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A mediocre CD with an interesting cover showing Val Kilmer instead of Jim Morrison. Interesting because the name The Doors is printed in silver letters on the plastic box. The songs are pretty well-known by now. The disc comes as a cheapo disc - nobody should pay more than $5 for it.

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The only Greek bootleg CD got vastly distributed in Europe. Although the material definitely is not interesting, bootleggers copied this one for the 3 CD box Light My Fire (Starlife ST 3606) and for the 2 CD box Jim Morrison - Special Limited Edition (Starlife ST 2905). The cover of the Starlife copy is the same, they just changed the order number.



 

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Finally, even the bootleggers have discovered the new media of CD-Rom. What is most astonishing about this release is the country of its release - Russia. The disc has just got a xeroxed black & white cover with a Russian text on the back. The copy that I have is just a CD-R; a self-made computer copy. I have no idea if this is distributed as a real print as well. The content is surprising, too. There are 11 Doors videos on it (all taken from the official video Dance On Fire); there's a slide show overdubbed by the song The End and a Russian narrator; there are 62 (!) songs from The Doorsae official studio albums on it; there are the lyrics of all official songs; there are 73 nice (partly rare, üartly from Oliver Stone's film) photos in perfect quality and there's the introduction taken from the First Flash Of Eden bootleg (the announcer and a part of Back Door Man). Of course, the Russians made a few mistakes re-naming the videos: Texas Radio & The Big Beat Vol.2 is nothing but Love Me Two Times, and Horse Latitudes is nothing but Moonlight Drive. On the other hand this would make a pretty good official interactive CD-ROM; the videos should be in better quality, though.

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No jewel box was used, but a paper jacket including a track sheet. It's just 36 minutes long and not worth the money a hard core collector would spend on it. We have enough of Aulica discs by now. This originally came with a catalogue of all Aulica CDs.

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A copy of one of the worst compilations ever, previously released as The Killer Awoke (Kiderian Rekords TDCD 4862)! This CD in a clear roundbox is another waste of plastic, and we know it is our damn duty to ignore those rip-off CDs. Even the black & white photos are not rare at all but copies from well-known books.

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A luxurious glossy hardcover longbox containing 4 CDs, a beautiful 24-page booklet and a colour poster make one of the nicest Doors CD compilation boxes of all time. All four picture CDs and their covers had been designed individually. Sure, all tracks have been published on countless bootlegs before, but this seems to be the first attempt to produce an intelligentcompilation. For the first time somebody tried to publish a concept box, not just another uninteresting compilation. Despite a few tiny mistakes (check the sources) and the inclusion of a longer Someday Soon version (copied from Live In Seattle, Flashback Worldproductions 02.92.0170) and a short version (from The Doors From The Inside radio show, but the same concert), this box is a perfect collector's item. Some interesting liner notes and a list of 51 different Doors bootleg CDs including all their tracks made the booklet very attractive at the time of ist release. It also contains many photos, mostly from Frank Lisciandro's books and Danny Sugerman's Illustrated History book. The extra colour poster shows the covers of all 51 CDs mentioned. A great work. Although the box is pretty expensive, it is worth the money and without any doubt recommended for the true fan.

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This CD is a perfect example how to take a good quality radio show and produce something bad of it. First - they used a tape copy instead of the original vinyl show. Second - they fade in the songs and, of course, they fade out as well. Horrible! Buy Canadian Night (Buccaneer Records BUC 011) it has the same songs in better soundquality and no fades at all. Avoid Feel The Blues. Despite the rare photo on the front (reprinted in bad quality) from The Doors' 1968 Top Of The Pops appearance) there isn't anything good to say about this CD.

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The second Doors release by Fremus. Check their other CD with the same title. Needless to say, that this Italian CD is definitely not worth to be collected for the songs. You know what? I am sure they will continue putting out Doors Live bootlegs taken off the In Concert album. Just wait. This disc - like the first Fremus release - is also known as Golden Age - The Doors Live.

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First I thought this was a copy of one of the other The Doors Live CDs (More Record Production) but then I noticed the different source of the song Light My Fire and the omission of The Celebration Of The Lizard. But that doesn't matter. This too is just another useless compilation. Is it really necessary to mention that a copy with a red back cover was seen at a record fair?

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Fair enough, this useless CD has got an astonishingly good sound. All tracks have been published before on many other CDs. This is the version with the bar code on the backcover. The second edition has the same content, the same design on disc, the same backcover (without bar-code), but a totally different cover. It seems somebody is selling his uninteresting product twice. The cover of the second edition is worse than the one of the first edition.

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The first Doors release by Fremus. Check their other CD with the same title. Needless to say, that this Italian CD is definitely not worth to be collected for the songs. In Concert was a great album for bootleggers - they couldn't wait to use its songs for their releases. No wonder the soundquality of the copies is superb. This CD is also known as Golden Age - The Doors Live.

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If you own the box The Complete Matrix Club Tapes (KTS BX 009) you should be aware that this mid-price CD is a copy of disc #4 from the box. Fine cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only.
Note: On the four nicely designed Oil Well midprice discs Summer's Almost Gone (RSC CD 114), Moonlight Drive (RSC CD 115), Shake Your Moneymaker (RSC CD 116) and Down On Me (RSC CD 117) you find the complete recordings of four sets at the Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th and March 10th, 1967. No wonder the first set of March 10th is still missed - those discs were copied from the great KTS box The Complete Matrix Club Tapes. Altogether they are cheaper than the box - so if you can't get that one, try to get the four.

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As you see, one who owns the CDs Orange County Suite (Document Records DR 019) and New York Blues (Document Records DR 033) does not need this double CD, which uses parts of the original artwork of the single CDs. The CDs have exactly the same quality as the originals, no wonder - they were made from the same glass masters. While New York Blues is still a masterwork, we have a fine substitute for Orange County Suite now: Missing Links (Memorec 403) and Jim Morrison - The Lost Paris Tapes (Jomo 3.5471.1). Alright?

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All songs of this CD had been copied from European bootleg CDs. For Japanese fans there might be interesting material on it, but for Europeans Dynamic Live is nothing special - just another compilation of well known material.