The magic of “Riders on the Storm” lives in Manzarek’s hands and that timeless Fender Rhodes.

Manzarek said the band was really looking forward to touring behind this album when Jim returned from Paris and they’d actually have a real bass player onstage (probably Jerry Scheff who later played in Elvis’ band) and Ray planned to take a synthesizer setup and a Hammond organ. Imagine how Morrison would’ve done Riders onstage