The Doors (Robby Krieger)

0:03Hey Robbie, this is Matt Chichter up in Calgary. How's it going? How you doing? Writers on the storm. You got Brett Scallions now a fuel. All right. Is it gonna be the first shows with him on this on this run up here? Yeah, the very first time very how's it how things going? I hear you rehearsing right now. Yeah cool. How did you how'd you hook up with him? Why him? Mm-hmm. That's who you're calling. There you go. Yeah, I have a couple other guys, too. Oh, okay

0:56Right was the best cool now. I know Ian I was watching a video of one of the the old writers in the storm shows and Ian kind of actually looked like Jim Is yeah, I haven't seen Brett in a while, but is that a factor? Just you know, I don't know at all. I dug the fact that Ian looked like Jim But then a lot of people didn't to you know, so no they can just stand there in a trance and you know take him right back to the 60s I think you know and still imagine it. No, no, yeah, Brett's a great looking guy, too Oh, okay. There we go. I'm wondering what the live sets what's what's a set list like are you playing all like the old doors?

1:44Hits you playing stuff off other voices full circle or what's it? We may do a couple It'll be mostly the you know nice any fuel stuff is gonna do any of those things. I doubt it doubt it fair enough Cool, oh you never know. Okay, we might get bored Down the road. Yeah, you ever bust out the flamenco I've seen you do it on a couple of performances. Do you bring it on tour with you? Yeah? Oh, no way really? Yeah, what songs you know with Spanish caravan and I'm gonna do a bit of Should be cool. I know I know your turn with the bass player now, but you never did back in the day

2:35I'm wondering why the decision to do that now Yeah, I'm bored. Oh nice. Yeah. Oh wow He's actually a reggae guy. He's from Jamaica. No, that's a good vibe. That's not really cool. Yeah, very jazzy

3:28It's in real good nice. What about on drums? I know John's not not doing it very I died Dennis who's Very nice. Do you mind me asking why no John? Well, I don't I guess you never heard but John. Oh, mm-hmm Is it more of a legal thing and you guys are still friends though, and it's just kind of like a business or I Think it's gonna be that way more as time goes by good. I hope I'm hoping this thing will be over

4:14That'd be nice is that something you really like to do yeah, of course It's a fair to say that the the doors and during popularity. It's bigger now than it was when you guys were actually a band I think so. Why do you think that is? The song just have a timeless quality like 40 years since like my fire came out It's insane, you know, oh definitely oh people still dig it well

5:04I was watching you play on Woodstock with Creed doing the Roadhouse Blues and your guitar playing as good as it ever was Do you think you've become a better guitar player is years gone by I guess it's a stupid question You still practicing every day you still pick it up at home all time not every day, but I still do Oh nice practice with you know Do you ever sit there and play along with any like newer music like John Mayer or somebody like that? No You mentioned the movie a second ago and I saw the movie last night and then I was watching like John Mayer

5:54I think he's always a great guitar player. Yeah I was watching the movie last night just you know And I'm thinking I'm wondering how true to to reality is that because I was watching live from Europe Just a video I downloaded online and you seem a lot a lot Cooler and suave and less than they portrayed you in the movie and how true to reality was that that must be difficult Having a movie, you know, it's like yeah really good Have you played the shows of them what's that have you played live with him at all? Just a little bit here and there. Oh really yeah in fact he came and played with us that big 40th anniversary show thing

6:50Yeah, cool. So yeah, he's you know he can really think I mean You know in fact, that's how he got the gig for the movie was he and that's how he got the job. That's pretty cool Yeah, was he actually saying about 90% of that stuff in the movie? Yeah, it sounded a little different I was wondering what do they still use the backing tracks though? Do you know like your stuff? Yeah, they have the backing tracks were the on the original from us. Yeah, cool I'm wondering the beginning of the movie obviously the light my fire writing session How true to reality is that was that that was fairly close? It was fairly clean fact that scene was my idea. I Know what yeah, I wish there had been more scenes like that. Yeah, it would be cool. Yeah, I mean I think that's what mmm

7:47That first record I hear it was basically almost completely live all one take Well, that's the lot of the live performances were that tight at that point. That's amazing. Yeah, well We've been playing that stuffer mmm just to get pretty tight on it Was that your first ever recording session at all being in a studio? That's cool. Did it capture the live feel that you guys had at the time because I can't even imagine what the shows were like Yeah

8:32It was we could get in a studio, you know, you're sitting in a studio with no only among the floor. It's she's ceilings And you know, there was the lights in there. So we we turn all the lights off and got a bunch of candles. Oh, that's cool Yeah, I think if I've been out of it a little bit That's kind of cool. Let me ask you something you don't have to answer it if you don't want to All right, how many how much drugs did you guys do when you were recording that first record? wall playing

9:20Do you think it improves your plan or not? Oh Really? You know, it depends on how much you take I guess for one thing, but I'm speaking more of Jim Unless you just experimenting or something like that and just but you know when you're actually trying no I've learned that the past few days trying to play them Yeah, I mean, you know people you know, yeah, there's some complex little risk there. It's it's great

10:31Were you influenced by the blues as a kid like John Lee hooker or muddy waters that kind of stuff? Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean not when I was a kid, but when I okay Because the records get a lot bluesier as they as they progress I mean LA woman is is and Morrison. I'll tell him for that matter is strictly blues, right? Well Jim especially oh there you go very nice. I'm still on that first record for a second the end I Obviously a big hit of course, but I'm wondering it starts as a baseline. Is that a bass guitar or is that you? That's me cool and the sitar there is no, okay, even in the studio recording right oh

11:18So you didn't use a bass player for every song. Oh, no very nice Sounds like a sitar in that tune as well at times on your guitar where you heavily did revolver do a lot for you musically? Yeah, yeah, I like to revolver. Oh you're listening out to that was really into Robbie Sean. Did you guys ever hang out? I met him a couple of times, but you know much. Yeah, yeah, you ever try and pick up a sitar. Oh

12:09I've had to charge. Yeah, oh no way. Oh, yeah In fact, I took the tar at his school and now oh no, that's amazing. What was John playing like tableau that kind of stuff Cool, how come you guys weren't at Woodstock? Bad decision that this is yeah, stupid. Well, yeah, we figured out it was gonna be a wannabe. Yeah Well, yeah That that or you know whatever the soft parade you wrote half the tunes on that pretty much

13:00Was that I mean I've heard things that Jim was just too drunk and couldn't get his act together Or was it just you just had a batch of tunes that were that good and we're like I'm throwing these on Little Tommy here we go. I mean Jim was kind of messed up that mainly because of that my yeah He was kind of upset about that Yeah, but he still came up with some good songs for that album. Oh for sure me That's it's front to back like most doors records actually What do you think of the whole pardon thing that's going on now with the Miami incident? Have you heard about that? Yeah, I'm just trying to pardon him. I think it's a good idea And I also heard I heard that you said it never actually happened to that's true. It never happened

13:48Not really not really what he said he was gonna do it. Yeah, okay watch this much. You want to see it, you know Never really let's face it if he had don't you think somebody would have caught it on film? Yeah, probably He knows no way you could miss it. Mm-hmm too big No, but it seems you would No, I'm not going there. I'm just kidding L.A. Woman been down so long the guitar riffs on that song are Sick they back and forth from from here to here. You're probably playing the two strings at once It's just it complements your guitar. That's really there's three guitar players or yeah Overdubs I think play oh no way. Yeah, very nice. Yeah, I did not know that yeah

14:39Do you play a little keyboard as well? Do you guys ever switch? That's cool. Yeah after Jim died other voices. Oh I'm wondering did you guys decide? Like immediately that we should I know you had already started recording the record like the basic music probably What made you what happened was when Jim went to Paris, you know we continued to write songs and Lyrically was was it a lot influenced by him or were you writing with different things at that point?

15:37Really? Oh, yeah, even songs like like love me two times hello. I love you that kind of stuff. Yeah I mean, I guess you're writing for his voice, right? Well for sure okay, let me ask you five quick questions then one more answers All right, I potter CDs Leonard McCartney alcohol or marijuana song you've written your most proud of

16:32Really cool, I guess it was the first one right in one word the doors Now these years yeah, who would have thunk it amazing Robbie Krieger. Thank you so much. All right, man