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Considering the fact that the cover mentions Rock Me and Money, which are not on the CD (instead of that there are Light My Fire, The End and When The Music's Over on the CD, which are not mentioned on the cover), one should complain about the fade-ins and the fade-outs and the horrible cover showing another band but not The Doors, which make this bootleg another rip-off fooling the fans. Avoid it!
This Italian release has got the same content and the same strange cuts as Live In Los Angeles (Starlife HRCD 52072), but in a different order of songs. Strange days have found the bootleggers!
RTW finally produced the long-awaited Live In Miami CD, which had been postponed since May 1992! The sound is pretty much better than on the tapes which were circulating among collectors. This very true historical document of one of the worst moments in Rock'n'Roll history shows the very fateful turning point the band had to go through, when Jim Morrison all of the sudden got tired of his young lion-image after having seen the Living Theatre performance a night before he stumbled out into the neon lights of the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, Florida. On this CD there is the entire concert, as desastrous as it happened. You can hear clearly how forcefully Jim interrupted Touch Me after the first few words, how he was gently speaking to the audience during When The Music's Over, what he repeated from the Living Theatre lyrics and what he made up at the spot. All those interruptions, interjections, raps; all this howling, shouting, barking - a fascinating live experience! The sound is pretty O.K., just think of what was happening around the tape recorder while recording. There is no better recording of this concert available. Live In Miami is one of the few CDs nobody should miss! The cover shows the original artwork of the concert poster. The booklet also contains well-written liner notes. Recommended!
Instead of producing own CDs they seem to love copying European discs for the Japanese market. So this one with another bad cover is just a copy of a mediocre European live CD.
An interesting compilation of Felt Forum tracks, not as bad as other compilations around. But, as you know, there are too many compilations around. The tracks featured on this CD are available on other CDs as well.
Another copy of Matrix material, good selection, though, (just Alabama Song and The End are missed from their March 10th performances), but is there anybody out there who hasn't got the Matrix tracks by now? The cover uses a bad reproduction of a Morrison still photo from TV. Forget this one!
Well, this CD got copied soon (Seattle 1970, Live Storm LSCD 51630), and the copy is better! At least it has a better cover. So you should better get the copy if you really need those tracks. Get Jim's Alive - The Ultimate Seattle Tapes (Tuff Bites 94.1009), and you'll have the complete concert.
Ray Manzarek sued Westwood One for publishing this tape for a radio-show and he's right: It wasn't one of the best shows of their 1970 tours. In fact - Jim is very unconcentrated, probably pretty drunk, the amplifiers don't work properly (interesting rap at the beginning of the CD). Unfortunately the original radio show featured two songs from The Doors' Vancouver show (The End and When The Music's Over), and the bootleggers were silly enough to feature both songs on this CD as well without checking. Anyway, the soundquality is excellent stereo (thanks to Vince Treanor, former Doors roadmanager, who taped the show and gave it to Sandy Gibson of Westwood One who had nothing else to do than to put it out on disc for radio stations), and it is a perfect example of a bad Doors performance (with the exception of Someday Soon, which unfortunately is incomplete on this CD as well as Mystery Train). The show is carefully remixed (I prefer it to the original radio show!), which means you have the impression of an uncut Doors-concert. It also has a very nice fold-out cover. But of course, check Jim's Alive - The Ultimate Seattle Tapes (Tuff Bites T.B.941009), on this you'll find the complete performance with the complete versions of all songs!
This double CD box was made in Germany, has got a Luxembourg address on it and was distributed by mail order first. Later it appeared on record fairs and became a massive seller. The box has a really nice cover: a colour shot from their Roundhouse concert. Both concerts were taped in their entirety and broadcasted three times in Sweden over the radio. So this CDs contain both uncut Stockholm concerts, more than 130 minutes of music. Unfortunately both CDs have got not the same soundquality as the bootleg triple LP box with the same name (Swinging Pig Records). The soundquality of The Stockholm Tapes CD (Document Records DR 010) is better, but this one has just got the best tracks of both concerts. Anyway, forget the loss of some heights in the sound and some bubbles in the bass: the Live In Stockholm box is another item for the record collection of each Doors fan. Robby Krieger of The Doors sued Swinging Pig Records for this box. As a result it had to disappear from the markets, but appeared again in 1994 with the same cover but in a slim box.
Black Panther Records should win a prize for the worst covers ever. It seems those bootleggers love drawings. Well, kindergarten kids would have done better covers. Avoid these and leave them for Japanese fans - both CDs were made for the Japanese market.
Another Stockholm CD with a nice cover, but some sloppy cuts between the songs. It's not the complete concert, and it was published as an accompanying CD for an Italian Dictionary Of Rock (good idea). What else? Yes, you surely have all these tracks. For the hard-core collector only - or for the ones who like collecting nice covers. I've seen designs like this done with airbrush on American T-shirts sold in Venice , California ...
Many of you have Vancouver 70 or Canadian Nights, for those this CD is nothing new. The bootleggers packed the best songs of this glorious concert (with Albert King) together for this CD, carefully cutting the audience noises between the songs to make the impression of a complete concert. It works, and this CD sounds great. A good alternative compared to all those other inferior Vancouver bootlegs (except the two mentioned above). Unfortunately this isn't the complete concert, and I wish someone would produce the songs which were not broadcasted (Alabama Song, Love Me Two Times) add the songs from the broadcast left off on this Sounds Alive CD (Money, Rock Me Baby) and do something good to our heads with a complete Vancouver CD. For beginners of bootleg CD collecting, this CD (almost 76 minutes long!) is a fine intro for a mid-price.
Your stomach will start bleeding, men will lose their balls, your heart will suffer an attack and your teeth will fall out, if you listen to these two CDs. They are from Italy, and all material on them stems from original Doors Live-albums, but the sound is horrible. A constant pumping is recognizable throughout the tracks ... simply avoid these discs and buy the original albums. The covers show original Doors concert posters (Cow Palace and Santa Clara Fair Grounds) copied from bad postcards. These two discs are absolutely not worth the money.
A very strange release. This firm does not take care about quality and quantity at all. I own a horrible Who-CD, distributed in big shopping centers. As bad as this Who CD is this Doors CD. It is quite cheap (just about $8,50) - and it is ugly. An average collector has got all the material in better quality, and as you might have guessed it, it is a must to avoid.
The only good thing about this CD is the nice graphic cover. You certainly do not need the songs without the beginnings: Someday Soon starts after 12 seconds of the song are already over! Somebody forgot to press the start button of his cassette recorder on most of the songs. So - although the CD was made from the original radio show, Jim's Alive - The Ultimate Seattle Tapes (Tuff Bites T.B. 94.1009) is much, much better. Avoid this Lizard King, it stinks. |
© 1998 Rainer Moddemann, The Doors Quarterly Magazine. This guide may not be distributed in any other context or media.
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