
John Densmore is a $14 million net-worth American musician and composer. John Densmore is most recognized for his work as the Doors’ drummer. He contributed a distinct drumming technique inspired by jazz, blues, and world music to every CD recorded by the band. Densmore has done acting and playwriting in addition to his music career.
Who is John Densmore?
John Densmore was born to Margaret and Ray Densmore on December 1, 1944, in Los Angeles, California. He was a member of the marching band and played timpani in the orchestra at school. Densmore received his higher education at Santa Monica City College and then at California State University, Northridge. He studied global music at the latter school under jazz cellist Fred Katz.
How old is John Densmore?
Densmore is currently 79 years old.
What is John Densmore net worth?
The renowned singer is estimated to be worth about $14 million.
What is John Densmore career?
John Densmore is a $14 million net-worth American musician and composer. John Densmore is most recognized for his work as the Doors’ drummer. He contributed a distinct drumming technique inspired by jazz, blues, and world music to every CD recorded by the band. Densmore has done acting and playwriting in addition to his music career.
Densmore, along with fellow ex-Doors member Krieger, created the Butts Band in 1973. The band issued two albums with two different lineups before breaking up in 1975. Densmore abandoned rock & roll in the 1980s to pursue a career in dance, traveling the United States for two years with Bess Snyder and Company.
In 1984, he made his stage playing debut in Skins, a one-act play he wrote, at New York’s La Mama Theatre. Methusalem, directed by Tim Robbins, earned him the LA Weekly Theater Award for music in 1985. Rounds, a play he co-produced, earned the NAACP Award for theater in 1987.
He appeared in Band Dreams and Bebop at the Gene Dynarski Theatre in 1988. In 1989, he created and performed The King of Jazz, a one-man show based on a short tale by Donald Barthelme, at the Wallenboyd Theatre. In 1992, he co-produced Be Bop A Lula at Theatre Theatre with Adam Ant.
He has appeared in several television shows, most notably as himself in Square Pegs, as a drummer for Johnny Slash’s band Open 24 Hours, and in an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 in 1992, in Series 2, Episode 23, when he plays Ben, Dylan’s sponsor.
Window of Opportunity, a dark comedy about corporate greed written and directed by Samuel Warren Joseph, he also produced and co-scored. His other film credits include Malcolm McDowell’s Get Crazy, Penelope Spheeris’ Dudes, and Oliver Stone’s The Doors.
In the Stone film, he played the recording engineer for Morrison’s solo recordings, which became An American Prayer, while his younger self was played by actor Kevin Dillon, who later collaborated with Stone on Platoon (1986).
Riders on the Storm (1990), Densmore’s best-selling autobiography, was about his life and his time with Morrison and the Doors. Densmore discusses the melancholy day on which he and the band finally visited Morrison’s grave roughly three years after Morrison’s death in the opening chapter.
Other books by Densmore include The Seekers (2020), in which he highlights remarkable persons in his life who have had a significant impact on him and others.
Densmore co-stars with Krieger and Manzarek in Amir Bar-Lev’s 2012 documentary RE:GENERATION. It features Densmore and Skrillex collaborating on a new song titled “Breakn’ A Sweat.”
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