Responding to a year old post but—C’mon! The Doors is the organ! That baroque thing is their sound. If you’re looking for a valid complaint against Ray Manzarek, it’s the keyboard bass. What, too poor to hire a bass player?
(four year old actually) The baroque thing worked better for the bands that employed the harpsichord, I think that The Doors would have been at their best had their kept to their blues hard rock sound, I think it suits Jim better. Would ALSO have benefited highly as a result from a real bass player, I think more low end on a lot of those sounds would make them blow the fucking doors down, but they were also ofc recording at a time where poor low end on consumer speakers didn't really incentivize cranking bass and iirc a lot of the recording tech made doing so pretty limited too. Had the been around in the 70s for the sort of low end revolution that occurred and picked up some fat John Paul Jones type bass lines they'd be far more regular in my rotation
Morrison is also great at crooning cabaret tunes. I like a lot of the tracks that don't fit the old classic rock radio format (they way I consumed dinosaur era rock in my youth). The Doors were oddballs.
Fair enough, and the intro to "Light My Fire" has always made me imagine being in an especially shitty Renaissance fair. However, the man produced the first four X records so I can't hate him.
Responding to a year old post but—C’mon! The Doors is the organ! That baroque thing is their sound. If you’re looking for a valid complaint against Ray Manzarek, it’s the keyboard bass. What, too poor to hire a bass player?
(four year old actually) The baroque thing worked better for the bands that employed the harpsichord, I think that The Doors would have been at their best had their kept to their blues hard rock sound, I think it suits Jim better. Would ALSO have benefited highly as a result from a real bass player, I think more low end on a lot of those sounds would make them blow the fucking doors down, but they were also ofc recording at a time where poor low end on consumer speakers didn't really incentivize cranking bass and iirc a lot of the recording tech made doing so pretty limited too. Had the been around in the 70s for the sort of low end revolution that occurred and picked up some fat John Paul Jones type bass lines they'd be far more regular in my rotation
Morrison is also great at crooning cabaret tunes. I like a lot of the tracks that don't fit the old classic rock radio format (they way I consumed dinosaur era rock in my youth). The Doors were oddballs.
Fair enough, and the intro to "Light My Fire" has always made me imagine being in an especially shitty Renaissance fair. However, the man produced the first four X records so I can't hate him.
.....I actually did not fucking know that, that's an incredible point in his favour.