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RIP Ray Manzarek

StubleyAddick
StubleyAddick Posts: 2,552
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The Doors Keyboard player has died aged 74.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGmAmJFUvzM
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  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Great Band R.I.P
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,064
    At peace after a long battle with bile duct cancer. Leaves an amazing set of work to remember him by, along with Krieger and Morrison. RIP Ray.
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    Absurdistan said:

    Great Band R.I.P

    Nahh!!!
  • JonnyK
    JonnyK Posts: 830
    Edgy in their day - Ray was out of his world in many senses on 'come on baby light my fire!'.
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    edited May 2013
    Warning bad taste comment alert........
    JonnyK said:

    Edgy in their day - Ray was out of his world in many senses on 'come on baby light my fire!'.

    ......I suppose that's what he would be asking for now.....sorry!
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Halix said:

    Warning bad taste comment alert........

    JonnyK said:

    Edgy in their day - Ray was out of his world in many senses on 'come on baby light my fire!'.

    ......I suppose that's what he would be asking for now.....sorry!
    Halix said:

    Absurdistan said:

    Great Band R.I.P

    Nahh!!!
    Somebody dies and you come up with these comments, classy. Idiot
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    edited May 2013
    Absurdistan said:



    Halix said:

    Warning bad taste comment alert........

    JonnyK said:

    Edgy in their day - Ray was out of his world in many senses on 'come on baby light my fire!'.

    ......I suppose that's what he would be asking for now.....sorry!
    Halix said:

    Absurdistan said:

    Great Band R.I.P

    Nahh!!!
    Somebody dies and you come up with these comments, classy. Idiot
    I apologise for the "joke" but I still think their music was overblown and overrated, and because my opinion differs from yours doesn't mean it's invalid. You've posted an opinion that they were a great band, I've posted my opinion that they weren't', and good taste hasn't traditionally been a prerequisite to posting on this site just remember the comments made when Margaret Thatcher died for example.

  • P_Air
    P_Air Posts: 545
    One of my favourite bands. Manzarek was a fantastic pianist, playing chords and melodies with one hand whilst playing the backing bass track with the other. An amazing skill. Very sad news.

    When the music's over...
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    The Doors were my favourite band at school.
    Loved their music, their attitude, their style.
    And Ray was an essential part of it. I still listen to their music regularly now 40 years on.
    I saw them live with Jim at the IoW and without Jim later at the ICA and at both Manzarek was great.
    I'm very sad.
  • HandG
    HandG Posts: 2,134
    RIP Ray. Read his autobiography a few years ago and it was clear that, despite the debauchery going on around him, he was a decent family man.

    His spirit lives on in the music, LA Woman is an amazing album ( in my opinion).

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  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    RIP
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,831
    RIP. yes, one of the great old classic bands.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Halix said:

    Absurdistan said:



    Halix said:

    Warning bad taste comment alert........

    JonnyK said:

    Edgy in their day - Ray was out of his world in many senses on 'come on baby light my fire!'.

    ......I suppose that's what he would be asking for now.....sorry!
    Halix said:

    Absurdistan said:

    Great Band R.I.P

    Nahh!!!
    Somebody dies and you come up with these comments, classy. Idiot
    I apologise for the "joke" but I still think their music was overblown and overrated, and because my opinion differs from yours doesn't mean it's invalid. You've posted an opinion that they were a great band, I've posted my opinion that they weren't', and good taste hasn't traditionally been a prerequisite to posting on this site just remember the comments made when Margaret Thatcher died for example.

    Have some respect mate!
    If you didn't like his music fair enough but don't post your dislike on a rest in peace thread!

    RIP Ray thanks for the music!
  • daveaddick
    daveaddick Posts: 1,926
    I was also at the IOW in 1970 when The Doors played and to that point I wasn't a fan but they were terrific. Very sad that Ray has passed on but our generation will see this more and more sadly. RIP Ray Manzarek a great musician
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,271
    Greenie said:

    Halix said:

    Absurdistan said:



    Halix said:

    Warning bad taste comment alert........

    JonnyK said:

    Edgy in their day - Ray was out of his world in many senses on 'come on baby light my fire!'.

    ......I suppose that's what he would be asking for now.....sorry!
    Halix said:

    Absurdistan said:

    Great Band R.I.P

    Nahh!!!
    Somebody dies and you come up with these comments, classy. Idiot
    I apologise for the "joke" but I still think their music was overblown and overrated, and because my opinion differs from yours doesn't mean it's invalid. You've posted an opinion that they were a great band, I've posted my opinion that they weren't', and good taste hasn't traditionally been a prerequisite to posting on this site just remember the comments made when Margaret Thatcher died for example.

    Have some respect mate!
    If you didn't like his music fair enough but don't post your dislike on a rest in peace thread!

    RIP Ray thanks for the music!
    What Greenie said. Doors weren't to my taste but like some of their stuff and a man has died.

    RIP Ray.
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    edited May 2013
    I've already apologised for the "joke" which I appreciate was in bad taste, but I can't see why I can't question that they were a great band on this post when someone had claimed this. Perhaps its a sixties thing and you had to be there. I doubt most people could name more than half a dozen Doors songs beyond "light my fire", "riders of the storm", "hello I love you", and thanks to Apocalypse Now " The End". And as I mentioned earlier no one seemed to observe such proprieties when Thatcher died.
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    RIP
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    amazing first album almost like a best of, massive fan here. Love the fusion of blues and psychedelic poetic mumbo jumbo.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,381
    RIP, the sound defines the era for me.
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,555
    RIP Ray , great band , love the doors

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  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,060
    big fan...and I barely saw the seventies...let alone the sixties

    RIP
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • sadiejane1981
    sadiejane1981 Posts: 9,012
    Rip
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,234
    God I thought Jim Morrison was a god when i was growing up. I bought every bit of literature about him and worshipped him, even tho i was 2 when he died!

    Loved The Doors.
    RIP.

  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,712
    SHIT NO !!!!!!!!!!

    RIP Ray. Got into the Doors in the early 80's............great band and I was lucky to see them live at Wembley Arena when they toured a few years ago...........still got the ticket stub !!

    The 2 post Morrison albums deserve better praise - Rays vocals on some tracks are as good as Jim's stuff. Off now to play Ships with Sails and Wandering Musician.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,712
    Curb_It said:

    God I thought Jim Morrison was a god when i was growing up. I bought every bit of literature about him and worshipped him, even tho i was 2 when he died!

    Loved The Doors.
    RIP.


    same here Curb it. I remember watching "No-one here gets out alive" when it was first aired in late August 84. Went and bought the video and watched it over & over. Then bought the book and then Jim's poetry books. Danny Sugerman's own autobiography is a read in itself - you'll never want to take drugs after reading it !!

  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,751
    Very sad indeed. Great band and a sound that carries on
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,380
    edited May 2013
    A lovely guy and a great musician .. The Doors, the REAL LA Band, along with Santana .. RIP Ray Manzarak
  • fossdeneboy
    fossdeneboy Posts: 403
    HandG said:

    RIP Ray. Read his autobiography a few years ago and it was clear that, despite the debauchery going on around him, he was a decent family man.

    His spirit lives on in the music, LA Woman is an amazing album ( in my opinion).

    Great memories LA Woman playing full belt in the car ( on 8 track ) RIP Ray I hope your grave is in a better place than jims. Just going to play the album Morrison Hotel one moore time today.
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,913
    I was browsing a bookshop in Brighton on Sunday, and The Doors' 'Strange Days' was playing; I was a teenager in the 1970s and have all their albums on vinyl, but hadn't listened for a while. Now this sad news about Ray Manzarek. Been listening again this evening - 'Riders on the Storm', 'Spanish Caravan', 'Touch Me' - full of subtle musicianship, moody atmosphere, and Jim's magnificent voice.

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