{"id":8756,"date":"2013-05-25T18:21:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/25\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-ray-manzarek-1939-2013-breaks-on-through-to-the-other-side\/"},"modified":"2013-05-25T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T18:21:07","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-ray-manzarek-1939-2013-breaks-on-through-to-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/25\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-ray-manzarek-1939-2013-breaks-on-through-to-the-other-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Ray Manzarek (1939-2013) Breaks on Through to the Other Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

He peered over the keyboard  bespectacled and thoughtful, playing the  professor to Jim Morrison's wild man, an Apollo of musical order to anchor the drunken Dionysian front man.  Morrison joined the 27 Club<\/a> in the summer of 1971, expiring of his excesses in a Parisian bath tub, while Manzarek lived on another 40 some years to die on May 20th at age 74.  He seems to have negotiated those calm anticlimactic years well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a beautiful 'Crystal Ship" solo<\/a> from 2012. The original 1967 Crystal Ship<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Moonlight Drive<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Soul Kitchen<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Break on Through<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

NPR Interview with Manzarek<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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He peered over the keyboard  bespectacled and thoughtful, playing the  professor to Jim Morrison's wild man, an Apollo of musical order to anchor the drunken Dionysian front man.  Morrison joined the 27 Club in the summer of 1971, expiring of his excesses in a Parisian bath tub, while Manzarek lived on another 40 some years to die … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Ray Manzarek (1939-2013) Breaks on Through to the Other Side”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}