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IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30TH).
The Doors performance from Cobo Arena, 8th May, 1970 is available on 4-LP vinyl for the first time. Captured during the band's Roadhouse Blues Tour, it was one of the band's longer shows. In fact, the band played for an hour past curfew and were banned from the arena on future tours. The fiery set includes a number of Blues covers, including I'm a King Bee, Back Door Man, Junior Parker's Mystery Train and Crossroads by Robert Johnson. The Doors also tear through17 minute-plus versions of The End and When The Music's Over, as well as an over 19 minute version of Light My Fire and other rare tracks such as Love Hides and Dead Cats, Dead Rats. This collection captures the band at an absolute zenith.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25TH).
The Doors Live in Bakersfield is one of the more unique shows from The Doors during a tumultuous 1970 when Jim Morrison was on trial on trumped-up charges in Miami. The band had been playing together live for five years, and were tight enough to be able to veer into the unknown. That’s what they opted for in this California agriculture town on a hot summer night. Featuring improvisations and medleys of The Doors many beloved hits from across their albums, Live in Bakersfield is a shamanic adventure for all who listen. Recorded August 21, 1970.

The set features soon-to-be beloved covers by The Doors such as “Gloria” and blues favorites like “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) ” that would define their influence and sound as they worked out originals like “Break on Through (To the Other Side).” The complete set from both shows was released once before, but it was discovered after release that they were taken from third-generation tapes of the recordings. In the ensuing years, The Doors have located the first-generation recordings, and this is the first time the sets from those nights will be released in full.
TRACK LISTING
VINYL TRACKLISTING:
Side 1- March 7, 1967 First Set
1.) Back Door Man
2.) My Eyes Have Seen You
3.) Soul Kitchen
4) All Blues (Instrumental)
Side 2:
1) Get Out Of My Life Woman
2) When The Music’s Over
Side 3: March 7, 1967 Second Set
1) Close To You
2) Crawling King Snake
3) I Can’t See Your Face In My Mind
4) People Are Strange
5) Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
Side 4:
1) Crystal Ship
2) Twentieth Century Fox
March 7, 1967 – Third Set
3) Moonlight Drive
4) Summer’s Almost Gone
5) Unhappy Girl
Side 5:
1) Woman Is A Devil / Rock Me Baby
2) Break On Through (To The Other Side)
3) Light My Fire
Side 6:
1) The End
March 8 Or 9, 1967
2) The End (Partial) / Let’s Feed Ice Cream To The Rats
Side 7: March 10, 1967 – First Set
1) My Eyes Have Seen You
2) Soul Kitchen
3) I Can’t See Your Face In My Mind
4) People Are Strange
Side 8:
1) When The Music’s Over
March 10, 1967 – Second Set
2) Money
3) Who Do You Love
Side 9:
1) Moonlight Drive
2) Summer’s Almost Gone
3) I’m A King Bee
4) Gloria
Side 10:
1) Break On Through (To The Other Side)
March 10, 1967 – Third Set
2) Summertime
3) Back Door Man
4) Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
7”:
March 7, 1967 – First Set
1) Bag’s Groove (Instrumental)
CD TRACKLISTING:
March 7, 1967 First Set
Back Door Man
My Eyes Have Seen You
Soul Kitchen
All Blues (Instrumental)
Get Out Of My Life Woman
When The Music’s Over
March 7, 1967 Second Set
Close To You
Crawling King Snake
I Can’t See Your Face In My Mind
People Are Strange
Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
Crystal Ship
Twentieth Century Fox
March 7, 1967 – Third Set
Moonlight Drive
Summer’s Almost Gone
Unhappy Girl
Woman Is A Devil / Rock Me Baby
Break On Through (To The Other Side)
Light My Fire
The End
March 8 Or 9, 1967
The End (Partial) / Let’s Feed Ice Cream To The Rats
March 10, 1967 – First Set
My Eyes Have Seen You
Soul Kitchen
I Can’t See Your Face In My Mind
People Are Strange
When The Music’s Over
March 10, 1967 – Second Set
Money
Who Do You Love
Moonlight Drive
Summer’s Almost Gone
I’m A King Bee
Gloria
Break On Through (To The Other Side)
March 10, 1967 – Third Set
Summertime
Back Door Man
Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)

this late-arriving history is perhaps the most reliable, and certainly the most entertaining, of all' GuardianFew bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after fifty years, The Doors' notoriously quiet guitarist is finally breaking his silence to set the record straight. Through a series of vignettes, Robby takes readers back to where it all happened: the pawn shop where he bought his first guitar; the jail cell he was tossed into after a teenage drug bust; his parents' living room where his first songwriting sessions with Jim Morrison took place; and the many concert venues that erupted into historic riots.
Both a time capsule of the 1960s counterculture and a moving reflection on what it means to find oneself as a musician, Set the Night on Fire is a must-read for Doors fans and an essential volume of American pop. 'The very best . .
. A well-told classic tale' Mojo'Eschewing mythologising for unvarnished, often amusing memories, this is a book that Doors fans will love madly' Classic Rock Magazine

The compilation starts with the epic Light My Fire, written by Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, and features other classics such as People Are Strange from Strange Days, Touch Me from The Soft Parade. It also contains the blues rock classic Roadhouse Blues from Morrison Hotel; which last year celebrated its 50th anniversary.
13 is now on vinyl for the first time in 37 years and includes newly remastered audio on 180gram black vinyl.
TRACK LISTING
Side One
1. "Light My Fire"
2. "People Are Strange"
3. "Back Door Man"
4. "Moonlight Drive"
5. "The Crystal Ship"
6. "Roadhouse Blues"
Side Two
1. "Touch Me"
2. "Love Me Two Times"
3. "You're Lost Little Girl"
4. "Hello, I Love You"
5. "Land Ho"
6. "Wild Child"
7. "The Unknown Soldier"


Having a larger budget for Strange Days allowed the band to spend more time experimenting in the studio. They used an eight-track recorder for the first time, which resulted in some memorable overdubs like Krieger’s double-tracked guitar on “When The Music’s Over.” Surprisingly, the trippy keyboard sound heard on the album’s title track is actually one of the earliest appearances of a Moog synthesizer in a rock song.
Strange Days mixed new songs written on the road with some written before the band’s 1967 debut. In fact, the band performed “Strange Days” during its 1966 residency at the London Fog in L.A., while “My Eyes Have Seen You” dates back to 1965. Another early track is “Moonlight Drive,” which was one of the very first songs that the band practiced together, and where the band heard Krieger’s haunting bottleneck guitar playing for the first time. It’s also the song Morrison sang to Manzarek at Venice Beach in 1965 when the two former UCLA film students reconnected and decided to start the Doors.
TRACK LISTING
A1 Strange Days 3:05
A2 You're Lost Little Girl 3:01
A3 Love Me Two Times 3:23
A4 Unhappy Girl 2:00
A5 Horse Latitudes 1:30
A6 Moonlight Drive 3:00
B1 People Are Strange 2:10
B2 My Eyes Have Seen You 2:22
B3 I Can't See Your Face In My Mind 3:18
B4 When The Music's Over 11:00

"A tremendous debut album, and indeed one of the best first-time outings in rock history, introducing the band's fusion of rock, blues, classical, jazz, and poetry with a knockout punch. The lean, spidery guitar and organ riffs interweave with a hypnotic menace, providing a seductive backdrop for Jim Morrison's captivating vocals and probing prose. "Light My Fire" was the cut that topped the charts and established the group as stars, but most of the rest of the album is just as impressive, including some of their best songs: the propulsive "Break on Through" (their first single), the beguiling mystery of "The Crystal Ship," the mysterious "End of the Night," "Take It as It Comes" (one of several tunes besides "Light My Fire" that also had hit potential), and the stomping rock of "Soul Kitchen" and "Twentieth Century Fox." The 11-minute Oedipal drama "The End" was the group at its most daring and, some would contend, overambitious. It was nonetheless a haunting cap to an album whose nonstop melodicism and dynamic tension would never be equaled by the group again, let alone bettered." - AllMusic.

This vinyl reissue on 180-gram HQ virgin vinyl presents the original stereo mixes, artwork and inner sleeves.
The laquers were cut at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, CA under the direct supervision of original Doors producer/engineer Bruce Botnick and Electra Records founder Jac Holzman.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1 Roadhouse Blues
2 Waiting For The Sun
3 You Make Me Real
4 Peace Frog
5 Blue Sunday
6 Ship Of Fools
Side B
1 Land Ho!
2 The Spy
3 Queen Of The Highway
4 Indian Summer
5 Maggie M’Gill

This superb vinyl reissue on 180-gram HQ virgin vinyl presents the original stereo mixes, artwork and inner sleeves (including die-cut and embossed outer sleeve).
The laquers were cut at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, CA under the direct supervision of original Doors producer/engineer Bruce Botnick and Electra Records founder Jac Holzman.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1 The Changeling
2 Love Her Madly
3 Been Down So Long
4 Cars Hiss By My Window
5 LA Woman
Side B
1 L’America
2 Hyacinth House
3 Crawling King Snake
4 The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
5 Riders On The Storm

This vinyl reissue on 180-gram HQ virgin vinyl presents the original stereo mixes, artwork and inner sleeves.
The laquers were cut at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, CA under the direct supervision of original Doors producer/engineer Bruce Botnick and Electra Records founder Jac Holzman.


