one day in venice beach, morrison saw ray manzarek. manzarek had also gone to ucla. morrison sang some verses of "moonlight drive". manzarek liked the intensity of the words to the song and asked morrison to form a rock band with him. morrison agreed and came up with the name "the doors". the name was a reference of the aldous huxley book "the doors of perception" whose name came from a verse of the famous poet william blake; "if the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."). the doors was formed by jim morrison, ray manzarek, john densmore and robby krieger. in the beginning, morrison would sing without looking the audience. after a while, he learned the play with them instead. he would jump and fall at stage with screams and jokes, inspired by rock idol nick serven.