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Guys who drop by, friends and companions will know how important The DOORS were to me so it is with great sadness I share this and cannot put it any better than Big O . . . .

RAY MANZAREK R.I.P. 1939-2013

May 21, 2013 – 8:16 am Ray Manzarek, keyboardist and founding member of The Doors, has died. He was 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says Manzarek died on May 20, 2013 at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family. He had bile duct cancer. Manzarek founded The Doors after meeting then-poet Jim Morrison in California. The Washington Post reported that Manzarek had continued to remain active in music after Morrison's death in 1971. Manzarek had briefly tried to hold the band together by serving as vocalist, but eventually the group fell apart. He played in other bands over the years, produced other acts, became an author and worked on films.

Poster given to me by my then Art Teacher Julia at Gosford Hill School circa 1968

. . .or just play this and TURN IT UP! Light My Fire written by Robbie and still a classic . . . . . .

RAY MANZAREK
Roslyn 1975 [no label, 1CD]
Live at My Father’s Place, Roslyn, NY; March 26, 1975. Very good to excellent soundboard (?)
Thanks to everyone who shared this and for keeping it alive:
Originally upped on Dime by tombstone, a.k.a. KB69 in April 2006.
Seeded on Trader’s Den in August 2007.
Reseeded at Dime by hothcanada.
Uploader’s notes:
On my last Ray Manzarek torrent I requested that someone seed this show if they had it. I got the date wrong. I thought (from memory) that it was June 18, 1975. I don’t know where I got that date but it turns out it was March 26, 1975. I found this brief, albeit great sounding, snippet of that very performance on a trip to Greenwich Village earlier today with my family. I believe it is soundboard. It certainly sounds so; there is no audience interference. I based the musicians on the info in Ray’s “Whole Thing Started With Rock n Roll” CD which lists these members as the touring band in early 1975. The boot I lifted these three tracks from lists the third song as “When The Music’s Over/Light My Fire” which is incorrect. Track 3 fades in during the solo section of “Bicentennial Blues” from the aforementioned LP which takes its chordal approach directly from “Light My Fire” before seguing into “Fire”. Then, unfortunately, the song fades out leaving Track 3 incomplete at both ends. It’s too bad, really, as the beginning of “Bicentennial Blues” is quite different from the solo part and sounds like it could have been right at home on the next Door’s LP had they stayed together long enough to record the follow up to “Full Circle”.

Ray Manzarek - Roslyn 1975
One: I Wake Up Screaming 8:57* (15.0MB)
Two: Downbound Train 7:38 (12.9MB)
Three: (fades in) Bicentennial Blues/Light My Fire (fades out) 5:22 (9.0MB)
*Ray recites Jim Morrison’s poem “Ensenada” during this track.
Ray Manzarek - keyboards, vocals
Charlie Harrison - bass
Terry Sales - guitar
Hunt Sales - drums