How The Doors Wrote a Classic Rock Masterpiece That STILL Reigns Decades Later | Professor of Rock

The unbelievable story of the Doors 1967 #1 Hit Light My Fire. How Robby Krieger wrote it at only 18 and how Jim Morrison took it to new heights and made it a legend.
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In the words of the group’s de facto leaders Rick and Jim Manzarek, the LA band called Rick & the Ravens, were “going nowhere fast.”... The brothers were disheartened by the lackluster response to the band’s demos that were shopped to record labels in the LA area, and blamed much of the poor reaction to what they perceived as “strange" vocals by their lead singer, a military brat named.. Jim Morrison.
Rick & the Ravens split up, but three of the members of the ill-fated group decided to stay together; the trio of John Densmore, Jim Morrison, and the eldest Manzarek brother.. Ray.
At Morrison’s suggestion, they changed the name of the band to... The Doors, and added a fourth member…. 18 year old guitarist.. Robby Krieger.The Doors generated a cult following in the ‘underground’ music scene of Los Angeles- playing a mixture of original songs and customized reinventions of other people’s material at nightclubs on the famed Sunset Strip.
The band was signed to Elektra Records in '66, after then label president Jac Holzman (holes-mun) caught two of their performances at the Whisky a Go-Go. Jim Morrison was the primary lyricist for The Doors, and then when he hit a cold spell for writing new material, he challenged his bandmates to come up with some songs, so that the burden wasn’t always on him.
Robby Krieger accepted the challenge, and went to his parent’s home in Pacific Palisades, where he was living at the time, and wrote the band’s immortal epic... “Light My Fire.” To guide his prose, Robby used Morrison’s counsel to write something that would be “universal." Robby thought about what Jim told him, and he came to the conclusion that there was nothing more 'universally relevant' than the five elements- earth, water, fire, air, and space.
Robby focused on “fire”- with a theme of leaving your inhibitions behind, and fanning the flames of passion. Krieger's “Light My Fire” was conceived in a folk music style, but the arrangement evolved into a completely different sophistication once all four members began to work on it together. “Light My Fire” was the result of a confluence of several popular songs of the day that inspired Krieger, and many different genres that reflected the band’s eclectic musical appetite.
The melody of “Light My Fire” was inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s first single “Hey Joe.” While the spirit of the chorus was motivated by the track “Play with Fire” by The Rolling Stones- a song that Krieger LOVED!! When Robby unveiled the song to his bandmates, the track was systematically shaped into one of the most distinctive pieces of music of the Rock Era. John Densmore suggested that the arrangement should be more of a rhythmic Latin sashay, and also pushed for a single snare drum kit.