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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!