Robby Krieger | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
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How did the Doors' mythology evolve over the years?
And the movie really is what revamped the interest in the Doors. I hate to admit it. Drugs versus spirituality. In the 60s, drugs were spirituality.
I'm surprised. Did anyone call you to join their band? No.
I mean, you wrote a lot of big hit songs. You'd think somebody would have called you. I think people were kind of scared, maybe. Scared of you?
L.A. can make you crazy. Has L.A. made you crazy, Robbie? No. You still don't, right? I grew up here. Yeah, right. Okay, let's start here. Okay. New album? Right. Robbie Krieger and the Soul Savages? Yeah. Now, it's all instrumental? Yeah. Is it like a Booker T in the MGs? Are you trying to bring back kind of the instrumental...
Yeah, that's my hope is to have an instrumental hip like Booker T. Yeah. In fact, my drummer.
Was it Soul Hugger or was it Green Onions?
Hip Huggers.
Hip Huggers, thank you.
Yeah, Green Onions.
Did you like that music? Do you like Staxx?
yeah yeah i mean you know and that's not what i'm trying to do but i'm just saying in general yeah to have a yeah no i'm not saying it sounds like yeah to bring back that yeah the instrumental hit type of deal you know so it's fun and of course i read this book when it came out so it's great to talk to you about some of the stuff in the book
Set the Night on Fire. I really enjoyed this book a lot. We'll talk about that. Okay. So let's start with the Soul Savages thing. Okay. I saw a funny thing where you said, Robbie Krieger and the Soul Savages is a stupid name.
What inspired Robby Krieger's latest project with the Soul Savages?
But then I also saw where you said the Doors was a stupid name too. Exactly. So what should the Soul Savages be called?
And so was the Butts Band.
Right.
Have you ever heard about the Butts Band?
Oh, I think I read about it in this wonderful book of yours.
Yeah.
Would I rather have come? Yeah. That was the one we picked. Right. You know, Marco is great at names, so he made up about 100 names. Okay. And we whittled it down.
Was it a Democratic vote?
Yeah.
But it shouldn't be, because it's called Robbie Krieger first, you see.
I know, and I didn't want that. You should have pulled rank. Well, I really didn't want it to be Robbie Krieger. Yeah, I want it to be more like a real group type thing, but... You know, they said, oh, well, you get more airplay or something. You know, people love the Doors and all that. But then they're gonna think it's gonna sound like the Doors. Yeah.
I thought your guitar playing sounded great. Great tones. Oh, thanks. Are you playing an SG? Yep.
Still playing the SG.
I remember I've seen a bunch of the videos that you posted. Your original got lost, right? Or somebody stole it?
What songwriting secrets did Robby share about 'Light My Fire'?
Right. Yeah. Stolen. I'm surprised it hasn't surfaced. I'm sure you've seen some of those things where people are finding Paul McCartney's guitar.
Yeah.
I can't believe somebody hasn't found your SG.
Yeah.
I know. I think it must be just sitting somewhere in an attic.
You probably don't know this story, but somebody stole my guitar from a gig in Detroit in 1992, and it was gone for 27 years, and I got it back.
Really?
Somebody showed up with it.
How did you get it back?
This gentleman contacted me and said, I think I have your guitar. And I'd heard this before. So I was very skeptical. And he sent obviously new digital photos of my guitar. And there were certain markings that only I would recognize. And I knew right away it was my guitar. And I thought, this just can't be. And the story I was told was somebody bought it at a garage sale and it was hung on somebody's wall. And eventually they came into the basement and they saw it and they said, that's Billy Corgan's missing guitar. And I don't really believe the story, but all I know is I got my guitar back. What kind was it? A 70s Strat. Had a very distinctive sound. You know, when you have a guitar, like that guitar was your guitar, right?
Yeah. And you know that that thing had a certain cut this way and it sounded good in this key.
How did Jim Morrison's death impact the Doors' future?
Sure. So when you lose that and you go looking for the other guitar and it never quite gets the same thing, it's such a painful process.
Luckily, my guitar... wasn't that great. I mean, it was just, it sounded like any other, it wasn't even an SG, it was a... Les Paul Jr.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did the Doors' mythology evolve over the years?
0:00–2:00
2
What inspired Robby Krieger's latest project with the Soul Savages?
2:00–3:13
3
What songwriting secrets did Robby share about 'Light My Fire'?
3:13–4:25
4
How did Jim Morrison's death impact the Doors' future?
4:25–6:04
5
What was the significance of the Doors' biopic by Oliver Stone?
6:04–8:38
6
What unique challenges did Robby face after Jim's passing?
8:38–12:49
7
What are Robby's thoughts on the resurgence of interest in the Doors?
12:49–16:44
8
How does Robby view the relationship between spirituality and drugs in the 60s?
16:44–1:24:24
Speakers
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