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ORANGE COUNTY SUITE (CD)
Document Records DR 019, Germany/Luxembourg 1988
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| 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: 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.
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When this CD came out in 1988, it was a massive seller. It wasn't copied
from the well known Tangie Town Records LP Rock Is Dead but from a high
quality tape. At that time nobody knew it contained cut versions of the
poetry and Rock Is Dead. Today we know better - just check Missing Links
(Memorec 403) and Jim Morrison - The Lost Paris Tapes (Jomo 3.5471.1). But
for the Felt Forum tracks this CD is still a fine product. Light My Fire
is in excellent quality, and the intro 'When I was back there ...' was
used for the official Absolutely Live album, which later got published on
CD as In Concert. The CD was made in Germany, mastered in Austria and got
the copyrights cleared in Italy... a nice European product. Strange noise
reduction system, though.
PALACE OF EXILE (CD)
Colosseum 97-C-013, USA 1997
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| 1.Back Door Man/ 2.Break On Through/ 3.When The Music's Over/ 4.Ship Of
Fools/ 5.Roadhouse Blues/ 6.Light My Fire/ 7.The End-Across The Sea-Away
In India-Crossroads-Wake Up-The End
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| Sources: Isle Of Wight Festival, Isle Of Wight, England, August 29th, 1970
(despite a nasty cut during The End it is the complete concert). Most
probably copied from a complete soundboard recording, done by the film
company.
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If there wasn't a nasty cut during The End at 7 minutes 25 seconds (about
5 minutes of instrumental solos got cut out for no obvious reasons), this
US bootleg CD would be absolutely perfect. The whole thing looks
marvellous: a perfect fold-out cover plus a nicely designed inlay
featuring photos from the official Isle Of Wight video. The disc is in
hifi stereo and features the entire concert including the complete
announcement and the song Roadhouse Blues, which many people attending
that festival remembered but stayed unpublished on all previous bootleg
releases of that concert. It is - as usual for this song - a powerful,
driving version featuring Robby's great guitar solo, which I like better
than on the studio version. Jim does his "cha-cha-luga-rap" in the middle
break, like on the version published on In Concert. Unfortunately Palace
Of Exile is a very rare disc, just available in the States, and it is very
expensive. Despite that, it is a very recommended new release (compare it
to the Tangie Town release called First Flash Of Eden TTR 9002, as
reviewed in DQ 33, pages 15 and 16).
PERCEPTION (1CD)
A Priori CD 791321, Czech Republic 1995 (?) |
| 1.Hello I Love You/ 2.People Are Strange/ 3.The Unknown Soldier/ 4.My
Wild Love/ 5.Summer's Almost Gone/ 6.Five To One/ 7.Strange Days/ 8.Horse
Latitudes/ 9.Love Me Two Times/ 10.Moonlight Drive/ 11.My Eyes Have Seen
You/ 12.Wintertime Love/ 13.Spanish Caravan/ 14.You're Lost Little Girl/
15.Not To Touch The Earth/ 16.We Could Be So Good Together |
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Sometimes I think it's a crime throwing all those great songs together, putting
them out of their original context of their original releases. The same goes
for Greatest Hits - compilations. But anyway, another A Priori release with
a nice cover, containing songs everybody already has. This is a low price
CD, widely distributed in Germany.
POEMS, LYRICS AND STORIES BY JAMES DOUGLAS
MORRISON (CD)
Men At Work 5511.2, Italy 1990
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| 1. Back Door Man/ 2.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 3.Soul Kitchen/ 4.Get Off My
Life/ 5.Crawling King Snakes/ 6.People Are Strange/ 7.Alabama Song/ 8.The
Crystal Ship/ 9.Unhappy Girl/ 10.Moonlight Drive/ 11.Summer's Almost Gone
(tracklist on the cover is not in the correct order)
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| Sources: Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967
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Forget this one. Same quality and same cover as the original vinyl
version. Not worth a penny although it is pretty rare by now. The
songorder is absolutely incorrect and the cover photos were taken from
postcards showing Jim Morrison.
POEMS, LYRICS AND STORIES BY JAMES DOUGLAS
MORRISON (CD)
On Stage Records CD/ON 2328, Italy 1994
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| 1. Back Door Man/ 2.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 3.Soul Kitchen/ 4.Get Off My
Life/ 5.Crawling King Snakes/ 6.People Are Strange/ 7.Alabama Song/ 8.The
Crystal Ship/ 9.Unhappy Girl/ 10.Moonlight Drive/ 11.Summer's Almost Gone
(tracklist on the cover is not in the correct order)
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Forget this one, too. Same quality and same cover as the Men At Work CD,
which was copied from the original vinyl version. Not worth a penny. The
songorder is still absolutely incorrect and the cover photos were still
taken from postcards showing Jim Morrison. One notable difference is the
addition of Super Value on the cover of the reprint.
PURE EXPRESSION OF JOY (CD)
Cool Daddy Productions 00626-A, USA 1997
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| 1.Pure Expression Of Joy/ 2.Wishful Sinful/ 3.Wild Child/ 4.Gloria/
5.Frederick/ 6.Build Me A Woman/ 7.The Soft Parade/ 8.Spanish Caravan/
9.Back Door Man/ 10.Wake Up-Light My Fire/ 11.The Unknown Soldier/
12.People Are Strange #1/ 13.People Are Strange #2/ 14.People Are Strange
#3/ 15.People Are Strange #4/ 16.People Are Strange #5/ 17."Directing The
Doors"/ 18.Hello I Love You
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| Sources: 1= Jim Morrison-Interview from official video The Doors Are Open;
2, 6+7= Critique, PBS TV, WNET, New York, May 13th, 1969, as remixed for
the official video The Soft Parade; 3= Recording Session of the song Wild
Child from official video The Soft Parade; 4= from official CD In Concert
(mixed down to mono); 5= from bootleg video version of Feast Of Friends;
8,9,10+11= Roundhouse, London, England, September 7th, 1968, second show,
from official video The Doors Are Open; 12-17= Murray The K. T.V.Show
Outtakes, Battery Park, New York, September 22nd, 1967, taken from a
bootleg video; 18= from The Doors' Demo Acetate, World Pacific Studios,
Los Angeles, September 2nd, 1965, most probably taken from a good tape
copy.
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Although the cover of this CD looks very unusual (a "flying" Jim Morrison
above a desert; the designer took a Günter Zint photo to create it), it
contains material that many fans will already know. About half of the
tracks are available officially on video or record, the other half is
already widely spread among fans. Besides that, this original US disc is
pretty expensive in Europe; therefore you might not really need it.
RARITIES AND FEW (CD)
International Broadcast Recordings, IBR 2325, Italy, 1994
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Little Red Rooster/ 3.Soul Kitchen/ 4.Break On
Through/ 5.Mystery Train/ 6.Money/ 7.Rock Me Baby/ 8.Ship Of Fools/
9.Crawling King Snake/ 10.The End
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| Sources: 1= Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June
6th, 1970; 2= Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970; 3= Felt Forum, New
York, January 18th, 1970, late show; 4=Felt Forum, New York, January 18th,
1970, early show; 5= same as #2; 6-7= same as #1; 8-9= same as 3&4; 10=
same as 1.
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Although everybody should have heard the stuff before, this collection of
songs is pretty well selected. I enjoy the quality of the different tapes
the bootleggers used and I simply love the cover. Good exciting songs on
this CD, not interesting for insiders who have already got Jim's Alive
(Tuff Bites T.B.94.1009), Vancouver 70 (Skeleton SKCD 1066) or Canadian
Nights (Buccaneer Records BUC 011) or Live In Vancouver (Sounds Alive SA
24.020) and New York 1970 (Stentor 91.001), but Rarities And Few is the
perfect addition to the official In Concert double CD. It took some time
finding out the sources: they are not mentioned on the cover, but - as
I've said - nothing new for the hard-core fan.
REALITY MEANS INSANITY (1CD)
A Priori CD 791320, Czech Republic 1995 (?) |
| 1. Light My Fire/ 2.Break On Through/ 3.Soul Kitchen/ 4.The Crystal
Ship/ 5.Twentieth Century Fox/ 6.Alabama Song/ 7.Back Door Man/ 8.I Looked
At You/ 9.End Of The Night/ 10.Take It As It Comes/ 11.The End |
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If there wasn't the nice cover of a "spinning" Jim Morrison, nobody would
buy this CD. Everybody has those songs. This is a low price CD, widely
distributed in Germany.
RED WALLS BLUE DOORS (CD)
World Productions Of Compact Music WPOCM 1288D012-2, Italy 1988
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| 1.Five To One/ 2.Alabama Song-Back Door Man/ 3.You're Lost Little Girl/
4.Love Me Two Times/ 5.Wild Child/ 6.Money/ 7.A Little Game-The Hill
Dwellers (cover says The Celebration Of The Lizard)/ 8.Light My Fire/
9.The End
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| Sources: 1-6,8=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, early
show; 7+9=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, late
show. Cover says all tracks were recorded during the late show, which is
not true.
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These guys from WPOCM produce jolly nice covers I must admit. A blue door,
a red wall and a Morrison photo: nice artwork.. Unfortunately this CD was
obviously copied from a vinyl bootleg. Therefore the sound is not as good
as on most other Stockholm CDs.
REPLICA BLUES (CD)
German Records 026, Germany 1993
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| 1.Get Off My Life/ 2.Rock Me Baby/ 3.Crawling King Snake/ 4.I'm A King
Bee/ 5.Money/ 6.Summertime/ 7.Someday Soon/ 8.Mack The Knife/ 9.Peace
Frog/ 10.The Chant Movement/ 11.Ship Of Fools/ 12.Fever-Summertime-St.James
Infirmary-Light My Fire (cover just mentions Fever)/ 13.Peace
Frog-Poem: Indian,Indian (cover says Indian Poem)/ 14.Hitler/ 15.The
Journey (cover says You Need Meat, Don't Go No Further)/ 16.Holy Sha Poem
(cover says The Journey)/ 17.You Need Meat (Don't Go No Further) (cover
says Who Scared You)/ 18.Who Scared You (cover says Judge,Judge)
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| Sources: 1-3= Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967; 4-6= Matrix
Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967, 7= Center Coliseum, Seattle, June
5th, 1970 (cover says Los Angeles 4/4/67); 8= Konserthuset, Stockholm,
September 20th, 1968, first show (cover says Los Angeles, 4/4/67); 9= Felt
Forum, New York, January 18th, 1970, late show; 10= from the official
album Requiem For The Americas (cut version), (cover says New Orleans
12/12/70); 11= same as 9; 12= from a medley The Doors did while playing
Light My Fire at Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada,
June 6th, 1970; 13= from original album track, mixed with a poem from Rock
Is Dead bootleg LP; 14= Intro from June 5th 1970 Live In Seattle bootleg
CD (Flashback Worldproductions 02.92.0170); 15= same as 10; 16= part of
The End, recorded at the Backbay Theatre, Boston, March 17th, 1968; 17+18=
original songs from the official Elektra album Weird Scenes Inside The
Goldmine.
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One of the worst Doors CDs ever! Same rubbish as Archangel and The Future
Is Murder, made by the same bootlegger using a different name. Another
digipack, looking pretty average, but the CD is a horror for the real fan.
This bootlegger honestly wants to tell us that five songs on this CD were
recorded in New Orleans, December 12th 1970! No, they certainly aren't,
Sir, and we're not gonna take it. A first-rate rip-off, and we can be sure
this idiot (or is he just clever?) is going to produce some more of this
shit. He overdubbed studio songs from the Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine
album plus spoken poems from the Requiem For The Americas album, which is
still out on CD and LP (Requiem For The Americas, Songs From The Lost
World, Enigma Records 773354-2, 1989), with some fake audience noise and
bang: It was "recorded LIVE in New Orleans"! He mixed Jim's voice onto
other songs (spoken stuff runs too slow, by the way) which gives a
horrible uneven blend. Like on The Future Is Murder (Alien Records 006)
all songs and poetry have been published before and are still easy to
obtain on original albums or bootleg CDs. This shabby CD is not worth a
penny! Treat it like dogs' shit!
THE RIOT SHOW (CD)
World Productions of Compact Music WPOCM 0888 D 002-2, Austria/Italy 1988
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| 1.When the Music's Over/ 2.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five to One/ 3.The
Unknown Soldier/ 4.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes/ 5.The End/ 6.Moonlight
Drive/ 7.Light my Fire
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| Sources: 1-5=official video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 6+7=Jonathan
Winters TV Show, CBS Studios, Los Angeles, December 27th, 1967, taped
directly from TV.
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At that time (1988) this CD was fabulous for those who just had the
official EP Live At The Hollywood Bowl, because The Riot Show contained
all extra songs from the video in excellent quality. Today this is very
average material, and this CD is - after such a long time - sold out. By
the way - there is no other CD around containing the Jonathan Winter
tracks in a six-star soundquality!
THE RIVER KNOWS (1CD)
A Priori CD 791322, Czech Republic 1995 (?) |
| 1.Touch Me/ 2.Shaman's Blues/ 3.The Soft Parade/ 4.Wishful Sinful
(cover says Withful Sinful)/ 5.Love Street/ 6.I Can't See Your Face In My
Mind/ 7.Unhappy Girl/ 8.Easy Ride/ 9.Runnin' Blue/ 10.Yes, The River Knows/
11.Wild Child/ 12.Do It/ 13.Tell All The People/ 14.When The Music's Over |
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If there wasn't the nice cover of The Doors hanging around in a Danish garden
(unpublished photo!), nobody would buy this CD. Everybody has those songs.
This is a low price CD, widely distributed in Germany.
SEANCE (CD)
CDM Digital Production G 53207,
Germany 1993 |
| 1.Light My Fire/ 2.Back Door Man 3.Break On Through/ 4.When The
Music's Over/ 5.Alabama Song/ 6.People Are Strange/
7.Fever-Summertime-St.James Infirmary-Light My Fire (Cover says Fever)/
8.The End |
| Sources: Tracks 1,3,5 and 6= Matrix Club, San Francisco, March
3rd, 1967; Tracks 4 and 8= Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th,1968
(from the official video Live At The Hollywood Bowl); Track 2 and 7=
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I like the combination of the songs, and this CD sounds pretty powerful
because it seems the bootleggers have added some reverb to a few songs
(especially to Back Door Man). The disc comes with an unusual cover and
my copy was only $10 at a regular record store. The CD lacks to mention
the sources of the recordings on the cover. But if you read the informati-
on above, you'll surely notice: Nothing spectacular, and they even cut the
Light My Fire medley from Vancouver!
SEATTLE 1970 (CD)
Live Storm LSCD 51630, Italy 1995
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.When The Music's Over/ 3.People Get Ready-Baby Please
Don't Go-Mystery Train-Crossroads (cover just says Mystery Train)/ 4.Break
On Through/ 5.Someday Soon/ 6.Back Door Man/ 7.Little Red Rooster
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| Sources: 1-6 Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970; 7= Pacific National
Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970. Not the complete
concert. Track 7 is labeled bonus track, but makes the impression of being
a Seattle track, too.
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The cover says All tarcks (sic) written by Morrison/Manzarek/Densmore/Krieger. Well,
I don't really know what tarcks are, but the tracks were
not all written by The Doors as everybody knows. Despite this silly
mistake this CD is rather fine, although it is not the complete concert.
Get Jim's Alive - The Ultimate Seattle Tapes (Tuff Bites 94.1009) and you
know what I mean.
SHAKE YOUR MONEYMAKER (CD)
Oil Well RSC CD 116, Italy 1995
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| 1.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 2.Soul Kitchen/ 3.I Can't See Your Face In My
Mind/ 4.People Are Strange/ 5.When The Music's Over/ 6.Money/ 7.Who Do You
Love/ 8.Moonlight Drive
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| Sources: Complete recording of set one at the Matrix Club, San Francisco,
March 10th, 1967. A copy of disc #3 (KTS 3015) 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 #3 from the box. Fine
cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only.
SHATTERED (CD)
Kiss The Stone KTS 350, Italy 1994
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.When The Music's Over/ 3.Mystery Train/ 4.Break On
Through/ 5.Someday Soon/ 6.Back Door Man (cover says Blackdoor Man)/
7.Little Red Rooster
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| Sources: Tracks 1-6= Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970; Track
7=Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, June 6th, 1970.
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This CD has got a brilliant sound, I must admit. But if you have Vancouver
70 (Skeleton SK 1066) or Live In Vancouver (Sounds Alive SA 24.020) and
the great Jim's Alive - The Ultimate Seattle Tapes (Tuff Bites TB 94.1009)
you don't really need this Italian CD, although the sound is better on
this one. Also - it is not the complete concert, and the Italians changed
the original order of the songs. Needless to say they also cut off some
of Jim's annotations between the songs.
SNEAKING OUT THE BACK DOOR (7 CD in long box)
The Last Bootleg Records LBR SP 001/7, Italy 1994
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Disc One: 1.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 2.Soul Kitchen/ 3.I Can't See Your Face
In My Mind/ 4.People Are Strange/ 5.When The Music's Over/ 6.Money/ 7.Who
Do You Love/ 8.Moonlight Drive/ 9.Summer's Almost Gone/ 10.I'm A King Bee/
11.Gloria/ 12.Break On Through/ 13.Summertime/ 14.Back Door Man/
15.Alabama Song
Disc Two: 1.Light My Fire/ 2.The End/ 3.Get Off My Life/
4.Close To You/ 5.Crawling King Snake/ 6.The Crystal Ship/ 7.Twentieth
Century Fox/ 8.Unhappy Girl/ 9.Me And The Devil Blues-Sittin' Here
Thinkin'-Rock Me Baby (labeled as Rock Me Baby) 10.Bleeding Heart/
11.Morrison's Lament-Tomorrow Never Knows
Disc Three: 1.When The Music's
Over/ 2.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To One (this medley labeled as
three songs)/ 3.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes (labeled as two songs)/
4.A Little Game-The Hill Dwellers (labeled as two songs)/ 5.Spanish
Caravan/ 6.Wake Up-Light My Fire (labeled as two songs)/ 7.The Unknown
Soldier/ 8.The End/ 9.Love Street/ 10.A Little Game-The Hill Dwellers
(labeled as two songs)
Disc Four: 1.Five To One/ 2.Mack The Knife-Alabama Song-Back Door Man
(labeled as two songs)/ 3.You're Lost Little Girl/
4.Love Me Two Times/ 5.When The Music's Over/ 6.Wild Child/ 7.Money/
8.Wake Up-Light My Fire (labeled as two songs)/ 9.The End/ 10.The Unknown
Soldier
Disc Five: 1.The End (excerpt only, cover says Mother)/ 2.The
Unknown Soldier/ 3.Yes, The River Knows (cover says The River Knows)/
4.Gloria/ 5.Five To One (cover says 5 To 1)/ 6.Do It (cover says Let It
Bleed)/ 7.Who Do You Love (excerpt only)/ 8.Money (excerpt only)/ 9.Intro
for The Soft Parade (cover says Petition The Lord With Prayer)/ 10.Someday
Soon (excerpt only; cover says Sunday Soon)/ 11.Jim Morrison Interview
(excerpt only)/ 12. Rock Is Dead (excerpt only)/ 13.Bird Of Prey (excerpt
only; track 12+13 labeled as one track Rock Is Dead)/ 14.Light My Fire/
15.Who Do You Love/ 16.Light My Fire/ 17.The End
Disc Six: 1.Five To One/ 2.Back Door Man/ 3.Roadhouse Blues/
4.When The Music's Over/ 5.People
Get Ready-Mystery Train-Baby Please Don't Go-Mystery Train-Crossroads
(parts of the medley are mislabelled as Train I Ride or Bullfrog Blues)/
6.Break On Through/ 7.Someday Soon (cut version)/ 8.Hitler (not mentioned
on the cover)
Disc Seven: 1.Hitler (not mentioned on the cover)/
2.Roadhouse Blues/ 3.Someday Soon (labeled as Someday Soon/Harvest Moon)/
4.Mystery Train (excerpt)/ 5.Break On Through/ 6.Five To One (cover says
5 To 1)/ 7.Back Door Man/ 8.The End/ 9.When The Music's Over
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| Sources: Disc One: Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967; Disc Two:
Track 1-9=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967; track 10+11= Steve
Paul's The Scene, New York, March 13th, 1968, a jam session with Jim
Morrison-vocals & harp, Jimi Hendrix-guitar, Randy Zherringer and Buddy
Miles-drums, Randy Hobbs, bass. Disc Three: Tracks 1-8=Official video Live
At The Hollywood Bowl; track 9+10=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden,
September 20th, 1968, late show; Disc Four: Track 1-8=Konserthuset,
Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, first show; track 9+10=second
show. Disc Five: Track 1,7,15,16+17=Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum,
Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970; track 2+3=Original versions from
official Elektra release Waiting For The Sun; track 4=Official Elektra
release In Concert; track 5+8=Konserthuset, Stockholm, September 20th,
1968, first show; track 6+9=official Elektra album The Soft Parade; track
10=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970; track 11=Howard Smith
Interview, Los Angeles, late 1969; track 12+13=a scratched vinyl copy of
the bootleg Rock Is Dead; track 14=Jonathan Winters TV Show, CBS Studios,
Los Angeles, December 27th, 1967; all tracks except 15-17 were copied from
Go Insane Vol. 1+2, Aulica Records. Original source was the Westwood One
Radio Show The Doors From The Inside. Disc Six: Track 1=Pacific National
Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970; Track 2-8=Center
Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970 (cover says Live In Canada 1970, the
announcement for the band before track 2 is from their Vancouver
Concert!). Disc Seven: Track 1-6=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970;
track 7+8=Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June
6th, 1970 (cover says track 7+8 were from their Seattle concert). Taken
from the first Westwood One Radio Show that didn't say The End and Music's
Over were from Vancouver.
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Although this box looks pretty nice, I think it is a must to avoid. First
of all, it presents material most of you already have. Then, just check
the sources - much of the material is presented twice in this box - those
silly bootleggers didn't even notice they doubled many Vancouver and
Seattle tracks! This means they didn't even listen to the tapes and CDs
before they copied them for their release! The soundquality is much better
on other releases. And the 20-page booklet that they call "The Doors -
Instant Picture Book" has got nothing to do with The Doors at all, but
shows Kennedy, Warhol, Martin Luther King, John Wayne (!) and others,
accompanied by silly texts. The CDs have some of the same pictures as
shown in the booklet (first time I see Pamela Courson, Morrison's
girlfriend, on a CD). The tasteless cover of the box (Jim at the
microphone with angel's wings on his back) should tell everybody: Keep
your hands off! Sneak away without buying this horror box!
THE SOFT PARADE / MORRISON HOTEL
DRS 69-70, Russia 1996
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| 1.Tell All The People/ 2.Touch Me/ 3.Shaman's Blues/ 4.Do It/ 5.Easy Ride/
6.Wild Child/ 7.Runnin' Blue/ 8.Wishful Sinful/ 9.The Soft Parade/
10.Roadhouse Blues/ 11.Waiting For The Sun/ 12.You Make Me Real/ 13.Peace
Frog/ 14.Blue Sunday/ 15.Ship Of Fools/ 16.Land Ho!/ 17.The Spy/ 18.Queen
Of The Highway/ 19.Indian Summer/ 20.Maggie M'Gill
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| Sources: All songs taken from the official digitally remastered US-CDs The
Soft Parade and Morrison Hotel.
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This disc containing both original albums on one CD looks very official
but is a Russian bootleg made without licence. On the label there is no
Elektra logo and the line "Just for Russia". The order number got borrowed
from the legal Australian double CD release Morrison Hotel and L.A. Woman.
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