John Denmore's 67th Birthday

Today is The Doors drummer, John Densmore’s birthday, John is 67 today.

Densmore was born in Los Angeles, December 1st 1944. He developed an early interest in jazz drumming and he played in the Santa Monica High School band, he was also an underage visitor to the jazz clubs on the Sunset Strip where he watched the bands and some of the best drummers of the day.

In 1965 Densmore joined the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s third street mediation center in Santa Monica. At the time Densmore was in The Psychedelic Rangers which also boasted guitar player Robby Krieger. Ray Manzarek was also a member of the meditation center and when he learned Densmore was a drummer he approached him about being in a band but told him he’d call in a few months because the time wasn’t right, that impressed Densmore who thought, “that’s pretty cosmic, far out”. Manzarek did call and Densmore joined the nascent Doors.

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