Post by darkstar on Jan 22, 2005 0:05:27 GMT
LA Songwriters Showcase
New Way Productions
There were three people seated comfortably on a stage in West LA Music (7001 Hollywood Blvd)'s rear room where electric guitars are usually mounted on the wall. An audience of unseasoned, unsigned musicians watched and listened from the few hundred seats below. The effect was that of a school auditorium- with certain respected expert guests up on the podium who knew things the youngsters hadn't yet learned.
The real 'expert' in this case was ex-'Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzerek, who has been working lately with local bands, such as X and The Zippers, to professionalize and put out their music.
"Supporting the clubs, supporting the bands, that's what's necessary" says the man, "My objection to big record companies is that they've forgotten that music is an art." This earned the first sporadic applause of the evening. "Go with anyone who likes you," was Ray's advice to up and coming musicians, saying "If you know your music is good, then who cares what the hell anyone else has to say... Whether you make two dollars or 200,000,000."
The author of "No One Here Gets Out Alive", (a Jim Morrison Biography), Danny Sugarman, on the other hand should be taken out and shot. Second handedly, and without the personal experience, with his ego-based, impure and hollow logic, he repeated everything Ray Manzarek would say. Futhermore, to improve his image, he would interrupt in the middle of Ray's rare vocal responses in anticipation of concluding the answer. Ray, being non-argumentative, would quietly allow these intrusions, though he clearly knew better. I personally, and I feel I speak for the audience as a whole, felt cheated by Sugarman's rude and abrupt outbursts.
The best thing Sugarman said during his discourse was that John Travolta will not play the part of Jim Morrison in the proposed Doors movie. "Ray elaborated saying, "You can use Jim's name, because Jim's dead." In reference to movie rights, they're not going to have anyone named 'Ray Manzarek' unless he signs, which he does not intend to do.
There will be a one hour television special from Copenhagen, "hopefully in the summer. July 3, 1981, a tribute to the Doors," says Ray.
The great Manzarek has spoken... pay no attention to that (Sugar)man behind the curtain.
www.tvparty.com/homeroom1/3-05-81.html
New Way Productions
There were three people seated comfortably on a stage in West LA Music (7001 Hollywood Blvd)'s rear room where electric guitars are usually mounted on the wall. An audience of unseasoned, unsigned musicians watched and listened from the few hundred seats below. The effect was that of a school auditorium- with certain respected expert guests up on the podium who knew things the youngsters hadn't yet learned.
The real 'expert' in this case was ex-'Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzerek, who has been working lately with local bands, such as X and The Zippers, to professionalize and put out their music.
"Supporting the clubs, supporting the bands, that's what's necessary" says the man, "My objection to big record companies is that they've forgotten that music is an art." This earned the first sporadic applause of the evening. "Go with anyone who likes you," was Ray's advice to up and coming musicians, saying "If you know your music is good, then who cares what the hell anyone else has to say... Whether you make two dollars or 200,000,000."
The author of "No One Here Gets Out Alive", (a Jim Morrison Biography), Danny Sugarman, on the other hand should be taken out and shot. Second handedly, and without the personal experience, with his ego-based, impure and hollow logic, he repeated everything Ray Manzarek would say. Futhermore, to improve his image, he would interrupt in the middle of Ray's rare vocal responses in anticipation of concluding the answer. Ray, being non-argumentative, would quietly allow these intrusions, though he clearly knew better. I personally, and I feel I speak for the audience as a whole, felt cheated by Sugarman's rude and abrupt outbursts.
The best thing Sugarman said during his discourse was that John Travolta will not play the part of Jim Morrison in the proposed Doors movie. "Ray elaborated saying, "You can use Jim's name, because Jim's dead." In reference to movie rights, they're not going to have anyone named 'Ray Manzarek' unless he signs, which he does not intend to do.
There will be a one hour television special from Copenhagen, "hopefully in the summer. July 3, 1981, a tribute to the Doors," says Ray.
The great Manzarek has spoken... pay no attention to that (Sugar)man behind the curtain.
www.tvparty.com/homeroom1/3-05-81.html