Densmore, 81, is an admirer of Father Greg Boyle and his decades-long mission of gang intervention and rehabilitation.

Today, December 1, marks John Densmore‘s 75th birthday. While he is most famous as the drummer for The Doors, he later enjoyed success as a dancer, actor, author and playwright. He was also a staunch ...

"I play the drums," says John Densmore, with tangible pride. He may be belaboring the obvious, considering that, as the rhythmic engine of The Doors, he's responsible for some of the most famous beats ...

Jazz drummer Steve Hideg, 91, left, former Doors drummer John Densmore and guitarist Leo Vaz play at a weekly jam session in the studio at Stein on Vine. Densmore had read a 2017 column by Steve Lopez ...

Rock ‘n’ roll history might have been different if Doors drummer John Densmore had better teeth when he was growing up. The now 76-year-old member of one of rock’s greatest bands says he took up the ...

When John Densmore, drummer of the legendary rock band The Doors, decided he had to sue his former bandmates Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger in 2003, he says, he became the scourge of Internet message ...

The Doors frontman Jim Morrison’s legacy lives on long past his tragic death in 1971, and that legacy hung over the heads of his surviving bandmates, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and (until 2013) Ray ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) invites community members to join legendary Doors drummer and New York Times bestselling author John Densmore for a talk about his newest book “The Doors ...

Following two books chronicling his time as drummer of psychedelic Los Angeles rock quartet The Doors, John Densmore’s latest memoir strikes a notably positive chord. The Seekers: Meetings With ...

A couple of years ago, in a column about Father Greg Boyle, I noted that he is quite particular and even a bit preachy about ...

It was around midnight when Steve Hideg made a trip to his bathroom, got dizzy and took a fall. “I hit my head over here,” Hideg told me, pointing to the edge of his bathroom sink. He lay on the floor ...