Robbie's book is very good indeed. But a real fan also needs to read Ray's book. He gives a lot if insight into the pre-doors Morrison since Ray and Jim were already friends around 1963. Ray knew him the longest and the best.
@gerardusch Ray does a lot of hero worship in his writings, about JDM., not so with Robby, he talks about the man he knew, as far as film school and college there are montages of info on that out there.
I bought your book! Can’t wait to read it! Yup. I am a nurse. Yup it’s so sad because many beautiful talented people especially creative people have these issues. But I think since the internet are helping each other understand, seek care, and outsmart these dreaded issues.
Robbie's book "Set on Night on Fire" is the best and funniest of all the ones I've read about The Doors. Robby Krieger, despite his "quiet" personality, has had an extraordinary life and exciting. He is one of the best guitarists in rock history, a legend.
@@alldayvinyl Seemed descriptive of Bi-polarism...Also he drank a lot which now would be called self-medicating. Acid on the roof for the Summer. That story....
My sense it was alcohol and anything else that was around .. if you read Robby’s book - which is great - he does go into specifics of his own use and addictions
@@alldayvinyl Alcohol is definitely a drug but most people don't think of it that way. Mostly because of how people misuse language: it's very common to talk about "drugs and alcohol" as if they were two different things. That's like saying "I like sports and baseball".
the problem for me is, that i can't buy a few grams of weed, in a store, like i buy few beers once a week. so i grow, and when it's ready. i be like the worse crack addict. - so it's not just the drugs, it's what we make out of it. Jim Morisson, Janis Joplin, Bon Scott, GG Allin, they were alcoholics. in the first place. that's why they died from overdoses, they were just playing around. on the other hand, professionals like Keith Richards or William Burroughs, managed to live long lifes worth living, even with the drugs. Or Johnny Thunders, who was hardcore, and still died not from overdose. such people can hardly overdose. he just fuckep up his body to the end that's all. he was 38, like i be next month. my heroin was alcohol. and i fully recovered. and i also drink permanently - 2-3 beers, once a week. that's it. no desire to get more and more, no wish to get drunk like an asshole. but weed, which everybody thinks is so harmless, became a disaster. i finely have to bury it in the woods the next time. so i can get a little once a week or so. on my way to town, i live in a village. if it would be legal im my country, it would be so much better. i would not have to grow, and end up with this huge amounts every several months. so much time wasted on that shit, it is really pleasurable. but also, when i was younger i used to be creative when smoking. now the opposite. so it is not which drug, it is how you go about it.
One of ny earliest memories of nudic is light my fire played on psychedelic psundays on the radio going to grandparents. Robby always been one of my fave guitar influences and iconic SG man. He is a spitting image of this old guy i know now. I csll him Robby even though his name is Steve. Ive read so many doors books but want to read robbys book.
Danny's book reads like an Oliver Stone movie, mostly nonsense. Ray's book was an improvement but Ray never let the facts get in the way of a good story. John's book I think he felt slighted and ignored but wanted to tell his side. Maybe he did not handle that as best as he could but it has a lot of back stories so is very good. I have yet to read Robby's book. I have been saving it for the right time and place as it is the last real new book about the Doors I will ever read. Much like when I feel in love with Doors music I bought the albums one by one over a few years saving up the money I earned mowing laws. LA Woman was the last one I bought just by chance and when I was about 12 and waited for the weekend to play it.
@@alldayvinyl Long before Robby even talked about writing a book I always said his would be the best. Jim looked up to Ray so their relationship was not always balanced. Best I can tell John did not really get Jim on a personal level. It is hard to imagine Jim's vocals on songs like When the When the Music's Over without John's punctuation. Jim and Rob were more on the same trip sometimes anyway. I feel even Jim's drug use and drinking is way over exaggerated and Robby in the Doors days was a fraction of that but it still happened from time to time.
yes, same guy, thank you! Yes, i quoted Robby verbatim in the headline but yes, you are likely right in that diagnosis. but i'm no doctor. either way i appreciate you dropping by and leaving the comment. i appreciate it!
Robby had more patience than John. Both cared about Jim. Ray cared, too, but he was a little closer to Jim naturally. So he was more forgiving of Jim’s crazy side.
No, Robbie. James Riordan, author of Break On Through, had Jim sized up better. He WAS an alcoholic, and unfortunately for Jim? He was POISONED... by alcohol, when he drank to excess. He ALSO... may have had adult autism.
JIM WAS A TORTURED SOUL HE COULD BE FIERCELY EXTROVERTED AND LIKE ROBBIE SAYS THE NEXT DAY LIKE WHAT I DONT REMEMBER AND BE QUIET AND SHY A TRUE ANOMALLY OF TALENT MIXED WITH EVER CHANGING EMOTIONS AND FEAR
Ray always rails against alcohol & 'the white powder drugs', so it must be the latter for Robby, as it was the former for Jim. However, he does credit cannabis & psychedelics for opening "The Doors of Perception".
Robbie's not a riveting personality--but he wrote some good songs, played well enough to hit the big time. He is not a leader at all, has no reasons for doing the weird shit--it just happened he says.
Oh, yes he did. People seen him dead. Why would anyone lie about something so stupid. They wouldn't. There's no logic in that. France was flooded with dope at the time and Jim Drank heavy as always thought it was Cocaine and dies. It happens everyday.
I mean he’s 78 years old but he still plays like a mofo, the dude rips I’ve seen him dozens plus times over the last few years … if u are in la he’s playing April 14 come see those skills still in tact
The more I hear about musicians, the less sympathy I feel for their “problems” and “struggles” with drugs and alcohol. These are all completely self-inflicted wounds. They are intelligent enough to understand music yet too stupid and immature to avoid well-known risks.
It certainly is a wild "Toad Ride"...Crazy irony of highs that come with irresistible charisma and super abilities. Then the bottom comes fast, without warning... Extraordinary people don't emerge from mediocrity but implosion creates the diamond. Aggravation and pain can produce the pearl. Some go fast, some go slow..Some actively participate in their destiny.. Other's linger and fade into obscurity in a rather grey existence...Still time is a ruse and past present and future are one entity..The rest is an illusory tryst we project in search of a meaningful reason for being.
Jim was into drugs, but he wasn't a drug addict, there's a difference. Jim did drugs whenever but not every day, a drug addict does drugs 4 to 7 times a day to sustain their habit or their go into withdrawal symptoms. It's a whole different ball game.
Robbie’s book is the best book on the Doors
I agree!
It is the most truthful, he dosnt hold back, but not vindictive at all, he's a good soul.
Robby seems like a very sweet person. I like Jim and he was a phenomenal talent.. but he had a lot of issues.
Robbie's book is very good indeed. But a real fan also needs to read Ray's book. He gives a lot if insight into the pre-doors Morrison since Ray and Jim were already friends around 1963. Ray knew him the longest and the best.
@gerardusch Ray does a lot of hero worship in his writings, about JDM., not so with Robby, he talks about the man he knew, as far as film school and college there are montages of info on that out there.
Respect this legend,he won't be around forever
amen, one reason why i am doing these podcast interviews. The time is now and while we have lost many, fortunately so many greats are still alive
Great guitarist and humble guy.
Indeed, both are very true 🙌
Robby is a Legend. Thanks for the tunes
❤️❤️❤️
I bought your book! Can’t wait to read it! Yup. I am a nurse. Yup it’s so sad because many beautiful talented people especially creative people have these issues. But I think since the internet are helping each other understand, seek care, and outsmart these dreaded issues.
Robbie's book "Set on Night on Fire" is the best and funniest of all the ones I've read about The Doors. Robby Krieger, despite his "quiet" personality, has had an extraordinary life and exciting. He is one of the best guitarists in rock history, a legend.
Agree with this, his book is really funny and he’s such a cool dude
@@alldayvinyl It's an honest and touching fun book... And with many incredible Robby anecdotes. Keep up your work, you do it great.
"Day destroys the night, night divides the day. Tried to run, tried to hide....."
One of their best 🔥
@@alldayvinyl Seemed descriptive of Bi-polarism...Also he drank a lot which now would be called self-medicating. Acid on the roof for the Summer. That story....
"Out here on the perimeter
there aret no stars
out here we is stoned, immaculate".
Der der dem dem dem
break on thru to the *other side*
I hate it when people talk about "drugs" without talking about which drugs. It matters.
Damn right it matters, and I'm tired of the generalization.
My sense it was alcohol and anything else that was around .. if you read Robby’s book - which is great - he does go into specifics of his own use and addictions
@@alldayvinyl Alcohol is definitely a drug but most people don't think of it that way. Mostly because of how people misuse language: it's very common to talk about "drugs and alcohol" as if they were two different things. That's like saying "I like sports and baseball".
@@alldayvinyl For the record I've read "No One Here Gets Out Alive" and Densmore's "Unhinged" but I haven't read Robby's book yet.
the problem for me is, that i can't buy a few grams of weed, in a store, like i buy few beers once a week.
so i grow, and when it's ready. i be like the worse crack addict. - so it's not just the drugs, it's what we make out of it.
Jim Morisson, Janis Joplin, Bon Scott, GG Allin, they were alcoholics. in the first place. that's why they died from overdoses, they were just playing around. on the other hand, professionals like Keith Richards or William Burroughs, managed to live long lifes worth living, even with the drugs. Or Johnny Thunders, who was hardcore, and still died not from overdose. such people can hardly overdose. he just fuckep up his body to the end that's all. he was 38, like i be next month. my heroin was alcohol. and i fully recovered. and i also drink permanently - 2-3 beers, once a week. that's it. no desire to get more and more, no wish to get drunk like an asshole.
but weed, which everybody thinks is so harmless, became a disaster.
i finely have to bury it in the woods the next time. so i can get a little once a week or so. on my way to town, i live in a village. if it would be legal im my country, it would be so much better. i would not have to grow, and end up with this huge amounts every several months. so much time wasted on that shit, it is really pleasurable. but also, when i was younger i used to be creative when smoking. now the opposite.
so it is not which drug, it is how you go about it.
Imagine standing behind Jim during that ride & witnessing that as a young man on drugs 😳
Insanity
Love Robby♥️ Love Jim. ❤
Aye. Def Bi-Polar artistic (Dark Romantic) GENIUS.
Many thanks! Robby & Scott: Captain "Long John" Sinclair.
One of ny earliest memories of nudic is light my fire played on psychedelic psundays on the radio going to grandparents. Robby always been one of my fave guitar influences and iconic SG man. He is a spitting image of this old guy i know now. I csll him Robby even though his name is Steve. Ive read so many doors books but want to read robbys book.
Robby’s book is excellent, its detailed and funny, he’s a cool dude
Danny's book reads like an Oliver Stone movie, mostly nonsense. Ray's book was an improvement but Ray never let the facts get in the way of a good story. John's book I think he felt slighted and ignored but wanted to tell his side. Maybe he did not handle that as best as he could but it has a lot of back stories so is very good. I have yet to read Robby's book. I have been saving it for the right time and place as it is the last real new book about the Doors I will ever read. Much like when I feel in love with Doors music I bought the albums one by one over a few years saving up the money I earned mowing laws. LA Woman was the last one I bought just by chance and when I was about 12 and waited for the weekend to play it.
Robby’s book is great. He’s a funny guy and chill guy and that comes thru in the book
@@alldayvinyl Long before Robby even talked about writing a book I always said his would be the best. Jim looked up to Ray so their relationship was not always balanced. Best I can tell John did not really get Jim on a personal level. It is hard to imagine Jim's vocals on songs like When the When the Music's Over without John's punctuation. Jim and Rob were more on the same trip sometimes anyway. I feel even Jim's drug use and drinking is way over exaggerated and Robby in the Doors days was a fraction of that but it still happened from time to time.
Your going to enjoy it, really honest and really funny
Scott are u the guy with awesome record collection nice interview w Robby it’s bipolar depression well depression and mania
yes, same guy, thank you! Yes, i quoted Robby verbatim in the headline but yes, you are likely right in that diagnosis. but i'm no doctor. either way i appreciate you dropping by and leaving the comment. i appreciate it!
Robby had more patience than John. Both cared about Jim. Ray cared, too, but he was a little closer to Jim naturally. So he was more forgiving of Jim’s crazy side.
Robby def seems the most laid back of the crew
Bruce Dern was in the doors?
Thanks Robby, Jim had of course a light and a elffestration ite, as many nowadays WE would call: Borderline syndrom😢😢😢😢😢🎸🎶🎶🎸🎶🎤😍😍
Hey Robby, I know you know, but I mean, you are the Doors ❤
No, Robbie. James Riordan, author of Break On Through, had Jim sized up better. He WAS an alcoholic, and unfortunately for Jim? He was POISONED... by alcohol, when he drank to excess. He ALSO... may have had adult autism.
JIM WAS A TORTURED SOUL HE COULD BE FIERCELY EXTROVERTED AND LIKE ROBBIE SAYS THE NEXT DAY LIKE WHAT I DONT REMEMBER AND BE QUIET AND SHY A TRUE ANOMALLY OF TALENT MIXED WITH EVER CHANGING EMOTIONS AND FEAR
''it was the thing to do'' it still is..
Hahaha that was such a mic drop ending 🤦♂️
That's why Robbie is still here, he didn't take the drugs.
Good on him.
Ray always rails against alcohol & 'the white powder drugs', so it must be the latter for Robby, as it was the former for Jim. However, he does credit cannabis & psychedelics for opening "The Doors of Perception".
Robbie's not a riveting personality--but he wrote some good songs, played well enough to hit the big time. He is not a leader at all, has no reasons for doing the weird shit--it just happened he says.
Your point?
He had death anxiety
Bipolar for sure. RIP Jim.
Friends, Jim Morrison did NOT die in Paris on 1970.
Do tell…
Oh, yes he did. People seen him dead. Why would anyone lie about something so stupid. They wouldn't. There's no logic in that. France was flooded with dope at the time and Jim Drank heavy as always thought it was Cocaine and dies. It happens everyday.
Robbie’s drug addiction went unnoticed because WE ONLY CARE ABOUT JIM!
He's incorrect when he refers to manic depression as "3 or 4 different personalities".
Yeah he’s a better guitar player than doctor.. I’m also no doctor; or guitar player so I dunno.
Wow, does he look and sound old. Sobering in and of itself.
I mean he’s 78 years old but he still plays like a mofo, the dude rips I’ve seen him dozens plus times over the last few years … if u are in la he’s playing April 14 come see those skills still in tact
Hes talking about heroin read the book.
The more I hear about musicians, the less sympathy I feel for their “problems” and “struggles” with drugs and alcohol. These are all completely self-inflicted wounds. They are intelligent enough to understand music yet too stupid and immature to avoid well-known risks.
Manic depressive maybe and a drug addict. That’s a psychosis guaranteed
It certainly is a wild "Toad Ride"...Crazy irony of highs that come with irresistible charisma and super abilities. Then the bottom comes fast, without warning... Extraordinary people don't emerge from mediocrity but implosion creates the diamond. Aggravation and pain can produce the pearl. Some go fast, some go slow..Some actively participate in their destiny.. Other's linger and fade into obscurity in a rather grey existence...Still time is a ruse and past present and future are one entity..The rest is an illusory tryst we project in search of a meaningful reason for being.
Jim was into drugs, but he wasn't a drug addict, there's a difference. Jim did drugs whenever but not every day, a drug addict does drugs 4 to 7 times a day to sustain their habit or their go into withdrawal symptoms. It's a whole different ball game.
Alcohol and drugs didn't excactly help him...
What drugs was Robby doing? Cocaine,Dope?