Robby Krieger

Robby Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American rock and roll guitarist and songwriter from Los Angeles, California. He was the guitarist in rock band The Doors, and wrote many of the band's best kn

Robby Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American rock and roll guitarist and songwriter from Los Angeles, California. He was the guitarist in rock band The Doors, and wrote many of the band's best known songs including "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times", "Touch Me" and "Love Her Madly".

Krieger learned to play guitar when he attended the Menlo School (a boarding school in the San Francisco Bay Area). He started by tuning a ukulele like the bottom four strings of a guitar and imitating a flamenco guitar record. Later he purchased a flamenco guitar on a Christmas vacation in Puerto Vallarta in 1963 and mastered the style without benefit of lessons. He gradually grew tired of playing flamenco guitar and helped form a jug band called the Back Bay Chamberpot Terriers with Bill Wolff (later of the Peanut Butter Conspiracy).