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Robert Alan Krieger, born January 8, 1946, in Los Angeles, is a musical performer and The Doors guitarist. He attended UCLA. “The first music I heard that I liked was Peter and the Wolf. I accidentally sat and broke the record (I was about seven). Then I listened to rock ‘n’ roll – I listened to the radio a lot – Fats Domino, Elvis, The Platters.

“I started surfing at fourteen. There was lots of classical music in my house. My father liked march music. There was a piano at home. I studied trumpet at ten, but nothing came of it. Then I started playing blues on the piano?no lessons though. When I was seventeen, I started playing guitar. I used my friend’s guitar. I didn’t get my own until I was eighteen. It was a Mexican flamenco guitar. I took flamenco lessons for a few months. I switched around from folk to flamenco to blues to rock ‘n’ roll.

“Records got me into the blues. Some of the newer rock ‘n’ roll, such as the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. If it hadn’t been for Butterfield going electric, I probably wouldn’t have gone rock ‘n’ roll.

I didn’t plan on rock ‘n’ roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock ‘n’ roll with jazz, and I thought I could make money playing music. In rock ‘n’ roll you can realize anything that you can in jazz or anything. There’s no limitation other than the beat. You have more freedom than you do in anything except jazz – which is dying – as far as making any money is concerned.

“In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other’s art, so we can effect a synthesis. In the case of Tim Buckley or Dylan you have one man’s ideas. Most groups today aren’t groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.”



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  • December 8, 2023
    Robby Krieger & Friends
    Count’s Vamp’d Rock Bar & Grill
    Las Vegas, NV
    Tickets
  • December 27, 2023
    Robby Krieger & the Soul Savages
    The Write-Off Room
    Studio City, CA
  • January 16, 2024
    Robby Krieger & Friends
    Whisky a Go Go
    Los Angeles, CA
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Most people know Robby Krieger as the consummate music artist in his role as former guitar player and songwriter of the legendary band The Doors.
What shouldn’t be surprising is that creativity has no boundaries and many times artistic expression will spill over into more then one medium for the artist.
Robby Krieger is no exception as demonstrated in his creation of a collection of spectacular, never-before-seen works of art…now available to art lovers and Robby fans.
Now, through the charity services organization, ART FOR A CAUSE, limited edition, giclee prints of his beautiful paintings will, for the first time, be available to the fans of Robby Krieger.
“I hope my paintings brings joy and love to art lovers for many years to come.” – Robby Krieger

Click here to visit the “Art For A Cause” site.


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2 days ago
Robby Krieger

HOLLYWOOD, CA!!
We are doing it big 07.19 to celebrate the anniversary of The Doors album “The Soft Parade”! 🥳

What’s your favorite song off that album?
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HOLLYWOOD, CA!!
We are doing it big 07.19 to celebrate the anniversary of The Doors album “The Soft Parade”! 🥳

What’s your favorite song off that album?

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All the Doors albums are fantastic

Come to Europe 🙂

Well, that’s a tough choice, but I would take Touch Me and the title track. As I write this, I’m a few meters from Jim’s last apartment here in Paris, France. Please bring your group over here Robby! We would love to hear this album in its entirety as well as tracks from your new album in Paris 

The title track! I still remember the first time I heard it (while wearing headphones) & was blown away 💪🏽🎸🎹🎼🥁🎤 But as is the case with all Doors albums it’s hard to just have one favorite ✌🏽

Love many of them. I’ll say Shamans Blues. A jazz waltz for sure.

Title track. But so many good songs. I just listened to it yesterday!

Wild Child is such a great riff. Although somewhat maligned, I like the fact that The Doors did something different, for The Soft Parade. A solid album.

The whole album is great! The title track or Wild Child or Touch Me. I am super excited and cannot wait to see you play 🎸

On my birthday 🎂🎂🎁. I love every song you created

Your song! "Wishful Sinful!

Shaman’s blues and who scared you

I'm too far away 🇮🇹

The Soft Parade, Wishful Sinful, Shaman's Blues!

Robby, please do a concert in the Midwest, we are in Cedar Rapids Iowa, anywhere in Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri or Wisconsin would work great for us

The Monk bought lunch.

The whole album is underappreciated. Do I have to pick?

The whole album is great... 🤟🏽

The whole album regularly competes with LA Woman as my favorite 🎸

Tell all the People, my favorite Doors album

Wild child…. I got my tickets for this show!!!! Can’t wait!!!

Soft parade.

Wild Child & Touch Me , but all The Doors songs are magical transcendence 💚

They are all great songs 🎹🥁🎸🎙️

That would be awesome to hear those songs live

I recently learned to play tell all the people song 💕

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3 days ago
Robby Krieger

Channeling inspiration with my good friend Tommy Thayer from KISS , the studio is where magic happens and is my favorite place on earth.

Where is your favorite place?
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Mine is up on the plains of finnmark in Norway,its bye a river and the troutfishing are amazing...That's where I find peace of mind...

I agree, music and love is all you need, and most of all God's blessings

I love You ❤️ Robby

Hanalei Kauwai, in the Hawaiian Island chain. There's a volcano mountain top that is one of the rainiest places on earth. Always shrouded in clouds, it is extremely rare to see the top. On both of my transpacific crossing we sailed the boats to this Northern Island. Very fortunate to have been blessed with the sight of this magic lava cone. On my second visit, Jim Messina gave a free concert on a stage set up on the beach. Very special place.

Here in Marin County, California my favorite place is the Tomales stone mound site, there is an ancient lichen encrusted dolmen that is aligned with an ancient stone wall that marks equinoxes and solstice events, the prehistoric stone mounds have never been excavated and are from an unknown age, they built pyramids in honor of our escaping, this is the land where the pharaoh died, and is probably buried beneath one of these stone mounds, they are constructed to mimic the constellation Cassiopeia which circles above in the nights sky, archeologists also detected a circle cut into the bedrock buried beneath the ground, Rock on ! Megalithic Marin.

Great cover of a great song! ❤️

Fantastic. And Tommy Thayer there too. He is my favorite. Unfortunately I can't tell him that. The song reminds me of my youth. 🤗

Glad that is your happy place. Hope you found some inspiration. ❤️

Lol I am a rancher so just like you mine is where my profession takes place. My favorite place is the barn/pasture.

At my cabin by the lake with my records, books and my bass guitar 💪🏻

Cool. Home is my favorite place, or out hearing music.😎

Grateful to have been in there☆ one magical place for sure🎸🎹

You rock dude!

The Balcony at the Griffith Observatory. Not much happens there, but on a really clear day you can see Catalina Island and the ocean looks like turqoise. Can stir some ambitions !

That was awesome…the vibe drips through the video…who’s on bass?

I can sing and playthis on an acoustic guitar.

I want you to come visit me when you're here ?

Name of the song?

I think I like this better than the original.

At a Robby Krieger concert of course. Hey Cuz....when are you coming to Chi Town?

Home is wear the heart is, Music is where memories begin.

In the bar doing it for the first and last time.

Great guy!

Far from this shitty planet.

Mr Robby Krieger ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ i'm very in love with You and the way you play the guitar.

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4 days ago
Robby Krieger

What’s your go to collectible you buy at the merch table? Is it t-shirts, hats?

👕 Let us know in the comments!
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I don’t know why, but usually it’s winter hat

Shirts! ❤️😎

I share same blood type with Jim. And having brown hair & blue eyes. I am the great granddaughter of a man surnamed Morris. Light My Fire was the first song ever to inspire me to plaster my transistor radio to my ear in about 1966? I have a blood type the same as Jim's.THE first song ever to inspire 12 year old me to plaster my transistor radio against my ear and TURN It UP was Light My Fire. I was 4 miles from the Whiskey when THE DOORS first performed there. I smoked my first Marlborough under the Santa Monica Pier about the time that Jim was under there too high on acid writing song lyrics. I enjoy following you on facebook very much Robbie. Your guitar playing is absolutely epic fabulous. ❤️😎

Generally a shirt. Sometimes bumper stickers or vinyl.

Does Robby have merch at his gigs at all ?

Shirts and posters, if they're good designs.

Shirts! Love concert shirts.

TANKS & TSHIRTS

What merchandise table are you talking about?

Shirts in women’s cut sizes. It’s a rarity these days.

Vinyl and posters.

Shirt ! I had Robby sign one I just keep it I never wore it 😁 don’t want to risk loosing the chicken scratch in the laundry lol

Usually CDs. I find the shirts and hats way too expensive

Both.

T and vinyl.

Posters!!! My walls are covered in them!

Signed books, including yours

T shirts usually

T-shirts

T shirts

👋Whichever’s better than the rest

Picks

T-shirt

Signed drum head

Signed posters!

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5 days ago
Robby Krieger

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Robby says "Can you really hook me up with some bling...?" Answer..."yes my brother..no problem "

When you broke on through to the other side figuring out if Maggie Magill lives on a hill or was she a Hobbit?

You are trying to pronounce names from the Hungarian phone book

“Robby here me out bruh. You BEEN “The Doors”. We should be “the WINDOWS “ man!!!!! Robby politely shakes head “no” Love you Robby. Thanks for the tunes and the inspiration on guitar. I play fingerstyle because of you 🩵💯🙏

The way Robby could defeat Mike Tyson in the ring by ducking and maneuvering , weaving Thin nylon guitar strings around mikes ankles so he keeps tripping

Robby: yeah, visiting Amsterdam is always a good idea. Would love to play some golf in the Netherlands too. And eat bitterballen.

What country is Morrison currently living in and how to go visit him?

Finer parts of Soul Savages Dance routine?

Easy! You guys are playing Hangman

Incredible guitarist He set the world on fire.

Franklin - 'This reefer roach has given me the munchies' (Menlo Boo) Robby - ' Well...Let's order an Hawaiian Pizza...extra pineapple'

Light my fire should’ve had a capo on the 3rd fret.

You should come in right after the into and just tear it up Robby 🎸 Right on! Let's do this 🎶

Tang is much better than beer to serve at parties. Love the new music

The difference between the orange and the string !

Robbie is explaining his design of the Flux capacitor, which as we all know, makes time travel possible.

Robby showing pics of the salmon he caught in Alaska!

You are discussing how to incorporate Socrates and Plato into your music.

"I'm telling you. I liked it better when it was Ben Franks!"

Still doing bottleneck after all these years!

"No, I'm convinced Waldo is not in there."

Trying to decide what to get for take out. Chinese or pizza.

"Oh-h-h GAWD YES, disco STILL SUCKS!" "...sure damn-does."

”- You have to use plectrum while playing. - Well, I don’t think so.”

When I was in Jefferson Airplane we had this drummer named Ringo ...

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6 days ago
Robby Krieger

🎸Jazz has always been a passion of mine and a huge part of my career!

What specific elements of Jazz resonate with you the most?
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Love jazz guitar players...all different ... Joe Pass....George Benson... Wes Montgomery...and many more...

I ve discovered Coltrane thanks to the Doors "In absolutely Live" the played "My favorite Things" in a passage from "Universal Mind".My goodness!!!

Virtuoso musicianship & knowing how to improvise. I really like the Jazz from Robby Krieger the Soul Savages... I've been going to experience a really good Wednesday night jazz jam session with excellent, usually young musicians at a bar called "The York" in Highland Park over the past year. I'm trying to learn jazz guitar myself, coming from a Rock/Blues background 🎸, although I don't consider myself ready for prime time yet...

A friend told me that Joyce (she meant Finnegans) is the free jazz of literature - true - but I like free jazz being the free jazz of free jazz. That part.

Just -the dedicated- (absolutely) given nature of its (and everyone's) improv. It's an unity that folks across ANY spectrum of nature/humanity should BE so -dedicated- to. Example, par extraordinaire.

I love Jeff Beck...

For me it the improvisation that makes jazz so special

We have done a Club Remix Moonlight Drive it's very big in the London Club Scene but it's sung by a Woman a Sagittarius sun Aquarius Ascendant who has always understood Jim's expression growing up in Venice Beach I can hope you can listen to what's currant in the London club scene we have taken what's beautiful and elevated it on absolute respect to aThe DOORS 💙🎶🎤

I luv writing jazz chords for my songs and having a blues element as well.

Actually Jazz doesnt resonate much with me but the Blues sure do! Ur music is still fabulous whether i like jazz or not. Im happy to see u still rocking!

Jazz is personal...and unique as it comes from the soul of the artist.

Theres something about putting some good jazz in on a Sunday morning!

I like Billie holiday type jazz and Frank Sinatra.

Love it🎶🎶💜

The rhythm section especially the drums. Jazz is a drummer's medium.

Improvisation. The sky’s the limit when you solo.

Robert glasper,Derrick hodge,Bilal - they really touch me ...

Sounding good Robby

The jams made by Charlie Parker and Miles. Robby and the Doors, had a similar vibe- please contunue maestro!

Each band member takes a solo and is allowed to improvise. 💕🎶💕

I always liked the odd time signature pieces by Dave Brubeck.

Improvisation and risk taking

The drum rhythms

Sounds like the Doors they always had the Rock jazzy sound

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