Ray Manzarek story of Light my Fire, Riders on the Storm and Break on Through with John and Robby 

Ray had the emotion, skill, knowledge, humour and friendly demeaner. What more could you ask for? Thank you for your contributions to the music scene. Rip.

Ray was a genius and a true musician. He is missed. God Bless you Ray.

They say don’t meet your heroes, but, I don’t think Ray would have disappointed. I wish I could have had the pleasure to meet and talk with him.

Ray was a keyboard genius. They were all so talented and created music beautifully.

I could listen to him and his playing all day and nite. R.I.H. Ray

Holy shit! Been listening to the doors for over 50 years. You younger people got to realize; Jim, Ray and the others were like impossibly remote gods to us. Only heard on vinyl or seen on the occasional TV special. That's it. We had zero access beyond the albums we bought and chance encounters on radio or TV. They were like storms that crash through your life with incredible power and beauty and vanish with almost no rhyme or reason. I was 7 when Jim died. He really was a mythical figure like Odysseus or Hercules. I would have fainted if I saw a video like this when I was 15 years old.

A very Classic selection of Songs that were composed by the Doors such an amazing Story Telling by late Mr. Ray Manzarek R.I.P🥲.

A musical genius who was also one of the greatest storytellers/narrators you would ever want to hear. So missed.

I WAS LUCKY TO MEET RAY A FEW TIMES IN LA AND WE HAD ALWAYS A GREAT TALKS.....I WAS GIVEN NEWLY PUBLISHED THEN HIS BOOK ' "THE POET IN EXILE" THAT HE SIGNED UP WITH A DEDICATION FOR ME THAT I HAVE TO THE PRESENT DAY.....WELL, I RECOMMEND TO EVERYONE THIS TRIPPY BOOK....

Love him. I could listen to him all day. Brilliant mind. Genuine soul. Truly missed ❤

They found each other so easily and everything just fell into place. It was all meant to be. I believe in Fate. What are the odds against finding a brilliant guitarist to match a brilliant keyboard player along with a great drummer and incredible singer like Jim? They had band chemistry and their own sound right from the beginning. Fully realized! Thank God it all fell into place! Just like the Beatles. Thanks to the Fates or Gods. This music is of divine origin. A musical miracle! The result is a plethora of incredible songs that will last forever. Thanks Ray and to whoever posted this. Wonderful footage of a great musician! 😊

Ray was one of America's great artistic treasures!

Insane to think that he only died at 27 and left such a big mark. Imagine how much more genius work The Doors could’ve created throughout the 70’s and 80’s if Jim had been around a little longer.

I simply miss this man, he was everything good and pure about making music.

Capturing the joy of being alive in this moment! THAT is it Ray!

Almost all Doors songs are in dark, minor keys. I love that!

i just love to hear robby krieger, ray manzarek and john densmore talk about their earlier years with jim morisson man i love that !!!

I have no doubt they were destined to meet and create the greatest rock band of all time.

Ray, a Genius! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🎹🎹🎹🎹

Moonlight Drive....is the definition of SURREALISM IN MUSIC.

Love ray, such a character and a lovely guy. Not even to mention his musicianship!

this is the greatest video. Ray Manzarek was such a musical God. hearing him explain how he & the band wrote the songs. God DAMN IT. this is SO GOOD. i was thinking his playing reminded me of Bach. then i see a note saying he studied his music. makes sense. what a great element added to a rock band. RIP Ray ❤ p.s. Riders on the Storm is my favorite Doors song. loved hearing Ray break it down.

not one comment about his glorious jacket/sweater he's wearing.. what a master storyteller,,, most famously through the keys, but man he had a way with words too. He's here talking and playing 2 separate instruments at the same time..

I didn't grow up with the doors. I was to young but light my fire had an upswing in the end of the 80s. I think it was in a movie. However I won a new edition of a record with the best of the Doors. I really love the sound of their music and fell in love with it as soon as I heard it. This video is a real gem. Love it!

Nobody talks about Robbie. Without him we wouldn´t have Light my fire AND he fit the Doors mindset perfectly. It was just one of those magical moments where just the right people are drawn together to make timeless art.

Genius! And so humble about it! The sound of his keyboard gives me goose bumps,always have,always will!👌

This a pure gem of a generous hearted and great musician and an icon of his time. Thanks for posting.

“Out of the better angels of my unconscious mind”. What a beautiful phrase ✌️❤️

Ray was a genius..i think he played moments and when you listen back to the music it takes you back in time...i also admire Robbie,being a guitarist myself i know it wouldnt have been easy to find the right riffs and space to compliment Rays playing

To Ray.. keyboard genius and music enthusiast. Your music lives on forever. God Bless You.

I just remember the first time I played Light My Fire on a 45 rpm and the minute I heard the organ that eerie sounding organ and I was blown away. It sounded so good, I just fell in love with the Doors

The Doors are distinct because of Ray's keyboard masterclass

God, I miss Ray. Story teller whose enthusiasm is contagious unlike any others I’ve come across. The missing brings tears to my eyes. ❤ Thanks Ray, for all the gifts you brought into our world. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕

I get goosebumps just listening to him talk about the band and playing the music. An unbelievable amount of talent in that band

Happy Birthday, Ray! 🥳🎂🎹

I really despised The Doors until I watched this video a couple years ago. Ray was one awesome musician and I've totally picked up on his vibe and energy for The Doors.

So good, I could watch him all day breaking down every doors song without a problem

I love this guy!

This guy is a genius. Just by listening to him talking you can tell.

God bless you Ray RIP

Man, what a carefree and joyful guy--but also professional and superbly competent at what he does. If only Jim had picked up on that and put down the bottle.

Yes my favourite band ever!

Ray Manzerek and Gramme Nash, the two best rock and roll storytellers.

I saw the Doors live, Oct. 20,1967 at the University of Michigan, after a disastrous 1st and 2nd set,and produced the best concert ever which I will call the 3rd set...and played almost all of the songs on the Light My Fire album, without a break, top to bottom, and without his shirt-jack,which he removed and threw it on the stage floor, in front of Ray Manzareks keyboard, and eventually finishing with " The End ", ON HIS BACK !!!.15 minutes after they left the stage, we woke up. They had paralyzed us, and we were all amazed. That was a very remarkable experience. Wow. 😊🎉❤

love how he was using a rhodes but says "not easy to play on a vox" and still makes it work that's how it's done you make due with what you have presented to you

its very wild how his first piano lesson was from a German Teacher and he lived his final days in Germany !!! You Are The Best Ray

Repose en paix Ray et joue the end avec Jim de la haut❤

My hero

Utter genius and lightning in a bottle that'll NEVER be reproduced 😮

This guy was the best member of the group without a doubt

To Ray, to Jim, to Pam, today in 2024 you're bringing tears to the eyes of a 52 years old man with words written before i was born. May your souls shine in the full moon.

Dude was definitely a cool bastard! How can’t you see this guy as a bad ass?

Love the Jim echo and now they are singing together

Ray is such a gifted storyteller.

The doors. Were truly art

The Doors...real musical geniuses

Ray's genius keyboard tone, Morrison haunting legendary vocal and poetry, Robbie's psychedelic scale and John's progressive beats, when everything clicks : that's it ,u got the one and only The Doors.

Gives me goosebumps every time I listen too this?!

No Band has managed to accomplish the uniqueness of what the DOORS created. Many great bands have spawned variations....But the DOORS stand alone in a Class all their own!! One of a Kind!!!

What a totally accomplished musician and human being Ray was...Tom Hanks could make a dead ringer for him if ever they make a biography.... he could be Rays younger brother...

I miss you Ray

Incredible. Epic stories. The Doors Forever.

Arguably the greatest rock band of all time.

Would any one else have loved to take music lessons from Ray? What a musician!

Super! The Doors unvergessen! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

4 Diamonds=Magic Music. The “Beatles” were the same. The odds on 4 personalities meeting in the same place, at the same time, with that individual and collective talent, is a one in many a million. The Beatles and The Doors did it man and we are all richer for it. ❤️.x

People equate the Doors with Jim Morrison and " The Lizard King" and whatever that silliness was but Ray was an amazing musician and a very kind intelligent person. I believe Ray was the older brother to the other guys and without him , we wouldn't have had the Doors.

AM IN LOVE

The Doors were the most educated band imaginable.

That's some wild story telling Ray. Seen you at Campbell Hall with some poet Michael McClure.

I wish I could've met Ray. Did get a chance to meet Robbie Krieger at a music festival. I'll never forget it.

Man, he was good!

6:50 Ray.... was brilliant in every way❤❤ rip ❤❤

Beautiful

Ray , you are my Hero

OMG i have a story. I was living in Winnipeg Canada and a couple guys came up to us and asked if we wanted to get stoned. We went there and i sat in this really comfy chair while we smoked a blunt. Then light my fire came on and WOW it was like i was so high and this chair was so comfy. Thanks guys

Thanks for sharing this video. What an education. What a wonderful coincidence of talent were The Doors. I first heard them on AM radio, back when it played music. The single edit of "Light My Fire" was played all of the time. I liked it. There were other radio songs, like "Hello, i Love You" or "Touch Me" but the breakthrough is when my brother Barry bought "13" at the grocery store, of all places. What a great selection of Doors songs from five albums. And we learnt that "Light My Fire" contained not one but two killer jams, keyboard and guitar. I was a little white boy in Tulsa, and i was getting a musical education from this record. It was the first blues ever i heard and i thought i heard in it something magical, and i was right.

love this report ! thank yu much

0:05 says it all. What an amazing guy.

r.i.p ray he aged very well comparing to robby

It brings back memories. Great stuff!

I like the way he mocked yoga freaks with "you gotta open yourself to the energy of the universe; you must believe and not be afraid..." his humor was precious

Hi, only thaks for this video.

A musical legend. Rest in peace ray 🙏

Total mint unreal liked the doors 4 40 years or so so good 👍 ❤

Awesome. Music lessons from Ray.

Ray could describe the process of making a bologna sandwich and make it sound miraculous and mysterious.... 🙂

superb

Genio!!

Ray has always been one of my favorite musicians ever since I first heard Light My Fire. Over the years I met a ton of famous folks, celebs and legends who I was lucky enough to meet and speak with folks like Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, actor Gene Hackman, world class women's pro-tennis champion Maria Sharapova, and literally scores of others from various fields and Ray is my most favorite celeb meet of all of them. I stumbled onto him accidentally by chance walking in a door and he was coming out, he held the door for me, said "hello" - I looked up at his smiling face which I almost recognized and when I heard his voice, I immediately knew who he was because just a few hours before I had seen him on a VH1 rerun interview with Kurt Loder. We chatted for the better part of a half hour standing there by the door taking turns playing doorman for folks coming in or leaving. Ray was kind, witty, very intelligent, quite funny and intriguing. He made me feel so at ease and absolutely treated me as an equal with not a single hint of celebrity or him acting like he was more special than anyone else. He seemed genuinely interested in my 'thing' which I never really revealed to him that I was not only a working professional musician but also a published journalist having written for a number of music related publications. I didn't feel the urge to interview him or try to get any contact info from him or even think of passing on a demo or asking for his autograph! We had a wonderful visit and I'll never forget that. When it was time for him to go, he stuck out his hand and said, "It's been very nice meeting you and I've enjoyed our chat, but I have to run, my wife Dororthy is making lunch right about now, so I need to hurry home to have some food and tea with her. Tata for now! You take care of yourself. Bye!" Most people in his league don't often hold doors for other people or show that much consideration for common folks. (Although Merle Haggard pulled out a chair for me in a banquet room at a table backstage at a venue he was performing at after inviting me to join him for dinner!)

Greatness.

When I die I want to go quietly in my sleep like my grandpa did. Not KICKING AND SCREAMING like the passengers in his car.

Master class

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Could Ray Manzerek tell a story or what?

I'm ray, I wasnf that great, a, musician. Man you were one of the best

❤😮🎉

The Doors go straight into my veins. There have been others with beautiful music, but none with Jim Morrison's charisma.

David Attenborough of music

Hej. God job. Which presets did you use in line 6 pod? Only drive and whah whah ?