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A comical Ray Manzarek interview

- 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.


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!

 


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.

 


Ray: In east, down in India, and that kind of place, there are these eight-arm demons and they are good!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

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!


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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