Ray Manzarek, the outspoken founding member of the Doors, has died in Germany at the age of 74, after battling bile duct cancer. His keyboard playing became the defining sound for the legendary and groundbreaking rock ‘n’ roll group, a band who came to represent the counter-culture, the darker side of the 1960′s, the yin to the yang of the flower-power [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Doors’
Ray Manzarek, Founding Member of the Iconic Group The Doors, Dies in Germany at Age 74
Posted: May 21, 2013 by Dion in Music, News, ObituariesTags: An American Prayer, Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, The Doors
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The Doors, Harrison Ford & the Hollywood Bowl…
Posted: November 14, 2012 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: Harrison Ford, Jim Morrison, Paul Rothchild, The Doors, The Doors Live at the Bowl, The Hollywood Bowl
Many critics have recently been bringing up artists’ “quintessential” concerts, citing The Rolling Stones’ Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out or The Who’s Live At Leeds as examples. With the newly-remastered release of the Doors’ 1968 concert at the Hollywood Bowl, cleverly titled, The Doors Live at the Bowl ’68, this filmed performance is being hailed as the closest thing to a “quintessential” [...]
Pod People in the Place (aka “Knight Ridin’”)
Posted: September 15, 2012 by Podwits Administrator in PodcastTags: Airwolf, All Things Must Pass, Back To The Future, Battlestar Galactica, Blue Thunder, David Hasselhoff, Ernest Borgnine, Flash Gordon, George Harrison, Germany, Indian Dunes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jon Landis, Kermit the Frog, Knight Rider, Streethawks, Stu Phillips, The Beatles, The Doors, The Dukes of Hazzard, Vic Morrow
Dion is back after his two tours in the political-convention wars, and the crew quickly set their sights on revisiting the 1980′s series Knight Rider, in light of the 1st Annual Knight Rider Convention to be held at the beginning of October, celebrating the show’s 30th anniversary. The boys somehow, by way of Vic Morrow [...]
Revealing the Identity of “The Phantom” in One of the Most Notorious After-Death Jim Morrison Conspiracies
Posted: April 25, 2012 by Dion in History, Music, Music ReviewTags: Iggy Pop, Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, The Doors, The Phantom, The Phantom's Divine Comedy Part 1
It was back in 1997 in the now-defunct “Record Explosion”, a record store chain in New York City that had a large amount of hard to find music and bootleg material, that I first came across one of the weirdest albums of the 1970’s: Phantom’s Divine Comedy, Part 1. This album may ring a bell for [...]
40th Anniversary of L.A. Woman
Posted: March 4, 2012 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: 1971, Jim Morrison, L.A. Woman, Morrison Hotel, The Doors
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the most iconic albums of all time, the Doors have released a special edition of their final exit, unknowingly their last work together as a band, L.A. Woman. It is a two-disc edition, featuring the original album with never-before released alternate takes and two newly-discovered jams caught [...]
Chicago Blues Guitar Icon, Hubert Sumlin Passes at 80
Posted: December 10, 2011 by Dion in Music, News, ObituariesTags: Chess Records, Cream, David Johansen, Eric Clapton, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Levon Helm, Muddy Waters, Obituaries, Robbie Krieger, Robbie Robertson, The Blues, The Delta, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Willie Dixon
Blues Guitar legend Hubert Sumlin, whose signature scream and snarl defined Howlin’ Wolf’s sound, died in Wayne, New Jersey this week at the age of 80. A highly underrated guitar pioneer in the Chicago “Electric Blues” scene of the late 1940′s- to late 50′s, Mr. Sumlin is revered in the music, directly influencing musicians such as Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, [...]
The Doors performing “Reading Rainbow”?!
Posted: November 14, 2011 by Dion in Music, NewsTags: Jimmy Fallon, Reading Rainbow, The Doors
The Doors on Jimmy Fallon performing Reading Rainbow. I couldn’t stop laughing…. Click the “reading rainbow” link if video box doesn’t work-
The Doors Live in Vancouver, 1970
Posted: October 31, 2011 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: Albert King, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, B.B. King, Big Mama Thornton, Blues, Bo Diddley, George Gershwin, John Coltrane, Kurt Weill, Peggy Lee, Porgy and Bess, The Allman Brothers, The Beatles, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Vancouver, Vince Treanor, Willie Dixon
(Dion’s review was posted on The Official Doors Facebook and Myspace pages in January, 2011) We have Vince Treanor to thank for being able to listen to The Doors’ performance in Vancouver on June 6th, 1970. Treanor was the band’s road manager from 1967 until the end in 1972, when the band, post Morrison’s [...]
The Doors Live in New York at the Felt Forum, Boxset
Posted: October 31, 2011 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: Blues, Bo Diddley, Bobby Bland, Crosby Stills and Nash, Jim Morrison, John Lee Hooker, John Sebastion, Kurt Weill, The Beatles, The Black Plague, The Doors, The Felt Fourm, Van Morrison, Willie Dixon
(Dion’s review was posted on The Official Doors Facebook and Myspace pages in January, 2011) For hardcore Doors fans, attempting to locate a live recording of the band, aside from the official releases like “Alive She Cried” or “Absolutely Live”, (both which begot the double disc release of “The Doors, In Concert”), was next to [...]