Break on thru a celebration of ray manzarek looks at. Shortly before his death in 20, the great ray manzarek of the doors sat in front of his beloved keyboard and told the fascinating musical story of how the iconic riders on the storm came to be. Keyboardist ray manzarek, the founding member of the doors. Ray manzarek explains the doors song riders on the storm. Ray manzarek riders on the storm isolated mix youtube. Tonight we will listen to ray s own take on doors history with some startling and cool outtakes and live music, as well as some of ray s later production work, to tell the story of a musician and friend. Were taking you back to 1971 and the iconic hit from the doors, riders on the storm, as we continue our weekly feature the story behind. Now the score is compatible with musescore2 and the reprises are now all correct. Raymond daniel manzarek jr was an american musician, singer, producer, film director, and.
Ray manzarek used a fender rhodes electric piano to create the effect of rain. According to guitarist robby krieger and keyboardist ray manzarek, it was. This was the last song on the last doors album with morrison. A cowboy legend, written by stan jones and popularized by vaughn monroe. Ray inspired me to start playing keys as his melody lines had great hooks. Portions of the songs lyrics were allegedly inspired by spree killer billy cook, whom morrison referenced in a. Ray manzarek of the doors tells the musical story of how. He dismissed riders on the storm as cocktail music, but reserved particular. The wonderful ray manzarek tells of the making of riders on the storm rest in peace ray. I also added more lyrics so it is more evident to play. Ray manzarek live paris 2001, riders on the storm youtube.
For a fascinating look at just how beautifully things blended together with the doors, watch above as manzarek tells the story of the bands classic 1971 single, riders on the storm. Jim morrison the doors james jim, ray manzarek, beautiful men, beautiful. Riders on the storm is a song by american rock band the doors. Background and composition riders on the storm is a psychedelic rock song. Doors keyboardist ray manzarek tells the story of the. The doors the unknown soldier live subtitulado en espanol ray manzarek, the. Provided to youtube by atrain entertainment riders on the storm ray manzarek and roy rogers ballads before the rain. Riders on the storm, as we continue our weekly feature the story behind the song. Manzareks second novel, snake moon, released in april 2006, is a civil war ghost story. Out of the shadows ray manzarek at a doors concert in costa mesa, california, in aug 2011. Ray manzareks part as played in the studio version. The song came together rather quickly, although the bass line was a little tricky for bassist jerry scheff at first. Get the days top stories on hollywood, film, television, music, arts, culture and more.