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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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