Robby Krieger, guitarist for The Doors, talked to PBS at this year’s SXSW festival about AMERICAN MASTERS When You’re Strange, the first feature film about The Doors, premiering Wednesday, May 12, at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings).
Krieger talks about the use of previously unseen archival footage in the film, Doors fan Johnny Depp as the narrator, and his own inspiration for creating music. As the key songwriter for The Doors, Krieger penned some of their biggest hits – notably their mesmerizing #1 hit, “Light My Fire.” Krieger is listed among Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”
Note: This video clip includes a reference to illegal drug use.
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I am so sorry I missed the program. Will it be aired again? If so, when?
Itz 2010. In this psycho-emotionally STERILE environment, it’s so refreshing to see this!
This was a fantastic documentary. I was sixteen years old and attended the Miami concert, played his music all the time then, turned my daughter on to it (she’s now 25) and still play it now myself. Instructions are to play When the Music’s Over and The End at my final hurrah. Jim Morrison and the Doors will live on forever……It would be nice if he really is still among us .
i had my phone set for the day and time and don’t ya know i put a.m. instead of p.m. I WANT TO SEE THE WHOLE THING BADLY. I BEEN LOVING MORRISON AND THE CREW FOR 30 YEARS. CAN I AT LEAST BUY THE DVD. I ONLY SEEN THE LAST 40 MINUTES. SAD
i was also disturbed by the dog/coyote because it looked like its hindlegs run over and nearly severed from its body and was in its death throes. i wasnt sure if that was really jim in the car or if it was some reenactment–in any case, still disturbing. good flick though. would have been nice to have been alive at the time.