CANADIAN NIGHT (CD)
Buccaneer Records BUC 011, Italy 1991 |
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
Infirma- ry-Light My Fire (cover just says Light
My Fire)/ 6.The End |
Sources: Pacific National Exhibition
Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970.
Taken from the first Westwood One radio show. Not
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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!
CAPABLE OF ANYTHING (2CD)
Crazy Blues Records CBCD 289, USA 1997 |
Disc One: 1.Roadhouse Blues/
2.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To One/ 3.When
The Music's Over/ 4.Love Me Two Times/ 5.Little
Red Rooster/ 6.Money/ 7.Rock Me Baby/ 8.Who Do
You Love
Disc Two: 1.The Soft Parade
Intro (cover says Petition The Lord With Prayer -
Poem)/ 2.Light My Fire-Fever-Summertime-St.James
Infirmary-Fever-Light My Fire/ 3.The End/ 4.Soul
Kitchen-Runnin Blue-Soul Kitchen/ 5.Break On
Through/ 6.The Crystal Ship/ 7.Wake Up/ 8.Light
My Fire |
Sources: Disc One= Pacific National
Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th,
1970. Disc Two: tracks 1-3= Pacific National
Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th,
1970; tracks 4-8= Chicago Auditorium Theatre,
Chicago, IL, USA, November 9, 1968. A copy of One
Hundred Minutes (Tuff Bites T.B. 95.1040) |
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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.
CELEBRATION (CD)
The Swinging Pig Records TSP-CD-022, Luxembourg
1989 |
1.Light My Fire/ 2.Touch Me/ 3.When The
Music's Over/ 4.The End/ 5.Moonlight Drive/
6.Light My Fire |
Sources: 1=Ed Sullivan Show, New York,
September 17th, 1967, from official video Dance
On Fire; 2=Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Los
Angeles, December 4th, 1968, from official video
Dance On Fire; 3+4=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles,
July 5th, 1968, from official video Live At The
Hollywood Bowl; 5+6=Jonathan Winters TV Show, CBS
Studios, Los Angeles, December 27th, 1967. Track
5 from official video Dance On Fire, track 6 from
a TV special. |
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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.
THE CELEBRATION OF THE
LIZARD (CD)
Alegra Records/Sarabandas srl CD 9019, Italy 1995
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1.Soul Kitchen/ 2.Love Street/ 3.Ship Of
Fools/ 4.Crawling King Snake/ 5.The End/
6.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes (cover just
says Moonlight Drive)/ 7.Who Do You Love/ 8.Wild
Child/ 9.The Celebration Of The Lizard/ 10.Build
Me A Woman |
Sources: 1+7=from official CD In
Concert/ 2=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden,
September 20th, 1968, late show; 5+6=Hollywood
Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from official
video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 8=Konsert-
huset, Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968,
early show; 3,4,10=Felt Forum, New York, January
17th, 1970, late show; 9=Felt Forum, New York,
January 18th, 1970, late show. |
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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.
CENTRAL PARK NEW YORK -
AUG.21 1972 (CD)
Black Dog Records BD 004, Hungary 1993 |
1.Tightrope Ride/ 2.In The Eye Of The Sun/
3.The Mosquito/ 4.Love Me Two Times/ 5.Verdillac
(cover says Jam)/ 6.I'm Horny I'm Stoned/ 7.Ships
With Sails (cover adds another Jam - extended
Ships, but of course this is nothing else but the
second part of track 7)/ 8.Good Rockin' Tonight/
9.Light My Fire/ 10.Close To You |
Sources: Central Park, New York, July
17th, 1972 (cover says August.21st, which is not
true).
Attention: This is a recording without Jim
Morrison. |
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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!
THE CEREMONY CONTINUES (CD)
On Stage Records OSCD 12, Italy 1993 |
1.Love Me Two Times/ 2.Peace Frog/ 3.Rock
Is Dead (ends with Jim's National Anthem-rap and
the Soft Parade-Intro he did before playing Light
My Fire; not mentioned on the cover)/ 4.Light My
Fire/ 5.Roadhouse Blues/ 6.Someday Soon/
7.Mystery Train/ 8.When The Music's Over |
Sources: 1= from the official album
Alive She Cried; 2= Felt Forum, New York, January
18th, 1970, late show; 3= from bootleg CD Orange
County Suite (Document Records DR 019), recorded
live at Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles,
25/2/69; for the rap see track 4; 4= same as 2,
but taken from bootleg CD Orange County Suite
(Document Records DR 019); 5= from the album In
Concert; 6-8= from bootleg CD June 5th 1970 -
Live In Seattle (Flashback Worldproductions
02.92.0170). |
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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.
THE CEREMONY CONTINUES
(Double CD Set)
Baktabak Records CBAK 24052/2, England 1993 |
Sources: Howard Smith's Jim Morrison
Interview, Los Angeles, Doors Office on Santa
Monica Boulevard, November 1969 |
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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.
THE CEREMONY CONTINUES (CD)
Baktabak Records, CBAK 4052, England 1992 |
Sources: Complete Howard Smith
interview with Jim Morrison, Doors office, Los
Angeles, November 1969. |
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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 ...
COLLECTORS ITEMS (CD)
International Broadcast Recordings, IBR 2395,
Italy 1994 |
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 |
Sources: 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. |
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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!
THE COMPLETE MATRIX CLUB
TAPES (4 CD Box)
Kiss The Stone KTS BX 009, Italy 1994 |
Disc One: 1.Back Door Man/
2.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 3.Soul Kitchen/ 4.Get
Off My Life/ 5.When The Music's Over/ 6.Close To
You/ 7.Crawling King Snake/ 8.I Can't See Your
Face In My Mind/ 9.People Are Strange/ 10.Who Do
You Love/ 11.Alabama Song/ 12.The Crystal Ship
Disc Two: 1.Twentieth
Century Fox/ 2.Moonlight Drive/ 3.Summer's Almost
Gone/ 4.Unhappy Girl/ 5.Me And The Devil
Blues-Sittin' Here Thinkin'-Rock Me Baby (cover
says Woman)/ 6.Break On Through/ 7.Light My Fire/
8.The End
Disc Three: 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
Disc Four: 1.Summer's Almost
Gone/ 2.I'm A King Bee/ 3.Gloria/ 4.Break On
Through/ 5.Summertime/ 6.Back Door Man/ 7.Alabama
Song/ 8.The End |
Sources: Disc One and Two= Complete
recording of three sets at the Matrix Club, San
Francisco, March 7th, 1967; Disc Three and
Four=Complete recording of sets two and three at
the Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967
(First set of that night is unfortunately still
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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!
CRAWLING KING SNAKES (CD)
Back Trax CD 04-88004, Luxembourg 1988 |
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 |
Sources: Matrix Club, San Francisco,
March 7th, 1967, first and second set. |
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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.
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