John Densmore
American musician
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contribution to the Doors
- In the Doors
The Doors’ instrumentalists—keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore—combined backgrounds in classical music and blues with the improvisational daring of a
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…guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore. They called themselves the Doors, taking their name from Aldous Huxley’s book on mescaline, The Doors of Perception (1954), which was itself titled after a line in a poem by Romantic writer and artist William Blake.
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