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LIGHT MY FIRE (CD)
Sarabandas CD 12015, Italy 1992
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Light My Fire-Graveyard Poem/ 3.Love Me Two Times/
4.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes)/ 5.You Make Me Real/ 6.The Unknown
Soldier/ 7.Gloria/ 8.Little Red Rooster/ 9.The End
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| Sources: Official CD In Concert
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Another CD called Light My Fire! But the sound is excellent - no wonder!
This is nothing else but an Italian compilation from the official Elektra
double CD In Concert, and it has got an ugly drawing of Jim on the cover
sheet. And of course, this is just another Italian rip-off. URGH!
LIGHT MY FIRE (Double CD)
THE EASY RIDER GENERATION IN CONCERT
The Easy Rider Years 930165, Italy 1993 |
Disc One: 1.Light My Fire-Graveyard Poem-Light my Fire (cover just says
Light My Fire)/ 2.Break On Through #2/ 3.Build Me A Woman/ 4.Roadhouse
Blues/ 5.When The Music's Over/ 6.Love Me Two Times/ 7.The End.
Disc Two: 1.Who Do You Love/ 2.Soul Kitchen/ 3.Alabama Song/Back Door Man/
Five To One/ 4.Unknown Soldier/ 5.Moonlight Drive/ 6.Wild Child/ 7.Love
Street/ 8.The Celebration Of The Lizard
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Sources: Disc One - 1= first published on the official album Alive She
Cried, later on In Concert; 2-3= first published on the official album
Absolutely Live, later on In Concert; 4= from a bad tape copy of The
Doors' Felt Forum concert, January 17th, 1970, late show; 5= from the
official album Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 6= from bootleg CD The
Stockholm Tapes (Document Records DR 010), Konserthuset, Stockholm,
Sweden, September20th 1968; 7= from the official video Live At The
Hollywood Bowl, later on In Concert.
Disc Two - 1-2= first published on the official album Absolutely Live,
later on In Concert; 3= Medley from the video Live At The Hollywood Bowl,
on jacket labelled as 3 individual songs; 4= same as 3; 5= from official
album Alive She Cried, later on In Concert; 6-7= from bootleg CD The
Stockholm Tapes (Document Records DR 010), Konserthuset, Stockholm,
Sweden, September 20th, 1968; 8= from a bad tape copy of The Doors' Felt
Forum concert, New York, January 18th, 1970, late show.
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Welcome back to the selection of needless bootlegs. A serious fan already
has the official live albums and videos, and, if you own the New York
Blues bootleg CD (Document Records DR 033), you already have the Felt
Forum tracks in better quality. Above all, ALL songs on this double CD-set
are in MONO (label says stereo!), although perfect stereo sources are
available, even for Italian bootleggers. So what? The cover looks
interesting and professional, but is also available with other artists,
and the set is sold in big supermarkets over here for just a mere $8. If
it's not for your own collection, have the thing recycled for some better
results.
LION TAVERN (CD)
International Broadcasting Recording IBR 2245, Italy 1993
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| 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/ 6.The End
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| Sources: Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th,
1970; original source is a Westwood One radio show. A copy of Feel The
Blues (American Concert Series ACS 024).
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Fade in, fade out. Thanks, bootleggers, for this bootleg copy of the
horrible bootleg CD Feel The Blues (American Concert Series ACS 024). If
you want to have the best quality of the same material, get Live In
Vancouver (Sounds Alive SA 24.020). Avoid Lion Tavern and you'll be even
more happy because you miss its ugly cover. A rip-off. Fade out.
LIQUID NIGHT (CD)
Screaming Butterfly Records SBR 3169, 1996
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| 1.Back Door Man-Five To One/ (cover adds "Fun Rap" between track 1 and
2)/
2.Touch Me (cover says "Touch Me attempt")/ 3.Love Me Two Times/ 4.When
The Music's Over/ 5.Wake Up-Light My Fire/ 6.Who Scared You/ 7.Spanish
Caravan/ 8.Spanish Caravan/ 9.Wild Child/ 10.Touch Me/ 11.The Unknown
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| Sources: 1-5=Dinner Key Auditorium, Miami, March l, 1969
(complete performance, audience recording), copied from Live in Miami (RTW
Records 004); 6-10= Los Angeles Forum, Inglewood, CA, December 14, 1968
(audience recording); 11=Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA, July 5, 1968
(audience recording!). Cover says track 11 was from the L.A.Forum concert
which is not true.
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Nobody really knows where this CD comes from. Let's assume it was from
Czech. But that really doesn't matter. Although many fans already might
own a copy of the famous Live In Miami CD (RTW Records 004) which is now
deleted - I rarely see a copy of it on record fairs - (check the review
of the Live In Miami CD in The Doors Quarterly Magazine #28) this CD is
recommended. Just notice that there are 5 track that were never before
published on a record. Also - up till now (with the exception of Spanish
Caravan on the Stages 4-CD-Box) there is no audience recording available
on record which was taped at the Hollywood Bowl concert.
I think it was a good idea to put another live version of Touch Me on this
CD to check how the song sounded live in concert - remember: in Miami Jim
cut singing the song at the very beginning and started to do his rap
(re-read The Doors Quarterly 32 for the complete transcript of the tape).
The version from the L.A.Forum concert is at full speed, full power.
Unfortunately, "stronger than dirt" is almost inaudible. I love Jim's
intonation of the final line in Wild Child, which is as strong as ever:
"DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE IN AFRICA?" Above all, on this CD
there's a superrare live version of Who Scared You, a song which is - up to this
date - never even published on an official Elektra CD. Great song!
The CD has got a couple of rare Miami photos in the booklet, the a copy
of the liner notes from Live In Miami plus - under the clear tray - some
more tear-out pictures, obviously inspired from the inner cover of the
original Soft Parade vinyl LP from the USA. Recommended!
LIVE 1968-1969 (CD)
Ricordi International
CDOR 9131, Italy 1991 |
| 1.Light My Fire/ 2.Little Red Rooster/ 3.The Unknown Soldier
(cover says Unknow Soldier)/ 4.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes (cover says
...& Latitudes)/ 5.Spanish Caravan/ 6.You Make Me Real |
| Sources: The Doors' official (deleted) CDs Alive She Cried
(Tracks 2,4 and 6) and Live At The Hollywood Bowl (Tracks 1,3 and 5),
later on the official album In Concert. A copy of The Doors (Sakkaris
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A very rare, but just 28 minutes long Italian compilation bootleg from
official CDs. If you are a collector, it might take you years to get a
copy of this CD. If you have In Concert on CD, you certainly do not need
to look for this one. Originally this was a copy of a Targa Records LP
from Italy, which got copied by Sakkaris Records first on CD, afterwards
on CD. It got heavily distributed by Starlife, who copied the Sakkaris
Record in cover and disc. What a mess!
LIVE (CD)
Rainbow CDRBW 3249, Italy 1993
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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, September 20th, 1968, late show.
A copy of Jim Morrison's Doors (Rockstars In Concert 6127062).
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It is easy to copy an existing bootleg, wrap a different cover aroud it
and distribute it among fans as it was a new release. After reading this
book no fan can be fooled again by a silly bootlegger. Simply avoid this
release by Rainbow.
LIVE (CD)
The Music's Over Lizard-333-TMO, Japan 1995
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| 1.Soul Kitchen/ 2.Back Door Man/ 3.Five To One/ 4.Break On Through/ 5.The
Crystal Ship/ 6.Texas Radio & The Big Beat/ 7.Hello I Love You/ 8.Moon-
light Drive/ 9.Money/ 10.When The Music's Over/ 11.Wake Up/ 12.Light My
Fire/ 13.Who Scared You/ 14.(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further
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| Sources: 1-11= Memorial Coliseum, Dallas, Texas, July 9, 1968; 12+13 were taken
from the official Elektra album Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine.
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In 1968 The Doors gave 73 concerts but only a few were circling among
collectors on audience or TV tapes. The concert on this CD was not around
for about 27 years but it must have gotten into the hands of a Japanese
bootlegger who put it out on CD. Surprisingly enough, there's no mention
of the venue, city or date on the CD or the coversheet. When I got a copy
of the CD I thought at first glimpse it was the Frankfurt tape plus tracks
recorded in Stockholm but it wasn't. In fact, I had never had any notice
of the existence of this concert on tape. For the band, it was one of
their standard concerts they did in mid 1968 taped just before the release
of their third album, Waiting For The Sun (which was put out 3 days
later).
Almost all versions of the tunes are similar to the ones published on The
Night On Fire and The Stockholm Tapes. But there's one more thing you'll
certainly notice: Jim is in a good mood (different in Frankfurt about two
months later), his musicians are excellent (as usual), and the concert was
full of energy. Just listen to the different ending of Break On Through.
Wow - never heard that kind of ending before with any other version. Same
energy goes with Hello I Love You. No certain other song variations are
to be heard. I never trust singers saying, "So what do you guys wanna hear
now?", 'cos every time one of their hits follows, as previously planned
by the band. So Jim is not different from any other artist, and his
question is followed by a driving version of Light My Fire. Unfortunately
there's a fade-out/fade-in in the middle of the organ-solo.
First time on bootleg in excellent recordings - Who Scared You and the
bluesy live-in-the-studio version of (You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further,
the latter sung by Ray Manzarek with Jim in the background during the
L.A.Woman rehearsals. Both songs have been bootlegged before but from
scratched vinyl copies of the Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine double
album or radio shows. On this Japanese bootleg both songs are excellent.
In total - a good new CD; not really exciting but previously unpublished
rare material.
LIVE (CD)
DV More Record CD DV 5835, Italy 1995
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| 1.Build Me A Woman/ 2.Peace Frog/ 3.Crawling King Snake/ 4.The End/
5.Roadhouse Blues/ 6.Ship Of Fools/ 7.Soul Kitchen/ 8.Alabama Song-Back
Door Man-Love Hides-Five To One
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| Sources: 1-6=Felt Forum, New York, January 17th, 1969, second show;
7-8=official album Absolutely Live, later on In Concert.
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A mediocre Felt Forum CD. Interesting enough: tracks 7-8 were mixed down
so that they actually sound like track 1-6. Of course these are the
versions Paul Rothchild cut for the official live album.Not interesting
at all.
LIVE - VOL.2 (CD)
Mainline Music, SW 51, ?, 1995
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| 1.Touch Me/ 2.Back Door Man/ 3.Light My Fire/ 4.When The Music's Over/
5.The End/ 6.Money/ 7.Break On Through/ 8.I'm A King Bee/ 9.Rock Me Baby
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| Sources: 1=Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Los Angeles, December 4th, 1968;
2,3,6-9=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th and 10th, 1967; 4+5=Holly-
wood Bowl, Los Angeles, June 5th, 1968, from the official video Live At
The Hollywood Bowl. A copy of When The Music's Over (Great Dane Records
GDR CD 9114).
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A copy of a compilation CD. The sound is still okay, but the CD does not
come with a nice and informative booklet but with another horrible
Unlicensed stamp across Jim's face. This compilation is definitely not
worth the money. There is a Vol.1 out, but it was not available for this
book. For a CD like this it really doesn't matter.
LIVE AT THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
NEW YORK CITY; N.Y. ON FEBRUARY 1st, 1970 (CD in paper cover)
Great Dane Records CD 8905, Italy 1989
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To One
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| Sources: Felt Forum, January 17th, 1970, second show. Cover says Madison
Square Garden, February 1st, 1970, which is not true.
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This CD in a black paper box came with a book called The Bootleg Guide
containing almost all Doors vinyl bootleg releases till 1989 including
photos of their covers. The book was okay at the time of its release, but
the CD wasn't. Wrong date, wrong venue (Well - the Felt Forum was a
smaller venue inside Madison Square Garden). That's bad!
LIVE AT THE MATRIX 1967 (CD)
Black Panther BPCD 029, Italy/Japan 1989
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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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| Sources: Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967, first and second set.
A copy of Crawling King Snakes (Backtrax 04-88004).
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This CD has the most horrible cover of all live CDs ever! Shivvvvvvvvvver!
No further comments. Black Panther was an Italian label that printed their
records in Switzerland in the beginning. Those here were made for the
Japanese market.
LIVE AT THE SEATTLE POPFESTIVAL 06-07-70
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Trade Mark Of Quality TMOQ 01, USA 1993 |
| 1.Back Door Man-Love Hides-Back Door Man/ 2.Roadhouse Blues/
3.When The Music's Over/ 4.Mystery Train Jam: People Get Ready-Baby Please
Don't Go-Mystery Train-Crossroads (cover says Train Jam)/ 5.Break On
Through/ 6.Someday Soon |
| Sources: Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970. Not the
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A jewel box, 2 simple yellow paper sheets (xeroxed) and a simple photo
from The Doors' Aquarius concert is not a nice outfit for a good CD like
this one (the first version was even more simple: they just put the CD
into a little white paper jacket and glued a yellow paper on it), but it's
one of the very few and rare US bootlegs. And a good one! No, folks, not
the complete concert, but even if you have the Flashback CD June 5th 1970
- Live In Seattle, this one is interesting! Why? Just check the 28 minute
(!!) version of Mystery Train. The longest live song ever released on a
Doors disc, officially and unofficially! Check When The Music's Over
(about 21 minutes long!), which was not on the Flashback version (they had
When The Music's Over and The End from Vancouver on their CD, remember?).
Unfortunately this CD misses Five To One and the Hitler-Intro. And - they
put a wrong date on the cover sheet. But do not worry if you are unable
to find this CD on European record fairs, because there is an alternative
European version of the Seattle concert called Jim's Alive - The Ultimate
Seattle Tapes (Tuff Bites TB 94.1009) which is even better and more
complete than this American CD. The producer who calls his company Trade
Mark Of Quality has - by the way - nothing to do with the legendary vinyl
bootlegger of the early Seventies, who carried the same name.
THE LIVE DOORS (CD)
Black Panther BP-075, Japan 1992
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| 1.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 2.Soul Kitchen/ 3.I Can't See Your Face In My
Mind/ 4.Summer's Almost Gone/ 5.Money (cover says I Want Some Money)/
6.Who Do You Love/ 7.Moonlight Drive/ 8.Alabama Song/ 9.People Are
Strange/ 10.I'm A King Bee/ 11.Gloria/ 12.Break On Through/ 13.Summertime/
14.Back Door Man/ 15.The End (not complete)
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| Sources: Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967. Two complete sets.
The songs are not in the original order. A copy of The Live Doors
U.S.A-March 1967 (Crocodile Records BG CD 012) with a different cover.
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Making a bootleg copy of a bootleg CD is quite silly. Let's believe this
CD was made for the Japanese market only, right. Nobody needs this disc.
All songs are available in much better soundquality on countless other
CDs. The Japanese bootleggers produce interesting covers, though.
THE LIVE DOORS U.S.A - MARCH 1967 (CD)
Bulldog Records BG CD 012, Italy 1988
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| 1.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 2.Soul Kitchen/ 3.I Can't See Your Face In My
Mind/ 4.Summer's Almost Gone/ 5.Money/ 6.Who Do You Love/ 7.Moonlight
Drive/ 8.Alabama Song/ 9.People Are Strange/ 10.I'm A King Bee/ 11.Gloria/
12.Break On Through/ 13.Summertime/ 14.Back Door Man/ 15.The End (not
complete)
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| Sources: Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967. Two complete sets.
The songs are not in the original order.
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This was the first legalized live CD from Italy, anyway, it is just
another Matrix release. This time it is a weird mixture of two sets the
band played on the 10th of March, 1967. The soundquality could have been
much better because there were better tapes circulating at the time of
release. Recycle this disc and produce something like The Complete Matrix
Club Tapes (Kiss The Stone KTS BX 009) with it!
THE LIVE DOORS - LIVE IN EUROPE SEPTEMBER 1968 (2 CD
Box)
Crocodile Records BGCD 245, Italy 1988
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Disc One: 1.Five to one/ 2.Break on through/ 3.When the music's over/
4.Light My Fire/ 5.The End
Disc Two: 1.Break on through/ 2.Alabama
Song-Back Door Man/ 3.The WASP/ 4.Hello I love you/ 5.When the music's
over/ 6.Light my fire/ 7.The Unknown Soldier
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Sources: Disc One - Roundhouse, London, England, September 7th, 1968,
complete early show.
Disc Two - Kongresshalle, Frankfurt, West Germany, September 14th, 1968,
complete early show.
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Those of you who have got the bootleg LPs The Lizard King and The Night
On Fire don't need this Double CD. The sound is very bad (the vinyl LPs
sound much better) and you can hear crackles which makes sure that the CD
master was taken from vinyl copies. There's a tiny booklet added, showing
a photo of different Doors bootleg LPs and singles.
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