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It's even harder that some of us aren't much younger and have got this to look forward to! Mark Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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From: Tom Doncourt <tomdcour@amnh.org>;
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>;
Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] RIP Ray Manzarek
Sent: Mon, May 20, 2013 11:23:39 PM

It is hard to watch one by one , these rock pioneers fall away. I think the story goes that Ray originally played a vox continental but it was an italian model. These had plastic keys that were glued to metal shafts, unlike the wooden British keys , and they broke off. The italian vox also has a reedier sound, a little closer to a farfisa. He replaced the vox with the Gibson later on. From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] on behalf of matthew meixner [ccstickleback@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 6:38 PM To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] RIP Ray Manzarek   Looks like the news is directed towards this bout with cancer.  I never heard anything and didn't even know he was sick.  Sad, he has always been an amazing influence. M From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> To: "newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com" <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] RIP Ray Manzarek   I like the sound of the vox as well. I think he is dead though. Mark From: matthew meixner <ccstickleback@yahoo.com> To: "newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com" <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] RIP Ray Manzarek   He used a Vox Continental and Kalamazoo orgen, not Farfisa.  Sorry, also heard yet it is a hoax. From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> To: "newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com" <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] RIP Ray Manzarek   Sorry to hear of his death. I liked his playing and the Farfisa sound. Mark From: JAMES STRAUSS <jandjstrz@verizon.net> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 9:49 AM Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] RIP Ray Manzarek   My wife hated the chessy farfisa sound - but I loved the studio work - he was great with that Doors mysterioso sound........   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XzHotB5-To