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Post by darkstar on Nov 4, 2005 3:51:14 GMT
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Post by othercircles on Nov 4, 2005 17:08:37 GMT
as the album sticker implanted on the jacket states, "22 Classic Doorsongs."
Aww... I have two copies and I didnt get no sticker! lol
it can be said that Morrison made the Doors. Without him, Krieger, Manzarek, and Densmore have lost their uniqueness. They immediately fall into the category of being a two-bit band that sounds like just a thousand others.
And it can also be said that I'm the King Of France. Without morrison they would have been alot different of course (and they were afterwards) But they certainly do not "fall into the category of being a two-bit band that sounds like just a thousand others"
And without the doors morrison would have been a homeless (or mooching of someone else) drunken poet roaming the streets of LA. Or perhaps would have had to succome to his fathers wishes and joined the military.
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Post by darkstar on Nov 4, 2005 17:52:58 GMT
I only have one copy of the album and although I bought it new I don't recall seeing a sticker on it. It could have gotten torn off with the package wrapping. Now I want it!
I didn't start collecting stickers that were attached to the package wrapping of the covers until Pink Floyds "The Wall" album. That cool sticker attached to the cellophane I saved and have it to this day stuck on the outside of the plastic cover that protects the album jacket.
Weird Scenes contained two tracks I had never heard before, "Who Scared You"and "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further." This asset alone prompted to purchase the album.
I liked your reply regarding this Album review by Cameron Crowe. Excellent speculation. I could see your scenerio coming to life if history had not gone down the way it did.
As for what I thought of the review; considering Crowe's position back then I can see the Lester Bangs mentality rubbing off slightly in this piece.
This review was one of the articles that the PR people picked up from the "San Diego Door" prompting a solicitation from Rolling Stone to Cameron Crowe. Remember the scene in "Almost Famous" where Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a guest at a San Diego radio station and he calls Jim a bafoon? When I posted this article last night that scene played over in my head and and I thought, ah....definately Lester Bangs influence shining through.
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Post by othercircles on Nov 5, 2005 4:08:04 GMT
Hehe those articles dont chance much. The quality of writing is the same 30 years later.
As for the album itself. I think its a great collection... my only complaint.. is that I think it would have been more appropriate, given its context, if the tracks had been put at least somewhat chronilogically. Not scattered about like they are.
I find myself playing that the most for casual listening. I have a nice clean German copy I keep for keepings sake and I've got a VG grade one with a bunch of light scratches that I play all the time.
One thing too I think is wierd.. that I never get about some double LPs. The american one has... the first LP has side 1 and side 4.. and the other LP has side 2 and 3. WTF is that about? I have a couple LP's that do that and it makes no sense The German one doesnt do that tho. Its Side 1&2 and Side 3&4 like it aught to be.
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Post by othercircles on Nov 5, 2005 4:10:26 GMT
Actually I think i might have an answer. Maybe it was made with those drop down thingies in mind. You know those ones that play on LP side.. and then the next one drops down and starts playing. With this format one could listen to side 1 and then side 2 in a row just by stacking the LPs. Thats the only reason I can think of.
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Post by othercircles on May 4, 2006 0:49:39 GMT
Yea that'd be neat if they re-issued Wierd Scenes in a CD format. It's a better collection the Legacy i think.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on May 4, 2006 10:30:22 GMT
As long as the money minded tossers with no concept of Doors History run the show we will only see stuff released with a view to a $$.....which means we will never see WSITG released on disc......Its a shame as it and 13 are the definitive Doors compilations in my eyes......even though The Doors were not keen on 13 which was released to recoup the outlay of Absolutely Live it and WSITG pretty much nail the concept of The Best Of The Doors.........and I ain't seen them bettered in 30 years or more.....I bought my WSITG in the first few days it came out here in 1972 and it never had a sticker on  .....I gave mine away as a prize in a Scorpywag competition years ago to a girl called Heather from the East Coast who was a pretty nifty Doors artist.
The artwork for WSITG and 13 are in a different universe to the tacky, dull, obvious artwork that todays Doors releases get.......look at Philly which is amaturish garbage and Legacy and the box sets which are very poor...and the less said about the CD version of Absolutely Live the better
Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine
A very interesting double LP retrospective two years after Jim Morrison's version of the Doors had officially closed. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine contained the first album release of two B-sides, Willie Dixon's "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further," sung by Ray Manzarek, originally on the flip side of the 1971 45 "Love Her Madly," and the beautiful "Who Scared You," "Wishful Sinful"'s flip with Jim Morrison on vocals from a session in 1969. Both are worthwhile additions not found on their first "greatest hits" collection, 13. This compilation is a strange amalgam of their music, the LP title taken from a line in the song "The End," which concludes side two. Five of the 22 songs are from the L.A. Woman sessions, including the title track of that album and the full length "Riders on the Storm," both clocking in at seven-plus minutes. With "The End" and "When the Music's Over" at 11:35 and 11:00 respectively, that's 38 minutes and 38 seconds between four titles, more than a third of the 99-plus minutes of music on this collection. Nothing from Absolutely Live is included, and surprisingly, the classic "Waiting for the Sun" is not here, though that Morrison Hotel number would fit the mood perfectly. "Love Street," the flip of "Hello I Love You," is here, but pertinent singles like "Wishful Sinful" or "Do It" and its flip, "Runnin' Blue," from The Soft Parade, are all missing in action. The cover art pastiche by Bill Hoffman is worth the price of admission if you already have all this material, while the inside gatefold picture looks like an outtake from the first album. Bruce Harris' liner notes are truly the '60s merging with the '70s; he calls Jim Morrison "merely the index of our possibilities" and states that Morrison didn't want to be an idol "because he believed all idols were hollow." The essay is all the more silly when you realize it isn't tongue-in-cheek in the way Lou Reed's incoherent ramblings inside Metal Machine Music are more enjoyable than the disc. Harris seems to actually believe what he pontificates. But the music is awesome, so put it on and read the Metal Machine Music scribblings instead. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine is a work of art in the first order, the way the Beatles #1 album is wonderfully redundant, and it should see the light of day again. This time they could add "Tree Trunk," the flip of the "Get Up and Dance" 45 RPM from 1972's Full Circle album.
by Joe Viglione
All Music Guide
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Post by othercircles on May 5, 2006 0:01:36 GMT
Watch em re-release it and exclude "You Need Meat" Jeff will say "uh... we've misplaced the tape of that too...... honest"
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Post by thedoorsmusic on May 22, 2006 3:19:14 GMT
One thing I noticed about this compilation LP, it's missing LMF. Wonder why it was left off. LMF reached no.1 on June 7, 1967 according to KHJ - BOSS RADIO in L.A. Some cities had it July 67 for number 1. Requests for that song soon led Top 40 KHJ radio to ask Elektra for a single-length version of it. The single LMF was shortened to 2 minutes 52 seconds for AM radio. Here is a promo 45 of LMF from my collection.  |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on May 22, 2006 8:50:10 GMT
Cool promo Dan cheers.....I like the way it says 'plug side' .....  The answer to your question is simple enough though......'WSITG' was brought out first and foremost as a tribute to Morrison in 1972 but secondly the Elektra folks wanted it to complement '13' so did not feature any of the songs from '13' on 'Weird Scenes'..... This was mentioned at the time but has been lost over the years......for me Elektra should have done a 13/WSITG CD release ages ago with the original artwork and sleeve notes. That would have been far superior to any of the money making releases we have been flooded with this last 20 years or more..... |
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Post by thedoorsmusic on May 22, 2006 14:02:59 GMT
I agree on the CD release of 13 and Weird Scene's.
Intresting info on the 1972 release of the double LP. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on May 24, 2006 11:18:00 GMT
If those in charge of Doors Central had an ounce of vision and a sense of Doors History then the box set release this year/next year would include ONE remastered/5.1 mix CD/DVD copy of all the first 8 albums in their original sleeves along with Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine & 13 in THEIR original sleeves along with Absolutely Live in its original sleeve.....added to it the out-takes and demos and any video or whatever....instead of two copies of the same album as they plan.......as long as these deadbeats run things expect a serious assault on your wallet over the next 18 months for very little in return except what was promised 4 years ago...... That's the way to celebrate 40 years of Doors recording history by releasing all the records that the band put out during their time in the sleeves that they were put out with..... |
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Post by tzinana on Jun 11, 2007 0:52:00 GMT
 What a good comment about Ray's vocals! I don't agree about The Spy or The Wasp, both have great music and lyrics. Weird Scenes after Jim died... ;D |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Nov 20, 2012 20:47:30 GMT
"Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine": The Doors (Electra 8E-6001)Before last July, they called him a pervert, a satanist, a syphletic maniac, an alcoholic, and a transvestite. After last July, they called him a genius, a virtuoso vocalist, a superb showman, and a worthy idol to millions. "He" is Jim Morrison, famed lead singer of The Doors. July 3, 1971, he died. The man who was once the object of critical ridicule is now an immortal. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine is his eulogy. Enclosed inside the two-record set is a soundtrack to a generation. The generation that shredded their flower-power image with The Doors, marveled the wonders of acid with Strange Days, discovered country-rock with Soft Parade, came down from Altamont with Morrison Hotel, and got drunk with Absolutely Live. The LP is actually a form of the "greatest hits" concept, being the cream of the album cuts, or, as the album sticker implanted on the jacket states, "22 Classic Doorsongs." The single hits were previously released before Morrison's death as 13. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine, when listened to in it's entirety proves several things. IN almost every pre-Other Voices album reviews of Doors albums the subject of the similarity between all the songs is touched upon. I can remember Chris Van Ness of the Free Press said of L.A. Woman, "Every song every recorded by the group sounds the same as the first album's material." This album seems to be the necessary evidence to prove the contrary. The Doors were a changing band. They evolved, while Morrison's extremely conspicuous voice remained constant presenting the illusion of stagnating consistency. It isn't hard to distinguish the difference between "Break on Through" and "Riders on the Storm" when they are conveniently placed on the same album. The former cut was raw Doors, while the latter an excellent mellow attempt to appeal to a vast James Taylor-Joni Mitchell-Gordon Lightfoot hungry audience. The sole item The Doors, in their last days, had in common with the early Doors was the above mentioned consistency of Morrison's vocals. Another evidency is the overall noticibility of their inevitable break-up. The Doors were actually Jim Morrison and back-up band. The crowds came to see Morrison. The public bought records to hear Morrison. Look at the sale of, say this album and compare it with the sales of Other Voices. It is quite obvious that sooner or later the other members, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore would get the ever-popular creative urge for equality, ala Creedence. It can't be said that Jim Morrison was The Doors, but it can be said that Morrison made the Doors. Without him, Krieger, Manzarek, and Densmore have lost their uniqueness. They immediately fall into the category of being a two-bit band that sounds like just a thousand others. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine is actually two collections. A mandatory collection of some of the best Doors music recorded, and a mandatory collection of the best music ever recorded. And you can be sure they'll none like it again. Courtesy of the Door (aka San Diego Door) - Cameron Crowe - February 24, 1972 - March 9, 1972 www.cameroncroweonline.com/writtenby/door/goldmine.htm
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Mar 15, 2023 12:38:15 GMT
 "Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine" Clock  12 12 1974 Brigham Young University Scroll. Rexburg ID 27-2-1972 Appleton, Post-Crescent. WICameron Crowe Rolling Stone February 1972    |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 29, 2023 11:27:26 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 29, 2023 15:16:43 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 27, 2024 12:23:15 GMT
Record Store Day 2014 Vinyl Releases.Record Store Day, 20th April, 2014 saw the release of a new Rhino-Vinyl pressing both in black & a coloured amber vinyl limited numbered edition 5500 run.
A month later Rhino released a double CD.           
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 27, 2024 13:05:09 GMT
  Store poster 1972 Radio Promo Copy 1972
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 27, 2024 17:05:50 GMT
2014 CD Version   Japanese CD 
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