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Manzarek, musical leader of and keyboard player for the Doors, takes us back to the strange days of 1960s L.A. in a striking personal memoir and ode to Jim Morrison. After singer-lyricist Morrison's untimely demise, the band drifted apart, but its music and Morrison's leering public persona get dredged up periodically by new generations of fans. Manzarek and fellow UCLA film graduate, budding poet, and aspiring lizard king Morrison were the band's nucleus, to which Manzarek added guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, whom Manzarek found in a transcendental meditation group. As the Doors, the four captured the orgiastic mood of the Age of Aquarius, L.A. style, by mixing mystical lyrics and extended musical jamming with the signature sound of Manzarek's carnival-like electric keyboard stylings. They enjoyed a commercial success rooted in the singles charts, which provoked dismissive criticism from the album-oriented rock-critic cognoscenti of the time. Manzarek posits that if Morrison had not fallen in with the wrong crowd (a problem then as now), he would have enjoyed an enduring career either as poet or rocker (like, perhaps, Henry Rollins?). Literate, perceptive, and thoughtful, this is the best book yet about the Doors and their legendary singer, not to mention Manzarek, and may be the best rock bio of the year, on a par with Dave Davies' Kink last year. Mike Tribby
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If anyone were to write a Jim Morrison tell-all, band- and soulmate Manzarek would be the man. But, to his everlasting credit, he didn't. Using his Doors experiences as the hook, Manzarek reels readers in with personal, often charming, if occasionally cloying, reflections on his life before, during, and since the Doors. He begins with his childhood in a working-class Chicago neighborhood, where his parents introduced him to the sensuous pleasures of the blues and meat-eating (a recurring themedon't ask). Later he attended UCLA film school, where he met Morrison. From there, the two lives followed parallel paths to different destinations. Manzarek, the more responsible (or less volatile), met and married his sweetheart, Dorothy, his wife to this day. Morrison became the band's charismatic front man whose fixation with nihilism and violent imagery, when mated to his heavy drinking and drug use, created what Manzarek calls ``Jimbo,'' a sociopathic, drunken brute, ``a monster. . . . the creature who eventually took Jim to Paris and killed him.'' Rather than luxuriate in the sordid details of Morrison's self-destruction, however, the author mostly prefers to revel in the giddy pleasures of life with the band: the genteel poverty of the early days; camaraderie and bickering among Doors members while on tour; success as known at the top; and even the truth about the Doors' ill-starred 1969 concert in Miami (for the record, Morrison never exposed himself). If Manzarek feels any rancor over the end of the Doorshe claims that Jim's 1971 sojourn in Paris was a hiatus, not a break-upit is directed toward the hangers-on who steered Morrison down his path to self-smashing. Although Manzarek does reserve choice words for the director of the Doors movie, Oliver Stone, such as ``fascist,'' ``psychotic,'' and ``bonehead.'' Whatever. Even these screeds make this pop-culture memoir more engaging. (16 pages b&w photos, not seen) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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When writing a biography, the failure to admit mistakes on your own part is dishonest. It is not the way Ray approached this book and I almost wish I hadn't read it. It's about a subject that has been a big influence on me and I was greatly dissapointed. Ray's a great musician, but not a good writer. If you're a big, big fan of the doors then you'd probably find it worthwhile but not enjoy it outside the inside perspective and stories about Jim. Otherwise, don't bother. Robby doesn't get much ink, other than being a great musician. His dislike for John is quite clear and sad he resorts to this immaturity. I enjoyed John's book more because it seemed more honest. Ray portrays himself as being so hip, without having made any mistakes, Jim's greatest friend, and Dorothy (Ray's wife) was absolutely perfect. He claims Jim fell into the wrong crowd and basically claims that if Jim would've continued to smoke pot with him and not drink with his party buddies then he would've been fine. His inability to look back upon such great creation with constructive criticism is too bad.
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The book is very amusing at times, really lovely actually... I don't think Ray is quite as capable of seeing through people as he may think though, but that doesnt really make the book unworthy to read. The scenes captured are often funny, sunny, warm, friendly ...inpiring. You get a good picture of the atmosphere...and it's like you feel like you were there. And it's not written like this happened Aaages ago, but nearly 'here'..nearly 'now'. It feels close. It made me feel quite happy.. A little minus though..is that Ray tends to explain actions and thougths, a little too often. I know it may be helpful to some people..but some things lose a bit of their value when spoken of. I think its more fun when you get to understand things and laugh yourself, instead of having everything explained to you.
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While I agree with other reviewers who cite Manzarek's mean-spirited attacks on Oliver Stone and John Densmore, I still reveled in this book. It captures the feel of the era better than any other I've read but for possibly Alice Echols' study of Janis Joplin's life and times, Scars of Sweet Paradise.
Unlike Echols, Manzarek writes with the vibrancy and immediacy of someone who was not only there but in the midst of "where it's happenin' now." I found myself alternately laughing and crying at his ability to recapture what life in the 60's could be like.
Don't pass this one up just because it's marred by the author's bias. After all, the Doors' story is HIS story too, so I'd say he's entitled to grind a few axes if he wants.
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You've got to be kidding me
This was the worst take on The Doors that I have read...(and I have read well over a dozen books on the band). Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. August 2000 von "mucaryn"
Manzarek Takes You With Him
Of all the books I've read about The Doors, my favorite has always been "No One Here Gets Out Alive," by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman. Until now. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juli 2000 von Reviewer
Good view from the Inside
I became a fan of the Doors after a previous band got me into playing a lot of their music. With that in mind, I started from the beginning. I read Densmore's book, and this one. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Mai 2000 von Jason Ward
The Doors will live forever!
Light My Fire is a book that I loved to read because it felt real to me. I was born long after Jim Morisson died, but I feel like I know him as a friend now. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. April 2000 von Jazz
A guide through the doors, but not a doorman
Ray Manzarek's perspective of The Doors is one that offers us a glimpse into a room that many of us have up til this point watched through the hallway. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. Januar 2000 von mARCO NIKO
Very insighful look into the Doors minds & souls
After Reading Riders On The Storm and No One Gets Out Of Here Alive, and now Light My Fire, I found all 3 books very different and liked them all in different ways because they... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
I now have a better under standing on the Doors.
This story is about the Doors and Their life.It was a very intresting story and really told me alot of things that I didn't know about the Doors.
Am 8. November 1999 veröffentlicht
Shaman Showman
Another book written by one of the band members (John Densmore succeeded Ray a few years prior). Manzarek writes with descriptive detail, where I got sucked into the whole... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Oktober 1999 von SJN (nikshayne@mindspring.com)
Kinda nasty...
Manzarek is enthusiastic, and this enthusiasm is sometimes catching. However, it really can't overcome the noxious combination of arrogance and mean-spiritedness that run... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Oktober 1999 von GeoX
damp w/tears of guilt
ah Rayboy, you gave it a shot. Yes you were the big bro, taking him in and nurturing his gift, but you still missed the point. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. September 1999 veröffentlicht
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