Ray news only
July 6, 2003 Cleveland Scene interview with Ray
Ray Manzarek was interviewed by Scene, another free Cleveland music paper, the same week. read it
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June 29, 2003 Manzarek to score new film
Ray Manzarek will provide the score for a new movie which goes into production in September. "Summerhill" will be shot in Suffolk and Carmel, California. read here (thanks, Beverly)
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June 4, 2003 another story about Copeland's lawsuit settlement
Ray Manzarek spoke about the settlement reached between Stewart Copeland and the band, in this on-line story on Yahoo! LAUNCH read it (thanks, Beverly)
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May 29, 2003 Ray's appearance with CYO, June 2001 <> The Mayor of Sunset Strip movie
Ray Manzarek joined the Contemporary Youth Orchestra on June 8, 2001 in an inaugural concert at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, in a presentation of the world premiere performance of Riders On The Storm: The Doors Concerto by Jaz Coleman. read here (thanks, Chris)
Ray Manzarek and Danny Sugerman were among the many music celebrities interviewed several years ago on the subject of L.A. radio DJ, journalist, and rock fan Rodney Bingenheimer. The finished movie is now debuting in the L.A. Film Festival on June 17 and 19. As a friend of one of the producers, I was given access to the unedited Ray and Danny footage that was shot. I don't know if any Ray or Danny footage made the final movie cut. If interested in knowing more about the movie, go here and search on The Mayor Of The Sunset Strip.
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May 28, 2003 Ray played LMF with Ohio high school musicians
Ray Manzarek sat in with an orchestra of Ohio high school musicians as part of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum collaboration in 2001 and played Light My Fire. read here (thanks, Beverly)
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May 19, 2003 Ray Manzarek interview with Billboard.com
Ray Manzarek is the subject of a story in today's www.billboard.com Daily Music News regarding the status and duration of the current reunion tour. (thanks, Beverly) read here
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May 5, 2003 article in The Nation
'The Nation' feature called The Online Beat ran a story on April 30 about musicians who signed a letter to the FCC, speaking out against media monopoly, including Ray Manzarek. read it (thanks, Beverly)
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May 3, 2003 New Haven Register interview with Ray last Monday
Ray Manzarek was interviewed by the New Haven Register in a piece that ran in their April 28th edition, the day of their show that evening at Oakland Theater in Wallingford. Ray reminisced about the infamous 1967 show at New Haven Arena. read here (thanks, Chris)
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March 30, 2003 miscellaneous news from Houston and Dallas <> Ray Manzarek on Rockline
Ray Manzarek will be on Rockline on Wednesday, April 2 according to the upcoming schedule posted on Rockline's website at http://www.rocklineradio.com/index.html This is a syndicated program; this website has affiliate station listings.
I asked Ray about the status of the RayBal project. He said it is completed, and now they have to figure out how to market it, perhaps through the internet. The cancelled RayBal appearance will not be re-scheduled.
I asked Ray about the status of the U.S. DVD release of 'Love Her Madly' ... he replied that it is still available in Europe only in PAL format, which is not compatible with U.S. DVD format, and he does not know a U.S. release date.
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March 4, 2003 Ray was on last year's "Artists For Literacy" CD
Ray Manzarek was a contributor to last year's 'Chapter One' CD which benefits the programs of San Francisco's Artists For Literacy organization. This information surfaced in a recent article on Billboard.com Daily Music News which talks about a new release, and then references last year's. (thanks, Beverly) http://www.billboard.com/billboard/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1824756
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February 25, 2003 Ray Manzarek's "helpful input" for Aleks Syntek
Ray Manzarek is credited as providing "helpful input" on a 1993 album called "Mas Fuerte de lo Que Pensaba" by a Mexico City singer-songwriter named Aleks Syntek. A recent story about that performer appeared in the February 19th issue of Orange County Register. read it (thanks, Beverly)
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February 14, 2003 LA Times Calendar today: Ray calls John a hothead
Ray Manzarek 'fired back' yesterday at John Densmore on the topic of the lawsuit according to today's LA Times Calendar. (thanks, Felicia) Read it here or on-line at http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-et-boucher14feb14,0,830787.story
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February 13, 2003 Ray and Robby respond to John's lawsuit, according to Variety
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January 31, 2003 Ray's booksigning appearance
Ray Manzarek did a booksigning appearance complete with storytelling and audience Q&A following last night's Craig Kilborn show taping. read about it
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January 14, 2003 Ed Sullivan show reminisce
CNN ran a news story in October, in which Ray Manzarek reminisced about the familiar story of their appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. Read it at http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/03/ed.sullivan.sidebar/index.html (thanks, Beverly)
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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 newpaper 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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Ray and George Winston's appearance in NYC on September 26th, will be a "duo piano concert" with George and Ray performing the music of The Doors together on two grand pianos. (thanks, Dave)
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Ray Manzarek was on LA radio station KRTH 101 on Thursday morning, August 8th, to promote the upcoming The Doors concert on September 6th at CA Speedway. He said that in addition to Ian Astbury of The Cult on vocals, John Doe of X will appear to recite Jim's poetry, and specifically mentioned that John would be reading Awake (from American Prayer). Ray also said that Riders On The Storm would be their final song at the show.
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