Ray news 2002
December 30, 2002
new magazine references <> reviews of 'Venice:
Lost & Found' movie
Venice: Lost & Found was recently
shown at Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica, which included a brief
appearance by Ray Manzarek. A friend
attended the showing, and a review of the movie appeared in the Los Angeles
Times December 18th issue.
read here
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December 28, 2002
Ray to make booksigning appearance
Ray Manzarek will
do a booksigning appearance, signing copies of 'The Poet In Exile', at 7:00
p.m. on January 13, 2003 at Borders Books, Francisco Boulevard West, San Rafael,
California (thanks, Glyn)
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December 24, 2002
upcoming review of “Venice: Lost & Found” movie
Venice: Lost & Found
is a documentary about Venice,
California through the years and includes a brief appearance by
Ray Manzarek.
A brief synopsis from someone who saw the movie and a review from a newspaper
review will be added this coming weekend.
(thanks, Mark F.)
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December 13, 2002 Ray to direct a new indie film
Ray Manzarek will
direct a new indie film called "Riders On The Storm" with Brad Renfro,
Edward Furlong, and Peter Stormare. He also co-wrote the film. The film will
follow UCLA students going to New Mexico in search of illumination. During the
trip, they will be confronted with their own devil. The shooting will begin in
Summer 2003. This news was originally reported in today's 'The Hollywood
Reporter', but one must be a subscriber to get the full story beyond this
news. Here's the link to the story as it appears (in French) on a French
Canadian website:
http://quebec.showbizz.net/cinema/article.asp?ID=16455
(thanks, Louis) And here's another link (in English):
http://www.chud.com/news/dec02/dec11storm.php3
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December 12, 2002
brief Ray appearance in movie <> Ray
appears on re-issue of The Knack's second album
Ray Manzarek
makes a brief appearance in a movie called "Venice: Lost & Found"
which will be shown at Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica (310/394-9741)
from December 18 - 26. It is a documentary, giving a tour of the area's 60s
psychedelic highlights. (thanks, Mark F.)
Ray Manzarek also is featured on a CD release of The Knack's second album (... but the little girls understand) which features 4 bonus tracks. Two of the bonus tracks are Doors tunes recorded live at the Troubadour, with Ray sitting in with the band: Soul Kitchen and Alabama Song/Whisky Bar. (thanks, Mark F.)
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December 2, 2002 Ray's participation in recent Ahimsa Music Group
show
Ray Manzarek
joined the Ahimsa Music tour at Sunset Room in Hollywood on November 21st,
as reported below in November 16th update. The December 1st issue of LA Times
contains a review of the evening, including this quote by Indian percussionist
Ravi Jakhotia, a.k.a. Ravidrums: ".... the performers on the evening's bill --
all of whom incorporate South Asian culture into their music. Later, the
Doors' Ray Manzarek would take the stage, as
a personal favor, Jokhotia explained. The two men met recently in a New Jersey
airport. As Jakhotia's story goes, he approached Manzarek and said, 'Thank you
for all the music.' Now they're performing on each other's new records. The
Doors 'were so hip to the Indian thing the first time around,' Jakhotia said."
The evening was hosted by the Ahimsa Fund, a San Francisco-based charity founded after 9/11 to promote cultural understanding among American, South Asian and Arab communities. ("Ahimsa" means nonviolence.)
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November 20, 2002 George Winston performs, but without Ray
George Winston
performed in the L.A. area this evening at the Cerritos Performing Arts
Center. Unfortunately, there was no guest appearance as hoped by
Ray Manzarek, but George did perform several Doors
songs. Brief review
here.
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November 19, 2002 Ray's film has a release date
Ray Manzarek's
film:
Love Her Madly
will be released on DVD by Eagle Vision on January 14, 2003 (according to
December 2002 ICE Magazine - page 24)
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November 16, 2002 Ray Manzarek with Ahimsa Music Tour
Ray Manzarek
is part of Ahimsa
Music Tour appearing on Thursday, November 21 at The Sunset Room at 1430
North Cahuenga in Hollywood, a 650-capacity dinner club (323/463-0004).
According to www.groovetickets.com,
this is described as the new "asian massive" or "asian underground" music scene,
"a night of slammin Asian Massive sets, live music, live video mixing, and
friggin bharatnatyum and breakdancers". For more information, check the link
above or
http://www.ahimsafund.org
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November 5, 2002 Ray at Rolling Stones concert
Ray Manzarek was among the
star-studded audience spotted at last
night's Rolling Stones concert at the recently remodeled Wiltern Theater in Los
Angeles, according to a radio newscast this morning. This was one of the
hottest tickets all year because of the size of the venue!
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October 2, 2002 Ray
& George Winston concert
Ray Manzarek & George Winston
performed a dual piano concert last Thursday evening in NYC.
A Doors friend attended and sent a detailed review.
Read it
(thanks, Jim)
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September 30, 2002 Ray's "Love Her Madly" film review
Ray Manzarek's
film noir "Love Her Madly" was presented in NYC on Friday
night as part of an independent film festival. My friend Glyn attended
and provided a summation and review.
read it
(thanks, Glyn)
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September 25, 2002 Found old interviews with Ray & Robby
Ray and
Robby were in London in November 1983 and gave this
interview to
Rockmine
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September 20, 2002 Ray Manzarek movie premiere in NYC
"Love Her Madly," Ray
Manzarek's film directorial debut, is being
shown in NYC next Friday night September 27th as part of the New
York International Independent Film and Video Festival. The event takes place
at Clearview Cinemas at 239 East 59th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues).
Ticket info is included above in the Appearances section.
(source:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=13263)
(thanks, Jude)
'Love Her Madly' was previously previewed on February 17, 2001 at the Arcadia on Santa Monica Pier as part of the Santa Monica International Film Festival. Ray indicated in remarks that evening that the soundtrack music was not completed, so this NYC showing will surely have some differences from that first showing. Both Ray and Michael McClure appear on screen.
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September 19, 2002 NEW TIMES L.A. pre-show story
New Times Los Angeles, September 5-11,
2002 issue did a Ray interview in their 'earwax' column prior to the
September 6th Harley show.
read it
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September 15, 2002 Ray Manzarek on NPR re-broadcast
Ray Manzarek's
interview on NPR's "Fresh Air"
program was re-broadcast on September 2nd. Here is the link to that: http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=149190 (thanks, Rich)
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September 13, 2002 Ray Manzarek's official statement to local LA radio
Doors' keyboardist Ray
Manzarek made an official statement about what was said to be
"temporary" additions to the lineup read it (thanks, Carol)
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