gizmo
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Post by gizmo on Jan 11, 2012 12:59:34 GMT
where reel to reel recorders the only way to record or where there other ways to record a show? i think it's a bit odd to bring a large recorder to a show and use microphones etc. or would the doors have invited the man who recorded the show and allowed him to put his recorder on stage. there should have been other ways to record a show. i'm not shure about tape decks, but reel to reel is to big to carry around for taping a bootleg
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Post by wplj on Jan 11, 2012 14:06:06 GMT
where reel to reel recorders the only way to record or where there other ways to record a show? i think it's a bit odd to bring a large recorder to a show and use microphones etc. or would the doors have invited the man who recorded the show and allowed him to put his recorder on stage. there should have been other ways to record a show. i'm not shure about tape decks, but reel to reel is to big to carry around for taping a bootleg Well, in 1966, it was pretty much the only way! Consumer cassette decks were not yet on the market. I think I read that the person who taped this show was a friend of theirs and was surely given permission. What did The Doors have to lose at this early stage of their career? Not a "bootleg," by any stretch of the imagination, at least at the time ... now, if it would have subsequently fallen into the wrong hands after the band became huge ... no doubt the tape would have been copied ("bootlegged") and entered the tape trading community ... if this would have been bootlegged in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, or 00s, it would be old news and we would have all heard it .... but it wasn't, which is what makes this so interesting. Certainly more interesting than She Smells Like Shit!
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 11, 2012 16:55:57 GMT
where reel to reel recorders the only way to record or where there other ways to record a show? i think it's a bit odd to bring a large recorder to a show and use microphones etc. or would the doors have invited the man who recorded the show and allowed him to put his recorder on stage. there should have been other ways to record a show. i'm not shure about tape decks, but reel to reel is to big to carry around for taping a bootleg The show was recorded by a female friend of Ray's ....probably Judy Raphael who contributed to the book Moonlight Drive. There is a full page photo of her on page 52 next to the song Moonlight Drive...... She most likely set up the reel to reel at the back of the room as there was likely very few there. She also took a lot of photos of the Fog gigs by all accounts.
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Post by gizmo on Jan 27, 2012 14:27:58 GMT
would there be a possabillity that the photo's will show up? if there are more photo's of the fog that we havent seen yet. that would be nice
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 27, 2012 15:16:41 GMT
That is whats been said mate. A lot of photos were taken at the gigs by this female friend of Ray and they will be released according to Jampot.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 18, 2023 20:53:57 GMT
The band at this point in their 'career' were like wide eyed teens full of hopes and dreams of the possibilities their music could bring them. The photos Nettie took reflect that. Jim looks about 12. Ray the clever goofy one with glasses, Robbie as shy and introverted as he actually was but looking barely older than Jim. John looks the most grown up of the crew and the responsible adult for this trio probably the one with a van. Sadly it did not take long to smother any misapprehensions of the business they were looking to be part of and 12 months later they were as fucked up as the rest. But it is nice to put faces to the stories the band shared about their earliest days and these are gold to Doors fans so 'thank you' Nettie. This is fascinating showing one of her B/W shots colourised. It would never have been such as Jim and Ray would not wear matching gear. Jim was likely living in Fraser Avenue with Ray and Dottie and he would not have wanted to look like Ray's younger brother as that was a weird too far even for Jim "Nobody ever came in the place,... Maybe an occasional businessman, a sailor or two on leave, a prostitute, a few drunks. They had a go-go dancer, lovely Rhonda Lane, dancing in a cage to our songs which was ridiculous... it was a very depressing experience, but it gave us time to really get the music together" Ray Manzarek
"I refused because, hey, I was a musician, a working professional; but Jim wanted to do it and so we did. In the back of my mind, I knew it was invaluable honing of the material." John Densmore
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 19, 2023 11:27:24 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 21, 2023 11:20:22 GMT
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