Amoeba Music

The Doors arrived on the U.S. scene in the first month of 1967 as something wickedly new. Fronted by a poetry-intoxicated, priapic lead singer whose presence was unlike anything seen since the advent of Elvis Presley, the Los Angeles quartet – which worked without a bass – played music that was lean, jazzy, and improvisational, yet simultaneously pop-friendly. Blasting out of the hip L.A. club underground, they became national stars in the psychedelic summer of ’67, bearing, in vocalist Jim Morrison’s words, “songs of love and songs of death/songs to set men free.” By year’s end, they would be one of the top bands in the U.S. Few who heard them would remain untouched by the seductive... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Psychedelic, Hard Rock, Blues Rock

City Of Origin:

Los Angeles, ,California United States

Formed Date:

1965