The Doors 02/25/1969
Set I
Whiskey, Mystics And Men #1
Petition The Lord With Prayer/Whiskey, Mystics And Men #2
Love Me Tender
Rock Is Dead #1
Me And The Devil Blues
Rock Is Dead #2
Rock Is Dead #3
Rock Is Dead #4
Queen Of The Magazines
Pipeline (instrumental) > Rock Is Dead #5 > Rock Me Baby > Mystery Train > Rock Is Dead #6
Petition The Lord With Prayer/Whiskey, Mystics And Men #2
Love Me Tender
Rock Is Dead #1
Me And The Devil Blues
Rock Is Dead #2
Rock Is Dead #3
Rock Is Dead #4
Queen Of The Magazines
Pipeline (instrumental) > Rock Is Dead #5 > Rock Me Baby > Mystery Train > Rock Is Dead #6
Set II
Set III
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| Notes: | February 25th, 1969 Sunset Sound Recorders - Hollywood, CA "Rock Is Dead" Session 1. When I was back in Seminary School (#1) 2. When I was back in Seminary School (#2) 3. Whiskey Mistics and Men Take 1 4. Love Me Tender 5. Rock is Dead (part 1) 6. Me & The Devil Blues 7. Rock is Dead (part 2) 8. Pipeline 9. Rock Me> 10. Mystery Train 11. When I Got Home 12. Rock Is Dead> 13. My Eyes Have Seen You 14. Rock Is Dead! | |||||
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| Notes: | Quality: Soundboard This recording is also known as the "Sunset Sound Recorders" The songs whiskey, mystics and men and Rock is dead are also in part on the doors box set. Track 14 is from The Doors Live in Seattle. | |||||
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| Notes: | This version has two tapes mixed into one to provide a high quality (where possible) and complete recording. | |||||
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| Notes: | "Missing Tapes" Label: Live Storm, LSCD 51594, Italy, 1994, 1CD | |||||
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| Notes: | The Doors February 25th (Tuesday), 1969 In The Studio - Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA The uncut Soft Parade sessions 01. Whiskey, Mystics & Men '97 promo 2:34 02. Whiskey, Mystics & Men Ray-mellotron 4:58 03. Love Me Tender 2:38 04. Rock Is Dead #1 10:21 05. Woman Is A Devil 6:21 06. No impablermations, let's roll! 2:40 07. Boogie All Night Long 4:40 08. Rock and Roll Woman 5:23 09. Queen of the Magazines 4:03 10. Rock Is Dead - conclusion 23:56 NOTES First, protecting this material from misidentifying any part of them - falsely - as offending tracks, here's what I surely know: only two tracks emerged from 'these' sessions into commercial circle. Both featured on the offical 1997 4CD Box Set compilaion of Doors rarities. The released version of 'Whiskey, Mystics & Men' is a totally different mix than any versions that can be found here. Plus, in the box set booklet it's dated to 1970, recorded at Elektra Studios, LA. The other released 'track' which is really form this rehearsal is an extremely butchered and edited version of 40 mins of material where the band played and experimented with 'Rock Is Dead'. That much cut version resulted in a 16 minute long interpretation. Although this recording here is excellent in terms of quality, these two released tracks are far superior to them. Buda SOURCE info taken from the orig. file ------------- Seeded late '05 The Doors Missing Links Memorial Records, New York Catalog #: Memorec 403 Release: 1994 Running Time: 67:37 SHN formatted files (one per track) of the Missing Links cD (first release with no bonus tracks) were obtained from two sources (both had pressed silvers). The SHNs were converted to WAV, merged into a single large WAV (with WavMerge), and then the two sources were compared with EAC's "compare" tool. They compared exactly bit-for-bit (except for ~100 extra samples at the beginning due to different CD drive offsets). CD's properly burned using these SHNs should be exact replicas of the original pressed silvers. The back cover of the CD has the following track listing: 01. Whiskey, Mystics & Men #1 02. The Soft Parade Intro #1 03. The Soft Parade Intro #2 04. Whiskey, Mystics & Men #2 05. Love Me Tender 06. Rock Is Dead #1 07. Me and the Devil Blues 08. Rock Is Dead #2 09. Queen of the Magazines 10. Pipeline 11. Rock Is Dead #3 12. Rock Me Baby 13. Mystery Train 14. Rock Is Dead #4 However, there are only 10 physical tracks on the CD and after listening to what is actually on each track, I came up with the following titles for the 10 tracks: 01. Whiskey, Mystics & Men '97 promo 2:34 02. Whiskey, Mystics & Men Ray-mellotron 4:58 03. Love Me Tender 2:38 04. Rock Is Dead #1 10:21 05. Woman Is A Devil 6:21 06. No impablermations, let's roll! 2:40 07. Boogie All Night Long 4:40 08. Rock and Roll Woman 5:23 09. Queen of the Magazines 4:03 10. Rock Is Dead - conclusion 23:56 These track titles are added to the end of each track's file name and included as track titles in the CDTEXT field of the cuesheet. Sources: Missing Tapes (Live Storm) (67:39) Missing Links (Memorial Records) (67:37) I'm not sure which CD came out first, but it's obvious that one is a digital clone of the other -- both CDs are identical with the exception of the covers and one extra second of dead time on each of the two tracks of The Missing Tapes CD. Both CDs contain the complete unedited Rock Is Dead jam session from February 25, 1969. Quality is excellent and if you haven't heard this session before, definitely pick up a copy! Some of the gems on this CD are Jim singing Love Me Tender; Whiskey, Mystics and Men; Me and the Devil Blues; Queen Of The Magazines (or The Naked Woman Song), and the ultimate version of Rock Is Dead. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following short excerpt relating to the session is taken from a Rockmine magazine interview with Robby Krieger at Blake's Hotel in London on the afternoon of November lst, 1983 Rockmine: Let's see, "Rock Is Dead" and "No Limits, No Laws"... Krieger: Uh huh. Well, "Rock Is Dead" we did one evening in L.A. I think we were in the midst of recording ... "Soft Parade" I believe and it was just one drunken evening of everybody going crazy. Rockmine: There's a rumour that that was at one time scheduled for a complete album. Krieger: Well, not really. Some people had it in their minds that it would make a good album but it wasn't really good enough for release. Some of it was but as a whole, I don't think... It was a good idea for a concept but it was really just more or less a demo. Fingerprints: adcb6472b0db421bd04422a456dc6816 *08_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Rock and Roll Woman.shn cf929c5f6406648edec9e4d4d2f36744 *02_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_WM&M Ray-mellotron.shn 5516a38155aa36188c945a95bfec1c4d *03_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Love Me Tender.shn 9b065fa634ec88a61b96ce37ee47029d *04_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Rock Is Dead #1.shn 065888b8bd594cc93e2dada301c9a2f8 *05_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Woman Is A Devil.shn 3608705b0f7203ebd884eed41dfe9c6a *06_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_No impablermations, let's roll!.shn 8003b6405577a06d5354059870d85020 *07_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Boogie All Night Long.shn 2505bdbaf00d2591095e75833c19919d *01_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_WM&M '97 promo.shn ca82ca0b14390a158e5db22d10447cf7 *09_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Queen of the Magazines.shn 37bcdf8ee86e3445eb063a9f564b99cf *10_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Rock Is Dead - conclusion.shn | |||||
| Jordan Jacobs | Flac / 0 | View | STU | |||
| Notes: | Material sourced from 1st and 2nd generation analog tapes (reel/cass?) | |||||
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| Notes: | 371 - "Rock is Dead" | |||||
| rain_king | SHN / 1 | View | Soundboard | |||
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| Dupdy | CD / 1 | B | View | SBD | ||
| Notes: | "Love Me Tender Sessions" | |||||
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| Notes: | The Doors February 25th (Tuesday), 1969 In The Studio - Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA The uncut Soft Parade sessions 01. Whiskey, Mystics & Men '97 promo 2:34 02. Whiskey, Mystics & Men Ray-mellotron 4:58 03. Love Me Tender 2:38 04. Rock Is Dead #1 10:21 05. Woman Is A Devil 6:21 06. No impablermations, let's roll! 2:40 07. Boogie All Night Long 4:40 08. Rock and Roll Woman 5:23 09. Queen of the Magazines 4:03 10. Rock Is Dead - conclusion 23:56 NOTES First, protecting this material from misidentifying any part of them - falsely - as offending tracks, here's what I surely know: only two tracks emerged from 'these' sessions into commercial circle. Both featured on the offical 1997 4CD Box Set compilaion of Doors rarities. The released version of 'Whiskey, Mystics & Men' is a totally different mix than any versions that can be found here. Plus, in the box set booklet it's dated to 1970, recorded at Elektra Studios, LA. The other released 'track' which is really form this rehearsal is an extremely butchered and edited version of 40 mins of material where the band played and experimented with 'Rock Is Dead'. That much cut version resulted in a 16 minute long interpretation. Although this recording here is excellent in terms of quality, these two released tracks are far superior to them. Buda SOURCE info taken from the orig. file ------------- Seeded late '05 The Doors Missing Links Memorial Records, New York Catalog #: Memorec 403 Release: 1994 Running Time: 67:37 SHN formatted files (one per track) of the Missing Links cD (first release with no bonus tracks) were obtained from two sources (both had pressed silvers). The SHNs were converted to WAV, merged into a single large WAV (with WavMerge), and then the two sources were compared with EAC's "compare" tool. They compared exactly bit-for-bit (except for ~100 extra samples at the beginning due to different CD drive offsets). CD's properly burned using these SHNs should be exact replicas of the original pressed silvers. The back cover of the CD has the following track listing: 01. Whiskey, Mystics & Men #1 02. The Soft Parade Intro #1 03. The Soft Parade Intro #2 04. Whiskey, Mystics & Men #2 05. Love Me Tender 06. Rock Is Dead #1 07. Me and the Devil Blues 08. Rock Is Dead #2 09. Queen of the Magazines 10. Pipeline 11. Rock Is Dead #3 12. Rock Me Baby 13. Mystery Train 14. Rock Is Dead #4 However, there are only 10 physical tracks on the CD and after listening to what is actually on each track, I came up with the following titles for the 10 tracks: 01. Whiskey, Mystics & Men '97 promo 2:34 02. Whiskey, Mystics & Men Ray-mellotron 4:58 03. Love Me Tender 2:38 04. Rock Is Dead #1 10:21 05. Woman Is A Devil 6:21 06. No impablermations, let's roll! 2:40 07. Boogie All Night Long 4:40 08. Rock and Roll Woman 5:23 09. Queen of the Magazines 4:03 10. Rock Is Dead - conclusion 23:56 These track titles are added to the end of each track's file name and included as track titles in the CDTEXT field of the cuesheet. Sources: Missing Tapes (Live Storm) (67:39) Missing Links (Memorial Records) (67:37) I'm not sure which CD came out first, but it's obvious that one is a digital clone of the other -- both CDs are identical with the exception of the covers and one extra second of dead time on each of the two tracks of The Missing Tapes CD. Both CDs contain the complete unedited Rock Is Dead jam session from February 25, 1969. Quality is excellent and if you haven't heard this session before, definitely pick up a copy! Some of the gems on this CD are Jim singing Love Me Tender; Whiskey, Mystics and Men; Me and the Devil Blues; Queen Of The Magazines (or The Naked Woman Song), and the ultimate version of Rock Is Dead. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following short excerpt relating to the session is taken from a Rockmine magazine interview with Robby Krieger at Blake's Hotel in London on the afternoon of November lst, 1983 Rockmine: Let's see, "Rock Is Dead" and "No Limits, No Laws"... Krieger: Uh huh. Well, "Rock Is Dead" we did one evening in L.A. I think we were in the midst of recording ... "Soft Parade" I believe and it was just one drunken evening of everybody going crazy. Rockmine: There's a rumour that that was at one time scheduled for a complete album. Krieger: Well, not really. Some people had it in their minds that it would make a good album but it wasn't really good enough for release. Some of it was but as a whole, I don't think... It was a good idea for a concept but it was really just more or less a demo. Fingerprints: adcb6472b0db421bd04422a456dc6816 *08_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Rock and Roll Woman.shn cf929c5f6406648edec9e4d4d2f36744 *02_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_WM&M Ray-mellotron.shn 5516a38155aa36188c945a95bfec1c4d *03_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Love Me Tender.shn 9b065fa634ec88a61b96ce37ee47029d *04_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Rock Is Dead #1.shn 065888b8bd594cc93e2dada301c9a2f8 *05_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Woman Is A Devil.shn 3608705b0f7203ebd884eed41dfe9c6a *06_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_No impablermations, let's roll!.shn 8003b6405577a06d5354059870d85020 *07_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Boogie All Night Long.shn 2505bdbaf00d2591095e75833c19919d *01_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_WM&M '97 promo.shn ca82ca0b14390a158e5db22d10447cf7 *09_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Queen of the Magazines.shn 37bcdf8ee86e3445eb063a9f564b99cf *10_Doors_2-25-69_Missing Links_Rock Is Dead - conclusion.shn | |||||
| RamblinRose | CD-R / 1 | View | SBD | |||
| Notes: | Infamous "Rock is Dead" session. | |||||
| Anton Rudnev | CDR / 1 | A | View | studio | ||
| Notes: | "Missing links" | |||||
| MeltN2aDream | cdr / 1 | View | SBD | |||
| Pete | CDr / 1 | View | ||||
| Notes: | "Rock Is Dead" Sessions | |||||
| vblake | SHN / 1 | View | ||||
| Notes: | "Sunset Sound Recorders" or "Rock is Dead Alt" | |||||
| Chris M. | CDR / 1 | View | ||||
| Notes: | "Rock Is Dead" session | |||||
| mojo7 | / 0 | View | ||||
| Notes: | From My original Missing Links CD | |||||
| eclect | FLAC / 0 | View | 2nd gen. cass. | |||
| eclect | SHN / 0 | View | Label: Live Storm, LSCD 51594, Italy, 1994, 1CD Source: copy of original audio-cd > wav (eac) >... | |||
| David | cdr / 1 | A | View | |||
| LEE SPATZ | / 0 | A | A | View | SBD> | |
| Keith Mageau | CDR / 1 | A+ | View | SBD>??>Silver CD>CDR | ||
| Notes: | "Mystic Man" | |||||
| Robert Shelden | CD-R / 1 | A- | A- | View | ||
| Notes: | Infamous "Rock is Dead" session. | |||||
| Nick | SHN / 1 | B | View | |||
| Notes: | Ok recording | |||||
| Rich | CDR / 2 | View | ||||
| Notes: | 2 versions | |||||
| Duane Kneller | CD-R / 1 | A | View | Studio SBD. | ||
| Boisedeadhead | / 0 | View | ||||
| Bob | CDr / 1 | View | ||||
| Notes: | Studio | |||||
| Ron Coomer | cdr / 1 | A+ | A | View | sbd | |
| Notes: | "Missing Tapes" (1 track) | |||||
| ToriphileMaria | SHN / 1 | A | View | Soundboard > ? | ||
| Rick Uebler | CDR / 1 | A- | View | |||
| RM's Giant Live Music Archive | SHN / 0 | View | Missing Links (AE116) | |||
| Notes: | "the uncut Soft Parade sessions" | |||||
| RM's Giant Live Music Archive | FLAC / 0 | View | 2nd gen. cass. source (G044) | |||
| LEE SPATZ | / 0 | A | A | View | SBD | |
| AAA Audio | flac / 1 | View | ||||
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| Charissa | cdr / 1 | A | A | View | ||
| Adam | CDR / 1 | A | View | Studio Recording | ||
| Notes: | Note: I think that there are some cuts in this one. There shouldn't be, so maybe something went wrong on my computer. But just to let you know that there may be some errors. Ok? dudes, I left this one unedited. Rock is dead sessions went on in the studio. The doors needed inspiration to record "The soft parade". This went on on february 25th, 1969. Hope you like it! The sound is excellent because it is a studio recording. Tracklist: 01 - Whiskey, Mystics And Men #1 02 - Petition The Lord With Prayer #1 03 - Petition The Lord With Prayer #2 04 - Whiskey, Mystics And Men #2 05 - Love Me Tender 06 - Rock Is Dead #1 07 - Me and the devil Blues 08 - Rock Is Dead #1 09 - Queen Of The Magazines 10 - Pipeline 11 - Rock is Dead "Rock Me Baby" 12 - Mystery Train 13 - Rock Is Dead #4 14 - Someday Soon (recorded live in Seattle) | |||||
| Brandon Franklin | CD-R / 1 | View | ||||
| Dan Anderson | CD-R / 2 | View | STUDIO | |||
| Notes: | 2 different versions | |||||
| kevin boland | Flac / 1 | View | ||||
| Moonstroke | SHN / 1 | A- | B+ | View | SBD > Silver CD > ?? > CDr > Wav > Shn | |
| Matthew | CD / 1 | View | ||||
| buc2220 | HARDRIVE / 1 | View | STUDIO | |||
| Stuart Ferguson | CDR / 2 | View | Soundboard | |||
| Notes: | DVD 552; lineage: Soundboard recording. "Rock Is Dead" CD 1: 2nd generation cassette. CD 2: Version no. 3 (RK/BB tape) 1st gen. "with Edits" | |||||
| Brian C | CDR / 1 | A | A | View | ||
| KitKat | CDR / 1 | View | ||||
| BluesFan | FLAC / 0 | View | ||||
| Russ | CD-R / 2 | View | ||||
| Notes: | STUDIO | |||||
| taperBWeed | / 1 | View | two sources (both had pressed silvers) | |||
| Notes: | uncut Soft Parade sessions | |||||
| whammer | Flac / 1 | View | SBD | |||
| Notes: | Rock Is Dead | |||||
| Tom Bashara/Eric Linstrom | FLAC / 1 | View | 2nd gen cass | |||
| Notes: | 2nd gen cass | |||||
| dlnlee | CDR / 1 | View | SBD | |||
| Notes: | "Missing Tapes" | |||||
| matt1401 | CDR / 1 | A | A- | View | SBD | |
| Notes: | My set list is a little diffrent than the one listed above. It has a few extra songs! | |||||
| fleaibe | FLAC / 1 | A+ | View | The uncut Soft Parade sessions | ||
| Notes: | The uncut Soft Parade sessions 01. Whiskey, Mystics & Men '97 promo 2:34 02. Whiskey, Mystics & Men Ray-mellotron 4:58 03. Love Me Tender 2:38 04. Rock Is Dead #1 10:21 05. Woman Is A Devil 6:21 06. No impablermations, let's roll! 2:40 07. Boogie All Night Long 4:40 08. Rock and Roll Woman 5:23 09. Queen of the Magazines 4:03 10. Rock Is Dead - conclusion 23:56 Sources: Missing Tapes (Live Storm) (67:39) Missing Links (Memorial Records) (67:37) I'm not sure which CD came out first, but it's obvious that one is a digital clone of the other -- both CDs are identical with the exception of the covers and one extra second of dead time on each of the two tracks of The Missing Tapes CD. Both CDs contain the complete unedited Rock Is Dead jam session from February 25, 1969. Quality is excellent and if you haven't heard this session before, definitely pick up a copy! Some of the gems on this CD are Jim singing Love Me Tender; Whiskey, Mystics and Men; Me and the Devil Blues; Queen Of The Magazines (or The Naked Woman Song), and the ultimate version of Rock Is Dead. | |||||
| Pete Morin-Smith | CDr / 1 | View | ||||
| Pete Morin-Smith | CDr / 1 | View | sbd >??? | |||
| BOOTLEGS, BOOTLEGS, BOOTLEGS! | CDR / 1 | View | ||||
| thatdamnyankee | CD-R / 2 | View | ||||
| Jim Vogt | CD-R / 1 | View | SBD | |||
| Notes: | "Rock Is Dead Sessions" (aka "Missing Links") | |||||
| Dr. Zen | cdr / 1 | View | Studio | |||
| Notes: | 'Rock Is Dead' | |||||
| Danny | SHN / 1 | View | ||||
| Jake Oja | SHN / 1 | View | ||||
| Notes: | includes Moving Units 3/1/05 FLAC | |||||
| Ms_Isis | SHN / 1 | View | original audio-cd > wav (eac) > shn (mkwACT) | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Don Welsch | CDR / 1 | A | A | View | SBD | |
| Notes: | 'Rock is Dead' Sessions | |||||
| Travis Diehl | CDR / 1 | View | SBD | |||
| Notes: | "Rock Is Dead" session | |||||
| Selman Snow | Cdr / 2 | View | ||||
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| zingapoor | / 0 | View | STU | |||
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| steve | flac / 1 | View | " Missing Links" | |||
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| feethebunny | FLAC / 2 | View | ||||
| Notes: | Rock Is Dead Sessions | |||||
| hoboken | shn / 1 | A- | View | |||
| Mark Perry | CD-R / 1 | View | The uncut Soft Parade sessions | |||
| Notes: | The uncut Soft Parade sessions--Liberated Bootleg "Missing Links" | |||||
| chip fox | CD / 1 | A | A | View | ||
| Tim Blake | SHN / 1 | View | ||||
| Notes: | Rock Is Dead Sessions. 343MB | |||||
| Tim Blake | FLAC / 1 | View | This version has two tapes mixed into one to provide a high quality (where possible) and complete... | |||
| Notes: | 445MB | |||||
| LEE SPATZ | CDR/SHN / 1 | A | A | View | SDB | |
| Notes: | (SOUNDBOARD: 68 MIN) SOFT PARADE: SESSION | |||||
| Antero | FLAC / 1 | A | A | View | ||
| Notes: | The Doors February 25th (Tuesday), 1969 In The Studio - Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA 2nd gen. cass. CD1 tt:66:32 01. Roadhouse blues vocal vamp fragment 02. seminary school (playback over bit of track) 03. talk 04. seminary school/whisky mystics...(full take) 05. whisky mystics...cont. Rock Is Dead (pt. 1) 06. Love Me Tender 07. "gonna save the whole world" 08. Woman Is A Devil / Rock and Roll is dead 09. "No impablimations...let's roll!..." Rock Is Dead pt. 2 10. Boogie All Night Long / rap 11. Rock and Roll Woman 12. Queen of the Magazines 13. "madison" (fragment) / Wipe out (Ventures song) Rock Is Dead pt. 3 14. Naked woman / - 15. (cont. ) Rock Me / 16. Mystery train / train jam (with JM Harp) / "big black train" / 17. "A little piece..." / 18. "I could not help myself..." 19. "rock and roll is dead" 20. "it's over...i feel so sad..." 21. "we had some good times" - 22. cont. "...under the ground...." 23. "the death of rock...." conclusion (JM harp) ---- =================== CD2 Version no. 3 (RK/BB tape) 1st gen. "with Edits" tt:37:23 (1-13) plus extras on metal cass. 01. Petition the Lord (tk.1) / talk 02. Love me Tender (pt 2 only) / 03. Rock is Dead (edited) / 04. woman is the devil (?) bass solo part / 05. "i wanna talk to them peoples...." / "No Revolution...No impablimations...let's roll!..." Boogie All Night Long / rap 06. "i wanna see some dancin' in the streets..." / Rock and Roll Woman 07. Queen of the Magazines "madison" (fragment) / 08. Wipe out (Ventures song) cuts / 09. Naked woman (cuts) *BUT has more complete part before jam which cuts on other versions)* / Rock Me / cuts 10. Mystery train (cuts) 11. / train jam (with JM Harp) / "big black train" / (cuts) 12. "A little piece... / Don't do it..." "I could not help myself..." / "rock and roll is dead" 13. "it's over...i feel so sad..." "we had some good times" / "...under the ground...." / "the death of rock...." conclusion (JM harp) - 14. Whiskey, Mystics and Men (with "petition..." intro) 15. Love me Tender (short) 16. Woman Is A Devil 17. Train jam (edit) 18. Rock is dead jam (edit) - 19. Whiskey, Mystics and Men (with "petition..." intro) 20. Love me Tender (short clip) 21. Woman Is A Devil (last 3 tracks seem to be the same as previous) ------------- An excerpt taken from Stephen Davis's book on Jim Morrison, p.312-313 On Tuesday, February 25, 1969, the Doors were recording at Sunset Sound. Jim laid down two stentorian versions of "When I Was Back in Seminary School," his scary southern gospel radio riff, plus a blues titled "Build Me a Woman" - also known as "The Devil Is a Woman," lifted from Robert Johnson's "Me And The Devil." A new bootleg record of the unreleased Robert Johnson recordings had just appeared, and Jim immediately reworked "Love in Vain," which the Rolling Stones would soon approipriate. He also cut a sing song fragment called "Whiskey, Mystics, and Men," with accompaniment by the band. That eveing the Doors and their entourage went out to supper together at a local Mexican joint, the Blue Boar, where they stuffed themselves in a private dining room and drank beer and tequila for a couple of hours. Well lubed, they returned to the studio, and started jamming. Jim sang Elvis's "Love Me Tender" and, as the band played free form R & B, started improvising about the death of rock and roll. He kepr repeating "Rock is dead," and "Listen, listen, I don't wanna hear no more talk about revolution," as if trying to damn the rock movement as something that was definetly over. "I'm not talking about no revolution," Jim sang. "I'm not talking about no demonstration. I'm talking about...the death of rock and roll....The death is rock, is the death of me....And rock is dead,...We're dead! All right! Yeah....Rock is dead!" This was then interspersed with a memory riff. The singer was now a child, overhearinghis mother complain about him to his father. "Mama didn't like the way I did my thing. Papa says, 'You gotta hit him, baby.'...And I'm feeling real bad, real bad, real bad. The "Rock Is Dead" jam - forty-five minutes of primal bar-band R & B - was Jim Morrison's disgusted, explicit farewell to the rock movement that had launched him into immortality. It summed up the depressive, changing climate of the youth movement of 1969, when the Haight-Asbury had become a slum of panhandlers, burnouts and runaways. Led Zeppelin was hammering its way to the top. Ken Kesey had denounced LSD. The Nixon presidency escalated the war in Vietnam and started persecuting its critics. The Doors had lost the avant-garde, and were now hated by the same writers who had fawned on them the year before. Jim Morrison's original audience - college students and bohemians who responded to the long silences and mannered gestures of rock theater - had been replaced by dopey high school kids, pressed together like goats, giggling at "The End" and catcalling to Jim, "Hey, you wanna fuck me?" It was all too much. For Jim, rock was truly dead. Jim later explained: "We needed another song for this album. We were wrecking our brains trying to think - what song? We started throwing up these old songs in the studio. Blues trips. Rock classics. Finally we just started playing, and went through the whole history of rock music - blues, rock and roll, LAtin jazz, surf music, the whole thing. I called it 'Rock Is Dead.' I doubt if anyone will ever hear it." The "Rock Is Dead" session remained officially unreleased for almost thirty years, but was notoriously bootlegged and became familiar to fans of the Doors. Tapes of this session also featured an early Doors version of Elvis' "Mystery Train." This would soon become a Doors concert staple when the band was prodded by Jim Morrison into more conservative, and personally manageable, artistic terrain. | |||||
| Glenn Gillis | CDR / 1 | A | View | STUDIO | ||
| kimbro | / 1 | A | A | View | SBD | |
| Notes: | Infamous "Rock is Dead" session | |||||
| David Sanquenetti | CD / 1 | View | See Notes! | |||
| Notes: | SHN formatted files (one per track) of the Missing Links cD (first release with no bonus tracks) were obtained from two sources (both had pressed silvers). The SHNs were converted to WAV, merged into a single large WAV (with WavMerge), and then the two sources were compared with EAC's "compare" tool. They compared exactly bit-for-bit (except for ~100 extra samples at the beginning due to different CD drive offsets). CD's properly burned using these SHNs should be exact replicas of the original pressed silvers. | |||||
| djgrafite | SHN / 0 | A | View | Studio | ||
| Notes: | On Misc. Music Data DVD #9 | |||||
| Cecil | CDR / 1 | View | ||||
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