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| FREEDOM MAN (3 CD Box)
Banzai Records BZBX 036/37/38, Italy 1994
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Disc 1: 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Ship Of Fools/ 3.Break On Through/ 4.Univer-
sal Mind/ 5.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To One/ 6.Moonlight Drive-Hor-
se Latitudes-Moonlight Drive (cover just mentions Moonlight Drive)/ 7.Who
Do You Love/ 8.Money/ 9.Light My Fire/ 10.When The Music's Over
Disc 2: 1.The Spy/ 2.Break On Through/ 3.Peace Frog/ 4.Blue Sunday/ 5.Light My
Fire-Summertime-Fever-Light My Fire (cover just says Light My Fire)/
6.Soul Kitchen/ 7.Love Me Two Times/ 8.Maggie M'Gill/ 9.Roadhouse Blues/
10.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To One/ 11.Ship Of Fools
Disc 3: 1.When The Music's Over/ 2.Back Door Man/ 3.Break On Through/ 4.When The
Music's Over/ 5.Ship Of Fools/ 6.Light My Fire/ 7.The End-Across The
Sea-Away In India-Crossroads-Wake Up-The End (cover just mentions The End)
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Sources: Disc One= Felt Forum, New York, January 18th, 1970, entire first
show.
Disc Two= Long Beach Sports Arena, Long Beach, February 7th, 1970 (not the
entire show, misdated as February 2nd, 1970).
Disc Three= Track 1 same as Disc 2; tracks 2-7 Isle Of Wight Festival,
Isle Of Wight, England, August 29th, 1970 (not the entire show).
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Except for a few song segments during The End and Moonlight Drive and the
version of When The Music's Over on disc 3, track 1, the "normal"
collector does not have the material published in this box. The three CDs
are recommended for the collector who is not interested in bootleg
compilation CDs. The Felt Forum concert is the only complete recording of
one single Felt Forum concert which is around (on all other previously
published CDs the tracks are compiled from three different shows, as I've
recently found out. By the way, until now no recording of the first Felt
Forum show on January 17th, 1970 has shown up). Interesting enough, the
version of Moonlight Drive was used for Alive She Cried (later on In
Concert), and Universal Mind was used for Absolutely Live (later used for
In Concert as well), but on this CD you have the complete version
including a fantastic organ solo by Ray Manzarek. I can't believe Paul
Rothchild cut this out while putting Absolutely Live together! In general,
a fine show, although Jim says before Light My Fire, "I thank you all for
being so patient with us tonight. It usually takes an hour or so to get
warmed up, so I don't plan the rest to go any but for a while ... what if
we'll do a famous radio song?" But - a very boring version of Light My
Fire follows, unfortunately. When The Music's Over is slightly better, and
if you listen carefully you'll notice that this Felt Forum version was
used as the basic track for the one on Absolutely Live with a few overdubs
here and there - especially the Shut Up! phrase, which has definitely been
cut into the Felt Forum version of January 18th, first show. The original
tape runs too slowly, by the way. The bootleggers didn't bother to correct
the speed, unfortunately ...
The second CD in this box has got songs from The Doors' Long Beach concert
on it. Unfortunately the quality is very bad (the master tape seems to
have being recorded 200 meters away from the stage), and half of the
concert is not on this CD - I miss Universal Mind, Crystal Ship, Touch Me
and The End. But The Doors and their audience are in the best mood ever,
Jim is giving a good rap to the audience, and if not for its historical
importance this concert represents one of the better shows the band gave
to a big audience (remember the disastrous Seattle concert?). Music's Over
(17'32" long!) is much much better than the version from the first CD of
this box, but it's very hard to get what Jim is telling the audience - the
quality of the recording is awful. The order of the songs on the CD is not
as The Doors played them - they started with Roadhouse Blues. Blue Sunday
is the only live version of this lovely tune available, nice one, Jim!
The third CD starts with Music's Over from Long Beach, then it fades into
The Doors' Isle Of Wight performance. I'm shocked the quality is so bad;
it really sucks - there are much better tapes around, and if you have the
bootleg LP or CD First Flash Of Eden on Tangie Town Records - good, the
quality is best on that one.
The box contains an excellent 52-page (!) booklet with many color photos
(most of them taken by Frank Lisciandro), an interesting but jerkily
written article about the last year of Doors concerts (1970) plus a few
snippets of Morrison-poetry. Probably the best booklet ever produced for
a bootleg box.
This box is recommended because of the rarity of the material and the
beautiness of the cover and the booklet, but certainly not for the sound
quality.
FROM THE INSIDE - LIVE AND UNRELEASED (CD)
Manic Depression CD 017, Italy 1990
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| 1.The End (cover says Mother)/ 2.The Unknown Soldier/ 3.Yes, The River
Knows (cover says The River Knows)/ 4.Gloria/ 5.Five To One/ 6.Do It
(cover says Let It Bleed)/ 7.Who Do You Love/ 8.Money/ 9.The Soft Parade
Intro (cover says Petition The Lord With Prayer)/ 10.Someday Soon (cover
says Sunday Soon)/ 11.Jim Morrison Interview/ 12.Rock Is Dead/Poetry
Session (cover just mentiones Jim Morrison Interview)/ 13.When The Music's
Over/ 14.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To One/ 15.The Unknown Soldier/
16.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes/ 17.The End/ 18.Light My Fire
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| Sources: 1+7=Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June
6th, 1970 (excerpts only), cover says Wiskey a Go/Go (sic); 2+3=from
official album Waiting For The Sun, cover says Fillmore East 1968 for #2
and From Demo 1967 for #3; 4=from official CD Alive She Cried, later In
Concert, cover says From Demo 1967; 5+8=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden,
September 20th, 1968, early show, cover says Fillmore East 1968 for #5 and
Venue 1968 for #8; 6+9=from official album The Soft Parade, cover says
Demo 1968 for #6 and Miami 1969 for #9; 10=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June
5th, 1970 (short version), cover says From Acetate 1967; 11=excerpt from
Howard Smith Interview, Doors office, Los Angeles, November 1969, cover
says Iterview (sic); 12=session for the album The Soft Parade, Elektra
Sound Studios, Los Angeles, February 25th, 1969/ Jim Morrison poetry
session, Elektra Sound Studios, Los Angeles, March 1969, cover says Miami
1969; 13-17=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from official
video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 18=Jonathan Winters TV Show, CBS
Studios, Los Angeles, December 27th, 1967. # 13-18 are the only tracks
labeled correctly, all other sources are labeled intentionally incorrect!
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I still get a manic depression when I notice how the bootleggers mistitled
and mislabeled most of the tracks. Almost all tracks were taken from a
tape copy of the radio show The Doors From The Inside, a famous and
absolutely amazing show done in 1988 by Jac Holzman, former president of
Elektra Records. The rest of the songs is known from some of the official
videos. But telling people on the cover that The Doors are performing
songs like Mother and Let It Bleed is absolutely bad and done just to
raise the sales of this unbearable CD. You should watch your Dance On Fire
and Live At The Hollywood Bowl videos, listen to your original CDs and the
recommended CD boots in this book, then you have got all things which are
on this CD and the soundquality is very much better. This Italian release
is nothing but a rip off. Unfortunately From The Inside - Live And
Unreleased was the source many other bootleggers copied their rip offs
from - without questioning the correctness of titles and sources. Damn it!
FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH THE MOJO WIRE (CD)
RHP 456, Slovakia 1995
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| 1.Moonlight Drive/ 2.Get Off My Life (cover says Get Out Of My Life)/
3.I'm A King Bee/ 4.Back Door Man/ 5.Me And The Devil Blues-Sittin' Here
Thinkin'-Rock Me Baby (cover says Sittin' And Thinkin')/ 6.Me And The
Devil Blues/ 7.Queen Of The Magazines (cover says Love In Vain)/ 8.Excerpt
from Rock Is Dead (cover says Love Me)/ 9.Excerpt from Rock Is Dead
(cover says Rock Is Dead)/ 10.Someday Soon/ 11. The End
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| Sources: 1-5=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th and 10th, 1967;
6-9=Recording Session for the album The Soft Parade, early 1969 (not
complete); 10=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970 (not complete);
11=Now Explosion CBC TV Show, O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada, August 8th,
1967 (cover says Copenhagen, Danish TV Show, September 1968 which is not
true). Tracks 1-10 are labeled as Rehearsals, which is not true.
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Another rip off, containing intentionally mislabeled material. Don't let
this bootlegger fool you - this is material almost every serious fan
already has. Despite the nice cover, this CD is not worth your money. It
was made in Slovakia, the only country in Europe that still was pressing
bootlegs during the autumn and winter 1995. So this is not really a true
Slovakian release, it was just made there (check the carefully wiped-off
registration number on the disc). Never before released is written on the
cover - never believe this when you see a bootleg!
FUTURE IS MURDER (CD)
Alien Records 006,
Germany 1994 |
| 1.Crawling King Snake (cover says Jake)/ 2.Away In India (cover
says Lament Of An Indian)/ 3.Peace Frog/ 4.Money/ 5.Poem: Frozen Moment
By A Lake (cover says The Chant Movement/Five To One, but there's no Five
To One at all!)/ 6.Mystery Train (cover says A Train Arrives)/ 7.Horse
Latitudes-Hitler/ 8.Orange County Suite/ 9.Rock Is Dead (cover says Rock
Is Dead/A Train Arrives)/ 10.Rock Me Baby/ 11.Someday Soon/ 12.Touch Me/
13.Do It/ 14.Wild Child/ 15.Wishful Sinful/ 16.The Soft Para-
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| Sources: 1= Felt Forum, New York, January 17th, 1970, late
show; 2= a short part of The End from State Fair Music Hall, Dallas,
December 11th, 70; 3= same as 1 (cover says New York 4/5/70); 4= Pacific
National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970; 5= from
Jim's poetry session March 1969 (cover says New Orleans 12/12/70); 6=
Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970; 7= original LP-version, early
fade-out; Hitler from Rock Is Dead bootleg LP; 8= cut version from Jim's
poetry session March 1969; 9= incomplete cut version from bootleg Rock Is
Dead, (cover says San Diego, 22/8/70); 10= same as 4; 11= same as 6, cut
version; 12= Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, December 4th, 1968, from video
Dance On Fire; 13= original LP-version (cover says L.A.4/4/68); 14-16=
from official video The Soft Parade (cover says New York 23/5/69), but
15+16 were recorded in New York on May 13th, 1969. Same CD as The Future
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After everybody had read in The Doors Quarterly #29 the first issue
from 1993 was pure shit, the news got around and nobody bought it anymore.
So the bootlegger used another dirty trick: He threw away the old
digi-packs, bought new black jewel boxes, had three colorful stickers
printed and stuck them onto the box. He left out the "The" from the
previous title (The Future Is Murder) and is now hoping that the fans will
buy his shabby CD another time. No, we won't, Mr. German Records, alias
Mr. Alien Records, alias Mr. Fun Factory, and we won't even buy another
repackage of your awful Replica Blues-shit and your horrible Archangel-rubbish.
I do not need to mention that this CD too features songs
labeled Live In New Orleans (see other CDs mentioning this source). How
many synonyms do you know for excrements, dear readers? Well, use them all
for Future Is Murder!
THE FUTURE IS MURDER (CD)
Alien Records 006, Germany 1993
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| 1.Crawling King Snake (cover says Jake)/ 2.Away In India (cover says
Lament Of An Indian)/ 3.Peace Frog/ 4.Money/ 5.Poem: Frozen Moment By A
Lake (cover says The Chant Movement/Five To One, but there's no Five To
One at all!)/ 6.Mystery Train (cover says A Train Arrives)/ 7.Horse
Latitudes-Hitler/ 8.Orange County Suite/ 9.Rock Is Dead (cover says Rock
Is Dead/A Train Arrives)/ 10.Rock Me Baby/ 11.Someday Soon/ 12.Touch Me/
13.Do It/ 14.Wild Child/ 15.Wishful Sinful/ 16.The Soft Parade
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| Sources: 1= Felt Forum, New York, January 17th, 1970, late show; 2= a
short part of The End from State Fair Music Hall, Dallas, December 11th,
70; 3= same as 1 (cover says New York 4/5/70); 4= Pacific National
Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970; 5= from Jim's
poetry session March 1969 (cover says New Orleans 12/12/70); 6= Center
Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970; 7= original LP-version, early fade-out;
Hitler from Rock Is Dead bootleg LP; 8= cut version from Jim's poetry
session March 1969; 9= incomplete cut version from bootleg Rock Is Dead,
(cover says San Diego, 22/8/70); 10= same as 4; 11= same as 6, cut
version; 12= Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, December 4th, 1968, from video
Dance On Fire; 13= original LP-version (cover says L.A.4/4/68); 14-16=
from official video The Soft Parade (cover says New York 23/5/69), but
15+16 were recorded in New York on May 13th, 1969.
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One of the worst CDs in the world. As you can see in this huge list above,
this German bootleg CD is a total rip-off, trying to pretend to have good
and unusual material on it. But there isn't any note on it which hasn't
been published before on countless other bootleg records and CDs. Using
songs from official Doors albums and videos, adding some audience noises
and Morrison poems don't neccessarily make a good bootleg album. Even
worse: Telling people some of the stuff was recorded in New Orleans (which
was last Doors concert with Jim Morrison). Well, it is just a poem from
the well-known Rock Is Dead album/the well-known Orange County Suite CD
(Document Records DR 019). Most of the poetry' intercuts and overdubs run
too slow! A few songs are cut: the bootlegger made his own short versions.
Collectors might be interested in getting one of the first digipacks in
bootleg CD history, but I hope nobody is going to buy this shit. The
material was intentionally falsified and mislabeled to make fans think
they have bought some rare stuff. Absolutely not worth the money! Avoid
it! See Future Is Murder, Archangel and Replica Blues. For shit like these
CDs they cut down rainforests and pollute our environment with plastic!
GHOST SONGS ON DAWNS HIGHWAY (CD)
plus SCOTT WALKER and HAROLD BUDD (bonus tracks)
Immaculate Records, Germany (?) 1993 |
THE DOORS: 1. Awake/Ghost Song/ 2.Dawn's Highway/ 3.Newborn Awakening/
4.To Come Of Age/Black Polished Chrome/ 5.Latino Chrome/ 6.Angels And
Sailors/ 7.Stoned Immaculate/ 8.The Movie/ 9.Curses,Invocations 10.The
American Night/ 11.Roadhouse Blues/ 12.The World On Fire/Lament/ 13.The
Hitchhiker/ 14.An American Prayer
SCOTT WALKER: 1.Shutout/ 2.Fat MamaKick/ 3.Nite Flights/ 4.The Electrician
HAROLD BUDD: Dark Star
JIM MORRISON: Orange County Suite
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| Sources: A vinyl copy of the original An American Prayer (Jim Morrison -
Music By The Doors) album from 1978 (Elektra ELK 52111) for track 1-14.
Source for Scott Walker and Harold Budd tracks unknown. Jim Morrison track
recorded March 1969 in Los Angeles, Sunset Sound Studios (cover makes
you believe it was a Doors-track).
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This very strange CD puts together artists who have got nothing to do with
each other. Sure we know Scott Walker, the ex-singer of The Walker
Brothers (his real name was Scott Engel), and some of you might know
Harold Budd, who worked a lot with Brian Eno. But why the hell are those
guys featured with some bonus tracks on a Doors CD? Of course this CD is
a bootleg, and somebody took a SCRATCHED copy of his Prayer-vinyl album
and put this on CD with two other artists as guest stars. Yes, listen to
all those nice crackles that make a vinyl album worth to listen to - but
this time they're on CD! If you like to listen to An American Prayer in
front of your fireplace, you don't need the fireplace anymore: it's
already featured on your copy of Ghost Songs On Dawn's Highway. The
Walker/Budd tracks are interesting, though, and without crackles. I really
don't want to comment the An American Prayer album now, it's very very
good, as we all know, it is a perfect poetry album, probably the album Jim
really had in mind when he went to record his poetry (but probably without
The Doors. If you buy this bootleg, The Doors won't get the royalties they
deserve for making An American Prayer, so - honestly - out goes the
message: DON'T BUY THIS RIP-OFF CALLED 'DAWN'S HIGHWAY'. IT'S SHIT! Run
into your local record store and buy the original Elektra CD!
GO INSANE (2 CD in silk box)
Aulica Deluxe
9420.22, Italy 1994 |
Disc One - 1.When The Music's Over/ 2.Moonlight
Drive-Horse Latitudes/ 3.Money/ 4.Gloria/ 5.Light My Fire/ 6.The Hill
Dwellers/ 7.Summertime (cover says No Limits No Laws)/ 8.Someday Soon
(cover says Sunday Soon, incomplete).
Disc Two - 1.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To One/ 2.I'm A King
Bee/ 3.Who Do You Love/ 4.Insane (cover says Go Insane)/ 5.Summer's Almost
Gone/ 6.Do It (cover says Let It Bleed)/ 7.The End. |
| Sources: Disc One - 1-2=Hollywood Bowl, June 5th, 1968, taken
from the official video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 3=Konserthuset,
Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, second show; track 4 original
version from Alive She Cried/ In Concert, but fade out; 5+6=same as 3;
7=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967; 8=Center Coliseum,
Seattle, June 5th, 1970.
Disc Two - 1=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, June 5th, 1968 taken from the
official video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 2=Matrix Club, San Francisco,
March 10th, 1967; 3+5=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967; 4=Demo
Acetate, World Pacific Studios, Los Angeles, September 2nd, 1965, cover
says it was recorded live in L.A.; 6=original version from the album The
Soft Parade, taken from a radio show, cover says it was recorded live in
L.A.; 7=same as track 1. Both discs same as Go Insane (Aulica 112.10.1 and
112.10.2.) |
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An edition of Aulica's Go Insane double set (originally in a
beautiful longbox foldout cover). This time the two discs come in a silk
box, with an especially designed label, and the paper ribbon around the
box makes it look very Japanese, but it is not from Japan at all. It's
another Italian attempt to make money (Japanese boots are usually very
expensive). That's why they also tell us it was a limited numbered edition
for the collector ... aehm - but they did not bother to correct the names
of the songs. So Do It is still called Let It Bleed, and
Summertime is still called No Limits No Laws. And I still
do NOT recommend this double CD Box, even if it has got another
packing. By the way, same packing was used for many other Aulica CDs
featuring other artists.
GO INSANE (CD)
Oil Well RSC CD 042, Italy
1994 |
| 1.Alabama Song/ 2.Back Door Man-Five To One/ 3.I Can't See Your
Face In My Mind/ 4.People Are Strange/ 5.Money/ 6.Who Do You Love/
7.Summer's Almost Gone/ 8.I'm A King Bee/ 9.Gloria/ 10.Summertime/
11.Close To You/ 12.Rock Me Baby 13.Do It (cover says Let It Bleed)/
14.The Hill Dwellers/ 15.Summertime (cover says No Limits No Laws, same
song as # 10!)/ 16.Someday Soon (cover says Sunday Soon)/ 17.Insane (cover
says Go Insane). |
| Sources: 1-2=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from
official video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 3-12 and 15=Matrix Club, San
Francisco, March 7th and 10th, 1967; 13=from the official album The Soft
Parade; 14=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, late
show, not complete; 16=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970, cut
version; 17=Demo Acetate, World Pacific Studios, Los Angeles, September
2nd, 1965. A copy of Summer's Almost Gone (Luna Records LU 9205) |
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A bootleg of the bootleg Summer's Almost Gone (Luna Records LU 9205)
retitled Go Insane with a different cover. Keep your hands off this CD!
THE DOORS - GO INSANE (Two CD in 2 different
longboxes)
Aulica Records (Vol.One) A 112.10.1; (Vol.Two) A 112.10.2
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Disc One: 1.When The Music's Over/ 2.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes/
3.Money/ 4.Gloria/ 5.Light My Fire/ 6.The Hill Dwellers/ 7.Summertime
(cover says No Limits No Laws)/ 8.Someday Soon (cover says Sunday Soon,
incomplete).
Disc Two: 1.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To One/ 2.I'm A King Bee/
3.Who Do You Love/ 4.Insane (cover says Go Insane)/ 5.Summer's Almost
Gone/ 6.Do It (cover says Let It Bleed)/ 7.The End.
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| Sources: Disc One - 1-2=Hollywood Bowl, June 5th, 1968, taken from the
official video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 3=Konserthuset, Stockholm,
Sweden, September 20th, 1968, second show; track 4 original version from
Alive She Cried/ In Concert, but faded out; 5+6=same as 3; 7=Matrix Club,
San Francisco, March 10th, 1967; Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970.
Disc Two - 1=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, June 5th, 1968 taken from the
official video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 2=Matrix Club, San Francisco,
March 10th, 1967; 3+5=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967; 4=Demo
Acetate, World Pacific Studios, Los Angeles, September 2nd, 1965, cover
says it was recorded live in L.A.; 6=original version from the album The
Soft Parade, taken from a radio show, cover says it was recorded live in
L.A.; 7=same as track 1.
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A good example how clever Italian bootleggers can be. Selling two crap CDs
in two beautiful deluxe longboxes, both carefully designed, is in fact
very clever! If there was a competition for the best bootleg-cover, they
would certainly win the prize! It takes a lot of work to get through all
those little doors, windows, folders and bags to find the CDs, and it also
takes some time to rearrange all those cover foldings. If there weren't
those two boxes nobody would have bought the shit inside. This shit is
presented on two individually designed CDs, by the way. Every average
Doors fan should know by now that The Doors never recorded any track named
Let It Bleed or No Limits No Laws. But the cover really is amazing and the
whole set is pretty expensive.
But because of the misleading labeling of the tracks I certainly don't
recommend the set. The content stinks.
LOS GRANDES DEL ROCK (VOL.14) - LIGHT MY FIRE
(CD)
Fabbri Editori MRL 014, Italy 1993
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| 1. Soul Kitchen/ 2. Gloria/ 3.Light My Fire-Fever-Summertime/St.James
Infirmary-Light My Fire/ 4. Little Red Rooster/ 5. Who Do You Love/ 6.
Rock Me Baby/ 7. Moonlight Drive
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| Sources: 1,2+7= Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967; 3-6= Pacific
National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970. Same as
I Miti Del Rock Live, MRL 014, but different cover, made for a Spanish
Magazine.
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As a supplement for a magazine in Spain this disc might be fine, but they
do sell it separately and it is pretty expensive. Anyway, the cover is
uninteresting and the material is not rare.
LOS GRANDES DEL ROCK (VOL.3) - NO LIMITS
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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Like the other Los Grandes Del Rock, this one was a supplement for a
Spanish magazine. Intentionally falsified titles, fade-ins and -outs and
very common material are signatures of a bad CD. At least they got the
dates right! A copy of No Limits (Fabbri Editori MRL 003, Italy 1993).
HIGHSCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL (CD)
Busy Bastards Music BBM 08-15, Luxembourg 1994
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| 1.Moonlight Drive/ 2.Money/ 3.Break On Through/ 4.Back Door Man/ 5.People
Are Strange/ 6.The Crystal Ship/ 7.Wake Up/ 8.Light My Fire/ 9.The End
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A fine document of a golden Doors period: Jim is in a very good mood, and
the other three Doors are doing great jobs at their instruments. I love
the long organ intro and the additional verses from The Celebration Of The
Lizard plus an excerpt from Who Scared You in The End; a very special
17-minute version. Although the sound is distorted and pretty bad, and
although there are a few cuts (especially in Moonlight Drive), this CD is
something you should try to get. Hi-fi-freaks shouldn't buy it, and for
the beginner of collecting live Doors CDs this is a bad intro to the world
of bootlegs. I guess this disc was made for the advanced collector, who
is happy to add another complete concert to his collection. My audio tape
of this show is worse than this release, I guess the bootlegger used a
lower generation tape for this CD. So - an exciting document in (probably)
the best available quality. Recommended!
IN CONCERT - SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION (2 CD Box)
Starlife ST 2912, Luxembourg/Germany 1993
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Disc One - LIVE IN LOS ANGELES: 1.Moonlight Drive/ 2.Alabama Song/ 3.Horse
Latitudes/ 4.The Unknown Soldier/ 5.When The Music's Over/ 6.Five To One/
7.Back Door Man/ 8.The End/ 9.Moonlight Drive/ 10.Light My Fire
Disc Two - LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO: 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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Sources: Disc One - 1-8=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from
official video Live At The Hollywood Bowl, very strange cuts divide Horse
Latitudes from Moonlight Drive and Alabama Song from Back Door Man;
9+10=Jonathan Winters TV Show, CBS Studios, Los Angeles, December 27th,
1967. Sold separately as Live In Los Angeles (Starlife HRCD 52072).
Disc Two: Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967, first and second
set. Same as Crawling King Snakes (Back Trax CD 04-88004). Sold separately
as Live In San Francisco (Starlife ST 8004).
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Just another midprice package of Starlife CDs. Not interesting at all, the
material is well-known. Disc One was also available in the 3 CD box Light
My Fire (Starlife ST 3606).
IN CONCERT (2 CDs in a paper box)
Starlife ST 2912, Luxemburg 1991
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Disc One: 1.Moonlight Drive/ 2.Alabama Song/ 3.Horse Latitudes/ 4.The
Unknown Soldier/ 5.When The Music's Over/ 6.Five To One/ 7.Back Door Man/
8.The End/ 9.Moonlight Drive/ 10.Light My Fire
Disc Two: 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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| Sources: Disc One - 1-8=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from
official video Live At The Hollywood Bowl, very strange cuts divide Horse
Latitudes from Moonlight Drive and Alabama Song from Back Door Man;
9+10=Jonathan Winters TV Show, CBS Studios, Los Angeles, December 27th,
1967. A copy of the bootleg CD Live in Los Angeles (HRCD 52072).
Disc Two - Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967, first and second
set. A copy of the CD Crawling King Snakes (Backtrax 04-88004), also
published as Live in San Francisco (ST 8004).
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This one comes in a special 2-CD paper box using a Roundhouse live-photo
... No, please, no more releases of Hollywood Bowl and Matrix! But here
it is, and people are buying this rip-off ... a must to avoid, really!
IN MEXICO (CD)
Goldtone Records GT-014, USA 1996
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| 1.When The Music's Over/ 2.Break On Through/ 3.Medley: Back Door
Man/Maggie M'Gill/Roadhouse Blues/Back Door Man/ 4.The Crystal Ship/
5.Wake Up/ 6.Light My Fire/7. Light My Fire/8. Break On Through/9.The End
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| Sources: 1-6 = Toronto Popfestival, Varsity Stadium, Toronto, Canada,
September 13,1969; 7-9 = Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7, 1967 (both
sources from bad tape copies).
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An example of an ugly attempt to rip-off fans. This CD is in bad
soundquality, a home-made computer copy. It just has a very beautiful,
tastefully designed cover (printed), using great color photos of Jim and
the band (two photographed by the late Linda Eastman). The Toronto
Popfestival appearance of The Doors actually is still going around
labelled as "Mexico" (I've seen a tape copy at Camden Lock in London)
among tape collectors. But here somebody is just trying to sell well-known
material under a new title. I wish there was a recording of The Doors'
Mexico shows around but there isn't. This CD is collectible for hard-core
fans only for the great cover. The disc itself will collect dust in your
shelf. A much better recording of the Toronto show can be heard on TORONTO
POP FESTIVAL 1969 PLUS OTHER RARITIES (Too Drunk To Fuck TDTF 002), as
reviewed in DQ 30, page 49.
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