Posted on 05/21/2013 6:21:32 AM PDT by massmike
One of Morrison’s favorite singers was Frank Sinatra.
Correct, the whole was greater than the sum of parts.
It remained a whole as long as it did largely through Manzarek's ministrations.
Funny story: I made Dean's List at GA Southern. 10 As and one C. The C was in Piano.
The bass player.
who cares?
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Clearly you do in some fashion. Guess as I continue to read the thread, we’ll find out why you care.
I’m 62 years old and am as conservative as the day is long. But, I grew up in the 60s and I LOVE the music of that decade! Morrison my have been the face of the Doors, but Manzarek was the HEART and SOUL of the band.
Saw them one night in Philadelphia in ‘67 or ‘68 at the Arena, the same venue where Dick Clark had American Bandstand during the day. They used so many smoke bombs around the stage, all you could really see was Morrision in the spotlight. It rocked, though!
lol!
I wondered why I never liked his music, but I love Bach. Now I know. Music speaks.
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And I wish FReepers who have said something regrettable would just either back off or apologize instead of trying to justify a nasty remark with piousness. Taking the Lord's name in vain, much?
I’d like to apply and dedicate that cartoon to all posters who post such informative and deep posts as (in their entirety): “I agree!”, and “BINGO!”
Ditto.
I’m guessing you would still dislike it if he was pure as the driven snow.
Yes!
Yep.
Did the Doors use a studio bass player in their recordings (in L.A. it would almost certainly have been Carole Kaye)?
(Too lazy to search for it.)
Did the Doors use a studio bass player in their recordings (in L.A. it would almost certainly have been Carole Kaye)?(Too lazy to search for it.)
The Doors used Douglas Lubahn (a member of Clear Light, also on the Elektra label at the time) in the studio from Strange Days through Morrison Hotel; they used Jerry Scheff, a bassist with Elvis Presley's Vegas stage band, for L.A. Woman.
Manzarek was inspired by John Coltrane's version of My Favorite Things for Light My Fire.That intro he devised for "Light My Fire" was damn near the theme of the summer of 1967, if you didn't count the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. His solo was a classic, too, though it was a shame it (and Robby Krieger's follow-up guitar solo) had to be edited for the single.
But if you ask me what Ray Manzarek's best, or certainly most beautiful performance in the Doors was, I'd have to say it was . . .
It's possible; but not because I'm a religious bigot. For instance, I enjoy the music of one of the worst creeps out of pop culture, Frank Sinatra. But I do think the deeper levels of a composer's soul are revealed in their aspirational music, which, when it is devoted to the higher realms, is mathematically crystalline like Bach's. Sinatra, on the other hand, was just trying to entertain people who party in lounges.
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