THE DOORS LIVE COMPILATION

Being somewhat lazy, here are the notes for the next upload, with the great Jim Morrison:

The Doors
Live Compilation (1967 & 1970)
Avalon Ballroom/Family Dog/Winterland Arena
San Francisco, CA & Denver, CO
[Soundboard & Audience Recordings]


Tape Lineages:

Tracks 1-2 (1967-03-04 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco):
MASTER > ANA2 > CDR > EAC > WAV > FLAC

Track 3 (1967-03-04 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco):
"It Crawled Out Of The Vaults Of The KSAN" Bootleg > EAC > WAV > FLAC

Tracks 4-6 (1967-03-04 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco):
Mono mixes of Tracks 1-3

Track 7 (1967-09-30 The Family Dog, Denver):
"First Flash Of Eden" Bootleg > EAC > WAV > FLAC

Track 8 (1967-09-30 The Family Dog, Denver):
Mono mix of Track 7

Track 9-10 (1970-02-06 Winterland Arena, San Francisco):
MASTER > ANA2 > CDR > EAC > WAV > FLAC


A small compilation of Doors live recordings in the best quality available.

The first three tracks are from the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco (the accepted date for these tracks is March 4, 1967 -- however, there's a chance they're actually from May 1967). The first two songs are sourced from a 2nd generation tape while "Who Do You Love" is sourced from a bootleg box set. This same version of "Who Do You Love" is often incorrectly included with copies of the March 7, 1967 Matrix show. The only change I made to "Who Do You Love" was swapping the channels to match the other two Avalon songs. Tracks 4-6 are simply mono mixes of Tracks 1-3 that I created for easier listening. It can be annoying to hear all the vocals in one channel and most of the instruments in the other. So, personally, I prefer to listen to the Avalon '67 tracks in mono and thought I'd include them as a bonus.

Track 7 is from The Family Dog in Denver (September 30, 1967) and is the best quality I've been able to track down. A version I obtained that was labelled a master clone was missing the opening and definitely had noise reduction applied to it. So it was either a bootleg source that someone tried to pass off as a low gen or an incomplete version of the master source with noise reduction applied -- either way, I'd rather circulate the "First Flash Of Eden" source as it's better quality all around and likely came from a very low gen source. The only change I made to this track was some speed-correction. The original track was 9:07 long and ran too slow. (Track 8 is simply a mono mix of Track 7.) According to Greg Shaw, who supposedly transferred the original tape, there is a possibility that the recording attributed to this date may actually be from one of The Doors' December performances at the Family Dog in 1967. Though the "First Flash Of Eden" bootleg states that this song is from The Doors appearance at the Denver University Student Union the night before (September 29, 1967), Shaw claims that this song is all that survives from an entire reel recorded at the Family Dog and that it was the last song performed that night. What leads some credence to the bootleg label, however, is that The Doors' performance at Denver University was professionally filmed for an ABC-TV special called "Bruce Morrow's Music Power." A few months later, in November 1967, ABC chose to air only one song from that night in the special. Which song did the network broadcast? "Light My Fire." To date, no recording of that television special has surfaced, leading some to wonder if this song could actually be from that program.

Rounding out this compilation are two songs from the Winterland Arena show on February 6, 1970. These come from a 2nd generation audience recording. For some reason, a lot of the versions out there of this source are cut. Thanks to "wha happened" at the Freedom Man forums, I was finally able to get a complete source with no cuts to share with everyone. So a big thank you to him for helping out with this source.

One Part

STEVE EARLE CAN ROCK

About all I know personally about Steve Earle is that one day about two weeks ago, I was riding in a car, listening to WDVE, and this fantastic song called "Copperhead Road" came on. They didn't say whether it was old or know, didn't mention the name of the artist, or anything like that.

All I knew was that I loved it--captured the true spirit of my family. I mean, after all, my folks', folks' folks were involved in the Whiskey Rebellion, and if thing'd turned out a mite differently, we'd probably have Albert Gallatin on today's one dollar bills, once we'd shot George Washington for being a traitor. But enough about ancient history!

What we have here are both the early and late shows from a venue called the Nightstage in Cambridge, Massachusetts from January 11, 1990. Both seem to have been benefits, but the best thing is the sound.

Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four

ROCK & ROLL BEFORE 1990 (Mostly)

What you'll find in this blog are links to music that are either commercially unavailable from standard record companies, not quite up to their standards, and those which they haven't yet caught up to. In the collecting business, they're generally called ROIO's (Recordings Of Independent Origin), and almost everything has been sanctioned for non-commercial distribution by the bands involved, or the management themselves.

My own preferences are ANY kind of rock (no matter how loosely the term is applied), dating from the 1960s through about 1990. Please, no rap, no twangy country, as little disco (or, as it's now called, Dance)--stick with groups and artists like Led Zeppelin, Cream, Eric Clapton, Boston, Aerosmith, Steve Earle, Steve Winwood, CSN&Y, Bruce Springsteen, Eagles, Foghat, the Doors, the Beatles, Pat Travers, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Ronnie James Dio, Rush, Jimmy Buffett, Steely Dan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Steve Miller, Men At Work, Ted Nugent, Outlaws, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Heart, Molly Hatchet, Stevie Wonder, Robin Trower, and so on.

As you can see, my tastes are rather eclectic.

I upload everything in MP3 format at 320VBR. If you need a smaller file, you'll have to convert it yourself to, say, 192kps. I recommend CD-DA Extractor, which will handle anything but Shorten files. If enough people ask, I'll be happy to do all the uploading in FLAC (lossless) format--it'd save me a step.

ONE FINAL THING: If you must share these with others, download your copy and upload a file of it under your own Rapidshare.com (or other firm) account! If any of my links start appearing elsewhere, this blog will cease to exist!