• Title: Riders on the Storm
• Author: John Densmore
• Genre/Subject: Biography
• Publisher: Delta
• Publication Date: 1990
• Start date: 5/5/2022
• Finish date: 5/10/2022

Review:

I ordered this book with zero pre-conceptions and zero knowledge of The Doors. Okay, fractional knowledge. Like I had heard of them, and I had heard the main singles, and I knew Jim Morrison was their singer and that he died. Other than that, not much.

This was written by the drummer, and is a very intense -i, we,- first person account of the band, the era, and the music. I didn’t know anything about drumming, but I learned a lot now.

The 1960s had a dark side and The Doors were the sound of that darkness.

Most importantly this book forced me to step back from my opera researches and learn about something that I know very little about.