Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: The Doors – Touch Me - Oil Well

The Doors – Touch Me
Oil Well – RSC 002 CD

1 Light My Fire 3:03

2 Touch Me 3:24
3 When The Music's Over 12:55
4 The End 15:39
5 Moonlight Drive 3:09
6 Light My Fire 2:57

Note:
All songs by The Doors

Track 1: Ed Sullivan Theater, New York (NY), 17th September 1967:
Track 2: The Smothers Brothers, CBS Television City, Los Angeles (CA), 4th December 1968:
Tracks 3,4: Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood (CA), 5th July 1968:
Tracks 5,6: Jonathan Winters Show, CBS TV Studios, Los Angeles (CA), 27th December 1967

Lineup:
Jim Morrison (vocals)
Ray Manzarek (keyboards)
Robbie Krieger (guitar)
John Densmore (drums)

This album is a digital clone of "Celebration" - The Swingin' Pig – TSP-CD-022
This Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only. Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended. This bootleg has been released also with an alternate front cover. On the front cover Jim Morrison performing live during a concert.

This bootleg is a compilation of tracks recorded in different venues between 1967 and 1968.
There is the historical version of "Light My Fire" from Ed Sullivan Show from 1967.
Two tracks are from the great 1968 show at Hollywood Bowl and other tracks are from some The Doors' tv appearances.

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© Official released material:
Track 1 has been released officially on: Ed Sullivan's Rock'n'Roll Classics - Legends Of Rock
Track 2,5 have been released officially on: R-Evolution
Tracks 3,4 have been released officially on: Live at the Bowl '68
Track 6: was released as a bonus video on the 2012 release 'Live At The Bowl '68'.
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Ed Sullivan Theater, New York (NY), 17th September 1967
50 years ago on September 17, 1967, Jim Morrison solidified his place as a poetic rebel. Things did not go as smoothly as the producers may have hoped. Fronted by their charismatic-but-unpredictable singer Jim Morrison, the group had recently scored its first No. 1 hit with "Light My Fire," and Sullivan's show -- which had made instant superstars of Elvis Presley and the Beatles -- was a choice booking. But the Doors' performance that night would live on in a very different way, resulting in the group being banned from the show in perpetuity.

According to the official Ed Sullivan Show website, rehearsals for the show went well, and with 15 minutes to air time, Sullivan went to see the band in their dressing room, telling them, "You boys look great, [but] you ought to smile a little more." Shortly after, a producer from the show came by to inform the band that they needed to change the line "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" to "Girl, we couldn't get much better" when performing "Light My Fire," ostensibly because the line might be construed as referring to drugs.

Band members have given varying accounts of whether they ever agreed to change the line or not, but there's no denying what happened live on the air. After a strong, but unremarkable performance of "People Are Strange," the band launched into "Light My Fire," and as the video shows, Jim Morrison sang the original lyric instead of making the suggested change.
After the show, producers said they had hoped to book them six more times, but had decided instead to ban the Doors from the show in the future. TheDoors would go on to other television appearances, and a career that encompassed hit albums like Strange Days and L.A. Woman, but they never played Sullivan's show again.

As Robby Krieger explains, “We thought they were joking – who were they kidding? Wanting us to change the lyrics on the number one song in America? We decided to just do the song as-is and maybe they would forget all about it. What could they do? After all, it was live television! So, yeah, we never played the Ed Sullivan show again. But we didn’t care.”
John Densmore added that Ed fumed, “’You will never do this show again,’ after we’d directly disobeyed his censorship requirements. Jim turned to him and remarked, ‘Hey, that’s okay – we just did the Ed Sullivan show.’” And the rest is Rock N Roll history.

The show is re-broadcast on July 7, 1968 and clips can be seen throughout various modern video compilations. Original 16mm prints tend to feature unedited performances with quality sound. Also performing on this show are comedians Rodney Dangerfield and Flip Wilson, with musical performances by Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Yul Brynner, and The Kessler Twins. This appearance on Ed Sullivan has never seen a complete and uncut official release.
https://www.thedoors.com/news/the-doors-on-the-ed-sullivan-show

Jonathan Winters Show, CBS TV Studios, Los Angeles (CA), 27th December 1967
This show originally airs on CBS in New York and San Francisco at 10:00pm on December 27th, 1967. This is the national premiere of The Jonathan Winters Show, and is the band's last U.S. television performance for a year. This special features a performance of Moonlight Drive accompanied by Horse Latitudes for an introduction, and Light My Fire. Due to the incident in New Haven five days after the taping of this show, a network cancels The Doors next appearance, and they do not appear on television again until September while on tour in Europe.

During the broadcast of this show on December 27th, The Doors interrupt their live performance at Winterland in San Francisco to watch themselves on a TV brought out onto the stage. The complete episode exists in broadcast quality in CBS' archives as well as on a black and white kinescope. The performance of Moonlight Drive was released on the video Dance on Fire with the original audio replaced with the studio version and additional unrelated footage added in.

The Smothers Brothers, CBS Television City, Los Angeles (CA), 4th December 1968
In December of 1968, the Doors make an appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Of all the television shows that The Doors appeared on, this may have been the one the band was looking forward to most. This was due to the fact that the Smothers Brothers were politically very active, especially in their stance against the Vietnam War and their support for the “anti-establishment” youth movement. They were not afraid to use their television monologues to challenge people’s thinking, and The Doors loved that! For this appearance, The Doors would play live versions of “Wild Child” and “Touch Me”.

“Touch Me” featured an orchestra section and Curtis Amy on saxophone. Two additional notes from this performanIn December of 1968, the Doors make an appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Of all the television shows that The Doors appeared on, this may have been the one the band was looking forward to most. This was due to the fact that the Smothers Brothers were politically very active, especially in their stance against the Vietnam War and their support for the “anti-establishment” youth movement. They were not afraid to use their television monologues to challenge people’s thinking, and The Doors loved that! For this appearance, The Doors would play live versions of “Wild Child” and “Touch Me”. “Touch Me” featured an orchestra section and Curtis Amy on saxophone. Two additional notes from this performance. The first is the black eye Robby is sporting, secondly, Ray decided to remove the covers from both his Fender Rhodes piano bass and his Gibson Kalamazoo.

The Doors rehearse the Smother Brothers Comedy Hour television performance on the 5th of December, and record on the 6th. Filmed in color, the band performs Wild Child and Touch Me featuring Curtis Amy and the Smothers Brothers Orchestra. Robby is sporting a black eye during the filming, and Tom O'Neal is on site photographing the rehearsals and recording session. Broadcast on December 15th, George Carlin and The Committee are also guests on this episode. CBS cancelled this show on June 8th, 1969.

Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood (CA), 5th July 1968
Live at the Hollywood Bowl is the third official live album by the American rock band the Doors, released in May 1987 on Elektra Records. The concert was recorded on July 5, 1968, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Doors' hometown. The 1987 LP release of this album is the Doors' shortest official release, at just 22 minutes and 19 seconds. A VHS video of the concert was also released containing 14 songs.

The full version of the concert entitled Live at the Bowl '68 was released in October 2012 on CD, LP and Blu-ray Disc. A shortened version of the concert is on The Doors - 30 Years Commemorative Edition DVD.The entire concert was recorded using several cameras and is one of only two professionally recorded live performances of the band in color (the other being Live at The Isle of Wight Festival 1970). The Doors long-time sound engineer Bruce Botnick recorded the concert direct from the soundboard onto an 8-track machine. The recording of The End was used in film project Feast of Friends which was not released until November 2014.

Initial sound problem's with Morrison's microphone made the first songs - "Hello, I Love You", "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)" and "Spanish Caravan" somewhat distorted. This was digitally rectified for the 2012 release by Bruce Botnick. The 2012 DVD also made use of different cameras used at the concert from that released on video in 1987.