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Robby Krieger
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American guitarist
Film & TV
Los Angeles, California, United States
Robert Alan "Robby" Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American rock guitarist and songwriter. He was the guitarist in The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire," "Love Me Two Times," "Touch Me," and "Love Her Madly." He is listed as number 91 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia…
Known for
- Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison — Self (archive footage)2025
- Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World — Self2023
- Trust in Love — Self2023
- Slice! — Robby2022
- Jim Morrison: The End — Self - The Doors Guitarist (archive footage)2021
- Find Your Groove — Self2020
- The Doors: Break on Thru - A Celebration of Ray Manzarek — Self2020
- Laurel Canyon — Self2020
- The Doors: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 — Self (archive footage)2018
- The Best Of The Doors2017
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1946-01-08
Discography
Member of
- The Doors1965–1973
- Manzarek–Krieger2002–2013
- Butts Band
- Zun
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- 16,769
- Total plays
- 75,190
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Robert Alan "Robby" Krieger (born January 8, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is best known as the guitarist for the 60's rock band The Doors. With his unique fingerstyle guitar-playing and excellent bottleneck-technique he is widely considered one of the greatest rock guitarists. Krieger taught himself to play guitar in a private school where his parents sent him after having some troubles in study. At first, he was interested in flamenco, but soon he expanded his playing to ja
Key facts
- Born
- Robert Alan Krieger , ( 1946-01-08 ) January 8, 1946 (age 80) , Los Angeles , California, U.S.
- Genres
- Psychedelic rock flamenco blues rock art rock jazz fusion acid jazz proto-prog
- Occupations
- Musician songwriter
- Instruments
- Guitar vocals
- Years active
- 1964–present
- Label
- Elektra Records
- Member of
- Krieger & The Soul Savages Robby Krieger Band
- Formerly of
- Rick & the Ravens The Doors Butts Band Red Shift Manzarek–Krieger Doors with poet Michael C. Ford
- Website
- robbykrieger .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- bass guitar
- Record label
- Elektra
- Official website
- www.robbykrieger.com
- Image
- Robby III.jpg
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- Commons category
- Robby Krieger
- member of
- The Doors
- date of birth
- 1946-01-08
- name in native language
- Robby Krieger
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Robby Krieger, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Alan Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American guitarist and founding member of the rock band the Doors. Krieger wrote or co-wrote many of the Doors' songs, including the hits "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times", "Touch Me", and "Love Her Madly". When the Doors disbanded shortly after the death of lead singer Jim Morrison, Krieger continued to perform and record with other musicians including former Doors bandmates John Densmore and Ray Manzarek. In the 2023 edition of Rolling Stone's 250 greatest guitarists of all time, he was positioned at number 248.
Early life and education
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