"The main influence was flamenco, because that's what I played at
first. Before I played electric guitar, I played flamenco guitar - Spanish
stuff. Nylon strings. And I think that was a big influence on my rock 'n'
roll playing because, for one thing, I didn't use a pick. I used
finger picking, like you do in flamenco. It was a different sound. Plus, I
wanted to have a different sound than your ordinary rock 'n' roll guy. So I
did everything I could to be different."
** Taken from The Gazette
Robert Alan Krieger, born January 8, 1946, in Los Angeles, is a musical performer and The Doors guitarist. He attended UCLA.
"The first music I heard that I liked was Peter and the Wolf. I accidentally sat and broke the record (I was about seven). Then I listened to rock 'n' roll - I listened to the radio a lot - Fats Domino, Elvis, The Platters.
"I started surfing at fourteen. There was lots of classical music in my house. My father liked march music. There was a piano at home. I studied trumpet at ten, but nothing came of it. Then I started playing blues on the piano—no lessons though. When I was seventeen, I started playing guitar. I used my friend's guitar. I didn't get
my own until I was eighteen. It was a Mexican flamenco guitar. I took flamenco lessons for a few months. I switched around from folk to flamenco to blues to rock 'n' roll.
"Records got me into the blues. Some of the newer rock 'n' roll, such as the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. If it hadn't been for Butterfield going electric, I probably wouldn't have gone rock 'n' roll. I didn't plan on rock 'n' roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock 'n' roll with jazz, and I thought I could make money playing music. In rock 'n' roll you can realize anything that you can in jazz or anything. There's no limitation other than the beat. You have more freedom than you do in anything except jazz - which is dying - as far as making any money is concerned.
"In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. In the case of Tim Buckley or Dylan you have one
man's ideas. Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves."
**Taken from original Elektra Records biography, 1967 Excerpted from The Doors The Illustrated History by Danny Sugerman
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Hi Robby! Listened to the Felt Forum boxed set it's great! The Doors Examiner did an article titled Robby Krieger News if you want to check it out! I heard you're doing an exhibit of your paintings in Mexico where can we find more info about that? When's the new album coming out?
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