Released November 18, 2008 Length 125:46 Release date 18 November 2008 Label Rhino Entertainment | Recorded March 7 & 10, 1967 Artist The Doors Producer Bruce Botnick | |
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Live at the Matrix 1967
(2008) Live in New York
(2009) Genres Psychedelic rock, Blues rock, Acid rock Similar The Doors albums, Psychedelic rock albums | ||
The doors gloria live at the matrix 1967
Live at the Matrix 1967 is a double live album by The Doors, compiled and resequenced from recordings made on March 7 and 10, 1967 at The Matrix in San Francisco by club co-owner Peter Abram. The recording is notable because it is one of the earliest live recordings of the band known to exist: The Doors had recorded only one album by March 1967, "Light My Fire" had yet to be released as a single, and they were still relatively unknown outside Southern California.
Contents
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- Light my fire the doors live at the matrix 1967
- Recording equipment
- Master Tape issues
- Disc one
- Disc two
- Personnel
- Production
- Songs
- References
This is part of previously unreleased material of the Bright Midnight Archives collection of live albums by The Doors.
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Recording equipment
On November 22, 2008, recording engineer Peter Abram revealed in an online posting the equipment he used to record The Doors at The Matrix. "I used an Akai tape recorder (tubes), 4 Calrad mics on the stage and a Calrad mic mixer on the instrumental channel. On the vocal channel: a Knight mixer with 3 Electrovoice 676 and Shure mics. The Calrad mics that I used on the instrumental track were model DM-21" said Abram.
The original master 1/4 track stereo tapes were recorded at 7.5 ips on Abram's Akai reel-to-reel vacuum tube tape recorder.
Master Tape issues
PopMatters music critic Steve Horowitz observed in his review of Live at the Matrix 1967, entitled "Money...That's What I Want," that the Rhino CD was not sourced from Peter Abram's master tapes, despite Rhino's press release claim that "first generation tapes" were used.
On December 2, 2008, Peter Abram allowed photos to be taken of his master tape boxes. These photos were published online at the Steve Hoffman Forums on December 4, 2008.
Abram's notations on the master tape boxes indicate that a 'jam' was performed between "Soul Kitchen" and "Get Out of My Life Woman" during the March 7, 1967 show.
Disc one
All songs written by Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore, except where noted.
- "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" (Jim Morrison) – 3:47
- "Soul Kitchen" (Morrison) – 5:51
- "Money" (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy) – 3:02
- "The Crystal Ship" (Morrison) – 2:50
- "Twentieth Century Fox" – 2:46
- "I'm a King Bee" (James Moore) – 3:48
- "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:16
- "Summer's Almost Gone" (Morrison) – 3:46
- "Light My Fire" (Robby Krieger) – 8:14
- "Get Out of My Life, Woman" (Allen Toussaint) – 3:58
- "Back Door Man" (Willie Dixon, Chester Burnett) – 5:14
- "Who Do You Love" (Bo Diddley) – 4:31
- "The End" – 13:54
Disc two
- "Unhappy Girl" (Morrison) – 3:56
- "Moonlight Drive" (Morrison) – 5:39
- "Woman Is a Devil/Rock Me Baby" (B.B. King) – 8:08
- "People Are Strange" (Morrison, Krieger) – 2:14
- "Close to You" (Dixon) – 2:56
- "My Eyes Have Seen You" (Morrison) – 2:56
- "Crawling King Snake" (Anon, arr. by John Lee Hooker) – 4:53
- "I Can't See Your Face in My Mind" (Morrison) – 3:07
- "Summertime" (George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 8:29
- "When the Music's Over" – 11:11
- "Gloria" (Van Morrison) – 5:36
Personnel
Production
Songs
1Break On Through (to the Other Side)3:47
2Soul Kitchen5:51
3Money3:06