Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 23, 2008 8:22:09 GMT
Rhino and Bright Midnight Archives rifle the archives once again for another previously unreleased live concert recording from The Doors' final tour with Jim Morrison. Recorded on May 2, 1970 at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena, LIVE IN PITTSBURGH 1970 captures an epic performance from the legendary quartet. As the title of a rare dialogue section from the album states, “Tonight You're In For A Special Treat.”
1. Back Door Man
2. Love Hides
3. Five to One
4. Roadhouse Blues
5. Mystery Train
6. Away in India
7. Crossroads Blues
8. Universal Mind
9. Someday Soon
10. When the Music's Over
11. Break on Through
12. Push Push
13. Soft Parade Vamp, The
14. Tonight You're in For a Special Treat
15. Close to You
16. Light My Fire
The single-disc performance presents over an hour of incendiary and soulful live music from the late Jim Morrison and surviving Doors John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek. Highlights include a 22-minute plus version of “When The Music's Over,” during which Morrison improvises with the musical dialogue and leads the band into bits of songs they'd never played live before. Also featured are Doors classics including “Break On Through,” “Five To One,” and an extended, tracklist-closing version of “Light My Fire,” plus takes on Robert Johnson's “Crossroad Blues,” Howlin' Wolf's “Back Door Man” and Willie Dixon's “Close To You” (with Manzarek on lead vocal and Morrison on backup).
LIVE IN PITTSBURGH 1970 was mixed and mastered by The Doors' longtime engineer/producer Bruce Botnick, who recorded several concerts from the band's now-historic 1970 tour on multitrack tape for the Absolutely Live album('70). The concert would have been released sooner save for two small missing sections from the original 8-track masters. Instead of allowing that to prevent the release of this show, the band decided to insert the missing snippets from one of the other 1970 concerts, a process facilitated by Botnick's expertise and familiarity with the tapes.
A companion piece to 2007's 3-CD set Live In Boston-also recorded on the '70 tour-the release continues Rhino's upgrade and expansion of The Doors' catalog that began in honor of the 40th anniversary of their self-titled 1967 debut album, which Rolling Stone has called, “a stoned, immaculate classic.”
Rhino and Bright Midnight Archives deliver another spectacular live performance from The Doors’ final tour with THE DOORS LIVE IN PITTSBURGH 1970. This single disc serves as a fitting bookend to the three-disc Live In Boston collection released last year featuring shows from the same tour. PITTSBURGH 1970 captures the quartet tightly focused and intent on taking the audience on an epic musical journey.
Recorded May 2, 1970 at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena, the album includes more than an hour of fire and energy from singer Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. Always eager to take a chance onstage or otherwise, Morrison experiments with the musical dialogue during a 22-plus-minute version of “When The Music’s Over,” leading the band into bits of songs that they’d never played live. Along with gems like “Five To One” and “Break On Through,” the group also performed covers of Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads Blues” and the band’s signature cover of Howling Wolf’s “Back Door Man.” Before closing with an extended take on “Light My Fire,” Manzarek took the microphone with backup by Morrison for “Close To You.”
LIVE IN PITTSBURGH 1970 is mixed and mastered by engineer Bruce Botnick, who recorded several shows from The Doors’ 1970 tour on multi-track tape for the Absolutely Live album.
The concert would have been released sooner if it were not for two missing sections from the 8-track masters. The dialogue section that comes before “Close To You” has been replaced using the live 2-track stereo tapes and titled here as Tonight You’re In For A Special Treat. The other missing section was of the first 16 bars of music from the beginning of Manzarek’s solo on “Light My Fire.” Instead of allowing the missing music to prevent the release of this show, the band decided to insert the missing music from one of the other 1970 concerts.
A rare piece of common sense from BMR...pity this did not apply to the Bakersfield gig which seems to be permanently shelved cos Ray did not like his organ playing that nite!
1. Back Door Man
2. Love Hides
3. Five to One
4. Roadhouse Blues
5. Mystery Train
6. Away in India
7. Crossroads Blues
8. Universal Mind
9. Someday Soon
10. When the Music's Over
11. Break on Through
12. Push Push
13. Soft Parade Vamp, The
14. Tonight You're in For a Special Treat
15. Close to You
16. Light My Fire
The single-disc performance presents over an hour of incendiary and soulful live music from the late Jim Morrison and surviving Doors John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek. Highlights include a 22-minute plus version of “When The Music's Over,” during which Morrison improvises with the musical dialogue and leads the band into bits of songs they'd never played live before. Also featured are Doors classics including “Break On Through,” “Five To One,” and an extended, tracklist-closing version of “Light My Fire,” plus takes on Robert Johnson's “Crossroad Blues,” Howlin' Wolf's “Back Door Man” and Willie Dixon's “Close To You” (with Manzarek on lead vocal and Morrison on backup).
LIVE IN PITTSBURGH 1970 was mixed and mastered by The Doors' longtime engineer/producer Bruce Botnick, who recorded several concerts from the band's now-historic 1970 tour on multitrack tape for the Absolutely Live album('70). The concert would have been released sooner save for two small missing sections from the original 8-track masters. Instead of allowing that to prevent the release of this show, the band decided to insert the missing snippets from one of the other 1970 concerts, a process facilitated by Botnick's expertise and familiarity with the tapes.
A companion piece to 2007's 3-CD set Live In Boston-also recorded on the '70 tour-the release continues Rhino's upgrade and expansion of The Doors' catalog that began in honor of the 40th anniversary of their self-titled 1967 debut album, which Rolling Stone has called, “a stoned, immaculate classic.”
Rhino and Bright Midnight Archives deliver another spectacular live performance from The Doors’ final tour with THE DOORS LIVE IN PITTSBURGH 1970. This single disc serves as a fitting bookend to the three-disc Live In Boston collection released last year featuring shows from the same tour. PITTSBURGH 1970 captures the quartet tightly focused and intent on taking the audience on an epic musical journey.
Recorded May 2, 1970 at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena, the album includes more than an hour of fire and energy from singer Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. Always eager to take a chance onstage or otherwise, Morrison experiments with the musical dialogue during a 22-plus-minute version of “When The Music’s Over,” leading the band into bits of songs that they’d never played live. Along with gems like “Five To One” and “Break On Through,” the group also performed covers of Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads Blues” and the band’s signature cover of Howling Wolf’s “Back Door Man.” Before closing with an extended take on “Light My Fire,” Manzarek took the microphone with backup by Morrison for “Close To You.”
LIVE IN PITTSBURGH 1970 is mixed and mastered by engineer Bruce Botnick, who recorded several shows from The Doors’ 1970 tour on multi-track tape for the Absolutely Live album.
The concert would have been released sooner if it were not for two missing sections from the 8-track masters. The dialogue section that comes before “Close To You” has been replaced using the live 2-track stereo tapes and titled here as Tonight You’re In For A Special Treat. The other missing section was of the first 16 bars of music from the beginning of Manzarek’s solo on “Light My Fire.” Instead of allowing the missing music to prevent the release of this show, the band decided to insert the missing music from one of the other 1970 concerts.
A rare piece of common sense from BMR...pity this did not apply to the Bakersfield gig which seems to be permanently shelved cos Ray did not like his organ playing that nite!
