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Profile of John Densmore
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John Densmore |
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1st December 1944 |
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Santa Monica, California, USA |
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John Densmore (born December 1, 1944 in Los Angeles, California) was the drummer of the rock group The Doors from 1965 to 1973.
He is a drummer and writer and attended Santa Monica City College and Cal. State-Northridge.
- "I've been playing for six years. I took piano lessons when I was ten. They tried to get me to play Bach. They tried for two years. When I was in junior high I got my first set of drums. I played symphonic music in high school (tympani, snare drum), then I played jazz for three years. I used to play sessions in Compton and Topanga Canyon."
John Densmore left the world of rock-and-roll in the 1980s, moving to the world of dance as he performed with Bess Snyder and Co., touring the United States for two years.
In 1984, at La Mama Theatre in New York, he made his stage acting debut in Skins, a one-act play he had written. In 1985, he won the L.A. Weekly Theatre Award for music with Methusalem, directed by Tim Robbins. The play, Rounds, which he co-produced, won the NAACP award for theatre in 1987. In 1988, he played a feature role in Band Dreams and Bebop at the Gene Dynarski Theatre. He developed and performed a one-man piece from the short story, The King of Jazz, at the Wallenboyd Theatre in 1989. With Adam Ant, he co-produced Be Bop A Lula at Theatre Theatre in 1992. He has acted in numerous TV shows, and his film credits include: Get Crazy with Malcolm McDowell, Dudes directed by Penelope Spheres, and The Doors directed by Oliver Stone.
John wrote his best-selling autobiography, Riders On The Storm; and as drummer and founding member of The Doors, he was inducted into the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame.
He is reprted to be working on a first novel, producing a documentary film, an after-care program for ex-criminal offenders titled Project Return directed by Leslie Neil. When time allows he lectures in colleges throughout the United States.
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