[skyman]

"Manzarek credits LSD with helping him pass through the “doors of perception,” the title of the Aldous Huxley book from which the Doors took their name. Once through that door, LSD became unnecessary."

""Manzarek will try his best to explain the “terrible morass we’re in now, the terrible war in Iraq, the bugging of everybody, keeping secrets, lies that have been told to us, visions of an entire generation gone wrong.”

Yep it looks like he is eminently qualified to teach about world affairs/sarcasm

[mrsmith]

"Say a prayer for the unknown liberal,
lying in a pool of spittle"

[Colofornian]

Okay this says it all: "Their union succeeded because 'it wasn't a rock 'n' roll marriage,' he said."

In other words, not only does "rock 'n' roll-based marriage" facilitate divorce, relational dead-ends, and the like, but the "rock 'n' roll culture" is not exactly the epitome of personal/physical health, relational health, spiritual health, psychological health, & emotional health.

If it ain't healthy, don't export it.

[rogue yam]

“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.

[facedown]

I guess the drugs never wore off.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Translation:

I am SOOOOO important.

[toddlintown]

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.

[Enchante]

"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.

[mcg2000]

“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

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

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.

[StormEye]

"Psychedelics “make you a slave to love, a slave to joy, a slave to the energy of the universe,” he said."

Please inform the Chia Pet head in North Korea and the leadership of the various Arab/Islamic terror groups of this marvelous revelation. Then jump off the highest cliff you can find.

[Trajan88]

Ray Man... stfu.

I've never heard a more arrogant KEYBOARD player in the history of rock 'n' roll.

This turd thinks his dung don't stink... Ray, here's a clue... you do stink. Now don't go away mad... just go away

[NaughtiusMaximus]

The 60's were weird. The last time I voted for a Democrat was about the time I tossed out my last pair of bell bottomed pants.

[supremedoctrine]

Yes, I have ALWAYS thought that the music of the Doors was EXACTLY like a piece of Bauhaus furniture, dating from a time I sat in a Bauhaus chair and felt funny and looked around and said "I don't know why, but I feel like someone is lighting my fire....."
Yikes, listening to that psychedelic boilerplate issuing from this "interview" I am not surprised Oliver Stone found them a good subject for one of his movies: their mutual self-loves are a perfect match. And ONCE again, as if the millionth time is a charm, we learn about "the bugging of everybody".

[kcvl]