A fan from the moment the Doors\' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967.
He lives in Berkeley..
He has lectured at U Cal, Berkeley, The Whitney Museum of Art, and Princeton University.
Since 2000 he has taught at Princeton, Berkeley, Minnesota, and the New School in New York; his column "Real Life Rock Top 10" appears regularly in The Believer.
With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America, published last year by Harvard University Press.
About the Author: Greil Marcus is the author of Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, When that Rough God Goes Riding, The Shape of Things to Come, Mystery Train, Dead Elvis, In the Fascist Bathroom, Double Trouble, Like a Rolling Stone, and The Old Weird America; a twentieth anniversary edition of his book Lipstick Traces was published in 2009.
It is a story untold; all these Years later, it is a new story.
This is the first to bypass their myth, their mystique, and the death cult of both Jim Morrison and the era he was made to personify, and focus solely on the music.
There have been many books on the Doors.
Whatever the demands in the music, they remained unsatisfied, in the largest sense unfinished, and absolutely alive.
Forty Years after the singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group disbanded, one could drive from here to there, changing from one FM pop station to another, and be all but guaranteed to hear two, three, four Doors songs in an hour--every hour.
Five Years later it was all over.
A fan from the moment the Doors\' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967
