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.
As Neil Diamond put it…”Done Too Soon”.
Denny – think you meant 1968 (not 98). Loved the Doors – as kids growing up in the 1960’s, we were so spoiled by all that great music – every week it seemed there was something new and awesome from the Stones, Beatles, Hendrix, Who, Doors, Jefferson Airplane. Heck, even the “PreFab Four” were better than anything out there today!
Yep! Meant 1968. Thanks for the correction. Fixed.
1998? Did you mean 1968?
Yep! Fixed it. Thanks!
You said it Denny. Shooting stars that lit up the night and gone all to soon. What a shame. It is sad about the rest of the Doors. Everything I ever read about them said they were very talented, but with out Jim Morrison they faded quickly, it must have been vey bittersweet for them.
Around 1982-84, I worked for Jac Holzman, who had taken over at Panavision as Chairman after the death of the company’s founder.
I soon learned that Jac had been the founder of Elektra Records, and the guy who signed the Doors to their recording contract after seeing them at the Whiskey in LA.
As far as I was concerned, he was a music god after that. Here’s a photo I took of Jac in London around then….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/larrythefrog/1085412313/in/set-72157622986237982
Drugs, drugs and more drugs. Morons.