History Music / TheDoors

No relation to the [[Literature/{{Doors}} creepypasta]] or the [[VideoGame/{{Doors}} horror game]].

!! Principal Members (Founding members in '''bold'''):

* HeroesWantRedheads: Jim Morrison's longtime girlfriend Pamela Courson.

They started playing in bars around Los Angeles, first the London Fog, and later with more success, the Whisky A Go-Go, and soon signed a record deal with Creator/ElektraRecords. Morrison encouraged his fellow bandmates to write songs of their own, and thus Robby Krieger wrote "Light My Fire", which became one of their biggest hits.

** In 2002, Manzarek and Krieger formed a band playing Doors songs, Riders on the Storm (initially The Doors of the 21st Century before John Densmore and the Morrison estate sued), which toured with numerous singers, most notably Ian Astbury of Music/TheCult, until Manzarek died in 2013. (Densmore later reconciled with Krieger and Manzarek shortly before the latter's death, and since has occasionally reunited with Krieger on stage.)

** The Doors appeared on ''[=VH1=] Storytellers'' in 2000, with different singers handling vocals for different songs, including Patrick Monahan of Music/{{Train}}, Ian Astbury of Music/TheCult (who also toured with the band, as mentioned above), Travis Meeks of Days of the New, Scott Weiland of Music/StoneTemplePilots, and Scott Stapp of Music/{{Creed}}.

* FreeHandedPerformer: Jim Morrison is the only member of the band that didn't play any instruments and instead relied on his powerful voice.

* CelebrityResemblance: Jim bears a striking resemblance to a gender-flipped Ronnie Spector

** The vaguely destitute circus performers seen on the cover of ''Strange Days''.
** Also, that's how some folks describe the sounds that come from Manzarek's organ.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Combining this trope with ForWantOfANail, the spiraling estrangement Jim had between the press a couple years after appearing on ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'' was a big motivator for him to continue delving into the literary world and trying to become a pioneer in said world through some premier, brute aggression. Production behind "Peace Frog" largely reflected his love of writing poems; the original title had been "Abortion Stories", before Jim was advised to change it for [[ActivistFundamentalistAntics obvious reasons]], partitioning the audio of [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem the 1968 Democratic Convention]] instead and a bunch of rhythm/bonus reading being used as the potential takes in between Jim overdubbing the instrumental with words from a few of Jim's poems, one of them being ''Dawn's Highway''. Suprisingly, no actual takes were needed, and, a couple months after the release of the song, Jim had finished his poem "The Lords, and The New Creatures", [[https://youtu.be/JkJcGitgo2k which was shot in the extras from Ray Manzarek's 2002 short film "Love Her Madly"]], including one of the lines originally in ''Dawn's Highway'' ("Film is nothing when not an illumination of this chain of being which makes a needle poised in flesh call up explosions in a foreign capital") that specifically invoked this trope.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Combining this trope with ForWantOfANail, the spiraling estrangement Jim between the press a couple years after appearing on ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'' was a big motivator for Jim to continue delving into the literary world and trying to become a pioneer in said world through some premier, brute aggression. Production behind "Peace Frog" largely reflected his love of writing poems; the original title had been "Abortion Stories", before Jim was advised to change it for [[ActivistFundamentalistAntics obvious reasons]], partitioning the audio of [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem the 1968 Democratic Convention]] instead and a bunch of rhythm/bonus reading being used as the potential takes in between Jim overdubbing the instrumental with words from a few of Jim's poems, one of them being ''Dawn's Highway''. Suprisingly, no actual takes were needed, and, a couple months after the release of the song, Jim had finished his poem "The Lords, and The New Creatures", [[https://youtu.be/JkJcGitgo2k which was shot in the extras from Ray Manzarek's 2002 short film "Love Her Madly"]], including one of the lines originally in ''Dawn's Highway'' ("Film is nothing when not an illumination of this chain of being which makes a needle poised in flesh call up explosions in a foreign capital") that specifically invoked this trope.

** Reportedly, he had an IQ of 149, with ome sources saying it actually exceeded that number. It probably helps that he was partially raised by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephen_Morrison a jack-of-all-trades Naval Admiral]].

* GeniusDitz: When he wasn’t under the influence, Morrison knew his stuff. Some say you could read him a random line from any book and he’d tell you where it came from. Might be IdiotSavant depending on posthumous psychoanalysis.

* OedipusComplex: Again, "The End".

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Combining this trope with ForWantOfANail, the spiraling estrangement Jim between the press a couple years after appearing on ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'' was a big motivator for Jim to continue delving into the literary world and trying to become a pioneer in said world through some premier, brute aggression. Production behind "Peace Frog" largely reflected his love of writing poems; the original title had been "Abortion Stories", before Jim was advised to change it for [[ActivistFundamentalistAntics obvious reasons]], partitioning the audio of [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem the 1968 Democratic Convention]] instead and a bunch of rhythm/bonus reading being used as the potential takes in between Jim overdubbing the instrumental with words from a few of Jim's poems, one of them being ''Dawn's Highway''. Suprisingly, no actual takes were needed, and, a couple months after the release of the song, Jim had finished his poem "The Lords, and The New Creatures", [[youtu.be/JkJcGitgo2k which was shot in the extras from Ray Manzarek's 2002 short film "Love Her Madly"]], including one of the lines originally in ''Dawn's Highway'' ("Film is nothing when not an illumination of this chain of being which makes a needle poised in flesh call up explosions in a foreign capital") that specifically invoked this trope.