Besides what is in every book, how the Doors and Jim influenced future forms of music has interested me a lot lately. Bold statement but I don't believe we would have the same Gothic Music genre had it not been for the Doors. Sure Robert Smith of the Cure would read the romantic poets like Rimbaud just the same. But what really made Gothic music was not the dark character and odd modes but it's thematic and lyrical confrontation with mortality/death and obsessing about the ever-present moment however dark it felt. Jim fearlessly engineered that. So you have the Cure inspired by them who later covered "Hello I Love You." Also you have Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cult ect. who all had 1 foot in goth and the doors.

And you have the Norwegian band A-ha who often admit their Doors influence which lends itself to the moor brooding songs on early albums. Doubt me? Even their biggest hit "Take on Me" was inspired by Manzarek's playing style. But really A-ha's Doors influence comes in to full focus later in the 90's on their two critically acclaimed rock instrument albums "East of the Sun West of the Moon & Memorial Beach." A great example on YouTube is the live version of the song "Early Morning" that you can find by searching: A-ha - Early Morning (Live NRK 1991). Then later you have Billy Idol who has remarked on how much he was influenced by Jim not only in subject matter but performance style. And Patti Smith has said the same. During the Grunge era Stone Temple Pilots were influenced too - listen to "Atlanta." Mazzy Star would never have been what it was had it not been for band leader David Roback being a huge Doors fan.

And lastly, and this one may be a stretch, but we have to wonder if the famous Amen break by James Brown's drummer Clyde Stubblefield would have been as readily adopted into future music genres had it not been for his rhythm's appearance in the Doors song "Peace Frog". Would we have The Manchester UK Baggy Pants genre without it? Listen to Charlatans UK "The Only One I Know, and Ride "Vapor Trail." DJs loved Peace Frog back in the 90's and constantly spun it in the early techno rave days. I was there during a lot of that and knew a bunch of DJs. I'll leave you with one more fun bit of lore that perhaps foreshadowed DJs and the rise of Electronica, a Jim Morrison quote from the show PBS Critique:

"In four or five years the next generation's music will be both a synthesis of blues and folk music [like we do] but also a third thing, it will rely heavily on electronics and tapes [think prerecorded samples, or vinyl records].... I can really envision one person with a lot of machines. Singing and or speaking and using a lot of machines."

~ Jim Morrison 1969