Ray had the emotion, skill, knowledge, humour and friendly demeaner. What more could you ask for? Thank you for your contributions to the music scene. Rip.
Holy shit! Been listening to the doors for over 50 years. You younger people got to realize; Jim, Ray and the others were like impossibly remote gods to us. Only heard on vinyl or seen on the occasional TV special. That's it. We had zero access beyond the albums we bought and chance encounters on radio or TV. They were like storms that crash through your life with incredible power and beauty and vanish with almost no rhyme or reason. I was 7 when Jim died. He really was a mythical figure like Odysseus or Hercules. I would have fainted if I saw a video like this when I was 15 years old.
I couldn't agree more. I was 18 when Morrison died. Hendrix and Joplin just before that. Lennon 9 years later. And we rarely saw or heard anything other than news articles, concerts if you were lucky enough. Now all these videos and reworked archival materials we never got to see is available to all. It took me years to get over all those untimely deaths, my heroes in the formative years. Life is a melancholy bittersweet experience. It is good to have lived through those times. Sadly, Ray Manzarek is gone now too. Such a kind creative soul.
Nobody talks about Robbie. Without him we wouldn´t have Light my fire AND he fit the Doors mindset perfectly. It was just one of those magical moments where just the right people are drawn together to make timeless art.
They found each other so easily and everything just fell into place. It was all meant to be. I believe in Fate. What are the odds against finding a brilliant guitarist to match a brilliant keyboard player along with a great drummer and incredible singer like Jim? They had band chemistry and their own sound right from the beginning. Fully realized! Thank God it all fell into place! Just like the Beatles. Thanks to the Fates or Gods. This music is of divine origin. A musical miracle! The result is a plethora of incredible songs that will last forever. Thanks Ray and to whoever posted this. Wonderful footage of a great musician! 😊
God, I miss Ray. Story teller whose enthusiasm is contagious unlike any others I’ve come across. The missing brings tears to my eyes. ❤ Thanks Ray, for all the gifts you brought into our world. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕
find the video where he talks about "Riders on the Storm" if you haven't seen it. The first time I heard him play the rain part on that piano it was like "Oh man!"
I WAS LUCKY TO MEET RAY A FEW TIMES IN LA AND WE HAD ALWAYS A GREAT TALKS.....I WAS GIVEN NEWLY PUBLISHED THEN HIS BOOK ' "THE POET IN EXILE" THAT HE SIGNED UP WITH A DEDICATION FOR ME THAT I HAVE TO THE PRESENT DAY.....WELL, I RECOMMEND TO EVERYONE THIS TRIPPY BOOK....
I saw the Doors live, Oct. 20,1967 at the University of Michigan, after a disastrous 1st and 2nd set,and produced the best concert ever which I will call the 3rd set...and played almost all of the songs on the Light My Fire album, without a break, top to bottom, and without his shirt-jack,which he removed and threw it on the stage floor, in front of Ray Manzareks keyboard, and eventually finishing with " The End ", ON HIS BACK !!!.15 minutes after they left the stage, we woke up. They had paralyzed us, and we were all amazed. That was a very remarkable experience. Wow. 😊🎉❤
Was 10 years old living in Detroit. Listening to the long version of LMF on my 6 transistor radio by the neighbor’s pool at least every other hour. Wish I could have gotten to UM that day! Wish there was a tape of that somewhere.
@@zarahnator7764 Robby is still deep into music as well. John? Don't hear much from John unfortunately but John and Robby should sit down, and talk about their memories. Being of a macabre nature, I'd like to have two empty seats, one for Jim and the other for Ray. I would love for their memories to be immortalized for us left behind. Been a huge Doors fan since the '80s.
@@ddelaney712 (sorry my english sux) if im right they had trouble with Doors's right because of John. And yes i heard few so of Roby Krieger band.... its good but its not The Doors lollll
not one comment about his glorious jacket/sweater he's wearing.. what a master storyteller,,, most famously through the keys, but man he had a way with words too. He's here talking and playing 2 separate instruments at the same time..
I really despised The Doors until I watched this video a couple years ago. Ray was one awesome musician and I've totally picked up on his vibe and energy for The Doors.
To Ray, to Jim, to Pam, today in 2024 you're bringing tears to the eyes of a 52 years old man with words written before i was born. May your souls shine in the full moon.
I just remember the first time I played Light My Fire on a 45 rpm and the minute I heard the organ that eerie sounding organ and I was blown away. It sounded so good, I just fell in love with the Doors
this is the greatest video. Ray Manzarek was such a musical God. hearing him explain how he & the band wrote the songs. God DAMN IT. this is SO GOOD. i was thinking his playing reminded me of Bach. then i see a note saying he studied his music. makes sense. what a great element added to a rock band. RIP Ray ❤ p.s. Riders on the Storm is my favorite Doors song. loved hearing Ray break it down.
Insane to think that he only died at 27 and left such a big mark. Imagine how much more genius work The Doors could’ve created throughout the 70’s and 80’s if Jim had been around a little longer.
Ray was a genius..i think he played moments and when you listen back to the music it takes you back in time...i also admire Robbie,being a guitarist myself i know it wouldnt have been easy to find the right riffs and space to compliment Rays playing
I saw ray and Michael McClure in like 1992 in Ann Arbor mich. Talked to ray after the show. They were in a rush to the airport. He and Michael were still polite. I even still have rays beer bottle off his keyboard!!
love how he was using a rhodes but says "not easy to play on a vox" and still makes it work that's how it's done you make due with what you have presented to you
Ray's genius keyboard tone, Morrison haunting legendary vocal and poetry, Robbie's psychedelic scale and John's progressive beats, when everything clicks : that's it ,u got the one and only The Doors.
4 Diamonds=Magic Music. The “Beatles” were the same. The odds on 4 personalities meeting in the same place, at the same time, with that individual and collective talent, is a one in many a million. The Beatles and The Doors did it man and we are all richer for it. ❤️.x
I like the way he mocked yoga freaks with "you gotta open yourself to the energy of the universe; you must believe and not be afraid..." his humor was precious
Man, what a carefree and joyful guy--but also professional and superbly competent at what he does. If only Jim had picked up on that and put down the bottle.
I didn't grow up with the doors. I was to young but light my fire had an upswing in the end of the 80s. I think it was in a movie. However I won a new edition of a record with the best of the Doors. I really love the sound of their music and fell in love with it as soon as I heard it. This video is a real gem. Love it!
No Band has managed to accomplish the uniqueness of what the DOORS created. Many great bands have spawned variations....But the DOORS stand alone in a Class all their own!! One of a Kind!!!
People equate the Doors with Jim Morrison and " The Lizard King" and whatever that silliness was but Ray was an amazing musician and a very kind intelligent person. I believe Ray was the older brother to the other guys and without him , we wouldn't have had the Doors.
Thanks for sharing this video. What an education. What a wonderful coincidence of talent were The Doors. I first heard them on AM radio, back when it played music. The single edit of "Light My Fire" was played all of the time. I liked it. There were other radio songs, like "Hello, i Love You" or "Touch Me" but the breakthrough is when my brother Barry bought "13" at the grocery store, of all places. What a great selection of Doors songs from five albums. And we learnt that "Light My Fire" contained not one but two killer jams, keyboard and guitar. I was a little white boy in Tulsa, and i was getting a musical education from this record. It was the first blues ever i heard and i thought i heard in it something magical, and i was right.
OMG i have a story. I was living in Winnipeg Canada and a couple guys came up to us and asked if we wanted to get stoned. We went there and i sat in this really comfy chair while we smoked a blunt. Then light my fire came on and WOW it was like i was so high and this chair was so comfy. Thanks guys
Ray has always been one of my favorite musicians ever since I first heard Light My Fire. Over the years I met a ton of famous folks, celebs and legends who I was lucky enough to meet and speak with folks like Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, actor Gene Hackman, world class women's pro-tennis champion Maria Sharapova, and literally scores of others from various fields and Ray is my most favorite celeb meet of all of them. I stumbled onto him accidentally by chance walking in a door and he was coming out, he held the door for me, said "hello" - I looked up at his smiling face which I almost recognized and when I heard his voice, I immediately knew who he was because just a few hours before I had seen him on a VH1 rerun interview with Kurt Loder. We chatted for the better part of a half hour standing there by the door taking turns playing doorman for folks coming in or leaving. Ray was kind, witty, very intelligent, quite funny and intriguing. He made me feel so at ease and absolutely treated me as an equal with not a single hint of celebrity or him acting like he was more special than anyone else. He seemed genuinely interested in my 'thing' which I never really revealed to him that I was not only a working professional musician but also a published journalist having written for a number of music related publications. I didn't feel the urge to interview him or try to get any contact info from him or even think of passing on a demo or asking for his autograph! We had a wonderful visit and I'll never forget that. When it was time for him to go, he stuck out his hand and said, "It's been very nice meeting you and I've enjoyed our chat, but I have to run, my wife Dororthy is making lunch right about now, so I need to hurry home to have some food and tea with her. Tata for now! You take care of yourself. Bye!" Most people in his league don't often hold doors for other people or show that much consideration for common folks. (Although Merle Haggard pulled out a chair for me in a banquet room at a table backstage at a venue he was performing at after inviting me to join him for dinner!)
@@dennisaugustine6544 Me too! I definitely would have loved that. Ray was just so cool but it was just natural. I remember calling the radio station and bitching out the DJ's for playing the single edit version of Light My Fire instead of the full-length LP version. I was all of 12 years old! Rany got the biggest kick out of that. I was hooked on that band from the second I heard John Densmore's snare drum 'snap' just before the whole band starts playing. I wanted to be a drummer (kicked out two-years running, 6th & 6th grades) but guitar was my thing and still is. :)
@CiscoDuck I love it! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and recounting such a moment for you with the DJ! I would have done the same. An edit on that masterpiece of a song is unacceptable, lol.
@@dennisaugustine6544 Ha! You know there was an 'un-official' edit of 'Stairway To Heaven' made by some DJ's at a radio station back in the day located in Philly or NYC. Word got back to Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant who was a real force to reckon with. When LZ toured the US in '72 or '73 he went personally to that radio station and told them, "I'm Led Zeppelin's manager and I need to speak with the program director." They led him into the studio and Grant picked the guy up and threw him against a wall. He demanded to know who made the bootleg edit of the song and the DJ who made it owned up to it. Grant beat him to a pulp and then destroyed about half the equipment in the studio. He found the tape and smashed it to bits with his bare hands. (He'd been a bodyguard, pro-wrestler and some claim a hit man for the mob in the UK) LOL
@CiscoDuck wooooww! Goodness, that's wild! I would've loved to have been the fly on the wall(s) to witness this turn of events take place. Owing to the current times, I'll go out and reference something called, "You f around, and you find out." Needless to say, I hope it was a lesson learned for that DJ, lol.
Doing another doors deepdive after watching the doors movie by oliver stone Ray is another great musician actor dont matter from another era who i could listen to talk all day
Ray was a genius and a true musician. He is missed. God Bless you Ray.
He had the musical ear to translate, stretch out melody to orchestration...
Ray had the emotion, skill, knowledge, humour and friendly demeaner. What more could you ask for? Thank you for your contributions to the music scene. Rip.
Not crazy about his ties to military intelligence.
@@brianjacob8728who tf cares
@@lemonlime8949 intelligent people
@@brianjacob8728 prove that all intelligent people care then.
rays left hand was there bassist !
"I just wasn't that brilliant of a musician." says one of the best keyboard players of all times.
Yup, that is exactly what i thought.
A musical genius who was also one of the greatest storytellers/narrators you would ever want to hear. So missed.
Ray was a keyboard genius. They were all so talented and created music beautifully.
They say don’t meet your heroes, but, I don’t think Ray would have disappointed. I wish I could have had the pleasure to meet and talk with him.
Love him. I could listen to him all day. Brilliant mind. Genuine soul. Truly missed ❤
Holy shit! Been listening to the doors for over 50 years. You younger people got to realize; Jim, Ray and the others were like impossibly remote gods to us. Only heard on vinyl or seen on the occasional TV special. That's it. We had zero access beyond the albums we bought and chance encounters on radio or TV. They were like storms that crash through your life with incredible power and beauty and vanish with almost no rhyme or reason. I was 7 when Jim died. He really was a mythical figure like Odysseus or Hercules. I would have fainted if I saw a video like this when I was 15 years old.
there should be a beginning of middle of the end this wandering all over the place gets confusing and boring
so true! i remember hearing these songs all the time on classic rock stations in the 80s (KMET or KLOS, LA people will remember).
I couldn't agree more. I was 18 when Morrison died. Hendrix and Joplin just before that. Lennon 9 years later. And we rarely saw or heard anything other than news articles, concerts if you were lucky enough. Now all these videos and reworked archival materials we never got to see is available to all. It took me years to get over all those untimely deaths, my heroes in the formative years. Life is a melancholy bittersweet experience. It is good to have lived through those times. Sadly, Ray Manzarek is gone now too. Such a kind creative soul.
This video put me in such a great mood. I love this guy. Quite upsetting to see he is gone.
Nobody talks about Robbie. Without him we wouldn´t have Light my fire AND he fit the Doors mindset perfectly. It was just one of those magical moments where just the right people are drawn together to make timeless art.
Ray was one of America's great artistic treasures!
Almost all Doors songs are in dark, minor keys. I love that!
I have no doubt they were destined to meet and create the greatest rock band of all time.
This a pure gem of a generous hearted and great musician and an icon of his time. Thanks for posting.
They found each other so easily and everything just fell into place. It was all meant to be. I believe in Fate.
What are the odds against finding a brilliant guitarist to match a brilliant keyboard player along with a great drummer and incredible singer like Jim?
They had band chemistry and their own sound right from the beginning. Fully realized!
Thank God it all fell into place! Just like the Beatles. Thanks to the Fates or Gods. This music is of divine origin. A musical miracle!
The result is a plethora of incredible songs that will last forever.
Thanks Ray and to whoever posted this. Wonderful footage of a great musician! 😊
God, I miss Ray. Story teller whose enthusiasm is contagious unlike any others I’ve come across. The missing brings tears to my eyes. ❤ Thanks Ray, for all the gifts you brought into our world. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕
I could listen to him and his playing all day and nite. R.I.H. Ray
Ray Manzerek and Gramme Nash, the two best rock and roll storytellers.
Genius! And so humble about it! The sound of his keyboard gives me goose bumps,always have,always will!👌
find the video where he talks about "Riders on the Storm" if you haven't seen it. The first time I heard him play the rain part on that piano it was like "Oh man!"
A very Classic selection of Songs that were composed by the Doors such an amazing Story Telling by late Mr. Ray Manzarek R.I.P🥲.
Moonlight Drive....is the definition of SURREALISM IN MUSIC.
Happy Birthday, Ray! 🥳🎂🎹
i just love to hear robby krieger, ray manzarek and john densmore talk about their earlier years with jim morisson man i love that !!!
Love ray, such a character and a lovely guy. Not even to mention his musicianship!
“Out of the better angels of my unconscious mind”.
What a beautiful phrase ✌️❤️
indeed "the better"
I WAS LUCKY TO MEET RAY A FEW TIMES IN LA AND WE HAD ALWAYS A GREAT TALKS.....I WAS GIVEN NEWLY PUBLISHED THEN HIS BOOK ' "THE POET IN EXILE" THAT HE SIGNED UP WITH A DEDICATION FOR ME THAT I HAVE TO THE PRESENT DAY.....WELL, I RECOMMEND TO EVERYONE THIS TRIPPY BOOK....
I saw the Doors live, Oct. 20,1967 at the University of Michigan, after a disastrous 1st and 2nd set,and produced the best concert ever which I will call the 3rd set...and played almost all of the songs on the Light My Fire album, without a break, top to bottom, and without his shirt-jack,which he removed and threw it on the stage floor, in front of Ray Manzareks keyboard, and eventually finishing with " The End ", ON HIS BACK !!!.15 minutes after they left the stage, we woke up. They had paralyzed us, and we were all amazed. That was a very remarkable experience. Wow. 😊🎉❤
Was 10 years old living in Detroit. Listening to the long version of LMF on my 6 transistor radio by the neighbor’s pool at least every other hour. Wish I could have gotten to UM that day! Wish there was a tape of that somewhere.
my god im jealous you are lucky ❤
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@@zarahnator7764 Robby is still deep into music as well. John? Don't hear much from John unfortunately but John and Robby should sit down, and talk about their memories. Being of a macabre nature, I'd like to have two empty seats, one for Jim and the other for Ray.
I would love for their memories to be immortalized for us left behind. Been a huge Doors fan since the '80s.
@@ddelaney712 (sorry my english sux) if im right they had trouble with Doors's right because of John. And yes i heard few so of Roby Krieger band.... its good but its not The Doors lollll
So good, I could watch him all day breaking down every doors song without a problem
not one comment about his glorious jacket/sweater he's wearing.. what a master storyteller,,, most famously through the keys, but man he had a way with words too. He's here talking and playing 2 separate instruments at the same time..
I simply miss this man, he was everything good and pure about making music.
💯
what a lovely man. god he just radiates happiness and creativity. rest in paradise Ray. he’s making music again with Jim right now i bet.
I really despised The Doors until I watched this video a couple years ago. Ray was one awesome musician and I've totally picked up on his vibe and energy for The Doors.
“Despise”? Man, really? How does anyone despise the incredible music of the Doors? Glad you came around, though.
To Ray.. keyboard genius and music enthusiast. Your music lives on forever. God Bless You.
To Ray, to Jim, to Pam, today in 2024 you're bringing tears to the eyes of a 52 years old man with words written before i was born. May your souls shine in the full moon.
Man. I really, really miss Ray. Wouldn’t have been the same band without him.
I get goosebumps just listening to him talk about the band and playing the music. An unbelievable amount of talent in that band
I could listen to his stories all day long. 🤩❤
Ray is such a gifted storyteller.
Capturing the joy of being alive in this moment! THAT is it Ray!
I just remember the first time I played Light My Fire on a 45 rpm and the minute I heard the organ that eerie sounding organ and I was blown away.
It sounded so good, I just fell in love with the Doors
He was a fully developed musical genius; RIP Mister Manzarek.
God, i could listen to RAY for hours,his cool collected memory of the songs they recorded in the studio were mesmerizing . R.I.P JIM and RAY ❤🙏🙏
this is the greatest video. Ray Manzarek was such a musical God. hearing him explain how he & the band wrote the songs. God DAMN IT. this is SO GOOD.
i was thinking his playing reminded me of Bach. then i see a note saying he studied his music. makes sense. what a great element added to a rock band.
RIP Ray ❤
p.s. Riders on the Storm is my favorite Doors song. loved hearing Ray break it down.
its very wild how his first piano lesson was from a German Teacher and he lived his final days in Germany !!! You Are The Best Ray
Jim was a poet, but you are an incredible storyteller, Ray.
Insane to think that he only died at 27 and left such a big mark. Imagine how much more genius work The Doors could’ve created throughout the 70’s and 80’s if Jim had been around a little longer.
Ray was a genius..i think he played moments and when you listen back to the music it takes you back in time...i also admire Robbie,being a guitarist myself i know it wouldnt have been easy to find the right riffs and space to compliment Rays playing
Ray was also a legend and was able to lead the band with great direction and insight! RIP Ray!
The Doors are distinct because of Ray's keyboard masterclass
My hero
Would any one else have loved to take music lessons from Ray? What a musician!
I saw ray and Michael McClure in like 1992 in Ann Arbor mich. Talked to ray after the show. They were in a rush to the airport. He and Michael were still polite. I even still have rays beer bottle off his keyboard!!
Gives me goosebumps every time I listen too this?!
This guy was the best member of the group without a doubt
I think they were all the best member. Each one was indispensable. Take any one of them out of the equation and they'd sound vastly different
Arguably the greatest rock band of all time.
In 1969, Jim Morrison and John Fogerty had a deep talk about the future of technology and humanity.
love how he was using a rhodes but says "not easy to play on a vox" and still makes it work that's how it's done you make due with what you have presented to you
Ray's genius keyboard tone, Morrison haunting legendary vocal and poetry, Robbie's psychedelic scale and John's progressive beats, when everything clicks : that's it ,u got the one and only The Doors.
Incredible. Epic stories. The Doors Forever.
4 Diamonds=Magic Music.
The “Beatles” were the same.
The odds on 4 personalities meeting in the same place, at the same time, with that individual and collective talent, is a one in many a million.
The Beatles and The Doors did it man and we are all richer for it.
❤️.x
This guy is a genius. Just by listening to him talking you can tell.
Musical magical one of the best American bands ever ❤️ i love all there stuff coming from rush vh fan
I like the way he mocked yoga freaks with "you gotta open yourself to the energy of the universe; you must believe and not be afraid..." his humor was precious
Man, what a carefree and joyful guy--but also professional and superbly competent at what he does. If only Jim had picked up on that and put down the bottle.
Ray could describe the process of making a bologna sandwich and make it sound miraculous and mysterious.... 🙂
God bless you Ray RIP
I didn't grow up with the doors. I was to young but light my fire had an upswing in the end of the 80s. I think it was in a movie. However I won a new edition of a record with the best of the Doors. I really love the sound of their music and fell in love with it as soon as I heard it. This video is a real gem. Love it!
No Band has managed to accomplish the uniqueness of what the DOORS created. Many great bands have spawned variations....But the DOORS stand alone in a Class all their own!! One of a Kind!!!
6:50 Ray.... was brilliant in every way❤❤ rip ❤❤
I met Ray, he was way cool and so friendly
Super! The Doors unvergessen! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
People equate the Doors with Jim Morrison and " The Lizard King" and whatever that silliness was but Ray was an amazing musician and a very kind intelligent person. I believe Ray was the older brother to the other guys and without him , we wouldn't have had the Doors.
So cool to hear his explanation of all this.
Thanks for sharing this video. What an education. What a wonderful coincidence of talent were The Doors. I first heard them on AM radio, back when it played music. The single edit of "Light My Fire" was played all of the time. I liked it. There were other radio songs, like "Hello, i Love You" or "Touch Me" but the breakthrough is when my brother Barry bought "13" at the grocery store, of all places. What a great selection of Doors songs from five albums. And we learnt that "Light My Fire" contained not one but two killer jams, keyboard and guitar. I was a little white boy in Tulsa, and i was getting a musical education from this record. It was the first blues ever i heard and i thought i heard in it something magical, and i was right.
Ray , you are my Hero
So creative and well observed
OMG i have a story. I was living in Winnipeg Canada and a couple guys came up to us and asked if we wanted to get stoned. We went there and i sat in this really comfy chair while we smoked a blunt. Then light my fire came on and WOW it was like i was so high and this chair was so comfy. Thanks guys
I love this guy!
I wish I could've met Ray. Did get a chance to meet Robbie Krieger at a music festival. I'll never forget it.
I miss you Ray
Ray, a Genius! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🎹🎹🎹🎹
That's some wild story telling Ray. Seen you at Campbell Hall with some poet Michael McClure.
It brings back memories. Great stuff!
Yes my favourite band ever!
Hi, only thaks for this video.
Awesome. Music lessons from Ray.
Ray has always been one of my favorite musicians ever since I first heard Light My Fire. Over the years I met a ton of famous folks, celebs and legends who I was lucky enough to meet and speak with folks like Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, actor Gene Hackman, world class women's pro-tennis champion Maria Sharapova, and literally scores of others from various fields and Ray is my most favorite celeb meet of all of them. I stumbled onto him accidentally by chance walking in a door and he was coming out, he held the door for me, said "hello" - I looked up at his smiling face which I almost recognized and when I heard his voice, I immediately knew who he was because just a few hours before I had seen him on a VH1 rerun interview with Kurt Loder. We chatted for the better part of a half hour standing there by the door taking turns playing doorman for folks coming in or leaving. Ray was kind, witty, very intelligent, quite funny and intriguing. He made me feel so at ease and absolutely treated me as an equal with not a single hint of celebrity or him acting like he was more special than anyone else. He seemed genuinely interested in my 'thing' which I never really revealed to him that I was not only a working professional musician but also a published journalist having written for a number of music related publications. I didn't feel the urge to interview him or try to get any contact info from him or even think of passing on a demo or asking for his autograph! We had a wonderful visit and I'll never forget that. When it was time for him to go, he stuck out his hand and said, "It's been very nice meeting you and I've enjoyed our chat, but I have to run, my wife Dororthy is making lunch right about now, so I need to hurry home to have some food and tea with her. Tata for now! You take care of yourself. Bye!" Most people in his league don't often hold doors for other people or show that much consideration for common folks. (Although Merle Haggard pulled out a chair for me in a banquet room at a table backstage at a venue he was performing at after inviting me to join him for dinner!)
That's so awesome. I can only imagine how incredible he was to meet in person. This 29 year old Doors fan would've loved to have met them all.
@@dennisaugustine6544 Me too! I definitely would have loved that. Ray was just so cool but it was just natural. I remember calling the radio station and bitching out the DJ's for playing the single edit version of Light My Fire instead of the full-length LP version. I was all of 12 years old! Rany got the biggest kick out of that.
I was hooked on that band from the second I heard John Densmore's snare drum 'snap' just before the whole band starts playing. I wanted to be a drummer (kicked out two-years running, 6th & 6th grades) but guitar was my thing and still is. :)
@CiscoDuck I love it! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and recounting such a moment for you with the DJ! I would have done the same. An edit on that masterpiece of a song is unacceptable, lol.
@@dennisaugustine6544 Ha! You know there was an 'un-official' edit of 'Stairway To Heaven' made by some DJ's at a radio station back in the day located in Philly or NYC. Word got back to Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant who was a real force to reckon with. When LZ toured the US in '72 or '73 he went personally to that radio station and told them, "I'm Led Zeppelin's manager and I need to speak with the program director." They led him into the studio and Grant picked the guy up and threw him against a wall. He demanded to know who made the bootleg edit of the song and the DJ who made it owned up to it. Grant beat him to a pulp and then destroyed about half the equipment in the studio. He found the tape and smashed it to bits with his bare hands. (He'd been a bodyguard, pro-wrestler and some claim a hit man for the mob in the UK) LOL
@CiscoDuck wooooww! Goodness, that's wild! I would've loved to have been the fly on the wall(s) to witness this turn of events take place. Owing to the current times, I'll go out and reference something called, "You f around, and you find out." Needless to say, I hope it was a lesson learned for that DJ, lol.
Dude was definitely a cool bastard! How can’t you see this guy as a bad ass?
The Doors...real musical geniuses
The doors. Were truly art
Beautiful
Doing another doors deepdive after watching the doors movie by oliver stone Ray is another great musician actor dont matter from another era who i could listen to talk all day
The Doors go straight into my veins. There have been others with beautiful music, but none with Jim Morrison's charisma.
0:05 says it all. What an amazing guy.
The Doors were the most educated band imaginable.
The top bands back then were all smart and well-spoken people. A lot of them were married with kids by age 25.
I dunno about imaginable but they were probably the best psychedelic-nerd rock band there ever was.
@@D-Fens_1632 Nerd? That would be Strawberry Alarm Clock.
AM IN LOVE
This edit is amazing. Thank you.
I'm ray, I wasnf that great, a, musician. Man you were one of the best
love this report ! thank yu much
Total mint unreal liked the doors 4 40 years or so so good 👍 ❤
Man, he was good!