KEEP THE FIRE ALIVE (CD)
HAWK HAWK 042, Italy 1994 |
| 1.Light My Fire/ 2.Light My Fire/
3.Roadhouse Blues/ 4.Roadhou- se Blues/
5.Roadhouse Blues/ 6.Light My Fire/ 7.Light My
Fire/ 8.Roadhouse Blues/ 9.Break On Through/
10.Light My Fire/ 11.Roadhouse Blues/ 12.Break On
Through (including Dead Cats Dead Rats)/ 13.Light
My Fire |
| Sources: Tracks 1-10= Rehearsal
session for their Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
concert, Power Plant Studios, Los Angeles,
January 11th, 1993; Tracks 11-13= Rock'n'Roll
Hall Of Fame Induction Performance, Century Plaza
Hotel, Los Angeles, January 12th, 1993. |
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What a surprise for Doors- and Eddie Vedder- fans! Their
rehearsal session plus the concert for their Rock'n'Roll
Hall Of Fame Induction on one (Italian) CD. Good stereo
quality, guys, although both are audience recordings
(Seems there was a small audience at the rehearsal, you
can hear somebody touching the mike, also clapping and
cheers). The perfect CD for people who want to know how a
band works with a new singer for the first (and only)
time. False starts and ends here and there, and Robby and
Ray are doing vocals on track 1-4. Robby still is a
fascinating guitar player (just listen to his solos in Roadhouse
Blues), and thanks to this unknown guy who taped the
session some great Krieger-solos survived. Ray's keyboard
actually sounds very much better than later at the
concert! The concert itself is presented in very good
quality, too, although the three songs were better
performed during the rehearsal. Recommended,
although Eddie should have learned the lyrics more
precisely. I still cannot believe that there are people
out there who want Vedder to join a Doors reunion as
their singer!
THE KILLER AWOKE (CD)
Kiderian Rekords TDCD 4862, Germany 1994 |
| 1.Excerpt from Five To One plus rap (cover
says Intro)/ 2.Moonlight Drive/ 3.Hello I Love
You/ 4.Summer's Almost Gone/ 5.My Eyes Have Seen
You/ 6.End Of The Night/ 7.Insane (cover says Go
Insane)/ 8.Roadhouse Blues/ 9.Rap/Back Door
Man/Five To One/ 10.Do It (cover says Let It
Bleed)/ 11.Peace Frog/ 12.The Chant Movement/
13.Who Scared You/ 14.The Soft Parade |
| Sources: Tracks 1 and 9= Dinner Key
Auditorium, Miami, March 1st, 1969; Tracks 2-7=
Demo Acetate, World Pacific Studios, L.A.,
September 2nd,1965 (copied from a VERY scratched
copy of the vinyl bootleg Resurrection); Track 8=
Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver,
June 6th, 1970 (copied from a VERY bad tape copy
of a Westwood One Radio Show); Tracks 10 and 13=
original Elektra LP versions; Track 11=Felt
Forum, New York, January 17th,1970; Track 12=
from the album Requiem For The Americas (cover
says New Orleans, 12/12/1970!); Track 14= from
official video The Soft Parade, recorded at the
Critique Show; PBS TV, WNET, New York, May 13th,
1969. |
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This is one of the worst compilations ever! As I've
told you guys before - keep your hands off a CD featuring
tracks labeled as New Orleans 1970 or entitled Let
It Bleed or any of the other rubbish. And the sound
of some tracks is horribly bad! We all know where the
bootlegger copied the songs from, and we know it is our
damn duty to ignore those kinds of CDs. The cover booklet
has 4 photos of Morrison taken by Herve Muller, the back
shows a Morrison portrait taken by Frank Lisciandro. I
guess these photographers wouldn't mind their precious
photos on a record cover, but on such a bad bootleg CD
like this? The Killer Awoke is nothing else but a
waste of plastic!
KING ARTHURS COURT (2 CD in
longbox)
Black Cat Records BC-04, Australia, 1992 |
Disc One: 1.Roadhouse Blues/
2.Peace Frog/ 3.Alabama Song-Back Door Man/
4.Build Me A Woman/ 5.When The Music's Over/
6.Soul Kitchen
Disc Two: 1.The Soft Parade
Intro-Light My Fire (cover just says Light My
Fire)/ 2.The Celebration Of The Lizard |
Sources: Disc One - 1-3 and 6=Felt
Forum, New York, January 18th, 1970, late show;
4=Felt Forum, New York, January 17th, 1970, late
show; 5=Felt Forum, New York, January 18th, 1970,
early show.
Disc Two - Felt Forum, New York, January 18th,
1970, late show. The cover says Live at Westbury,
Connecticut 1969, which is not true! |
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The quality of both CDs is bad compared to other
releases, but I enjoy the nice hardcover fold-out
longbox, which shows two beautiful Morrison photos. I'm
sure people will buy it because the cover which says the
tracks were from Westbury, but this is not true. The
bootleggers want to make people think this was an
unpublished recording, but the tracks are available on
many other releases. So this tremendously looking box is
just another intentionally mislabeled rip off.
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