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John Densmore (born 1944) was the drummer of the rock group The Doors from 1965 to 1973.
He is a drummer and writer and attended Santa Monica City College and Cal. State-Northridge.

"I've been playing for six years. I took piano lessons when I was ten. They tried to get me to play Bach. They tried for two years. When I was in junior high I got my first set of drums. I played symphonic music in high school (tympani, snare drum), then I played jazz for three years. I used to play sessions in Compton and Topanga Canyon."

John Densmore made his departure from the world of rock-and-roll in the eighties, to the world of dance as he performed with Bess Snyder and Co., touring the United States for two years. In 1984, at La Mama Theatre in New York, he had his stage acting debut in Skins, a one-act play he wrote. In 1985, he went on to win the L.A. Weekly Theatre Award for music with Methusalem, directed by Tim Robbins. The play, Rounds, which he co-produced, won the NAACP award for theatre in 1987. In 1988, he played a feature role in Band Dreams and Bebop at the Gene Dynarski Theatre. He developed and performed a one-man piece from the short story, The King of Jazz, at the Wallenboyd Theatre in 1989. With Adam Ant, he co-produced "Be Bop A Lula" at Theatre Theatre in 1992. He has acted in numerous TV shows, and his film credits include: "Get Crazy" with Malcolm McDowell, "Dudes" directed by Penelope Spheres, and, most recently "The Doors" directed by Oliver Stone. John wrote his best-selling autobiography, "Riders On The Storm"; and as drummer and founding member of The Doors, he was inducted into the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame in January of last year.

He presently is working on his first novel, producing a documentary film, an after-care program for ex-criminal offenders titled "Project Return" directed by Leslie Neil. When time permits he lectures in colleges all over the United States, most recently in Texas and New Mexico.

Incredible.. last night I dreamt the Who again.. and I asked them to play "See me Feel me" like the first dream about the Who!!!!!!!!!
Anyone could sing me "See me Feel me", please?!?!?!?!
Why they didn't play this song at Verona?! Why?!?! WHYYYYYYYYY?!?!?
PETE!!!!! ANSWER ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M BECOMING MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Drug influences in the book

Drugs enthusiasts relate Alice's adventures to the "trip". Drugs heighten awareness to one's surroundings. Accompanying this stronger sense of awareness is sometimes a "slowing down" of one's sense of time and movement. This "slowing down" sensation is found in the very first chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, when she is falling down the rabbit hole. While falling, "she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her, and to wonder what was going to happen next." The mind expanding drugs also produce an "orgy of vision". Alice's trips through Wonderland and the looking glass certainly contain an abundance of imaginative visual experiences. At every turn Alice comes into contact with what could be termed hallucinogetic animals and objects. One specifically good example of this is the disappearing and reappearing Cheshire Cat. The fading grin of the Cheshire Cat is one spectacular imaginative psychedelic vision. Another good example is the Caterpillar. His hookah, or water pie, has become a common way to inhale marijuana. The Caterpillar also imparts some very interesting advice. That is, to eat the mushroom. The mushroom can expand the mind as much as it did Alice's height.


The White Rabbit



"White Rabbit" is a psychedelic rock song from Jefferson Airplane's 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It was released as a single, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2004, the song was ranked #478 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. First performed by composer Grace Slick with her band The Great Society in 1966, the song helped convince members of the Airplane to ask Slick to join their band.[citation needed].

One of Slick's earliest songs, written in either late 1965 or early 1966, it cites parallels between the hallucinatory effects of LSD and the imagery found in the fantasy works of Lewis Carroll: 1865's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. Alice, the Dormouse, the hookah-smoking caterpillar, the White Knight, and the Red Queen are all mentioned in the song. Events in the books such as changing size after eating mushrooms or drinking an unknown liquid are also mentioned. The last line of the song is "Remember what the Dormouse said. Feed your head. Feed your head." and does not explicitly quote the Dormouse as is often assumed. The line probably refers to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Chapter XI 'Who Stole the Tarts':

"`But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury asked."

"`That I can't remember,' said the Hatter


One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Recall Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"FEED YOUR HEAD"

..Jimi Hendrix entered in the Club 27..

..In the early morning hours of September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix was found dead in the basement flat of the Samarkand Hotel at 22 Lansdowne Crescent in London. Hendrix died amid circumstances which have never been fully explained. He had spent the night with his German girlfriend, Monika Dannemann, and likely died in bed after drinking wine and taking nine Vesperax sleeping pills, then asphyxiating on his own vomit..

Wow! La scorsa notte ho sognato gli Who! In pratica ero in gita a Verona e dove andiamo? Alla fantastica Arena di Verona dove ho assistito quasi tre mesi fa al concerto degli Who!! dunque, entriamo e vedo che gli Who stanno dando un concerto ma in stile Mod come i vecchi tempi!! Prendo il posto più bello e durante il concerto Roger e Pete mi si avvicinano e mi danno gli autografi.. dopo di questo chiamo Pete e gli chiedo se questa volta suonano "See me Feel me", perchè quando li ho visti per la prima volta non l'hanno fatta.. Pete mi guarda e mi dice che la fanno se la voce di Roger è ok!!
Qui finisce il sogno.. non è un granchè, ma è stato troppo tanto reale!!
Forse un giorno parlerò con Pete o Roger...


Wow! Last night I dreamt about the Who!!!Well, I was in Verona for a school trip, and where did we go? To the fantastic Arena where about three months ago I went to see the Who's concert!! Well, we entered in it and I saw that the Who were having a concert, but they were Mod like the old times!! I took the best place and during the concert Pete and Roger came near me ad they gave me gave me some autographs.. After that I called Pete and asked him if this time they play "see me feel me", because when I saw them for the first time they didn't do it..Pete saw me and asked that they play this song if Roger's voice is ok!
Here the dream finishes..It wasn't great, but was very real!!
Maybe one day I'll talk with Pete or Roger........