Manzarek Keyboards Made the Sound of The Doors

The Doors built on the musical structure of the blues with Jim Morrison’s psychedelic poetry and Ray Manzarek’s electric organ, which sometimes drew on Bach. Manzarek died Monday after a long struggle with cancer. NPR’s Mandelit Del Barco has a remembrance. In this video you can see Manzarek’s stacked keyboards. The bottom was a keyboard [...]