Wait a minute you said to yourself before you clicked on this thread--The doors didn't have a bassplayer!
No~ but they did have a few help out.
Listening to the doors a lot & learning bass parts. Yes, they brought in many bassists!!!!!
Wikipedia states:
The origins of The Doors lay in a chance meeting between acquaintances and fellow UCLA film school alumni Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek on Venice Beach California in July 1965. Morrison told Manzarek he had been writing songs (Morrison said "I was taking notes at a fantastic rock-n-roll concert going on in my head") and, with Manzarek's encouragement, sang "Moonlight Drive". Impressed by Morrison's lyrics, Manzarek suggested they form a band.
Keyboardist Manzarek was in a band called Rick And The Ravens with his brothers Rick & Jim Manzarek, while drummer John Densmore was playing with The Psychedelic Rangers, and knew Manzarek from meditation classes. In August, Densmore joined the group and, along with members of The Ravens and bass player Pat Sullivan (later credited using her married name Patricia Hansen in the 1997 box CD release), recorded a six-song demo in September 1965. This circulated widely as a bootleg recording and appeared in full on the 1997 Doors box set.
That month the group recruited guitarist Robby Krieger, and the final lineup — Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore — was complete. And furthermore:
The Doors were unusual among rock groups because they did not use a bass guitar when playing live. Instead, Manzarek played the bass lines with his left hand on the newly invented Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, an offshoot of the Fender Rhodes electric piano, playing other keyboards with his right hand. On their studio albums (with the notable exception of their eponymous first record), The Doors did use bass players, such as Jerry Scheff, Harvey Brooks, Lonnie Mack, Larry Knechtel and Leroy Vinnegar.Now I've just gotta keep studying to see which bassplayer played on what songs....
The Doors of the 21st Century & subsequent names of the band from 2002 to 2008 feature Angelo Barbera on bass & now it's Phil Chen on bass as you can see from the Wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DoorsBeen lovin' Morrison Hotel the most with cool bass on Indian Summer, Queen of the Highway & Roadhouse Blues.
In other bass news, I'm on a quest for a lefty ESP bass which Musician's Friend now says has been discontinued but at least I know some were made & may find one used.
If it really looks like this that would be ok:
...but it would be HELLA BADASS if it looks more like this ax:
I'm also planning to have a Vampyre style bass Custom Made with a pointy headstock to match the body.
Probly in a transparent blood red with tigerstriped wood showing thru.
Gotta dig up some pics to share here & give to a luthier.
