RARITIES AND FEW (CD)
International Broadcast Recordings, IBR 2325,
Italy, 1994 |
| 1.Roadhouse Blues/ 2.Little Red Rooster/
3.Soul Kitchen/ 4.Break On Through/ 5.Mystery
Train/ 6.Money/ 7.Rock Me Baby/ 8.Ship Of Fools/
9.Crawling King Snake/ 10.The End |
| Sources: 1= Pacific National
Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, June 6th,
1970; 2= Center Coliseum, Seattle, June 5th,
1970; 3= Felt Forum, New York, January 18th,
1970, late show; 4=Felt Forum, New York, January
18th, 1970, early show; 5= same as #2; 6-7= same
as #1; 8-9= same as 3&4 10= same as 1. |
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Although everybody should have heard the stuff before,
this collection of songs is pretty well selected. I enjoy
the quality of the different tapes the bootleggers used
and I simply love the cover. Good exciting songs on this
CD, not interesting for insiders who have already got Jim's
Alive (Tuff Bites T.B.94.1009), Vancouver 70
(Skeleton SKCD 1066) or Canadian Nights (Buccaneer
Records BUC 011) or Live In Vancouver (Sounds
Alive SA 24.020) and New York 1970 (Stentor
91.001), but Rarities And Few is the perfect
addition to the official In Concert double CD. It
took some time finding out the sources: they are not
mentioned on the cover, but - as I've said - nothing new
for the hard-core fan.
REALITY MEANS INSANITY
(1CD)
A Priori CD 791320, Czech Republic 1995 (?) |
| 1. Light My Fire/ 2.Break On Through/
3.Soul Kitchen/ 4.The Crystal Ship/ 5.Twentieth
Century Fox/ 6.Alabama Song/ 7.Back Door Man/ 8.I
Looked At You/ 9.End Of The Night/ 10.Take It As
It Comes/ 11.The End |
| Sources: All songs copied from the
official first Doors album. |
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If there wasn't the nice cover of a
"spinning" Jim Morrison, nobody would buy this
CD. Everybody has those songs. This is a low price CD,
widely distributed in Germany.
RED WALLS BLUE DOORS (CD)
World Productions Of Compact Music WPOCM
1288D012-2, Italy 1988 |
| 1.Five To One/ 2.Alabama Song-Back Door
Man/ 3.You're Lost Little Girl/ 4.Love Me Two
Times/ 5.Wild Child/ 6.Money/ 7.A Little Game-The
Hill Dwellers (cover says The Celebration Of The
Lizard)/ 8.Light My Fire/ 9.The End |
| Sources: 1-6,8=Konserthuset,
Stockholm, Sweden, September 20th, 1968, early
show; 7+9=Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden,
September 20th, 1968, late show. Cover says all
tracks were recorded during the late show, which
is not true. |
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These guys from WPOCM produce jolly nice covers I must
admit. A blue door, a red wall and a Morrison photo: nice
artwork.. Unfortunately this CD was obviously copied from
a vinyl bootleg. Therefore the sound is not as good as on
most other Stockholm CDs.
REPLICA BLUES (CD)
German Records 026, Germany 1993 |
| 1.Get Off My Life/ 2.Rock Me Baby/
3.Crawling King Snake/ 4.I'm A King Bee/ 5.Money/
6.Summertime/ 7.Someday Soon/ 8.Mack The Knife/
9.Peace Frog/ 10.The Chant Movement/ 11.Ship Of
Fools/ 12.Fever-Summertime-St.James
Infirmary-Light My Fire (cover just mentions
Fever)/ 13.Peace Frog-Poem: Indian,Indian (cover
says Indian Poem)/ 14.Hitler/ 15.The Journey
(cover says You Need Meat, Don't Go No Further)/
16.Holy Sha Poem (cover says The Journey)/ 17.You
Need Meat (Don't Go No Further) (cover says Who
Scared You)/ 18.Who Scared You (cover says
Judge,Judge) |
| Sources: 1-3= Matrix Club, San
Francisco, March 7th, 1967; 4-6= Matrix Club, San
Francisco, March 10th, 1967, 7= Center Coliseum,
Seattle, June 5th, 1970 (cover says Los Angeles
4/4/67); 8= Konserthuset, Stockholm, September
20th, 1968, first show (cover says Los Angeles,
4/4/67); 9= Felt Forum, New York, January 18th,
1970, late show; 10= from the official album
Requiem For The Americas (cut version), (cover
says New Orleans 12/12/70); 11= same as 9; 12=
from a medley The Doors did while playing Light
My Fire at Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum,
Vancouver, Canada, June 6th, 1970; 13= from
original album track, mixed with a poem from Rock
Is Dead bootleg LP; 14= Intro from June 5th 1970
Live In Seattle bootleg CD (Flashback
Worldproductions 02.92.0170); 15= same as 10; 16=
part of The End, recorded at the Backbay Theatre,
Boston, March 17th, 1968; 17+18= original songs
from the official Elektra album Weird Scenes
Inside The Goldmine. |
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One of the worst Doors CDs ever! Same rubbish as Archangel
and The Future Is Murder, made by the same
bootlegger using a different name. Another digipack,
looking pretty average, but the CD is a horror for the
real fan. This bootlegger honestly wants to tell us that
five songs on this CD were recorded in New Orleans,
December 12th 1970! No, they certainly aren't, Sir, and
we're not gonna take it. A first-rate rip-off, and we can
be sure this idiot (or is he just clever?) is going to
produce some more of this shit. He overdubbed studio
songs from the Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine
album plus spoken poems from the Requiem For The
Americas album, which is still out on CD and LP
(Requiem For The Americas, Songs From The Lost World,
Enigma Records 773354-2, 1989), with some fake audience
noise and bang: It was "recorded LIVE in New
Orleans"! He mixed Jim's voice onto other songs
(spoken stuff runs too slow, by the way) which gives a
horrible uneven blend. Like on The Future Is Murder
(Alien Records 006) all songs and poetry have been
published before and are still easy to obtain on original
albums or bootleg CDs. This shabby CD is not worth a
penny! Treat it like dogs' shit!
THE RIOT SHOW (CD)
World Productions of Compact Music WPOCM 0888 D
002-2, Austria/Italy 1988 |
| 1.When the Music's Over/ 2.Alabama
Song-Back Door Man-Five to One/ 3.The Unknown
Soldier/ 4.Moonlight Drive-Horse Latitudes/ 5.The
End/ 6.Moonlight Drive/ 7.Light my Fire |
| Sources: 1-5=official video Live At
The Hollywood Bowl; 6+7=Jonathan Winters TV Show,
CBS Studios, Los Angeles, December 27th, 1967,
taped directly from TV. |
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At that time (1988) this CD was fabulous for those who
just had the official EP Live At The Hollywood Bowl,
because The Riot Show contained all extra songs from the
video in excellent quality. Today this is very average
material, and this CD is - after such a long time - sold
out. By the way - there is no other CD around containing
the Jonathan Winter tracks in a six-star soundquality!
THE RIVER KNOWS (1CD)
A Priori CD 791322, Czech Republic 1995 (?) |
| 1.Touch Me/ 2.Shaman's Blues/ 3.The Soft
Parade/ 4.Wishful Sinful (cover says Withful
Sinful)/ 5.Love Street/ 6.I Can't See Your Face
In My Mind/ 7.Unhappy Girl/ 8.Easy Ride/
9.Runnin' Blue/ 10.Yes, The River Knows/ 11.Wild
Child/ 12.Do It/ 13.Tell All The People/ 14.When
The Music's Over |
| Sources: All songs copied from
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If there wasn't the nice cover of The Doors hanging
around in a Danish garden (unpublished photo!), nobody
would buy this CD. Everybody has those songs. This is a
low price CD, widely distributed in Germany.
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