Live in Boston (The Doors album)
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Live album by the Doors | ||||
Released | July 24, 2007 | |||
Recorded | April 10, 1970 | |||
Venue | Boston Arena, Massachusetts | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 187:46 | |||
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Producer | Bruce Botnick | |||
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AllMusic | [1] |
Live in Boston is a triple CD live album by American rock band the Doors released in 2007. It was recorded at the Boston Arena on April 10, 1970, during the band's Roadhouse Blues Tour. The band performed two shows, one starting at 7 pm and a second scheduled for 10 but not actually starting until past midnight. Jim Morrison appears to be intoxicated during the entire latter show, and continued drinking heavily throughout the performance. The late start ended with the venue's owners cutting power to the stage to force the end of the concert.[2]
The album was released from the Bright Midnight Archives collection which contains a number of previously unreleased live concerts by the Doors.
Background
Ray Manzarek, the band's keyboardist recalls the concert as "manic, wild, crazy, intoxicated", adding:
… the shaman was intoxicated in Boston. I don't know if you're allowed to even be a shaman in Boston. But Morrison sure as hell did it! Still, as intoxicated as Jim was, it was never a problem. Even in his most intoxicated state, he'd hit the musical cues. When we’d play "Light My Fire", you could solo as long as you wanted – and sometimes we did! – and then Jim would scream, improvise, add poetry, or whatever, sang some things that he felt like doing.[3]
Track listing
Disc 1
- 1st show, 7 p.m.
- "Start" – (0:07)
- "All Right, All Right, All Right" - (0:10)
- "Roadhouse Moan" – (1:33)
- "Roadhouse Blues" (Jim Morrison) – (4:56)
- "Ship of Fools" (Morrison) - (6:27)
- "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) (2:02)
- "Back Door Man" (Willie Dixon, Chester Burnett) (2:16)
- "Five to One" (Morrison) (9:09)
- "When the Music's Over" (14:45)
- "Rock Me" (B.B. King) (7:14)
- "Mystery Train" (Junior Parker) (7:18)
- "Away in India" (1:54)
- "Crossroads" (Robert Johnson) (5:15)
- "Prelude to 'Wake Up!'" (0:48)
- "Wake Up!" (Morrison) (1:33)
- "Light My Fire" (Krieger, Morrison)[4] (12:32)
Disc 2
- 2nd show, 10 p.m.
- "Start" (1:22)
- "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" (Morrison) (8:12)
- "I Believe in Democracy" (0:33)
- "When the Music's Over" (14:19)
- "Roadhouse Blues" (Morrison) (5:53)
- "The Spy" (Morrison) (5:43)
- "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (Brecht, Weill) (1:40)
- "Back Door Man" (Dixon, Burnett) (2:27)
- "Five to One" (Morrison) (7:06)
- "Astrology Rap" (0:45)
- "Build Me a Woman" (Morrison) (3:57)
- "You Make Me Real" (Morrison) (3:26)
- "Wait a Minute!" (0:44)
- "Mystery Train" (Parker) (7:52)
- "Away in India" (2:52)
- "Crossroads" (Johnson) (3:31)
Disc 3
- 2nd show, 10 p.m. (cont.)
- "Band Intros" (0:35)
- "Adolf Hitler" (Morrison) (0:23)
- "Light My Fire" (Krieger, Morrison)[4] (5:47)
- "Fever" ["Light My Fire" Cont'd] (0:23)
- "Summertime" ["Light My Fire" Cont'd] (7:29)
- "St. James Infirmary Blues" ["Light My Fire" Cont'd] (0:46)
- "Graveyard Poem" ["Light My Fire" Cont'd] (1:13)
- "Light My Fire" [Reprise] (Krieger) (2:11)
- "More, More, More!" (0:19)
- "Ladies & Gentlemen" (0:13)
- "We Can't Instigate" (0:13)
- "They Want More" (1:16)
- "Been Down So Long" (Morrison) (6:13)
- "Power Turned Off" (9:15)
Personnel
- Jim Morrison – vocals
- Ray Manzarek – organ, keyboard bass, electric guitar on "Been Down So Long"
- Robby Krieger – electric guitar, bass guitar on "Been Down So Long"
- John Densmore – drums
References
- ^ AllMusic
- ^ Jason Draper. "THE DOORS - LIVE IN BOSTON 1970". Record Collector. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ Zach Sorscher (April 21, 2010). "The Doors come alive in new release of band's 1970 Boston concerts". Goldmine. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- ^ a b "The Doors: Break on Thru - A Celebration of Ray Manzarek". Musicconnection.com. January 16, 2020.
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- The Doors (1967)
- Strange Days (1967)
- Waiting for the Sun (1968)
- The Soft Parade (1969)
- Morrison Hotel (1970)
- L.A. Woman (1971)
- Other Voices (1971)
- Full Circle (1972)
- An American Prayer (1978)
- Absolutely Live (1970)
- Alive, She Cried (1983)
- Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1987)
- In Concert (1991)
- Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (1996)
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- 13 (1970)
- Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine (1972)
- The Best of The Doors (1973)
- Greatest Hits (1980)
- The Doors Classics (1985)
- The Best of The Doors (1985)
- Greatest Hits (1996)
- Essential Rarities (1999)
- The Best of The Doors (2000)
- The Very Best of The Doors (2001)
- Legacy: The Absolute Best (2003)
- The Very Best of The Doors (2007)
- The Future Starts Here: The Essential Doors Hits (2008)
- The Platinum Collection (2008)
- The Singles (2017)
- The Doors (1991)
- When You're Strange: Music from the Motion Picture (2010)
- The Doors: Box Set (1997)
- The Complete Studio Recordings (1999)
- No One Here Gets Out Alive (2002)
- Boot Yer Butt: The Doors Bootlegs (2003)
- Love/Death/Travel Box Set (2005)
- Perception (2006)
- The Doors: Vinyl Box Set (2008)
- A Collection (2011)
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- Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison
- The American Night
- No One Here Gets Out Alive
- The Doors Are Open (1968)
- A Tribute to Jim Morrison (1981)
- The Doors (1991)
- The Doors – 30 Years Commemorative Edition (1999)
- Soundstage Performances (2002)
- Live in Europe 1968 (2004)
- When You're Strange (2009)
- Live at the Bowl (2012)
- R-Evolution (2013)
- Feast of Friends (2014)
- Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (2018)
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- Manzarek–Krieger
- "Craigslist"
- The Lost Paris Tapes
- Stoned Immaculate: The Music of The Doors
- Barbaturex morrisoni
- HWY: An American Pastoral
- Night Divides the Day – The Music of the Doors
- Light My Fire: A Classic Rock Salute to The Doors
- Pamela Courson
- Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
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