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Opening Doors Into the Past (Barf alert-"The Doors" keyboardist tells us whats wrong with the world)
Napa Valley Register ^ | October 9, 2006 | KEVIN COURTNEY

Posted on 10/10/2006 2:11:39 PM PDT by skyman

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To: mrsmith

Ok.

That's good.


41 posted on 10/10/2006 2:50:26 PM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: Tallguy

"Hated Manzerak's keyboards, in particular."


You too??? They were disturbingly reminiscent of something out of Lawrence Welk, and not very original, IMHO.


42 posted on 10/10/2006 2:50:28 PM PDT by Anselma (Democrats care more (than they think).)
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To: skyman
“We were center stage, Madison Square Garden,” he said. “We were there, center court, theater in the round. I’m where the center jump takes place and watching the light bulbs flashing, going off all the way around. I stood in the middle of the stage and turned around ... and thought, ‘it don’t get no better than this.’”

And it didn't get any better than that, apparently, seeing how it's forty years later and he's got nothing else to talk about. The Doors are the most overrated band in rock history. They put together maybe 15 or 20 sort of decent songs that sound quite alike and that all get boring after a only a few hearings. Their shows were chaotic drug fests to be sure, but you truly had to be there since listening to any of their live recordings now reveals them to have been the duffers and poseurs they were. The real laugh is Ray's pondering whether they accomplished all that they intended to. Look Ray, you got high, you got laid, and you made some bucks. If you really thought there was anything more going on at those hippie parties, you were just listening to the dope talking, man.

43 posted on 10/10/2006 2:57:51 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: barkeep
Jethro Tull was an English agrarian who invented some type of farm implement. The band what would become Jethro Tull sucked so bad they had to keep changing the name to get gigs. Jethro Tull was chosen at random from a dictionary and just happened to be the name of the week when they got their act together.
44 posted on 10/10/2006 3:01:45 PM PDT by MagnumRancid
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To: skyman

I guess the drugs never wore off.


45 posted on 10/10/2006 3:03:41 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: dirtboy

>>"Leading them to freedom..."<<
Your father's generation led your generation to freedom, Ray, soaked not in LSD, but blood.


46 posted on 10/10/2006 3:05:24 PM PDT by travlnmn41
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To: skyman

Translation:

I am SOOOOO important.


47 posted on 10/10/2006 3:06:34 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: skyman

Ray's been playing this "conscience of the Doors" routine for way too long. Nobody cares, dude.

The Doors sucked when Morrison was alive. They still suck.


48 posted on 10/10/2006 3:06:43 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: skyman
"When the Doors sang “break on through to the other side,” they weren’t thinking of a Bush presidency and the multi-headed wars on terror."

Yeah, they must have been thinking about the need to have mush-brains like Carter and Clinton show the way to "peace for our time" and an end to all bad people in the world.....

Funny, guys, but in the 12 years of Carter + Clinton/Algore it is impossible to discern the dawning of the new millenium and the end of war and terrorism.
49 posted on 10/10/2006 3:10:10 PM PDT by Enchante (There are 3 kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Drive-By Media)
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To: nuconvert

"I thought it was a swimming pool?"

Brian Jones. Get the deaths of your your drugged and dead rock stars straight!

And don't Bogart that joint.


50 posted on 10/10/2006 3:10:30 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: theDentist
I thought the same thing. He was on radio, doing a book tour a couple of years ago. He seemed pretty
down to Earth.

On the exposure thing: "Well, I was to the side and behind Jim...so I can't testify that I saw any thing.".

On people coming up to him, claiming to be Jim Morrison's offspring: "Why are you telling me? Jim's parents
are still alive, shouldn't you be telling them?"

On "poets" writing songs: They really need to collaborate with a real musician. Otherwise, all the songs
end up in the same key having the same three chords."

51 posted on 10/10/2006 3:10:57 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
"Course I was into Zappa"

Glad to catch that, I was listening to some old Zappa just the other day after seeing 200 Motels (for the first time, so I'm a bit behind the curve) and I still don't get it.

Enlighten me, please!

52 posted on 10/10/2006 3:15:00 PM PDT by Proud_texan
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To: skyman
“I played Apollo to Jim Morrison’s Dionysius, the Greek god of madness and craziness, the dying and resurrecting god, the fecundity of the earth,” he said.

ummmm .... you played keyboards to his lyrics ... You played 2nd-4th fiddle for his groupies .... you play the media to his reputation whenever you need a buck and/or an audience ... etc etc
53 posted on 10/10/2006 3:16:26 PM PDT by mcg2000 (New Orleans: The city that declared Jihad on The Red Cross.)
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To: Calvin Locke

He's always been waaaaayyy out there, but in a strange common sense kinda way. This book interview was an opportunity to grandstand ... it's to be expected.


54 posted on 10/10/2006 3:17:30 PM PDT by mcg2000 (New Orleans: The city that declared Jihad on The Red Cross.)
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To: toddlintown

LOL!


55 posted on 10/10/2006 3:24:53 PM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: Anselma

"Bathtub Jim"

Didn't they use to make that during Prohibition?!

Ed


56 posted on 10/10/2006 3:32:59 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: skyman

His "Hello I love you" tune (if it was his) was a shameless rip off from the melody of "All day and all of the night" by the Kinks.


57 posted on 10/10/2006 3:36:52 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Ah, the Davies' brothers. The real first punk band.


58 posted on 10/10/2006 3:41:31 PM PDT by hotshu
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To: Sir_Ed
Keith Moon drove a Rolls Royce into a swimming pool but died in his sleep from an overdose.

Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones drowned in the pool.

Dennis Wilson drowned in the waters of Marina Del Ray Calif.

And Jim went out in the tub.
59 posted on 10/10/2006 3:44:01 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: CaptainK

"Keith Moon drove a Rolls Royce into a swimming pool but died in his sleep from an overdose.

Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones drowned in the pool.

Dennis Wilson drowned in the waters of Marina Del Ray Calif.

And Jim went out in the tub."




I guess it truly was the "Age of Aquarius".


60 posted on 10/10/2006 3:51:35 PM PDT by hotshu
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