GHOST SONGS ON DAWNS
HIGHWAY (CD)
plus SCOTT WALKER and HAROLD BUDD (bonus tracks)
Immaculate Records, Germany (?) 1993 |
THE DOORS: 1. Awake/Ghost
Song/ 2.Dawn's Highway/ 3.Newborn Awakening/ 4.To
Come Of Age/Black Polished Chrome/ 5.Latino
Chrome/ 6.Angels And Sailors/ 7.Stoned
Immaculate/ 8.The Movie/ 9.Curses,Invocations
10.The American Night/ 11.Roadhouse Blues/ 12.The
World On Fire/Lament/ 13.The Hitchhiker/ 14.An
American Prayer
SCOTT WALKER: 1.Shutout/
2.Fat MamaKick/ 3.Nite Flights/ 4.The Electrician
HAROLD BUDD: Dark Star
JIM MORRISON: Orange County
Suite |
| Sources: A vinyl copy of the original
An American Prayer (Jim Morrison - Music By The
Doors) album from 1978 (Elektra ELK 52111) for
track 1-14. Source for Scott Walker and Harold
Budd tracks unknown. Jim Morrison track recorded
March 1969 in Los Angeles, Sunset Sound Studios
(cover makes you believe it was a Doors-track). |
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This very strange CD puts together artists who have
got nothing to do with each other. Sure we know Scott
Walker, the ex-singer of The Walker Brothers (his real
name was Scott Engel), and some of you might know Harold
Budd, who worked a lot with Brian Eno. But why the hell
are those guys featured with some bonus tracks on a Doors
CD? Of course this CD is a bootleg, and somebody took a
SCRATCHED copy of his Prayer-vinyl album and put this on
CD with two other artists as guest stars. Yes, listen to
all those nice crackles that make a vinyl album worth to
listen to - but this time they're on CD! If you like to
listen to An American Prayer in front of your
fireplace, you don't need the fireplace anymore: it's
already featured on your copy of Ghost Songs On Dawn's
Highway. The Walker/Budd tracks are interesting,
though, and without crackles. I really don't want to
comment the An American Prayer album now, it's
very very good, as we all know, it is a perfect poetry
album, probably the album Jim really had in mind when he
went to record his poetry (but probably without The
Doors. If you buy this bootleg, The Doors won't get the
royalties they deserve for making An American Prayer,
so - honestly - out goes the message: DON'T BUY THIS
RIP-OFF CALLED 'DAWN'S HIGHWAY'. IT'S SHIT! Run into your
local record store and buy the original Elektra CD!
GO INSANE (2 CD in silk
box)
Aulica Deluxe 9420.22, Italy 1994 |
Disc One - 1.When The
Music's Over/ 2.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes/
3.Money/ 4.Gloria/ 5.Light My Fire/ 6.The Hill
Dwellers/ 7.Summertime (cover says No Limits No
Laws)/ 8.Someday Soon (cover says Sunday Soon,
incomplete).
Disc Two - 1.Alabama
Song-Back Door Man-Five To One/ 2.I'm A King Bee/
3.Who Do You Love/ 4.Insane (cover says Go
Insane)/ 5.Summer's Almost Gone/ 6.Do It (cover
says Let It Bleed)/ 7.The End. |
| Sources: Disc One - 1-2=Hollywood
Bowl, June 5th, 1968, taken from the official
video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 3=Konserthuset,
Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, second
show; track 4 original version from Alive She
Cried/ In Concert, but fade out; 5+6=same as 3;
7=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967;
8=Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970. Disc
Two - 1=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, June 5th,
1968 taken from the official video Live At The
Hollywood Bowl; 2=Matrix Club, San Francisco,
March 10th, 1967; 3+5=Matrix Club, San Francisco,
March 7th, 1967; 4=Demo Acetate, World Pacific
Studios, Los Angeles, September 2nd, 1965, cover
says it was recorded live in L.A.; 6=original
version from the album The Soft Parade, taken
from a radio show, cover says it was recorded
live in L.A.; 7=same as track 1. Both discs same
as Go Insane (Aulica 112.10.1 and 112.10.2.) |
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An edition of Aulica's Go Insane double set
(originally in a beautiful longbox foldout cover). This
time the two discs come in a silk box, with an especially
designed label, and the paper ribbon around the box makes
it look very Japanese, but it is not from Japan at all.
It's another Italian attempt to make money (Japanese
boots are usually very expensive). That's why they also
tell us it was a limited numbered edition for the
collector ... aehm - but they did not bother to correct
the names of the songs. So Do It is still called
Let It Bleed, and Summertime is still called No
Limits No Laws. And I still do NOT recommend
this double CD Box, even if it has got another packing.
By the way, same packing was used for many other Aulica
CDs featuring other artists.
GO INSANE (CD)
Oil Well RSC CD 042, Italy 1994 |
| 1.Alabama Song/ 2.Back Door Man-Five To
One/ 3.I Can't See Your Face In My Mind/ 4.People
Are Strange/ 5.Money/ 6.Who Do You Love/
7.Summer's Almost Gone/ 8.I'm A King Bee/
9.Gloria/ 10.Summertime/ 11.Close To You/ 12.Rock
Me Baby 13.Do It (cover says Let It Bleed)/
14.The Hill Dwellers/ 15.Summertime (cover says
No Limits No Laws, same song as # 10!)/
16.Someday Soon (cover says Sunday Soon)/
17.Insane (cover says Go Insane). |
| Sources: 1-2=Hollywood Bowl, Los
Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from official video Live
At The Hollywood Bowl; 3-12 and 15=Matrix Club,
San Francisco, March 7th and 10th, 1967; 13=from
the official album The Soft Parade;
14=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, September
20th, 1968, late show, not complete; 16=Center
Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970, cut version;
17=Demo Acetate, World Pacific Studios, Los
Angeles, September 2nd, 1965. A copy of Summer's
Almost Gone (Luna Records LU 9205) |
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A bootleg of the bootleg Summer's Almost Gone (Luna
Records LU 9205) retitled Go Insane with a different
cover. Keep your hands off this CD!
THE DOORS - GO INSANE (Two
CD in 2 different longboxes)
Aulica Records (Vol.One) A 112.10.1; (Vol.Two) A
112.10.2 |
Disc One: 1.When The Music's
Over/ 2.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes/ 3.Money/
4.Gloria/ 5.Light My Fire/ 6.The Hill Dwellers/
7.Summertime (cover says No Limits No Laws)/
8.Someday Soon (cover says Sunday Soon,
incomplete).
Disc Two: 1.Alabama
Song-Back Door Man-Five To One/ 2.I'm A King Bee/
3.Who Do You Love/ 4.Insane (cover says Go
Insane)/ 5.Summer's Almost Gone/ 6.Do It (cover
says Let It Bleed)/ 7.The End. |
| Sources: Disc One - 1-2=Hollywood
Bowl, June 5th, 1968, taken from the official
video Live At The Hollywood Bowl; 3=Konserthuset,
Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, second
show; track 4 original version from Alive She
Cried/ In Concert, but faded out; 5+6=same as 3;
7=Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 10th, 1967;
Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970. Disc
Two - 1=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, June 5th,
1968 taken from the official video Live At The
Hollywood Bowl; 2=Matrix Club, San Francisco,
March 10th, 1967; 3+5=Matrix Club, San Francisco,
March 7th, 1967; 4=Demo Acetate, World Pacific
Studios, Los Angeles, September 2nd, 1965, cover
says it was recorded live in L.A.; 6=original
version from the album The Soft Parade, taken
from a radio show, cover says it was recorded
live in L.A.; 7=same as track 1. |
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A good example how clever Italian bootleggers
can be. Selling two crap CDs in two beautiful deluxe
longboxes, both carefully designed, is in fact very
clever! If there was a competition for the best
bootleg-cover, they would certainly win the prize! It
takes a lot of work to get through all those little
doors, windows, folders and bags to find the CDs, and it
also takes some time to rearrange all those cover
foldings. If there weren't those two boxes nobody would
have bought the shit inside. This shit is presented on
two individually designed CDs, by the way. Every average
Doors fan should know by now that The Doors never
recorded any track named Let It Bleed or No
Limits No Laws. But the cover really is amazing and
the whole set is pretty expensive.
But because of the misleading labeling of the tracks I
certainly don't recommend the set. The content stinks.
LOS GRANDES DEL ROCK
(VOL.14) - LIGHT MY FIRE (CD)
Fabbri Editori MRL 014, Italy 1993 |
| 1. Soul Kitchen/ 2. Gloria/ 3.Light My
Fire-Fever-Summertime/St.James Infirmary-Light My
Fire/ 4. Little Red Rooster/ 5. Who Do You Love/
6. Rock Me Baby/ 7. Moonlight Drive |
| Sources: 1,2+7= Matrix Club, San
Francisco, March 10th, 1967; 3-6= Pacific
National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada,
June 6th, 1970. Same as I Miti Del Rock Live, MRL
014, but different cover, made for a Spanish
Magazine. |
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As a supplement for a magazine in Spain this disc
might be fine, but they do sell it separately and it is
pretty expensive. Anyway, the cover is uninteresting and
the material is not rare.
LOS GRANDES DEL ROCK
(VOL.3) - NO LIMITS
Fabbri Editori MRL 003, Italy 1993 |
| 1.When The Music's Over/ 2.Break On
Through/ 3.Five To One/ 4.Back Door Man/
5.Summertime (cover says No Limits No Law)/
6.Mystery Train (cover says Train Coming Round
The Bend, not complete)/ 7.The End |
| Sources: 1=Hollywood Bowl, Los
Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from official video Live
At The Hollywood Bowl; 2-4=Center Coliseum,
Seattle, June 5th, 1970; 5=Matrix Club, San
Francisco, March 10th, 1967; 6+7=Center Coliseum,
Seattle, June 5th, 1970. |
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Like the other Los Grandes Del Rock, this one
was a supplement for a Spanish magazine. Intentionally
falsified titles, fade-ins and -outs and very common
material are signatures of a bad CD. At least they got
the dates right! A copy of No Limits (Fabbri
Editori MRL 003, Italy 1993).
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