Could A Book Lead To A Doors Tour?

Rock Stars with their self ignited implosions and the fans left standing around wondering if they should pick up the missing pieces or discover a new set of lyrics. Oh wait! Someone will write a book and all things disconnected will become perfect! Did we really need to hear how Ace Frehley and Peter Criss lived, loved and hated Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley? Now it turns out Paul has his own book which will be more revealing than the rubber suits he's been sporting for forty years. Can you tell I'm not a fan of handwritten Rock Star autobiographies? Those purchasing the music or running about life like a chicken with its head cut off couldn't give a rats butt about those making the music...just make more! If every Doritoe in the bag felt like it had to share a story we'd have a bigger addiction to Lays and Fritos. Maybe that's why I love today's faceless entertainers. I couldn't tell you who the drummer is versus how many lead vocalists have graced the pages of Guitar Magazine. I love me some drama but after 4 billion episodes of VH1's Behind the Music, I can't afford the paper towels to mop up the vomit. But Rock Drama is what makes the world of music tick... Easily we connect Jim Morrison's name to the Doors. Ray Manzerick, Robby Kreiger the same. John Densmore, the drummer not so quickly. John Densmore won a court battle to keep the other surviving members of the Doors from using the band’s name on new projects. Now, he’s hoping to win back their friendship with a new book. Densmore says he’s mailed copies of ‘The Doors: Unhinged,’ due April 17, 2013, to both Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger in hopes of mending fences. Densmore and the family of late Doors frontman Jim Morrison were awarded $5 million after the drummer filed a lawsuit in 2003, charging Manzarek and Krieger with having “improperly invoked the Doors’ name and images” when the duo toured as “The Doors of the 21st Century.” “My relationship with Ray and Robbie has been rather strained, of course,” Densmore tells Billboard. “But at the end [of the book] I write about how I can’t not love them for what we created together…So hopefully [the book] is a bit of an olive branch and we can head towards healing.” Densmore even says he’s open to performing with his former Doors bandmates again, as long as that doesn’t include performing with a Morrison clone on stage. “It can’t be the Doors,” Densmore insists. “That’s like the Police without Sting, the Stones without Mick … I wouldn’t go on tour with them and a ‘Jimitator.’”