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...later, the anniversary of his passing is still one of the cemetery's main events, as fans gather around the tombstone to light candles, sing songs and remember an artist and an era that are still very much alive to them. Earlier this month, the band's keyboardist, Ray Manzarek, and guitarist, Robby Krieger, flew in to mark the day. "People are always interested in his life, and of course his death and his words and music," the Doors' manager, Jeff Jampol, told TIME. "All but his life lives...
...last time Jim Carroll played at the Middle East was three years ago. He shared a bill with Ray Manzarek, the former keyboardist for The Doors. But when Carroll returns to the Middle East tomorrow, the rock will probably take a back seat to the literary. Fans of Basketball Diaries scribe Jim Carroll have been waiting for the poet’s first fictional work for the better part of a decade. The wait will continue, but at tomorrow’s show, audience members will get a sneak peak at Carroll’s novel-in-progress...
Middle East 472 Mass Ave., Cambridge. Downstairs: Stripmind CD Release party on Oct. 1. The 360's on Oct. 2. Arthur Lee and Love, Ray Manzarek and Michael McClure on Oct. 3. Jefferson Starship Unplugged on Oct. 5. Jason and the Scorchers on Oct. 6. Upstairs: Dante's Grin and Marlowes on Sept. 30. Smack-melon and Hazel on Oct. 1. CD release party for Sirensong and Twelve Tone Failure...
...started on Venice Beach, California in 1965-66, where Morrison and keyboard player Ray Manzarek met, and drifted together. Manzarek used to say that he and Morrison would ramble that beach, full of angelheaded hipsters and motorcycles, exchanging organic mescaline for acid; weeping, laughing and drawing strange art in the sand with sticks. They wrote some songs together, and Morrison experimented with the poetry he started writing when he was a film major at UCLA. He read a lot of Whitman, Rimbaud, Sartre, Camus...
...Doors, with Manzarek on his distinctly hip organ, Robbie Krieger on a brash lead and rhythm guitar and John Densmore on drums began playing at dives around Venice and L.A., the city which shaped and twisted Jim Morrison into the deathly, mystical figure he became...