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CAPABLE OF ANYTHING (2CD)
Crazy Blues Records CBCD 289, USA 1997
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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-Fever-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. A copy of One
Hundred Minutes (Tuff Bites T.B. 95.1040)
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Great US-copy of an European bootleg CD. It has got a fine cover showing
Jim live during the Critique-Show (photo by Frank Lisciandro). The
soundquality is absolutely the same. Very rare in Europe, a real
collectors' item.
CELEBRATION (CD)
The Swinging Pig Records TSP-CD-022, Luxembourg 1989
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| 1.Light My Fire/ 2.Touch Me/ 3.When The Music's Over/ 4.The End/
5.Moonlight Drive/ 6.Light My Fire
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| Sources: 1=Ed Sullivan Show, New York, September 17th, 1967, from official
video Dance On Fire; 2=Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Los Angeles,
December 4th, 1968, from official video Dance On Fire; 3+4=Hollywood Bowl,
Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from official video Live At The Hollywood
Bowl; 5+6=Jonathan Winters TV Show, CBS Studios, Los Angeles, December
27th, 1967. Track 5 from official video Dance On Fire, track 6 from a TV
special.
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First I thought this was a reprint of the double bootleg album Celebration
(Eli Records) with the same title, which has got a horrible soundquality.
But it wasn't. This Celebration CD it is a nice (but standard) compilation
of Doors video tracks, which everybody already has. The soundquality is
almost perfect but if you own The Doors' official videocassettes, you
don't really need this CD. The first pressing came with a black tray, the
reprint came in 1994 with a white tray.
THE CELEBRATION OF THE LIZARD (CD)
Alegra Records/Sarabandas srl CD 9019, Italy 1995
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| 1.Soul Kitchen/ 2.Love Street/ 3.Ship Of Fools/ 4.Crawling King Snake/
5.The End/ 6.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes (cover just says Moonlight
Drive)/ 7.Who Do You Love/ 8.Wild Child/ 9.The Celebration Of The Lizard/
10.Build Me A Woman
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| Sources: 1+7=from official CD In Concert/ 2=Konserthuset, Stockholm,
Sweden, September 20th, 1968, late show; 5+6=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles,
July 5th, 1968, from official video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 8=Konsert-
huset, Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, early show; 3,4,10=Felt
Forum, New York, January 17th, 1970, late show; 9=Felt Forum, New York,
January 18th, 1970, late show.
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Well, this CD is not the best compilation ever, but the quality of the
content is quite good. A rare photo of Jim Morrison from an early Fillmore
East concert in New York on the cover is worth buying the disc - I know
there are a lot of photo collectors out there. For the rest - nothing
sensational.
CENTRAL PARK NEW YORK - AUG.21 1972
(CD)
Black Dog Records BD 004, Hungary 1993 |
| 1.Tightrope Ride/ 2.In The Eye Of The Sun/ 3.The Mosquito/
4.Love Me Two Times/ 5.Verdillac (cover says Jam)/ 6.I'm Horny I'm Stoned/
7.Ships With Sails (cover adds another Jam - extended Ships, but of course
this is nothing else but the second part of track 7)/ 8.Good Rockin'
Tonight/ 9.Light My Fire/ 10.Close To You |
Sources: Central Park, New York, July 17th, 1972 (cover says
August.21st, which is not true).
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This CD features the entire show The Doors did as an open air concert
in New York's Central Park in 1972. It seems that nobody is missing Jim
- the band and the audience are in a very good mood, everybody is singing
and clapping. Nowhere else they did a drum solo as an introduction for
The Mosquito. Although the quality is pretty bad and the index is
not correct, this CD (made from an audience recording) is enjoyable --
very different to what a Doors performance was all about before Jim died.
The cover features some Henry Diltz photos taken in Venice in 1969 that
were never seen before. Fairly enough, the bootlegger put one picture
without Jim on the cover (Robby is behind the green female dummy), but
inside the booklet there is the same picture with Jim taking Robby's
place, holding the dummy's hand in his hand. I have no idea which photo
is a montage and which isn't. Anyway, I think it is a big financial risk
(for a bootlegger) to put out a Doors CD without Morrison on
vocals. If you like the Doors without Jim, this is your chance to hear how
they sounded like in concert. I only wish the soundquality would not be
that bad!
THE CEREMONY CONTINUES (CD)
On Stage Records OSCD 12, Italy 1993
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| 1.Love Me Two Times/ 2.Peace Frog/ 3.Rock Is Dead (ends with Jim's
National Anthem-rap and the Soft Parade-Intro he did before playing Light
My Fire; not mentioned on the cover)/ 4.Light My Fire/ 5.Roadhouse Blues/
6.Someday Soon/ 7.Mystery Train/ 8.When The Music's Over
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| Sources: 1= from the official album Alive She Cried; 2= Felt Forum, New
York, January 18th, 1970, late show; 3= from bootleg CD Orange County
Suite (Document Records DR 019), recorded live at Sunset Sound Studios,
Los Angeles, 25/2/69; for the rap see track 4; 4= same as 2, but taken
from bootleg CD Orange County Suite (Document Records DR 019); 5= from the
album In Concert; 6-8= from bootleg CD June 5th 1970 - Live In Seattle
(Flashback Worldproductions 02.92.0170).
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Don't mix this compilation up with the Baktabak CD bearing the same name
containing the famous Morrison interview by Howard Smith. This one here
has got no interview on it but live material which has been published
before on various other bootlegs and official albums. The cover sheet
doesn't mention where the stuff was recorded. Widely distributed in
stores, it is pretty cheap, and makes an enjoyable listening, because it
was carefully compiled from the best quality sources. For people who don't
have the original sources it could be an interesting intro to The Doors.
THE CEREMONY CONTINUES (Double CD
Set)
Baktabak Records CBAK 24052/2, England 1993 |
| Sources: Howard Smith's Jim Morrison Interview, Los Angeles,
Doors Office on Santa Monica Boulevard, November 1969 |
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A reissue of a British CD with the same name and the same cover
containing Howard Smith's Jim Morrison Interview. Of course this CD should
bear a different name - there are just Jim and Howard on it. This time the
bootleggers added the official Light My Fire/Love Me Two Times Elektra CD
single in a double CD box.
THE CEREMONY CONTINUES (CD)
Baktabak Records, CBAK 4052, England 1992
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| Sources: Complete Howard Smith interview with Jim Morrison, Doors office,
Los Angeles, November 1969.
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Right, on this CD there's Howard's complete 59'21" interview in the best
quality I've ever heard. If you listen to this on the earphones, you'll
experience Howard's nightmares talking to Jim, and I guess you'll realize
how much Jim was teasing him. The girl in the background, by the way, is
Jim's former secretary, Kathy Lisciandro, who still makes the best coffee
in the world (I know it!). Anyway, this CD is highly recommended, and it
comes with a nice coversheet and a short version of The Doors' story. Nice
one. On the back it says: "This album does not contain music and is not
an Elektra release". It also says it was recorded in 1970 ... not true,
must have been November 1969, but who cares? A really good interview CD
- but there are just Jim, Howard and Kathy on it, no other Doors at all
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COLLECTORS ITEMS (CD)
International Broadcast Recordings, IBR 2395, Italy 1994
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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 Infirmary-Light
My Fire/ 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.
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This seems to be Volume 2 of Rarities And Few (IBR 2325). Same comments.
Good to hear just 1970's concerts on both CDs. The covers of both would
look like magic for a vinyl edition. Recommended!
THE COMPLETE MATRIX CLUB TAPES (4 CD Box)
Kiss The Stone KTS BX 009, Italy 1994 |
Disc One: 1.Back Door Man/ 2.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 3.Soul Kitchen/ 4.Get
Off My Life/ 5.When The Music's Over/ 6.Close To You/ 7.Crawling King
Snake/ 8.I Can't See Your Face In My Mind/ 9.People Are Strange/ 10.Who
Do You Love/ 11.Alabama Song/ 12.The Crystal Ship
Disc Two: 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
Disc Three: 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
Disc Four: 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: Disc One and Two= Complete recording of three sets at the Matrix
Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967; Disc Three and Four=Complete
recording of sets two and three at the Matrix Club, San Francisco, March
10th, 1967 (First set of that night is unfortunately still missed).
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This definite box of Matrix recordings clearly wipes off all other bootleg
records having the same material. This box truly sets standards in the
history of Bootlegging The Doors. It definitely has 11 songs from both
nights that have never been published before on bootleg, which makes this
expensive box worth the money you have to spend buying it. Just check the
two versions of I Can't See Your Face In My Mind, or the two wonderful
versions of When The Music's Over - they're far better than the versions
of later concerts. Check the beauty of Light My Fire with its totally
different intro - this shows that the band often continued to work on the
structure and the arrangement of the songs, even after having published
them on record. Robert Johnson's Me And The Devil Blues is unbelievably
good, and the two versions of The End (although the second one is
incomplete) are masterworks including rare Jim Morrison poetry renditions.
The soundquality is really good, not that mushy as the well-known Swingin'
Pig release.
On 4 beautifully designed color CDs you get 5 (!) complete sets from 2
different concerts, packed in a terrific box including a deluxe 24-page
color booklet - you can't ask for more! Throw away all the Matrix CDs
you've bought before and try to get this one. Absolutely RECOMMENDED!
CRAWLING KING SNAKES (CD)
Back Trax CD 04-88004, Luxembourg 1988
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| 1.People are Strange/ 2.Alabama Song/ 3.Crystal Ship/ 4.Twentieth Century
Fox/ 5.Moonlight Drive 6.Summer's Almost Gone/ 7.Unhappy Girl/ 8.Back Door
Man/ 9.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 10.Soul Kitchen/ 11.Get Off My Life/
12.Crawling King Snake/ 13.I Can't See Your Face In My Mind
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Another nice cover, taken from a postcard with a nice photo of Jim with
a pending lady. The photo was taken up the hills of the Hollywood Bowl on
July 5th, 1968. But it is just another release with Matrix tracks (same
tracks on Autumn Life, Living Legend Records LLR CD 003), but in a
different order. The sound-quality is the same as on Autumn Life, but with
a cut at the beginning of Back Door Man, which proofs that the CD was
copied from a vinyl record, most probably from the Italian vinyl bootleg
Definitely Closed. There is definitely better Matrix stuff around!
Interesting enough, the royalties (dues) for this disc had been paid in
France.
THE DOORS (CD)
Live & Alive Imtrat imm 40.90354, Germany 1995
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Back Door Man/ 3.Money/ 4.Rock Me Baby/ 5.Little Red
Rooster/ 6.Who Do You Love/ 7.Light My Fire-Summertime-St. James
Infirmary-Fever-Light My Fire (cover just says Light My Fire/Fever)/ 8.The End
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| Sources: Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th,
1970 (cover gives no source; it just says Original Live Recorded).
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A mediocre CD with an interesting cover showing Val Kilmer instead of Jim
Morrison. Interesting because the name The Doors is printed in silver
letters on the plastic box. The songs are pretty well-known by now. The
disc comes as a cheapo disc - nobody should pay more than $5 for it.
THE DOORS (CD)
Sakkaris Records Ltd., History Of Records HR 52016, Greece 1990
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| 1.Light My Fire-Graveyard Poem-Light My Fire (cover just says Light My
Fire)/ 2.Little Red Rooster/ 3.The Unknown Soldier (cover says Unknow
Soldier - sic)/ 4.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes (cover says Moonlight
Drive A Horse Latitudes); 5.Spanish Caravan/ 6.You Make Me Real
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| Sources: The official CDs Alive She Cried and Live At The Hollywood Bowl,
both later on the official album In Concert.
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The only Greek bootleg CD got vastly distributed in Europe. Although the
material definitely is not interesting, bootleggers copied this one for
the 3 CD box Light My Fire (Starlife ST 3606) and for the 2 CD box Jim
Morrison - Special Limited Edition (Starlife ST 2905). The cover of the
Starlife copy is the same, they just changed the order number.
THE DOORS (1 CD-ROM)
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Finally, even the bootleggers have discovered the new media of CD-Rom. What
is most astonishing about this release is the country of its release - Russia.
The disc has just got a xeroxed black & white cover with a Russian text
on the back. The copy that I have is just a CD-R; a self-made computer copy.
I have no idea if this is distributed as a real print as well. The content
is surprising, too. There are 11 Doors videos on it (all taken from the official
video Dance On Fire); there's a slide show overdubbed by the song The End
and a Russian narrator; there are 62 (!) songs from The Doors‘ official studio
albums on it; there are the lyrics of all official songs; there are 73 nice
(partly rare, üartly from Oliver Stone's film) photos in perfect quality
and there's the introduction taken from the First Flash Of Eden bootleg (the
announcer and a part of Back Door Man). Of course, the Russians made a few
mistakes re-naming the videos: Texas Radio & The Big Beat Vol.2 is nothing
but Love Me Two Times, and Horse Latitudes is nothing but Moonlight Drive.
On the other hand this would make a pretty good official interactive CD-ROM;
the videos should be in better quality, though.
THE DOORS (CD in a paper cover)
Aulica A 141/S, 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).
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No jewel box was used, but a paper jacket including a track sheet. It's
just 36 minutes long and not worth the money a hard core collector would
spend on it. We have enough of Aulica discs by now. This originally came
with a catalogue of all Aulica CDs.
THE DOORS ARE STRANGE (CD)
TDCD 4862, Germany 1994
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| 1.Excerpt from Five To One plus rap (cover says Intro)/ 2.Moonlight Drive/
3.Hello I Love You/ 4.Summer's Almost Gone/ 5.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 6.End
Of The Night/ 7.Insane (cover says Go Insane)/ 8.Roadhouse Blues/
9.Rap/Back Door Man/Five To One/ 10.Do It (cover says Let It Bleed)/
11.Peace Frog/ 12.The Chant Movement/ 13.Who Scared You/ 14.The Soft
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| Sources: Tracks 1 and 9= Dinner Key Auditorium, Miami, March 1st,
1969; Tracks 2-7= Demo Acetate, World Pacific Studios, L.A., Septem-
ber2nd,1965 (copied from a VERY scratched copy of the vinyl bootleg
Resurrection); Track 8= Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver,
June 6th, 1970 (copied from a VERY bad tape copy of a Westwood One Radio
Show); Tracks 10 and 13= original Elektra LP versions (cover says
unreleased demo and 12/12/70); Track 11=Felt Forum, New York, January
17th,1970; Track 12= from the album Requiem For The Americas (cover says
New Orleans, 12/12/1970!); Track 14= from official video The Soft Parade,
recorded at the Critique Show; PBS TV, WNET, New York, May 13th, 1969.
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A copy of one of the worst compilations ever, previously released as The
Killer Awoke (Kiderian Rekords TDCD 4862)! This CD in a clear roundbox is
another waste of plastic, and we know it is our damn duty to ignore those
rip-off CDs. Even the black & white photos are not rare at all but copies
from well-known books.
THE DOORS COMPLETE (4 CD longbox)
Red Phantom and Great Dane Records GDRP 001/2/3/4, Italy, 1992
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Disc One (CLASSICS LIVE 1967/1968): 1.Soul Kitchen/ 2.People Are Strange/
3.Moonlight Drive/ 4.Break On Through/ 5.Back Door Man/ 6.Close To You/
7.The Crystal Ship/ 8.Twentieth Century Fox/ 9.Unhappy Girl/ 10.Love
Street/ 11.Love Me Two Times/ 12.The Hill Dwellers/ 13.The Unknown
Soldier/ 14.You're Lost Little Girl/ 15.Wild Child/ 16.Wake Up/ 17.Touch Me
Disc Two (CLASSICS LIVE 1970): 1.Someday Soon/ 2.Five To One/ 3.When The
Music's Over/ 4.Peace Frog/ 5.Build Me A Woman/ 6.Light My Fire/ 7.The
End/ 8.Roadhouse Blues
Disc Three: (CLASSICS COVER 1967/1970): 1.Money/ 2.I'm A King Bee/
3.Gloria/ 4.Summertime/ 5.Alabama Song/ 6.Get Off My Life/ 7.Crawling King
Snake/ 8.Mystery Train/ 9.Back Door Man/ 10.Rock Me Baby/ 11.Little Red
Rooster/ 12.Who Do You Love
Disc Four: (OUTTAKES): 1.Moonlight Drive/ 2.Hello I Love You/ 3.Summer's
Almost Gone/ 4.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 5.End Of The Night/ 6. Insane (cover
says Go Insane)/ 7.Someday Soon/ 8.Rock Is Dead/ 9.Poetry Session/
10.Orange County Suite
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Sources: Disc One - 1-4=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March.10th, 1967;
5-9=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967; 10-13=Konserthuset,
Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, early show; 14-16=Konserthuset,
Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, late show); 17=Smothers Brothers
Comedy Hour, Los Angeles, December 4th, 1968).
Disc Two - 1-2=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970, short version;
3,6-8=Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th,
1970, cover says Seattle, which is not true; 4=Felt Forum, New York,
January 18th, 1970, late show; 5=Felt Forum, New York, January 17th, late
show.
Disc Three - 1-7=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th and 10th, 1967;
8=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970, cut version, cover says June
7th, which is not true); 9-12=Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum,
Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970.
Disc Four - 1-6=Demo Acetate, World Pacific Studios, Los Angeles,
September 2nd, 1965; 7=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970, cover
says Outtakes Sessions Of Morrison Hotel, which is not true; 8=Session for
the album The Soft Parade, Elektra Sound Studios, Los Angeles, February
25th, 1969, short version; 9+10=Poetry session, Elektra Sound Studios, Los
Angeles, March 1969, not a Doors recording but Jim Morrison only, both
tracks are not complete.
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A luxurious glossy hardcover longbox containing 4 CDs, a beautiful 24-page
booklet and a colour poster make one of the nicest Doors CD compilation
boxes of all time. All four picture CDs and their covers had been designed
individually. Sure, all tracks have been published on countless bootlegs
before, but this seems to be the first attempt to produce an intelligentcompilation. For the first time somebody tried to publish a concept box,
not just another uninteresting compilation. Despite a few tiny mistakes
(check the sources) and the inclusion of a longer Someday Soon version
(copied from Live In Seattle, Flashback Worldproductions 02.92.0170) and
a short version (from The Doors From The Inside radio show, but the same
concert), this box is a perfect collector's item. Some interesting liner
notes and a list of 51 different Doors bootleg CDs including all their
tracks made the booklet very attractive at the time of ist release. It
also contains many photos, mostly from Frank Lisciandro's books and Danny
Sugerman's Illustrated History book. The extra colour poster shows the
covers of all 51 CDs mentioned. A great work. Although the box is pretty
expensive, it is worth the money and without any doubt recommended for the
true fan.
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