The Doors were active from 1965 to 1973, a short eight year run, but quickly became one of the most influential bands of the counterculture era and a largely controversial band due to Jim Morrison’s erratic behavior. Morrison took the band’s name from Aldous Huxley’s book on mescaline, The Doors of Perception, which in turn referred to a line in a poem by William Blake. The Doors were perhaps one of the most unconventional Los Angeles bands of the 1960s because they didn’t fit into the surf-music scene or the folk-rock craze. Influenced more by jazz than folk music, it was a hard-edged band, led by Morrison’s vocals and Manzarek’s soaring organ riffs. The Doors had 48.2 Million in certified sales.