Author Topic: RIP Ray Manzarek (Read 2415 times)

RGMike · « **on:** May 20, 2013, 02:32:28 PM »

urth · « **Reply #1 on:** May 20, 2013, 05:02:40 PM »

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

RGMike · « **Reply #2 on:** May 20, 2013, 09:00:29 PM »

so, who was the first to use the headline "Ray Manzarek Breaks on Thru to the Other Side"?

Here'sToYa! · « **Reply #3 on:** May 20, 2013, 09:30:21 PM »

He and his wife, Dorothy, had been together a loooooong time. She must be devastated.

dischead · « **Reply #4 on:** May 21, 2013, 10:18:36 PM »

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.

ggould · « **Reply #5 on:** May 21, 2013, 10:36:34 PM »

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.

ggould · « **Reply #6 on:** May 25, 2013, 12:48:30 PM »

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

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