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The Doors - Live at the Aquarius Theatre: The First Performance Audio CD

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The Doors Band: The Doors
Title: Live at the Aquarius Theatre: The First Performance
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Release Date: 2004-05-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Tuning 2: Jim's Introduction 3: Back Door Man 4: Break on Through (To the Other Side) 5: What Do We Do Next? 6: Soul Kitchen 7: You Make Me Real 8: Tuning 9: I Will Never Be Untrue 10: Crowd Humbly Requests 11: When the Music's Over 12: Universal Mind 13: Crowd Requests Their Favorites and Tuning 14: Mystery Train/Crossroads 15: Build Me a Woman 16: Tuning 17: Who Do You Love? [False Start] 18: Who Do You Love? 19: Light My Fire 20: Crowd Requests More 21: Celebration of the Lizard

Incredible
It was an incredible show - should be an incredible CD. I was at that concert July 21, 1969. Morrison was amazing.


Doos Live
It has long breaks between each song, so I just cut them out. The Doors Live is so good, it is almost too hard to listen to. The energy is really high on each and every song. This is their home town, so you know it will be one of the very best. Yes! Make me feel alright!
Jay.


The "real" Doors!
Perhaps, not for everyone; a "must' for dedicatedThe Doors fan. A little pricey, but well worth it for the dedicated Doors' fan. Shipping and handling were prompt and fair. A+.


Undoctored archive excellence
This one features the complete first show from the Aquarius Theater in LA on July 21, 1969. Another top-notch Doors release from Bright Midnight Records, far more valuable than the umpteenth re-release of the studio albums. They've since released the second show as well, with a similar set list and the same soundboard quality (recorded with the same set-up as part of the Elektra Concert Series that year and also part of the Absolutely Live material).

Amazing how quiet it gets between tracks---were 60s crowds still that polite and well-behaved? There were eight total mikes used for recording, and two were devoted to the ambient and audience noise. You can listen closely and hear the audience shout requests and more during some songs. "Touch Me!" "Everybody shut up!" "Ssssshhhh!" The band never played with a set set-list, so they'd discuss what track to do next in between songs, leaving an interesting and tense gap in the show like they were very consciously holding the audience in suspense. One can tell how plagued they must have been hearing the same requests over and over and over from fandom's hit-lovers ("Light My Fire!")

The sound quality is about the same as the second Aquarius Show, also available in a 2CD set from Bright Midnight. Same set-up, same remastering, and best of all, it's complete and uncut, with no overdubs or trickery. The in-between noise, tuning and chatter are all kept and even given their respective tracks--it's the kind of thing obsessists insist on. Just right from the archives, no doctoring.

Highly recommended material, there is plenty of excellent live Doors material now officially available. More casual fans should check the playlists for each of these and decide what they want. The quality is generally excellent, professional soundboard, and the performances (on most of the material) is very strong. The band was only human, after all. Small snippets of these Aquarius shows were floating around on bootleg for years and years, but never in such good quality.


Great Concerts !!!
Excellent sound quality I would Highly Recommend!!! Also check out "Live In Detroit". I bought both of these live shows on the official BM website they are great.


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