TORONTO POP FESTIVAL 1969
PLUS OTHER RARITIES (CD)
Too Drunk To Fuck TDTF 002, Luxembourg, 1994 |
| 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.Moonlight Drive/ 8.Back Door Man/ 9.Rock Me,
Baby/ 10.Carol/ 11.Soul Kitchen/ 12.Break On
Through |
| Sources: 1-6= Toronto Popfestival,
Varsity Stadium, Toronto, Canada, September
13th,1969; 7+8= Matrix Club, San Francisco, March
7th, 1967, second set (cover says Avalon
Ballroom, San Francisco, April 14th, 1967, which
is not true); 9+10= Winterland, San Francisco,
February 6th, 1970; 11+12= Family Dog, Denver,
September 29th, 1967. |
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Another essential CD for your Live-collection. Although
the Toronto concert has been published before (on CD
& LP The Beautiful Die Young, Living Legend
Records LLRCD 037), also on the rare bootleg album Copulations),
this one here is in much better soundquality, and the Somberness
Of The Doors (title of the accompanying booklet
written by some Paolo Ramos) comes through your speakers
more clearly than ever. An exciting Doors performance.
One song is missed (The End), but the booklet told
us about a forthcoming release featuring the rest of the
concert. That happened in October 1995 with the release
of All Hail The American Night (Tuff Bites T.B.
95.1025). The missing song is on that CD. What follows
after the songs from Toronto is purely fascinating: The
Doors at the Matrix (2 songs in excellent quality, but
unfortunately mislabeled as being taped at the Avalon),
the Winterland and the Family Dog (if the sources are
correct). 2 tracks from each concert, rather good
soundquality and - best of all - all of them have never
been on CD before. The Family Dog tracks have never been
published on vinyl or CD before. This Moonlight Drive
Matrix version is bloody interesting, Ray and Jim singing
a duet; my favourite version of all time. And Back
Door Man really shows what this song is all about:
The way Jim performs the song is hot, very hot.
Interesting enough, this track again proves that Jim was
the worst harp player of all time (I remember talking to
Robby about Jim's horrible harp, when Robby looked up to
me smiling and whispered, "Don't say this when
Jim is around!"). Anyway, this CD has got a nice
colourful fold-out cover, fine artwork, an interesting
article written by a guy who saw the band in Toronto,
and, even more interesting, some really rare stuff on it.
Recommended!
TOUCH ME (CD)
Oil Well RSC 002 CD, Italy 1993 |
| 1.Light My Fire/ 2.Touch Me/ 3.When The
Music's Over/ 4.The End/ 5.Moonlight Drive/
6.Light My Fire |
| Sources: 1=Ed Sullivan Show, New York,
September 17th, 1967, from official video Dance
On Fire; 2=Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Los
Angeles, December 4th, 1968, from official video
Dance On Fire; 3+4=Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles,
July 5th, 1968, from official video Live At The
Hollywood Bowl; 5+6=Jonathan Winters TV Show, CBS
Studios, Los Angeles, December 27th, 1967. Track
5 from official video Dance On Fire, track 6 from
a TV special. |
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A different cover, a different label: A copy of Celebration
(The Swingin' Pig Records TSP-CD-022). So: nothing new.
Color photo of Jim's face on the cover, but too bright. Celebration
had a picture of Jim's grave, please check. Don't pay too
much for this: this is sold by the bootleggers as a
mid-price CD! The second release has a different cover
using the cover shot of Frank Lisciandro's book A
Feast Of Friends.
TV BLEEDING (CD)
Snakeskin Records ARD 01, Germany/Luxembourg 1996
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| 1.Hello I Love You/ 2.People Are Strange/
3.Love Her Madly/ 4.Love Me Two Times/ 5.Riders
On The Storm/ 6.Touch Me/ 7.Soul Kitchen
8.Tightrope Ride/ 9.In The Eye Of The Sun/ 10.I'm
Horny, I'm Stoned/ 11.Love Me Two Times/
12.Verdillac/ 13.Ships With Sails (false start)/
14.Ships With Sails |
| Sources: 1-7=Different studio mixes
from a first class tape. (1=No drums, no second
voice; 2=No drums, no guitar solo; 3=No reverb,
no drums, no tambourine, no guitars; 4=No drums;
5.No second voice, no echo, no drums; 6.different
bass sound. The mixes were done for the The Best
Of The Doors vinyl Quadrodisc.) 8-14=Beat Club,
Beat Workshop, TV Studio at Radio Bremen, Bremen,
West Germany, May 3rd, 1972, without Jim
Morrison. |
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Snakeskin Records is a new firm producing Live CDs. Their
trademark is their high quality of both recording and
cover. Their latest CD is this new Doors disc. On it you
find different rough studio mixes in perfect stereo,
which had been done for the rare Doors Quadro vinyl album
The Best Of The Doors. I find it very interesting
to listen to these, sometimes you have the feeling of
listening to totally new recordings. But they are
absolutely the same as on the albums but in different
mixes. Anyway, have you ever heard Riders On The Storm
without the whispering and without drums? And People
Are Strange without drums and guitar solo? Both open
whole new categories of listening experiences. All songs
with Morrison are in excellent stereo. You won't believe
your ears! The second recording is one of the rare 1972
studio performances. The Doors are having a lot of fun in
the studio, which makes a great listening. They play
their standard material of their 1972 tour through
Western Europe. This concert is presented in good mono;
studio noises between the songs have unfortunately been
cut. See the cover - a beautiful rare Morrison photo. In
general - a CD featuring totally new and unpublished
material with a superb cover sheet (yes, yes, the
beautiful rare photo of Jim, all girls will love this!). Recommended!
T.V. EYE (CD)
Flashback Worldproductions 04.95.0257, Luxembourg
1995 |
| 1.Tell All The People/ 2.Alabama Song-Back
Door Man/ 3.Wishful Sinful/ 4.Build Me A Woman/
5.The Soft Parade/ 6.The End/ 7.Moonlight Drive/
8.Back Door Man/ 9.Light My Fire/ 10.Moonlight
Drive |
| Sources: 1-5=Critique Show, PBS TV,
WNET, New York, May 13th, 1969 (cover says May
23rd, but this was the day of the broadcast);
6=Now Explosion, CBC TV Show, O'Keefe Centre,
Toronto, Canada, August 8th, 1967; 7+8=Matrix
Club, San Francisco, March 7th, 1967, cover says
Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, April 15th, 1967,
which is not true and makes sure these two tracks
were copies from the CD Toronto Popfestival 1969
Plus Other Rarities (Too Drunk To Fuck TDTF 002);
9+10=Jonathan Winters TV Show, CBS Studios, Los
Angeles, December 27th, 1967, cover says US
T.V."Smothers Brothers" 1967, which is
not true. |
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This 1995 CD has got a beautiful booklet, indeed! Nice
colour photos (mostly taken by Frank Lisciandro) show
that bootleggers are really able to care about a nice
outfit for their discs. The CD contains an excellent
recording of the Critique show, the Toronto track is
almost perfect, too. Despite the poor mistake about the
Matrix tracks (no TV performance, of course!) this is a
fine quality product for those of you who haven't got the
tracks on other CDs available from the underground.
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