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Friday Happy Hour Video: For Ray Manzarek, the music’s over

05.24.2013 by David Murray // 1 Comment

Doors founder and keyboardist Ray Manzarek died this week at 74.

I sank deep into the Doors during high school. I collected every one of their albums. And then, believing with some justification I had been possessed by Jim Morrison, my parents threw all the albums away.

But I remember listening to this one on my Kenwood turntable turned up so high that the lampshades actually quivered in my room.

I was the Lizard King …

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  1. suki says

    May 24, 2013 at 9:03 am

    Collected their albums and wore their pants.

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