Ray Manzarek, the Doors' keyboardist, dies at 74

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"I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today," Doors guitarist Robby Krieger said in a statement. "I'm just glad to have been able to have played Doors songs with him for the last decade. Ray was a huge part of my life, and I will always miss him."

Manzarek and Jim Morrison decided to form a band built around Morrison’s poetry after they met in Venice, Calif., in 1965, while both were attending film school at UCLA. They brought in drummer John Densmore, who, in turn, introduced them to his friend, guitarist Krieger.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...rdist-obituary-20130520,5157123,2404898.story

This man was truly a master. I've been addicted to his music since the 70's. I last listened to an album just last Saturday, on the plane coming back from Butte, Montana.

Few realize that The Doors did not use a bass player. While they were looking for one Manzarek substituted the lower notes on the organ for the bass track and the other members of the band liked it, along with the fact that they didn't have a 5th member to share the profits.
 
DamnYankee said:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...rdist-obituary-20130520,5157123,2404898.story

This man was truly a master. I've been addicted to his music since the 70's. I last listened to an album just last Saturday, on the plane coming back from Butte, Montana.

Few realize that The Doors did not use a bass player. While they were looking for one Manzarek substituted the lower notes on the organ for the bass track and the other members of the band liked it, along with the fact that they didn't have a 5th member to share the profits.
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It also gave the Doors their distinct melodramatic sound.
 
"Well, to me, my God, for anybody who was there it means it was a fantastic time," Manzarek told The Republican in Massachusetts during an interview last year. "We thought we could actually change the world — to make it a more Christian, Islamic, Judaic, Buddhist, Hindu, loving world. We thought we could. The children of the '50s post-war generation were actually in love with life and had opened the doors of perception. And we were in love with being alive and wanted to spread that love around the planet and make peace, love and harmony prevail upon earth, while getting stoned, dancing madly and having as much sex as you could possibly have."
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Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/enterta...he-Doors-dies-at-74-4532267.php#ixzz2TwDbAbb7
 
DamnYankee said:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...rdist-obituary-20130520,5157123,2404898.story

This man was truly a master. I've been addicted to his music since the 70's. I last listened to an album just last Saturday, on the plane coming back from Butte, Montana.

Few realize that The Doors did not use a bass player. While they were looking for one Manzarek substituted the lower notes on the organ for the bass track and the other members of the band liked it, along with the fact that they didn't have a 5th member to share the profits.
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I had never thought about that before but yes they had no bass player, truly one of the greats.
 
The doors?
I have heard of them vaguely.
Are they any good?
Gotta be better than the Stones, they are crap!!
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
He was the one that played the kukhuri. How do have an IQ of 146 and you can't even use YouTube?
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I can use you tube, what have trashy bands from decades before you tube got to do with YouTube?

I'm guessing they were as pointless and useless as the stones then, given your raging reply.
 
007 said:
I can use you tube, what have trashy bands from decades before you tube got to do with YouTube?

I'm guessing they were as pointless and useless as the stones then, given your raging reply.
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He is trying to tell you to go on YouTube and look at the videos there of The Doors.
 
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