Rock ‘n’ roll history might have been different if Doors drummer John Densmore had better teeth when he was growing up. The now 76-year-old member of one of rock’s greatest bands says he took up the drums while in high school, at the suggestion of a music teacher, because the braces he wore on his teeth prevented him from playing the clarinet or trombone. "I owe my drumming career to my orthodontist," Densmore quips in an article published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal.
The Los Angeles native tells of taking an early interest in music while listening to his parents’ record albums and later taking piano lessons at age 8.
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