A couple weeks ago, I finished up Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and The Doors by John Densmore. As you may know, Densmore was the drummer for The Doors, and this book was relied on by Oliver Stone when he made his biopic on The Doors twenty years ago (in which Densmore had a cameo as a sound engineer). It was a really good read, especially for anyone who likes The Doors. Densmore not only told the story of his time with The Doors in traditional narrative form, but he also had several sections where he was essentially writing a post-mortem letter to Jim Morrison, and he weaved Doors lyrics and Morrison poems into his writing as well. It's no secret that I consider The Doors to be the greatest American rock and roll band of all-time, and having an insider's view on the band (and on the different personalities that made up the band) was particularly interesting for me.
My next book is The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath by Philip Carlo, which is about Tommy Pitera, a Bonanno family capo who allegedly murdered upwards of 60 people in the '80s, and the DEA agents who caught him. I'm about halfway through, and it's great so far.
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Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and The Doors by John Densmore
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