[kj] OT another youtube link

[Paul Rangecroft]

He was certainly blessed with an unusually resonant baritone voice.

When THE DOORS CONCERTO came out there was a little clip on the website of
Ray Manzarek saying "Jim would have dug it", and I remember thinking at the
time "hmm... not sure about that - he'd have probably seen straight through
it!"

On 6/18/06, CEPLASTER at aol.com <CEPLASTER at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  wow!
>   That clip of Morrison is completely surreal.  Completely ignoring the KJ
> connection I've always liked that band a great deal.   Jim Morrison had a
> fucking awesome voice, no question, and the band had a bunch of great songs
> over their short history.
>          However, these positive points are continually diminished by the
> following things;
>      1) People who refer to Morrison as a great poet .  Sorry, I don't
> think so.
>       2) Ray Manzarek using any excuse to milk the bands legacy for yet a
> couple more bucks.
>      That celebrity Doors reunion thing with the celebrity guest singers
> that happened a couple of years ago was conspicuous in the way that everyone
> that sang on it SUCKED .  It just went to show that back in the day before
> there was loads of technology available to salvage dodgy singing,  the
> choices were either 1) you can cut it,  or 2) you CAN'T.
>        Morrison definitely had a gift, and he squandered it.
>        The isle of wight film has his last performance, which was done a
> couple of weeks or so before he died, and they do that song "The End", and
> it's pretty prophetic, to say the least.
>
> Later, Carl P.
>
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