Robert Alan Krieger (January 8, 1946, Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American rock and roll guitarist and songwriter. He was the guitarist in The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire," "Love Me Two Times," "Touch Me," and "Love Her Madly."
He is listed as number 91 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Krieger was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles where he...
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Robert Alan Krieger (January 8, 1946, Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American rock and roll guitarist and songwriter. He was the guitarist in The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire," "Love Me Two Times," "Touch Me," and "Love Her Madly."
He is listed as number 91 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Krieger was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles where he learned to play guitar when he attended Menlo School (formerly a boarding school in the San Francisco Bay area). He started by tuning a ukulele like the bottom four strings of a guitar and imitating a flamenco guitar record. He later purchased a flamenco guitar on a Christmas vacation in Puerto Vallarta in 1963 and mastered the style without benefit of lessons. He gradually grew tired of playing flamenco and helped form a jug band called the Back Bay Chamberpot Terriers with Bill Wolff (later of the Peanut Butter Conspiracy).
He was in The...
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