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Post subject: Re: RIP Ray Manzarek
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 1:52 pm
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I'm 38 years old. "Cult-band" status or not, the Doors are one of my favorite bands to this day. I much prefer the Doors to the Beatles, the Stones, or the Who. In a vacuum, not knowing anything about any background or biographies, I simply like their music more. I simply love more (many more, actually) of their songs. If I have my iPod on shuffle and a Doors song comes on, I will never skip it. It always sounds fresh. I cannot say that about the Beatles. (I have no songs by the Stones or the Who in my collection, at all, to skip.)


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Post subject: Re: RIP Ray Manzarek
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 2:41 pm
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Lightnin MN wrote:
Good synopsis brotherdave !

But, it should also be mentioned that Morrison almost killed the band before they even started due to his terrible stage fright.

For their entire run at London Fog, Morison, due to his fear of performing in public, stood and performed with his back to the audience.

Phil Tanzini, one of the owners at the Whiskey booked them conditionally requiring that Morrison face the audience.

For better or worse, the band made sure that Jim was well full of anxiety relievers for their opening night, and the rest as they say is History !

That is until the night they played the unedited version of The End... the Whiskey fired them the next day.

cheers!


ALL TRUE! It was getting long though and wanted the post to focus on Ray. Really smart cat. He was sort of the defacto Ambassador from 60's Rock to the generations to come. Morrison's infamous proclivity to stage fright was incorporated into one of my favorite films about the songwriting/gigging band biz called "Bandwagon." That film is ever so accurate. While not about The Doors at all, it is more accurate about how bands self-destruct than "That Thing You Do" which was more widely seen.

Morrison did of course go to the other extreme displaying his manhood in plain view on stage. He was arrested. From one extreme to another...Morrison ruled as the King of Extreme.

Here's what Manzarek said about getting fired at the Whiskey: " People were so mesmerized. Jim was so intense. 'The killer awoke before dawn,' he'd say [during 'The End]. Then, all the go-go dancers and hippie-chick, Indian-style dancers would sort of stop and listen. Then you'd have Jim, releasing them, with all of his power: 'Father, I want to kill you.' And we'd crash down hard on our instruments to set up his next line, 'Mother, I want to F--- you!' And then we got fired!" [Ray laughs hard here]


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Post subject: Re: RIP Ray Manzarek
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 4:23 pm
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Ray was a very talented musician and wrote most of the Door's hits even though Morrison was the "music poet".

Got to see them at Dillon Stadium in Hartford in August 1972 (without Jim, of course). Opening for them was The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie (Flo and Eddie from the Turtles), the Beach Boys (without Brian, of course) and The Kinks (I think everyone was there).


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Post subject: Re: RIP Ray Manzarek
Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 1:21 pm
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I still remember sitting with my (then) girlfriend (now wife) in the student union at Iowa State when Light My Fire first hit the jukebox. I used to play it over and over and over. I know I drove a few people crazy doing it, but that song remains one of my very favorites right to this day.

R.I.P. Ray

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Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 6:32 pm
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