Nearly 50 years later, The Doors founding guitarist Robby Krieger, who penned some of the band’s biggest hits, including their number one hit “ Light My Fire,” along with “ Love Me Two Times,” “ Touch Me” and “ Love Her Madly,” captures pockets of memories, monumental moments, and sets the record straight on the true connection of The Doors-and the most famous black eye in rock ’n’ roll-in his first memoir Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar with The Doors.Ĭo-written with Jeff Alulis, author of punk autobiography NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories and former touring vocalist for the Dead Kennedys, Set the Night on Fire contains short story recollections from Krieger, now 75, in his earliest days as a young musician, the highest peaks and crashes in his personal life-getting locked in jail for drug bust as a teen-and being in one of the most legendary bands in rock history, including some of his first writing sessions in his parents’ living room with Jim Morrison and the backyard parties where the band would play their first-ever gigs. “My black eye should serve as a reminder that no matter how much a person thinks they know about The Doors, there’s always more to the story. “I used to love it when Jim gave conflicting stories to the press to keep people guessing about us, and I like carrying on that tradition,” says Krieger. As they performed, Krieger only pretended to play, and when asked about the infamous black eye, would often embellish the story saying he and frontman Jim Morrison got into a fight before the show, or that the band was attacked by rednecks that didn’t like their long hair. Krieger, who long battled with survivor’s guilt and remained on and off friends with Donna until her untimely death, was only left with a black eye following the incident but was still scheduled to appear with the band on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour a few days later.

All three sustained injuries, including Donna who was left paralyzed from the waist down after the accident. Hers would reveal itself weeks later when Krieger, Donna, and her boyfriend were involved in a car accident driving to a fishing trip along the Mexican border.

Everyone but Donna received their good fortune. In 1968, The Doors were playing a show in Santa Barbara, and while in town guitarist Robby Krieger, along with drummer John Densmore, were dragged by longtime Whisky a Go-Go stalwarts and friends, Donna and Sharon, to visit a psychic with “the Gift,” called Ms. “Fortune-tellers usually don’t predict doom and gloom in your future-it’s bad for business.”

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