DATE: AUGUST 20, 2009



THE DOORS SHAKE THE BIG APPLE TO ITS CORE

Live In New York Documents The Doors’ Final Four New York Concerts
with Jim Morrison In Their Entirety with Six-Disc Collection

Boxed Set Due November 10 from Rhino and Bright Midnight Archives

180-Gram Vinyl Pressings Of All The Band’s Studio Albums Available September 15

LOS ANGELES – Rhino and Bright Midnight Archives unleash four inspired performances from The Doors’ final tour with THE DOORS LIVE IN NEW YORK. The latest addition to band’s acclaimed series of archival concert releases, this six-disc collection contains all four of The Doors’ performances – in their entirety – recorded in 1970 at the Felt Forum in New York City. The collection will be available November 10 at all retail outlets, including http://www.thedoors.com, for suggested list prices of $89.98.

Recorded January 17 and 18, 1970 – just a few weeks before the release of Morrison Hotel – these concerts find Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek locked in tight as they deliver smoking takes on soon-to-be-classics from their forthcoming album, including “Roadhouse Blues,” “Peace Frog,” “Ship Of Fools” and “Maggie M’Gill.” The shows also feature a number of driving blues covers, such as Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love” Howlin’ Wolf’s “Back Door Man” and John Lee Hooker’s “Crawling King Snake.” “Those were the bluesy songs we always used to do,” Krieger says. “We probably hadn’t done them in years, but we resurrected them for these shows.”

The year prior to these shows, The Doors became one of the first rock bands to play New York City’s Madison Square Garden. When they returned in 1970, Densmore says they choose to play the Felt Forum, a smaller venue at the Garden. “It was more intimate, and you could feel the audience more,” he says. “There was more interaction, and the acoustics were much better, because it was designed for music.”

Manzarek hails these shows as a return to the group’s early days, when they used to play a club called London Fog. “I mean, talk about going back to basics. We used to do four sets a night at the London Fog, and we only had a small block of songs written up to that time. So we would do other people’s material. And in New York, it was like the same thing as the London Fog. We’ve got four shows to play here, two sets tonight, two sets tomorrow night. Let’s play whatever we want! Let’s just go!”

Go they did. Along with a mix of then-unheard new songs and old covers, the band also tapped into its 1967, self-titled debut, peppering the setlists with signature songs such as “Break On Through (To The Other Side),” “Soul Kitchen,” “The End” and “Light My Fire,” The Doors’ first number one hit.

For the final show of the Felt Forum stand, the band was joined on stage by two guests – The Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian (who played harmonica on the studio version of “Roadhouse Blues”) and drummer Dallas Taylor, who’d played on Crosby, Stills, Nash’s debut. Sebastian sat in for “Rock Me Baby” and was joined by Taylor for “Goin’ To New York Blues” and “Maggie M’Gill.”

Fans will be blown away by the crisp sound found on LIVE IN NEW YORK. All four shows were mixed and mastered by the band’s longtime engineer, Bruce Botnick, who recorded a number of shows from The Doors’ 1970 tour on multi-track tape for the Absolutely Live album. While most of the music contained on LIVE IN NEW YORK is unreleased, a few songs (and portions of songs) surfaced in 1970 on Absolutely Live and in 1997 on Box Set.

Sadly, these shows represent are The Doors’ final New York City performances with Morrison, who passed away July 3, 1971.

Prior to the release of LIVE IN NEW YORK, Rhino will release 180-gram vinyl versions of all six Doors studio albums on September 15. Previously available only in 2007’s The Doors Vinyl Box, original stereo mixes of The Doors, Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun, The Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel, and L.A. Woman will now be available individually at all vinyl retail outlets for a suggested list price of $24.98 each.

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THE DOORS LIVE IN NEW YORK
Track Listing

Disc 1
January 17, 1970 (First Show)
1. Start Of Show
2. “Roadhouse Blues”
3. “Ship Of Fools”*
4. “Break On Through (To The Other Side)”*
5. Tuning
6. “Peace Frog”
7. “Blue Sunday”
8. “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”
9. “Back Door Man”*
10. “Love Hides”*
11. “Five To One”*
12. Tuning/Breather
13. “Who Do You Love”
14. “Little Red Rooster”
15. “Money”
16. Tuning
17. “Light My Fire”*
18. More, More, More
19. “Soul Kitchen”*
20. End Of Show

Disc 2
January 17, 1970 (Second Show)
1. Start Show 2
2. Jim “How Ya Doing?”
3. “Roadhouse Blues”
4. “Break On Through (To The Other Side)”*
5. “Ship Of Fools”
6. “Crawling King Snake”
7. “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”
8. “Back Door Man”*
9. “Five To One”
10. Pretty Neat, Pretty Good
11. “Build Me A Woman”
12. Tuning/Breather
13. “Who Do You Love”*
14. Tuning/Breather
15. “Wild Child”*
16. Cheering/Tuning
17. “When The Music’s Over”

Disc 3
1. Tuning/Breather
2. “Light My Fire”*
3. Hey, Mr. Light Man!
4. “Soul Kitchen”*
5. Jim’s Fish Joke
6. “The End”
7. End Of Show

Disc 4
January 18, 1970 (First Show)
1. Start Show 3
2. “Roadhouse Blues”*
3. “Ship Of Fools”*
4. “Break On Through (To The Other Side)”*
5. Tuning/Breather
6. “Universal Mind”*
7. “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)” – False Start*
8. “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”*
9. “Back Door Man”*
10. “Five To One”
11. Tuning/Breather
12. “Moonlight Drive”
13. “Who Do You Love”*
14. Calling Out For Songs
15. “Money”*
16. Tuning/Breather
17. “Light My Fire”
18. More, More More
19. “When The Music’s Over”*
20. Good Night – End Show

Disc 5
January 18, 1970 (Second Show)
1. Start Show 4
2. “Roadhouse Blues”*
3. “Peace Frog”*
4. “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”*
5. “Back Door Man”
6. “Five To One”
7. We Have A Special Treat
8. “Celebration Of The Lizard”
9. “Build Me A Woman”
10. “When The Music’s Over”*
11. More, More, More

Disc 6
1. “Soul Kitchen”*
2. For Fear Of Getting Too Patriotic
3. Petition The Lord
4. “Light My Fire”
5. Only When The Moon Comes Out
6. “Close To You”
7. The Encore Begins
8. “Rock Me Baby”*
9. What To Do Next?
10. “Goin’ To N.Y. Blues”*
11. Tuning/Breather
12. “Maggie M’Gill”*
13. Tuning/Breather
14. “Gloria”*/End Of Show

*Previously unreleased

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"Is everybody In?" I'll be for this. Thanks for posting Technophallus !

Rick A.

No problem. There's supposedly going to be a complete Matrix release from the master tapes coming out next year. I'll believe it when I see it.

If this is as good as Absolutely Live (my fav doors album of all time), it will be really tempting.

I'm in.
Hell yeah, I'm in.

On John Sebastian's official website, he mentions doing some overdubs for an upcoming, unnamed Doors live release:

http://www.johnbsebastian.com/

Wonder how many more overdubs will be added. After all, all the musicians in the Doors are still playing. When I hear of this stuff, it ruins it a bit for me.

From Bruce Botnick:
“Where’s John Sebastian?" you might ask. When John came onstage to join The Doors for the Sunday second show encore, he was handed a microphone that was only going through The Doors’ sound system, and not plugged into the Fedco Audio Labs mobile truck. As a consequence, John’s harmonica didn’t get recorded. So, earlier in 2009, we arranged for John to join Ray Manzarek and myself at Skywalker Sound in San Rafael. John replayed his parts as closely as possible against the PA leakage from the audience tracks on the original recorded 8-track masters. We are quite happy with the result.

Some of you may think that this is sacrilege and would have preferred to have these three songs the way that they were. In order to accommodate you, these versions will be up on the Rhino website for you to download using a code that will come along with your purchase of this boxed set.

-Bruce Botnick

That seems reasonable, even though I would prefer to not have the overdubs.

I'm ok with that.

Has anyone heard what the hell happened to the planned release of The Doors'
"Live In Vancouver?" That show I'd heard bits of on a live radio show some years
ago and was really impressed with the performance and sound of the recording
captured by Botnick & Co.... Bright Midnight was supposed to release that show
some time ago that's seems now to be forgotten....

s kean

added the image from Rhino's website to the original post.

I really like live Doors. Problem is like The Dead & King Crimson, there's just too much out there.

When Pearl Jam did there European bootleg series, a connection sold me the entire run at a great price. After about a year, I realised I would never play even 25% of it & sold it.

There is also a huge amount of Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan/T-Rex and The Who also come to mind.

I think there's a great dearth of classic era Who. Am I missing something? No filmore east live shows, not much from the 60s save for the BBC sessions and Leeds.

Yeah, they've been somewhat stingy with the Moon-era concerts, yet Wolfgang's Vault is streaming a bunch of the classic bootleg material (the Fillmore, 1973 King Biscuit, etc.) And why can't the Kilburn show be released on a CD?

Hopefully WGV will get permission to sell more of the shows soon. I have been personally told off line that they intend to offer all the for sale shows in lossless soon, though i wasn't given a date.

Bump: added pre-order link to the first post.

Price went down to $72: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002N3GD2Q/?tag=imwan-20

Discoverd this band during the summer between 8th and 9th grades. I'm IN.

Price is now down to $63!! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002N3GD2Q/?tag=imwan-20

And date is now listed as November 17th, not 10th.

I just got this in the mail today. I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in live Doors. The performance itself is superb and the sound is top notch.