Set the Night on Fire
Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors
Robby Krieger
- '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
- unva****rnished,
- often
- amusing
- memories,
- this
- is
- a
- book
- that
- Doors
- fans
- will
- love
- madly'
- Classic
- Rock Magazine
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