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After Westwood One put out 2 boxes containing stuff from The Doors' Vancouver concert at the Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970, for radio broadcast all over the US, it was no wonder that the bootleggers would eagerly copy this material for their own profit. Vince Treanor, former Doors roadmanager, who had those tapes in his possesion for more than 20 years, gave the tapes to record producer Sandy Gibson, who, to Treanor's absolute horror, put them out as radio shows on Westwood One. The results are a lot of bootleg CDs and even a few LPs containing the songs from the show. After a while, Westwood One published a second radio show containing two extra songs. Canadian Night was the first bootleg that came out with the newly discovered Vancouver material. Later, Vancouver 70 (Skeleton SKCD 1066) was published, containing the extra songs. But still there are a few songs from the show missed, which were never broadcasted and therefore - never published on bootleg. Canadian Night is a brilliant CD, with about 70 minutes playing time, absolutely worth the money because of the excellent sound, the nice design and the good cover (a Jim Marshall-photo from a concert in San Jose 1967). This CD was taken from the first Westwood One radio show broadcasted July 6th and 7th, 1991, which also came out on vinyl "for radio stations only". This is not the complete show, but if you also buy the follow-up CD Vancouver 70, you've got the missing tracks from the second radio show. Jim Morrison is in a very good mood, The Doors play better than on most other 70's shows, and Albert King, the great old bluesman from the South, joins them on Who Do You Love. A great version of Light My Fire is on it, too, including a medley of Fever, Summertime and St. James Infirmary, which fit perfectly with the song. Recommended!

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Great US-copy of an European bootleg CD. It has got a fine cover showing Jim live during the Critique-Show (photo by Frank Lisciandro). The soundquality is absolutely the same. Very rare in Europe, a real collectors' item.

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First I thought this was a reprint of the double bootleg album Celebration (Eli Records) with the same title, which has got a horrible soundquality. But it wasn't. This Celebration CD it is a nice (but standard) compilation of Doors video tracks, which everybody already has. The soundquality is almost perfect but if you own The Doors' official videocassettes, you don't really need this CD. The first pressing came with a black tray, the reprint came in 1994 with a white tray.

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Well, this CD is not the best compilation ever, but the quality of the content is quite good. A rare photo of Jim Morrison from an early Fillmore East concert in New York on the cover is worth buying the disc - I know there are a lot of photo collectors out there. For the rest - nothing sensational.

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This CD features the entire show The Doors did as an open air concert in New York's Central Park in 1972. It seems that nobody is missing Jim - the band and the audience are in a very good mood, everybody is singing and clapping. Nowhere else they did a drum solo as an introduction for The Mosquito. Although the quality is pretty bad and the index is not correct, this CD (made from an audience recording) is enjoyable -- very different to what a Doors performance was all about before Jim died. The cover features some Henry Diltz photos taken in Venice in 1969 that were never seen before. Fairly enough, the bootlegger put one picture without Jim on the cover (Robby is behind the green female dummy), but inside the booklet there is the same picture with Jim taking Robby's place, holding the dummy's hand in his hand. I have no idea which photo is a montage and which isn't. Anyway, I think it is a big financial risk (for a bootlegger) to put out a Doors CD without Morrison on vocals. If you like the Doors without Jim, this is your chance to hear how they sounded like in concert. I only wish the soundquality would not be that bad!

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Don't mix this compilation up with the Baktabak CD bearing the same name containing the famous Morrison interview by Howard Smith. This one here has got no interview on it but live material which has been published before on various other bootlegs and official albums. The cover sheet doesn't mention where the stuff was recorded. Widely distributed in stores, it is pretty cheap, and makes an enjoyable listening, because it was carefully compiled from the best quality sources. For people who don't have the original sources it could be an interesting intro to The Doors.

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A reissue of a British CD with the same name and the same cover containing Howard Smith's Jim Morrison Interview. Of course this CD should bear a different name - there are just Jim and Howard on it. This time the bootleggers added the official Light My Fire/Love Me Two Times Elektra CD single in a double CD box.

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Right, on this CD there's Howard's complete 59'21" interview in the best quality I've ever heard. If you listen to this on the earphones, you'll experience Howard's nightmares talking to Jim, and I guess you'll realize how much Jim was teasing him. The girl in the background, by the way, is Jim's former secretary, Kathy Lisciandro, who still makes the best coffee in the world (I know it!). Anyway, this CD is highly recommended, and it comes with a nice coversheet and a short version of The Doors' story. Nice one. On the back it says: "This album does not contain music and is not an Elektra release". It also says it was recorded in 1970 ... not true, must have been November 1969, but who cares? A really good interview CD - but there are just Jim, Howard and Kathy on it, no other Doors at all ...

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This seems to be Volume 2 of Rarities And Few (IBR 2325). Same comments. Good to hear just 1970's concerts on both CDs. The covers of both would look like magic for a vinyl edition. Recommended!

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This definite box of Matrix recordings clearly wipes off all other bootleg records having the same material. This box truly sets standards in the history of Bootlegging The Doors. It definitely has 11 songs from both nights that have never been published before on bootleg, which makes this expensive box worth the money you have to spend buying it. Just check the two versions of I Can't See Your Face In My Mind, or the two wonderful versions of When The Music's Over - they're far better than the versions of later concerts. Check the beauty of Light My Fire with its totally different intro - this shows that the band often continued to work on the structure and the arrangement of the songs, even after having published them on record. Robert Johnson's Me And The Devil Blues is unbelievably good, and the two versions of The End (although the second one is incomplete) are masterworks including rare Jim Morrison poetry renditions. The soundquality is really good, not that mushy as the well-known Swingin' Pig release.
On 4 beautifully designed color CDs you get 5 (!) complete sets from 2 different concerts, packed in a terrific box including a deluxe 24-page color booklet - you can't ask for more! Throw away all the Matrix CDs you've bought before and try to get this one. Absolutely RECOMMENDED!

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Another nice cover, taken from a postcard with a nice photo of Jim with a pending lady. The photo was taken up the hills of the Hollywood Bowl on July 5th, 1968. But it is just another release with Matrix tracks (same tracks on Autumn Life, Living Legend Records LLR CD 003), but in a different order. The sound-quality is the same as on Autumn Life, but with a cut at the beginning of Back Door Man, which proofs that the CD was copied from a vinyl record, most probably from the Italian vinyl bootleg Definitely Closed. There is definitely better Matrix stuff around! Interesting enough, the royalties (dues) for this disc had been paid in France.