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Ray Manzarek
The Doors: Myth and Reality
The Spoken Word History
(2 CD set!)
(Monster Sounds 1018, 1996, UPC# 612358101829)
(Category: Spoken Word, Biography, Book on CD)
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Doors' Keyboardist Ray Manzarek tells the story of The Doors from his point of view. His stories are fascinating and he tells them with joyous enthusiasm and passion! Did you know that before The Doors, Jim Morrison once played the guitar at a prom with Ray's surf band? "It was the easiest $25 I ever made!" Morrison later recalled. The set includes a booklet with a lengthy essay by Kirk Silsbee about Manzarek and The Doors. This is a real treat - Don't pass it up! Get it today!
Stories include:
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(Disc One)
- Paris: The Mystery/The Last Recording
- UCLA Film School: Ray's Films/Jim's Films
- Jim & Ray from The Doors: Venice Beach
- Born in Chicago: South Side Boy
- I Heard The Blues in The Air
- Growing up Rocking: Maxwell Street
- You're in The Army Now: New York City
- Soul Of The Doors: We Are Going to Be Artists
- All Men Are Created Equal (Song)
(Disc Two)
- Beat Poetry Readings: San Francisco & Berkeley
- Out Of The Army: Rick & The Ravens
- Rick & The Ravens @ Aura: World Pacific Records/LSD
- The Doors Acetate Demo: Thrown Out of Liberty Records
- Enter Robby Krieger: Columbia Records
- Making The Magic Circle: Fights in The Band
- Where's The Bass Player?/Owsley, LSD & The Holes
- The Doors Are Dropped by Columbia
- In The Recording Studio: Paul A. Rothchild
- The Chief of Police in The Studio
- Dorothy Fujikawa-Artist: The Whiskey Bar
- Jim Morrison's Leather Pants
- The Doors on The Road: Do You Have a Spotlight
- Why The Music's Still Popular
- Jim's Still Around
- The Door's History: Jimi, Janis, Dylan, Paris
- UCLA Basketball
Album notes:
This 2-disc set is an autobiographical, spoken-word set in which Manzarek talks about his life and his career with the Doors. Manzarek also plays keyboards throughout. Recorded at Theta Sound Studio, Burbank, California. Includes liner notes by Kirk Silsbee.
A brilliant idea that could have gone on to be a benchmark in terms of spoken word histories, this pilot release from the ill-fated Monster Sounds label showcases Doors keyboardist and musical architect Ray Manzarek laying out the band's story with great recall and an entertaining flow. Interviewed and produced by West Coast music journalist/historian Harvey Kubernik, this double CD allows Manzarek a great opportunity to lay out the Doors' story with fabulous detail, and includes some very interesting and little-told stories, particularly about the formation of the band as well as the relationship between Manzarek and Jim Morrison. It's a shame that this format wasn't taken to an even higher level, for despite Kubernik's excellent interview and Manzarek's skill as a speaker, the series was, sadly, short-lived. The CD also contains an excellent new instrumental by Manzarek titled "All Men Are Created Equal." (review by Matthew Greenwald, AMG)
Editorial reviews
3.5 Stars (out of 5) - ...In a booming baritone, he adds his own theatrical relish to the Jim Morrison mythology....The real pearls...relate more to...his hip childhood on Chicago's South Side, where he got an early introduction to the blues... Rolling Stone (11/14/1996)
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