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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
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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.
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"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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