from Guitar Magazine

   June 2002 - (cover:  Robby, Jerry Garcia, Arthur Lee) - page 44

issue:  Freakout!!   The Essential Guitar Guide to Psychedelia

The Doors    Waiting For The Sun (1968)

Guitarist Robby Krieger is a classic example of a '60s player applying acoustic techniques to electric guitar and coming up with something new.  Though he knew a fair amount about rock and blues, Krieger chose to largely ignore these common touchpoints, instead concentrating on his main loves, Spanish flamenco and jazz guitar heroes like Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell and Larry Carlton.  Hey presto:  a genuinely distinctive style of playing the Gibson SG, spidery and elastic, with a strong sense of rhythm -- a necessity, since The Doors had no bass player.

In fact, Krieger and keyboardist Ray Manzarek shared bass duties between them, which made the rare upper-fretboard excursions and bottleneck moments all the tastier.  It was only on the band's third album, after 1967's two long-players, The Doors and Strange Days, that Krieger really came into his own, finding a way past keyboardist Ray Manzarek and the histrionics of Jim Morrison on neat guitar tunes like Spanish Caravan.  These days, Krieger composes film soundtracks, has released several jazz-fusion albums and concentrates on his golf handicap.

accompanying the story is a Chuck Boyd photo of Robby with a bunch of girls sitting behind him onstage

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1/14/04