The Doors' Robby Krieger Explains Jim Morrison's Alter Ego | Jonesy's Jukebox

you listening to Jonesy's jukebox when my guests robby krieger from the doors yo and we're live from the Viper Room how you doing hey John feedback I thought this stage was bigger smaller last time I was here but maybe not have you ever did you ever play back in the day when it was essential no good those never played never played it did you he played everywhere else of dirt that whiskey yeah well in most of the places the sea which wears a sea which was down that way a little bit and the Troubadour no doors never played the troubadour there was more folk music in those days yeah I used to go there a lot and see guys like Josh white button Travis Smothers Brothers some others yeah yeah a comedy team at that one did you ever play to Roxy not as the doors what about Starwood Starwood and those places weren't even around they would know no you're too young the other way too young I'm 64 okay I'm 74 you got 10 years on me yeah just fing this year no yeah this year in September I'm eligible for Medicare whatever let's go that's a good thing you have that I do is it really good that people say yeah you get whatever yeah you still need another one you know for secondary oh you do yeah I love talking about this stuff old fart stuff huh so let's get the business the fourth annual day of the doors day of the doors at the original Morrison Hotel in Los Angeles tomorrow Morrison Hotel album celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2020 now I just saw some pictures of it down there it's like an old flophouse right it used to be well it was it was like an old brick building you know and it just happened to be in the wrong part of town otherwise it would have they could have made it nice you know but it was done where the Bowery kind of was at that point yeah and so you know nobody from Hollywood would ever go down there no one ever wins every Manzarek wouldn't happen to be driving around down there because he he was always searching out new restaurants you know and he sees this place the Morrison Hotel Wow see ceric to take some pictures you know yeah so at that point it was just to take some pictures but and then we ended up as naming they record Morrison Hotel it's kind of a iconic picture yeah definitely Henry Diltz yeah he took a lot of picture you guys you trying to say major you uh yeah I think he was still is he's still taking pictures I am I just saw him down at the Lucky Strike what's that another night well you don't know the Lucky Strike see look what were you doing bloody thing Lucky Strike is it's actually a bowling alley oh okay yeah and they have a jam night down there as he you were German yeah you weren't bowling Peron he wasn't bowling bowling nah no I can't Bowl it breaks my fingernails does it yeah if I mean not every time but the fan you know if I'm not careful and I need my snails cuz I think you know oh so you have them longer on that hand right I have a I have a manicure pedicures who comes over oh yeah hundred bucks of Giver so anyway Henry was right there man he was like sitting out right in front of the stage taking us doing his thing yeah he's a funny guy he's a good-good anyway yeah I like him he's very up you know it made his whole career pretty much on that picture you know he's got a place down in Hollywood I I think it's in Hollywood and out in front of that picture yeah yeah didn't they do something at the Sunset Marquis he had a thing there didn't he I think a year ago a whole photo thing yeah yeah exactly yeah it was a he was at the Woodstock - well I think I think it was him he was at Woodstock I went down him and he was one of nameless ways it's you know when you're when you're a rock photographers all about who's in on the other side of the lens really you know what I mean yeah so and you know he was around yeah yeah he did something retired died or something you should do his own tired eyes or something yeah he still did he still wears the tie down as any time yeah did you ever get into that yeah [ __ ] I just swore one yesterday okay what is the deal is it code for something that's it I don't know how that started but you know there became you know all these artists were into it and I forget how they do it I I think they tie a shirt too somehow and then they bring it through the different colors yeah I and and then it gets psycho dude nice patterns was it code for I like LSD uh-huh should be cuz it definitely you know obviously it's kind of bright when you look at it yeah well I mean you know at first it was like wow you know like just the hippies would wear it but then it became fashionable ya know did they ever do pants pants oh yeah that's how I paint oh sure I can have a whole suit yeah I had some did you yeah I don't know what I did with it have some at some point it came up with the name doors you don't know that story okay it was chilly yeah Jim Morrison obviously he didn't read this book in fact we'd all been reading the book doors of perception by Aldous Huxley that was the first book ever written about LSD and mescaline um so obviously he had partaken of that back in the fifties I guess that's when it first came out and so in the end so where did how this Huxley get that name doors of perception it's from a William Blake poem which Morrison had read and it says in that poem if the doors of perception were cleansed we would see life as it really is infinite mmm that's pretty cool deep yeah what was this before it was the Viper Room the central Central High I played here when it was essential really yeah it didn't look it the I mean of the stage was in a similar place but it was really kind of a smaller low-rent yeah I mean I don't think you can do much with it it's a small room but it's uh you know it's a good spot I always liked the sound here have you played have you played here I played here plenty of times yeah yeah I mean soon I liked it when it was the central to because it had it looked like brick I think it did it was a seemed like it had a bit more room you didn't have all the curtains and stuff if I remember like this is like 30 odd years ago when I am I remember I first got sober it was about 33 years ago when I first got sober and for you and I hadn't played any music sober and I put this little band together called day no and day no and Jones it was just guy I knew and we wrote a bunch of songs and played it I was terrified because I'd never been on a stage without at least a beer or something I never got wasted on stage ever but I felt like I needed a bit so that was though that that was a that was good for me to get over that fear of playing live sober I find it more hard after you do a show when you got to come down hmm than anything else why XANA well you kind of hyped hyped up and you don't know what do yourself you want to want a drink yeah or something yeah you know did you do did you were when you back in the day or now did you ever ever beer no back then you know Jim was the big drinker he might got Volia and that that was a set a bad example for us which I thought was good for us bad for him John I mean at first he didn't drink he was more you know psychedelic you had these tie-dye show all right but you know by the time of the Morrison Hotel album yeah he was drinkin see he drank in college and to the point where he would have to be carried home and stuff like that and and then he read the doors of perception and started doing the psychedelics and that was good because it kept him from drinking he was he was he like a pain when he was drunk yeah I left after a certain point he would he would relapse into this other person which Ray Manzarek called Jimbo Jimbo Jimbo would appear and there was you didn't know what was gonna happen yeah exactly once he crossed that line all you knew what it was it was gonna be bad it wasn't gonna be good yeah I know but he never got like that right um yeah I mean I definitely crossed the line you know but I wasn't like a horrible drunk you know I liked I just wanted to have a good time but I definitely went past that that finger you have to a few drinks and then it's like then it's then you're off to the races but my thing was I wanted to steal cars and like you know get laid that was that was my thing that's when I went oh I didn't I didn't want to get aggro that's be obnoxious yeah I mean drinking and spine unless it gets like that you know some people have that gene some people have a drink they don't care they'll have two drinks they don't care but some people it sounds like mr. Morrison the way he had a point he has people that have split personality you know but they might not know it but that's when it comes out yeah or obsessive-compulsive personality too was he was the compulsive in it any other ways but did he buy a lot of shoes no he didn't buy anything he didn't care what where he lived yeah he didn't I mean he didn't care what he wore but yeah in fact yeah even when you didn't have any money he would he would always address his own way like he had this a welder's jacket and one time this green welders jacket and any soda lizard-skin on the back of it that was pretty cool you're like don't God so did you like living in a house did you like that after you've rehearsed or whatever did you'd like to go home in a house like normal I did yeah yeah me too I wouldn't and you know for a while Jim was like that too but you know it's just once he started with the liquor then he he had certain types of friends who would who would enable that babe your you know has going to the bar when go to the strip club or whatever and then and then things would turn bad many times and did that give you a lot of anxiety yeah yeah but you know in those days it was like you didn't you know this illness in the mid-60s it was like do your thing man you know you could not criticize anybody for doing anything and everything was cool yeah so I mean other than the fact that we had to bail him out of jail a few times and stuff like that yeah uh you know we never really got pissed at him or anything because you know a lot of other people were doing similar stuff yeah but uh but you enjoyed you enjoyed being in the band right he loved it now and successfully was definitely worth it worth it did you think one day like this guy's it's gonna end soon the way he's going well I didn't really believe that yeah you know he used to talk about it but you know I thought that was just him being dramatic I do remember Paul Rothchild one day saying he was our producer and he said to John and Ray and I won Johnny says you guys we better record as much as we can yeah now because this guy might not be around much longer yeah that's after Janice just passed and Paul Rothchild was her producer at the time so he knew the signs you know yeah it's like my manager she says I should do a will right now cuz I had a heart attack a few months ago and everyone's like quick quick get him to do a will otherwise it's gonna go to the government make the will out quick what song is that in a major way that would quake he that's the song yeah that sets in a song I can't remember which one um Bob Dylan I think yeah I yeah I had a little cancer scare myself good job yeah about a year and a half ago and I I did go and make out the you did you think as I had I did have a will already but I hadn't looked at it in last ten years am i any I'm not telling you all them times I see you at night and I talk to you at least that's gotta be worth something I'll think about that it's great Syrian it yeah didn't find out pretty much anything yeah I mean you know a lot of times she gets it wrong but as she tries you don't do that other thing Oh Alexis now I don't have too much yeah how much hearing everything you're talking about in there yeah plus they probably have a little camera and they're and they watch everything you do you know yes yeah you believe in all that stuff you paranoid person well it doesn't bother me because I'm not a criminal but you sure you don't know because I'm I cover up all the computers at night yeah I I have a band-aid over my computer well I put a bandaid on the counter apology you know when I'm by myself so listen I was I was thinking one of the great questions I had was obviously full up well you didn't have a bass player right right but you did use a bass player sometimes well I'm that one that lasts yeah we used bass players on most of the records like on the first album it was mostly the piano bass that Ray always played we played with his feet no he played a left hand he had a little thing that sat on the keyboard that's called a Fender piano bass Wow yeah exactly guys feet 14 keys no it didn't play with the speed that's crazy I mean you have to be a good musician that there's a man on the other hand I mean and that's why I think the doors music is so hypnotic because he had to kind of put that thing on left on automatic pilot you know and it became a very like repetitive kind of unbasic instrument if you don't had that tone but so and I offer dubbed a couple of base things on that first album and then on the second album we had a guy named Doug Lou bond who played on that last on the kösem right I know the ghost song was actually Bob Bob that was a funky bass globe yeah he he's a great studio guy played with Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne and all these people and but he could be funky which is what we wanted for that song but you never used the bass plantlife one gig we did Harvey Brooks who played with Bob Dylan back in the day he played the whole set or just kind thank you no I think just a couple of songs that that's when we had touch me and and that was for the soft parade album which he played on so he had two horns and strings and stuff and for the forum we played at the forum and he played me so not gig just done three or four songs did you I mean how did you guys like to put you a record did you pretty much do the same thing like the backing track was always like drums and you men's Eric usually Jim would sing along with us you know in a booth here and then he would read to the vocal later you basically doing that to get the track yeah except on la woman the last album we did that was like a Jim did quite a few of those vocals life you know all the way for LA woman especially I remember and riders on the storm stuff like that that was cool I think one of the interesting tracks is the end yeah I mean it sounds like yahwah's life for sure it sounds like it was the director Apocalypse Now yeah square season code will help us it's like Coppola went to you guys and said write us a song for the end of this movie I mean it sounds like it was made for it yeah it really fits in there it's actually in the beginning to when I went to see the movie and I sent I was in the front row right at the center I'm a dolmen yeah the first thing you hear is my guitar and you see the helicopter go by your name and then they used it at the end and that when he kills Marlon Brando ya know it's a great scene yeah they actually had the right to use all of our music that was the deal all the songs all the song anyone and they wanted and they said you know a couple of said well man I tried Jim put it here and put it there and all these different songs but none of them work because they were two iconic the songs were too well known and it would just took away from scene you know upon mean you got your money's worth I mean do ya hundred minutes long exactly yeah that was her what that one really worked did I I thought did you uh did you did you have that song or was you making it out in the studio Jim and I actually wrote that at my house one day and it was just like a little love song kind of thing you know this is the end beautiful friend and then so we started playing it live and little by little it got longer and longer and longer and he would add stuff to it and by the time we got to the whiskey that's when he put that father I want to yeah mother I want to do that want to kill you yeah so if you guys were still together it probably really would be a hundred minutes long yeah I wouldn't doubt it I bought a bunch of albums the other day on iTunes yeah waiting for the Sun strange days LA woman Morrison Hotel the soft parade the doors I had the best of I had the best of but I wanted to there's a lot of good stuff like that not that not the mainstream stuff yeah and the deep tracks yeah really good Stein oh I mean that's the cool thing about the Doris's there's so much every album is just full of cool stuff you know that's what makes it fun to play still play the music for me as do different stuff all the time and it's all good did you come up with a lot of no one came up with lyrics right eviden yeah I did you cannot say whether it's probably on maybe on one fourth of the songs was my lyrics light my fire for instance that little ditty yeah Wow so did you get credited as the naw man back then and we said The Doors wrote every justice play every James yeah yeah we always split everything for toys that's one reason why we stayed together for six years yeah we did that - I did you only I'm good one out but now you know all groups should do that really because it only makes four fights yeah when one guy or two guys are writing the the songs like yeah the Beatles I'm deaf it definitely I mean would cause resentment you know if you stayed together a long time one guys in like a a nice fancy man I like petty I bet you did that huh yeah I don't know all I know is they stayed together original guys amaze me they made a lot of money on the road and whatnot oh I'm making cakes they brought everything I don't I don't see Charlie complaining that was true you know if he's not if you like if you can't write songs then you shouldn't be complaining that's true be lucky you're in the band do our business I mean you know when I first joined the doors it was Jim was writing all the songs and at one point we he says hey you know what we don't have enough originals why don't you guys try and write some so I said okay what should I write about and he says write about something Universal you know something that won't go out of style next year so I said to myself okay I'll write about earth air fire or water and that so I picked fire because I'd like this stones song played with fire yeah yeah so that was the first one I wrote was like my fire and and the music yeah Wow well done thanks Jimmy added the second verse the one about the funeral pyre yeah and I said Jim why do you always have to think about death and stuff like that because don't worry it balances out was he a doc dude he could be could be at times yeah did he seem like he would have had a sense of humor as well huh oh yeah definitely I mean he he could be the greatest guy you'd ever want to hang out most of the time until he got to too many drinks and then he become Jimbo Jimbo's and both guy he saw was it just about drinking with him he he wasn't what they would call now bipolar it was just literally when he put the drink brought the bipolar out of yeah yeah so he must do he definitely had it in him what I think what he really had was a really bad Oedipus complex well Oedipus complex will say that's where you want to kill your father and [ __ ] your mother that's a Freudian you know you never read Freud huh you never read Sigmund Freud that that was his big discovery was the Oedipus complex the Oedipus complex yeah we all want to kill our fathers and make love to our mothers oh I say and if she sounds would be a fine thing and if you're a woman you have the Electra complex which is the same thing yeah well that's weird well I mean most weird Rob point is most people don't realize they have it and that's why you go to therapy and then the psychiatrist has to tell tell you about that but with Jim it was just so a parent it was like he told me when he would take acid II he would see his mother's face in the moon when you look at the moon he see his mother's face so it's like obsessive kind of thing or him and you know his dad was an admiral big-time Admiral in the Navy was he sure he was the guy who he was on the Ticonderoga fired the first shot in Vietnam well so so he was the top dog in in the boat her I all right well seems when he said fire yeah so no wonder Jim hated him yeah wanted to kill him yeah probably the opposite I think it's more scared of turning into your parents than anything else yeah that yeah he definitely didn't want to do that yeah Admiral Jimbo we're here we're probably Krieger we're about to knock you on the edge Jonesy's jukebox live at a viper room you got a big thing tomorrow yeah tomorrow day of the doors for annual about four years ago the City of LA decided to make January 4th the day of the doors so for the last four years we've done something crazy on every January 4th and you're doing a original no no yeah the original Morrison Hotel tomorrow it's downtown kind of does it say the address now no but you recreated the fund yeah indeed actually almost demoed the building pretty much because they're gonna redo it but they kind of redid that whole the window where we took the picture of the album cover so people can come down there and have their picture taken in front of that window yeah and you performing tomorrow performing around 7 o'clock yeah got Dennis Quaid is gonna sit in doing a couple songs with us yeah should be fun and other attractions will include a pop-up shop food trucks DJ special sneak preview screening of the concert documentary The Doors break on through break on Joe yeah that was certain we did a show for Ray Manzarek on his birthday after he passed away and they made a film of that so they're gonna well show sneak preview tomorrow tomorrow yeah you can see it on February 12 is when it would be opens up in the theater just say which theater well one that's in the worldwide oh there you go well why the fear in London you can see it too anyway Rubby thanks for coming by it's been great good good to see and I'll see you uh down the street yeah when we see each other at night when I walk my dog because we lived near each other and I pull over and we moan about each our band members it's good stuff anyway I see I see you later all right thanks for having me you

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Length: 30min 57sec (1857 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 10 2020