lmplovesbooks 's review for:

Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors by John Densmore

4.0

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This biography of Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, by the drummer reads more like his memoir of growing up in the 60's with band members as siblings. The "letter" to Morrison interspersed throughout seemed a bit gimmicky and Densmore seems to bemoan his fate at not being in a flower-child band a bit much but the genius of the band members and Morrison does come through and speaks to why their music has remained viable in succeeding decades. A favorite quote from this book occurs about the time when they were approached by the car company Buick to use Light My Fire in a commercial and the band members were willing but Morrison was not. Densmore writes "We were becoming disciples in the number-one belief in American: $ is God. Older cultures had churches as the center of their cities. Today we seem to build our urban centers around banks." p. 202