UN FILM D'OLIVER STONE (CD
in paper cover)
MAX CD 01, France 1991 |
1.Light My Fire/ 2.Touch Me/ 3.L.A.Woman/
4.Moonlight Drive/ 5.The End |
Sources: Official video A Tribute To
Jim Morrison. |
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This was sponsored by Carolco International and
Tri-Star Pictures. So it is not really what you would
call a bootleg. But there are live versions on it, so
just check your copy of A Tribute To Jim Morrison.
The CD was a supplement for the French magazine Max, but
dealers now sell it individually for a lot of money.
FIRST FLASH OF EDEN (CD)
Tangie Town Records TTR 9002, Germany/Luxembourg
1995 |
1.Back Door Man/ 2.Break On Through/
3.When The Music's Over/ 4.Ship Of Fools/ 5.Light
My Fire/ 6.The End-Across The Sea-Away In
India-Crossroads-Wake Up-The End (not the
complete concert. The encore Roadhouse Blues was
not taped)/ 7.Light My Fire |
Sources: Isle Of Wight Popfestival,
Isle Of Wight, England, August 29th, 1970; track
7=Denver University Memorial Union, Denver,
September 28th, 1967. |
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The original vinyl version is a first grade collectors'
item. And so will be the CD which came out in a limited
edition. For the CD the producers used the same photo and
artwork but this time in colour. Great picture! My
favourite record cover of all times! The sound is much
better than on Freedom Man (Banzai Records BZBX
036/37/38) and - of course - this was a good concert. I
still cannot understand why the biography No One Here
Gets Out Alive says it was a bad one! Notice the
unusual medley during The End. I can't remember
any other version of The End featuring Wake Up.
The CD is different from the vinyl: All that guitar
tuning and all those audience noises are included this
time. Both the vinyl and the CD miss the encore, which
was Roadhouse Blues. Instead of that on the CD
there is a bonus track from Denver 1967 which has not
been published before. The song sounds as if this was
taped miles away from the stage, but it is truly a
fantastic mindblowing version of Light My Fire and
totally new to everybody. Absolutely: Recommended!
FOUR CLOSED DOORS (CD)
World Productions Of Compact Music WPOCM
1288DO13-2, Italy 1988 |
1.Alabama Song-Back Door Man/ 2.Texas
Radio & The Big Beat (cover says The WASP)/
3.Love Me Two Times/ 4.The Unknown Soldier/
5.When The Music's Over/ 6.The End/ 7.Wild Child/
8.Touch Me/ 9.Light My Fire |
Sources: 1-5=Copenhagen TV Studio,
Copenhagen, Denmark, September 17th, 1968); 6=Now
Explosion, CBC TV Show, O'Keefe Centre, Toronto,
Canada, August 8th, 1967; 7+8=Smothers Brothers
Comedy Hour, Los Angeles, December 4th, 1968; 9=
Ed Sullivan Show, New York, September 17th, 1967.
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The cover is nice, showing a collage of the four group
members in front of doors. That's the only good thing
about this CD. The sound of the Copenhagen performance is
just horrible. Nobody would recommend this CD.
FREEDOM MAN (3 CD Box)
Banzai Records BZBX 036/37/38, Italy 1994 |
Disc 1: 1.Roadhouse Blues/
2.Ship Of Fools/ 3.Break On Through/ 4.Univer-
sal Mind/ 5.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To
One/ 6.Moonlight Drive-Hor- se
Latitudes-Moonlight Drive (cover just mentions
Moonlight Drive)/ 7.Who Do You Love/ 8.Money/
9.Light My Fire/ 10.When The Music's Over
Disc 2: 1.The Spy/ 2.Break
On Through/ 3.Peace Frog/ 4.Blue Sunday/ 5.Light
My Fire-Summertime-Fever-Light My Fire (cover
just says Light My Fire)/ 6.Soul Kitchen/ 7.Love
Me Two Times/ 8.Maggie M'Gill/ 9.Roadhouse Blues/
10.Alabama Song-Back Door Man-Five To One/
11.Ship Of Fools
Disc 3: 1.When The Music's
Over/ 2.Back Door Man/ 3.Break On Through/ 4.When
The Music's Over/ 5.Ship Of Fools/ 6.Light My
Fire/ 7.The End-Across The Sea-Away In
India-Crossroads-Wake Up-The End (cover just
mentions The End) |
Sources: Disc One= Felt Forum, New
York, January 18th, 1970, entire first show.
Disc Two= Long Beach Sports Arena, Long Beach,
February 7th, 1970 (not the entire show, misdated
as February 2nd, 1970).
Disc Three= Track 1 same as Disc 2; tracks 2-7
Isle Of Wight Festival, Isle Of Wight, England,
August 29th, 1970 (not the entire show). |
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Except for a few song segments during The End and Moonlight
Drive and the version of When The Music's Over
on disc 3, track 1, the "normal" collector does
not have the material published in this box. The three
CDs are recommended for the collector who is not
interested in bootleg compilation CDs. The Felt Forum
concert is the only complete recording of one
single Felt Forum concert which is around (on all other
previously published CDs the tracks are compiled from
three different shows, as I've recently found out. By the
way, until now no recording of the first Felt Forum show
on January 17th, 1970 has shown up). Interesting enough,
the version of Moonlight Drive was used for Alive
She Cried (later on In Concert), and Universal
Mind was used for Absolutely Live (later used
for In Concert as well), but on this CD you have
the complete version including a fantastic organ solo by
Ray Manzarek. I can't believe Paul Rothchild cut this out
while putting Absolutely Live together! In
general, a fine show, although Jim says before Light
My Fire, "I thank you all for being so
patient with us tonight. It usually takes an hour or so
to get warmed up, so I don't plan the rest to go any but
for a while ... what if we'll do a famous radio song?"
But - a very boring version of Light My Fire
follows, unfortunately. When The Music's Over is
slightly better, and if you listen carefully you'll
notice that this Felt Forum version was used as the basic
track for the one on Absolutely Live with a few
overdubs here and there - especially the Shut Up!
phrase, which has definitely been cut into the Felt Forum
version of January 18th, first show. The original tape
runs too slowly, by the way. The bootleggers didn't
bother to correct the speed, unfortunately ...
The second CD in this box has got songs from The Doors'
Long Beach concert on it. Unfortunately the quality is
very bad (the master tape seems to have being recorded
200 meters away from the stage), and half of the concert
is not on this CD - I miss Universal Mind, Crystal
Ship, Touch Me and The End. But The Doors and
their audience are in the best mood ever, Jim is giving a
good rap to the audience, and if not for its historical
importance this concert represents one of the better
shows the band gave to a big audience (remember the
disastrous Seattle concert?). Music's Over
(17'32" long!) is much much better than the version
from the first CD of this box, but it's very hard to get
what Jim is telling the audience - the quality of the
recording is awful. The order of the songs on the CD is
not as The Doors played them - they started with Roadhouse
Blues. Blue Sunday is the only live version of this
lovely tune available, nice one, Jim! The third CD starts
with Music's Over from Long Beach, then it fades
into The Doors' Isle Of Wight performance. I'm shocked
the quality is so bad; it really sucks - there are much
better tapes around, and if you have the bootleg LP or CD
First Flash Of Eden on Tangie Town Records - good,
the quality is best on that one.
The box contains an excellent 52-page (!) booklet with
many color photos (most of them taken by Frank
Lisciandro), an interesting but jerkily written article
about the last year of Doors concerts (1970) plus a few
snippets of Morrison-poetry. Probably the best booklet
ever produced for a bootleg box.
This box is recommended because of the rarity
of the material and the beautiness of the cover and the
booklet, but certainly not for the sound
quality.
FROM THE INSIDE - LIVE AND
UNRELEASED (CD)
Manic Depression CD 017, Italy 1990 |
1.The End (cover says Mother)/ 2.The
Unknown Soldier/ 3.Yes, The River Knows (cover
says The River Knows)/ 4.Gloria/ 5.Five To One/
6.Do It (cover says Let It Bleed)/ 7.Who Do You
Love/ 8.Money/ 9.The Soft Parade Intro (cover
says Petition The Lord With Prayer)/ 10.Someday
Soon (cover says Sunday Soon)/ 11.Jim Morrison
Interview/ 12.Rock Is Dead/Poetry Session (cover
just mentiones Jim Morrison Interview)/ 13.When
The Music's Over/ 14.Alabama Song-Back Door
Man-Five To One/ 15.The Unknown Soldier/
16.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes/ 17.The End/
18.Light My Fire |
Sources: 1+7=Pacific National
Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th,
1970 (excerpts only), cover says Wiskey a Go/Go
(sic); 2+3=from official album Waiting For The
Sun, cover says Fillmore East 1968 for #2 and
From Demo 1967 for #3; 4=from official CD Alive
She Cried, later In Concert, cover says From Demo
1967; 5+8=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden,
September 20th, 1968, early show, cover says
Fillmore East 1968 for #5 and Venue 1968 for #8;
6+9=from official album The Soft Parade, cover
says Demo 1968 for #6 and Miami 1969 for #9;
10=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970
(short version), cover says From Acetate 1967;
11=excerpt from Howard Smith Interview, Doors
office, Los Angeles, November 1969, cover says
Iterview (sic); 12=session for the album The Soft
Parade, Elektra Sound Studios, Los Angeles,
February 25th, 1969/ Jim Morrison poetry session,
Elektra Sound Studios, Los Angeles, March 1969,
cover says Miami 1969; 13-17=Hollywood Bowl, Los
Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from official video Live
At The Hollywood Bowl; 18=Jonathan Winters TV
Show, CBS Studios, Los Angeles, December 27th,
1967. # 13-18 are the only tracks labeled
correctly, all other sources are labeled
intentionally incorrect! |
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I still get a manic depression when I notice how the
bootleggers mistitled and mislabeled most of the tracks.
Almost all tracks were taken from a tape copy of the
radio show The Doors From The Inside, a famous and
absolutely amazing show done in 1988 by Jac Holzman,
former president of Elektra Records. The rest of the
songs is known from some of the official videos. But
telling people on the cover that The Doors are performing
songs like Mother and Let It Bleed is
absolutely bad and done just to raise the sales of this
unbearable CD. You should watch your Dance On Fire
and Live At The Hollywood Bowl videos, listen to
your original CDs and the recommended CD boots in this
book, then you have got all things which are on this CD
and the soundquality is very much better. This Italian
release is nothing but a rip off. Unfortunately From
The Inside - Live And Unreleased was the source many
other bootleggers copied their rip offs from - without
questioning the correctness of titles and sources. Damn
it!
FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH THE
MOJO WIRE (CD)
RHP 456, Slovakia 1995 |
1.Moonlight Drive/ 2.Get Off My Life
(cover says Get Out Of My Life)/ 3.I'm A King
Bee/ 4.Back Door Man/ 5.Me And The Devil
Blues-Sittin' Here Thinkin'-Rock Me Baby (cover
says Sittin' And Thinkin')/ 6.Me And The Devil
Blues/ 7.Queen Of The Magazines (cover says Love
In Vain)/ 8.Excerpt from Rock Is Dead (cover says
Love Me)/ 9.Excerpt from Rock Is Dead (cover says
Rock Is Dead)/ 10.Someday Soon/ 11. The End |
Sources: 1-5=Matrix Club, San
Francisco, March 7th and 10th, 1967;
6-9=Recording Session for the album The Soft
Parade, early 1969 (not complete); 10=Center
Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970 (not complete);
11=Now Explosion CBC TV Show, O'Keefe Centre,
Toronto, Canada, August 8th, 1967 (cover says
Copenhagen, Danish TV Show, September 1968 which
is not true). Tracks 1-10 are labeled as
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Another rip off, containing intentionally mislabeled
material. Don't let this bootlegger fool you - this is
material almost every serious fan already has. Despite
the nice cover, this CD is not worth your money. It was
made in Slovakia, the only country in Europe that still
was pressing bootlegs during the autumn and winter 1995.
So this is not really a true Slovakian release, it was
just made there (check the carefully wiped-off
registration number on the disc). Never before
released is written on the cover - never believe this
when you see a bootleg!
FUTURE IS MURDER (CD)
Alien Records 006, Germany 1994 |
1.Crawling King Snake (cover says Jake)/
2.Away In India (cover says Lament Of An Indian)/
3.Peace Frog/ 4.Money/ 5.Poem: Frozen Moment By A
Lake (cover says The Chant Movement/Five To One,
but there's no Five To One at all!)/ 6.Mystery
Train (cover says A Train Arrives)/ 7.Horse
Latitudes-Hitler/ 8.Orange County Suite/ 9.Rock
Is Dead (cover says Rock Is Dead/A Train
Arrives)/ 10.Rock Me Baby/ 11.Someday Soon/
12.Touch Me/ 13.Do It/ 14.Wild Child/ 15.Wishful
Sinful/ 16.The Soft Para- de |
Sources: 1= Felt Forum, New York,
January 17th, 1970, late show; 2= a short part of
The End from State Fair Music Hall, Dallas,
December 11th, 70; 3= same as 1 (cover says New
York 4/5/70); 4= Pacific National Exhibition
Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970; 5=
from Jim's poetry session March 1969 (cover says
New Orleans 12/12/70); 6= Center Coliseum,
Seattle, June 5th, 1970; 7= original LP-version,
early fade-out; Hitler from Rock Is Dead bootleg
LP; 8= cut version from Jim's poetry session
March 1969; 9= incomplete cut version from
bootleg Rock Is Dead, (cover says San Diego,
22/8/70); 10= same as 4; 11= same as 6, cut
version; 12= Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,
December 4th, 1968, from video Dance On Fire; 13=
original LP-version (cover says L.A.4/4/68);
14-16= from official video The Soft Parade (cover
says New York 23/5/69), but 15+16 were recorded
in New York on May 13th, 1969. Same CD as The
Future Is Murder but in a black box with color
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After everybody had read in The Doors Quarterly #29
the first issue from 1993 was pure shit, the news got
around and nobody bought it anymore. So the bootlegger
used another dirty trick: He threw away the old
digi-packs, bought new black jewel boxes, had three
colorful stickers printed and stuck them onto the box. He
left out the "The" from the previous
title (The Future Is Murder) and is now hoping
that the fans will buy his shabby CD another time. No, we
won't, Mr. German Records, alias Mr. Alien
Records, alias Mr. Fun Factory, and we won't
even buy another repackage of your awful Replica Blues-shit
and your horrible Archangel-rubbish. I do not need
to mention that this CD too features songs labeled Live
In New Orleans (see other CDs mentioning this
source). How many synonyms do you know for excrements,
dear readers? Well, use them all for Future Is Murder!
THE FUTURE IS MURDER (CD)
Alien Records 006, Germany 1993 |
1.Crawling King Snake (cover says Jake)/
2.Away In India (cover says Lament Of An Indian)/
3.Peace Frog/ 4.Money/ 5.Poem: Frozen Moment By A
Lake (cover says The Chant Movement/Five To One,
but there's no Five To One at all!)/ 6.Mystery
Train (cover says A Train Arrives)/ 7.Horse
Latitudes-Hitler/ 8.Orange County Suite/ 9.Rock
Is Dead (cover says Rock Is Dead/A Train
Arrives)/ 10.Rock Me Baby/ 11.Someday Soon/
12.Touch Me/ 13.Do It/ 14.Wild Child/ 15.Wishful
Sinful/ 16.The Soft Parade |
Sources: 1= Felt Forum, New York,
January 17th, 1970, late show; 2= a short part of
The End from State Fair Music Hall, Dallas,
December 11th, 70; 3= same as 1 (cover says New
York 4/5/70); 4= Pacific National Exhibition
Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970; 5=
from Jim's poetry session March 1969 (cover says
New Orleans 12/12/70); 6= Center Coliseum,
Seattle, June 5th, 1970; 7= original LP-version,
early fade-out; Hitler from Rock Is Dead bootleg
LP; 8= cut version from Jim's poetry session
March 1969; 9= incomplete cut version from
bootleg Rock Is Dead, (cover says San Diego,
22/8/70); 10= same as 4; 11= same as 6, cut
version; 12= Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,
December 4th, 1968, from video Dance On Fire; 13=
original LP-version (cover says L.A.4/4/68);
14-16= from official video The Soft Parade (cover
says New York 23/5/69), but 15+16 were recorded
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One of the worst CDs in the world. As you can see in
this huge list above, this German bootleg CD is a total
rip-off, trying to pretend to have good and unusual
material on it. But there isn't any note on it which
hasn't been published before on countless other bootleg
records and CDs. Using songs from official Doors albums
and videos, adding some audience noises and Morrison
poems don't neccessarily make a good bootleg album. Even
worse: Telling people some of the stuff was recorded in
New Orleans (which was last Doors concert with Jim
Morrison). Well, it is just a poem from the well-known Rock
Is Dead album/the well-known Orange County Suite
CD (Document Records DR 019). Most of the poetry'
intercuts and overdubs run too slow! A few songs are cut:
the bootlegger made his own short versions. Collectors
might be interested in getting one of the first digipacks
in bootleg CD history, but I hope nobody is going to buy
this shit. The material was intentionally falsified and
mislabeled to make fans think they have bought some rare
stuff. Absolutely not worth the money! Avoid it! See Future
Is Murder, Archangel and Replica Blues. For
shit like these CDs they cut down rainforests and pollute
our environment with plastic!
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