Drummer sues fellow band members over leaving him off tour
Tuesday February 04, 2003LOS ANGELES (AP) Doors drummer John Densmore is suing fellow bandmates Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger for going on tour as The Doors without him.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Superior Court, seeks a court order prohibiting keyboardist Manzarek and guitarist Krieger from calling themselves The Doors when they perform without Densmore. It also requests that Densmore be paid a share of profits from any shows that have already taken place without him.
The lawsuit states that after lead singer Jim Morrison died in 1971, Densmore, Manzarek and Krieger agreed they would split any future profits from The Doors music three ways and that the band's name would not be used if all three of the original surviving members were not involved.
Manzarek, Krieger and their representatives could not be located for comment. There were no Los Angeles telephone listings for the musicians, The Doors Music Company, or their record label, Bright Midnight Records.
Manzarek and Krieger, along with singer Ian Astbury of The Cult and former Police drummer Stewart Copeland, were to perform Friday at the Universal Amphitheatre.
According to the band's Web site, a new Densmore group called Tribal Jazz plans to release its first album this spring.
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