June 27, 2012

The Doors - In Concert (1991)

In Concert is a live double album, recorded by The Doors. The album's performances are culled from a variety of different concerts and releases. "In Concert" includes all the tracks from "Absolutely Live" and "Alive, She Cried". The three remaining tracks come from "An American Prayer, Live at the Hollywood Bowl" and one previously unreleased.
Many shows were recorded during the 1970 tour to create the Absolutely Live Album. The Doors producer, Paul A. Rothchild, painstakingly edited the album from many different shows to create one cohesive concert, "the perfect Doors show". In fact many of the songs were pieced together from various performances. When it comes to identifying which song came from which show, it becomes very difficult. Rothchild has said "I couldn't get complete takes of a lot of songs, so sometimes I'd cut from Detroit to Philadelphia in midsong. There must be 2,000 edits on that album". Below is a listing of most likely venues of where a song was performed based on information from several books including Greg Shaw's The Doors on the Road.

Track listing

Disc one
01.  House Announcer  - 2:40  (Philadelphia Spectrum 5/1/70)
02.  Who Do You Love? (McDaniel)  - 6:02  (New York Felt Forum 1st Show 1/17/70)
03.  Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) (Brecht, Weill)  - 1:51  (New York Felt Forum 1st Show 1/17/70)
04.  Back Door Man (Willie Dixon)  - 2:22  (New York Felt Forum 2nd Show 1/18/70)
05.  Love Hides  - 1:48  (Philadelphia Spectrum 5/1/70)
06.  Five to One  - 4:34  (New York Felt Forum 2nd Show 1/17/70 & 1st & 2nd Show 1/18/70)
07.  Build Me a Woman  - 3:33  (New York Felt Forum 2nd Show 1/17/70)
08.  When the Music's Over  - 14:50  (New York Felt Forum 2nd Show 1/17/70)
09.  Universal Mind  - 4:54  (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 2nd Show 7/21/69)
10.  Petition the Lord with Prayer  - 0:52  (New York Felt Forum 2nd Show 1/18/70)
11.  Dead Cats, Dead Rats  - 1:57  (Detroit Cobo Arena 5/8/70)
12.  Break on Through, #2  - 4:42  (Detroit Cobo Arena 5/8/70)
13.  Lions in the Street  - 1:14  (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
14.  Wake Up  - 1:21  (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
15.  A Little Game  - 1:12  (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
16.  The Hill Dwellers  - 2:35  (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
17.  Not to Touch the Earth  - 4:14  (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
18.  Names of the Kingdom  - 1:29  (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
19.  The Palace of Exile  - 2:20  (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
20.  Soul Kitchen  - 7:15  (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 2nd Show 7/21/69)

Disc two
01.  Roadhouse Blues  - 6:13  (New York Felt Forum 1st show 1/17/70 & Detroit Cobo Arena 5/08/70 & End Dialogue Boston Arena 2nd Show 4/10/70)
02.  Gloria (Van Morrison)  - 6:17  (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater Rehearsal 7/22/69)
03.  Light My Fire including "Graveyard Poem" (Jim Morrison)  - 9:51  (New York Felt Forum 1st & 2nd Show 1/18/70 & Boston Arena 1st & 2nd Show 4/10/70)
04.  You Make Me Real  - 3:06  (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 2nd Show 7/21/69 with new guitar overdub)
05.  Texas Radio & The Big Beat  - 1:52  (Copenhagen Denmark T.V. Show 9/18/68 with new guitar overdub)
06.  Love Me Two Times  - 3:17  (Copenhagen Denmark T.V. Show 9/18/68 with new drum overdub)
07.  Little Red Rooster (Dixon)  - 7:15  (New York Felt Forum 1st Show 1/17/70 & Dialogue 2nd Show 1/18/70 with Harmonica overdub)
08.  Moonlight Drive including "Horse Latitudes"  - 5:34  (vocal from New York Felt Forum 1st Show 1/18/70 with a newly recorded instrumental track)
09.  Close to You (Dixon)  - 5:26  (New York Felt Forum 2nd Show 1/18/70)
10.  Unknown Soldier  - 4:25  (Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl 7/5/68)
11.  The End  - 15:42  (Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl 7/5/68)

Released:  May 21, 1991
Recorded:  1968-1970
Genre:  Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock, Blues Rock
Length:  140:43
Label:  Elektra
Producer:  Paul A. Rothchild
All songs written by:  The Doors

Personnel
Jim Morrison - vocals
Robby Krieger - guitars
John Densmore - drums
Ray Manzarek - organ, Keyboard bass, lead vocals, backup vocals

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