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The Doors

THE DOORS

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

Jim Morrison

John Densmore

John Densmore

Ray Manzarek

Ray Manzarek

Robby Krieger

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.

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