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The Doors bassist

ryco

ryco

Apr 24, 2005
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Who played bass for The Doors besides "Lefty"? I hear BG on their later stuff.
These are the names I've heard so far- forgive any spelling errors
Jeff Schilling
Glenn Hughes
Jerry Lombaugh
Carol Kaye (and let's NOT go there AGAIN ;P)
Mostly wondering who played on "Love Her Madly" - what COOL licks!
I always wondered why The Doors didn't just go ahead and hire someone- I mean if they were gonna use one anyway. I also felt the same way about The Who since they had keys in a LOT of their stuff- even the early stuff. I admired Grand Funk for adding Craig Frost, and Billy Preston was being considered for The Beatles before they blew up. Any others or opinions?
 
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Doug Lubahn played on a number of songs. If you have ever seen the "Wild Child" video, you can see Doug in the studio. He was left handed and played a Fender bass upside down. I believe he played the bassline on "Strange Days" also, which is a killer line. Ray Neapolitan played bass on Morrison Hotel, with the exception of "Roadhouse Blues" and "Maggie M'Gill" which blues guitarist Lonnie Mack played bass on. Harvey Brooks, of Electric Flag and Miles Davis fame played on The Soft Parade album and also toured with the Doors for a while as John Densmore wrote in his book, Riders on the Storm. And as previously mentioned, Jerry Scheff played on LA Woman.
 
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audiotom said:
who played bass for The Doors

Ray Manzarek's left hand my friend

correction - left hand and right foot
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LIVE...not on the studio albums(with the exception of their debut, The Doors).

KPJ 's post sez a lot.

Scheff is on the entire L.A. Woman album; from my readings, he was about to be added as a member...then Morrison died.

URBassist Leroy Vinegar is on the Waiting For The Sun album(IIRC).

Also from my readings(maybe from Densmore's book)-
...The Doors were "bass-less" because they a)liked the 'openess'/non-conformity & b)people would tell them, "You guys really need a bass player"(like the Grateful Dead's soundman).
Densmore mentioned a 'chick bass player' was auditioned but didn't pan out; I have no idea who this was.
 
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KPJ said:
Doug Lubahn played on a number of songs. If you have ever seen the "Wild Child" video, you can see Doug in the studio. He was left handed and played a Fender bass upside down. I believe he played the bassline on "Strange Days" also, which is a killer line. Ray Neapolitan played bass on Morrison Hotel, with the exception of "Roadhouse Blues" and "Maggie M'Gill" which blues guitarist Lonnie Mack played bass on. Harvey Brooks, of Electric Flag and Miles Davis fame played on The Soft Parade album and also toured with the Doors for a while as John Densmore wrote in his book, Riders on the Storm. And as previously mentioned, Jerry Scheff played on LA Woman.
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Ahhh! Doug Lubahn, Billy Squier's old bass player!
 
#9
this guys name was probably already mentioned, but I know that on some of their later studio releases, especially LA Woman (?), they played with one of Elvis's bassists. Thats what it said in Jim Morrisons bio anyway.

Try not to drink yourself to the point of becoming a *** *********** ****** (genious) guys.
 
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slap_happy said:
this guys name was probably already mentioned, but I know that on some of their later studio releases, especially LA Woman (?), they played with one of Elvis's bassists. Thats what it said in Jim Morrisons bio anyway.

Try not to drink yourself to the point of becoming a fat balligerant ******* (genious) guys.
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Thats Jerry Scheff. If you dig his stuff he did with the Doors, you should definately do some research and listen to him on the Elvis stuff. Much Much better work IMO.
 
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Smide-
I was wondering where all those guys showed up...so I pulled out the 2 post-Morrison discs, Other Voices & Full Circle.

Other Voices has-
Chris Etheridge, Jack Conrad, Leland Sklar, & Charles Larkey.

Full Circle has-
Conrad, Ray Neopolitan, Willie Ruff(URB), Jerry Scheff, & Wolfgang Meltz.
 
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JimK said:
Smide-
I was wondering where all those guys showed up...so I pulled out the 2 post-Morrison discs, Other Voices & Full Circle.

Other Voices has-
Chris Etheridge, Jack Conrad, Leland Sklar, & Charles Larkey.

Full Circle has-
Conrad, Ray Neopolitan, Willie Ruff(URB), Jerry Scheff, & Wolfgang Meltz.
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Who the hell is Ray Neopolitan, Willie Ruff, and Wolfgang Meltz?
 
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Hello everyone,
I don't know how I found this forum (I think on Google), but was very interested in the replies. A few are very close to the mark. I like the reference to "Lefty". (That's me) Others are not close at all.

Here are the facts:
I was the bass player on the albums Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun, and 3 songs on Soft Parade. We used to rehearse like banshees, and then go and record. I then decided to move to New York. All my other friends had migrated there.

I eventually ended up becoming the bass player in the Billy Squier band. Two huge albums, and two world tours. Fun times were had by all! And the audience section in front of me always had people with Doors tee shirts on.

My website is www.douglubahn.com.
Just wanted to give you the real story.

Doug
 
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