A comical Ray Manzarek interview
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Good evening everybody, I´m Jim Ladd. I´m showing
only my back to you because the artist of this shitty strip
wasn´t wise, or willing and disposed to search an actual
picture of meee...Anyway, we have a special guest here tonight:
Ray Manzarek. Now turn off the lights, lit a spliff, but leave
your computer on so you can ready it.
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Jim Ladd: There is this famous frase which says: If you remember
the sixties, you weren´t there. Now, ignoring it
lets start with a classical quastion: Ray, how the band
started?
Ray: Wow, man! I was at the beach, Venice, that day, a bright sunny
day in LA. The school was over, now I was thinking 'what
am I going to do with my life?' So I took a nap. 
Jim (serious): Hm.
Ray (deep voice): And I started to dream with this real demon, you
know.
Jim: Woa!
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Ray: He had these eight arms waving around, you know.
Jim:
Pretty scary...
Ray:
Oh no, no! It was a good dream, actually. Very simbolic, very
watery, very jungian, you know?
Jim:
I see.
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Ray: In east, down in India, and that kind of place, there are
these eight-arm demons and they are good!
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Jim:
So you were dreaming...
Ray:
Yes, right, and ... aaaa ... suddenly behind this demon appeared
8 doors. It was like he was offering it to me. I could choose
one and he would be able to open it for me.
Jim:
hm.
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Ray:
Then I realized that in each door there was something writen.

Ray: I could read: economics, film, cab driver, lunatic, bum - and
there was a scary one: doom!
Jim: wuu! wew!
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Ray: I thought 'hey each door leads to a possible career!'
Jim:
Mystery solved!
Ray:
No! Next door would be 'bathroom'. That ruined any chance of
explanation.
Jim:
Too bad.
Ray:
But next door was even more intriguing, it said 'perception'.
Jim:
Hm...
Ray:
Yes, at first I thought 'what a stupid...hey! wait! It could
be Aldous Huxley's Doors of perception or William Blake'.'That's
it' I said to the demon, 'I want this one!'.
Jim:
Good choice.
Ray:
Then I opened my eyes and...There was Jim, running on the beach...I
said 'Hey! Jim, Over here!' What a cosmic coincidence! He didn´t
looked so I ran over him and it wasn´t him!
Jim:
Hmm, too bad.
Ray:
Yes, but it was Ian Astbury's father, looked very much like
Jim at the time...so I got back where I was and started thinking
again: 'Yeah Ray what you gonna do about your life?' and fall
asleep again.
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