The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek died Monday, he was 74 years old.
Our Friend Yvonne DeLa Vega, Poetry Editor at The LA Examiner and radio host held a tribute last night for Ray Manzarek, her collaborator on numerous projects and friend.
Ray was an accomplished keyboardist and musician, and a founding member of the Doors. He worked with Roxy Music and Byan Ferry as well as others. He also was well known as a jazz aficionado.
Ray also penned the forward of her new book, “Tomorrow, Yvonne. Poetry & Prose for Suicidal Egotists (Volume 1)”
Please check out the show, for great memories of her friend, poetry, parts of her interviews and jazz music. A fitting and moving tribute. Grab your hanky…
Hear the original interviews here.
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When The Music’s Over Ray Manzarek Feb 12, 1939 – May 20, 2013 By Chris Parisi I was born in late 1961. I never saw The Doors in total. I never met Ray Manzarek personally. But I remember hearing ‘Riders On The Storm’ on the car’s AM radio for the first time on a vacation road trip with my family, Cape Cod bound from Upstate New York, as The Doors were experiencing a revival of sorts with the release of An American Prayer, several years after they had broken up. And what I remember were the raindrop tones of Manzarek’s… Read more »
Ray’s keyboards were a staple of The Doors. He’ll certainly be missed after such a long and fruitful career helping to create such haunting music. The Doors’ songs opened my mind to other realms of possibilities and cleansed my perception. I paid tribute to Ray when I heard of his passing by creating a new portrait of him and some melting doors which you can see on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2013/05/in-memoriam-ray-manzarek.html Drop by and let me know how The Doors influenced you too.
That’s a great sketch Brandt, nice. Chris