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Finally a good bootleg CD for the collectors. This tape hasn't been published before (except some excerpts on the rare vinyl LP Singing The Blues Vol.II, and of course The Soft Parade on some bad Critique LPs and CDs), and I really like it. Well, the quality isn't that good, but it doesn't matter that much. After all those rip-offs, there's a CD with (for collectors) new material on, and although this Winterland concert (the cover says it was taped in Monterey, which is not true, but there are some tape copies around labeled Monterey; most likely the CD was made from one of those) wasn't one of The Doors' best concerts, it is a perfect example how the band sounded on a pretty normal night. I like how Ray interrupted the ill-fated Close To You (dead from the beginning) "We lost it, we lost it...", and how he started the next song, a mindblowing version of Manish Boy. Yes, guys, it's Jim in the background, but it's Ray's song, his old Screaming Ray Daniels' song, the one he did many times with Rick And The Ravens at the Turkey Joint West in Santa Monica. A great and powerful version. The addition of the song The Soft Parade wasn't really necessary at all, and its quality is better on the official video. Summary: A nice CD (if you don't expect the best sound), nice cover, and - a never before published (bootlegged) Doors concert. A very rare and hard to get bootleg CD.
Telling people the tracks were taped in the USA (but half of the CD's songs weren't!), mixing one track into another, using an official album photo for the cover (the fold-out photo of Morrison Hotel) and giving Eddie Vedder the first tracks of a Doors bootleg without mentioning him on the cover leads to the following short comment: Don't buy this rip-off product.
Same show as Canadian Night (Buccaneer Records BUC 011) but different tracks. Westwood One released a second radio show in December 1991, which featured the missing tracks of the first one, but left out When The Music's Over. So you should get both CDs to have all songs from both radio shows. The Vancouver 70 CD is even longer than Canadian Night (almost 74 minutes), more than one Golden Hour Of The Doors Live in good soundquality. Albert King is jamming with the group on Rock Me Baby, Little Red Rooster and Who Do Yo Love playing a fantastic blues guitar. Wish this jam would be out on video! Despite the fact that the Italian bootleggers illegally copied a chapter of my Doors-book (Rainer Moddemann, Doors, Heel Verlag, Koenigswinter, W/Germany), took a photo from the Isle Of Wight Popfestival for the cover and forgot Jim's birthdate in their booklet while adding the correct dates for the other three Doors, this is a CD absolutely worth to get. Recommended!
Same shit as the other sources mentioned above. Same fade-ins, same fade-outs. A copy of a copy of a copy. Urgh! The cover is even worse. Don't mix this CD up with the Seattle bootleg CD bearing the same title (Ghe-San Disc BM 050). But anyway, it seems all boots called Wanted should be best avoided.
Well, this has got the same tracks and almost the same soundquality, but (compared to the one above) it is much worse. The bootleggers didn't care that much about how to edit the tracks. They fade in, they fade out, first notes and last notes of the songs are cut off. But if you can get Jim's Alive - The Ultimate Seattle Tapes (Tuff Bites T.B.941009), forget this one. I also dislike the cover which reproduces the tasteless Rolling Stone "Wanted"-poster, but with a colour photo.
Another rip-off. Yes, you have to be really careful about most of the releases from the underground. This one contains most of the tracks from the official Live At The Hollywood Bowl video (I still wonder why The Doors put out just a part of that concert on CD and almost the complete concert on videotape: what a feast for CD bootleggers!) along with two abbreviated songs from their Vancouver concert with Albert King (both taken from the radio-show The Doors From The Inside). Who Do You Love is just 24 seconds long (!), unbelievable! I hope nobody bought this rubbish!
World Productions Of Compact Music are known for rather good covers but bad soundquality. Same goes for this CD. At the time of ist release, there were quite many vinyl bootlegs out which were in much better quality. For example - the Critique show was better on the first US LP bootleg pressing with the same title, and the interview with all four Doors was presented the best on the first US pressing of the LP Mr Mojo Risin'. For this CD they used scratched copies of Italian reprints of the vinyls mentioned before. Pity! The demos are interesting, but the soundquality is much better on the very sought-after Run Free bootleg from Italy. The cover shows an interesting live shot of an early Doors performance at the Fillmore Auditorium in New York with a psychedelic projection behind the group, but the picture was copied from the German Celebration double bootleg album. So everything on this bootleg got copied from vinyl releases! None of the tracks is in stereo (as indicated on the cover), and sources and dates are mislabeled; most likely not intentionally, the bootleggers simply did not know it better.
Of course this is NOT their performance at Westbury Music Fair in early 1968, as the people Octopus/Why Not want to tell you. Simply have a look at the track list: Roadhouse Blues and Peace Frog performed in 1968??? I simply hate mislabelled CDs. So - if you have the glorious New York Blues (Document Records DR 033) and Orange County Suite (Document Records DR 019), you have got the tracks already - in even better soundquality. Do not let the bootleggers fool you and simply ignore this rip off!
It's getting boring to see all those illegal releases of official albums, to tell you the truth. This is another boring example of how to rip off people. This company called Sarabandas usually takes tracks from live radio shows, but this time they took all tracks from The Doors' official album In Concert (as they did for their release Light My Fire, Sarabandas 12015). Of course the quality of this CD is excellent, the graphic artwork of the cover is enjoyable, but in general this is just another way to grasp money from fans and collectors. Why don't you steal this CD instead of buying it? Those bootleggers stole the music from an official release, right?
Another compilation CD from Italy. Although the sound is okay and although the CD comes with a nice and informative booklet, this compilation is not worth the money.
Fade in, fade out. The same as the copies mentioned above. Pity! If you want to have the best quality of the same material, get Live In Vancouver (Sounds Alive SA 24.020). Fade out. Thanks God this is limited to 200 copies only.
If you are into Maxi-CDs with just three tracks, and if you are unable to get a copy of Keep The Fire Alive (HAWK 042), this low-price CD is the right choice for you. The concert's soundquality is slightly better than on the HAWK-CD, and the CD is out for low-price. The three tracks are also available on countless Pearl Jam bootleg CDs. |
© 1998 Rainer Moddemann, The Doors Quarterly Magazine. This guide may not be distributed in any other context or media.
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