RIP Ray Manzarek

[MajorCaptSilly]

I was a huge Doors fan in my teenage years. We lost Ray today at age 74.

....turn out the light


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLAr-WlxMZY

MCS

[The Poet]

This IS The End. Rest in peace, Ray.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGmAmJFUvzM

[bobarian]

Rest in Peace Ray.

[CigarNut]

May he Rest In Peace. He will be missed!

[FUEL]

NOOOOO damnit I had tickets to see The Doors of the 21st Century. Truly a deep loss.

[The Poet]

NOOOOO damnit I had tickets to see The Doors of the 21st Century. Truly a deep loss.

Been there, James. I had tickets to Janis Joplin, for two weeks AFTER she died.


;s

[E.J.]

Too bad.... RIP, Ray....

[Gabe215]

I'm young (27) but a huge classic rock fan, Love the Doors,Ray was the man, RIP

[shark]

RIP. He sounded like a pretty intelligent guy in interviews.

[icehog3]

I was raised on Ray and the boys, my Mom was a huge Doors fan, and I've loved them my whole life. R.I.P. to my favorite keyboardist of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY1l8T2Lcl0

[kelmac07]

Wife is a huge Doors fan. RIP Ray.

[maninblack]

Rest in peace. Thanks for the music

[Angry_Pirate]

Love The Doors...He will be missed

[drjammer]

R.I.P. Ray. The Doors is my all time favorite band, so thanks Ray for all the great music!

[tsolomon]

Still a fan, RIP Ray.

[irratebass]

Huge Doors fan, sad to hear this. R.I.P.

[pektel]

Saw Robbie a couple times over the past 2 years. Sadly never got to see Ray. May he rest in peace.

[OLS]

Two things are funny to me about this post. One that it is only one page after 24 hours, for such a rock icon.
Second is the fact that it was halfway through the day yesterday before I realized we were NOT Talking about an
ex-NFL great from the Raiders. I had to click on the Yahoo-article in order to remember what I already knew.
Then I laughed that I had thought it was a NFL player for half a day.

[shark]

I was raised on Ray and the boys, my Mom was a huge Doors fan, and I've loved them my whole life. R.I.P. to my favorite keyboardist of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY1l8T2Lcl0


Listened to "LA Woman" on the way home yesterday and was really impressed with his work on that song. That inspired me to listen to their first two albums back to back once I got home. He was not only well spoken, but very talented.

[shark]

Two things are funny to me about this post. One that it is only one page after 24 hours, for such a rock icon.
Second is the fact that it was halfway through the day yesterday before I realized we were NOT Talking about an
ex-NFL great from the Raiders. I had to click on the Yahoo-article in order to remember what I already knew.
Then I laughed that I had thought it was a NFL player for half a day.

LOL! Not to threadjack, but I worked with a guy once named Bob Weir, you know, same name as the guy from The Grateful Dead. He was the polar opposite of a hippie musician, though....in fact he was a real PITA as a boss. :r

[FUEL]

I'm young (27) but a huge classic rock fan, Love the Doors,Ray was the man, RIPI'm 37 and heard "Light My Fire" for the first time when I was in 4th grade and since could tell you virtually any fact about Jim, Ray, Robbie, John and everyone surrounding them. I had to count, I have 28 books on The Doors and countless records, CDs, DVDs, MP3s and anything you can think of media related to them. To say I am a fan, is an understatement.

Back in the days of record stores I was like one of the characters in "High Fidelity" chasing down all the rare Europe and Asia release only and ordering anything that was not available to the masses lol.

Ray was amazingly intelligent.

[FUEL]

Always a favorite:

“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”

Jim Morrison - An American Prayer

[OLS]

I was not hugely into rock and roll as young man, so I learned to love the Doors and the Stones and Zepplin in the USAF.
I was 'raised on the radio' more or less. I dug the wider spectrum once I began listening to it, the military is a huge shock
of music when you first hit it. There is someone into every kind of music and you kind of learn it all at once. But radio
was funny back when i was actually growing up. Too much easy listening and pop. But at least it didn't suck, lol, like it
does now.