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THE DOORS featuring ALBERT KING - FEEL THE BLUES
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American Concert Series ACS 024, Italy 1992
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Back Door Man-Five To One/ 3.When The Music's Over/
4.Who Do You Love/ 5.Light My Fire-Fever-Summertime-St.James Infirmary-Light
My Fire (cover just says Light My Fire)/ 6.The End
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| Sources: Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th,
1970. Same tracks as Canadian Night (Buccaneer Records BUC 011), but the
songs fade in and fade out.
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This CD is a perfect example how to take a good quality radio show and
produce something bad of it. First - they used a tape copy instead of the
original vinyl show. Second - they fade in the songs and, of course, they
fade out as well. Horrible! Buy Canadian Night (Buccaneer Records BUC 011)
it has the same songs in better soundquality and no fades at all. Avoid
Feel The Blues. Despite the rare photo on the front (reprinted in bad
quality) from The Doors' 1968 Top Of The Pops appearance) there isn't
anything good to say about this CD.
THE DOORS LIVE (CD)
Fremus S.A.S. CDFR
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| 1.Close To You/ 2.The Celebration Of The Lizard/ 3.Soul
Kitchen/ 4.Spanish Caravan/ 5.Little Red Rooster/ 6.Who Do You Love/
7.Universal Mind/ 8.Break On Through #2. |
| Sources: In Concert (Elektra 961082-2), official CD. |
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The second Doors release by Fremus. Check their other CD with the same
title. Needless to say, that this Italian CD is definitely not worth to
be collected for the songs. You know what? I am sure they will continue
putting out Doors Live bootlegs taken off the In Concert album. Just wait.
This disc - like the first Fremus release - is also known as Golden Age
- The Doors Live.
THE DOORS LIVE (CD)
T.D.M. 29, Italy 1992
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| 1.Light My Fire/ 2.Break On Through/ 3.Roadhouse Blues/ 4.When The Music's
Over/ 5.Love Me Two Times/ 6.Five To One
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| Sources: 1=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from official
video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 2+3=Felt Forum, New York, January 17th,
1970, late show; 4-6= Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th,
1968, late show.
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First I thought this was a copy of one of the other The Doors Live CDs
(More Record Production) but then I noticed the different source of the
song Light My Fire and the omission of The Celebration Of The Lizard. But
that doesn't matter. This too is just another useless compilation. Is it
really necessary to mention that a copy with a red back cover was seen at
a record fair?
THE DOORS LIVE (CD)
More Record Production CDDV 5508, Italy 1991
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| 1.Break On Through/ 2.Light My Fire/ 3.Roadhouse Blues/ 4.Five To One/
5.Love Me Two Times/ 6.When The Music's Over/ 7.The Celebration Of The
Lizard
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| Sources: 1+3=Felt Forum, New York, January 17th, 1970, late show;
2,4-6=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, late show;
7=Felt Forum, New York, January 18th, 1970, late show.
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Fair enough, this useless CD has got an astonishingly good sound. All
tracks have been published before on many other CDs. This is the version
with the bar code on the backcover. The second edition has the same
content, the same design on disc, the same backcover (without bar-code),
but a totally different cover. It seems somebody is selling his uninteresting
product twice. The cover of the second edition is worse than the one
of the first edition.
THE DOORS LIVE (CD)
Fremus S.A.S. CDFR 0379, Italy 1993
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| 1.When The Music's Over/ 2.Moonlight Drive/ 3.The Unknown Soldier/ 4.Build
Me A Woman (cover says Duild Me A Woman)/ 5.Back Door Man/ 6.Alabama Song/
7.The End/ 8.Wake Up/ 9.You Make Me Real/ 10.Five To One/ 11.Horse
Latitudes/ 12.Light My Fire
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| Sources: In Concert (Elektra 961082-2), official CD. Track 12 is the short
version from the Live At The Hollywood Bowl CD EP.
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The first Doors release by Fremus. Check their other CD with the same
title. Needless to say, that this Italian CD is definitely not worth to
be collected for the songs. In Concert was a great album for bootleggers
- they couldn't wait to use its songs for their releases. No wonder the
soundquality of the copies is superb. This CD is also known as Golden Age
- The Doors Live.
DOWN ON ME (CD)
Oil Well RSC CD 117, Italy 1995
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| 1.Summer's Almost Gone/ 2.I'm A King Bee/ 3.Gloria/ 4.Break On Through/
5.Summertime/ 6.Back Door Man/ 7.Alabama Song/ 8.The End
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| Sources: Complete recording of set two at the Matrix Club, San Francisco,
March 10th, 1967. A copy of disc #4 (KTS 3016) of The Complete Matrix Club
Tapes (KTS BX 009).
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If you own the box The Complete Matrix Club Tapes (KTS BX 009) you should
be aware that this mid-price CD is a copy of disc #4 from the box. Fine
cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only.
Note: On the four nicely designed Oil Well midprice discs Summer's Almost
Gone (RSC CD 114), Moonlight Drive (RSC CD 115), Shake Your Moneymaker
(RSC CD 116) and Down On Me (RSC CD 117) you find the complete recordings
of four sets at the Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th and March 10th,
1967. No wonder the first set of March 10th is still missed - those discs
were copied from the great KTS box The Complete Matrix Club Tapes.
Altogether they are cheaper than the box - so if you can't get that one,
try to get the four.
DO YOU WANNA HAVE FUN TONIGHT? (Double CD)
Oh Boy 2-9127, Luxembourg 1991
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Disc One: 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Peace Frog/ 3.Alabama Song-Back Door
Man-Five To One/ 4.The Celebration Of The Lizard/ 5.Soul Kitchen/ 6.Build
Me A Woman/ 7.When The Music's Over
Disc Two: 1.Bird of Prey/ 2.Rock is Dead/ 3.An American Poet/ 4.Orange
County Suite 5.The Soft Parade Intro-Light My Fire
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Sources: Disc One - Felt Forum, New York, January 17th and 18th, 1970,
late shows. Tracks 1-5 and 7=late show January 18th; track 6=late show
January 17th. Cover says the tracks were recorded January 17th, which is
just true for track 6. A copy of New York Blues (Document Records DR 033).
Disc Two - 1,3+4=Jim Morrisons first poetry session, Los Angeles, Elektra
Sound Studios, March 1969 (cut version); 2=recording session for the album
The Soft Parade, Los Angeles, Elektra Sound Studios, early 1969 (cut
version); 5=Felt Forum, New York, January 18th, 1970, late show (cover
says this was recorded on January 17th, 1970, which is not true. The list
of poems is incomplete). A copy of Orange County Suite (Document Records
DR 019).
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As you see, one who owns the CDs Orange County Suite (Document Records DR
019) and New York Blues (Document Records DR 033) does not need this
double CD, which uses parts of the original artwork of the single CDs. The
CDs have exactly the same quality as the originals, no wonder - they were
made from the same glass masters. While New York Blues is still a
masterwork, we have a fine substitute for Orange County Suite now: Missing
Links (Memorec 403) and Jim Morrison - The Lost Paris Tapes (Jomo
3.5471.1). Alright?
DYNAMIC LIVE (CD)
Apple House Music DL-19, Australia 1994
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| 1.Light My Fire/ 2.Touch Me/ 3.Roadhouse Blues/ 4.Break On Through/
5.Moonlight Drive/ 6.The End/ 7.Summer's Almost Gone/ 8.Five To One/
9.Love Street/ 10.The Unknown Soldier/ 11.Little Red Rooster/ 12.Gloria
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| Sources: 1=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967;2=Smothers Brothers
Comedy Hour, Los Angeles, December 4th, 1968; 3,4,6,11= Pacific National
Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970; 5,7+12=Matrix
Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967; 8-10=Konserthuset, Stockholm,
Sweden, September 20th, 1968, late show.
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All songs of this CD had been copied from European bootleg CDs. For
Japanese fans there might be interesting material on it, but for Europeans
Dynamic Live is nothing special - just another compilation of well known
material.
THE END (CD)
Viva CD 7512 (Cassette: MC 7512), Italy 1993
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Build Me A Woman/ 3.Close To You/ 4.Love Me Two
Times/ 5.Light My Fire-Graveyard Poem/ 6.You Make Me Real/ 7.Moonlight
Drive-Horse Latitudes/ 8.Unknown Soldier/ 9.The End
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| Sources: Official Elektra album In Concert
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As usual, one of the countless bootlegs featuring live material everybody
already has on disc. The rare photo on the cover shows Ray, John and
Robby on May 12th, 1972 in London doing some promotion for the British
release of Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine. There's no gap in your
collection if you don't own this CD ...
ERIC BURDON, ROBBY KRIEGER & FRIENDS: 1990
DETROIT TAPES (CD)
Prime Cuts PC 010, Germany 1993
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.See See Rider/ 3.Don't Bring Me Down/ 4.Back Door
Man/ 5.We Gotta Get Out Of This Place/ 6.Bring It On Home To Me/ 7.Tobacco
Road/ 8.No more Elmore/ 9.Spill The Wine/ 10.Boom Boom Boom/ 11.Shake,
Rattle And Roll/ 12.The House Of The Rising Sun
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| Sources: Probably a soundboard master tape copy of a 1990 Eric Burdon show
in Detroit (exact date unknown).
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Eric's pretty drunk or on a trip to somewhere, and he's hoarse, too. And
he's slamming most of the songs down to hell, ripping his own greatest
hits into pieces: "I hate this fucking tune, you know that! ... I hate it!
... When they put me down in my grave, I'm gonna yell this fucking tune
when I go down underneath the earth ...". That's Eric Burdon for you! What
follows is the ugliest version of The House Of The Rising Sun I've ever
heard. So, unbelievable Eric, I'm terribly sorry, but the best on this
bootleg CD are the musicians, not the voice. Krieger's guitar solos are
as good as ever, and the rest of the band really tries to get it on. It
seems this was recorded right after filming Oliver Stone's The Doors
movie: "We've been out in Los Angeles making the Doors movie...", Eric
Burdon barks right before Robby starts Back Door Man. Powerful good sound,
but for Krieger-fans only.
EUROPE SEPTEMBER 1968 (CD)
Black Panther BP-078, Japan 1992
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| 1.Five to one/ 2.Break on through/ 3.When the music's over/ 4.Light My
Fire/ 5.The End/ 6.Alabama Song-Back Door Man/ 7.The WASP/ 8.Hello I love
you/ 9.The Unknown Soldier
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| Sources: 1-5=Roundhouse, London, England, September 7th, 1968, complete
early show; 6-9=Kongresshalle, Frankfurt, West Germany, September 14th,
1968, early show, not complete. An uncomplete copy of the double CD The
Live Doors - Live In Europe September 1968 (Crocodile Records BGCD 245)
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A strange Japanese compilation of two previously published CDs. This
release omits Break On Through, When The Music's Over and Light My Fire
(from Frankfurt). It seems the Japanese Panthers didn't want any songs
doubled on their release. Or was it just a question of space? Well, all
crackles are still on this release - I wish somebody would release a CD
made from the original tapes, not from a crackling vinyl copy!
EYES OF DARKNESS (CD)
Exile Records CD 4008, USA 1991
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| 1.People Are Strange/ 2.Alabama Song/ 3.Crystal Ship/ 4.Unhappy Girl/
5.Moonlight Drive/ 6.Summer's Almost Gone/ 7.Twentieth Century Fox/ 8.Back
Door Man/ 9.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 10.Soul Kitchen/ 11.Get Off My Life/
12.Crawling King Snake
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| Sources: Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967
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Eyes Of Darkness was the first US-Doors-bootleg-CD. It is one of the rare
real CD bootlegs (not half-legal as 95% of the European boots). They say
on the cover the origin was Germany ... but it was not. Nobody over here
says Munich for München, and the zipcode is not 9000, but 8000.
What about some little research, boys? Despite that, the disc is a remake of the
original TAKRL-bootleg-LP Moonlight Drive-The Scream Of The Butterfly,
using the original tapes. Exile Records produced a different cover than
the original LP (a colour shot of Jim and Pamela inside Pam's Themis
boutique, previously published by Rolling Stone). So- the cover is nice,
the sound O.K., but the Matrix-concert has been on countless other
bootlegs before. Anyway, for nostalgia-fans only. It's interesting to
listen to the old boots without crackling noises. Eyes Of Darkness is one
of the most sought-after CD boots ever, by the way. Really, it is very
very rare!
UN FILM D'OLIVER STONE (CD in paper cover)
MAX CD 01, France 1991
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| 1.Light My Fire/ 2.Touch Me/ 3.L.A.Woman/ 4.Moonlight Drive/ 5.The End
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| Sources: Official video A Tribute To Jim Morrison.
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This was sponsored by Carolco International and Tri-Star Pictures. So it
is not really what you would call a bootleg. But there are live versions
on it, so just check your copy of A Tribute To Jim Morrison. The CD was
a supplement for the French magazine Max, but dealers now sell it
individually for a lot of money.
FIRST FLASH OF EDEN (CD)
Tangie Town Records TTR 9002, Germany/Luxembourg 1995
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| 1.Back Door Man/ 2.Break On Through/ 3.When The Music's Over/ 4.Ship Of
Fools/ 5.Light My Fire/ 6.The End-Across The Sea-Away In
India-Crossroads-Wake Up-The End (not the complete concert. The encore
Roadhouse Blues was not taped)/ 7.Light My Fire
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| Sources: Isle Of Wight Popfestival, Isle Of Wight, England, August 29th,
1970; track 7=Denver University Memorial Union, Denver, September 28th,
1967.
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The original vinyl version is a first grade collectors' item. And so will
be the CD which came out in a limited edition. For the CD the producers
used the same photo and artwork but this time in colour. Great picture!
My favourite record cover of all times! The sound is much better than on
Freedom Man (Banzai Records BZBX 036/37/38) and - of course - this was a
good concert. I still cannot understand why the biography No One Here Gets
Out Alive says it was a bad one! Notice the unusual medley during The End.
I can't remember any other version of The End featuring Wake Up. The CD
is different from the vinyl: All that guitar tuning and all those audience
noises are included this time. Both the vinyl and the CD miss the encore,
which was Roadhouse Blues. Instead of that on the CD there is a bonus
track from Denver 1967 which has not been published before. The song
sounds as if this was taped miles away from the stage, but it is truly a
fantastic mindblowing version of Light My Fire and totally new to
everybody. Absolutely: Recommended!
FOUR CLOSED DOORS (CD)
World Productions Of Compact Music WPOCM 1288DO13-2, Italy 1988
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| 1.Alabama Song-Back Door Man/ 2.Texas Radio & The Big Beat (cover says The
WASP)/ 3.Love Me Two Times/ 4.The Unknown Soldier/ 5.When The Music's
Over/ 6.The End/ 7.Wild Child/ 8.Touch Me/ 9.Light My Fire
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| Sources: 1-5=Copenhagen TV Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 17th,
1968); 6=Now Explosion, CBC TV Show, O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada,
August 8th, 1967; 7+8=Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Los Angeles, December
4th, 1968; 9= Ed Sullivan Show, New York, September 17th, 1967. All taken
from bad video copies.
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The cover is nice, showing a collage of the four group members in front
of doors. That's the only good thing about this CD. The sound of the
Copenhagen performance is just horrible. Nobody would recommend this CD.
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