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Set the Night on Fire

Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors

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Set the Night on Fire

By: Robby Krieger
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
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Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after fifty years, The Doors' notoriously quiet guitarist is finally breaking his silence to set the record straight.

Through a series of vignettes, Robby takes listeners back to where it all happened: the pawn shop where he bought his first guitar; the jail cell he was tossed into after a teenage drug bust; his parents' living room where his first songwriting sessions with Jim Morrison took place; and the many concert venues that erupted into historic riots. Both a time capsule of the 1960s counterculture and a moving reflection on what it means to find oneself as a musician, Set the Night on Fire is a must-hear for Doors fans and an essential volume of American pop.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Wonderful words; wonderful performance by the reader; incredibly honest, self effacing, moving, funny memoir. I have listened to around a dozen ‘rock and roll’ biographies in the last 3 years via audible, and this is the standout best. Okay it helps that I love the Doors, and their music, but this is written, and read like a conversation; warm and heartfelt, and a wonderful story of a young man, and his friends and family sewn - seamlessly - into one of the coolest, most profound and most dangerous periods of human cultural expression. Enjoy.
Ps, thank you, Robbie, and thank you, Dennis Boutsikaris.

The Fire Burns Brightly

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I loved this book and it’s by far and away the best account of the Doors I’ve read. Not a dull moment and whilst there wasn’t any chronological order to it, the chaotic sequencing of the tales seems to fit the mood! A top end ‘band book’ that doesn’t hold back. What a band, what a story and what a book.

Superb account of the Doors, just brilliant!

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story jumps around a lot and leaves a few gaps here and there. I liked that it was narrated by the author.

nice delivery

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Jim Morrison died and The doors broke up just before I was born but for the last 40 years of my life I have been lucky enough to be a fan of their music in all its aspects but this book gave me much more than any documentary or book has done before! It gave me an honest retelling of how 4 friends created something completely majestic that we will never see the likes of again! I don’t think the story of The Doors needs any “fluffing up” and thats what this book delivers! A true & real account of an historic moment in time!

I love his hair!!

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Couldn’t of found a better person to narrate this audio book, Dennis’s laid back narration reflects Robby’s personality well. Awesome book, found out loads more about the Doors history that I never knew, and I have read a lot about the Doors.

Awesome book

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An excellent insight into Robby Kriegers life in the doors and out. An amazing listen!

Insight into Robbys life

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I enjoyed this. I've been a fan of The Doors for many, many years and this seems to be as unsensationalised and honest as any book about them could be, even if you make allowances for the fact that every man is the hero of his own autobiography.

Also a really nice touch having the photos available as a PDF, I just wish I'd noticed before I finished the book.

Well worth a listen.

Likeable and informative.

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I enjoyed this book hugely. I have read all the previous autobiographies of the band and many of the various biographies of Jim Morrison. This to my mind is by far the best, giving a balanced and level-headed rendition of The Doors story. Of course, I am a fan of their music and have been since 1968 and so the subject matter is of interest to me. If you are not a fan then I suspect that this book will be hard going to make sense of as it jumps around a good deal. This did not trouble me at all and I quickly acclimatised, but someone new to the story of the band would struggle a bit.

The book is extremely well written, and the narrator excellent. He manages to convey Robby’s emotions and thoughts as if it was him speaking.

The Robby Krieger that comes across is far more of a rebel than his shy, retiring guitarist image back in the day would have you believe. I learned a good deal more about Robby than I knew before. He has made a mess of his life at times, but then haven’t we all since those heady days. He is wise enough to be grounded in the knowledge that success comes with equanimity and learning the lessons that life brings along.

For me, the one failing this book possesses is that like other autobiographies of accomplished musicians I have read, it does not address the compulsion to play music. In the book Robbie describes how Ray was unable to pass a piano without sitting down to play it. Robbie says that he understands Ray’s drive to play but unfortunately he does not explain himself further. I think that this is a shame because with this knowledge to hand it would enable one to break on through.

Best of the Doors biographies

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was the best account of the history of the Doors I have ever read / listened to

brilliant for any doors fans

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The story was written in a balanced way, incredibly interesting. The narration was easy to listen to, and drew me in.

Couldn’t get enough. Thank you for sharing

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