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Not the most original of titles is it? “Light My Fire, My life with the Doors”. You’d have thought Ray Manzarek would have come up with something rather better than that for his life story, wouldn’t you? Well, don’t let it put you off because because Ray’s a nice guy - I think you’d enjoy reading his book. And anyway, he was never the wordsmith was he? He was the music man of the Doors, he was the keyboards man; the one who gave their music its minor key moodiness and its Fender keyboard bass.
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To be honest Ray Manzarek is a disgraceful name dropper. He wants you to know about all the iconic figures he's come into contact with in his life. He wants you to know he's well-read. He wants you to know he's known all the greats: poets, muscians and movers and shakers. He's also kept hold of many of those sixties eastern ideas and flower power attitudes down the years so reading his book you'll also be bombarded with constant references to chakras and energies and yings and yangs and chis and all that stuff.
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It's clear that one enormous motivation for Manzarek to write his book was to defend his friend.
The second and third parts say Beta: he's concerned with his social role, and is deeply committed to a belief system, although its time may be past. My ISTj mother still goes for all that hippie stuff too. Note he is also staunchly loyal to his friend.