Ms_Isis's Collection
The Doors 02/25/1969
Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles, CA
| Source | original audio-cd > wav (eac) > shn (mkwACT) |
| Media | SHN 1 disc |
| Notes | Includes covers "Missing Tapes" Label: Live Storm, LSCD 51594, Italy, 1994, 1CD Rock Is Dead Jam Session 01. Whiskey, Mystics And Men #1 - 2:35 02. Petition The Lord With Prayer/Whiskey, Mystics And Men #2 - 5:01 03. Love Me Tender - 2:34 04. Rock Is Dead #1 - 10:21 05. Me And The Devil Blues - 6:20 06. Rock Is Dead #2 - 2:40 07. Rock Is Dead #3 - 4:39 08. Rock Is Dead #4 - 5:23 09. Queen Of The Magazines - 4:03 10. Pipeline (instrumental) > Rock Is Dead #5 > Rock Me Baby > Mystery Train > Rock Is Dead #6 - 23:57 01=Elektra Recorders Studios, Los Angeles. Unpublished final studio version, which never got on the album The Soft Parade, date unknown, probably early 1969; 02-03=Elektra Recorders Studios, Los Angeles. Studio Session for the album The Soft Parade, date unknown, probably early 1969; 04-10=Elektra Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, February 25th, 1969. Studio Session for The Soft Parade. Source: copy of original audio-cd > wav (eac) > shn (mkwACT) --- (Needless to say, that everybody who owns a copy of Missing Links does not need this Italian disc. The sound is worse, and the Italians even copied the liner notes from Missing Links (they just erased the words Missing Links and also the name of the guy who wrote the notes, some Philippe Auguste). So this is a copy of a bootleg. Nice New York '68 photo of Jim on the cover, though.) This CD is a MUST for everyone who is interested in The Doors. I really do not know how I could live without a recording of this session, which I consider as the very missing link between Waiting For The Sun, The Soft Parade and Morrison Hotel. You know there was the bootleg LP Rock Is Dead (Tangie Town Records) and there was the bootleg Orange County Suite (Document Records DR 019), which were absolutely fantastic at the time of their release, but now there is Missing Links. Unfortunately the soundquality is not as good as the latter ones, but Missing Links contains the COMPLETE Rock Is Dead session, and one will be wondering how perfectly Paul Rothchild cut the session down to what became the well-known Rock Is Dead (and Orange County Suite) bootleg, and how all the cut-outs sound like. He even put parts of the session together, which were not intended being put together (but they fit!). If you own one of the previous bootlegs, it's like a puzzle finding out what was cut out. A very new experience, even for me. Finally released after about two years of waiting for it I still get a thrill listening to Queen Of The Magazines (I still don't know who wrote the song; it sounds a bit like Love In Vain by Robert Johnson, to which Jim Morrison improvises some of his own lyrics; to tell you the truth: I got tears in my eyes when I first heard it a couple of years ago and it is still very very touching me). Robert Johnson's Me And The Devil Blues (with some spontaneous Morrison improvisations) still is a perfect moody blues song. Jim's rap about his parents at the beginning of the session gets a totally new meaning compared to what was published on previous bootlegs. I wonder why the bootlegger didn't cut out the short break in (what he called) Rock Is Dead #2 (if you put this disc on tape for your car stereo try to cut the break off, it's easy!). There is another break in Rock Me Baby, which would have been easy to cut off the disc, but -unfortunately- it's on your CD as well. On the Missing Links version I have the disc index stops after track 10, so my CD player doesn't count track 11-14, but you shouldn't worry: It seems the bootlegger just forgot to put a disc memory on the following tracks, so track 10 really is track 10-14. On the first preview tape I got of this session (which never came out on bootleg) there were no breaks at all, and there was some additional poetry, but no Whiskey, Mystics And Men #1. I enjoy the liner notes for this CD, they even mention what Jim told Jerry Hopkins during the well known interview for Rolling Stone about this session: "We needed another song for The Soft Parade. We were racking our brains trying to think what song. We were in the studio and so we started throwing out all those old songs. Blues trips. Rock Classics. Finally we just started playing and we played for about an hour, and we went through the whole history of rock music - starting with blues, going through rock and roll, surf music, latin, the whole thing. I call it `Rock Is Dead'. I doubt if anybody'll ever hear it." Jim was wrong. Rock Is Dead was one of the hottest bootlegs in town (once a discjockey from L.A. told his audience), but now there is Missing Links, even hotter. Well written linernotes, by the way. One of the hottest bootleg CDs in town ever! Absolutely recommended. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/1409/cdguide8.htm ? 1998 Rainer Moddemann, The Doors Quarterly Magazine. --- ripped, converted & compiled by ich-maschine |
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· Last Updated May 23, 2023
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