Weird Al Yankovic Channels Jim Morrison… Ray Manzarek on Keyboards

..You were a blond half-asian with a bad case of gas, I was wearing a red speedos and hockey mask..

Classic!

Al gets IT i can’t say what IT is and i know he mostly takes it from others who had/have IT nevertheless Al gets IT. Having Ray Manzarek give It to him makes It golden.

Ok now how will the Alphy/Paddy blame Obama for Morrison death…?

# 3 Riders on the Net

Alphy/Paddy are right, don’t laugh.

It’s true Barack Obama admitted to being strongly influenced by Elvis & Jim Morrison of the Doors.

Several of his speeches when played backwards (ex. Beatles’ “Revolution #9, Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”) show that he is involved in a devious Serbian Russian conspiracy with the Sultan of Brunei to explode a hydrogen bomb over Kashmir using the cover of UNESCO’s one world government network in order to establish a satanic Hindu Muslim Amish Masonic lodge funded through public corruption with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs..

#5 Reread your post…and what you revealed about yourself…

I would be embarrassed if I were you…thanks be to God, He saved me from such blindness.

# 5
awww right the Art Bell effect so much more fun than most of those AM radio hosts (they) listen to.

To think that I have lived in such an age with Frank and Al in it. Just perfect Al, perfect.

I was there. I got Jim Morrison’s shirt when he threw it at my girlfriend at a concert. I saw them all. Al it as good as any, but better than most.

If Yankovic’s song parody gig proves to be short-lived, he could start a Doors tribute band.

Der Hölle Rache, The 5th Element…is just waiting for you weird Al…

You can do it man…

#18

yet

Great singing, great music, but I must state that while Al sings well, the voice is clearly the voice of Al Yankovic, even after the electronic processing. I’m not trying to be critical, but it is what it is. A Doors tribute band? Maybe, but would the “little girls” swoon to *that* voice?

OTOH, Val Kilmer in the movie The Doors did have the same timbre as JM (at least to my ordinary ears. Somebody with finer sensibilities could tell the difference. Reportedly (by the presenters when the movie is shown on APTN), Ray Manzarek himself said that he could not tell the difference).

Segue-ing to an old book I happen to have read recently, Manzarek’s “Light My Fire: My Life With The Doors” (1998)… it is a good read, IMHO. Manzarek is an artist. He comes across respectful and even loving of almost all of the characters in the true story. But he does have some words for a post-facto character in The Doors story. He keeps his criticism down to mostly short passages, but he gives it to Oliver Stone (maker of The Doors movie) with all barrels blazing (in almost the words of Hoyt Axton’s mom, he’d diss him with his Bible, and his razor *and* his gun). So if you watch that movie, remember that it, in many respects, does not correspond to reality as seen through the eyes of The Doors’s keyboardist.