Recordings

RecordingsRemember Ray Manzarek? He used to be the keyboard man with the Doors, and now he's a big boy making records on his own. This one's called The whole Thing Started with Rock & Roll Now It's Out of Control (Mercury). And it's an apt title. Ray seems to have this uncontrollable desire to become Jim Morrison--you know, an erotic Rock Poet with a monotonal voice. He's captured the monotone but is light-years away from the charisma that made Morrison's star rise. It's a tedious chore to liste...