THE END (CD)
Viva CD 7512 (Cassette: MC 7512), Italy 1993 |
| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Build Me A Woman/
3.Close To You/ 4.Love Me Two Times/ 5.Light My
Fire-Graveyard Poem/ 6.You Make Me Real/
7.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes/ 8.Unknown
Soldier/ 9.The End |
| Sources: Official Elektra album In
Concert |
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As usual, one of the countless bootlegs featuring live
material everybody already has on disc. The rare photo on
the cover shows Ray, John and Robby on May 12th, 1972 in
London doing some promotion for the British release of Weird
Scenes Inside The Goldmine. There's no gap in your
collection if you don't own this CD ...
ERIC BURDON, ROBBY KRIEGER
& FRIENDS: 1990 DETROIT TAPES (CD)
Prime Cuts PC 010, Germany 1993 |
| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.See See Rider/
3.Don't Bring Me Down/ 4.Back Door Man/ 5.We
Gotta Get Out Of This Place/ 6.Bring It On Home
To Me/ 7.Tobacco Road/ 8.No more Elmore/ 9.Spill
The Wine/ 10.Boom Boom Boom/ 11.Shake, Rattle And
Roll/ 12.The House Of The Rising Sun |
| Sources: Probably a soundboard master
tape copy of a 1990 Eric Burdon show in Detroit
(exact date unknown). |
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Eric's pretty drunk or on a trip to somewhere, and
he's hoarse, too. And he's slamming most of the songs
down to hell, ripping his own greatest hits into pieces:
"I hate this fucking tune, you know that! ... I
hate it! ... When they put me down in my grave, I'm gonna
yell this fucking tune when I go down underneath the
earth ...". That's Eric Burdon for you! What
follows is the ugliest version of The House Of The
Rising Sun I've ever heard. So, unbelievable Eric,
I'm terribly sorry, but the best on this bootleg CD are
the musicians, not the voice. Krieger's guitar solos are
as good as ever, and the rest of the band really tries to
get it on. It seems this was recorded right after filming
Oliver Stone's The Doors movie: "We've
been out in Los Angeles making the Doors movie...",
Eric Burdon barks right before Robby starts Back Door
Man. Powerful good sound, but for Krieger-fans only.
EUROPE SEPTEMBER 1968 (CD)
Black Panther BP-078, Japan 1992 |
| 1.Five to one/ 2.Break on through/ 3.When
the music's over/ 4.Light My Fire/ 5.The End/
6.Alabama Song-Back Door Man/ 7.The WASP/ 8.Hello
I love you/ 9.The Unknown Soldier |
| Sources: 1-5=Roundhouse, London,
England, September 7th, 1968, complete early
show; 6-9=Kongresshalle, Frankfurt, West Germany,
September 14th, 1968, early show, not complete.
An uncomplete copy of the double CD The Live
Doors - Live In Europe September 1968 (Crocodile
Records BGCD 245) |
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A strange Japanese compilation of two previously
published CDs. This release omits Break On Through,
When The Music's Over and Light My Fire (from
Frankfurt). It seems the Japanese Panthers didn't want
any songs doubled on their release. Or was it just a
question of space? Well, all crackles are still on this
release - I wish somebody would release a CD made from
the original tapes, not from a crackling vinyl copy!
EYES OF DARKNESS (CD)
Exile Records CD 4008, USA 1991 |
| 1.People Are Strange/ 2.Alabama Song/
3.Crystal Ship/ 4.Unhappy Girl/ 5.Moonlight
Drive/ 6.Summer's Almost Gone/ 7.Twentieth
Century Fox/ 8.Back Door Man/ 9.My Eyes Have Seen
You/ 10.Soul Kitchen/ 11.Get Off My Life/
12.Crawling King Snake |
| Sources: Matrix Club, San Francisco,
March 7th, 1967 |
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Eyes Of Darkness was the first US-Doors-bootleg-CD.
It is one of the rare real CD bootlegs (not half-legal as
95% of the European boots). They say on the cover the
origin was Germany ... but it was not. Nobody over here
says Munich for München, and the zipcode
is not 9000, but 8000. What about some
little research, boys? Despite that, the disc is a remake
of the original TAKRL-bootleg-LP Moonlight Drive-The
Scream Of The Butterfly, using the original tapes.
Exile Records produced a different cover than the
original LP (a colour shot of Jim and Pamela inside Pam's
Themis boutique, previously published by Rolling
Stone). So- the cover is nice, the sound O.K., but the
Matrix-concert has been on countless other bootlegs
before. Anyway, for nostalgia-fans only. It's interesting
to listen to the old boots without crackling noises. Eyes
Of Darkness is one of the most sought-after CD boots
ever, by the way. Really, it is very very rare!
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