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Music CD - The Doors: In Concert
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Music CD: In Concert
Artist: The Doors
List Price: $24.98
Our Price: $11.14
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Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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1. House Announcer
2. Who do You Love?
3. Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
4. Backdoor Man
5. Love Hides
6. Five to One
7. Build Me A Woman
8. When The Music's Over
9. Universal Mind
10. Petition The Lord With Prayer
11. Dead Cats, Dead Rats
12. Break On Through #2
13. Lions In The Street
14. Wake Up
15. A Little Game
16. The Hill Dwellers
17. Not To Touch The Earth
18. Names Of The Kingdom
19. The Palace Of Exile
20. Soul Kitchen
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075596108225
Format: Live
Label: Elektra / Wea
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Elektra / Wea
Release Date: 1991-05-21
Studio: Elektra / Wea
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Summary: The fire marshall is not gonna let this show go on
Comment: Of the earlier live albums, this is the best release to get as it culls all of Absolutely Live, all of Alive She Cried, and a couple of other tracks (from Live at the Hollywood Bowl and American Prayer) onto two discs.
The first disc and one track from the second are taken from Absolutely Live, which was producer Paul Rothchild's amazing sonic mock-up of a complete Doors show. Edited together from a number of shows recording in '69 and '70, it sounds like a single Doors show but apparently has "about 2,000 edits", according to Rothchild himself.
The sound quality on all of the material is excellent, particularly the AB tracks. The album runs nearly the full range of Doors material, including a full live version of Celebration of the Lizard, an amazing The End, a stonking Who Do You Love, Break On Through, and plenty more, including memorable poetry from Morrison and in-between chatting and audience banter. It all opens with the house announcer's warning from the fire marshall...
The Doors have been releasing a lot of excellent live material over the past decade on the Bright Midnight Records label, including most of the Absolutely Live material uncut and complete with no overdubs or trickery. Since Rothchild claimed it was difficult to get a complete take of a Doors fan (good enough for the demands of an official live LP), he resorted to the AB method. The full shows are still pretty amazing---the band was only human, anyway.
This is still recommended--specifically to more casual fans who may not want to buy all of the Bright Midnight shows or may not be as obsessed with complete shows or tapes. The song selection is excellent, just a wealth of choice material.
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Summary: Great Doors live compilation
Comment: The Doors' In Concert shows the band in top form whether they're a loose jamming blues band or if they're performing theater. The first disc mostly contains music that was originally released as Absolutely Live in 1970. While Jim Morrison obviously sounds inebriated on the bluesy numbers ("Who Do You Love", "Build Me a Woman", "Alabama Song", etc), his ragged performance actually adds to the proceedings. The version of "When The Music's Over'' is very good as Robby Krieger's guitar cuts like a buzzsaw through Ray Manzarek's organ lines while John Densmore's sudden stops and starts add a lot of drama. "Celebration of the Lizard" is pure theater as the band's performance bounces from a whisper to a scream throughout under Morrison's poetic tour de force. A rousing version of "Soul Kitchen" closes Disc 1.
Much of the music on Disc 2 was released as 1983's Alive, She Cried and 1987's Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Here the band plays it a little more straight. While Jim does some nonsensical rambling on "Roadhouse Blues", this song along with "Love Me Two Times" and "You Make Me Real" don't vary much from the originals. "Texas Radio and the Big Beat" provides an intro to "Love Me Two Times" while Jim rattles off poetry during "Light My Fire" and "Moonlight Drive." Also included are a wicked version of "Unknown Soldier" and a studio remake of Them's "Gloria" that is better than the original. The closing version of "The End" is killer, adding even more drama to the original. All told, In Concert is a great live compilation from the Doors, a band that sounded like no other.
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Summary: As good as it could be
Comment: Like that other great, dead rock star Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison has had his legacy grow beyond even the mythic status it was when he was alive. Like Hendrix, Jimbo created an image that became a crippling anchor around his neck. Doomed by his own vanity and the trappings of success, he died too young and left behind a scattershot collection of writings, recordings, and other works that have been ravenously picked over, packaged, and re-packaged for the greed and notoriety of the remaining band members. The recent deluge of live concerts, some so embarrassing one wonders just how far greed will go given the appetite of the Morrison faithful, and the senseless re-mastering of their studio catalog to the exclusion of the originals (all of which are "currently unavailable" on Amazon) demonstrate that there is no limit to the manner in which a seemingly limited body of work can be parsed and re-treaded ad nauseum to keep the money train rolling. I often wonder what Hendrix, Morrison, et al would think of the handiwork of those whom they left behind. I'm guessing they'd be ashamed and angry and they'd have every right to be.
And so, The Doors In Concert...as many reviews have stated, this is a combination platter of Alive She Cried and Absolutely Live with two extra cuts tacked on from the Hollywood Bowl concert. Absolutely Live is worth the price on it's own and the addition of the posthumous release Alive She Cried, a well done compilation of songs from various shows over the years, makes owning this comprehensive live document worth the extra few bucks. You get it all, Jim's audience manipulation, the tight blues and jazz vibe of the musicians, and the poetry. The songs provide a solid argument that Jim's best "poetry" was lyrics. Hearing his writings, particularly the complete Celebration of the Lizard piece, sung and set to music and delivered in Morrison's deep croon is truly the way it should be experienced. Reading his poetry without the music and the baritone delivery, as can be done via his poetry collections, only highlights the pretension and disconnected inconsistencies of his writings. The death obsessed macabre rambling in the live version of The End that closes disc two is neither brilliant nor deep, it's just silly and juvenile. Hey, I'm in my twenties and fascinated by death...don the black clothing and light some patchouli quick before I become self-aware. Honestly, I think Morrison himself, had he shook off his puerile need to drink himself to death and made it to his sixtieth birthday would be exceedingly embarrassed at his own overly dramatic and painfully overzealous tripe.
If it sounds like I'm knocking the group, I'm not at all. I love the Doors - the band - and I think Morrison was a great front man. This is a great live album well worth five stars and the price tag. But let's face it, as a poet Jim Morrison was one helluva great lead singer.
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Summary: Good Stuff!
Comment: A good live album, full of energy, that, sadly, I misplaced along the way. But for those of us who didn't get to hear The Doors live, this strikes me as a great substitute.
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Summary: Excellent!!!!
Comment: Excelente disco doble, la calidad del audio es impresionante, pareciera una grabacion actual, definitivamente una buena recopilacion de las canciones de The Doors en diferentes conciertos, imprescindible para fanaticos de Doors
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