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The Doors - Live in Pittsburgh 1970 Audio CD

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The Doors Band: The Doors
Title: Live in Pittsburgh 1970
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Release Date: 2008-03-04
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 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 14: Tonight You're in for a Special Treat 15: Close to You 16: Light My Fire

Good album. Great live album.
From reading the liner notes, not all of the songs were completely recorded live, as some were reconstructed over time, using other concerts of the time, but you can't tell at all. This is a good album, with lots of great songs, and tons of Doors hits. I love the audio quality and the fact that they kept in the banter between Jim and the audience.


Great sound quality - ok performance
The only thing is that Jim's not too into this one - which loses a star for me. The sound quality is top notch - if you turn it up loud and close your eyes, you'd think you were front row listening to the Doors. He finally says something to the crowd right before the end of the show (except for his "bird calls" earlier in the set - which tends to drag out)

I'm not saying it isn't good - it is! And I'm glad that the surviving Doors have brought these un-cut performances to life. It's just I have a little issue with the track listings on the back of the CD. "Break On Through" clocks in at 54 seconds and "Push Push" clocks in at 24 seconds - both of these are basically Jim singing a few verses of each near the end of "When The Music's Over". It's typical that the Doors label these tracks and do not state the time. A must for die-hards though. . . the casual fan may want to check out the edited "In Concert" or "Absolutely Live". .


DOORS LIVE
The previous Philadelphia disc shows the Doors could stray from professionalism depending on Morrison's blood alcohol level. The one to get if you want the Doors live on one cd. Detroit is as good as pittsburgh, but this Pittsburgh show is more concise and the performance strong too, it is overall my favorite Live Doors available. Robbie Kreiger plays well, the band is tight and Morrison is lucid. As usual Bruce Botnick gets what stands up as very good recorded live sound for the time. .


Immaculate, complete show of unsurpassed talent
When the studio releases in 1971,or so, "Absolutely Live" and claims Jim was drunk most the time etc. Like some of the released live works of the Doors in the past decade, this show more than others pushes the argument again for the survival of Jim Morrison. , they had to splice shows. . . etc as the official story and 30 years later there are a dozen shows to come that are not incoherent or uneven, one wonders. This was a hot show, my beautiful friend, with 3 unreleased songs and the fullest display of Morrison's range from blues, rock to Sinatra vocal touches. Manzarek's and Krieger's support throughout was inventive, jazzy and extraordinary. What made this special is the surprising counter taunts by Morrison when the audience tires of the artsy "When the music's over" interlude and Jim breaks the trance with two or three bird calls straight out of Martin Denny's "Quiet Village," that no reviewer had yet identified. The seamless segueing into and out of formal song structure was amazing. New levels of improvisation, here. No 4 chord wonders, absolutely surprising 40 years on. .


Great document of a calm night.............
Another tape witness of the captivating crudeness of The Doors. . . In this night Jim seems to be in another thing but he takes us again to the center of the madness, of the folly, of the beauty. . . . great sound, nice booklet. . . Another good excuse for not to leave this trip that the doors propose us in spite of the time. . listen it.


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