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Post by moses on Jan 8, 2005 7:58:57 GMT
While I sure as hell can't agree with some of the stuff he did at the helm of BMR, I did like him as a person. You know someday all these ol geezers that actually knew the band will be gone.
Then someday all the folks that knew them will be gone too. I think the legacy will somehow survive though.
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Post by alabamaangel on Jan 9, 2005 17:37:31 GMT
RIP Danny - no doubt you and Jim will be heading to the Whisky Bar ...
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Post by danceonfire on Jan 10, 2005 12:43:27 GMT
I like that too. He pretty much summed up The Doors.
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Post by stuart on Jan 11, 2005 13:05:05 GMT
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Post by danceonfire on Jan 11, 2005 13:21:55 GMT
Thanks. That is so wonderful for them to put that up. He was only two years older than me.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 12, 2005 16:35:38 GMT
I wonder if Danny ever finished the Doors in concert book he was working on before his cancer took hold. A similar volume to Shaws On The Road apparently but with more detail and pictures..... Be cool if someone finished it for him if he never managed it and it would be a nice memorial for arguably the Number One Doors fan the world has ever seen.............
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Post by jimbo on Jan 14, 2005 20:53:58 GMT
R.I.P Danny, your suffering is over now. Say hi to Jim for all of us!
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Post by moses on Jan 16, 2005 16:23:29 GMT
Henry Diltz and Danny at the Doors Fest in LA. 6 April 2002. I had emailed these pics to Danny and he remarked " I almost look healthy in those" I sent and email right back saying: " You sure as hell do man." Love him or hate him, you must admit he kept the interest alive in the late 70s and early 80s.
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Post by jym on Jan 16, 2005 18:15:23 GMT
He really looked good then, that's why I had thought cancer was pretty much in the past for him. He seemed like a cool guy, although I didn't talk to him. But Moses did, any stories about what you talked to him about that day?
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 16, 2005 18:19:11 GMT
Couldn't you have found a bigger picture MJ? I bet that probe on Titan could see that pic ;D
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Post by danceonfire on Jan 18, 2005 13:05:00 GMT
Henry Diltz and Danny at the Doors Fest in LA. 6 April 2002. I had emailed these pics to Danny and he remarked " I almost look healthy in those" I sent and email right back saying: " You sure as hell do man." Love him or hate him, you must admit he kept the interest alive in the late 70s and early 80s. Great picture!
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Post by moses on Jan 18, 2005 18:30:43 GMT
He really looked good then, that's why I had thought cancer was pretty much in the past for him. He seemed like a cool guy, although I didn't talk to him. But Moses did, any stories about what you talked to him about that day? Danny had helped me out by verifying this autograph I had bought was bogus and my credit card company denied the $650 charge. It was about that time I found out he was ill. I had called BMR and talked to his lovely assitant Kira. I asked what I could send him. She said he liked video games and orchids. I don't know beans about video games so I sent him a potted cymbidium orchid. So I had also wrote Ray months before and sent along a stamped envelope and some 3x5 cards. Months went by and nothing ever came. Until one day they came, postmarked the same day Danny got the orchid. So I told him I was the one who sent it. He smiled and said "Oh so you were the one..." I asked him what friends like Mackenzie Phillips thought of his book, since it mentions their drug use etc. back in the day. Danny told me: "she liked the book very much." I asked if he had plans for a sequel to Wonderland Ave. and he said no that it would just "read as a consumers guide to rehabs." He did tell me he had written about surviving and dealing with cancer and had plans perhaps to publish that. He remarked about the irony of surviving all the drugs and car crashes etc. to be shot down by cigarettes. I call this one " The punk meets The Godfather." And yeah Alex, these pics are very big and over inflated, just like my ego.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 18, 2005 18:47:09 GMT
Nice pic mate and Danny seems to have been a cool dude.....as I said i never was a fan but the guy will be missed. I think he would approve of what Nick, Stu and Rick are trying to do in Paris this July with a poetry tribute to Jim in the bar....shame he won't be able to come along....make sure you are there and you can take some more giant pictures...
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Post by moses on Jan 18, 2005 19:12:47 GMT
make sure you are there and you can take some more giant pictures... I AM willing to pose for some tasteful nude photos for our female readers, but of course they would need a long lense.
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Post by lizardkinguk on Jan 18, 2005 21:02:52 GMT
You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that!...Rimbaud
Great job Danny..... R.I.P
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Post by jeff67 on Jan 22, 2005 4:13:51 GMT
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Post by peter on Jan 25, 2005 11:56:44 GMT
that he may meet his budha
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Post by moses on Jan 27, 2005 3:34:38 GMT
I have from a good source that Man Whore Manzarek severed all ties with Sugerman in the weeks before his death. That he not only fired him and hired Jeff Jampool to run BMA but also left him with no explanation of his actions.
Among those Danny told of this was Jerry Hopkins as well as others. I suppose Ray's promise to Danny "he'd always have a job in this town as long as he lived in this town " went right out the window as soon as he moved to San Francisco.
I always thought Ray was Danny's fan and vicea versa, I guess I don't know shit.
In the end I would wager Danny died not of cancer, but of a broken heart.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 27, 2005 3:49:15 GMT
If true I can imagine why Doors PLC would want to keep THAT quiet! Having read the so called statement from Jeff Jampol regarding the future of BMR ......new best of single new best of double new BMR 'sampler' new revamped first six albums in a box (again) with a few scraps of out-takes to make us buy... same old greed..... I can believe that..... Danny for all his faults was the reason BMR existed and why three concerts were released in a format unheard of by Doors fans before...exactly as they happened.... his vision was overtaken by greed which seems to get worse as every year passes. R$ay was always a greedy bastard but I never would have thought he would do such a thing to Danny....I always thought they were like family. Are you sure this is not just a malicious rumour mate? If it IS true it needs to be shouted from the rafters on every Doors outlet there is to show the true cut of the man we call Ray Manzarek.... If it IS true then the man is scum beyond belief....
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Post by moses on Jan 27, 2005 4:45:51 GMT
Apparently Hopkins was not the only one Danny told. You haven't heard the last of this by any means, but you will remember where you read it first.
You know I never have cared for these leeches of inner circle shit ever. They know the truth, but bet your ass they are gonna suck on Ray's ass like a kitten on a teat.
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