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THE LIZARD KING (CD)
Vulture Records 002, Italy 1990
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| 1.Five To One/ 2.Mack The Knife-Alabama Song-Back Door Man/ 3.You're Lost
Little Girl/ 4.Love Me Two Times/ 5.When The Music's Over/ 6.Wild Child/
7.Money/ 8.Wake Up-Light My Fire/ 9.The End/ 10.Love Street/ 11.A Little
Game-The Hill Dwellers
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| Sources: 1-8=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, complete early show;
9-11=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, late show (not complete).
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By the time of this release it seemed that both Doors performances at
Stockholm's Konserthuset were the most bootlegged Doors concerts along
with the Matrix concerts. So be sure that most of you readers have got
both Stockholm shows from September 20th, 1968, on vinyl or CD. Hard core
collectors might be looking for this expensive CD just because of the nice
psychedelic cover. The quality of the recording is better on other
releases.
THE LIZARD KING (VOL.1) (CD)
Apple House Music/ Banana BAN-011-A, Australia 1993
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| 1.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To One/ 2.I Can't See Your Face In My
Mind/ 3.People Are Strange/ 4.Money/ 5.Who Do You Love/ 6.Summer's Almost
Gone/ 7.I'm A King Bee/ 8.Gloria/ 9.Summertime/ 10.Close To You/ 11.Rock
Me Baby/ 12.The Hill Dwellers/ 13.Light My Fire
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| Sources: 1=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from official
video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 2-11=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March
7th and 10th, 1967; 12.Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th,
1968, late show; 13=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967.
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Needless to say (if you look at the tracklist) this another attempt to
sell standard material. This disc looks like a Japanese release but it
isn't. Also available in a different cover: There is a big red stamp
across Jim's picture saying Unauthorised, and they call the series The
Unauthorised Recordings. The content is exactly the same. And even more:
These The Unauthorised Recordings are available from another company
called Joker Productions - with the same design but different photos (The
Doors - Live Vol.1, Joker Productions JOK-004-A). I also found a copy of
the latter - this time made by Grapefruit Productions (why not strawberries
or any other fruit?) with the same design but called Light My Fire
(Grapefruit Productions GRA-050-A).
THE LIZARD KING (VOL.2) (CD)
Apple House Music/ Banana BAN-011-B, Australia 1993
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| 1.Moonlight Drive/ 2.Break On Through/ 3.The Crystal Ship/ 4.Twentieth
Century Fox/ 5.Unhappy Girl/ 6.Love Street/ 7.Love Me Two Times/ 8.The
Unknown Soldier/ 9.You're Lost Little Girl/ 10.Wild Child/ 11.Wake Up/
12.Five To One/ 13.The End/ 14.Touch Me/ 15.Moonlight Drive/ 16.Light My
Fire
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| Sources: 1-5=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967; 6-8=Konserthu-
set, Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, late show; 9-11=Konserthu-
set, Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, early show; 12-13=Pacific
National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970; 14=
Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Los Angeles, December 4th, 1968, from
official video Dance On Fire; 15-16= Jonathan Winters TV Show, CBS
Studios, Los Angeles, December 27th, 1967.
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Needless to say (if you look at the tracklist) this another attempt to
sell standard material. This disc looks like a Japanese release but it
isn't. Also available in a different cover: There is a big red stamp
across Jim's picture saying Unauthorised, and they call the series The
Unauthorised Recordings. The content is exactly the same. And even more:
These The Unauthorised Recordings are available from another company
called Joker Productions - with the same design but different photos (The
Doors - Live Vol.2, Joker Productions JOK-004-B). I also found a copy of
the latter - this time made by Grapefruit Productions (why not raspberries
or any other fruit?) with the same design but called Touch Me (Grapefruit
Productions GRA-050-B).
THE LIZARD KING (VOL.3) (CD)
Apple House Music/Banana BAN-011-C, Australia 1993
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Backdoor Man-Five To One/ 3.Money/ 4.Rock Me Baby/
5.Little Red Rooster/ 6.Who Do You Love/ 7.Light My Fire-Fever-Summertime-St.James
Infirmary-Light My Fire/ 8.The End
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| Sources: Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th,
1970. Not the complete show. A copy of Vancouver 70 (Skeleton SKCD 1066).
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A part of the famous Vancouver concert. If you have any of the other CDs
with the same material you don't really need this. The CD looks like a
Japanese release but it isn't. Also available in a different cover: There
is a big red stamp across Jim's picture saying Unauthorised, and they call
the series The Unauthorised Recordings. The content is exactly the same.
And even more: These The Unauthorised Recordings are available from
another company called Joker Productions - with the same design but
different photos (The Doors - Live Vol.3, Joker Productions JOK-004-C).
Be sure there is also a Grapefruit edition of this CD (GRA-050-C), but it
was not available at the deadline for this book.
THE LIZARD KING (VOL.4) (CD)
Apple House Music/Banana BAN-011-D, Australia 1993
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| 1.Back Door Man/ 2.Roadhouse Blues/ 3.When The Music's Over/ 3.People Get
Ready-Baby Please Don't Go-Mystery Train-Crossroads (cover says People Get
Ready/Train I Ride Part 1/Baby Please Don't Go/Train I Ride Part2/Bullfrog
Blues)/ 4.Break On Through/ 5.Someday Soon
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| Sources: 1-2=Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June
6th, 1970; 3-5=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970. Cover says all
tracks were recorded in Canada which is not true. Cover also mentiones
Tyson as the author of Someday Soon, but this song was written by Jim
Morrison.
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Another part of the famous Vancouver concert plus tracks from Seattle,
intentionally mislabeled. If you have any of the other CDs with the same
material you certainly don't need this. The CD looks like a Japanese
release but it isn't. Also available in a different cover: There is a big
red stamp across Jim's picture saying Unauthorised, and they call the
series The Unauthorised Recordings. The content is exactly the same. And
even more: These The Unauthorised Recordings are available from another
company called Joker Productions - with the same design but different
photos (The Doors - Live Vol.4, Joker Productions JOK-004-D). Be sure
there is also a Grapefruit edition of this CD (GRA-050-D), but it was not
available at the deadline for this book.
THE LOOK BEHIND COLLECTION (2 CD)
LB-016, Germany 1996 (no record company mentioned)
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Disc One: 1.Light My Fire/ 2.Break On Through/ 3.Soul Kitchen/ 4.The
Crystal Ship/ 5.Twentieth Century Fox/ 6.Alabama Song/ 7.Back Door Man/
8.I Looked At You/ 9.End Of The Night/ 10.Take It As It Comes/ 11.The End
Disc Two: 1.Hello I Love You/ 2.People Are Strange/ 3.The Unknown Soldier/
4.My Wild Love/ 5.Summer's Almost Gone/ 6.Five To One/ 7.Strange Days/
8.Horse Latitudes/ 9.Love Me Two Times/ 10.Moonlight Drive/ 11.My Eyes
Have Seen You/ 12.Wintertime Love/ 13.Spanish Caravan/ 14.You're Lost
Little Girl/ 15.Not To Touch The Earth/ 16.We Could Be So Good Together
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| Sources: The official first three Doors albums on Elektra Records, The
Doors, Strange Days and Waiting For The Sun
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Another unauthorized compilation of Doors songs. This story never seems
to end. Above all, this compilation has an uninteresting cover sheet and
an ugly title.
THE LOST PARIS TAPES (CD)
The Private Tapes Of James Douglas Morrison (March 1969 and June 1971)
Jomo 3.5471.1, Canada 1994 |
I.: JIM MORRISON POETRY SESSION: FAR ARDEN: Radio Dark Night (Take 1)/
Radio Dark Night (Take Two)/ A Vast Radiant Beach (Awake)/ Moonshine
Night/ Frozen Moment By A Lake/ Bird Of Prey/ Dawn's HWY/ Under Waterfall/
The Hitchhiker/ Winter Photography/ Whiskey, Mystics And Men/ Orange
County Suite/ All Hail The American Night/ Far Arden Poem/ Texas Radio &
The Big Beat #1 (Letter From Shirley)/ TALES FROM THE AMERICAN NIGHT: The
American Night/ The Holy Sha/ Hitler/ Latino Chrome/ To Come Of Age -
Black Polished Chrome/ Search On, Man/ Indian, Indian (Sirens And Horns
Honking)/ Woman In The Window/ A Vision Of America: From The Book Of Days
- A Vision Of America - Motel, Money, Murder, Madness/ Earth, Air, Fire,
Water/ Discovery (Angels & Sailors)/ Now Listen To This (Texas Radio & The
Big Beat #2)/ Stoned Immaculate/ White Blind Light (Thank You, O Lord)
II.: LAST RECORDING SESSION: Guitar Tuning & Chats/ Orange County Suite
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| Sources: I.: Jim Morrison's first poetry session, Los Angeles, Elektra
Sound Studios, March 1969 and II.: Jim Morrison's (presumably) last
recording session recorded at a professional recording studio, Paris,
mid-June 1971, with two unknown street musicians.
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The real must for everybody who is a fan and lover of Jim Morrison's
poetry. This CD contains Jim Morrison's complete first poetry session
before Paul Rothchild cut it up into little pieces to see what could be
used for the Elektra release An American Prayer ( this Rothchild version
was stolen from his desk and used for many bootlegs, including the LP
Rock Is Dead (Tangie Town Records), and Orange County Suite (Document
Records DR 019), to name the best ones) and also the complete tape Jim
recorded in Paris with two unknown street musicians (see The Doors
Quarterly #32 for the complete transcript). The content of both tapes was
- as rumors go - taken via DAT recorder from the original master Jim had
with him in Paris (see The Doors Quarterly #31 for the complete story of
The Lost Paris Tapes). I had the chance to listen to the original
reel-to-reels before they were sold to a collector in Germany and I
compared the length of the reel tape to the one on the CD - no difference.
When I say complete, I mean uncut. And this is the most important thing
about this CD - sure: some of the poems have been published on countless
bootlegs before, but in worse quality and - cut. On this CD you can hear
Jim pouring some liquid (I guess it wasn't mineral water) into a glass,
you hear him turning pages, lightening matches, asking how much time was
left and so on and on. On Radio Dark Night (Take 1) the engineer (John
Haeny) made a mistake (he recorded it using a filter) so this track had
to be recorded twice (I'm surprised he didn't rewind the tape). The
biggest surprise on this CD is the uncut version of Orange County Suite
which Jim did during the poetry session. We all know from previous
releases the first part of this swan song to Pamela Courson, but nobody
ever heard the complete recording like it was printed in Jim's poetry
collection Wilderness. It's fun to check Wilderness and The American Night
for the poems featured on this CD. It's no fun to check what parts of the
poems had been cut out for An American Prayer, what great material hadn't
been used and what poems had been cut together. This CD is an ideal source
to see how Jim really worked, how he intended his poetry to be cut on
tape, carefully choosing word for word, intonation and volume of his
voice. This is the real thing, fans, in excellent quality, and the perfect
addition to the recently released official poetry album An American
Prayer.
Well, the 14-minute Paris session is a real tough one! Undoubtedly, the
band named Jomo And The Smoothies were drunk. Or they were on another
substance, nobody knows. And they were bad! As bad as any other amateur
band being drunk in a studio. I don't know what kind of instrument one of
the guys has, certainly one using strings to produce a sound - but he's
not even able to tune it! (Jim seems to be amused ...)
Every song the "guitarist" suggests fails - Jim doesn't know them (I'm the
singer ...). So finally, after some funny chats, they stumble into a weird
version of Orange County Suite (compare it to the version taped during the
poetry session!). Jim forgets the words, shouts out loud the ones he
remembers, mixes them up - booze ...
So - what's so interesting about those 14 minutes? Well, this is most
likely the last thing Jim ever recorded, and it is probably the only thing
he recorded while being in Paris. A true document from his last days -
remember, the man died 2 weeks later! And - it wasn't a planned thing -
it was done on the spot using a pseudonym (Jomo And The Smoothies). And
- this CD was made from the original tape (as the liner notes say), so it
is in the best quality you could imagine. And - it's new! Finally a new,
totally unpublished recording that might survive as a piece of history in
Jim Morrison's story, presented on this CD in superb sound quality. The
first pressing came with a colour picture CD, the second pressing came
with a black and white CD. The soundquality is the same.
As the liner notes from the booklet say - this is Jim Morrison's one and
only solo album, and it's right - no other bootleg album is better and
more intense than The Lost Paris Tapes. A nice booklet using some of Alain
Ronay's photos from a village near Chantilly (taken a few days before Jim
died) is included, and this one also features two photos of the original
boxes which preserved the two tapes.
In general - this CD is an absolute MUST for each fan, and it is highly
RECOMMENDED!
THE LOST PARIS TAPES (CD)
The Private Tapes Of James Douglas Morrison (March 1969 and June 1971)
Jomo 3.5471.1, Canada 1994
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I.: JIM MORRISON POETRY SESSION: FAR ARDEN: Radio Dark Night (Take 1)/
Radio Dark Night (Take Two)/ A Vast Radiant Beach (Awake)/ Moonshine
Night/ Frozen Moment By A Lake/ Bird Of Prey/ Dawn's HWY/ Under Waterfall/
The Hitchhiker/ Winter Photography/ Whiskey, Mystics And Men/ Orange
County Suite/ All Hail The American Night/ Far Arden Poem/ Texas Radio &
The Big Beat #1 (Letter From Shirley)/ TALES FROM THE AMERICAN NIGHT: The
American Night/ The Holy Sha/ Hitler/ Latino Chrome/ To Come Of Age -
Black Polished Chrome/ Search On, Man/ Indian, Indian (Sirens And Horns
Honking)/ Woman In The Window/ A Vision Of America: From The Book Of Days
- A Vision Of America - Motel, Money, Murder, Madness/ Earth, Air, Fire,
Water/ Discovery (Angels & Sailors)/ Now Listen To This (Texas Radio & The
Big Beat #2)/ Stoned Immaculate/ White Blind Light (Thank You, O Lord)
II.: LAST RECORDING SESSION: Guitar Tuning & Chats/ Orange County Suite
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Sound Studios, March 1969 and II.: Jim Morrison's (presumably) last
recording session recorded at a professional recording studio, Paris,
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A reissue of the gorgeous 1994 release. To distinguish the original from
the reissue just check the CD: if you have a black&white CD with no
writing on it's the reissue. The original was in color saying Made In
Canada. The soundquality is absolutely the same. For review, check The
Doors Quarterly Magazine #32. Of course, this still is an essential
recording and still a must for each serious collector.
LOVE ME TENDER (CD)
X Extremly Rare Records ExR 001, Germany 1993
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| 1.Roadhouse Blues (vocal rehearsal)/ 2.Intro for The Soft Parade (vocal
rehearsal)/ 3.Whiskey, Mystics And Men/ 4.Love Me Tender/ 5-10. Rock Is
Dead/ 11.Someday Soon/ 12.Orange County Suite/ 13.Wintertime Love
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| Sources: 1= outtake from Morrison Hotel sessions; 2-10= outtakes from The
Soft Parade sessions; 11= Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970, taken
from bootleg LP Someday Soon, incomplete with crackles; 12= from Jim's
poetry session, Sunset Sound Studios, March 1969, copied from bootleg CD
Orange County Suite (Document Records DR 019), incomplete; 13= from
digitally remastered US CD Waiting For The Sun, incomplete.
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What a CD this could have been! But greedy bootleggers took the first
available tape copy of the circulating complete Rock Is Dead tape, added
some stuff they thought was rare and put this out in a hurry. Well, better
than nothing, of course, but Missing Links (Memorial Records, Memorec 403)
has the same material plus more in much better sound quality. Just check
the comments for Missing Links. So I guess, dear readers, you should
better try to get Missing Links, although the material on Love Me Tender
looks pretty interesting. I like the cover, by the way. Looks like being
an oil-painting of Jim Morrison with the same colors Rembrandt (the Dutch
painter) used ages ago.
LOVE ME TWO TIMES (CD)
Starlite CDS 51149,
Italy 1993 |
| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Love Me Two Times/ 3.Light My Fire
(including Graveyard Poem)/ 4.Gloria/ 5.Little Red Rooster/ 6.Moonlight
Drive (including Horse Latitudes)/ 7.You Make Me Real/ 8.The Unknown
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Well, to tell you the truth - I bought this CD just for the cover,
which shows a beautiful 1968 photo of Jim taken in London. We all know the
tracks well. Starlite, by the way, is a low-price label from Italy, and
many supermarkets offer CDs made by this bootlegger. I found my copy in
France, in a shop at the freeway for a mere 40 Francs, less than $10.
MATRIX (CD)
Archivio ARC CD 027, Italy 1995
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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 (Back Trax CD 04-88004), but digitally
remastered and in better soundquality.
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This 1995 CD has got a nice cover showing a couple of Morrison photos
taken by Joel Brodsky, one picture of the band during their ICA Gallery
interview in London, and one taken by Michelle Campbell of Jim's grave
(previously published in Dylan Jones' horrible Dark Star book). What else?
Oh yes, the songs: Another Matrix release. We all have those songs
already!
THE MATRIX TAPES (2 CD Box)
The Swingin' Pig Records TSP-CD-047-2, Luxembourg 1990
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Disc One: 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/ 9.Summer's Almost Gone/ 10.I'm A King Bee/
11.Gloria/ 12.Break On Through/ 13.Summertime
Disc Two: 1.Back Door Man/ 2.Alabama Song/ 3.Light My Fire/ 4.The End/
5.Get Off My Life/ 6.Close To You/ 7.Crawling King Snake/ 8.The Crystal
Ship/ 9.Twentieth Century Fox/ 10.Unhappy Girl/ 11.Rock Me Baby
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| Sources: Disc One - Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967
Disc Two - 1-4=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967; 5-11=Matrix
Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967
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Another release of the Matrix concerts, but this time in better quality
than the first bootleg LP version Moonlight Drive - The Scream Of The
Butterfly. The Swingin' Pigs used the new "Nonoise" computer based digital
noise reduction system. This drastically reduces all unwanted noises on
older recordings but cuts off the high frequencies. It's true: no surface
noise, and the soundquality is a lot better than on all other Matrix
bootlegs, with the exception of the 4 CD Box The Complete Matrix Club
Tapes (Kiss The Stone KTS BX 009), which I prefer to the Swingin' Pig
release because of better quality and a couple of extra songs. This - in
fact - is a big minus for The Matrix Tapes: each song is just once on
them, which means songs they played twice during different sets were
omitted. There were two pressings of this box - the first came in a double
CD box, the second got released in a slim box carrying a white tray. The
second pressing was sold as a cheap mid-price box and got widely
distributed.
MISSING LINKS (CD)
Memorial Records, Memorec 403, Europe (Germany?) 1994
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Parade Intro #2/ 4.Whiskey, Mystics And Men #2/ 5.Love Me Tender/ 6.Rock
Is Dead #1/ 7.Me And The Devil Blues/ 8.Rock Is Dead #2/ 9.Queen Of The
Magazines/ 10.Pipeline (instrumental)/ 11.Rock Is Dead #3/ 12.Rock Me
Baby/ 13.Mystery Train/ 14.Rock Is Dead #4
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| Sources: 1=Elektra Recorders Studios, Los Angeles. Unpublished final
studio version, which never got on the album The Soft Parade, date
unknown, probably early 1969; 2-3=Elektra Recorders Studios, Los Angeles.
Studio Session for the album The Soft Parade, date unknown, probably early
1969; 4-14=Elektra Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, February 25th, 1969.
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This CD is a MUST for everyone who is interested in The Doors. I really
do not know how I could live without a recording of this session, which
I consider as the very missing link between Waiting For The Sun, The Soft
Parade and Morrison Hotel. You know there was the bootleg LP Rock Is Dead
(Tangie Town Records) and there was the bootleg Orange County Suite
(Document Records DR 019), which were absolutely fantastic at the time of
their release, but now there is Missing Links. Unfortunately the
soundquality is not as good as the latter ones, but Missing Links contains
the COMPLETE Rock Is Dead session, and one will be wondering how perfectly
Paul Rothchild cut the session down to what became the well-known Rock Is
Dead (and Orange County Suite) bootleg, and how all the cut-outs sound
like. He even put parts of the session together, which were not intended
being put together (but they fit!). If you own one of the previous
bootlegs, it's like a puzzle finding out what was cut out. A very new
experience, even for me. Finally released after about two years of waiting
for it I still get a thrill listening to Queen Of The Magazines (I still
don't know who wrote the song; it sounds a bit like Love In Vain by Robert
Johnson, to which Jim Morrison improvises some of his own lyrics; to tell
you the truth: I got tears in my eyes when I first heard it a couple of
years ago and it is still very very touching me). Robert Johnson's Me And
The Devil Blues (with some spontaneous Morrison improvisations) still is
a perfect moody blues song. Jim's rap about his parents at the beginning
of the session gets a totally new meaning compared to what was published
on previous bootlegs. I wonder why the bootlegger didn't cut out the short
break in (what he called) Rock Is Dead #2 (if you put this disc on tape
for your car stereo try to cut the break off, it's easy!). There is
another break in Rock Me Baby, which would have been easy to cut off the
disc, but -unfortunately- it's on your CD as well. On the Missing Links
version I have the disc index stops after track 10, so my CD player
doesn't count track 11-14, but you shouldn't worry: It seems the
bootlegger just forgot to put a disc memory on the following tracks, so
track 10 really is track 10-14. On the first preview tape I got of this
session (which never came out on bootleg) there were no breaks at all, and
there was some additional poetry, but no Whiskey, Mystics And Men #1. I
enjoy the liner notes for this CD, they even mention what Jim told Jerry
Hopkins during the well known interview for Rolling Stone about this
session: "We needed another song for The Soft Parade. We were racking our
brains trying to think what song. We were in the studio and so we started
throwing out all those old songs. Blues trips. Rock Classics. Finally we
just started playing and we played for about an hour, and we went through
the whole history of rock music - starting with blues, going through rock
and roll, surf music, latin, the whole thing. I call it `Rock Is Dead'.
I doubt if anybody'll ever hear it." Jim was wrong. Rock Is Dead was one
of the hottest bootlegs in town (once a discjockey from L.A. told his
audience), but now there is Missing Links, even hotter. Well written
linernotes, by the way. One of the hottest bootleg CDs in town ever!
Absolutely recommended.
MISSING LINKS (CD)
Memorial Records, Memorec 403, Czech 1996
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Parade Intro #2/ 4.Whiskey, Mystics And Men #2/ 5.Love Me Tender/ 6.Rock
Is Dead #1/ 7.Me And The Devil Blues/ 8.Rock Is Dead #2/ 9.Queen Of The
Magazines/ 10.Pipeline (instrumental)/ 11.Rock Is Dead #3/ 12.Rock Me
Baby/ 13.Mystery Train/ 14.Rock Is Dead #4/ 15.Someday Soon/ 16.Wintertime
Love/ 17.Roadhouse Blues (vocals only, not complete)
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studio version, which never got on the album The Soft Parade, date
unknown, probably early 1969; 2-3=Elektra Recorders Studios, West
Hollywood. Studio Session for the album The Soft Parade, date unknown,
probably early 1969; 4-14=Elektra Recorders Studio, West Hollywood,
February 25th, 1969. Studio Session for The Soft Parade. 15= Center
Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970; 16=original one-vocal-track version
from digitally remastered Elektra CD Waiting For the Sun (9 74024-2);
17=Elektra Recorders Studios, West Hollywood, early 1969.
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This CD is a remake of the 1994 Missing Links CD and it looks exactly the
same but has got 3 bonus tracks which are not mentioned on the cover or
on the CD (track 15-17). To distinguish both versions check the CD: this
new version has got the OSA sign while the 1994 version without bonus
tracks has got GEMA on the CD. The soundquality is exactly the same. For
review, please check The Doors Quarterly #30.
MISSING TAPES (CD)
Live Storm LSCD 51594, Italy 1994 |
| 1.Whiskey, Mystics And Men #1/ 2.The Soft Parade Intro #1/ 3.The Soft
Parade Intro #2/ 4.Whiskey, Mystics And Men #2/ 5.Love Me Tender/ 6.Rock
Is Dead #1/ 7.Me And The Devil Blues/ 8.Rock Is Dead #2/ 9.Queen Of The
Magazines/ 10.Pipeline (instrumental)/ 11.Rock Is Dead #3/ 12.Rock Me
Baby/ 13.Mystery Train/ 14.Rock Is Dead #4 |
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The Soft Parade, date unknown, probably early 1969; 2-3= Studio Session
for the album The Soft Parade, date unknown, probably early 1969; 4-14=
Studio Session for The Soft Parade, February 25th, 1969. A copy of Missing
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Needless to say, that everybody who owns a copy of Missing Links does not
need this Italian disc. The sound is worse, and the Italians even copied
the liner notes from Missing Links (they just erased the words Missing
Links and also the name of the guy who wrote the notes, some Philippe
Auguste). So this is a copy of a bootleg. Nice New York '68 photo of Jim
on the cover, though.
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