Robby Krieger
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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.”
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
🎸 The strings explain it better than I ever could.
YOU MAKE THE ''STRINGS TALK'', DO IT ROBBY, DO IT''
You sure know how to move those strings to paint a vivid story.
Robbie, you have a nice variety of music styles. You are probably the guitarist that has influenced me the most. Now, as to your wardrobe…
Silly String explains my stumbled life in the heat. Ding Dong Bing Bang GO!!!
You have a style to me is the way you bend them makes it your own. Rock’n’ Roll 👏🏼
He inspired me to enjoy finger picking
It'll be a day that we will meet and record my first song will be moonlight drive.
It forms in the synapses then pulses through the nerves and muscles until it flows out the fingers like musical honey.
Once for tomorrow once just for today
An extension of the soul.
maybe just so, maestro robbie...yet your lyrics in so many of your songs touch many more heartstrings/souls !
Robby Krieger the heart and soul of the Doors ! Genius mind and we’re still playing his music 60 years later. My grandson loves his music too
Are you gonna do any more live sessions and videotape? I think it’s cool to listen to your guitar and how you would advanced into different kinds of music. Looks like mostly like blues and kind of stuff Jeff Beck stuff that’s awesome. Keep a good one like that. 
A hoooooo, Rooby
Great musician. I've watched several interviews of yours on u tube and in awe of how kind and down to earth you are. Love the songs you wrote.Keep on playing.
*HI..SALUE *ROBBY.....ALWAY NICE PAN*.
Eclectic outfit blends in so well...
Your strings are a medium between you and your audience😃❤️👍👍💥
Well, I’ve been listening my entire life Robby 😁
on.soundcloud.com/tTBPPMcqFPQ9xKfToH Yeah buddy, you know it’s true. ….born in fire fountains, ice melts the thaw. Spread my fingers into wings, and let me fly. My tears are notes to cry. My guitar, won’t weep for me. I have to tell it where it hurts, so that I can remain free.
Robby the way you make strings sound is out of this world and eternal, especially when Jim and Ray and John were playing or performing with you, the name of the band, The Doors, says it all. ☮❤ peace and love!!!
Your strings say it perfectly! 🎶
A living legend!
youtu.be/gXyKO0X315o?si=LLPRbAor5bEkSPAg It was recorded on a phone in a shed. So I’d like to redo it. But this one is for you Robbie. It’s a method of sorts that makes me happy.
This guy!!!!! Sagebrush Cantina! Loved hearing him as he is my fave!
🎵Music is something I could never let go of, and it evolves over time.
Those who’ve gotten my latest album with my Soul Savages project you can hear where Im at currently.
I love this interview 🥰. Especially the part here where he says “ or started an aquarium “ 😅😂 🪸 🐡 🦑 🦈 Announcement 📣 to comment readers: Anyone who loves Robby Krieger and hasn’t seen him live lately or has never seen The Soul Savages.. the group dynamic is super fun phenomenal enjoyable .. go see a show or buy the album.. it’s worth it ! P.S. Robbie you have never stopped evolving it’s clear in the music ! So don’t doubt that and the direction this album and the Savages go live is excellent! Thanks for still doing it ! 😊😏
He’s one of the reasons that I decided to call myself Robby instead of Rob back in ‘81
Knights of the order of malta
Music is your only friend... until the end.... until the end!!! ❤️🎶🎸🔥🇧🇷
It is amazing how music has evolved throughout the years. The fun part is evolving with it.
Love you both!
Where to go Robbie
Hi Robby i bet you cant remember me from Basel
Great! I'm 67...& have no plans of hanging up my picks. I've had a few periods where I didn't even touch my guitar...but it wasn't for long at all. I play at home right now....after decades of playing professionally, for my own enjoyment...& I post my playing on YouTube, ReverbNation, etc. Music is VERY special to me...& has been since I started playing guitar & drums around 1968...then added Pedal Steel Guitar in 75, & bass guitar around 83. Music is emotionally very therapeutic to me...as is me working 💪 out at home with weights, etc. I don't understand a couple of my friends, who stopped playing, even at home...saying "music was my job..." blah, blah, blah..."just playing for myself at home doesn't do it for me". Well, if that's the case...you don't REALLY love the instrument(s) you chose to play....it was all about the money & not having to work a "regular" job. Very sad, really. The guy I'm referring to mainly, Mark...has mental issues & lives in the past (70's). He won't see this, as he doesn't use a computer, cell phone or anything that wasn't commonplace in the 70's. I LOVE the 60's & 70's.....but, we have a lot of very cool things now...like YouTube, computers, etc. He could be watching vintage video footage of 70's bands.....but "that's too modern" for his mind. Sad 😔
Okay man im going to Sunrise Records here in Canada it should be there you got it bud! The SoulSavages CoOoL!🌺✨🌔
Continuing to play music is the right approach!
Isn't it true that the doors were a CIA mind opp and Ray manzerick was yr handeler
CoooL. Thanks for sharing your talents, Robby! 👌🏻👏🏻
youtu.be/gXyKO0X315o?si=IJ-2KUkFSrH962mi Here you go dudes! Have a gander I don’t know. But both of you are part of me. I just wanted you to know that. And do it for free instead
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Cool
If you could ask me one question what would it be?
What would Jim Morrison say about the current state of America???
If you could meet Jim one more time – what would you tell him that you never got the chance to say?
Did you have a good life, enough to base a movie on?
Were you on Acid while playing onstage, specifically the Doors
What were you on when you played that incredible Spanish Caravan piece? Those strings didn't know what hit them!
Did you know, at the peak of your successes, that the Doors would turn out to be so influential? Did you FEEL like you were making history??
If you were Astral travelling in your furry chair where would you dwell upon!?
Indian scattered on dawn's highway bleeding
Do you remember hanging my bra on your guitar when I threw it on stage at the Camden roundhouse around 2008 🙂
After you walked off stage at the Ed Sullivan show, was everybody jumping on Jim for singing “higher”?
Do you think "The cars hiss by my window" was a prophecy?
Did the mosquito eat your burrito ?
In the movie, you are seen depicted rehearsing and then suddenly on a huge stage. How long did it really take from meeting to becoming as tight as you were live?
How did you get that black eye when you guys were on Sullivan ?
What did you think when Jim did that bottle neck vocal at the end of Cars Hiss By My Window!?
If you had an evil twin, what would his name be?
What does the lyric “the scream of the butterfly” mean????
Wanna jam?
Who lit the Fire
Two guestions please Robbie. Is it true you used a bottle neck for a slide. And do you think Jim's personality and stage presence may have distracted fans and critics from the musical talents of the band?
What was it like frying with Jim in detail?
When the last time you took acid? 🫣
Why didn't "Who Scared You?" make it on the Soft Parade LP?
When the Doors stayed compleet would you still playing live like the Stones.
Was there any Doors' song you had to use a guitar pick on?
✍️ BUILD YOUR OWN SETLIST
Drop in the comments the top 3 songs I’ve done that are a must have for you!
📸: Forrest Penner
Light my fire, Peace frogs Back door man
You're lost little girl, My eyes have seen you, The spy
Road house blues La woman Break on through.....you just can't go wrong with those three
Moonlight Drive for the slide guitar that sounds like no one else’s Peace Frog for the tightest cleanest most exciting short solo ever When the Musics Over for the dual guitar “solo” that demonstrated your amazing creativity. Mesmerizing to listen to.
"Her Majesty" "Solar Wind" "Strut-A-Various" for the solo stuff. For the Doors stuff, "Light My Fire" "Peace Frog" "Land, Ho !"
Moonlight Drive, Cars Hiss By My Window, La'merica. I could name a lot more.
Take it as it comes, You are Lost little girl and of course, Love me 2 times.
The Soft Parade, The Spy, The Mosquito
Robby Krieger The mosquito, love me two times, light my fire
Peace Frog. Spanish Caravan. Touch Me.
"Do it Robby, Do It!"
Light My Fire – The one that started it all. A spark that lit the fuse. Spanish Caravan – My classical roots meet the psychedelic road. Love Me Two Times – Bluesy, raw, and full of attitude – slide guitar straight from the gut.
I always liked the more mysterious songs.... Riders On The Storm (named a chapter in my fantasy/sci fi novel after it) Strange Days Waiting For The Sun All time favorite cover song from The Doors would be "Mystery Train" very well done ...🚂....
Yes the River Knows, Moonlight Drive & a Spanish Caravan…& The Mosquito if there’s room for one more! 🙏❤️😎
The soft parade. Light my fire. Pace frog.🎸🎶🌌
Light My fire The end Ships with sails
Moonlight Drive  love me two times  LA woman
Break on Through Soul Kitchen Love Her Madly LOVE ME TWO TIMES When the Music's Over Moonlight Drive Take It As It Comes Soft Parade Hyacinth House Wild Child End of Night Riders on the Storm La Woman Light My Fire Robbie ill sing them all for Free D.M ME x
The End, When the Music’s Over, LA Woman. (To name but a few) thanks for all the feeling transmitted through these songs✌🏻
Moonlight Drive!
The End, Roadhouse Blues, LA Woman
Wishful Sinful, 20th Century Fox, Maggie M'gill.
...only 3 is not possible... Mr. Robby ...You and The Doors have all made special songs ❤❤❤
The Ally, Spare Change, Noisuf
20th century fox. I love that opening lick a lot and play it when I'm bored.
🔥Every show is different and special in their own way - tell me about your favorite show that you’ve ever been to!
📸 Ida Miller
Saw Robbie and Ray, awesome! Saw Elton John and Billy Joel together in Seattle and was spectacular. My favorite memory is when a friend and I saw Ray Manzarek and Michael McClure in a little club in Baltimore in the late 80’s. McClure reading poetry to Ray piano playing. We kept asking for Light My Fire. McClure was not amused, looked over at us and told us to, and I quote, shut the fuck up! It was my 15 minutes of fame😂 and I like to think that Jim would approve, as he said, we were maybe just testing the bounds of reality🙃
I was in line at Wallic's Music City waiting to get tickets at their Ticketmaster Kois. As I finally reached the window and got my wallet out, the man said, 'We are out of tickets, but come back in an hour.' I think I was the only one to hear that, and I returned and got two tickets to the CCR concert at the Long Beach Arena. They had added more tickets ON STAGE! Yes, Forgety was 10 feet away singing in his unique twang. It was great, but it would have been perfect if I had earplugs, being 15 feet from the amps.
Caught you, Ray, Ian - Doors of the 21st Century -Albuquerque. Wow...unforgettable. Thank you!
Eric Burdon in 93 in a small club in Aachen, Germany. Curtis Mayfield in 90 in the same club, shortly before his terrible accident. Prince with Candy Dulfer and some members of Sly Stone’s band in 97 in Cologne, Germany in a midsize hall performing pretty unknown songs. Buddy Guy in 2004 on the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, Netherlands.
Jucifer she had my head in bass drum by end of show.. she did one of those change into another being onstage freaked me out I started crying.
Tina Turner opening for the Stones, maybe 12th row center at the Capital for The Who or Dylan's 30th Anniversity concert at M.S.G.
20 years ago i was so Lucky to see two old friends Ray and Robbie paying hommage to their legacy i was there alone just taking it all in.. it still vibrates inside my head!
So why did you have a black eye on Touch Me tv appearance ?
Grateful Dead, by far the most abstract take on "shows," ever. When I was much younger, in the 80s, I was able to see a number of the Chicago blues legends live. Smaller shows, so you're closer to the amplifiers. They were all in their prime, of course. Andres Segovia. ✨️ Been to a few punk and metal concerts, but playing guitar myself, the idea of maintaining that pinched up state for years and years on end, sending kids home reeling drunk, spun, and pissed off ... never resonated too deeply, with me. I get it. Just not how I want to feel.
Mid April of 1967 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. Just finished the Spring Mobilization March against the War in Vietnam. Saw the Doors and the Steve Miller Blues band for the fist time amongst the strobe lights and crazy light show. Back when people still danced at concerts and formed a Conga Line. What a night! And you Doors were really good.
Every time i see you with your Vai-vai t-shirt. I've shure that Brasil Will be always in your heart!! Back soon!!🥰🇧🇷🎶🔥🎸☮️
My favorite show was front row in Pensacola. Florida at the Saenger Theatre. I got to watch you play every note it was awesome! The Soft Parade at The Whisky last year would be my second 😍
I saw you play, with your son, at the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood, NJ. It's a vintage venue and was a perfect location to play the music of the Doors. I felt like it was in 1967 and I was listening to the Doors for the first time live.
Echo and the Bunnymen at the Universal Amphitheatre in Hollywood California 1988. Ray came on stage and performed Soul Kitchen, People are Strange, and a few other tunes with the band.
Saw Robby Kreiger Band at State Theater New Brunswick on tour Spring 2017 ( or 2016) Great show, band was tight, solos brought you back to The Doors days.
Probably one of the better ones is Crosby stills and Nash and Young together  most likely for the last time in 2005  Shoreline Mountain View  California
Was at a James Brown show at a medium sized club in Detroit and Sly Stone was in attendance. He was invited up and the band jammed on thankU…
Your next gig at the whisky when I get winning free ticket 🎟️ 😁
The 21st century doors in Manchester Apollo U.K. what a Gig la. Woman in full come back to Liverpool please Robbie....I'll sing for you!!!
"The Blizzard of Ozz" Boston, MA 1981. Randy was on fire.
Robby Krieger I saw you with the Fudge, in NY, shortly after the pandemic restrictions had been lifted for shows. You guys kicked ass, and I’ve got some great photos and videos taken from the front row! Hope to see you again!☮️🎶❤️
The Doors had come and gone before I was old enough to go to concerts, but my brother saw them at Indianapolis in 1970. My personal favorite concert ever was seeing Robin Trower in November 1974 at Hara Arena in Dayton Ohio. Was the original Trower trio, Reg Isidore and James Dewar. I couldn`t believe 3 pieces could sound so BIG!
Was beyond awesome to be about eight feet from the legend, actually singing along to Doors classic songs while Robby played guitar, like I did countless times in my youth, singing along with Jim, in my darkened room. Overall, hated living in the East Texas town of Paris for a few years, being from the city. But one good thing about it, it rained quite a bit, so there were times it would be raining outside, as I sang along with "Riders On the Storm" and other favorite songs of The Doors ⛈️
Never seen you or The Doors as they were a little before my time. I saw The Moody Blues in 1980 and Pink Floyd in 87.
You already know. Adam and the Ants .The Country Club. 1980