To all musicians it's important to remain an artist at heart. Being an artist can be a daunting task but it is always a work of love. Artist's are artists because they have to be, they have this drive within them to create things with their mind and work with their hands. They love to build things that look different than everything else does. An artist gets bored looking at the world and have this urge to modify and enhance something. They also like making new things.

There are many avenues to art, music, poetry, painting, web design. Music is a wholesome art that allows the flow of emotion, venting of personal frustration and overall self-expression. A Musician has many tools to do this with, their voice, their instrument and just about anything else that makes a sound.

Jim Morrison was one of these people that just oozed art. In his music, his drawing, and his life in general. The Doors was an outlet to help him spread his message to the whole world. The band itself was a beautiful vision that came to fruition in 1965 by Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore.

Jim was the front man for the group but all the musicians in this band were musically gifted. The hypnotic bass lines, transcendent guitar riffs, and tranquil drum beats all came together in a way never before seen before this band.

The band took their name from a 1954 book entitled The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley which took it’s name from an 18th century poem by William Blake called “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”.

Their music is full of originality and is great mood music for the truly mellow at heart. The slow paced jams like “People are Strange” and “The End” and “When the Music is Over” are often complimented on their albums with upbeat, energy driven songs like “Break on Through to the Other Side”, “Hello, I Love You” and “Light My Fire”.

The most astonishing thing about The Doors is that they were only around for a short time. Jim left the band just six years after the formation of this legendary music group. The band still continued for two years after he left but without much success.

During their time together, however, the band was very productive. Jim released a book called “The Lords and the New Creatures”, wrote two movies called “HWY: An American Pastoral” and “A Feast of Friends”. The group, as a collective, also released seven albums during this time. This include The Doors, Strange Days, Waiting for the Sun, The Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel, L.A. Woman, and Other Voices.

In 1971, Jim Morrison left the band to become a writer. He moved to Paris in March and rented an apartment there in the city. Tragedy would strike just four months later when the artist was found dead, at the age of 27. Un-confirmed sources would allege that Jim Morrison’s death was a result of a heroin overdose. He was buried in Paris, France soon after and his memorial remains one of the most visited graves in the history of the world.

Since Jim’s death the band has continued to make and produce music for millions of fans. The Doors music has also evolved to make some of the best re-makes and re-mixes ever recorded. Some examples are the re-mix of “Riders on the Storm” in 2004 by artist Snoop Dogg and a re-mixed version of the same song with artist Blondie, which can be found at the top of this page.  Their songs have also been featured in video games like Guitar Hero World Tour.

The remaining members of the Doors would reunite the band in 2002 calling the group “The Doors of the 21st Century”. Then would go through a few member changes and arraignments as well as other names for the different variations of the group. Some of these would include calling the band “Riders on the Storm”, and “Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of The Doors”.

Even if the name of the band has changed over the years, their legacy still remains. In 2007, the band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and won a Lifetime Achievement award, the same year, at the Grammys. They are also the first American Rock and Roll band to sell 8 consecutive Gold Records. The band has also been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and are in the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine.