- Publisher: White Rabbit
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 196x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9781474624190
- Product code: 538621
Set the Night on Fire
New Paperback Illustrated
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For fifty years The Doors’ guitarist Robby Krieger has stayed relatively quiet about his life and career. In these vignettes he offers glimpses into his youth – buying his first guitar in a pawn shop, writing songs in his parents’ living room with Jim Morrison, encounters with fans – and reflects on the volatile early years of the band and the excesses of the 1960s.
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'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the more inflated earlier versions . . . this late-arriving history is perhaps the most reliable, and certainly the most entertaining, of all' Guardian
Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after fifty years, The Doors' notoriously quiet guitarist is finally breaking his silence to set the record straight.
Through a series of vignettes, Robby takes readers back to where it all happened: the pawn shop where he bought his first guitar; the jail cell he was tossed into after a teenage drug bust; his parents' living room where his first songwriting sessions with Jim Morrison took place; and the many concert venues that erupted into historic riots. Both a time capsule of the 1960s counterculture and a moving reflection on what it means to find oneself as a musician, Set the Night on Fire is a must-read for Doors fans and an essential volume of American pop.
'The very best . . . A well-told classic tale' Mojo
'Eschewing mythologising for unvarnished, often amusing memories, this is a book that Doors fans will love madly' Classic Rock Magazine
Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after fifty years, The Doors' notoriously quiet guitarist is finally breaking his silence to set the record straight.
Through a series of vignettes, Robby takes readers back to where it all happened: the pawn shop where he bought his first guitar; the jail cell he was tossed into after a teenage drug bust; his parents' living room where his first songwriting sessions with Jim Morrison took place; and the many concert venues that erupted into historic riots. Both a time capsule of the 1960s counterculture and a moving reflection on what it means to find oneself as a musician, Set the Night on Fire is a must-read for Doors fans and an essential volume of American pop.
'The very best . . . A well-told classic tale' Mojo
'Eschewing mythologising for unvarnished, often amusing memories, this is a book that Doors fans will love madly' Classic Rock Magazine
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For fifty years The Doors’ guitarist Robby Krieger has stayed relatively quiet about his life and career. In these vignettes he offers glimpses into his youth – buying his first guitar in a pawn shop, writing songs in his parents’ living room with Jim Morrison, encounters with fans – and reflects on the volatile early years of the band and the excesses of the 1960s.
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