absolutely! he was incredible. i feel the whole band gets to little credit for their musicianship. every single one was gifted, together they were amazing.

Not to true Doors fans by a long shot. He's at least 1/4th the reason for one of the greatest bands of all time & this brief interview does justice to each member of the band.

I always thought what was really underrated and maybe because Santana was around but the way he approached solos with that Latin time signature where you keep the rhythm of the song but you can play half a beat off the song. Basically what that means is coming and going off the tempo. To many guitarists who don't understand jazz or Latin or many minor major music don't understand this concept. Get to know your minor notes.

Wrote a lot of good songs for them on each album, great songwriter and slide player unique rhythm and lead style. : )

Wrote many songs, played flamenco, bluesy, funk, classical, Eastern, experimental, hard hitting rock guitar styles. : ) Came up with song structure, song harmony, melody, title and lyrics a fair deal of time. : )

He never said that. He said Lonnie not Robby.

Listener Canon why would he say Lonnie? I’m pretty sure he said Robby

He says "Lonnie" because Texas guitar hotshot Lonnie Mack was guesting on the track. Research is easy in the days of Google. Tho this info was even available back in the pre-digital dark era of the late '80s...

William Rocca Jr. you’re right he was guesting on the track but he played bass; it’s a common misconception that he played guitar on the track because you can hear it’s Robby’s style. I don’t see why Jim would shout the name of the bassist right before a guitar solo...🤔

He does really say do it Lonnie, just listen to it . Duh .

lol if anything ray left space for robby to shine

I think depends on the song but your right. Riders on the Storm is all Ray. Love me Two Times is more Robbie. Light my Fire although penned by Robbie would not be nearly as good with the clever into Ray made for it.

Daniel Askins Check out the solo break on The Changeling, truly remarkable. This guy is one of my all time favorites.

What impressed me most about the band was how insanely in sync they were with each other. Listen to the WASP song with Robbie's solo. Perfectly in sync with Densmore's drums. And I felt Robbie really improved his skills with each new album. In fact, Robbie's guitar skills during the 21st Century Tours (I saw live in 2004) were absolutely incredible. He played better than he ever did in his early years.

And I really love the riff on "Break on through''

And he has said that he didn't really know how to play then.

The guitar solo on Light My Fire still sounds PERFECT even now in 2020...How can that be? Cause it IS. Perfect ! ( I played a 69 SG P-90 for 37 years).

Stuff like that is how you know that you're living in THE SIXTIES.

@@bbigjohnson069 What do you mean "he didn't know how to play?" Robbie was a classically trained musician long before he was in The Doors.

@@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302 That was what he told a friend of mine who asked him about his playing back then vs. the present time late 1980s. He said he learned how to play the right way. '...long before'? He was only 19 when he joined The Doors.

i know...that entire band was musically well trained. Can' go wrong with jazz and flamenco incorporated into rock.

If the Doors had a super aggressive guitar player instead of Robbie, (somebody like Mike Bloomfield), then the band wouldn't have been the same.

Nah, his music does the talking.

@@joermundgand so he has an album telling about his time playing with the doors I'll have to see if I can find that.

PGComet just thinking that

Ray had a pretty stellar memory too. I think it probably would have been more like Jim to forget things

@@MrSpencerMcIntosh Ray had a vivid imagination and the lines between truth and fiction were very blurred with him. His stories were embellished heavily.

True that! Homeslice.

Them and Black Sabbath

Oh, it sounds dated alright, but that is in no way a bad things. Their debut sounds like it was released 50 years ago in the late 60’s, and I wouldn’t want it any other way.

@@mycubiclepenguin868 ...naw...it still sounds Modern and Dynamic. You need New speakers....

That's how I've always felt about it, it's always been with me and moves though the ages with me. Timeless, like someone stopped the clock.

he looks like fried snake skin but he is still cool

Randall Shockley DAMMNNN bro...

23igna 2 words: make up

R U serious? His face looks like one of those death masks that bank robbers wear in movies.

I've been a huge fan of his since the early 80s...but...I wouldn't say he looks "good"....actually he looks ok....but he has no eyebrows....I think that's what makes him look a little "less than good"....I mean, other than that, he looks around his age for a guy that most likely hung out at the beach and did a lot of boating, etc.

That must have been quite a thrill..... I saw them come through Atlanta around that time, and they were smoking. Wasn't his son Waylon in the band, along with Berry Oakley Jr.?

Haha, "what was Jim like...I mean really??"

Damn.. haven’t seen that picture in years..

Right? His hair was always so odd.

Think he’s had a transplant ..... by using the hair from his eye brows !

@@MYEVILTWIIN that's not possible

@@bbb462cid he always had a huge forehead.

Halloween Jack95 I’m being facetious ..... he has no eyebrows but now has a head of hair 🤔

Ya I know a cool dude to hang with really same with all of them

Peace Bro 🤣🤣🤣

Peace Bro most of their songs are better than light my fire....

I love light my fire but it doesn't compare to LA woman, that's the Doors signature song.

@@raiderrod3584 riders on the storm too

Freebird much?

John

Ace drummer, ace guitar player, double ace piano/bass player, and double ace poet/rock star front man. They really had all the aces in the deck...

Greetings from Halifax, Nova Scotia. That pretty much sums it up my friend.

his slide playing is absolutely amazing. end of the night, so perfect

If Jim had lived, I believe, he would be the same, down to earth person, who Ray and Robbie are. Youngsters are wired to misbehave, so Jim should not be judged on his youthful indiscretions. Unfortunately, it's all we have to go by with Jim's premature death. What a wonderful trio, and what a shame, that they're all not still with us?

Sparky actually they were a quartet, you forgot John, the drummer, also great. Separately they all were really good,but together, they were Magic!

He uses one for People Are Strange and Peace Frog. Watch his wrist when he's soloing in Peace Frog

Ray, for some reason, has always rubbed me the wrong way. It is like he is full of himself or easily gets jealous of other people. I cannot shake that feeling off.

I have a buddy who teaches guitar. He says 'most of the stuff I play, i'm using maybe a dozen chords..collectively. I have this whole library of chords I never use. But when I learned to play Billy Joel's "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" I got to use them ALL!!' haha

Of the 60's. I'll definitely stand by that!

Robert Collins The Doors and Motley Crue, the two best bands whiskey a go go ever gave birth to

Robert Collins only america?? For me the doors are one of the greatest band of all time, in the same level (or better) than Beatles, Rolling Stones and led zeppelin!

@@henrystewart3882 how dare you mutter Motley Crue in the same sentence as The Doors, shame on you

@@thugtrippin keep in mind they were both signed by Elektra records!

Chuck was indeed a badass guitarist. I love his solos, and I love when bands use that 50s guitar sound, like Violent Femmes, etc.

TheGravygun hes the man cant play rock n roll without him

Probably has a lot to do with how in your face his guitar playing was for the time listen to all the other music from that era and the guitar isn't as up front riffing like Chuck did that was played sort of mainstream the intro to Johnny B Goode was probably the equivalent of Van Halen's Eruption for the time just as Van Halen's Eruption for the time was mind-blowing that's my guess on why he was so influential

Listen to his old recordings, his guitar playing is still in your face even today.

@@RCAvhstape yeah Johnny B Goode still holds up but what I meant by my comment was as far as spectacle guitar playing for the time. yeah he had that sound and then 66/67 comes along Jimi Hendrix to wow everybody with his spectacle guitar playing and sounds that he was producing. And Hendrix became the inspiration for a lot of guitar players of that era. Fast forward to the mid-to-late 70s Eddie Van Halen a whole new style of spectacle guitar playing for the masses and you got a whole new generation of guitar players wanting to shred like Eddie Van Halen it's kind of weird I put Chuck Berry as guitar players I don't think he was a super great player he come up with some really good songs had some good riffs and that's all you need you don't have to be an awesome player I can look at Kurt Cobain for god sakes kids nowadays go on about him like he's some guitar genius I think it was more of right place at the right time in music I guess he had a few catchy Tunes but he was definitely a flash-in-the-pan compared to all the others that I've mentioned. I'm none of those guitarist are really in my top 10 favorite add Jimmy probably makes it in there towards the end but I think by the late sixties and seventies they were a lot more guitar players to be influenced from then there was in the late 50s and early 60s and I think Chuck Berry was probably one of the first "guitar virtuosos". If you think back in the late fifties early sixties most of the rock and roll musicians the big ones or banging on pianos Jerry Lee Lewis Little Richard and then Along Comes Chuck Berry ripping piano sounding solos out on his guitar course every kid in the world would want to learn to play guitar thanks to Chuck I'm sure a lot of them wanted to learn to play piano but you couldn't go around lugging a piano everywhere but you could grab a guitar and duck walk your way into the history books a lot easier or across your bedroom floor living room floor wherever you get what I'm saying.

Same, (more or less) I thought it was about a city in a state of conflict with people rioting. Kind of like David Bowie's Panic In Detroit.

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