When he died in a Paris bathtub, 27-year-old Jim Morrison left behind only six completed albums of work with his soon-to-be-canonical rock band, The Doors. Forty-three years later, the self-professed Lizard King’s myth and legacy still loom large over Doors drummer John Densmore. In his latest biography, The Doors Unhinged, Densmore documents his efforts to keep the memory and spirit of Morrison and The Doors alive — rejecting large sums of money for commercial use and taking his former bandmates to court when they tried to tour under the name — at the expense of great financial gains and his friendship with guitarist Robbie Krieger and keyboardist, the late Ray Manzarek.
