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The Doors - Live At The Matrix 1967 (2008)

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The Doors - Live At The Matrix 1967 (2008)

The Doors - Live At The Matrix 1967 (2008)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2CD | Rhino 8122-79884-8 | ~ 722 or 304 Mb | Scans(jpg, 300dpi) Included
Psychedelic Rock

When the Doors were playing at the Matrix club in San Francisco on March 7 and March 10 of 1967, unofficial tapes were made of their performances. Music from four sets (two each night) of these gigs has long been available on bootleg, and a couple tracks did show up on the Doors' 1997 box set. This two-CD package, however, marks the first official release of material from these shows in bulk. They represent the earliest concert recordings of the band that have been made available, dating from just two months after the release of their debut album (and a few months before the "Light My Fire" single would catch on and make them superstars). While this by no means has the complete recordings from these two nights that have circulated on bootleg, it does contain one version of every single song captured on the tapes. The sound quality, too, is substantially improved from those bootlegs (though it's not true, as the liner notes claim, that all of those bootlegs had "the worst quality imaginable"). If it's not quite up to the level of the fidelity heard on most official live albums (or even some more adeptly recorded Doors live shows from later in their career that have seen official release), the instruments and vocals come through pretty well, and can easily be listened to for pleasure as well as historical archival value.

More important than the technical and discographical details, however, is the quality of the performances themselves. And while they're occasionally a bit ragged, and certainly not as sleek and cleanly balanced as their studio recordings, you could make an argument for this as the finest Doors live release, from the musical if not the fidelity point of view. For these are the Doors, and Jim Morrison in particular, when they were still hungry and eager to make an impression, with little of the somewhat self-parodying theatricalism that Morrison would sometimes lapse into on-stage after reaching superstardom. There are lean, urgent versions of most of the songs from their classic debut album, as well as, more surprisingly, about half the numbers from the yet-to-be-released Strange Days. "Unhappy Girl," "Moonlight Drive," "My Eyes Have Seen You," "People Are Strange," and "I Can't See Your Face in My Mind" especially have notably sparer arrangements, betraying the band's roots as more of a straight-ahead rock outfit prior to these songs getting effectively psychedelicized studio treatments. There's even a version of one tune, "Summer's Almost Gone," that they'd wait until their third album, Waiting for the Sun, to put on a studio LP.

Filling out the set are a good number of cover tunes that the Doors didn't release in the '60s, including several blues and R&B covers. While these have their interest for documenting aspects of their repertoire that aren't fully evident from their studio albums, they also reveal the group to be much less interesting when playing such cover tunes – among them "Money," John Lee Hooker's "Crawling King Snake," Lee Dorsey's "Get out of My Life Woman," and Them's "Gloria" – than they were when doing their own material. Still, even these selections include some standouts, especially a burning version of "Who Do You Love" that outdoes the more laid-back one on Absolutely Live, and an instrumental version of "Summertime" that gives Ray Manzarek a chance to showcase his organ chops. It's also odd to hear such a cool, almost non-reception from the sparse audience, giving the impression the Doors were playing to a near-empty club, though they seem to be putting as much or more heart into their performance as they would later do for most of their arena concerts. All told, it's an excellent document of their early days that's strongly recommended to Doors fans. It would have been even neater for hardcore fanatics had all four sets from the two nights been included, but admittedly the elimination of multiple versions and resequencing makes this a much more listenable product for the general audience.

by Richie Unterberger, AMG
The Doors - Live At The Matrix 1967 (2008):

The Doors - Live At The Matrix 1967 (2008)

Tracklist CD1:

1. Break on through (to the other side)
2. Soul kitchen
3. Money
4. The crystal ship
5. Twentieth century fox
6. I'm a king bee
7. Alabama song (whisky bar)
8. Summer's almost gone
9. Light my fire
10. Get out of My life, woman
11. Back door man
12. Who do you love
13. The end

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The Doors / Live At The Matrix '67 (Disc 1)

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The Doors - Live At The Matrix 1967 (2008)

Tracklist CD2:

1. Unhappy girl
2. Moonlight drive
3. Woman is a devil / Rock me
4. People are strange
5. Close to you
6. My eyes have seen you
7. Crawling king snake
8. I can't see your face in my mind
9. Summertime
10. When the music's over
11. Gloria

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The Doors / Live At The Matrix '67 (Disc 2)

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The Doors - Live At The Matrix 1967 (2008)

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