This is a wonderful collection of songs by The Doors. This live set has many of their hits and several lesser known tunes. It’s a great addition to your Doors collection. If you are trying to decide whether to purchase it or not I would suggest purchasing it.
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Cd's were scratched a little but do play fine, was listed as very good but front & rear paper inserts looked as though had been wet at some time, and cd package was missing info booklet inside
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Perhaps, aside from the Bright Midnight Archives for bigger fans, if you want a live Doors album, this is it. Forget about the one-disk "Absolutely Live" or seeking out the rare JP "Alive, She Cried". This digitally remastered and includes both of the aforementioned, plus a few from "Live At The Hollywood Bowl". (Might as well get that one on the 30th commemorative DVD anyhow.) I've listened to some of the Doors' live stuff on boxsets over the years and most of it does not have very good sound quality. And while both the boxset material and these disks include some doctoring and splicing of performances, here it is seemless, whereas it is obvious and jarring on the boxset material. For those who are not familiar with the Doors' live shows, they opted to use a lot of cover songs and poetry inspired non-LP stuff over many of their hits. As such, this is a very different experience and is as much another complete Doors' album as it is a live one. While that sounds like this could be weaker than all of their albums, this is actually my 4th fav Doors album (after SD, ST and L.A.W). Go Insane and Celebration of the Lizard are both electrifying and haunting. Close To You is quite rocking and Ray shows he can sing the blues along side Jim and not pale, unlike the 2-post Morrison LPs. NOTE: Roadhouse Blues from An American Prayer and Greatest Hits 1980 is also included. This is often sited as the best version of this song. It is a splicing of 3 perfomances! 2 for the song and another for the end speech. Pure engineering gold.Read full review
This was the premier "Live"(and only one)from the Doors in the 70's. Between his banter with the crown(quite funny)or his full compiled version of the Celebration of the Lizard, it was an ultimate Door's recording. Life gets better as more record companies decide that albums such as this should be put back out on CD. I suppose if music was better now, actually performed rather than manufactured, this would slip into obscurity-outside of Doors fans. The grit and power of the music is incomparable to todays pretenders of moaning mainstream music. If you want to know the Door's outside of Light My Fire choose this - it will alter your sence of perception of 60's-70's music. Rock Hard with driving passion. Otherwise leave this alone and you will never know how everyone else interperated their music into their own.Read full review
Every Doors Fan should have this one in their collection. If you can find a copy...get one, you won't be dissapointed. Sound quality is great. It's nice to hear Jim improvising and letting loose. Gives the listener quite a different color & appreciation to the same tunes recorded in a studio and heard on the regular Doors CDS!! A MUST!. NO dislikes.
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