Russ sent me this week’s offering.

This is a topical joke.  I was channel surfing last week and came upon a Doors concert from the Hollywood Bowl in 1968 when the Doors were at their peak.  Before every commercial, they had a picture of Ray Manzarek with a remembrance and that he had just died.   I didn’t realize that he was eight years older than I.   I thought that he was younger.

I remember being in San Diego in the summer of ’67 and one of the AM stations actually played the full length version of Light My Fire.  I always wondered why the Doors never got a bass player and let Manzarek do sumpin’ with his left hand other than playing bass.  He could have been playing chords or octaves to complement what his right hand was doing.

It must have been a real bummer to the group that even though they were good musicians, without Morrison they were through.   Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix.  Shooting stars that shone bright and then died much too soon.

Got this one from Pres.

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