Ray Manzarek was born in Chicago in 1939, played music from an early age, got an economics degree from DePaul University, and transferred to UCLA in 1962 for graduate work in cinematography. There he met Jim Morrison, and later, through a Maharishi lecture, he met Robbie Krieger and John Densmore. The Doors formed in the summer and fall of 1965. Tonight we will listen to Ray's own take on Doors history with some startling and cool outtakes and live music, as well as some of Ray's later production work, to tell the story of a musician and friend.
Produced and engineered by dj bennett (chillroom@killradio.org)
Thanks to my live listeners on Friday nights. Grateful thanks to wfmu.org. Also to killradio.org and radio4all.net. Presented for education and entertainment. Comments requested.
The Chill Room, 24 May 2013 at 10:00pm PST on killradio.org
160k, two hours, a tribute to a great musician
Set list: The spoken word material comes from Ray's CD The Doors Myth and Reality from 1997. All music by The Doors unless otherwise indicated. Introduction / Light My Fire / Film School with Jim / My Eyes Have Seen You (Aura Studio Demo) / Meeting Jim on the Beach / Moonlight Drive (10 March 1967 Matrix Club San Francisco) / Love Me Two Times (studio take 3) / Jim Morrison's Leather Pants and the Doors' uniforms / Roadhouse Blues (Madison Square Garden, NYC 17 January 1970) / (You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further (Love Her Madly b-side) / Riders on the Storm (alternate take with dubs January 1971) / The Paris Mystery / Tightrope Ride (single from Other Voices 1971) / Ray Manzarek-The Golden Scarab (Ray's first solo album 1973) / X-Nausea (Ray on keyboards) / X-Soul Kitchen (Doors cover, album produced by Ray 1980) / Weird Al Yankovic-Craigslist (2009, excerpt) / Why the Music Still Matters / Jim Morrison with the Doors-American Prayer / Bruce McCulloch-Doors Fan
Did you think we were all together? Did you think we were all the same? Did you think maybe I could help you remember your name, remember the game What's the name of the game?
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