Doors
open to semi-joint promotion
Star News Services
The Doors, who have been seeing each other in court a lot lately, were scheduled to kind of reunite Wednesday … for a single-day promotion of a new book and CD boxed set.
Drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Krieger and keyboardist Ray Manzarek were to visit three locations in Los Angeles. But Densmore, who successfully sued the two others to stop them from touring as the Doors of the 21st Century, plannned to be at a bookstore on one side of the street, while the two others would be at one on the other side.
Densmore, 61, and Manzarek, 67, told Reuters in separate interviews that they do not communicate with each other. “If you stay together long enough in a rock ’n’ roll band, something will go wrong,” said Manzarek, who lives in the Napa Valley, near San Francisco.
Densmore said there’s no bad blood at his end, “... but yeah, on his ...”
He was referring to an appeal filed by Manzarek, along with Krieger, of last year’s Los Angeles court decision that ordered the pair not only to stop touring as the Doors of the 21st Century — they now call themselves Riders of the Storm, after another Doors song — but to turn over all touring profits to the original Doors partnership.
“Time is an incredible healer,” Densmore said. “The stupid appeal should wind up in a year.”
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