but it was on the site called Counter Punch, which is actually a good site. Anyway, the interviewer wouldn't shut up and he even interrupted Robby when he did speak. I clicked off about halfway through. You know how to interview Joe, that's why I love listening to you.
I always remember how incredible your interview with James Burton was. This one with Robby is also great too. Love the music created by Robby's generation and I love your show. You get it! Thx.
Thank you Pamela... you and others watching are very kind and I truly appreciate it... Best....Joe
Wow, what a great insightful interview, congrats to both of you. After all these years it is finally revealed who played the bass on all their recordings, and to think each record had a different bassist is unbelievable, and the Lonnie Mack story is a treasure. So many musicians have complained about their instruments being stolen long ago, it always made me wonder how many original pieces got stolen, by whom and how so easily?
Thanks Sax... Joe
@@MusiciansHallofFameMuseum The laugh out moment is @ 17:12 when talking about Light My Fire being the first song he wrote "and it's been downhill ever since" ha!
What a fascinating but humble guy. Could listen to him talk all day. You know, I loathed that Oliver Stone movie about the Doors, but I did like that one scene when they worked out 'Light my Fire' -- and listening to Robbie's recollection about it, it seems they pretty much got it right.
A living legend !!
I really had to watch this after reading his auto-bio book "Set the Night on Fire". One of the best R&R auto-bio books ever written !🧔♀
Just to add another. Chris Ethridge-1972-Full Circle-The Doors-bass on "Get Up and Dance." Robbie Krieger recorded some of the greatest guitar explorations ever. He was finding his way.
Very humble. Superb guitarist.
Robbie is a hero, books are closed on that. Wish I could tell him one on one how much the doors music and his playing is and was inspiring to me as a musician. I bet there are thousands.. I'm glad and really thankful I saw Ray and Robbie 30th march 2011 in 013 Tilburg Netherlands
Robby is the first person I ever saw picking guitar with his fingers, his tone is sweet and sorrowful ❤
Great interview. I've had the opportunity to hang out with Robby a few times after shows. He always would come out and talk and sign autographs after shows. He sat for a couple of hours at a deck bar in AC one night after a show with me and a few friends, just being one of us and shooting the breeze.. Great guy!! so down to earth and humble. He gave me a signed lithograph of one of his paintings 'Love Street' at an art show and short concert of his in Philly on South st one night.
Hi Large 42..... great story .... thanks for sharing.... Joe
Great, great stories and terrific interview. I saw Robby in So. Fla. back in 2001...amazing guitar player and person. The Doors are one of the greatest bands of all time and your music will live on forever.
Stay well and be safe my friend.
I love these interviews. I always look forward to seeing a new installment!!
Thanks bb....Joe
Joe knows his music. He's the best interviewer there is because he knows what he's talking about and he knows the questions to ask and how to ask them. I'd be too starstruck to interview Robby Krieger.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is such a good interview! Watched Robbie Krieger's interview on "Jonesy's Jukebox" last night. Talkin' bout golf!.... Being a Bass player, loved Krieger giving props to the various bass players . Jerry Scheff's book is cool, with his history, as is Doug Lubahan's, with his. I've even got Danny Seraphine's book! ...To top it off, I heard "Time" this morning on Hippie Radio.... Again, Thank you for your work. This organization is the Real Deal, unlike a certain show-biz "hall of fame" in Cleveland. Gracias.
Thanks Terry.... Joe
Robbie, you're my hero..
Thank you Joe! Another great interview🎸
David I’m really glad you enjoyed it.. Thanks... Joe
Robbie was so innovative and accomplished as a guitarist in The Doors with a hugely unique and identifiable sound of his own that melds perfectly with the rest of the band. The greatest American rock bands of all time are The Doors, Band of Gypsies and Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Though I bet a few folk disagree with me, but what do they know ? ;-)
Moon... Thanks for watching and I totally agree with you.... Best, Joe
I feel sorry for people that don't get the Doors. Really opened my mind as a teenager and changed my outlook on life.
Young is Canadian
Joe, you've done it again though your contacts. Shows how well respected by these guys u r. Another great one. What stories. Hypnotic for sure. As always just a humble guy.
This is one of the BEST interviews I've ever heard with any of the 4 Doors. Such intelligent questions. I appriciate that his questions are more geared toward the songwriting/musicianship aspect of their existence. A great great interview. I'm so glad to have heard it. A lot of new angles.
I wrote my initial comment about 15 minutes into the interview. It got twice as good. Loved seeing the Black Beauty from the Hollywood Bowl. Loved that you asked about the pickup. Probably my favorite Doors interview after the Villiage Voice/Morrison interview with Howard Smith from 1970. Thank you soooooo much.
Thanks to all for this and other great interviews into the depths and the heart and soul and roots of music.
Thank you for this! So great to hear you gents conversing!
Thank you for your work Joe !! Im a huge doors fan this interview means the world !!!!!!! 🤘🤘
Robby’s a great guy! Always a nice guy to talk with!
I still can hardly believe what perfectly GREAT performances Robby pulled off with the Doors and with certain Earth shaking recorded tones to boot on some songs too AND he did it all with apparently very little gear. Those The Doors did have a good producer and a Twin Reverb can definitely drive a mic and shake a room though.
The Door were a great band !
Thankyou joe for providing us with these rare insights!
Another Gem..Thanks Joe!
Thanks Mars.... Joe
Great story. I lived 2 blocks away from University High School in West Los Angeles and would play tennis there all the time from1979-1985. Never knew this is where John and Robbie met. Jan and Dean went there, too, as well as Elizabeth Taylor and other famous people. I remember some turkey told me I couldn't practice my serves and told him to buzz off. The twerp got a guy to arrest me with a cop. What a joke. They let me go.
I was lucky to meet Robbie at a concert in Solana Beach at the Belly Up. He was gracious to sign The Doors album and was very humble like on this interview.
I saw Lonnie Mack playing at the Seattle festival in 1969! And the Doors were playing also. Were you the reason he got back into music. Lonnie was great. Been a fan ever since!
Thank you so much for videos,after watching it i feel richer.
thank you for this, robby love and peace .
Great interview 🎼 Miss You Joe❤
Celebratingtheclassics, thank you for your kind words & continuing to support the channel… it would have meant a lot to my dad Joe, & does too me too.
Hope you can visit the museum sometime!
Merry Christmas & all the best,
Britt
what a great video, thanks for the upload
Stanley Owsley talking to Ray about needing another guitar to fill in the holes . Ray replied if we fill in the holes how would the void shine in . At this Owsley skipped away . Owsley was the bootleg chemist that supplied LSD for Ken Kesey"s electric koolaid acid tests . Steely Dan's song Kid Charlemagne was wrote about him .
As a fingerstyle guitarist Robbie was an inspiration to me . A friend of mine said there was no concert like a Doors concert . Peace .
Another Legend ! Thanks Joe , great great Interview . love the channel and the doors is one of my favorite bands . music keeps me Alive and its magic on earth . Much love
Thanks Joao... Best....Joe
Another great interview providing inside stories of key moments in music history.
Thanks Astronomer... It was fun for me too. Joe
Love this interview. Thank you to Robby and yourself, Joe.
Thank you too Kugerand....Joe
rock legend.. that word gets tossed around a lot.. but damn robby is one.
Second time through. What a great interview, Joe!
I can appreciate his musical journey as a guitarist myself. Nice to hear this stuff. Similar roots.
This was great, thank you so much!
Thank you too Dale for watching...Best, Joe C.
This video particularly, and your others, make me glad to be alive.
Thanks Ace.... Very kind... Joe
What an absolutely fascinating interview. Loved the incredible Lonnie Mack story! Thank you Joe. :)
Thank you monte.... Best, Joe
Well-done interview
Very interesting interview. Thank you.
Hi, again, Joe
You and your show have got my interest in music peaking again.
Thanks for watching Bill… I appreciate it… Joe
Great interview!💫
Joe you do OUTSTANDING interviews dude!!! Love how you ask a ? and wait for the answer. The trend to day is to answer the ? immediately after asking it. You DON"T do that, HATS OFF!!! DON
Thanks 2N3.... I’m really glad you’re enjoying the interviews.. Best....Joe
RK Love the Spanish Caravan is awesome very very cool intro! Robby Thanks again for sharing stories...
Thanks Robbie, so neat
Robbie's soloing on Peace Frog is one of my favorites...
Great interview
Priceless Robby
Thanks Joe! Great channel.
Thanks a lot Pekka... joe
Thank you, Joe and thank you, Mr. Krieger.
Thank you too Michael.... Best, Joe
@@MusiciansHallofFameMuseum all the best to you!!!! ❤️
300 thumbs up I absolutely love Robby Krieger guitar playing
Never heard the Lonnie Mack story, that was great! Great interview.
Fascinating
Brilliant interview 👍
Thank you Shaun... Joe
Legend forever!
This guy is such a pleasant dude!
A unique and distinctive guitarist
Legend !
Deserves a much bigger audience !
Thanks for watching Dave.... Merry Christmas....Joe
@@MusiciansHallofFameMuseum Merry Christmas Joe and family and all the team.
Great interview as usual, was hoping you would have mentioned the Butts Band though.