Summary of Robby Krieger's Set the Night on Fire

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#1 The Doors were a young band on their way up in 1966. One night, Jim Morrison, the lead singer, jumped out of a window drunk. I didn’t have much confidence in his grip.

#2 I was the youngest member of the band, and I didn’t have any authority over the others. I was constantly being placed at the crossroads between rock ’n’ roll stardom and scooping Jim’s brains off the pavement. I knew that Jim could be as big a rock star as anyone who had come before him.

#3 The Doors were a band that I auditioned for in 1965. I had met the rest of the band members before, so there was no need for introductions. I came prepared to play the first song we ever played together: Moonlight Drive.

#4 The hair relaxer wore off after a few months, and my sexy mop top went back to looking like a frayed Brillo pad. But thankfully by then I had proven myself indispensable, and the Doors couldn’t get rid of me any more than I could get rid of the worst hair in rock ’n’ roll.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822519541

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#1

The Doors were a young band on their way up in 1966. One night, Jim Morrison, the lead singer, jumped out of a window drunk. I didn’t have much confidence in his grip.

#2

I was the youngest member of the band, and I didn’t have any authority over the others. I was constantly being placed at the crossroads between rock ’n’ roll stardom and scooping Jim’s brains off the pavement. I knew that Jim could be as big a rock star as anyone who had come before him.

#3

The Doors were a band that I auditioned for in 1965. I had met the rest of the band members before, so there was no need for introductions. I came prepared to play the first song we ever played together: Moonlight Drive.

#4

The hair relaxer wore off after a few months, and my sexy mop top went back to looking like a frayed Brillo pad. But thankfully by then I had proven myself indispensable, and the Doors couldn’t get rid of me any more than I could get rid of the worst hair in rock ’n’ roll.

#5

I was always athletic and confident as a child, but my grades plummeted due to the fact that I couldn’t see the chalkboard. I was eventually banished to right field in the Little League, hoping the ball wouldn’t come my way.

#6

I was a popular extrovert in high school, but I became an outcast when my face exploded with zits. I was hazed mercilessly by upperclassmen. I spent every weekend of my junior high years on a perpetual search for a party, but I was too shy to go in.

#7

I was a troublemaker, and my parents tried to keep me away from those around me who were also bad influences. But I kept getting into trouble, and my grades kept sinking. I had to repeat my junior year of high school.

#8

I first played the guitar at my friend Bob Wire’s house when I was twelve, and I kept finding excuses to hang out with him and strum it again. I was intrigued by the guitarists in my neighborhood, like Henry Vestine, who would later go on to play in Canned Heat.

#9

I was drawn to the clunky, campy sound of jug band music. I played guitar, Wolff pulled double duty on guitar and washboard, and Phinizy sang and played the jug. We called ourselves the Back Bay Chamber Pot Terriers, which was Phinizy’s idea. We performed only once, at a meeting of the school’s Women’s Auxiliary.

#10

The New Haven concert is often cited as the point when the band’s popularity began to wither. It was the end of a exhilarating year for