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Health’s Jake Duzsik on the Doors’ Ray Manzarek
May 21, 2013
The death Monday of Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek was a sad mark in the ledger of L.A. rock history.
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Manzarek, who was influenced by John Coltrane, added a jazz component to the band’s rock sound and filled the role of bassist. The band charted 15 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 starting in 1967.
May 20, 2013
When the Doors were still a fledgling quartet, and the band members were honing their chops playing five sets a night at the London Fog club in Hollywood, it wasn’t rock stardom on keyboardist Ray Manzarek’s mind as he and his three bandmates laid down an extended jam for their debut album that ran more than seven minutes.
FULL STORY: Ray Manzarek, the Doors’ keyboardist, dies at 74
Ray Manzarek: X’s Exene Cervenka, John Doe remember a friend
May 22, 2013
The Doors keyboardist, who died Monday at 74, produced L.A. punk band X’s first four albums. Exene Cervenka and John Doe recall him as a generous teacher.
Ray Manzarek dies at 74; the Doors’ keyboardist
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek, the founding member of the Doors whose piercing electric organ sound defined their career-establishing hit “Light My Fire” and most of the L.A. group’s cornerstone songs, died Monday in Germany after a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer, his publicist said.