Doors founder and keyboardist, Ray Manzarek recounts the night the Doors were fired as the Whisky house band. From TV Rock Doc "Temples of Rock" (2003)
Proud to say Ray was the first person to pass me a joint in 1968. Jim might have gotten hold of some more good acid when another guy and I helped him from being face down in the green grass of a yard in Houston on a warm summer night after the concert. He must have loved that brown leather jacket to wear it on a Texas summer night.
Wow. I thought reading an old library copy of Ulyssus (a book I figured Jim probably read while living there) at the Clearwater, Florida Public Library was a cool Morrison story.
@@MichaelDavis-iy7bz most defo!! Gonna have another listen now in fact :-). Tell you another good story teller in terms of interesting factual stories and that's Mr Ballen here on UA-cam. Also Neil Gaiman reading his Samdman books on audible is incredible
Ray wrote the books Light My Fire about The Doors and a fictional novel called Poet in Exile about a character like Jim Morrison who faked his death and lived a peaceful life in the Seychelles.
Such a funny story. Imagine them creating some of that song right on the spot?. The imagination and creativity to do something like that is amazing. The excitement. They were an exciting band. You could feel it. Even the studio version which is all live you can feel it. The energy ....and the intelligence. No one like them really before or since. Very unique band.
Illustrated why their art grabbed attention- could not have had that impact without manufactured chaos, pushing to and beyond reality and societal norms...
+Kip Knight Indeed. If he was not entertaining people with his music, he was entertaining them with his stories. I could listen to them again and again. What a human being he was.
Everytime l played that song & as soon as l heard Father yes son, l would jump up & turn the volume down. No way was l gonna have my parents ban The Doors from my bedroom !!
Like a mother throwing the teenager out of the house next door to me... Mom: "I've had with you and your video games and online porn site bills on my credit card. Get out of the house and don't come back!" Kid: "It's Friday, mom. Remember you wanted me to clean out all the junk from the basement, wash and paint it all this weekend, and lay some carpet down?" Mom: "Oh yeah, but come Monday morning you are gone, buster!"
This is why I luv the scene of this song in the movie, because Oliver Stone consulted Ray on how that moment went down, So what you see is as accurate as can be, and in my opinion that entire scene of the car driving fast in the dessert when this song is begining to play and you hear Pam yell out something like Jiimmm! don't go!, come dance with me!, All that entire scene of the end, is perhaps the best work Oliver Stone has directed and filmed, that low camera angle view of Jim following that Indian in the dessert and the sun turning into an eclipse, that hawk flying through it, and day kinda turning into night, then inside that cave, how the camera zooms into the Shamans eye and then your at the Whisky a go go, fucken awesome, and Val Kilmer, I'd say his best acting performance, Or did you like him more as Batman, lol! peace out. Imma go see that scene.
YES!!!! And people talk bad about that movie, well the OTHER Doors members helped make it with their stories, its an unbelievable scene, the whole movie is great
Morrison majored in drama in college, possessed a power of words, plus had a high IQ. Which means that his so called antics, such as his back to the audience or laying flat on the floor playing dead, were done to arouse emotion. Morrison played drama like no other lead singer.
@Bella Bella..... Morrison gave all he had for the band. But he was done. He told the band that he was burnt out and wanted to quit. He even told them he was going to have a nervous breakdown. But the band was greedy. They saw the mighty dollar, so they persisted and talked Jim into continuing. Then when Jim started to get drunk and act up as you say, the freaking band members complain about it.
the truth is in the middle.... it is true morrison conceived a lot of the antics & understood & studied crowd dynamics. he also had a deep appreciation & knowledge bank for poetry & literature & in turn could improv and summon up those images on the spot. the fact that he had a lot of this knowledge baked into the hardwire going back to his teens, allowed him to roll out it even while under the influence. plus military types are known to be able to booze to large amounts, yet still party on & jim grew up as a teen in that envir... yet, he also could get out of control & push it past his own limits of self management. that, along w/ the stress of fame, his family displacement & his own demons could take him over the ledge into very destructive nights. miami the most famous and costly one.... the times facilitated & fueled a lot of it too. morrison needed someone outside of the band who was an elder he trusted who could better consul him. I'm sure ray in many ways did that the best he could, but when you are part of a unit & have your own pressures and profit motive it doesnt always work. if holzman, owner of the label, couldve done it all over again, I think he wouldve stepped in more into that role. the truth is though, jim was a hard case. he was strong willed and intelligent. those types can be the toughest to help.
@@kelvinkloud For all the flack Yoko Ono got about breaking up the Beatles Paul McCartney quietly said John Lennon was on a similar path and hadn't he met Yoko he was probably gonna end up dead...
Sorry, BR34NY, you should surely thank God (whoever your's may be if you have one), for The Doors, first and foremost, but you surely can thank The Doors as well. Just my opinion.
All nighter at a house in Houston after the concert. Wish I had played drums with them in the jam. Ray was the first person to hand me a joint at a radio station hallway before we went to the suburbs. Long story, summer 68.
It's kind of weird hearing this story told with a professional sports announcers broadcasting voice... I don't remember Ray Manzarek'svoice sounding quite like that years ago . RIP.. if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have all these stories about Jim Morrison I don't think.
I won tickets to see Jim Ladd interview The Doors at the House of Blues in West Hollywood back in 2003. Now, Ian Astbury (The Cult) sang and Stewart Copeland(The Police)was on drums. I look over at the bar and there sits Ray Manzarek drinking a Heineken. He's all alone so I made a b-line to the bar and struck up a conversation with him. What a moment in time! The one and only! I truly miss The Doors.
Ray, before his passing, endorsed a novel - on the inside cover - only released in late 2015. It is based in the late 60s and likely one reason he liked it. "To Slay the Lonesome NIght," available on Amazon. Ray calls it "great work." Lots of good reviews. I heard Ray was an avid reader.
Been backstage at the whisky a couple times thank god to the band my dad manages, they’ve headlined there multiple times. I used this video to convince my new lady that this place is like a religious experience to me. Going back again in 2 weeks and it feels like the first time every time.
The mythical depth of this performance is incalculable, humans in the infinitude of space floating on the Earthen orb, staring up at the Gods in torment. Planet changing event.
omg awesome! wrote a book on this subject and my friend sent me a link to this video. ty for posting -T.C. Justine Baker author of the prequel, Mother For Sigmund Freud
Please share your experience with the Doors for all Cindy. So many of us Door fans would love to read your stories! Before it's all gone! The End is near..❤
Back in my pool playing and drinking days, I used to play The End a lot on jukeboxes. It's length means it was one of the better deals on the juke box. It was also the sort of song that seems to fit well with wallowing in one's own drunkenness. I like it sober though too :)
It's not surprising Morrison performing The End live on stage in 1966 literally stopped the crowd. I'm sure Jim's performance and exploration of the dark side on stage was something nobody had ever heard or was ready for.
Ооо...! The end-это самая величайшая песня на планете, с глубоким смыслом. Я до сих пор вздрагиваю от крика Д. Моррисона и мощного взрыва музыкальных инструментов. Великие рок-музыканты!Таких больше не будет.
ray is so good at telling story's
Example?
Let's call him a good story teller....
@Benjamin Vieira how so?
@Benjamin Vieira idk. I can recall some conversations from years ago of what was said and who said it. Which book? I'll check it out
One of the best stories I ever heard Ray tell is about when Jim and the Doors were on The Ed Sullivan Show in July 1967.
I'd pay a million dollars to go back to Whiskey that night!
a milion of italian lire! but yes me too!!!!
I went to that night whit my Friends Acid and Herb 😎 amazing night.
Get on a time machine
I'd pay a million UA-cam dollars.
Me too!!!
I could listen to Ray tell stories for weeks. . .
Missing you, Ray. No better keyboardist. Man you could play.
GRIMM DAY Him and Jon Lord!
Ray was a true gentleman.
Terrific keyboard player & what a fantastic story teller ! 👍
Proud to say Ray was the first person to pass me a joint in 1968. Jim might have gotten hold of some more good acid when another guy and I helped him from being face down in the green grass of a yard in Houston on a warm summer night after the concert. He must have loved that brown leather jacket to wear it on a Texas summer night.
aoxo99 cool man
Really ?
Awesome thanks brother
I need to hear more!
Wow. I thought reading an old library copy of Ulyssus (a book I figured Jim probably read while living there) at the Clearwater, Florida Public Library was a cool Morrison story.
Ray WAS the Doors, he was the backbone. RIP Ray.
I was there in my mind as Ray was explaining that
Yeah he’s incredible at telling stories
@@MichaelDavis-iy7bz most defo!! Gonna have another listen now in fact :-).
Tell you another good story teller in terms of interesting factual stories and that's Mr Ballen here on UA-cam. Also Neil Gaiman reading his Samdman books on audible is incredible
Ray was recorded in the Spring/Summer of 2003. My lasting pleasure to have worked/hung out with him.
R.I.P Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison
Man, Ray's voice is soothing when he narrates!
Leonard Cohen!
He can tell a good story. Wish I had been there.
True to that
Talk out his ass
Imagine being lucky enough to be there at that show.
I will never get tired of hearing Ray talk.
The End starts out about a romantic breakup but it was also full of anger, mystery and destruction.
Ray Manzarek forever. He was a magnificent storyteller
Ray is a great story teller 😎
Ray after the doors should have been a writer; great story teller
Yeah, he was the babysitter.
Ray wrote the books Light My Fire about The Doors and a fictional novel called Poet in Exile about a character like Jim Morrison who faked his death and lived a peaceful life in the Seychelles.
thank goodness Ray shared all this precious memories with us, thanks Ray--miss you greatly--and the Doors---incredible story of an awesome band
Ray was a masterful storyteller. I could listen to him talk about The Doors all day
Such a funny story. Imagine them creating some of that song right on the spot?. The imagination and creativity to do something like that is amazing. The excitement. They were an exciting band. You could feel it. Even the studio version which is all live you can feel it. The energy ....and the intelligence. No one like them really before or since. Very unique band.
so legendary, stuff like this will never happen again in todays world!
'cause everybody is f++ed up in other ways!!
What an historic moment in music history to witness - amazing
Illustrated why their art grabbed attention- could not have had that impact without manufactured chaos, pushing to and beyond reality and societal norms...
Possibly histrionic as well. A histrionically historic moment in time.
still one of the best stories ever to be told
Ray Manzarek,, very smart. one to listen to. R.I.P.
+Kip Knight Indeed. If he was not entertaining people with his music, he was entertaining them with his stories. I could listen to them again and again. What a human being he was.
Always loved hearing him telling his stories! Miss him!
A wonderful person and a fantastic musician..Miss you Ray
Everytime l played that song & as soon as l heard Father yes son, l would jump up & turn the volume down. No way was l gonna have my parents ban The Doors from my bedroom !!
Ray manzarek is such a great storyteller.
One of the greatest rock stories ever.
Jim and Ray, may you both rest in peace, we all miss you both so much.
He is so good at telling stories.
"oh.. oh yeah.. you know, you play the weekend, you're fired on Sunday" :D
Saw ray play in Atlantic City a couple of weeks before he died he was great
Like a mother throwing the teenager out of the house next door to me...
Mom: "I've had with you and your video games and online porn site bills on my credit card. Get out of the house and don't come back!"
Kid: "It's Friday, mom. Remember you wanted me to clean out all the junk from the basement, wash and paint it all this weekend, and lay some carpet down?"
Mom: "Oh yeah, but come Monday morning you are gone, buster!"
That is so cool to know that Jim improved that at the Whisky A Go Go. I would love to be in that room at that time i can't believe i missed the 60s :(
yeah it's cool he threw in Oedipus rex/Greek mythology. Killed his father, Married his mother..which turns into a sexual relationship.
The End is a greatest song I remember seen Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison play that song at the whiskey a go go The Doors 1991.
Yeah Robby coming in the clutch to get a few extra gigs. RIP Jim and Ray. Much love to John and Robby
This is why I luv the scene of this song in the movie, because Oliver Stone consulted Ray on how that moment went down, So what you see is as accurate as can be, and in my opinion that entire scene of the car driving fast in the dessert when this song is begining to play and you hear Pam yell out something like Jiimmm! don't go!, come dance with me!, All that entire scene of the end, is perhaps the best work Oliver Stone has directed and filmed, that low camera angle view of Jim following that Indian in the dessert and the sun turning into an eclipse, that hawk flying through it, and day kinda turning into night, then inside that cave, how the camera zooms into the Shamans eye and then your at the Whisky a go go, fucken awesome, and Val Kilmer, I'd say his best acting performance, Or did you like him more as Batman, lol! peace out. Imma go see that scene.
YES!!!! And people talk bad about that movie, well the OTHER Doors members helped make it with their stories, its an unbelievable scene, the whole movie is great
Morrison majored in drama in college, possessed a power of words, plus had a high IQ. Which means that his so called antics, such as his back to the audience or laying flat on the floor playing dead, were done to arouse emotion. Morrison played drama like no other lead singer.
@Bella Bella..... Morrison gave all he had for the band. But he was done. He told the band that he was burnt out and wanted to quit. He even told them he was going to have a nervous breakdown. But the band was greedy. They saw the mighty dollar, so they persisted and talked Jim into continuing. Then when Jim started to get drunk and act up as you say, the freaking band members complain about it.
the truth is in the middle.... it is true morrison conceived a lot of the antics & understood & studied crowd dynamics. he also had a deep appreciation & knowledge bank for poetry & literature & in turn could improv and summon up those images on the spot. the fact that he had a lot of this knowledge baked into the hardwire going back to his teens, allowed him to roll out it even while under the influence. plus military types are known to be able to booze to large amounts, yet still party on & jim grew up as a teen in that envir... yet, he also could get out of control & push it past his own limits of self management. that, along w/ the stress of fame, his family displacement & his own demons could take him over the ledge into very destructive nights. miami the most famous and costly one.... the times facilitated & fueled a lot of it too. morrison needed someone outside of the band who was an elder he trusted who could better consul him. I'm sure ray in many ways did that the best he could, but when you are part of a unit & have your own pressures and profit motive it doesnt always work. if holzman, owner of the label, couldve done it all over again, I think he wouldve stepped in more into that role. the truth is though, jim was a hard case. he was strong willed and intelligent. those types can be the toughest to help.
@@kelvinkloud For all the flack Yoko Ono got about breaking up the Beatles Paul McCartney quietly said John Lennon was on a similar path and hadn't he met Yoko he was probably gonna end up dead...
@@kelvinkloud great comment
you play the weekend and you fired on sunday !!! thats so damn funny ..... thx god for the doors :-)
Don't thank god: thank Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby Krieger
Sorry, BR34NY, you should surely thank God (whoever your's may be if you have one), for The Doors, first and foremost, but you surely can thank The Doors as well. Just my opinion.
Yeh God is the one too thank.
Funny they didnt use it in the film
Great Story.. I wish I could of seen Morrison and the doors in my time
Me too
I saw them 🖤 when I was 18 in 1968 🖤 🎶🎶
@@michaelserby7697 tell me more, how exactly is the difference between how people thought of them then and now, please.
My favorite band
I always loved the way Ray could share a story. Would love to have been able to see The Doors at the Whiskey A Go Go!!
gives me goosebumps man! 'The killer awoke before dawn'!
True legend ray manzarek was more than just a musician
I read this is “No One Here Gets Out Alive” back in 1980.
All nighter at a house in Houston after the concert. Wish I had played drums with them in the jam. Ray was the first person to hand me a joint at a radio station hallway before we went to the suburbs. Long story, summer 68.
Nice one!!!!!
Logan Stroganoff lmao
It's kind of weird hearing this story told with a professional sports announcers broadcasting voice... I don't remember
Ray Manzarek'svoice sounding quite like that years ago .
RIP.. if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have all these stories about Jim Morrison I don't think.
He got better at telling stories. Especially the same stories. You can hear him embellishing them more and more as he got older....
I can listen to Ray tell storys all day. Wish you were still here
Thanks Ray that is one of the best rock stories I ever heard.
I won tickets to see Jim Ladd interview The Doors at the House of Blues in West Hollywood back in 2003. Now, Ian Astbury (The Cult) sang and Stewart Copeland(The Police)was on drums. I look over at the bar and there sits Ray Manzarek drinking a Heineken. He's all alone so I made a b-line to the bar and struck up a conversation with him. What a moment in time! The one and only! I truly miss The Doors.
Ray, before his passing, endorsed a novel - on the inside cover - only released in late 2015. It is based in the late 60s and likely one reason he liked it. "To Slay the Lonesome NIght," available on Amazon. Ray calls it "great work." Lots of good reviews. I heard Ray was an avid reader.
I could listen to Ray all day. Guess I’ll just have to listen to Doors all day
i can listen to this all day...
Pure raw talent from Jim Morrison that we will never see again in this lifetime 🤘👍
who else watching this on mothersday 2020
its 2016 jim thank you for the buzz through that interview ,,,,,,,,,,,,you where with me,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Ray was an awesome performer and he's truly missed. No other keyboard bass player like Ray and his stories are told beautifully.
That's a very good story of Ray talking about The Whisky A Go Go when his band got fired. The end is a very good song.
where are you when we need you ray? hopefuly jamming up in heaven with the rest of the great ones...stories like these are priceless
Ray understood all the nuance in a moment & could talk about the music objectively, he was enjoying it too, he was surprised in it.
The doors is, was and will great Jim Morrison unico e incomparable
Been backstage at the whisky a couple times thank god to the band my dad manages, they’ve headlined there multiple times. I used this video to convince my new lady that this place is like a religious experience to me. Going back again in 2 weeks and it feels like the first time every time.
Greatest story teller!!!!!!
Apparently Jim could not tell a joke properly. Maybe it's because he talked to slow and stops in between a lot.
Just one word : perfection
To be fair on Jim all he said was "mother, I want to....nyaagoyeh caam aawn yehh"
Make or Break, ???! The gibberish is what he said in the studio version. That night, live, he said fuck. It’s confirmed by many witnesses.
@@jamescooper3571 The real song was on the soundtrack of Apocalypse Now.
Ray was such a gem!
jesus. what a story. I read about it before, but the way Ray tells it gave me chills. Imagine being there.
great story, love that man!
The world was a better place with Jim and Ray in it!
The mythical depth of this performance is incalculable, humans in the infinitude of space floating on the Earthen orb, staring up at the Gods in torment. Planet changing event.
omg awesome! wrote a book on this subject and my friend sent me a link to this video. ty for posting -T.C. Justine Baker author of the prequel, Mother For Sigmund Freud
ray had a fantastic narration voice ...r.i.p.
These stories are great
I was there when the doors were hired, and I was there when they were fired. Good daze back then.
i absolutely love THE DOORS
Funny, great thinking Robby! 😄
I got too meet the Doors...after my first dance break...wow...they treated me like I was famous
Please share your experience with the Doors for all Cindy. So many of us Door fans would love to read your stories! Before it's all gone! The End is near..❤
Ray was reallt psychedelic with Robbie and Jim.. wow.. The Doors was a awesome band in the '60
Sure wish I could have met Ray back in the day .. :-)
superb raconteur.
Pretty F..... Wild story !!
I think Ray was the coolest keyboard player ever… ☮🔥
Back in my pool playing and drinking days, I used to play The End a lot on jukeboxes. It's length means it was one of the better deals on the juke box. It was also the sort of song that seems to fit well with wallowing in one's own drunkenness. I like it sober though too :)
Yup I totally understand I used to do the same thing here in Australia 😅😅
Excellent Ray, une autre histoire s'il te plait, j'aDoors ....
Awesome story..... 1~Luv
It's not surprising Morrison performing The End live on stage in 1966 literally stopped the crowd. I'm sure Jim's performance and exploration of the dark side on stage was something nobody had ever heard or was ready for.
I was there.
THE DOORS was a religion.on the 60s even in 2018
Awesome 😎
Legend.x
Let s here it for Ray CHICAGO.
The doors of Heaven opened and creativity poured forth. The door shut in the late 80s never to open again.
I'm here at the Whisky..
Dancing...in the cage
Hi Cindy, we're you at the Whiskey this night? Someone must be able to share this experience..
Johnny Rivers,tocou muito nesta boate ,nos anos 60
Ооо...! The end-это самая величайшая песня на планете, с глубоким смыслом. Я до сих пор вздрагиваю от крика Д. Моррисона и мощного взрыва музыкальных инструментов. Великие рок-музыканты!Таких больше не будет.
RIP Ray 🎵🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎹🎹🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵
Imaginar que Johnny Rivers se apresentou aí muitas vezes que sonho,vou conhecer esta boate em 2018 não vejo a hora
Sounds like Chicago in the background in the starting of the video
2:33 everyone's reaction at this point now lol glad he did it anyways
I liked Ray. Cool guy and fun story.
“ ur fired on Sunday” lmfao 😂😂😂
What an incredibly cool guy. I assume he had grand kids. I wonder if they could appreciate who he was? Or....was he just grandpa Ray?