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On Air LA ’25: Evening of Music Storytelling — Really?? The Doors? Live with Naomi Fry & The Doors’ John Densmore
Naomi Fry has been obsessed with The Doors since she was a teenager — the kind of obsession people love to side-eye ( she said it herself ), which only makes it better. In her new Talkhouse podcast, she finally gives that lifelong fixation room to breathe.
Fry, a New Yorker writer known for dissecting the messy collision of high and low culture, gathers a multigenerational cast of musicians, writers, and cultural thinkers to reexamine The Doors on their 60th anniversary.
“The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.” - John Densmore
Formed in Los Angeles in 1965, The Doors were the embodiment of American counter-culture at its most intense and mysterious—fronted by the charismatic and mercurial Jim Morrison, anchored by the jazz-inflected drumming of John Densmore, and propelled by the keyboard fire of Ray Manzarek and brooding guitar of Robby Krieger. Their music—blending blues, psychedelia, poetry and sheer rock theatricality—felt like a doorway into something darker and larger than pop.
At On Air LA’s Evening of Music Storytelling, Really?? The Doors? took the stage at KCRW HQ, where Naomi Fry finally brought her lifelong obsession with the band into the room.
“I’ve been obsessed with The Doors since I was a young teen,” she laughed, framing the live episode as a reckoning with how “myth sometimes swallows the truth.” Sitting beside her, John Densmore reflected on the band’s bond.
