Ray Manzarek milks the Morrison udder one more time...

    ‘I often wonder if his death has been an elaborate charade,’ sez Ray Manzarek, The Doors’ keyboard player, in reference to Jimbo Morrison. By the same token, I wonder how depressing it is to be a once famous rock star, knowing that your bozo meal-ticket died tugging furiously in the bath. But, whatever. Ray now wants to give a little fuel to the conspiracy theorists out there by alluding to fakery. Jus' happens that he and Robbie Krieger are playing some gigs with their Riders On The Storm band in the UK next week.

Before Morrison spunked off his mortal coil, Manz' sez that a year prior, "he had shown me a brochure for the Seychelles and said: “Wouldn’t this be the perfect place to escape to if everyone believed you were dead?” At the time, I never thought anything of it. Jim was a real wild man who was always coming up with crazy ideas." He was also that guy who managed to make an average garage band a bit more exciting with the exposing of his tiddler and the occasional cameo from a goat on stage. So what's this about a film anyhow?

Chances are, you've seen Oliver Stone's The Doors flick. Or, 'The Fictional Tymes Of Jim Morrison without much mention of Arthur Lee'. It's pretty far fetched and certainly applies the vaseline on the lens pretty liberally. Shouldn't grumble... it's a film after all. But still. Manz' is prepping to make his own film of The Doors life. Of Stone's film, he thinks that the director took too many liberties with the truth. Says Manzarek: ‘Jim was a restless soul, always looking for something else in life, and even six years of success – and excess – with The Doors hadn’t been enough for him."