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RIP Ray Manzarek

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by ifilus, May 20, 2013.

  1. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Loved hearing Ray spread the gospel of the Doors. Even if his rhetoric -- " Jim Morrison was a Renaissance man" -- was a bit over the top.
     
  2. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Jim Morrison died in Paris and Ray Manzarek died in Germany.

    I hope Robby Krieger and John Densmore burned their passports.
     
  3. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    I remember WKBW used to play an abridged version of "LMF" because back in those days no AM Top-40 station could play a seven-minute song. I don't think they played an entire version of "American Pie" either, and that was 71-72.
     
  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

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    So is this guy dead or what?
     
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  5. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    I was never a big fan of the Doors (Jim Morrison to me was incredibly full of shit), but watching this video Weird Al Yankovic posted on Manzarek learning to play his Doors pastiche "Craigslist" (brilliant to parody Morrison singing something stupid, which he usually did). Hey, if you're going to nail the Doors' sound, why not bring in Manzarek? Funny, too, is that even on the fake Doors song, Manzarek still does that head shake you see him doing on every Doors film from the 1960s.

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  6. RubberSoul1979

    RubberSoul1979 Active Member

    Manzarek on Wooden's great UCLA teams. Just fantastic.

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  7. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    Just about every Top 40 station played the 45 version, which was not only edited down, but also had a slightly faster pitch. That's how the commercial single was released.

    The odd thing is in '68, both Richard Harris' "Macarthur Park" and "Hey Jude" by the Beatles were hits that were over seven minutes long.
     
  8. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    Everyone forgets that post-Morrison, the Doors released TWO albums with Manzarek as lead singer.

     
  9. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    With good reason.
     
  10. cortez

    cortez Member

    The guy from Echo and the Bunnymen said Manzarek was a cool bloke, and the greatest keyboardist in rock history. They worked together on the soundtrack of The Lost Boys
     
  11. terrier

    terrier Well-Known Member

    In retrospect, a great Morrison/Manzarek tribute (and hat tip to PolitiFact):

     
  12. Greenhorn

    Greenhorn Active Member

    Manzarek also guested on this cool track of the Bunnymen

     
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