The RIP thread

I missed this one ... goodness.

 

All in all, and I enjoy The Doors as one of the best rock bands ever, I'm saddened to see this happen, but as is the norm these days (I'm almost 64), some of our best friends end up leaving us sooner or later, regardless of us liking them or not.

 

I thought he did great with the band, because Jim had the visions and the ideas and knew the road, but after Jim left us, Ray kinda lost most of these moments, and sadly enough, he turned down my being able to use 30 seconds of The Doors work, in an obscure moment from "an American Prayer" that no one plays, for a film. That, kinda killed the film for me, because the ending piece was the most important part of the whole film, and I had blown out the class and the professor with the film's visuals and it's choices of music and sound effects.

 

It's OK now, I'm not angry ... just saddened that some people can not understand a child's creation and inspiration, and they proceed to kill it, instead of helping it more. I would have gone on to do some videos for some Doors material, just for fun, and the one I wanted to do most of all ... "The Soft Parade". i wrote it down, and on that day I cried, I buried that script 6 ft under and that was that! Goodbye Doors and inspiration ... and I know who the real writer and poet was in the group ... Jim!

 

But your additions to the work was very nice indeed, Ray ... RIP!

 

I highly recommend the Spirit box set of BBC shows, especially the 1975 band with Carla Bley. 

 

Yeah, jammum, he's been on the turntable so often lately that I feel a personal loss.