Robby Krieger (3,391 views)

[EddieCheivz]

Vocal Range: D2-E5
Voice Type: Try to Set the Tenor on fire
Years Active: 1964-Present
Associated Acts: The Doors, Robby Krieger and Friends
Nationality: North American

Robby was the guitar player from american rock band The Doors.
His playing and style adding to Doors music that blues and rock and roll essence. His style encompass since flamenco, classical guitar (Spanish Caravan is a great proof of this), blues, hard rock, etc.

He ocassionally contributed to the band with some songs lyrics,  though they're few, they're the most famous as well, as "Light My Fire" or "Touch Me".

Significant High Notes:

E5 (“I'm Horny, I'm Stoned”)
D5 (“Down On The Farm”, "I'm Horny, I'm Stoned")
C5 (“Close To You" Rose d'Or Festival 1972, "Roadhouse Blues” The Soft Parade 50th anniversary deluxe edition)
B♭4 ("The Peking King and the New York Queen")
A4 (“4 Billion Souls”, "The Peking King and the New York Queen", “Verdilac”)
G♯4 ("4 Billion Souls", "Runnin' Blue", "Ships with Sails" Rose d'Or Festival 1972)
G4 (“4 Billion Souls”, "Close To You" live, “I'm Horny, I'm Stoned”, "My Eyes Have Seen You" live 1967, “The Piano Bird”, “Verdilac", "Wondering Musician”)
F♯4 ("Close To You" live, “Love Me Two Times” live & “Love Me Two Times” Guitar Lesson with Robby Krieger, "Runnin' Blue", "Ships with Sails" Rose d'Or Festival 1972)
F4 (“I'm Horny, I'm Stoned”, “Love Me Two Times” live, “Treetrunk”)
E4 (“Down On The Farm”, “Good Rockin'” Rose d'Or Festival 1972, "Humming" during "Roadhouse Blues" Guitar Lesson with Robby Krieger, “It Slipped My Mind”, “Love Me Two Times” Guitar Lesson with Robby Krieger, "My Eyes Have Seen You" live 1967, “Nasty Kinky”, “The Piano Bird”, “Riders on The Storm" Robby Krieger and Friends, "Tightrope Ride” 2nd Version, “Variety Is the Spice of Life”, "Verdilac")

Significant Low Notes:

C♯3 (“4 Billion Souls”, “Down On The Farm”, “Love Me Two Times” various live performances, “People Are Strange” live, "Playing Light My Fire")
C3 (“4 Billion Souls", "I'm Horny, I'm Stoned”, “Love Me Two Times” LIVE AT LACMA,  "Spanish Caravan" Guitar Lesson with Robby Krieger, “Variety Is the Spice of Life”)
B2 (“Do It", "Spanish Caravan” various live performances & "Spanish Caravan" Guitar Lesson with Robby Krieger)
B♭2 (“4 Billion Souls”, “Love Me Two Times” LIVE AT LACMA, “Roadhouse Blues” The Soft Parade 50th anniversary deluxe edition)
A2 (“I'm Horny, I'm Stoned”, “The Mosquito”, “Nasty Kinky”, “The Peking King and the New York Queen”)
G♯2 (“It Slipped My Mind", "Singing Light My Fire Guitar Chords", "The Mosquito”)
G2 (“Humming Peace Frog Guitar Riff", "Nasty Kinky”)
F♯2 (“I'm Horny, I'm Stoned”, “Nasty Kinky”)
E2 ("It Slipped My Mind")
D2 ("Nasty Kinky")

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{QUESTIONABLE NOTES}
G♯5 ("Down On The Farm" [5])

E2 ("Roadhouse Blues" Guitar Lesson with Robby Krieger [5]
D2 ("Humming Peace Frog Guitar Riff" [5])

[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.

*Underlines marks notes sung in backing vocals/harmonies.
*Italics marks non-melodic notes.
*Blue marks soft falsetto notes.
*Boldface marks noteworthy singer's capabalities.

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

Cool to see some vocal representation for other members of The Doors on here besides Jim Morrison! Some of the formatting in this and the Manzarek thread could use some cleaning up though - for instance, you don't need to underline and bold everything under the headers for "voice type" and "years active"; you can just underline those words and then leave the rest unformatted. Most people don't bother formatting the words "marks" in the color key either - for instance where you have "blue marks soft falsetto notes" written in this one.

As far as notes go, that F♯2 from "Nasty Kinky" is surprisingly solid, though I would definitely consider it a spoken note rather than a sung one. The G♯5 from "Down on the Farm", however, is just an uncontrolled yelp that I really wouldn't bother counting as anything besides a questionable note at best.

[EddieCheivz]

I'd like to receive opinions about this, sounds edited, possibily to make it sound stronger, but he could actually go down to D or something below F#

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

I think I do hear that getting down to D2, though I'd get another opinion to make sure I'm not hearing an illusion. Sounds pretty legit to me though.

As far as the "I'm Horny, I'm Stoned" E5 goes, is it the falsetto backing vocal panned to the left channel? Because if so, it took me a while to hear/notice that even when I was listening for it. I would definitely mark that as an underlined note.

[onemorelight17]

Feb 28, 2021 6:50:48 GMT Hennessy Macklemore III said:

I think I do hear that getting down to D2, though I'd get another opinion to make sure I'm not hearing an illusion. Sounds pretty legit to me though.

As far as the "I'm Horny, I'm Stoned" E5 goes, is it the falsetto backing vocal panned to the left channel? Because if so, it took me a while to hear/notice that even when I was listening for it. I would definitely mark that as an underlined note.

Getting D2 too. 

[EddieCheivz]

I mean i know there's a D2 there, just i wasn't sure he was doing that getting down with his voice and instead thought could be an shift-pitched effect, but listening again think sounds legit, guess gonna add it.

I'd like to receive opinions about this again if it's possible; but relistening Full Circle now think the bold E2 i have in Manzarek's thread (and all the low vocal lines of course) from "It Slipped My Mind" was Krieger. Thought was Manzarek for the tone and solidity, but hearing the voice, sounds more like Robby:

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

Yeah I think I hear what you're talking about there. I'm not the most familiar with their voices, but from what I understand Krieger's tone sounds a lot lighter like in that clip, while Manzarek sounds a lot more robust and jazzy. I would still get another opinion to be safe, but I think I could believe that as Krieger.

[EddieCheivz]

Can we agree those first random lines are Krieger?
EDIT: Actually listening to it with headphones I'm really hearing Manzarek's voice behind him too!