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Ray Manzarek - Love Her Madly (2006)

2013-05-21T16:13:22Z

Ray Manzarek - Love Her Madly (2006)


01 - Too Close To The Sun.
02 - I Could Be Anything.
03 - J'ai Vu Ta Vie.
04 - Hadley's Cruise.
05 - Nightride.
06 - At First Sight.
07 - Paper Kimono.
08 - Expresso.
09 - The Golden Bough.
10 - J'ai Vu Ta Morte.
11 - Obsession.

Personnel: 
Gregg Montane, Robby Krieger (guitar).

Most rock & roll fans associate the title "Love Her Madly" with the Doors' hit from 1971, especially when the former keyboardist of the band Ray Manzarek is involved. In the case of this Oglio release, Love Her Madly has nothing to do with the Doors, but it is the title of both a film and soundtrack produced by Manzarek along with Bruce Hanifan. Manzarek is a noted fan of film noir, so it should come as no surprise that both the movie and soundtrack follow that dark shadowy tradition while doing an admirable job injecting electronica and techno into the musical mix. There is a tricky aspect that goes along with composing for film. The listener is aware that the music was written with a specific scene in mind, but without access to those visuals, the listener often feels left out. That's not the case with Love Her Madly, since Manzarek and Hanifan approached the score knowing that it should not only enhance what's on the screen but also provide an enjoyable listening experience sans visuals. While Manzarek and Hanifan composed and performed the whole of this set, they engaged the assistance of guitarists Gregg Montane and another former member of the Doors Robbie Krieger. --- Al Campbell, allmusic.com

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Ray Manzarek - The Whole Thing Started With Rock & Roll And Now It's Out Of Control (1974)

2013-05-23T16:19:17Z

Ray Manzarek - The Whole Thing Started With Rock & Roll And Now It's Out Of Control (1974)


01 - The Whole Thing Started With Rock And Roll Now It's Out Of Control.
02 - The Gambler.
03 - Whirling Dervish.
04 - Begin The World Again.
05 - I Wake Up Screaming.
06 - Art Deco Fandango.
07 - Bicentennial Blues (Love It Or Leave It).
08 - Perfumed Garden.

Personnel: 
Ray Manzarek (vocals, piano, tack piano, celesta, electric piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet,
 organ, keyboards, ARP synthesizer, string synthesizer); 
Ray Manzarek; Flo & Eddie, Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman (vocals); 
Michael Fennelly, Mark Pines (guitar); 
George Segal (banjo); 
John Klemmer (saxophone); 
Gary Mallaber (vibraphone, drums, percussion); 
Paul Davis , Steve Forman (percussion); 
Patti Smith (vocals); 
Joe Walsh (guitar); 
Dick Wagoner (guitar).

Ray Manzarek's 1974 follow-up to his excellent The Golden Scarab (A Rhythm Myth) from the same year finds producer Bob Brown stepping into Bruce Botnick's shoes. Over 40 minutes of music from the Doors' keyboard player expands the excellent concepts initiated by the Doors' Other Voices and Full Circle albums, with the thread continuing on the aforementioned The Golden Scarab. The title track was composed by Manzarek, manager Danny Sugarman, and journeyman guitarist Dick Wagner, fresh from his stint in the Lou Reed's Rock & Roll Animal Band and right before he would co-author hits by Alice Cooper. Flo & Eddie provide backing vocals on the two-minute-and-33-second title song, the shortest on the disc. "I Wake up Screaming" resembles music from An American Prayer, and indeed, it's a poem by James Douglas Morrison featuring an early performance by poetess Patti Smith. With so much depth and intrigue here, Polygram Records deciding to take three tracks from this album and tag them on the end of a 1994 re-release of The Golden Scarab deprived Manzarek and Doors fans of the full scope of this work. The complete sessions from both projects in one package would be appropriate. "Bicentennial Blues" could be an outtake from Other Voices and features Manzarek at his most Doorsy, especially when the long keyboard solo in this nearly eight-minute track gets the tonal quality and riffs from "Light My Fire." Had the three Doors continued their musical journey together, this important music may have found a wider audience -- it definitely grooves. Where Larry Carlton performs on The Golden Scarab (A Rhythm Myth), Eagles/James Gang guitarist Joe Walsh shows up here, as do Steve Forman -- percussion player with Marty Balin among many others -- and Paul Davis. It's an interesting musical mix, with Manzarek indulging in all sorts of keyboard instruments and synthesizers. He's flanked by enough equipment on the back cover to stock a music store, but refrains from drenching the disc in those sounds, as Gary Wright would with 1976's Dream Weaver. Rock meets jazz here on "Perfumed Garden" and other tracks, providing a unique glimpse of one of rock & roll's most enduring characters. "The Gambler" moves with authority, while the quirky instrumental "Whirling Dervish," co-written with Paul Davis, keeps the momentum and is chock-full of the creative sparks Manzarek always provides. "Begin the World Again" is thought-provoking and entertaining, as is this entire disc. ---Joe Viglione, Rovi

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Ray Manzarek Trio UCLA - Live At Lighthouse Jazz Club Hermosa Beach 1961

2013-05-22T15:58:24Z

Ray Manzarek Trio UCLA - Live At Lighthouse Jazz Club Hermosa Beach 1961


1.Moanin'	
2.'Round Midnight
3.Ikin Retnin	
4.Joey	
5.Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise

Ray Manzarek  - piano,vocal
Jonh Halliberton - bass
Sam Beale – drums

Lighthouse Jazz Club Hermosa Beach, CA (29.03.1961)

The earliest live recording of Ray Manzarek when he was a member of a jazz group at UCLA. Ray introduces each song and plays piano, John Hallibertan plays bass, and Sam Beale plays drums. --- thedoorsguide.com

One of the most influential keyboard players in the history of rock music, Doors member Ray Manzarek was born on February 12, 1939. Born to Polish immigrants in Chicago, IL, he grew up admiring the boogie-woogie piano players that became popular in the '50s. After dropping out of U.C.L.A.'s law program, he reconsidered going to graduate school, eventually going back under their prestigious film program. It was in this environment that Manzarek helped form the Doors. Being one of the most influential rock bands in America, they would go on to release several albums before the untimely death of lead singer Jim Morrison in July of 1971. Devastating the band, they attempted two albums without Morrison featuring Manzarek on vocals, but fan support was low and the band slowly fell apart. In 1973, he released his first solo album, The Golden Scarab, and began to tour again. 1974's The Whole Thing Started With Rock & Roll Now It's out of Control came next, but Manzarek was itching to work with a band again and eventually started Ray Manzarek's Nite City. They released an eponymous album in 1976 and Golden Days Diamond Nights in 1977, but they failed to capitalize on the success of the original Doors and fell apart again. It was soon after that that the punk movement became a driving force in Los Angeles, and the band X contacted Manzarek about working with them in a production capacity. The end result was Los Angeles, one of the all-time most important punk albums. Reinvigorated, he began work on Carmina Burana, a high concept solo album about opera and minstrels that was released in 1983. Unfortunately, the effort was viewed as too pretentious and he quietly faded away for almost ten years. When Oliver Stone's film biography The Doors was released in 1991, Manzarek came out of semi-retirement to voice his displeasure in how the band was portrayed by the controversial filmmaker. In 1993, he released an album of Michael McClure's beat poetry over his keyboard playing, Love Lion, to a warm reception. The duo toured the country with the act, while Manzarek worked on his autobiography and a Doors tribute album. Both eventually came out, and he has continually voiced his desire to make a musical based on the career of his former band. At the turn of the century, he released an album with British musician/actor Darryl Read and saw his son score a major-label record deal with his band A.I. Although he has made some challenging and interesting music since that time, including the soundtrack to the film Love Her Madly in 2006, his huge influence over the world of rock will forever associate him with the Doors, and luckily Manzarek seems completely comfortable with that legacy. --- Bradley Torreano, Rovi

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