I always wondered who was playing the bass on the Door's studio albums. A few years back I heard an interview with Ray Manzarek on NPR and he said the Doors never used a bass player in live shows or on studio recordings. Manzareck said he played the keyboard parts with his right hand while playing the bass lines on the organ with his left hand. Damn, I never knew that!
I don't envy old rock & roll soldiers like Manzarek who spend the rest of their adult lives in the shadow of the musical accomplishments they earned when they were young and in their twenties.
It's hard to reinvent yourself if you used to play keyboards for the Doors. Manzarek stayed in the music business and produced a small legacy of respectable solo albums & even produced the Los Angeles the acknowledged masterpiece of the band X, L.A.'s premier punk band.
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There are two types of music: the first type is the blues and the second type is all the other stuff.
Townes Van Zandt
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