YEAR
1993
INDUCTED BY
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)
CATEGORY
Performers
The poetry’s headiness and the rock’s accessibility, bound together in a hazy acid fever-dream.
The Doors’ fusion of jazz, psychedelic rock and blues was elevated to mythic status by their love of chaos and the darkly volatile Morrison.
Jim Morrison
John Densmore
Ray Manzarek
Robby Krieger
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Paul A. Rothchild & Danny Sugerman
The Doors are somewhat of an anomaly in the rock pantheon.
They weren’t part of the peace and love Airplane-Dead-Quicksilver acid-rock movement of San Francisco. They had nothing to do with the English invasion, or even conventional pop music for that matter. Even in their hometown of Los Angeles they were considered a world apart from the predominantly folk-rock peerage of the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and Mamas and Papas.
