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MOONLIGHT DRIVE (CD)
Oil Well RSC CD 115, Italy 1995
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| 1.Twentieth Century Fox/ 2.Moonlight Drive/ 3.Summer's Almost Gone/
4.Unhappy Girl/ 5.Me And The Devil Blues-Sittin' Here Thinkin'-Rock Me
Baby (cover says Woman)/ 6.Break On Through/ 7.Light My Fire/ 8.The End
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| Sources: Complete recording of set three plus a part of set two at the
Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967. A copy of disc #2 (KTS 3014)
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 #2 from the box. Fine
cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only.
MORE MISSING LINKS (CD)
On The Air OTA-002, Japan 1995
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| 1.Soul Train/ 2.Geraldine/ 3.Henrietta/ 4.Just For You/ 5.Big Bucket "T"/
6.Rampage/ 7.Wintertime Love/ 8.We Could Be So Good Together/ 9.The
Unknown Soldier/ 10.Love Me Two Times/ 11.Light My Fire/ 12.Who Do You
Love (not complete)/ 13.Someday Soon (not complete)/ 14.Who Scared You/
15.You Need Meat (Don't Go No Further)/ 16.Treetrunk/ 17.The End/ 18.Yes,
The River Knows (cover says The River Flows)/ 19.Gloria/ 20.Do It (cover
says Let It Bleed)/ 21.unidentified track, definitely no Doors (not
complete).
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Sources: 1-6=Rick And The Ravens 7" singles; 1+2=Aura Records 4511, 1965;
3+4=Aura Records 4506, 1965; 5+6=Posae Records 101, 1965; 7=from digitally
remastered US-CD Waiting for The Sun; 8+9=from US 7" single Elektra
EK-45628; 10=from a Demo Acetate; 11=from US 7" single Spun Gold
Elektra-45051; 12.Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada,
June 6th, 1970 (cover says this was from Matrix 10.3.1967, which is not
true); 13.Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970 (cover says this was
a studio track from The Soft Parade sessions, which is not true); 14=flip
side of US 7" single Elektra EK-45656; 15=flip side of US 7" single
Elektra EKS-45726; 16.flip side of US single Elektra EKS-45793 (1972, no
Morrison track); 17=from Apocalypse Now soundtrack; 18=from official album
Waiting For The Sun; 19=from official album Alive She Cried, later on In
Concert; 20=from official album The Soft Parade; 21=the hell knows what
this is!
Tracks 1-13+16 copied from the vinyl bootleg Someday Soon (Do It Records
004), also the informations about those tracks; 20 copied from CD bootleg
Go Insane (Aulica A 112.10.2); all others from official sources.
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Most of the songs on this CD were taken from the bootleg LP Someday Soon
(Do It Records) released in 1989 in Germany, which was a great album at
the time. When I got More Missing Links I first thought this CD was made
by a Doors fan, but then the track Let It Bleed told me it wasn't. No
Doors fan would call Do It from the album The Soft Parade "Let It
Bleed".
When the hell does this nonsense stop? Some tracks on More Missing Links
are rare, such as the acetate and the Rick And The Ravens singles, but
those songs will be in better quality (not that many crackles!) on the
Italian box Stages. So this CD, which was definitely not made by the
people who did the original Missing Links (Memorial Records Memorec 403),
is nothing but a mediocre compilation and not worth the money. The disc
was made in Japan and - astonishingly - got distributed from Holland.
MORRISON (CD)
Never End M.I.A. Act*6, Italy 1992
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| 1.Do It (cover says Let It Bleed)/ 2.I'm A King Bee/ 3.Insane (cover says
Go Insane)/ 4.Gloria/ 5.Summertime (cover says No Limits No Laws)/
6.Someday Soon (cover says Sunday Soon)/ 7.Money/ 8.Moonlight Drive/
9.Hello I Love You/ 10.Summer's Almost Gone/ 11.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 12.
End Of The Night
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| Sources: 1=original LP version; 2=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th,
1967; 3=Demo Acetate, World Pacific Studios, Los Angeles, September 2nd,
1965; 4=original version from Alive She Cried LP; 5=same as 2; 6=Center
Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970; 7=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden,
September 20th, 1968, first show; 8-12=same as 3. All tracks taken from
the previously published bootleg double set Go Insane (Aulica, Italy,
A112.10.1 and A112.10.2). Compared to this, the soundquality is worse on
Morrison. This CD is also known as Missing In Action Act*6, which is a
kind of headline for a whole series of compact discs.
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The CD looks like a star on Hollywood Boulevard, and it is gold plated.
Hmmm. Although it was the first gold plated Doors bootleg CD, all the
material on it had been heard before in much better quality, and the
people from Missing In Action are as silly as the Aulica guys. Songs are
mislabelled, songs are cut drastically, fade-ins, fade-outs, as usual.
Definitely not an essential bootleg, not at all. Tasteful design, though.
The booklet shows an unpublished colour photo from the Roundhouse, London,
1968. But the whole thing is no must for any collector.
MR. MOJO RISIN' AGAIN THE LIVE PERFORMANCE '93 AND MORE (CD)
Montana MO 10015, Germany, 1993
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Break On Through/ 3.Light My Fire/ 4.Five To One/
5.Little Red Rooster/ 6.Who Do You Love/ 7.Go Insane/ 8.The Hill Dwellers/
9.People Are Strange/ 10.Love Street/ 11.Love Me Two Times/ 12.The Soft
Parade/ 13.Summer's Almost Gone/ 14.Manish Boy
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| Sources: 1-3= Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame Awards, Century Plaza Hotel, Los
Angeles, January 12th, 1993 (with Eddie Vedder on vocals); 4= Center
Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970; 5-6= Pacific National Exhibition
Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970; 7-8= Konserthuset, Stockholm,
September 20th, 1968, second show; 9= Matrix Club, San Francisco, March
7th, 1967; 10-11= same as 7+8; 12= Critique Show, PBS TV, WNET, New York,
May 13th, 1969; 13= same as 9; 14= Winterland, San Francisco, December
26th, 1967.
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The cover of this CD doesn't give you any dates or venues, so this list
is pretty useful. It doesn't even mention Eddie Vedder's name as the
singer for the Doors at their Hall Of Fame concert. The quality is OK,
the '93 stuff even is in stereo, and forget the rest of it, which has been
published many times before. There are a few Doors bootlegs featuring this
special performance, but I prefer one of the countless Pearl Jam boots
like Eddie Sings The Doors and all this crap. This CD was one of the first
presented in a clear box (the tray was made of clear plastic), really
fashionable. At least that was something new. Short comment on the
performance: the group sounds like a second-hand tribute band.
MYSTERY TRAIN (CD)
Oil Well RSC CD 097, Italy 1995
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| 1.Who Do You love/ 2.Someday Soon/ 3.Peace Frog/ 4.Alabama Song-Back Door
Man- Five To One/ 5.Light My Fire-Fever-Summertime-St.James Infirma-
ry-Light My Fire (cover says Light My Fire #1-Fever-Light My Fire #2)/
6.Build Me A Woman/ 7.When The Music's Over
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| Sources: 1=Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, June 6th, 1970;
2=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970; 3-4=Felt Forum, New York,
January 18th, 1970, late show; 5=same as 1; 6=same as 3-4; 7=same as 1.
A copy of Collectors Items (IBR 2395), which was also disc two in the
double CD set The Last Farewell (Vivid Sound Productions VSP 51001/2).
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No wonder the great compilation The Last Farewell would be copied soon.
As this is another Oil Well mid-price CD, limited to 200 copies only, you
might well lay your hands on it if you don't own the original.
MYSTIC MAN (CD)
On The Air OTA 005, Japan 1995
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| 1.Whiskey, Mystics And Men #1/ 2.The Soft Parade Intro #1/ 3.The Soft
Parade Intro #2/ 4.Whiskey, Mystics And Men #2/ 5.Love Me Tender/ 6.Rock
Is Dead #1/ 7.Me And The Devil Blues/ 8.Rock Is Dead #2/ 9.Queen Of The
Magazines/ 10.Pipeline/ 11.Rock Is Dead #3/ 12.Rock Me Baby/ 13.Mystery
Train/ 14.Rock Is Dead #4/ 15.Someday Soon/ 16.Orange County Suite (short
version)
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| Sources: 1=Elektra Recorders Studios, Los Angeles, unpublished final
studio version, which never got on the album The Soft Parade, date
unknown, probably early 1969; 2-3=Elektra Recorders Studios, Los Angeles.
Studio Session for the album The Soft Parade, date unknown, probably early
1969; 4-14=Elektra Recorders Studios, Los Angeles, February 25th, 1969.
Studio Session for The Soft Parade; 15=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th,
1970; 16=Poetry session, Elektra Recorders, Los Angeles, March 1969 (Jim
Morrison only).
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This Japanese disc (distributed from Holland) was copied from Missing
Links (Memorial Records, Memorec 403), but this time featuring bonus
tracks which everybody already knows. If you own Missing Links, you
certainly do not need this one.
NEW YORK 1970 (CD)
Stentor Sten 91.001, West Germany 1991
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Break On Through/ 3.Ship Of Fools/ 4.Crawling King
Snake/ 5.Build Me A Woman/ 6.Peace Frog/ 7.The End/ 8.The Celebration
Of The Lizard
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| Sources: Felt Forum, New York, January 17th and 18th, 1970, late shows. Not
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This is the CD-version of the famous US Double-LP-album Roadhouse Blues,
fairly good soundquality. I wish the bootleggers would have copied the
sound from the European LP album Bring Out Your Dead instead from the US
copy. Anyway, if you don't have this blend of two Felt Forum concerts from
January 17th and 18th, 1970, on vinyl, this CD is the right choice for
you, because it is quite cheap on record fairs.
NEW YORK BLUES (CD)
Document Records DR 033, Germany/Luxembourg 1989
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| 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
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| Sources: 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.
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A fascinating live CD, almost as good as the official live albums. All
tracks are presented in fine quality and you listen to exciting versions
of a Doors fan's favourite songs. Document Records used a good quality
tape for the CD and fans will thank them for the unusual cover, which
shows a bearded Morrison, but he did not have beard at the Felt Forum
shows. The picture - by the way - was taken during The Doors' Isle Of
Wight performance. New York Blues has not the same tracks as Build Me A
Woman (Great Dane Records GDR 8908) or New York 1970 (Stentor Sten
91.001). Somehow somebody put several songs from three shows together and
distributed the tape, so usually all Felt Forum CDs are a big mess of
songs from three different concerts.
THE NIGHT ON FIRE (CD)
Tangie Town Records TTR CD 9001, Czech 1996
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| 1.Break On Through/ 2.Alabama Song-Back Door Man/ 3.When The Music's Over/
4.Texas Radio & The Big Beat (cover says The Wasp)/ 5.Hello I Love You/
6.Light My Fire/ 7.The Unknown Soldier/ 8.Doors interview
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| Sources: 1-7=Kongresshalle, Frankfurt, Germany, September 14,
1968, complete first show; track 8 was taped at the Pierce College, Oswego,
New York, USA, September 15, 1967 (complete recording) with all four Doors.
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Still, after all those years, the Frankfurt concert is an uninspired
standard concert of a band that was at the peak of their career. With a
best-selling single, Hello I Love You, and a best-selling album, Waiting
For The Sun, in the background The Doors began their European tour doing
four celebrated concerts in London together with the psychedelic sounds
of Jefferson Airplane. In Frankfurt, the next stop, it was all different.
There were people attending their two concerts who didn't speak English
at all or didn't get what The Doors were doing. There were yelling GIs
from the surrounding military stations and patiently listening other
Americans. It was hard for the band to get in contact with the audience,
especially after the driving boogie of their support band, Canned Heat.
The Doors were too different. Jim wasn't feeling well because he had drunk
too much Goldener Oktober (a cheap German wine) in the afternoon of the
same day. So - that's it. The people left and never came back. They missed
the second show which is said to have been much better (read more about
the Frankfurt shows and The Doors in Germany in DQ 36). The Night On Fire
was a widely distributed German vinyl bootleg in the early 80's (now this
album reaches prices at about DM 200). This CD was made from a low-genera-
tion tape with no cuts (no crackles and no surface noise can be heard, so
I guess it was not taken from a vinyl copy). The sound is better than on
the vinyl.
A surprise is the CD's bonus track - an interview conducted by two local
DJs from Oswego, New York, Steve Flesser and Mike Lezard. The interview
was held before The Doors went on-stage at the Pierce College, September
15, 1967. Steve and Mike are struggling hard to get their standard
questions answered. After The Doors (especially Jim and Ray) noticed that
the interviewers were not interested in the band's music and their message
but in how many copies of the singles and the album were sold, how much
money the group gets for a single, how was touring and stuff, they started
making fools of both DJs. Here are some examples: "Is there something you
can say to all your listeners - what could it be?" "Fuck," is the answer.
Jim says: "I'm Steve Flesser, and I'm listening to the Jim Morrison-show".
"My name is Jim of the Doors, when I'm in town you'll always listen to the
Mike Lizard-show." Ray: "I listen to the Steve Blesser-show, whenever I'm
in town - which is rarely!" and "Steve Flesser is what's happening. Mike
Lezard is also happening."
The CD cover and booklet has got a nice design inspired by the old vinyl
cover using the same pictures and golden letters. The CD itself is gold
plated and has got a picture of Jim's bust on it.
Recommended!
THE NIGHT ON FIRE (CD)
Living Legend Records LLR-CD 015, Italy 1988
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| 1.When the music's over/ 2.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five to one/
3.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes/ 4.The End
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| Sources: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from the official
video Live At The Hollywood Bowl. Not the complete concert.
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Elektra Records made a big mistake with the release of their Live At The
Hollywood Bowl CD in 1987: On this there were just 6 songs from the
simultaneously published video. Of course the bootleggers took their
chance to produce CDs with the extra tracks. The Night On Fire CD is in
absolute Hifi stereo soundquality and shouldn't be mixed up with the rare
vinyl LP bearing the same name - on that one was The Doors Frankfurt
concert. For people who haven't got the video (or a hifi stereo video
player) or the official EP I really recommend this CD. It was made in West
Germany, but the copyright problems got cleared in Italy.
NO FUTURE (CD)
Teddy Bear Records TB 24,
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| 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.Light
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| Sources: 1-6=Felt Forum, New York, January 18th, 1970, late
show. Track 7 from January 17th, 1970 at the Felt Forum, late show; 8=Felt
Forum, New York, January 18th, early show. Same tracks as Westbury Music
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At least they put the date and the place of performance right:
January 18th, 1970 at the Felt Forum (except Build Me A
Woman which was recorded a day earlier). Out goes the message: if you
don't own New York Blues (Document Records DR 033) and Orange
County Suite (Document Records DR 019) and if you want to listen to
this concert, No Future would be the right choice, and the quality
is pretty much better, too.
NO LIMITS (CD)
I Miti Del Rock/ Fabbri Editori MRL 003, Italy 1993
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| 1.When The Music's Over/ 2.Break On Through/ 3.Five To One/ 4.Back Door
Man/ 5.Summertime (cover says No Limits No Law)/ 6.Mystery Train (cover
says Train Coming Round The Bend, not complete)/ 7.The End
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| Sources: 1=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from official
video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 2-4=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th,
1970; 5=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967; 6+7=Center Coliseum,
Seattle, June 5th, 1970.
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Intentionally falsified titles, fade-ins and -outs and very common
material are signatures of a bad CD. At least they got the dates right!
The cover says Non in Vendita (Not for sale) - let's hope nobody bought
it!
NO LIMITS, NO LAWS (CD)
Aulica A141, Italy 1993
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| 1.I'm A King Bee/ 2.Summertime (cover says Instrumental)/ 3.Summer's
Almost Gone/ 4.Money/ 5.Who Do You Love/ 6.Moonlight Drive/ 7.Gloria
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| Sources: All songs recorded at the Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th,
67; copied from the double CD The Matrix Tapes (The Swingin' Pig,
TSP-CD-047-2). A copy of the 36-minute long Aulica CD (A 141/S) with the
same name but with a different cover.
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Is there really anybody out there who bought this CD that was copied from
a scratched vinyl LP and which is absolutely too short for a CD? Well, I
did buy it, and I regret it. So please: Keep your hands off this one!
ONE HUNDRED MINUTES (2 CD)
Tuff Bites T.B. 95.1040, Luxembourg 1996
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Disc One: 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To One/
3.When The Music's Over/ 4.Love Me Two Times/ 5.Little Red Rooster/
6.Money/ 7.Rock Me Baby/ 8.Who Do You Love
Disc Two: 1.The Soft Parade Intro (cover says Petition The Lord With
Prayer - Poem)/ 2.Light My Fire-Fever-Summertime-St.James Infirmary-Fe-
ver-Light My Fire/ 3.The End/ 4.Soul Kitchen-Runnin Blue-Soul Kitchen/
5.Break On Through/ 6.The Crystal Ship/ 7.Wake Up/ 8.Light My Fire
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| Sources: Disc One= Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver,
Canada, June 6th, 1970. Disc Two: tracks 1-3= Pacific National Exhibition
Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970; tracks 4-8= Chicago
Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA, November 9, 1968
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A new Tuff Bites CD (their CDs are known for their significant caricature
covers and their usual digipack design). This double CD comes in a
digi-fold-out-pack and features the complete Doors 1970 Vancouver show
(with guest guitarist bluesman Albert King on a few songs) plus 4 songs
from a 1968 performance in Chicago which has never been published before
on disc. Therefore this double album is truly recommended - although some
of you collectors might already have either Canadian Night (Buccaneer
Records BUC 011) or Vancouver 70 (Skeleton Records SKCD 1066) or both. But
the Tuff Bites album features the complete concert (just one cut is
audible between Love Me Two Times and Little Red Rooster) which means
Alabama Song and Love Me Two Times are on there as well as a few little
dialogues and instrument tunings between songs which were missed on all
previous releases of this concert (check reviews of Canadian Night and
Vancouver 70 in The Doors Quarterly #26. In general - Jim Morrison is in
a phantastic mood, his voice is stronger than ever. The Doors were really
getting back to the blues with the help of Albert King's unmisakable
guitar riffs. The highlights are Little Red Rooster, Rock Me Baby, The End
and of course the best version of Light My Fire that has ever been
published. The soundquality is excellent stereo.
The mono audience recording-quality of the bonus Chicago tracks is worse,
but better than nothing. More important are the driving versions of Soul
Kitchen (this time combined with a few lines from Runnin' Blue: "Poor
Otis' dead and gone ..." and a child's prayer: "Now I lay me down to sleep
...") and Break On Through. Also featured, one of the rare times Jim
introduced the members of the band plus a few funny comments from some
girls standing next to the recording microphone.
This double CD certainly should be on each hard core collector's shelf.
A true document of one of the best Doors concerts in 1970 (just compare
it to one of the worst concerts of the band, taped just one day earlier
in Seattle, June 5th, 1970, presented on the otherwise excellent Jim's
Alive - The Ultimate Seattle Concert (Tuff Bites T.B.94.1009). Recommended.
OPENING THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION (CD)
Raven Records RVCD-33, Australia, 1993
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| 1. Jim Morrison Interview, Isle Of Wight, August 30th,1970 (The Doors
played their gig the night before)/ 2. Ray Manzarek Interview 1979/ 3.
Robby Krieger Interview 1979/ 4. John Densmore Interview 1979/ 5. 1968
Press Conference Extracts/ 6. Random Utterances
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| Sources: 1-4=interviews by journalist & writer John Tobler, 5-6=from the
video The Doors Are Open and other sources.
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A very interesting interview CD, officially released in Australia.
Actually, this is no bootleg, but published without The Doors' approval!
It contains Tobler's own interview with Jim Morrison, taped a day after
The Doors' Isle Of Wight concert.A copy of this tape was given to me by
John Tobler a couple of years ago, and I still enjoy how Jim interrupted
John's questions to hurry to the side of the stage in order to watch Jimi
Hendrix perform (unfortunately this part of the tape is not on this CD).
When Hendrix passed by Morrison said, "Look, an actual movie! Looks like
a priest!" (Jimi was filmed while walking to the stage, to be seen in his
official Isle of Wight video). The other interviews cover the story of the
group and their topic is - surprise,surprise- Jim Morrison. This is an
essential CD for each serious fan; it is great to hear Jim TALK. We didn't
get much of that in the past ...
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