In his book “The Seekers,” Densmore pays tribute to jazz drummer Elvin Jones. He says the way Jones and sax great John Coltrane meshed helped inspire his own work with Jim Morrison of the Doors.

John Densmore and Robby Krieger were best friends when they were in the Doors, but then they started suing each other and their relationship turned sour. After more than a decade of animosity ...

Rock ‘n’ roll history might have been different if Doors drummer John Densmore had better teeth when he was growing up. The now 76-year-old member of one of rock’s greatest bands says he ...

John Densmore: My three-part formula for success in the arts, and it has to be this order, is: luck, chutzpah and talent. There are a lot of really talented people who are starving.

Call John Densmore a skeptic. Newly-minted Grammy winner Skrillex had his work cut out for him when he paired with the Doors, including drummer Densmore, to create a new song based on “Riders on ...

John Densmore and Alan Light at SVA Theatre - 6-14-2025Photo by Manoli Figetak; courtesy of PR By John Curley ...

John Densmore, drummer of the The Doors, speaks at a ceremony for the unveiling of the star for rock band Jane's Addiction on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California October 30, 2013.

Before Manzarek died, Densmore says fences were mended, and he’s since played with Krieger again, noting “Death trumps everything.” John Desnmore will be reading at Diesel: A bookstore on November ...

John Densmore and Robby Krieger were best friends when they were in the Doors, but then they started suing each other and their relationship turned sour. After more than a decade of animosity ...

JOHN DENSMORE: Well, there’s a positive love vibe coming from this book because I’m talking about all of these mentors that have fed me over the years. Yeah, I started the book years ago.

The Doors is Jim, Ray, Robbie and John — it’s not Ray, Robbie, Ian, Stewart, Shirley, Fred or whatever.” The court eventually sided with Densmore, and Manzarek and Krieger adopted the name D21C.

Explore John Densmore See latest videos, charts and news “I’m playing around with Meetings With Remarkable Musicians. Each chapter is someone I met — George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Patti Smith.