John Densmore

American musician

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contribution to the Doors

  • Jim Morrison with 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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  • Jim Morrison with the Doors
    In Jim Morrison: Forming the Doors

    …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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