Posted on 05/21/2013 6:21:32 AM PDT by massmike
The Doors' founding keyboardist, Ray Manzarek, died in Germany Monday after a long fight with cancer, his publicist said in a statement. He was 74.
The artist had been diagnosed with bile duct cancer.
The Doors formed in 1965 after Manzarek happened to meet Jim Morrison on California's Venice Beach. The legendary rock group went on to sell 100 million albums worldwide, establishing five multiplatinum discs in the U.S
Morrison died in 1971, but Manzarek carried on The Doors' legacy, continuing to work as a musician and an author.
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I loved the Doors as a kid of the 60s/early 70s, and still do. I can still listen to “Riders on the Storm” and listening to Manzarek’s keyboarding is so beautiful. After a rough day at work, you can put that on, lay on your bed, and all the tension melts away.
Yeah I was in college when their stuff first came out. It was so completely unique. Still is compared to most music is.
Franz Liszt?
RIP
Very interesting (104) post. Thanks.
Jim said as a kid, he was traveling with his family across some stretch of hot desert when they came across a brutal fatal accident involving some Indians from a local tribe..He may or may not have felt the soul of an Indian enter his body, but he was deeply affected by seeing that accident. His parents remembered him in tears over it and finding him inconsolable over what he saw.As they slowly drove past all the death and vehicle carnage on the hot asphalt, he felt the soul of an Indian enter his body...
Probably why he used war paint and slammed whiskey as much as he did....I think I’ll have a shot...or two.
This was the incident he later referenced in the lyrics to the Morrison Hotel song "Peace Frog." When the three surviving Doors put music to the poems that became the posthumous An American Prayer, that segment of "Peace Frog" was dubbed to his poem "Dawn's Highway/Newborn Awakening," with the "Peace Frog" segment bridging the two portions of that piece.
Indian, indian what did you die for?
Indian says, nothing at all.
Gently they stir, gently rise
The dead are newborn awakening
With ravaged limbs and wet souls
Gently they sigh in rapt funeral amazement
Who called these dead to dance?
Was it the young woman learning to play the ghost song on her baby grand?
Was it the wilderness children?
Was it the ghost god himself, stuttering, cheering, chatting blindly?
I called you up to anoint the earth
I called you to announce sadness falling like burned skin
I called you to wish you well
To glory in self like a new monster
And now i call you to pray.
Wagner. As brought up on this thread.
An anti-Semite who nevertheless is loved by conservatives and Christians who should know better.
Wagner wasn’t a ‘pop star’. He stands at or near the peak of Western Culture. Chopin was also an anti-semite. So was Mozart (if his letters are to be believed) and Charles Dickens among many others.
Really based on your logic the only option is to shun secular culture all together (Shakespeare, Beethoven...) and only take in Bible based culture.
Very interesting (104) post. Thanks.I fell upon an interview with Morrison's father and sister from a few years ago. It was quite an eye opener. Rear Adm. Morrison spoke of his famous son as highly intelligent, spoke of his own hope that his son would make a career in film, and admitted to never having listened to his son's music despite berating him for taking up a music career despite lacking musical talent. Yet he also betrayed an enormous pride in his son for having succeeded in his own way, on his own terms, though he didn't say anything (and the interviewer may not have thought to ask) about some of the antics post-1968 (not to mention the railroading bust in Miami in 1969---let's get it straight, Jim Morrison actually never exposed himself, he was wearing oversize boxers beneath his slacks) that may have been part of his son's bid to shed the "Lizard King" image because he feared nobody in his audience really took the music or the poetry seriously. Take all that as you will.
His sister, though, remembered her brother's high school graduation gift request: where most boys "wanted a car," Jim Morrison wanted a set of the complete works of Nietzsche . . .
For Christians, this is, to a large extent, true. In the sense that Christians must be on guard to not celebrate, worship, idolize, give undo positive credit to, attention to, etc., the unGodly areas of secular culture. We should be, as the cliche goes, in it and not of it.
Christians SHOULD be reserved in their celebrations of, say, Shakespeare. Yes they should.
And Christians and social conservatives even more obviously should be reserved (at least) in their celebrations of pop music acts having the unGodly nature of Ray Manzerk's Doors.
At least you’re honest. Shakespeare is actually one of the founders of secular culture. Moving human interests away from morality plays and passion plays to...human interests.
We Christians are Stronger Than Dirt.
You are one sad case, my man.
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