John Densmore

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Black-and-white portrait of The Doors with Jim Morrison, John Densmore, and Robby Krieger in the back, and Ray Manzarek wearing sunglasses in the foreground.

John Densmore

American musician

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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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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
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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…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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