Catching up...

[Joe Allonby]

Of course, the Doors were the second best band that Ray Manzarek was ever
in.

On 8/29/06, David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh, they are that bright and funny, all right.  Dig up and listen to
> NPR's interview with Ray Manzarek, their keyboardist.  He asserts that
> Morrison never did show his dick to that audience, he was just so damn
> good that he made them think he did, by talking about it.
>
> See also the Wikipedia article on Morrison:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison
>
> On 8/28/06, Henry <hmusikar at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> >
> > I think that MJ and the RS are funnier than most of us sorry sots
> generally
> > give them credit for, as was Jim Morrison and the Doors.  Unless I'm
> > mistaken, some of the bombast is intentionally over the top.  "Deep in
> the
> > forest, we is stoned... immaculate" intoned with that big voice, with
> that
> > silly organ (Farfisa?), and Mick likes to PLAY at being the ballsy black
> > R&R, R&R, or blues stud, e.g. "some girls give me children, I never...
> asked
> > (them) for," but he also sings the part of the cockteasing or put-upon
> > girl.  Unless they're not as bright as I'd like to think they are, their
> > tongues are lightly planted in their, and our, cheeks.  The Beatles made
> no
> > pretense of being rootsy, bluesy, or basic, and were thought of (except
> by
> > religious conservatives) as bright, witty, cute, and cheeky, at least
> from
> > the time that they were introduced to the USA's audience.
> >
> > HM
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven [mailto:mcquaryq at comcast.net]
> > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:48 AM
> >
> >
> > I picked SG up recently and like a few of the cuts -- but the best of
> their
> > albums imo came out in the 70s -- Exile, Sticky Fingers, Let it Bleed,
> > Beggar's Banquet.  I find them hard to compare with the Beatles, whom I
> also
> > enjoy, because there's so much diff....the Stones have the more direct
> > connection to the roots music of the blues.
> >
> >
> > Steve--Stones/Chandler  Beatles/Hammet  Pink Floyd/Pynchon  :o)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Aug 27, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >  you can't get much more
> >
> > mannnered than middle-class Mick) are Some Girls,
> >
>
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