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THE INTERVIEWED DOORS (CD)
Discussion Records DISSCD 2, U.K. 1996
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| Sources: Howard Smith's Jim Morrison Interview, Los Angeles, Doors Office
on Santa Monica Boulevard, November 1969 (incomplete)
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Most of you have a different copy of this interview CD, which was also
published under the title The Ceremony Continues (Baktabak Records CBAK
24052/2) in a 60-minute version. This one here has an ugly cover, a
misleading title (there's just Jim on there) and does not contain the
complete interview, but just a 32 minute version. Forget it!
THE INTERVIEWED DOORS (CD)
Lightmy 5 CD Discussion Records, England 1991 (comes in a white 7" box)
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| Sources: Howard Smith's interview with Jim Morrison, Los Angeles, Doors
office on Santa Monica Boulevard, November 1969, cut version.
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The well-known Howard Smith interview with Jim Morrison from December
1969. Unfortunately it is just a short version of just 32 minutes of the
whole thing which was about an hour long, and the soundquality is pretty
bad. It might be a rarity: the CD came in a white 7"box, labelled as a
"Strictly Limited Edition", along with two postcards, but if you want to
obtain the complete interview, go out and buy the complete one, which is
on a CD named The Ceremony Continues (Baktabak Records CBAK 4052).
AN INTERVIEW WITH JIM MORRISON (CD)
MCE
Records CD Doors 1, England 1991 |
| Sources: Howard Smith's Jim Morrison interview, Los Angeles,
Doors Office on Santa Monica Boulevard, November 1969 |
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A British reissue of The Ceremony Continues with a different cover and
a booklet containing an article on The Doors' history (many factual
mistakes, by the way). This is sold as a mid-price CD in the UK, so do not
pay that much for it in other countries. Thanks to the makers: this issue
has got a correct title.
INVITATION (1CD)
MUM Records MUCD 013, Czech Republic 1996 |
| 1.Break On Through/ 2.Adolf Hitler/ 3.Roadhouse Blues/ 4.Rock Is Dead/
5.The Crystal Ship/ 6.Moonlight Drive/ 7.People Are Strange/ 8.Love Me Tender/
9.Rap/ 10.Back Door Man/ 11.Touch Me/ 12.Touch Me/ 13.The End/ 14.When The
Music's Over/ 15.Light My Fire |
| Sources: Tracks 1,2,3+14= Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970;
tracks 4 +8= Studio Session for The Soft Parade, February 25th, 1969, (cut
versions), copied from the bootleg CD Missing Links; tracks 5+7= Matrix Club,
San Francisco, March 7th, 1967; 6= Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th,
1967, second set (cover says Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, April 14, 1967,
which is not true); track 5+7=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967,
first set; tracks 9-11=Dinner Key Auditorium, Maimi, March 1, 1969, copied
from the bootleg CD Live In Miami 1969; track 12= Smothers Brothers Comedy
Hour, Los Angeles, December 4th, 1968, from official video Dance On Fire;
track 14= Now Explosion CBC TV Show, O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada, August
8th, 1967, track 15= Ed Sullivan Show, New York, September 17th, 1967, from
official video Dance On Fire. |
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A classic bootleg compilation disc, featuring everybody's favorites. If you
have the original boots this was copied from you definitely should not look
out for this disc, which fades songs in and fades them out. Nice psychedelic
graphic Jim Morrison cover for collectors, though.
JIM MORRISON LIVE FEATURING ALBERT KING (1CD)
ITM 960023, Germany 1998 |
| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Back Door Man-Five To One/ 3.When The Music's
Over/ 4.Who Do You Love/ 5.Light My Fire-Fever-Summertime-St.James
Infirmary-Light My Fire (cover just says 6.Light My Fire and 7.Fever)/ 6.The
End |
| Sources: Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada,
June 6, 1970. |
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A widely distributed copy of The Doors featuring Albert King - Feel The Blues
(American Concert Series ACS 024, Italy 1992), amazingly enough there are
much better bootlegs of this concert around (for example Tuff Bites' One
Hundred Minutes), but they used that fade-in, fade-out version that nobody
liked. To my surprise this CD is available at amazon.com in the USA; they
probably did not realise this was a bootleg. The cover shows Val Kilmer as
Jim Morrison and the design is not bad at all, but - huh - the sound is awful!
JIM MORRISON - SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION (2 CD
Box)
Starlife ST 2905, Luxembourg/Germany 1994
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Disc One: 1.People Are Strange/ 2.Light My Fire/ 3.Take It As It Comes/
4.Alabama Song/ 5.Love Me Two Times/ 6.Break On Through/ 7.End Of The
Night/ 8.Moonlight Drive/ 9.I Looked At You/ 10.Twentieth Century Fox/
11.Soul Kitchen/ 12.Back Door Man/ 13.The Crystal Ship/ 14.Unhappy Girl
Disc Two: 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: Disc One - From the official albums The Doors and Strange Days.
Same as The Doors Of Heaven (Starlife HRCD 52044)
Disc Two - From the official CDs Alive She Cried and Live At The Hollywood
Bowl, both later on In Concert. Same as The Doors (Sakkaris Records Ltd.,
History Of Records HR 52016)
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Another repackage of Starlife CDs. Not worth to mention. Thanks God - it
is a midprice box.
JIM MORRISON'S DOORS (CD)
Rockstars In Concert 6127062, Holland 1992
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Break On Through/ 3.Love Me Two Times/ 4.When The
Music's Over/ 5.Light My Fire/ 6.The End
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| Sources: 1,2,6= Felt Forum, New York, January 17th, 1970, late show;
3,4,5= Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, September20th, 1968, late show.
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Another compilation CD, for the first time from Holland. The bootleggers
used fairly good tape-material, but as both shows are already out on CD
in pretty much better quality, this compilation should be considered as
not worth to be considered seriously. Talking about the good, the bad and
the ugly covers, this CD has got an awful one. And the title of the CD
(Jim Morrison's Doors) would make Jim rotate in his grave, if he only see
this ...
JIM'S ALIVE - THE ULTIMATE SEATTLE TAPES
(CD)
Tuff Bites T.B.94.1009, Luxembourg 1994 |
| 1.Hitler (Poem)/ 2.Roadhouse Blues/ 3.Back Door Man/ 4.When The
Music's Over/ 5.Someday Soon/ 6.People Get Ready-Baby Please Don't
Go-Mystery Train-Crossroads (Cover says Train Jam I and II as tracks 6 and
7)/ 7.Five To One/ 8.Break On Through. |
| Sources: Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970. Complete
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"Remember Miami", somebody shouts from the audience.
"What was that?" Jim asks, because he did not get what the girl
had shouted. But nobody responds. Instead of that, squeaking noises from
Ray's keyboard bother Jim. "That's a terrible sound", he says.
What a horrible start for one of the worst Doors concerts ever taped. Now
on this European bootleg you can hear the entire show in excellent stereo
quality, just Light My Fire is missed, they say this song was not taped
by Vince Treanor, former Doors roadmanager, who recorded the show. Jim
sounds tired, not to say bored; his singing is sloppy. "Get the
singer some", he says after Back Door Man as an excuse, and also:
"Thank you for your patience, you know, it takes a ... - it takes a
few songs to get warmed up, you know what I'm talking about?
Alright!" Jim was aware of the fact this would be a concert people
could have easily missed. Talking about bad versions: When The Music's
Over from Seattle is probably the worst version of the song that ever came
out on bootleg. I do not mean all the feedback coming through the
speakers, but Jim Morrison himself, who seems to be at his worst during
that particular song. His imitating of guitar- and mike-feedback with his
voice, which (for the audience) is more or less just boring, is painfully
ridiculous. But Jim gets some applause for all those funny noises. What
an audience! And the other three Doors should have hidden Jim's maracas,
if you know what I mean: just listen to his rhythm. Twenty minutes of
nothing but embarrassment. But on this CD you'll find the complete version
of Someday Soon, with all the guitar chords at the beginning plus the long
ending. The 28-minute-version (!) of Mystery Train will blow your mind
away. This jam definitely is absolutely worth buying this CD and features
nice covers of Curtis Mayfield's People Get Ready (have you heard Rod
Stewart's soap version?), Baby Please Don't Go (an Animals classic) and
also Robert Johnson's Crossroads. Five To One is somewhat uninspired, and
if there wasn't Ray's organ, Break On Through would be a very boring song.
The liner notes talk about previous versions of the Seattle concert having
two songs from The Doors' Toronto Show on, and it was the complete show
minus Light My Fire. The bootlegger is right, except the fact that those
two songs on the other boots were from Vancouver. On Jim's Alive - The
Ultimative Seattle Tapes you have the right tracks.
Okay, people, here's a Doors concert with some highlights, but also bad
versions. The soundquality is perfect stereo, and the CD is 78 minutes
(!!!) long. Recommended and a definitive must for each collection, not
only for the songs but definitely for the fine cover, too!
KEEP THE FIRE ALIVE (CD)
HAWK HAWK 042,
Italy 1994 |
| 1.Light My Fire/ 2.Light My Fire/ 3.Roadhouse Blues/ 4.Roadhou-
se Blues/ 5.Roadhouse Blues/ 6.Light My Fire/ 7.Light My Fire/ 8.Roadhouse
Blues/ 9.Break On Through/ 10.Light My Fire/ 11.Roadhouse Blues/ 12.Break
On Through (including Dead Cats Dead Rats)/ 13.Light My Fire |
| Sources: Tracks 1-10= Rehearsal session for their Rock'n'Roll
Hall Of Fame concert, Power Plant Studios, Los Angeles, January 11th,
1993; Tracks 11-13= Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Performance,
Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, January 12th, 1993. |
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What a surprise for Doors- and Eddie Vedder- fans! Their rehearsal
session plus the concert for their Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame Induction on
one (Italian) CD. Good stereo quality, guys, although both are audience
recordings (Seems there was a small audience at the rehearsal, you can
hear somebody touching the mike, also clapping and cheers). The perfect
CD for people who want to know how a band works with a new singer for the
first (and only) time. False starts and ends here and there, and Robby and
Ray are doing vocals on track 1-4. Robby still is a fascinating guitar
player (just listen to his solos in Roadhouse Blues), and thanks
to this unknown guy who taped the session some great Krieger-solos
survived. Ray's keyboard actually sounds very much better than later at
the concert! The concert itself is presented in very good quality, too,
although the three songs were better performed during the rehearsal.
Recommended, although Eddie should have learned the lyrics more
precisely. I still cannot believe that there are people out there who want
Vedder to join a Doors reunion as their singer!
THE KILLER AWOKE (CD)
Kiderian Rekords 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
Parade |
| Sources: Tracks 1 and 9= Dinner Key Auditorium, Miami, March 1st,
1969; Tracks 2-7= Demo Acetate, World Pacific Studios, L.A., September
2nd,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; 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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This is one of the worst compilations ever! As I've told you guys before
- keep your hands off a CD featuring tracks labeled as New Orleans 1970
or entitled Let It Bleed or any of the other rubbish. And the sound of
some tracks is horribly bad! We all know where the bootlegger copied the
songs from, and we know it is our damn duty to ignore those kinds of CDs.
The cover booklet has 4 photos of Morrison taken by Herve Muller, the back
shows a Morrison portrait taken by Frank Lisciandro. I guess these
photographers wouldn't mind their precious photos on a record cover, but
on such a bad bootleg CD like this? The Killer Awoke is nothing else but
a waste of plastic!
KING ARTHURS COURT (2 CD in longbox)
Black Cat Records BC-04, Australia, 1992
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Disc One: 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Peace Frog/ 3.Alabama Song-Back Door Man/
4.Build Me A Woman/ 5.When The Music's Over/ 6.Soul Kitchen
Disc Two: 1.The Soft Parade Intro-Light My Fire (cover just says Light My
Fire)/ 2.The Celebration Of The Lizard
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Sources: Disc One - 1-3 and 6=Felt Forum, New York, January 18th, 1970,
late show; 4=Felt Forum, New York, January 17th, 1970, late show; 5=Felt
Forum, New York, January 18th, 1970, early show.
Disc Two - Felt Forum, New York, January 18th, 1970, late show. The cover
says Live at Westbury, Connecticut 1969, which is not true!
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The quality of both CDs is bad compared to other releases, but I enjoy the
nice hardcover fold-out longbox, which shows two beautiful Morrison
photos. I'm sure people will buy it because the cover which says the
tracks were from Westbury, but this is not true. The bootleggers want to
make people think this was an unpublished recording, but the tracks are
available on many other releases. So this tremendously looking box is just
another intentionally mislabeled rip off.
| THE LAST FAREWELL (Double CD)
Vivid Sound Productions VSP 51001/2, Italy 1994
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Disc One: 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
Disc Two: 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: Disc One: 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. A copy of Rarities And Few (IBR 2325);
Disc Two: 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).
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Great Jim Morrison photo on the cover. As I've said, it's good to hear
just 1970's concerts on it. Although the labels are different, the double
set was probably made by the same bootlegger. Congratulations to the
bootleggers: this is the double live box I will have with me on holidays,
along with the official In Concert and my Discman. The box certainly is
one of the best compilations available. Recommended.
LIBERATION (CD)
Strange Days Records SDCD 001, Germany 1995
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| 1.Build Me A Woman/ 2.Wild Child/ 3.Wintertime Love/ 4.Wishful Sinful/
5.The Soft Parade/ 6.Texas Radio And The Big Beat (cover says The WASP)/
7.Love Me Two Times/ 8.Alabama Song/ 9.When The Music's Over/ 10.The
Unknown Soldier/ 11.Mystery Train/ 12.Someday Soon/ 13.Frederick/
14.Insane (cover says Not To Touch The Earth)/ 15.The End
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| Sources: 1,4+5=Critique, PBS TV Show, WNET, New York, May 13th, 1969;
2=recording session, spring 1968 (exact date unknown); 3=official CD
Waiting For The Sun, digitally remastered version with just one vocal
track; 6-9=Copenhagen TV Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 17th,
1968; 10=from the official album Waiting For The Sun; 11+12=Center
Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970; 13=Feast Of Friends movie, 1968;
14=Demo Acetate, World Pacific Studios, Los Angeles, September 2nd, 1965;
15=Now Explosion CBC TV Show, O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada, August 8th,
1967. Tracks 1,2,4,5,10+13 were copied from the official video The Soft
Parade; track 6+7 are from the official albums Alive She Cried and/or In
Concert; all other tracks copied from other bootlegs.
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A professional design and a good sound does not necessarily mean an
interesting content. The material on this CD has been published before,
and for a bootleg there's too much official stuff included. Far too much!
All fans have In Concert, and most fans have the video The Soft Parade.
That's why (of course) the guys from Strange Days Records intentionally
did not mention the sources. Pity! I know that many of you have bought the
CD because of the nice design. It looks interesting, indeed.
LIGHT MY FIRE/LIVE 1968 (CD)
On Stage
Records CD/ON 2299, Italy 1994 |
| 1.Five To One/ 2.Mack The Knife-Alabama Song/ 3.Back Door Man/
4.You're Lost Little Girl/ 5.Love Me Two Times/ 6.When The Music's Over/
7.Wild Child/ 8.Money/ 9.Wake Up-.Light My Fire/ 10.The End/ 11.The
Unknown Soldier |
| Sources: Tracks 1-10= Konserthuset, Stockholm, September 20th,
1968, entire second show; track 10= same as 1-9, but taken from the first
show. A copy of Apocalypse Now (Kiss The Stone KTS 267). |
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This release has a different cover than Apocalypse Now using two of
Frank Lisciandro's photos. The soundquality is absolutely the same. So get
either this or that one.
LIGHT MY FIRE (3 CD Box)
Starlife ST 3606, Luxembourg/Germany 1991
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Disc One (THE DOORS): 1.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
Disc Two (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 Three (THE DOORS OF HEAVEN): 1.People Are Strange/ 2.Light My Fire/
3.Take It As It Comes/ 4.Alabama Song/ 5.Love Me Two Times/ 6.Break On
Through/ 7.End Of The Night/ 8.Moonlight Drive/ 9.I Looked At You/
10.Twentieth Century Fox/ 11.Soul Kitchen/ 12.Back Door Man/ 13.The
Crystal Ship/ 14.Unhappy Girl
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Sources: Disc One - a copy of The Doors (Sakkaris Records Ltd., History
Of Records HR 52016).
Disc Two - 1-8=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from official
video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 9+10=Jonathan Winters TV Show, CBS
Studios, Los Angeles, December 27th, 1967.
Disc Three - from the official CDs The Doors and Strange Days.
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The three CDs are presented in a midprice hardbox containing 3 CDs with
individual covers. All 3 CDs are also available individually as "nice
price releases". Because of high quality sources the soundquality of the
complete box is excellent. I would recommend this box only for hard core
fans, who have got to have everything. All you others out there should
better save your money for something else. By the way, just a few copies
were given away in the box. Dealers took the box off, in order to make
more money on the individual CDs. That's business.
LIGHT MY FIRE (CD)
Alegra (Sarabandas srl), CD 9003, Italy 1995
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| 1.Light My Fire/ 2.Dead Cats, Dead Rats-Break On Through #2/ 3.Build Me
A Woman/ 4.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To One/ 5.Roadhouse Blues/
6.When The Music's Over/ 7.Love Me Two Times/ 8.The Unknown Soldier
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| Sources: 1-4=official album In Concert; 5=Felt Forum, New York, January
17th, 1970, late show; 6+8=official video Live At The Hollywood Bowl;
7=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, early show.
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Hey guys, that's Val Kilmer on the cover, not Jim Morrison. Do they want
to make us believe Val sang all those songs? If that wasn't enough, this
uninteresting CD presents very known material. Another compilation
everybody should forget very quickly.
LIGHT MY FIRE (CD)
I Miti Del Rock Live, 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.
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This free CD (or cassette) gets into collector's hands only when you buy
the Italian magazine I Miti Del Rock, which is a kind of encyclopedia in
God-Knows-How-Many parts. Well, issue #14 comes in a clear plastic bag,
looks very psychedelic, contains this CD and a 4-page Jim Morrison special
called Il Re Lucertola (The Lizard King). Check your Italian connections:
for just 10.900 Lira (CD version; about $7) or 6.900 Lira for the cassette
version it is worth to get, although the tracks on this bootleg CD are
nothing special at all. It just looks nice, and it's cheap.
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