IN CONCERT - SPECIAL
LIMITED EDITION (2 CD Box)
Starlife ST 2912, Luxembourg/Germany 1993 |
Disc One - LIVE IN LOS ANGELES:
1.Moonlight Drive/ 2.Alabama Song/ 3.Horse
Latitudes/ 4.The Unknown Soldier/ 5.When The
Music's Over/ 6.Five To One/ 7.Back Door Man/
8.The End/ 9.Moonlight Drive/ 10.Light My Fire
Disc Two - LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO:
1.People are Strange/ 2.Alabama Song/ 3.Crystal
Ship/ 4.Twentieth Century Fox/ 5.Moonlight Drive
6.Summer's Almost Gone/ 7.Unhappy Girl/ 8.Back
Door Man/ 9.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 10.Soul
Kitchen/ 11.Get Off My Life/ 12.Crawling King
Snake/ 13.I Can't See Your Face In My Mind |
Sources: Disc One - 1-8=Hollywood
Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from official
video Live At The Hollywood Bowl, very strange
cuts divide Horse Latitudes from Moonlight Drive
and Alabama Song from Back Door Man;
9+10=Jonathan Winters TV Show, CBS Studios, Los
Angeles, December 27th, 1967. Sold separately as
Live In Los Angeles (Starlife HRCD 52072).
Disc Two: Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th,
1967, first and second set. Same as Crawling King
Snakes (Back Trax CD 04-88004). Sold separately
as Live In San Francisco (Starlife ST 8004). |
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Just another midprice package of Starlife CDs. Not
interesting at all, the material is well-known. Disc One
was also available in the 3 CD box Light My Fire
(Starlife ST 3606).
IN CONCERT (2 CDs in a
paper box)
Starlife ST 2912, Luxemburg 1991 |
Disc One: 1.Moonlight Drive/
2.Alabama Song/ 3.Horse Latitudes/ 4.The Unknown
Soldier/ 5.When The Music's Over/ 6.Five To One/
7.Back Door Man/ 8.The End/ 9.Moonlight Drive/
10.Light My Fire
Disc Two: 1.People are
Strange/ 2.Alabama Song/ 3.Crystal Ship/
4.Twentieth Century Fox/ 5.Moonlight Drive
6.Summer's Almost Gone/ 7.Unhappy Girl/ 8.Back
Door Man/ 9.My Eyes Have Seen You/ 10.Soul
Kitchen/ 11.Get Off My Life/ 12.Crawling King
Snake/ 13.I Can't See Your Face In My Mind |
| Sources: Disc One - 1-8=Hollywood
Bowl, Los Angeles, July 5th, 1968, from official
video Live At The Hollywood Bowl, very strange
cuts divide Horse Latitudes from Moonlight Drive
and Alabama Song from Back Door Man;
9+10=Jonathan Winters TV Show, CBS Studios, Los
Angeles, December 27th, 1967. A copy of the
bootleg CD Live in Los Angeles (HRCD 52072). Disc
Two - Matrix Club, San Francisco, March 7th,
1967, first and second set. A copy of the CD
Crawling King Snakes (Backtrax 04-88004), also
published as Live in San Francisco (ST 8004). |
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This one comes in a special 2-CD paper box using a
Roundhouse live-photo ... No, please, no more releases of
Hollywood Bowl and Matrix! But here it is, and people are
buying this rip-off ... a must to avoid, really!
IN MEXICO (CD)
Goldtone Records GT-014, USA 1996 |
| 1.When The Music's Over/ 2.Break On
Through/ 3.Medley: Back Door Man/Maggie
M'Gill/Roadhouse Blues/Back Door Man/ 4.The
Crystal Ship/ 5.Wake Up/ 6.Light My Fire/7. Light
My Fire/8. Break On Through/9.The End |
| Sources: 1-6 = Toronto Popfestival,
Varsity Stadium, Toronto, Canada, September
13,1969; 7-9 = Matrix Club, San Francisco, March
7, 1967 (both sources from bad tape copies). |
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An example of an ugly attempt to rip-off fans. This CD
is in bad soundquality, a home-made computer copy. It
just has a very beautiful, tastefully designed cover
(printed), using great color photos of Jim and the band
(two photographed by the late Linda Eastman). The Toronto
Popfestival appearance of The Doors actually is still
going around labelled as "Mexico" (I've seen a
tape copy at Camden Lock in London) among tape
collectors. But here somebody is just trying to sell
well-known material under a new title. I wish there was a
recording of The Doors' Mexico shows around but there
isn't. This CD is collectible for hard-core fans only for
the great cover. The disc itself will collect dust in
your shelf. A much better recording of the Toronto show
can be heard on TORONTO POP FESTIVAL 1969 PLUS OTHER
RARITIES (Too Drunk To Fuck TDTF 002), as reviewed in
DQ 30, page 49.
THE INTERVIEWED DOORS (CD)
Discussion Records DISSCD 2, U.K. 1996 |
| Sources: Howard Smith's Jim Morrison
Interview, Los Angeles, Doors Office on Santa
Monica Boulevard, November 1969 (incomplete) |
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Most of you have a different copy of this interview
CD, which was also published under the title The
Ceremony Continues (Baktabak Records CBAK 24052/2) in
a 60-minute version. This one here has an ugly cover, a
misleading title (there's just Jim on there) and does not
contain the complete interview, but just a 32 minute
version. Forget it!
THE INTERVIEWED DOORS (CD)
Lightmy 5 CD Discussion Records, England 1991
(comes in a white 7" box) |
| Sources: Howard Smith's interview with
Jim Morrison, Los Angeles, Doors office on Santa
Monica Boulevard, November 1969, cut version. |
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The well-known Howard Smith interview with Jim
Morrison from December 1969. Unfortunately it is just a
short version of just 32 minutes of the whole thing which
was about an hour long, and the soundquality is pretty
bad. It might be a rarity: the CD came in a white
7"box, labelled as a "Strictly Limited
Edition", along with two postcards, but if you
want to obtain the complete interview, go out and buy the
complete one, which is on a CD named The Ceremony
Continues (Baktabak Records CBAK 4052).
AN INTERVIEW WITH JIM
MORRISON (CD)
MCE Records CD Doors 1, England 1991 |
| Sources: Howard Smith's Jim Morrison
interview, Los Angeles, Doors Office on Santa
Monica Boulevard, November 1969 |
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A British reissue of The Ceremony Continues
with a different cover and a booklet containing an
article on The Doors' history (many factual mistakes, by
the way). This is sold as a mid-price CD in the UK, so do
not pay that much for it in other countries. Thanks to
the makers: this issue has got a correct title.
INVITATION (1CD)
MUM Records MUCD 013, Czech Republic 1996 |
| 1.Break On Through/ 2.Adolf Hitler/
3.Roadhouse Blues/ 4.Rock Is Dead/ 5.The Crystal
Ship/ 6.Moonlight Drive/ 7.People Are Strange/
8.Love Me Tender/ 9.Rap/ 10.Back Door Man/
11.Touch Me/ 12.Touch Me/ 13.The End/ 14.When The
Music's Over/ 15.Light My Fire |
| Sources: Tracks 1,2,3+14= Center
Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th, 1970; tracks 4 +8=
Studio Session for The Soft Parade, February
25th, 1969, (cut versions), copied from the
bootleg CD Missing Links; tracks 5+7= Matrix
Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967; 6= Matrix
Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967, second set
(cover says Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, April
14, 1967, which is not true); track 5+7=Matrix
Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967, first set;
tracks 9-11=Dinner Key Auditorium, Maimi, March
1, 1969, copied from the bootleg CD Live In Miami
1969; track 12= Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,
Los Angeles, December 4th, 1968, from official
video Dance On Fire; track 14= Now Explosion CBC
TV Show, O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada, August
8th, 1967, track 15= Ed Sullivan Show, New York,
September 17th, 1967, from official video Dance
On Fire. |
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A classic bootleg compilation disc, featuring
everybody's favorites. If you have the original boots
this was copied from you definitely should not look out
for this disc, which fades songs in and fades them out.
Nice psychedelic graphic Jim Morrison cover for
collectors, though.
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