THE DOORS AND NEW YORK CITY: A DEEP AND EXITING RELATIONSHIP
New York City has played a central role in the history of modern and contemporary music. From the earliest forms of recording, which became available in appreciable quality in the 1910s, it has established itself as a dazzling backdrop for many musical genres, groups, and artists. For The Doors too, this chaotic and stimulating city was highly relevant: the resulting relationship took on the eager, attractive, and passionate contours of an uninterrupted and intense love affair. From the first exciting glares of their career, in 1966, to 1970, New York has always been a place for the quartet to take adventurous artistic steps and expand their sound horizons on the skyline of America's largest metropolis. Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore made several trips to the Big Apple and the state of which it is the capital. For the purposes of this article, we will focus only on those that took place in the city's metropolitan area, leaving out the ma...
