A Chance Meeting on Venice Beach
In July of 1965, just as the entire country was dealing with the escalating Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and a cultural revolution, two film student graduates met on Venice Beach. The chance meeting between Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek led to a conversation about songwriting.
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The two hadn’t seen each other since they graduated that spring. Manzarek recalled (in a 1998 interview) that he asked Morrison what he had been up to. “Well, I’ve been living up on Dennis Jacobs’ rooftop, consuming a bit of LSD and writing songs,” the soon-to-be Lizard King said.