4 THINGS YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE DOORS

4 THINGS YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE DOORS they had no bass player. not on stage, not really on records. ray manzarek played the basslines with his left hand on a keyboard bass while playing the organ with his right, at the same time. several bassists auditioned, none of them fit, so he just did both jobs. their biggest song wasn't written by jim morrison. Light my Fire, the number one hit, was written by the guitarist robby krieger. and here's the kicker, it was the very first song he ever wrote. imagine your first attempt at songwriting becoming one of the most famous songs of the decade. krieger didn't even come from rock. he picked up guitar at 17 because he fell in love with spanish flamenco, and his first guitar hero was jazz legend wes montgomery. that flamenco fingerstyle is why his playing sounds different from every other rock guitarist of that era. and that iconic organ intro to Light my Fire? it wasn't some beach epiphany like the movie shows. the producer told manzarek to take his old johann sebastian bach practice studies and turn them into the intro. one of rock's most famous intros is basically repurposed bach homework.