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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: RGMike on May 20, 2013, 02:32:28 PM
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founding Doors member was 74. Will look for a lengthier obit than this one
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Publicist-Founding-member-of-The-Doors-dies-at-74-4532166.php
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Apparently there's a site that's saying Ray's death is a hoax, and in a cruel twist, that story is the actual hoax. Mr. Manzarek is in fact dead.
This is the hoax:
http://en.mediamass.net/people/ray-manzarek/deathhoax.html
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so, who was the first to use the headline "Ray Manzarek Breaks on Thru to the Other Side"? ;)
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He and his wife, Dorothy, had been together a loooooong time. She must be devastated.
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Hearing this news made me feel old. The Doors' The Soft Parade was the second album
I bought after making the transistion from 45s to LPs.
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Hearing this news made me feel old. The Doors' The Soft Parade was the second album
I bought after making the transistion from 45s to LPs.
I have to admit, thinking of the Doors takes me back to my bedroom in high school, listening to the first album, rapt.
(http://www.southernfm.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/the-doors-album.jpg)
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for those of you musically-minded, here's a 1998 NPR interview w/Manzarek. Among many things, the last part features an interesting exegesis of the structure of "Light My Fire." I will never hear this song the same way again!
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/24/185827139/remembering-ray-manzarek-keyboardist-for-the-doors