First, I ate breakfast at Annie’s Cafe. It’s my favorite breakfast place in Austin.
I didn’t win a guitar on Day Eight, but I did go to a guitar show.
Then, I got to shake hands and talk to one of the best guitar players in the world: Robby Krieger of The Doors. He wrote Light My Fire and many of the The Doors best songs. He was crazy cool. That’s him in the middle.
Robby Krieger at SXSW 2010
After that, I went to a discussion of the making of When You’re Strange, which is the first documentary about The Doors. No, really, it’s the first. Robby and the producer of the movie told a lot of the back story. Jim Morrison had a degree in filmmaking from UCLA, and he had hundreds of hours of footage. The entire film is from 1966-1970 home movies. Crazy good. Here’s a snippet:
The Trailer for When You’re Strange
It’s a wrap. I’ll run it all down in a summary post. Pretty cool though: eight days of total creative indulgence. Wow.
