ROBBY KRIEGER’S LEGENDARY status is assured, having recorded six classic albums with the Doors between 1967 and 1971, starting with their eponymous debut and concluding with L.A. Woman, due to the untimely death of singer Jim Morrison. Krieger’s unique finger-picked, slide stylings are all over the records, becoming as much a part of the band’s signature sound as Ray Manzarek’s keyboards. Krieger’s writing was equally vital to the success of the band, coming up with many of their most loved songs. The Doors made two more albums, Other Voices (1971) and Full Circle (1972), after Morrison’s death, working as a three-piece — both strong albums that are often overlooked due to the absence of the charismatic Morrison.
Krieger had two short-lived bands — Butts Band and Red Shift — through to the end of the Seventies before moving into the jazz-fusion arena in the Eighties with his self-titled album released in 1985. By 1991, he had formed his own touring band, the Robby Krieger Band. With interest in the Doors’ catalog always strong, Krieger succumbed to the inevitable in 2002, hooking up with Manzarek to temporarily reform the band under the banner Doors of the 21st Century
