RIP - Ray Manzarek
From
The New York Times:
Ray Manzarek, Doors Keyboardist, Dies at 74
Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist and a founding member of the Doors whose sinuous and melodic organ riffs defined the band�s sound, died on Monday afternoon at a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, after a bout with cancer. He was 74.
Mr. Manzarek had been sick for several months with cancer of the bile ducts, his publicist, Heidi Ellen Robinson Fitzgerald, said in a statement. He died at about 3:31 p.m. at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim. His wife, Dorothy, and his brothers, Rick and James, were at his bedside.
Mr. Manzarek formed the Doors in 1965 with Jim Morrison, a poet and film student and singer, after the two of them had a chance encounter on Venice Beach in California. The band went on to become one of the most successful and at times polarizing acts of the 1960s, selling more than 100 million albums worldwide and producing bits like �L.A. Woman,� �Break on Through,� �Hello, I Love You,� and �Light My Fire.�
74 is too early to go but he lived a full life. Quite the talent.
Had the pleasure of hearing him play a number of times in Boston when I was living there. Always a good show.
Posted by DaveH at May 20, 2013 8:24 PM