RIP, Ray.
Met him once at a Warren Zevon concert.
Nice guy.
Awwwwww. Truly one of the most original keyboardists of our time. Sad to see him go..
I hate to hear this and know he is, now, in a better place - probably getting high with JM. I saw him not more than 15 years ago at UCA in Conway AR. I’m starting to feel old...
No one here gets out alive. Great music from the doors.RIP
Manzarek was The Doors. He played bass and keyboards simultaneously and either wrote or fleshed-out most of Morrison’s ideas for songs
Morrison was preening, pretentious, troubled, artsy drug-addict necessary for most successful 60’s and 70’s rock bands.
The keyboard music on “L.A. Woman” was great. I saw a documentary on the Doors that described how they did it. Very interesting. Another bit of Doors trivia, Jim Morrison’s father Rear Admiral Steve Morrison lived in Coronado, CA until he died in November 2008.Admiral Morrison was senior officer present aboard the U.S.S. Constellation at the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964. RIP.
As far as I was concerned, the first US superband
RIP as a former fan of the band, to dark for me now. But the organ / base lines of Love me Two Times are running through my head as I type.
The Doors - When The Music's Over - Live at Hollywood Bowl 1968
Aw man. I’ve been a Doors fan since hearing Light My Fire on my first FM radio in 1977.
Bet this features prominently on Coast-to-Coast AM tonight. I think he and George Noori were pretty good friends...at least that’s the impression I got the few times I heard him on the show.
RIP. Half the band is gone but the music remains.
True story.
C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon now touch me babe,
Can’t you see that I am not afraid......
That one always gets me in a primal place. Loved their music back in the day. RIP, Mr Manzarek. You are legend.
He brought his brother onstage when I saw Ray with Robby. That’s as close to a Rick and the Ravens’ reunion as I’m ever going to see.
I’m at a loss right now, one of the Door’s tunes ends with “Stronger Than Dirt”. A local d.j. mused “What can that mean?” I called in and said that as a toddler in the late 50’s I remember an Ajax commercial that had a jingo that ended the same way “(Ay-jax)Stronger Than Dirt”.
RIP Ray...and thanks.
The Keyboard work on Light My Fire can only be described as Iconic.(possibly the only other iconic keyboard man from that era would be Garth Hudson ie. Chest Fever)
RIP Ray, you entertained me.